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Hidden in Plain Sight: Martial and the Greek Epigrammatic Tradition [PDF]

, 2015
Martial, perhaps the best-known author of Latin epigram, has enjoyed a resurgence of scholarly attention over the past two decades, and much has been made of his self-professed debt to earlier Latin epigrammatists, especially Catullus.
Lucci, Joseph M
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The Technê of Aratus’ Leptê Acrostich [PDF]

, 2019
This paper sets out to re-approach the famous leptêacrostich in Aratus’ Phaenomena (783-87) by confronting it with other early Greek acrostichs and the discourse of technê and sophia,which has been shown to play an important role in a gamut of Greek ...
Kwapisz, Jan
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Announcement of the College of Law 1925-1926 [PDF]

, 1924
Announcement of the College of Law 1925-1926https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/law-school-catalogs/1010/thumbnail ...
University of Florida
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Poetess on the Periphery? Revisiting the Question of a Female Poetic Tradition in Hellenistic Poetry [PDF]

, 2022
Ancient ...
Martin, Amy
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Reconstructing the Dedicatory Experience: Flexibility and Limitation in the Ancient Greek Dedicatory Process [PDF]

, 2017
Identifying the factors that affected dedicatory practices has long been an area of consideration in the study of ancient Greek religion. However, this discussion is largely dominated by two concepts, those of divine specialization and appropriateness ...
Colosimo, Nicole M.
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Eratosthenes’ Letter to Ptolemy: the Literary Mechanics of Empire [PDF]

, 2017
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276–194 b.c.e.), the third head of the Alexandrian Library, sent a letter to King Ptolemy outlining his solution for the geometric problem, the doubling of the cube. Although traditionally the preserve of historians of mathematics,
Leventhal, M
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Ancient Portraits of Poets: Communities, Canons, Receptions [PDF]

, 2016
This thesis examines the ancient sculptural portraits of poets in relation to the literary reception of their works by investigating a range of contexts for, and interactions with, these objects.
WALLIS, WILLIAM
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Ancient Loom Weights at the J. Paul Getty Museum [PDF]

, 2023
The article presents a group of twenty-two mostly unpublished terracotta loom weights in the Villa collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Most have been classed as coming from the southern Italian Peninsula and are discoid or hemispherical. A functional
Louise Nosch, Marie, Sauvage, Caroline
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“HEAVEN IS AS NEAR . . . ” [PDF]

, 2015
The proverb “We are as near Heaven by sea as by land,” or “The way to Heaven is the same from all places,” or the formula “Heaven is as close to X as to Y” entered the English language toward the end of the fifteenth century.
Charles Clay Doyle
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The Gender of Greek Suicide: Constructions of Humor and Heroism in Epigrams [PDF]

, 2023
In this thesis, I explore how epigram authors evoke and manipulate gendered modes of dying in their portrayals of suicide. More specifically, I examine how the sword/noose, male/female paradigm underlies their constructions of heroic and humorous ...
Oyler, Acacia Grace
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