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Špilje, seks i kritika Augustove vlasti: Ovidijev pjesnički dijalog s Homerom, Hesiodom i Kalimahom
This paper discusses the use of caves in Ovid’s works. It focuses on several passages from Ars Amatoria, Fasti, and Metamorphoses in which Ovid uses cave imagery as part of his Golden age discourse.
Krešimir Vuković
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Pessimism, Hope, and the Tragic-Art of the Greeks (Nietzsche and the Pandora Myth) [PDF]
This essay is focused on Nietzsche’s unique reading of the Pandora myth as it appears in Human, All Too Human and develops an interpretation of Hope, the most profound evil of the many evils released by Pandora infecting the human condition, as it might ...
Magrini, James
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Fraternal conflict in Hesiod's Works and Days [PDF]
In addressing his brother, Hesiod departs from traditional didactic models we know from the Near East which are usually based on father/son or teacher/pupil relationships.
Canevaro, Lilah
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Remarques sur le vocabulaire architectural chez Hésiode
Studying the vocabulary of the home in the hesiodic corpus enables us to stress the continuity in the uses of terms with the homeric epics and the relative homogeneity of the corpus.
Sylvie Rougier-Blanc
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Homeric quotations in the ancient scholia to Hesiod’s poem Works and Days
In the scholia vetera for Hesiod’s poem Works and Days, 35 verses are explained with a reference to Homer’s poems and one verse is commented on with a reference to Homer as Hesiod’s rival in a poetic contest.
O. A. Bogdanova
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The Reception of Hesiod by the Early Presocratics [PDF]
The early Presocratics’ major speculative and critical initiatives—in particular, Anaximander’s conceptions of the justice of the cosmos and of the apeiron as its archē and Xenophanes’s polemics against immorality and anthropomorphism in the depiction of
Miller, Mitchell
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Renaissance Culture, Emblems, and Interdisciplinary Research: The Reception of Alciato in Coimbra☆
Abstract Bearing in mind that emblem books were a manifestation of humanistic culture and its natural interdisciplinary, this paper discusses how the early reception of Alciato's Emblemata in Coimbra (Portugal) had an impact on artists, literary authors, jurists, and Jesuit teachers.
Filipa Araújo
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... Going Further on down the Road.. [PDF]
Praised for its reliance on observation rather than myth, the Milesian school signals the dawn of science in the West. Whereas Hesiod appeals to the long ago and far away to explain the here and now, Thales and his cohorts do the reverse.
Priou, Alex
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The Book of Genesis and other allegorical origin stories of games
Abstract This essay delves into the complex interplay between the sacred and the ludic, with a particular emphasis on allegorical origin stories from various religious and mythological traditions, highlighting their portrayal of games and the concept of play. The analysis includes the Judaeo‐Christian Book of Genesis and the Babylonian Enuma Elish.
Bo Kampmann Walther
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In defence of the entity of Macaronesia as a biogeographical region
ABSTRACT Since its coinage ca. 1850 AD by Philip Barker Webb, the biogeographical region of Macaronesia, consisting of the North Atlantic volcanic archipelagos of the Azores, Madeira with the tiny Selvagens, the Canaries and Cabo Verde, and for some authors different continental coastal strips, has been under dispute. Herein, after a brief introduction
José María Fernández‐Palacios +15 more
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