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Cuerpo y corporeidad en la tragedia griega
Partiendo de una serie de consideraciones respecto de la centralidad del cuerpo y la corporeidad en la tragedia griega, el presente trabajo focaliza la tragedia Hipólito de Eurípides.
Lidia Gambon
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Threatened Caring Culture: On the Sad Topicality of the Medea Myth
ABSTRACT The shameless contempt for the weak and helpless, strangers, migrants and traumatized refugees attacks continuously one of our basic motivational systems, namely to protect and care for our children and descendants. The caring system is an instinctive system anchored in evolutionary biology that ensures our survival as a species.
Marianne Leuzinger‐Bohleber
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Euripides and the Origins of Democratic «Anarchia»
In this essay, I argue that the terms anarchia and anarchos had become associated with critiques of democracy before the final quarter of the fifth century BCE.
Jonah F. Radding
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This paper investigates appeals to law in Euripides’ Medea, dramatic elements which seem to point to two distinct aspects in the development of Greek Law.
Stefania Giombini
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The Literary Court: Reading Queen Charlotte
Abstract This article investigates the literary culture revolving around Queen Charlotte (1744–1818) between 1761 and 1818. The Queen's library, sold after her death in 1818, contained more than 4500 volumes, and the sales catalogue (1819) offers a fascinating glimpse into her collecting habits and reading interests. This article uses the catalogue, as
Mascha Hansen
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Abstract In early modern England, as part of a broader interrogation of exemplarity, full‐scale works on the Trojan War often subjected the myth’s heroes to humorous scrutiny, whereas the heroines remained surprisingly untouched by comedy. Testifying to the war’s calamities already in antiquity, in the early modern period, the myth’s women acquired a ...
Evgeniia Ganberg
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The Development of Museology in 1930s China: Western Influences and Early Reflections
ABSTRACT This article explores the emergence of museology in China during the 1930s, tracing its development through the establishment of the Museums Association of China and the analysis of early publications. It examines the influence of Western concepts on Chinese museum theory and practice, particularly regarding exhibition techniques.
Daphné Sterk
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ABSTRACT This article presents a conception of literature as self‐reflection, derived from the writings of Johann Georg Hamann (1730–88). Starting from an intertextual analysis of Hamann's statements on self‐knowledge as a descent into hell that paves the way to divinisation, the article presents Hamann's intertextual writing practice (‘neuer Begriff ...
Anna Żymełka‐Pietrzak
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Speaking Truth to Power: Understanding the Role of Political Theater in Russia
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 2, Page 149-156, April 2026.
Katherine A. New
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Leviathans and Liberation: Did Whaling Contribute to the Decline of Slavery?
ABSTRACT We test the hypothesis slavery started declining in the United States not due to fossil fuel‐driven industrialization but the exploitation of the bioenergy reserves of the world's largest animals. We predict the population in slavery in US states from 1790 to 1840 as a function of the recorded whaling harvest.
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