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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"Ancient Greece"”.
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Cults of Artemis in Ancient Greece
… Artemisian cults in three places of mainland Greece (at Sparta, Athens and Patras) upon which to focus my attention. In the aetiological legends of their foundations the Spartan and Athenian cults share a common origin (located by ancient writers in the distant Black Sea), the supervising …
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The house of Atreus in ancient Greece
… the similarities and dissimilarities in three ancient Greek plays that used the legend of the house of Atreus as the basis for their plots; (2) to discover how these similarities and dissimilarities illustrate separate points of view concerning man, the universe and man’s place in that …
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What Rome Really Adopted from Ancient Greece
… that began in the various city-states of Ancient Greece? This piece is made in attempt to answer this question. The scope of these sources will start with the beginning of the Western Philosophical Tradition, with Thales of Miletus and the Milesian, all the way up to, but not including, …
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The masks of Mnēmosynē: modulations of memory from ancient Greece to modern Paris
… civilisation to the Hellenistic period of ancient Greece before taking up a reading of the modern continental philosophical engagements with this inheritance and the question concerning the irreducible mediations which lie between us and this Greek heritage. The works of Plato, Jean-Pierre …
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Embryo, Body and Generation: A Comparative Study of Embryological Thought in Ancient Greece and Early China
… a comparative study of embryological thought in ancient Greece and early China. The used materials are mainly focused on, but not limited to, the classical medical or biological writings. Close readings and contextualization will be main techniques used in the research. This study shows that …
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The origins of money: evaluating chartalist and metallist theories in the context of ancient Greece and Mesopotamia
Tracing the origins of money in archaic Greece (roughly 900-500 BC) and ancient Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC, this thesis assesses the applicability of Chartalist and Metallist theories of money's origins. It is demonstrated that Metallism does not withstand a historical test given the …
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The development of ideas about communication in European thought from Ancient Greece to the early Modern Age
… physical nature. Everyday metaphors used in ancient Greece and Rome show a fully formed but implicit model which treated communication as breathing words out of one person and into another. This model became more complex with the appearance of ideas concerning the mind, soul and language. …
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The development of ideas about communication in European thought from Ancient Greece to the early Modern Age
… physical nature. Everyday metaphors used in ancient Greece and Rome show a fully formed but implicit model which treated communication as breathing words out of one person and into another. This model became more complex with the appearance of ideas concerning the mind, soul and language. …
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Tweeting in the Agora: An Historical Documentary of Educational Structures and Discourse in Ancient Greece and in Modern Social Media
… structures of formal and informal education in Ancient Greece under the leadership of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle and the systems and structures of education and discourse on social media, specifically on blogs and Twitter. Using historical documentary research methodology of primary and …
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Bride of Hades to Bride of Christ: The Virgin and the Otherworldly Bridegroom in Ancient Greece and Early Christian Rome
<p>In ancient Greece and early Christian Rome, the standard female transition into adulthood was marked by marriage, sex, and childbirth. When this transition was disrupted, the transitional girl’s status within society became insecure. This dissertation argues that the case of the dead Greek …
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ΧΑΡΑΚΤΗΡΙΣΜΟΙ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΩΝ ΣΤΡΩΜΑΤΩΝ ΚΑΙ Η ΕΝΝΟΙΑ "ΤΑΞΙΣ" ΣΤΗΝ ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ
… QUESTION WHETHER IN THE POLITICAL TERMINOLOGY OF ANCIENT GREECE, FROM THE HOMERIC TO THE IMPERIAL AGE, THERE WERE TERMS WHICH HAD A PARALLEL MEANING TO THAT OF THE MODERN CONCEPT OF "SOCIALCLASS", I.E. SEPARATE ANTAGONISTIC GROUPS ACCORDING TO THEIR FINANCIAL AND SOCIAL STRENGTH, DENOTING THE IDEA …
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Women's madness in three major dramatic traditions: Greek, Elizabethan, and Japanese Noh
… madness in dramas of three different cultures: Ancient Greece, Elizabethan England, and Medieval Japan. Delineation of women's four social roles (virgin, wife, mother, and crone) is a methodological tool to analyze women's madness caused by friction between individual emotional needs and social …
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Reintroducing women into the ancient Athenian public sphere: an analysis of female depictions on Attic Athenian pottery from late 6th and 5th centuries BCE
Women in Ancient Greece are often slotted into one of two categories: housewives or sex workers. Many have argued that it is common knowledge and well-established that women were secluded in their homes, with very little physical evidence to support their claims. This paper aims to uncover how such …
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Certain evidences of classical Greek influence on Shelley
… before the reader evidence of Shelley's debt to ancient Greece as revealed in his life and his poetry, with particular emphasis upon the influences of Aeschylus and Plato.</p>
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The Oracle’s Dream
… of historical fiction set in 5th century BCE Greece, exploring the intersection of myth, history, and the feminine psyche through a feminist-Jungian and historical fiction lens. In this creative writing thesis, I will develop the first 81 pages of my novel. I apply Jungian concepts of the …
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Disciplinary Themes in Aristotle's Political and Ethical Writings
… power and the philosophical ideas of ancient Greece as exemplified by Aristotle. Foucault claims that disciplinary power arose only in the 17th and 18th centuries. This thesis demonstrates that there are similarities and parallels between certain facets of Aristotle's ethical and …
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The Scholarship and Praxis of Communication Ethics: Rhetorical Interruptions in Historical Narratives
… who wrote about ethics within the time span from ancient Greece, to modern day. Major metaphors are extracted from the works of these philosophers as guiding hermeneutical entrances into historical and temporally bound narratives, used as the praxis portion of this work. Narratives, epics and …
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