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Newly Determined Explosion Center of Tycho's Supernova and the Implications for Proposed Ex-Companion Stars of the Progenitor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
`Star G', near the center of the supernova remnant of Tycho's SN1572, has been claimed to be the ex-companion star of the exploding white dwarf, thus pointing to the progenitor being like a recurrent nova.
Schaefer, Bradley E., Xue, Zhichao
core   +3 more sources

Antony of Tagrit and the Progymnasmata: Towards a Syriac Rhetorical Theory in the Abbasid Era

open access: yesHistoire Épistémologie Langage
This paper investigates the engagement with Greek progymnasmata exercises shown by the first rhetorical handbook in Syriac: Antony of Tagrit’s On Rhetoric (ninth century). Despite lacking any specific reference to progymnastic authors or texts and having
Mara Nicosia
doaj   +1 more source

L’ekphrasis au service de l’idéologie royale dans les Castigos del rey don Sancho IV (fin XIIIe siècle)

open access: yesE-Spania, 2020
Le chapitre XI des Castigos del rey don Sancho IV comprend une description détaillée, minutieuse, exhaustive pourrait-on dire, du roi sur son trône, chaque élément décrit renvoyant à une vertu ou à une prérogative royale.
Ghislaine Fournès
doaj   +1 more source

Theon and the history of the progymnasmata [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This paper surveys the evidence for the technical literature on rhetorical progymnasmata. It concludes that the arguments for an early date for Theon’s Progymnasmata are inherently weak, and are inconsistent with the evidence for the text’s currency in ...
Heath, M.
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‘Who Is Afraid of Fairenesse or Wanton Ladies Appearing in Their Barenesse?’: Laughing at Female Desire in Early Modern English Reception of the Myth of the Trojan War☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 612-631, November 2025.
Abstract In early modern England, as part of a broader interrogation of exemplarity, full‐scale works on the Trojan War often subjected the myth’s heroes to humorous scrutiny, whereas the heroines remained surprisingly untouched by comedy. Testifying to the war’s calamities already in antiquity, in the early modern period, the myth’s women acquired a ...
Evgeniia Ganberg
wiley   +1 more source

Tycho Brahe's 1572 supernova as a standard type Ia explosion revealed from its light echo spectrum [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are thermonuclear explosions of white dwarf stars in close binary systems. They play an important role as cosmological distance indicators and have led to the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the Universe.
A Decourchelle   +35 more
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Views from the East: Changing Attitudes to Venice in Late Byzantium

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 550-570, September 2025.
Abstract This paper explores the changing attitudes towards Venice in late Byzantine texts. It argues that, along with the strengthening of political and cultural ties between Byzantium and Venice, the Byzantines' perspectives evolved from rejection to admiration. As scholars like Demetrios Kydones and Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Venice,
Florin Leonte
wiley   +1 more source

Los capítulos primero y segundo del libro I de la Primera parte de los Comentarios Reales del Inca Garcilaso a la luz de la retórica grecolatina [PDF]

open access: yesTalia dixit, 2013
This paper aims to offer an example of the influence of ancient rhetoric in the first and second chapters of the first book of the Primera parte de los Comentarios reales by the Inca Garcilaso, where the author deals with several cosmographic and ...
Violeta Pérez Custodio
doaj   +2 more sources

El influjo de los progymnasta en la novela griega: la etopeya en Leucipa y Clitofonte

open access: yesÁgora
En el presente artículo se pretende analizar la presencia de la etopeya (ἠθοποιία) en Leucipa y Clitofonte de Aquiles Tacio. Se identifican y clasifican primero los ejemplos de etopeya que aparecen en esta novela, para después estudiar sus rasgos ...
Carlos Amado Román
doaj   +1 more source

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