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...Brevique Adnotatione Critica...: a preliminary history of the Oxford classical texts [PDF]
On 3 July 1896, at one of the less regular meetings of the Delegates of Oxford University Press (OUP) held during the Long Vacation, approval was given to publication of the Oxford Classical Texts (OCT) series.
Whitaker, G.
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Anfione-Niobe e Zeto-Aedon: la fondazione di Tebe nel dramma attico
By analyzing its adaptations and interpretations, this paper will shed light on the reception, in the classical period, of the Theban cycle myth of Zethus and his bride Aëdon.
Sabrina Mancuso
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On recognizing the real: Beauty and affliction in Simone Weil
Abstract If the guiding question of ethics is “how should I live?,” then the guiding question of aesthetics might be “what is beauty?” For Simone Weil, these two questions have intertwined answers that turn on a like conceptual apparatus. Focussing on Weil's foremost ethical problem, the plight of the afflicted (malheur), this article offers an account
Christopher Thomas
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The Plague of Thebes, a Historical Epidemic in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex
Sophocles, one of the most noted playwrights of the ancient world, wrote the tragedy Oedipus Rex in the first half of the decade 430–420 bc. A lethal plague is described in this drama.
Antonis A. Kousoulis +4 more
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A note on Johansen's rank conditions and the Jordan form of a matrix
This note presents insights on the Jordan structure of a matrix which are derived from an extension of the I(1) and I(2) conditions in Johansen (1996). It is first observed that these conditions not only characterize, as it is well known, the size (1 or 2) of the largest Jordan block in the Jordan form of the companion matrix but more generally the ...
Massimo Franchi
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Testing the New Keynesian Phillips Curve Without Assuming Identification [PDF]
We re-examine the evidence on the new Phillips curve model of Gali and Gertler (Journal of Monetary Economics 1999) using the conditional score test of Kleibergen (Econometrica 2005), which is robust to weak identification. In contrast to earlier studies,
Sophocles Mavroeidis
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Oedipus king: preparing man for the polis
Having Sophoclean play Oedipus King as a frame of reference, the purpose of this paper is to discuss the educative proposal conceived to the Greek Man as preparation for life in the polis. Although not intentionally, Sophocles pointed out an ideal of Man
José Joaquim Pereira Melo +1 more
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Abstract The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”.
Elias Papaioannou
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The present study aims at re-analyzing two specific aspects of Pasolini’s cinematic staging of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex that seem to have received little attention.
Rosanna Lauriola
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Abstract Two theories dominate the current debate over the nature of verbal irony: the pretence theory and the echoic theory. It is common ground in this debate that irony is sometimes both echoic and enacted through pretence; my concern here is with such cases.
Gregory Currie
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