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Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) was published 10 years ago to provide a unified set of criteria for identifying ‘sites of significance for the global persistence of biodiversity’. We review the initiative's origins, the KBA identification process, characteristics of the current network, threats, policy
Stuart H. M. Butchart +57 more
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Women’s Voice and Religious Utterances in Ancient Greece
Religions, 2011 This paper tackles the issue of women and religion through a particular looking glass: religious utterances such as curses, supplication, and prayer, as reflected in some passages from ancient Greek epic and tragedy—pivotal literary genres in the ...
Manuela Giordano
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Lexis, 2022 Del Carmen Encinas Reguero, M.; Quijada Sagredo, M. (eds) (2021). Tragic Rhetoric. The Rhetorical Dimensions of Greek Tragedy. Roma: Aracne. Le Rane Studi 69, 412 pp.
Bononcini, Leonardo
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, 2015 Luego de caracterizar la tragedia griega clásica como expresión de un arte ciudadano que participa por igual de un carácter festivo, cierto régimen discursivo y una clara inscripción físico-espacial, el texto se demora en considerar tres aspectos ...
Vélez Upegui, Mauricio
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Polyneices’ Body and His Monument: Class, Social Status, and Funerary Commemoration in Sophocles’ Antigone [PDF]
, 2006 There has been much debate about the role of Greek tragedy in questioning and/or affirming values. This paper addresses the broader relationship between theater and society in terms of the ways in which the dead were commemorated in fifth-century Athens.
David Roselli
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmentally oriented ventures pursue a dual mission: to create both environmental and financial value. This dual mission adds complexity and can influence ventures' funding prospects, as investors mostly pursue financial motivations.
David Flore +2 more
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Comparative Analysis of Father and Son's Confrontation in Iranian and Greek Tragedies (Rostam and Esfandiar, Rostam and Sohrab and Oedipus Shahriar) [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2018 The father and son's confrontation is one of the motifs seen in many myths, epics, legends, folk tales, or even in the religious narratives of the world. The background of this confrontation is generally the epic literary genre.
Hossein Mohammadi +2 more
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Women and Oaths in Euripides [PDF]
, 2003 “The oath is what holds democracy together,” claimed the Athenian orator Lycurgus, whose democracy was composed exclusively of men.1 Athens was the definitive phallogocentric community where public discursive practices such as the oath were the ...
Fletcher, Judith
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines climate change risk disclosure in the global energy sector, where firms face intense stakeholder scrutiny and legitimacy pressures. We develop a novel domain‐specific textual analysis measure to capture climate change risk disclosures, improving on prior approaches based on generic environmental terminology.
Khaldoon Albitar, Ali Meftah Gerged
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Simone de Beauvoir and liberation of women in Greek tragedy
Amauta, 2016 The values assigned by Simone Beauvoir to the women can be compared with negative values assigned to women in Greek tragedy, asserting that the author of the Second sex can be equated to a transgressor as Medea in promoting women’s liberation going ...
Luz María Lozano
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