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Limited sex differences in plastic responses suggest evolutionary conservatism of thermal reaction norms: A meta-analysis in insects. [PDF]
Evol Lett, 2022 Abstract Temperature has a profound effect on the growth and development of ectothermic animals. However, the extent to which ecologically driven selection pressures can adjust thermal plastic responses in growth schedules is not well understood. Comparing temperature‐induced plastic responses between sexes provides a promising but underexploited ...
Teder T, Taits K, Kaasik A, Tammaru T.
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New Australasian and Oriental Triaenodes species (Trichoptera: Leptoceridae) [PDF]
Opuscula Zoologica Instituti Zoosystematici et Oecologici Universitatis Budapestinensis, 2016 The following new species are described from the long-horned caddisfly genera Triaenodes McLachlan, 1865; Vietnam: T. catbana, T. sokaga; Indonesia (Sumba Island): T. sumbana; Indonesia (Batanta Island): T. apraka, T. bala, T. harmasa, T.
Oláh, J.
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Vergil and the death of Pentheus in Ovid, Metamorphoses III [PDF]
, 2017 In a pivotal article in 1990, P. Hardie illustrated that the Theban narrative of Ovid Metamorphoses 3 and 4 was the first anti-Aeneid. He did not include discussion of the death of Pentheus at the end of Book 3. In this article I show that the depiction of the Theban king’s death is bound up with key Vergilian intertexts which have a profound impact ...
Maciver, Calum
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Day and Night, Light and Darkness in the Bacchae of Euripides
Arys. Antigüedad, Religiones y Sociedades, 2023 In my paper, I am following the theme of light and darkness in the Bacchae of Euripides. Light and darkness is one of many threads of meaning in the Bacchae. It runs alongside the overall interpretation of the play. Light and darkness are present in the
Enno Friedrich
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Le cerf et le lion : métamorphose et châtiment divin dans les Dionysiaques de Nonnos de Panopolis
Aitia, 2023 This article proposes a joint reading of the myths of Actaeon and Pentheus as treated in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis. This reading focuses on the notion of metamorphosis and considers the possibility that it does
Halima Benchikh-Lehocine
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Whatever, 2020 Starting from the definition of “performativity” and “gender parody” developed by Judith Butler, this paper aims to investigate the performative functions of male cross-dressing within the dynamics of social categorization in classical Athens.
Dino Ranieri Scandariato
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Drunk with Wisdom: Metaphors of Ecstasy in Plato’s Symposium and Lucian of Samosata
Religions, 2021 Among the metaphors that Plato employed in the context of his apophatic approach to philosophical truth and its experience, inebriation stands out in the Symposium, where famously Socrates is compared to Dionysian figures such as the Silenoi and Marsyas (
Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
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The Image of the Tiger in Thomas Mann's Tod in Venedig
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 1978 Mann integrates the image of the tiger (according to Nietzsche a concomitant of the Dionysian) that is associated with Aschenbach into Tod in Venedig , commencing with the poet's anticipatory vision.
Ford P. Parkes
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Consonant Alliteration in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books I-VIII
Classica Cracoviensia, 2016 Consonant Alliteration in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books I-VIII An in-depth analysis enables us to observe that consonant alliterations in books I – VIII appear in the description of the most dramatic events, especially during the rapid and unexpected ...
Stanisław Śnieżewski
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Parasitoids (Hymenoptera) of leafminer flies (Diptera: Agromyzidae) from Bangladesh
Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2016 The objective of this study was to determine hymenopteran parasitoids attacking leafminers (Agromyzidae: Diptera) in Bangladesh. Four parasitoid species, viz.
Santosh Mazumdar, Badrul Amin Bhuiya
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