Results 51 to 60 of about 34,317 (200)

A multidisciplinary study on the location of Roman sites in the southern sub‐plateau of the Iberian Peninsula

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 5, Page 1373-1390, October 2025.
Abstract Architectural and engineering elements of the Roman civilization constitute an important cultural heritage. Nevertheless, not all ancient Roman cities and the roads connecting them have been found, mainly because classical geographical sources show a significant lack of precision.
Jesús M. Romera   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Frienemies de l’Antiquité: Aristide et Thémistocle vus par Plutarque

open access: yesElectrum
In the Parallel Lives, Aristides and Themistocles are two antithetical characters. This opposition, already present in Herodotus’work and common to the literary tradition of the Persian wars, is particularly emphasized by Plutarch who shapes two ...
Lucia Visonà
doaj   +1 more source

Did Down‐Regulated Instincts Enable Human Gene‐Culture Coevolution?

open access: yesEvolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 34, Issue 3, September 2025.
ABSTRACT The unique intellectual and cultural attributes of Homo sapiens that arose during the Middle Stone Age are often ascribed to positive evolutionary development of novel physical or personality traits, but attempts to correlate cultural with genetic evolution have been unsuccessful.
Gerald E. Loeb
wiley   +1 more source

The E of Delfos

open access: yesFeminismo/s, 2012
Archaeological findings help us to make an interpretation of history that is hidden behind the myths; I focus in particular those relating to the history of the oracle at Delphi and Dodona. In last times, the cult of Delphi, when Plutarch was a priest of
Neus Calvo Escamilla
doaj   +1 more source

A Gleaming Ray: Blessed Afterlife in the Mysteries [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
published or submitted for ...
Brenk, Frederick E.
core  

Publics and Audiences in Ancient Greece [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
An overview of the historical constitution of theater audiences in Classical Athens and the implications of this assessment. I first sketch out the dominant ways in which modern scholars have defined ancient audiences.
David Roselli
core   +1 more source

‘I See Her Instrument Is Open’: (Dis)playing the Musical Body in the Work of Jane Austen

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 303-326, September 2025.
Abstract This article contextualizes Jane Austen's depictions of musicians and instruments within contemporary philosophical perceptions of music as a means of ‘unvirtuous’ corporeal stimulation in order to examine Austen's attitude towards female sexuality.
Maggie Stanton
wiley   +1 more source

Posthumous Veneration of King Leonidas in Sparta

open access: yesУченые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки
This article examines several narratives about the posthumous veneration of King Leonidas in Sparta. The details of the funeral ceremony held for him are analyzed.
L. G. Pechatnova
doaj   +1 more source

Parmenide e Platone (e Aristotele) nel Contro Colote di Plutarco

open access: yesAitia, 2013
The chapters dedicated to Parmenides and Plato play a decisive role in the composition strategy of the Adversus Colotem, since this is where Plutarch most clearly defines the background dualist thesis that will help ...
Mauro Bonazzi
doaj   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy