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Publics and Audiences in Ancient Greece [PDF]
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
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Plutarcho požiūris į išsilavinusias moteris kūriniuose Coniugalia praecepta ir Consolatio ad uxorem. Plutarch’s attitude towards educated woman (treatises Coniugalia praecepta and Consolatio aduxorem) [PDF]
The article aims to establish the attitude, or attitudes, towards educated women and women in general that Plutarch reveals in his moral treatises Coniugalia praecepta and Consolatio ad uxorem. Secondary aim of this articles is to determine, what does he
Monika Voinič
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The Literary Court: Reading Queen Charlotte
Abstract This article investigates the literary culture revolving around Queen Charlotte (1744–1818) between 1761 and 1818. The Queen's library, sold after her death in 1818, contained more than 4500 volumes, and the sales catalogue (1819) offers a fascinating glimpse into her collecting habits and reading interests. This article uses the catalogue, as
Mascha Hansen
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This chapter describes Plutarch’s role as a Middle Platonist in the Second Sophistic. In philosophy he holds a literal interpretation of the Timaeus and often opposes the Stoics and Epicureans. He stresses the importance of philosophical inquiry and a certain caution, especially when speaking of difficult questions. His popular Table Talks (or Sympotic
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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
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What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might
This essay examines how psychosocial forces shape will to fight through the Devoted Actor Framework (DAF). Devoted actors, bound by sacred, non‐negotiable ideals and fused group identities, pursue a quest for ontological significance that sustains conflict beyond material incentives.
Scott Atran
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Parmenide e Platone (e Aristotele) nel Contro Colote di Plutarco
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
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Una suggestione archilochea ne La Città Morta?
This note proposes the hypothesis that in La città morta, Act II, sc. I, d’Annunzio used a fragment of Archilochus, sent to us by Plutarch and Athenaeus.
Bisanti, Armando
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Stasis-theory in Homeric commentary [PDF]
(i) Analysis of the small number of references to the rhetorical theory of stasis (issue-theory) in the Homeric scholia shows that they assume a modified version of the theory of Athenaeus, a contemporary and rival of Hermagoras of Temnos.
Heath, M.
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Names, addresses and identities in ambient networks [PDF]
Ambient Networks interconnect independent realms that may use different local network technologies and may belong to different administrative or legal entities.
Ahlgren, Bengt +4 more
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