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Hope: Being Human in the Anthropocene
International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 25, Issue 3, Page 397-412, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Given the calamities involved in climate change and the impact it is having – and will continue to have, on lives driven towards subsistence – what can be said about the goodness of creation? This essay explores how privileged theologians might rethink the notion of the common good in a situation where the majority are under‐privileged.
Graham Ward
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GeoHealth, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Seasonal cycles in plants and animals drive key timings of human practices in an agrosystem like the best time for harvest, planting, or pruning. Within the framework of historical phenological studies, we attempt a reconstruction of the olive (Olea europaea L.) phenology along millennia.
Vincenza Ferrara, Dominic Ingemark
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Recent scholarship on classical literature and the eighteenth century
Literature Compass, Volume 19, Issue 10, October 2022., 2022 Abstract This article provides a survey of the scholarship on classical literature and eighteenth‐century British literary culture that has appeared since 2010. Drawing on general overviews of the period, as well as more specific work on translation and classical reception, it focuses on the following five subject‐areas: non‐elite readers of classical ...
Ian Calvert
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 120, Issue 1, Page 128-183, March 2022., 2022 Abstract The system of adversative conjunction in the Old Church Slavic Gospels is characterized by two pure adversatives, nŭ and the much less frequent obače, together with two other forms, a and že, which are employed with equal or greater frequency in non‐adversative conjunctive roles. The relationship between nŭ and a is complex.
Jared S. Klein
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The Programmatic Idylls of Theocritus [PDF]
, 2021 Scholars have consistently focused on Idylls 1 and 7 as ‘programmatic’ poems. Cairns, in his discussion of the first Idyll as a programmatic poem, helpfully defines such poetry as follows:A poem or part of a poem can be described as ‘programmatic’ if it is consciously composed in such a way that it contains a very high concentration of material typical
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Melōsa and her prize: The victory of a woman in ancient Greece
Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 334-352, July 2024.Abstract The earliest example of the Ancient Greek word for a victor's prize, nikatērion, comes in a verse inscription from the sixth century bce on an Attic kylix (wine cup) from Taras. It records the victory of Melōsa in a competition with other young women. This article draws out the significance of her victory and redefines our understanding of who
Ian Plant
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, 2023 This book contributes to the literary-theoretical field of Material Ecocriticism, expanding its chronological remit, and is the first to apply it to Classics. Material Ecocriticism has been described as an exercise in listening – and it is to a series of underrepresented agents (women, nature, the nonhuman) in the poetry of Theocritus that this book ...
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Milton's Florentine Encomiast, Antonio Francini: New Evidence
Milton Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 49-76, May 2026.
Estelle Haan
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