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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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The Greek language as a means of Transmitting the Christian message [PDF]
Pharos Journal of TheologyThere are moments in the history of nations when language transcends its conventional limits. It ceases to be merely a means of communication and becomes a vehicle of culture and spirit, a bearer of thought and wisdom, and, in the fullness of time, an ...
His Eminence Ioannis (Tsaftarides) +3 more
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Horse and Herald: Posidippus' Equestrian Angelia [PDF]
, 2019 Posidippus’ epigrams for equestrian victors (the Hippika, AB 71–88) build on epinician convention by maintaining the central role of the herald’s proclamation— the angelia—in the representation of athletic achievement. In a few of these epigrams, however,
Miller, Peter J
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Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism, 2000 The paper evaluates the legacy of our great poets - Seferis, Elytis, Ritsos - in terms of recent poetic production, given that they all had as a main poetic task to define or redefine our Greekness in the present time. For Seferis Greekness is this peculiar feeling, a glance that combines “ancient statues and contemporary sorrow”, meaning, of course ...
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آداب الكوفة, 2016 The Greeks have a certain authority, for they are the source of the Western traditions of poetry, philosophy, and science. The figure of Penelope in the Homeric epic can be seen as a symbol not only for woman’s trials in general but also for the trials ...
Areej Muhammad Jawad, Rana Jabir Obed
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The Self-Definition of Hellenic Identity through the Culture of Mousikē [PDF]
, 2019 Altgriechische Quellen sind voll von Verweisen auf die Musik von Völkern, die nicht griechisch sind und deshalb stereotyp als ,Barbaren‘ bezeichnet werden.
Rocconi, Eleonora
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Elegiac moods: Early Greek elegy and more
Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, 2011 This article explores the relationships and correlations between early Greek elegy (7th—5th c. BC) and the elegiac mood of a poem understood today as a nostalgic and melancholic attitude of the subject evoked in a poem.
Krystyna Bartol
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