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Thinking with Cormac McCarthy

Krisis
This brief essay honor the recently deceased American author Cormac McCarthy by interpreting a short scene from one of his screenplays as a modern instance of genuinely tragic understanding.
Henry Pickford
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Oedipus philosopher, innocent responsible

Filosofia Unisinos, 2021
In his two Oedipian tragedies (Oedipus Tyrannus and Oedipus Colonneus) Sophocles presents a complex portrait of human and political condition where we can think responsibility, will and guilt in their legal, philosophical and religious meanings.
Francisco Marshall
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On the Manifold Meanings of Aesthetic Experience: Lonergan and Chrétien on Art

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 33-52, January 2026.
Abstract I argue that Jean‐Louis Chrétien’s account of beauty and Bernard Lonergan’s account of art and aesthetic experience complement one another and, when taken together, offer an illuminating philosophical account of the ontological, ethical, intellectual, and transcendent aspects of art and aesthetic experience.
Gregory P. Floyd
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Manuscripts, Editors and Sophocles, Philoctetes [PDF]

, 2013
The thesis of the article may be briefly summarized as follows: Lines 671-673 in all of our ancient MSS are consistently assigned to Philoctetes. Modern editors however, following in the footsteps of nineteenth century scholars regularly assign these ...
Olcott, Marianina Demetri
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Hippolytus\u2019 Songs and Musical Innovations in the Attic Tragedy. [PDF]

, 2017
Hippolytus’ songs show that, even when taking from Aeschylus or Sophocles, Euripides is always attempting innovative solutions. This play belongs to an initial stage of the Euripidean work, but it probably marks the starting point in the evolution of his
DE POLI, Mattia
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Polyneices’ Body and His Monument: Class, Social Status, and Funerary Commemoration in Sophocles’ Antigone [PDF]

, 2006
There has been much debate about the role of Greek tragedy in questioning and/or affirming values. This paper addresses the broader relationship between theater and society in terms of the ways in which the dead were commemorated in fifth-century Athens.
David Roselli
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Pericles tirano. Aproximación a la gestión de la crisis sanitaria durante la epidemia de Atenas (430-426 a.C.)

Erga-Logoi
Tyrant Pericles. Approach to the management of the health crisis during the plague of Athens (430-426 BC) The aim of this paper is to analyse the political and religious consequences of the Athenian plague of 430 BC. Regarding the political aspects, the
César Sierra Martín
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Vondel on translation [PDF]

, 1985
This essay attempts to gain insight into seventeenth-century conceptions of literary translation in the Low Countries by looking at one of its central figures, Joost van den Vondel.
Hermans, T
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A Note on the Administration of Lycurgus

Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2003
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Sophocles S. Markianos
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Metamorphoses of Oedipus in Modern French Literature. From an Intellectual Drama to a Psychoanalytical Reflection on Ideal Love

Interlitteraria, 2020
Oedipus Rex, a tragedy created twenty-five centuries ago, is still a source of inspiration for many writers. However, the overall message of modern interpretations of the Oedipus myth differs considerably from the message of Sophocles’ play; these works ...
Marcin Klik
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