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Apuleiův Zlatý osel a antická literární tradice v umění rudolfínské doby
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philosophica et Historica, 2021 The study follows fortunes of the famous Ancient Roman novel and its impact on the visual arts in the early modern period. Special attention is paid to the Rudolphine art and to the distinctive transformation of the theme of Cupid and Psyche at the court
Pavla Savická
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Classification of totally real elliptic Lefschetz fibrations via necklace diagrams [PDF]
, 2011 We show that totally real elliptic Lefschetz fibrations that admit a real section are classified by their "real loci" which is nothing but an $S^1$-valued Morse function on the real part of the total space.
Salepci, Nermin
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Cured Meats in Ancient and Byzantine Sources: Ham, Bacon and Tuccetum [PDF]
, 2014 The present study discusses the role of salt-cured meat in dietetics, medicine and gastronomy demonstrated mainly in ancient and Byzantine medical (Galen, Oribasius, Aetius of Amida, Anthimus, Alexander of Tralles and Paul of Aegina) and agronomic ...
Jagusiak, Krzysztof +2 more
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A new “Romen” Empire : Toni Morrison's love and the classics [PDF]
, 2007 An important but little-studied feature of Toni Morrison's novels is their ambivalent relationship with classical tradition. Morrison was a classics minor while at Howard University, and her deployment of the cultural practices of ancient Greece and Rome
Roynon, Tessa Kate
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Sulle orme di Ercole: modelli epici a confronto tra Ovidio e Petronio
Erga-Logoi, 2019 The article aims to explore the connections between the fifteenth book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Bellum civile sung by Eumolpus in Petronius’ Satyricon.
Laura Aresi
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Metamorphoses of the Uncanny in the Short-Story “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl
Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2011 This study analyzes several metamorphoses of the uncanny that the short-story “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl thematizes. The Freudian notion of the uncanny is connected with the definitions of the fantastic according to Tzevtan Todorov and of the maternal ...
Jacques Sohier
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The beast initiate: the lycanthropy of Heracles [PDF]
, 2019 The obscurantist Hellenistic poet Lycophron referenced the initiation of Heracles as a beast suckling the breast of the goddess Hera. This was the event that was the mythological origin of the Galaxy and of the lily flower that incarnated the same ...
Ruck, Carl
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Emerita, 2012 Este trabajo analiza la función de las alusiones al lamento del Cíclope ovidiano en las palabras de Trifena y en la reacción de Encolpio (Sat. 100.3-5).
Marcos Carmignani
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Transformation of Slovakian Youth Religiosity
Central European Journal of Educational Research, 2020 Some sociologists of religion think that countries in Central and Eastern Europe are expected quick and rapid secularization. Therefore it is interesting to continuously search out, how the religiosity of Slovakian youth is transformed against the ...
Ondrej Štefaňak
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‘Large complaints in little papers’ : negotiating Ovidian genealogies of complaint in Drayton's Englands Heroicall Epistles [PDF]
, 2008 Taking as its starting point Michael Drayton's reworking of a key Heroidean topos, the heroine's self-conscious reflection on letter-writing as an activity fraught with anxiety, this essay examines the cultural and literary factors that conspire to ...
Hadfield Andrew, Lyne Raphael
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