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Retelling Orpheus: Orpheus in the Renaissance [PDF]
This paper examines the importance of the Orpheus myth during the English Renaissance. The Orpheus myth was one of the most common mythic intertexts of the period due to the fact that we could see the very story of Orpheus as being imbedded within the ...
Beattie, Laura I. H.
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Esiodo e la proposta platonica di rinuncia alla ricchezza
The paper aims to examine some aspects of the reception of the Hesiodic myth in Platonic thought, in order to demonstrate, through an attentive analysis of some passages from the Republic, the Politic and the Laws, how Plato uses and reshaped the ...
Lo Casto, Claudia
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Did Hesiod elaborate a divine figure, Zeus, all devoted to the ideal of retributive justice? The so-called “myth of the five races / ages” needs to be put into a new perspective in order to make room for historian assumptions that consider the race of ...
Karin Mackowiak
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From Ancient Patterns of Hand-to-Hand Combat to a Unique Therapy of the Future. [PDF]
Kruszewski A.
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A poesia grega como paidéia [PDF]
In this article the Iliad and Odyssey will be analyzed as a process of preservation of the memory, the culture and the Grecian past, pointing out their influence in the fields of politics, art, science and philosophy.
Jovelina Maria Ramos de Souza
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Parmenides, Plato, and Μίμησις. [PDF]
Evidence for a Parmenidean influence on Plato’s Republic typically focuses on content from Bks. V-VI, and the development of Plato’s Theory of Forms. This essay aims to suggest that Plato’s censorship of poetic content in Bks.
DeLong, Jeremy
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Where myth and archaeology meet: Discovering the Gorgon Medusa's Lair. [PDF]
Finlayson C +10 more
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The Quarrel with Perses and Hesiod’s Biographical Tradition
This paper attempts to explain why Hesiodic biographies consistently omit the poet's dispute with his brother Perses even though this quarrel is the dramatic setting for the Works and Days.
Zoe Stamatopoulou
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Rileggendo il Prometheus di Luciano [PDF]
This paper is intended to offer a reappraisal of an important, but underestimated dialogue of Lucian, especially with regard to its intertextual relationship with classical authors (Hesiod, Aeschylus, Plato) and to its place in Lucian’s ideology ...
GARGIULO, TRISTANO
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To Affinity and Beyond: A Personal Reflection on the Design and Discovery of Drugs. [PDF]
Flower DR.
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