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The Ancient Greek Pharmakos Rituals [PDF]
Numen, 2022 Abstract This article examines the role of mistrust – especially in constructions of purity, impurity, and purification – in ancient Greek religion. It begins by examining so-called scapegoat or pharmakos rituals, in which an individual was expelled from the city, apparently as a purificatory offering to the gods. Recent analyses have argued that these
Eidinow, Esther
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Medical Workers as the Pharmakoi of 2020. The Pandemic in Poland through a Girardian Lens [PDF]
Phainomena, 2021 The article is an attempt to read the new pandemic situation in the context of René Girard’s thought. Unlike some other philosophical comments on the crisis, the author refrains from delivering the general philosophical assessment of the whole gamut of ...
Paulina Sosnowska
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The Anti-Hero on Büchner to Koltès: A Comparative Look at Woyzeck and Roberto Zucco
Studien zur Deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 2022 Woyzeck, written in 1836, is an unfinished play by Georg Büchner, the plot of which is based on the real-life story of Johann Christian Woyzeck, who killed the woman he lived with. His case occupied the German press for a long period.
Melike Saba Akım
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JACQUES’O DERRIDA PHARMAKON INTERPRETACIJA
Problemos, 2009 Straipsnyje analizuojama Platono dialoge „Faidras“ suformuluota rašto samprata, ir J. Derrida knygoje „Diseminacija“ pateikta šios sampratos dekonstrukcija. Šioje Platono rašto sampratos rekonstrukcijoje sąvoka „pharmakon“ atlieka esminį vaidmenį.
Aušra Urbonienė
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Il pharmakos nelle fonti antiche e nella Storia delle religioni. Alcune valutazioni critiche
Mythos, 2018 What is meant by the Greek word pharmakos? Was it a purification ritual or a sacrifice? What are the origins of this ceremony? One or two individuals – in case of social, religious, political crisis, or a natural disaster – were expelled from the ...
Leonardo Sacco
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Omen and Anti-omen: The Rabbinic Hagiography of the Scapegoat’s Scarlet Ribbon [PDF]
, 2016 This article proposes that the place and meaning of various objects among religious communities can be explored in terms of “hagiography,” that is, through the narratives constructed around sacred objects sometimes long after their physical disappearance.
Balberg, Mira
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Gender, Class, and Ideology: The Social Function of Virgin Sacrifice in Euripides’ Children of Herakles [PDF]
, 2007 This paper explores how gender can operate as a disguise for class in an examination of the self-sacrifice of the Maiden in Euripides’ Children of Herakles.
David Roselli
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Les mots étrangers, les mots de l’étranger
Revue LISA, 2015 The essay assesses the linguistic situation of the exile, a potentially comic figure, with intimations of tragedy (the exclusion of the foreign speaker as linguistic pharmakos), but also of liberation (the standard language is most alive when minorised ...
Jean-Jacques Lecercle
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Le gore, modalité virale du cinéma hollywoodien [PDF]
, 2010 À partir d’une série de films post-hollywoodiens qui font de l’irruption de l’abject un motif privilégié, cet article se propose de mettre en évidence l’existence d’une modalité « virale » qui, se propageant à partir d’un film souche (The
Christol, Florent
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