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What is 'Jewish' about Jewish art? Art and identity on late ancient sarcophagi from Rome [PDF]
A paper delivered at in the 2017 Colloquia of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Considers how a group of sarcophagi from the Jewish catacombs of Rome reflect on the subject of Jewish art and Jewish patrons in Late ...
Sean Burrus
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Dionysus Chooses Aeschylus [PDF]
This article is devoted to the analysis of the early stage work of one of the first tragedians of the Greek theatre. Aeschylus is called the father of tragedy since he transformed the original theatrical performance with one actor and ...
Larisa Poplavskaya
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ABSTRACT In 1837, the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck, Austria, purchased a Roman bronze statue of a maenad from the 2nd century ce with red garnets as facetted eye inlays found near Brixen, Southern Tyrol. These garnets were investigated using optical microscopy, a portable hand‐held and a stationary micro‐X‐ray fluorescence device, as
H. Albert Gilg +3 more
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Cultic Allusions in the Heraklitos Mosaic
The Heraklitos mosaic, which dates to the second century ad and is displayed today at the Vatican Museums, depicts the theme of the asàrotos òikos (‘unswept floor’) alongside allusions to Dionysian and Isiac mystery cults. The mosaic is
Ehud Fathy
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The Death of Tragedy: The Form of God in Paul’s \u3cem\u3eCarmen Christi\u3c/em\u3e and Euripides’ Bacchae [PDF]
Scholarship on Phil 2:6–11 has long wrestled with the question of “interpretive staging.” While acknowledging that Jewish sapiential and apocalyptic literature as well as Roman apotheosis narratives provide important matrices for the hymn, the following ...
Cover, Michael
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Geometry Helps to Compare Persistence Diagrams
Exploiting geometric structure to improve the asymptotic complexity of discrete assignment problems is a well-studied subject. In contrast, the practical advantages of using geometry for such problems have not been explored.
Kerber, Michael +2 more
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Augustus and Dionysus’s triumph: A nonexistent paradox [PDF]
In this paper I shall describe several iconographic documents attesting the resounding success of a few Dionysiac themes and, more generally, the vitality of Dionysism in the Augustan Age.
Scapini, Marianna
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1168. Eupatorium hyssopifolium L.
Summary Eupatorium hyssopifolium L. (Compositae: Eupatorieae: Eupatoriinae) is described and illustrated, and the species is provided with an expanded synonymy that includes type citations, known types, and supplementary comments. Notes are provided for the species' cultivation, propagation, likely pests and diseases, and availability.
Nicholas Hind, Joanna Langhorne
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Summary Eupatorium maculatum L. (Compositae: Eupatorieae: Eupatoriinae) is described and illustrated. Notes are provided for the species’ cultivation, propagation, likely pests and diseases, and availability, along with useful contrasting planting in a prairie garden or specimen border planting.
Nicholas Hind, Joanna Langhorne
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Aristophanes and his rivals [PDF]
This paper provides an introduction to the work of Aristophanes’ main rivals, especially Cratinus and ...
Heath, M.
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