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Humanimals: A Socio‐Ecological Reading of the Marseille Plague of 1720

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 285-301, September 2025.
Abstract The aim of this article is to return to a small number of historically significant first‐person testimonies of the Marseille epidemic of 1720 in order to analyse in detail their construction and depiction of human exceptionality as a form of life in a time of plague.
David McCallam
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Mycenaean Textile Memories in Homeric Terminology [PDF]

, 2016
The present paper aims at investigating continuity and disruption between Mycenaean and Homeric Greek in the field of technical terminology pertaining to the textile craft.
Gasbarra, Valentina
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On recognizing the real: Beauty and affliction in Simone Weil

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 464-477, September 2025.
Abstract If the guiding question of ethics is “how should I live?,” then the guiding question of aesthetics might be “what is beauty?” For Simone Weil, these two questions have intertwined answers that turn on a like conceptual apparatus. Focussing on Weil's foremost ethical problem, the plight of the afflicted (malheur), this article offers an account
Christopher Thomas
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Greek education and composite citations of Homer [PDF]

, 2016
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Adams, Sean A.
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A Flight Back to Ground: Jung’s Recalcitrant Fourth as Rape into Consciousness. Symbolic Rape and Literal Rape in Persephone’s Myth [PDF]

J Anal Psychol
Abstract Patricia Berry’s interpretation of the Demeter/Persephone myth, and her concept of rape into consciousness, illuminate intrapsychic dynamics. However, this symbolic lens may inadvertently distance us from the devastating nature of literal rape—a reality the Homeric Hymn encapsulates.
Barbara Cerminara
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All Shall Fade: Homer\u27s Foreshadowing of the End of the Heroic Age in The Iliad [PDF]

, 2015
Homer\u27s epic poems are filled with demi-gods and great heroes. However, in The Iliad, Homer undermines the triumph of these heroes by foreshadowing the end of their age and the forthcoming time of mortals. This essay examines how Achilleus\u27 shield,
Hardy, Sabrina
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The Story of Romantic Love and Polyamory

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 795-813, July 2025.
ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between romantic love and polyamory. Our central question is whether traditional norms of monogamy can be excised from romantic love so as to harmonize with polyamory's ethical dimensions (as we construe them).
Michael Milona, Lauren Weindling
wiley   +1 more source

Iliad, Odyssey, and statistics

The Journal of Classics Teaching
For centuries, the Homeric Question has fuelled fierce debate among scholars. The Homeric epics are widely regarded as having their origins in the Late Bronze Age, with oral transmission continuing until a final redaction in the eighth to second century ...
Natale Musso
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“Simone Weil’s Iliad : Misunderstanding Homer ?”

Eugesta
This article focuses on Simone Weil’s translation and reception of Homer’s Iliad. Some criitics have called it a misreading, but I contend that translation and reception comes in many forms and that it is a mistake to label non-literal translations
Barbara Gold
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A Case of Aposiopesis. Note on Euripides, Iphigenia among the Taurians 827-836. [PDF]

, 2017
Nota critica ed ...
DE POLI, Mattia
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