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Intrattenimenti e spettacoli nell'Egitto ellenistico-romano

Annali Online dell'Università di Ferrara. Sezione Lettere, 2012
Critical analysis of the studies concerning the world of performances and entertainments in the Graeco-roman Egypt, with particular regard to a recently appeared survey by G. Tedeschi.
Elena Esposito
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Cast Contemporaries: artists respond to the completion of the Cast Collection Project at Edinburgh College of Art [PDF]

, 2012
Cast Contemporaries is an exhibition that explores contrasting responses to the fate of plaster cast collections in art schools. Many contemporary artists question the relevance of preserving reproductions of antique sculptures, anatomical figures and ...
Dorsett, Chris, Stewart, Margaret
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Aristotle's Theoria in Contemplative Education

Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 439-459, June 2025.
Abstract This essay analyzes Pierre Hadot's reading of Aristotelian theoria in order to evaluate theoria's relevancy for the contemporary field of Contemplative Education. It emphasizes the limited engagement with theoria against a backdrop of heightened attention to mindfulness‐based practices. The essay critiques the conflation of Plato and Aristotle'
Tomas de Rezende Rocha
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Resemblance and camouflage in Graeco-Roman antiquity

Sign Systems Studies, 2010
In the twenty-eighth book of the Naturalis Historia Pliny the Elder claims that, if a chameleon’s left leg is roasted together with a herb bearing the same name, and everything is mixed with ointment, cut in lozenges, and stored in a wooden little box ...
Massimo Leone
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Reading Aid: 2 Maccabees and the History of Jason of Cyrene Reconsidered [PDF]

, 2017
This article investigates the prefatory material in 2 Maccabees (2:19-32; 15:38-39) in order to reveal the motivation and attitude of the epitomator of 2 Maccabees toward the text he is adapting.
Francis Borchardt
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Per dynamin – per energian: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 220-243, May 2025.
This paper investigates Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek. It proceeds from three questions. First, what resources for learning Greek were available in tenth‐century Germany? Second, were there any figures in her ambit from whom she could have learned?
Graham Robert Johnson
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Humour, Transcendence, and Selfhood: An Essay on Lightness and Truth

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 311-336, April 2025.
Abstract This article is concerned with a ‘lightness that is as far as possible from triviality’. It argues, firstly, that a connection can be drawn between comic perception and pictures of reality that entail transcendence, understood as an otherness at the heart of things that may be indirectly glimpsed but never fully grasped as the object of fixed ...
Simon Ravenscroft
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Rehabilitating Gallio and His Judgement in Acts 18:14-15

Tyndale Bulletin, 2006
By first-century Graeco-Roman standards, a recent assessment of Gallio – a Roman senator, proconsul and consul of Rome – would have been seen as something of a damnatio that resulted in the dismissal of his achievements and the formal disfiguring of his ...
Bruce Winter
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The Letter of Jude and Graeco-Roman Invective

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014
Many have attempted to identify the opponents in Jude and have addressed the manner in which the author characterises this group. Moreover, scholars have expended considerable energy on the analysis and explication of Jude’s rhetorical structure and ...
Alicia J. Batten
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REMARKS ON THE HEAD OF ROMAN SOLDIER IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN MUSEUM AT ALEXANDRIA [PDF]

Shedet, 2018
This paper examines a head for a young warrior. It is kept in the Graeco-Roman Museum at Alexandria (Inv.No.3244). It is carved in white marble and measures 25 cm. The dimension of the head indicates that once it belonged to a life size statue.
Abdel Basset A. ABDEL FATTAH
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