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Late Sophocles : The Hero’s Evolution in Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus
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Abstract: Only a few plays by Sophocles—one of the great tragic playwrights from Classical Athens—have survived, and each of them dramatizes events from the rich store of myths that framed literature and art. Sophocles'treatment evokes issues that were vividly c...
Socrates, or on Human Knowledge : Bilingual Edition
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Abstract: Socrates, Or On Human Knowledge, published in Venice in 1651, is the only work written by a Jew that contains so far the promise of a genuinely sceptical investigation into the validity of human certainties. Simone Luzzatto masterly developed this book...
Visualizing the Invisible with the Human Body : Physiognomy and Ekphrasis in the Ancient World
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Abstract: Physiognomy and ekphrasis are two of the most important modes of description in antiquity and represent the necessary precursors of scientific description. The primary way of divining the characteristics and fate of an individual, whether inborn or acq...
Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean : Spaces, Mobilities, Imaginaries
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Abstract: Ancient religions are definitely complex systems of gods, which resist our understanding. Divine names provide fundamental keys to gain access to the multiples ways gods were conceived, characterized, and organized. Among the names given to the gods ma...
Animal Kingdom of Heaven : Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World
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Abstract: Zu den Forschungstrends der jüngeren Vergangenheit zählt ohne Zweifel die kulturwissenschaftliche Untersuchung von Tier-Mensch-Beziehungen, doch werden Ansätze aus den Human-Animal Studies (HAS) in den Altertumswissenschaften – und hier insbesondere fü...
- Animals in art
- Animals and civilization--History--To 1500
- Animals--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600
- Animals--Symbolic aspects
- Human-animal relationships--Religious aspects
- Christian art and symbolism--To 500--Themes, motives
- Christian art and symbolism--Medieval, 500-1500--Themes, motives
- Art, Ancient--Themes, motives
- Art, Medieval--Themes, motives
The Last Man Who Knew Everything : Thomas Young
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Abstract: No one has given the polymath Thomas Young (1773–1829) the all-round examination he so richly deserves—until now. Celebrated biographer Andrew Robinson portrays a man who solved mystery after mystery in the face of ridicule and rejection, and never sou...
- Discoveries in science--Great Britain--History--18th century
- Science--Great Britain--History--19th century
- Physicians
- Discoveries in science--Great Britain--History--19th century
- Physicians--Great Britain--Biography
- Scientists--Great Britain--Biography
- Science--Great Britain--History--18th century
- Linguists--Great Britain--Biography
Horos : Ancient Boundaries and the Ecology of Stone
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Abstract: In Horos, Thea Potter explores the complex relationship between classical philosophy and the ‘horos', a stone that Athenians erected to mark the boundaries of their marketplace, their gravestones, their roads and their private property.Potter weaves th...
Emotions Across Cultures : Ancient China and Greece
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Abstract: It is now recognized that emotions have a history. In this book, eleven scholars examine a variety of emotions in ancient China and classical Greece, in their historical and social context. A general introduction presents the major issues in the analys...
Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity
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Abstract: This collection of articles is an important milestone in the history of the study of time conceptions in Greek and Roman Antiquity. It spans from Homer to Neoplatonism. Conceptions of time are considered from different points of view and sources. Refle...
Intention and Interpretation: A Short History
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Abstract: Intention plays a complex role in human utterances. The interpretation of literary texts is a strong case in point: for about two hundred years there have been conflicting views about whether, and how much, authorial intention should matter when profes...