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Eloquent Alogia: Animal Narrators in Ancient Greek Literature
Humanities, 2017 Classical Greek literature presents a variety of speaking animals. These are not, of course, the actual voices of animals but human projections. In a culture that aligns verbal mastery with social standing, verbal animals present a conundrum that speaks ...
Tom Hawkins
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Literary and documentary evidence for lay medical practice in the Roman Republic and Empire [PDF]
, 2016 The majority of surviving ancient medical literature was written by medical practitioners and produced for the purpose of ensuring the effective diagnosis and treatment of their patients, suggesting an audience of medical professionals ranging from ...
Draycott, Jane
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The End of Epicurean Infinity: Critical Reflections on the Epicurean Infinite Universe [PDF]
, 2018 In contrast to other ancient philosophers, Epicurus and his followers famously maintained the infinity of matter, and consequently of worlds. This was inferred from the infinity of space, because they believed that a limited amount of matter would ...
Bakker, Frederik
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Starzec w polityce. Zmienne poglądy Plutarcha z Cheronei
Vox Patrum, 2011 Plutarch of Chaeronea (ca. 45-122/125) changed his attitude to on old age in the successive stages of his life and literary production. In the period between AD 85 and 95 the middle-aged author inclined to the Stoic theory on old age.
Ewa Osek
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History of Neurotrauma in Ancient Greece. [PDF]
J Med Life, 2022 Dobran SA, Livint Popa L, Muresanu D.
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Antigüedad y CristianismoReseña del libro Plutarch and his Contemporaries: Sharing the Roman Empire. Jażdżewska, Katarzyna & Doroszewski, Filip (eds.). Brill, Leiden-Boston, 2024.
Borja Méndez Santiago
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La possessione nella pantomima
Danza e RicercaThe paper aims to explore the relationship between pantomime and possession (enthousiasmos) in particular in the imperial age. The author examines various sources in this regard: the treatise De Saltatione by Lucian of Samosata, excerpts from Dion of ...
Manlio Marinelli
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Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) and His Injury in Kyropolis Reconsidered. [PDF]
Maedica (Bucur), 2023 Laios K +7 more
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Lucretius' arguments on the swerve and free-action [PDF]
, 2019 In his version of atomism, Lucretius made explicit reference to the concept of an intrinsic declination of the atom, the atomic swerve (clinamen in Latin), stressing that the time and space of the infinitesimal atomic vibration is uncertain. The topic of
Evangelidis, Basil
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