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Resorting to rare sources of antiquity: Nikephoros Basilakes and the popularity of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives in twelfth-century Byzantium [PDF]
, 2014 This article examines the Byzantine adaptation of the anecdote of the Lydian king Pythes within Nikephoros Basilakes’ <i>Progymnasma</i> 11 in relation to its earliest surviving source, Plutarch’s <i>Mulierum virtutes</i> 262D ...
Xenophontos, Sophia
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thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, 2017 The special exhibition "Spiel mit der Antike - Das Bild der Antike in modernen Brettspielen" will run until October 1st 2017 at the City Museum at Fembo House Nuremberg.
Sandra Panzner
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Religions, 2021 The article advocates a new approach to the Qur’an: To look at the text as a transcript of the earliest community’s intervention into major debates of its time.
Angelika Neuwirth, Dirk Hartwig
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Römisches und kanonisches Recht kurz und bündig. Zur Epitomierung lateinischer Rechtstexte zwischen Spätantike und Moderne [PDF]
Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History, 2020 The subject of this survey is the manifold uses of the technique of epitomizing, which was and remained important in methodological, literary and normative-functional terms in the texts of Roman and canon law from Antiquity to the modern era.
Christoph H. F. Meyer
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The youth of antiquity: reception, homosexuality, alterity [PDF]
Classical Receptions Journal, 2019 AbstractClassical reception studies and the Foucault-inflected study of ancient homosexuality came of age together, sharing several key dates in their core bibliographies. This article argues that this synchronicity is no coincidence. In particular, both endeavours have been driven by remarkably similar views of the ‘otherness’ of the past itself ...
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Reception of J.W. Goethe’s Person and Work in the Stefan George’s Circle [PDF]
Studia LitterarumFor Stefan George (1868–1933) and for members of the so-called George Circle, J.W. Goethe’s person was among the geniuses of world literature, whose personalities and work served for them as models, and at the same time were rethought in order to ...
Elizaveta V. Burmistrova-Jennert
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‘Divine Corinna’: Pre-Twentieth Century Receptions of an Artistic Authority
Eugesta, 2020 Based on evidence that is very rarely considered together in scholarship, this paper argues that Corinna of Tanagra has been associated with an idea of artistic authority in antiquity.
Thea S. Thorsen
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Hospitality studies and hospitality management: a symbiotic relationship [PDF]
, 2008 The key contribution of this paper is to critically analyse advances made since the introduction of hospitality as a higher education subject, to capture contemporary thinking, and to support the recognition of the intellectual benefits for hospitality ...
Morrison, Alison, O'Gorman, Kevin D.
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Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2014 This article aims at examining the tension that characterizes some representations of Antiquity in the works of British painters of the 1860s-1890s as well as the critical reception of those works in contemporary periodicals and monographs.
Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada
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“Above all Greek, above all Roman Fame”: Classical Rhetoric in America during the Colonial and Early National Periods [PDF]
, 2011 The broad and profound influence of classical rhetoric in early America can be observed in both the academic study of that ancient discipline, and in the practical approaches to persuasion adopted by orators and writers in the colonial period, and during
Farrell, James M.
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