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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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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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The clash of the sexes in Hesiod's Works and Days [PDF]
In this paper I argue that Hesiod’s (predominantly negative) views on women in the Works and Days are inextricably linked with his persistent anxieties about life in the Iron Age.
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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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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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The puzzling reference by Thucydides, during his account of Demosthenes’ Aetolian campaign in 426, to the death of Hesiod, can be explained as an instance of foreshadowing through myth: Hesiod’s tragic end prepares the reader for the tragic consequences ...
Finglass, P.J.
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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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Brass Art: A house within a house within a house within a house [PDF]
Performances from Brass Art (Lewis, Mojsiewicz, Pettican), captured at the Freud Museum, London, using Kinect laser scanning and Processing, reveal an intimate response to spaces and technologies.
Lewis, Chara +2 more
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Looks of Love and Loathing:Cultural Models of Vision and Emotion in Ancient Greek Culture [PDF]
International audienceThis paper considers the intersection of cultural models of emotion, specifically love and envy, with folk and scientific models of vision in Greek antiquity.
Cairns, Douglas
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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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