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Ecology Letters, Volume 29, Issue 2, February 2026.We use topological data analysis to reveal a persistent morphological gap in a major group of songbirds (superfamily Passeroidea). The gap remained unoccupied for millions of years, even though nearby morphologies are common and the same body form exists in other groups of birds.
Stephanie Y. Chia +4 more
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Peuce, 2015 The find in Tulcea, close to the ancient settlement of Aegyssus, of a Dionysian bas-relief fragment dated to the Roman period, enables the author to digress briefly into Dionysian mythology.
Victor-Henrich BAUMANN
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Political Comedy in Aristophanes [PDF]
, 1987 This paper argues that Aristophanic comedy, although it takes contemporary political life as its point of departure, is not political in the sense of aiming to influence politics outside the theatre.
Heath, M.
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Io as Isis: A Lycophronean Myth in Nonnus
Literature, 2022 This article aims to examine one of the myths belonging to the first part of Nonnus’ Dionysiaca, i.e., that of Io. Starting from the philological analysis of the passages dealing with this myth and adopting an intertextual approach, I will argue that the
Arianna Magnolo
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Nietzsche at the Deathbed: the Eternal Recurrence as a Counter to the ‘Preaching of Death’
The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 6, Page 623-640, November 2025.Abstract In recent scholarship, the dominant reading of Nietzsche’s concept of the eternal recurrence has been as a thought experiment. This paper responds to this in two ways. First, this paper relocates eternal recurrence in the context of Nietzsche’s abiding concern with the ‘preaching of death’, a powerful, life‐negating weapon of the ascetic ...
Mark Higgins
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Tragedia, romanticismo y modernidad. Dioniso entre mito y religión
Franciscanum, 2016 The essay intends to rebuild relations among romanticism, tragedy and modernity from the lessons of Manfred Frank: The coming God and God in exile. These texts allow us rethink the tragedy in modern Western culture, represented in the figure of Dionysus.
Naím Garnica
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Kernos, 2017 The theatrical guild in Roman Smyrna assigned the epithet Briseus to Dionysus: the reference was probably to the Brisei of Thrace, and honoring Thracian Dionysus, leader of the Bacchai, is consistent with the Smyrnaean actors styling themselves mystai.
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Theorika in Fifth-Century Athens [PDF]
, 2009 A re-assessment of the state funding for attending dramatic festivals in fifth-century Athens. The introduction of the "Theoric Fund" is correctly dated to the middle of the fourth century, but this fact has obscured the existence of earlier theoric ...
David Roselli
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Terroir and rootstock effects on leaf shape in California Central Valley vineyards
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 7, Issue 4, Page 1110-1122, July 2025.The innumerable effects of terroir—including climate, soil, microbial environment, biotic interactions, and cultivation practice—collectively alter plant performance and production. A more direct agricultural intervention is grafting, in which genetically distinct shoot and root genotypes are surgically combined to create a chimera that alters shoot ...
Zoë Migicovsky +10 more
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Theoría Revista del Colegio de Filosofía, 1998 This paper analyzes some of the different characterizations of the idea of the Overman, in relation to the evolution of Nietzsche’s idea of “Dionysus”, pointing to the concept of will to Power.
Paulina Rivero Weber
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