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Caligula-Christ: Preliminary Study of a Parallel

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 2010
Caligula, at the very beginning of the Albert Camus play, conceives a very ambitious project; to surpass the gods and take their place in his empire, in order to decree impossibility. Camus has, however, gone a step further in developing the god-image of
Lorene M. Birden
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Ch. 6. Tacitus and the Older Generation: Fatherhood and its Alternatives in the Agricola

Histos, 2023
While fatherhood in the abstract and generational succession are major themes throughout Tacitus’ Agricola, biological father-son relationships are surprisingly under-emphasised.
Adam M. Kemezis
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Las fuentes clásicas de Calígula de Albert Camus [PDF]

, 2017
Este trabajo pretende rastrear las fuentes clásicas que aparecen en la obra Calígula de Albert Camus. Para ello, hemos recurrido a la perspectiva de la recepción, de tal manera que, en primer lugar, mostraremos los paralelos con las fuentes de las que
Toledano Muñoz, Sara
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The Rule of Law and Full‐Bodied Promulgation

The Modern Law Review, Volume 88, Issue 3, Page 502-526, May 2025.
Promulgation is a fundamental component of most theories about the rule of law yet remains an under‐theorised aspect of the concept. This article makes two contributions concerning the functions of promulgation in the rule of law. First, promulgation can be broken down into formal promulgation, the process of formally publishing rules, and full‐bodied ...
James Milton
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Actualité d’Albert Camus sur la scène espagnole

Carnets, 2016
In this paper we aim to pay tribute to Albert Camus by studying its presence in the most recent Spanish drama. For our purposes, we have chosen Caligula, one of his pieces which have been reinterpreted more often by Spanish playwrights.
Rafael Ruiz Álvarez
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Treating Pox, Pests and Worms: Saints, Sympathy and Materiality in Late‐Medieval English Charms

Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 3-20, March 2025.
Charms were a commonplace form of medical intervention in late‐medieval England, as they allowed afflicted and ailing devotees to seek the aid of saints and biblical figures. Those holy dead who had suffered something on earth were considered particularly adept at posthumously treating the same in their devotees, with the words used to recount their ...
Elizabeth Burrell
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Da Cheremone a Tiberio Giulio Alessandro. Persone, interessi e strategie del partito per «Alessandria capitale» di fronte al problema giudaico da Caligola ai Flavi

Erga-Logoi
From Chaeremon to Tiberius Julius Alexander. People, interests, and strategies of the party for «Alexandria as capital» in the face of the Jewish problem from Caligula to the Flavians Twice, first under the principality of Caligula, after the political ...
Alberto Barzanò
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An Indeterminate Conception of Practical Reasoning

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 285-299, March 2025.
Abstract This paper makes a case for treating the boundary between what counts as practical reasoning and what does not as essentially indeterminate. The idea that there is an “essential indeterminacy in what can be counted as a rational deliberative process” was put forward by Bernard Williams in his well‐known discussion of statements about an agent ...
Jorah Dannenberg
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On Some Fiscal Decisions of Caligula and Vespasian

Studia Ceranea, 2012
The history of the Roman Empire is a history of continuously looking for new sources of state revenues. Numerous public loads, spontaneously created during the early Empire, without any deeper analysis, created a disordered mess of particular and curious
Anna Pikulska-Radomska
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Consequentialism, Welfarism, and Meaning in Life

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 105, Issue 4, Page 583-604, December 2024.
Abstract What, if anything, makes a life meaningful? Consequentialist theories about meaning in life maintain that the consequences of that life confer meaning upon it. This article advances one such theory: welfarism about meaning in life. According to this view, a life is conferred meaning if, and only if, and then only insofar as, it promotes or ...
Chad Mason Stevenson
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