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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Ancient Greeks"”.
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Post-Traumatic Stress in Archaic and Classical Greece
… of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the ancient world. Yet, despite rapid developments in the field of psychology and psychiatry, assumptions about war, trauma and violence are often used to justify the argument that PTSD simply had to exist in the past, without appropriately addressing …
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Post-Traumatic Stress in Archaic and Classical Greece
… of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the ancient world. Yet, despite rapid developments in the field of psychology and psychiatry, assumptions about war, trauma and violence are often used to justify the argument that PTSD simply had to exist in the past, without appropriately addressing …
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The Function of Mythology and Religion in Ancient Greek Society.
<p>The ancient Greeks are prime subjects of study for those wishing to understand the roles that religion and mythology play in a society and how the two interact with each other. This paper covers what I feel after my study of Greek mythology and religion are the eight functions of mythology: …
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Speech and Enchantment in Early Greek Thought from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period
… speakers often reach for idiomatic language. For ancient Greeks, one major cache of idiomatic terms comes from the language of enchantment. This dissertation accounts for how and why ancient Greeks used words related to θέλγω, κηλέω, γοητεία, μαγεία, μαγγανεία, ἐπῳδή, and ψυχαγωγία as a way of …
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Greek knowledge of India before the fourth century B.C
… his Empire, it was not the first time that the ancient Greeks were learning about this part of the world, for they had known quite a lot about it already from centuries before. Indian words for various products from that country are to be found in Greek literature prior to the 4th century B.C., …
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The Communication of Beliefs: An Inquiry Into the Rhetoric of Collective Identity and the Origins and Uses of Normative Logic
… of normative logic; and indeed, we find that the ancient Greeks talked and wrote extensively about questions generally concerning ""collective identity"" and ""normative logic,"" they mounted a number of serious attempts to treat related matters in systematic fashion, and their discussions were …
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Divine childhood : a study of selected Homeric hymns in relation to ancient Greek societal practices
… Included in the discussion is an overview of ancient Greek practices involving the subjects of birth, midwifery, timai, kyrioi, theft, parent-child relationships, maturation and the role of female children and women in society. In addition to the Homeric hymns a variety of other sources …
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From nature to the ideal : a cross-disciplinary study of ancient Greek kairos, circa 3000-146 BCE
This cross-disciplinary study investigates the ancient Greek concept of kairos in the sociocultural history of the ancient Greeks from 3000-146 BCE. Within this historical context, the dissertation attempts to isolate the story of kairos as it moves from being a concept learned through the Greeks’ …
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Controlling Miasma: The Evidence for Cults of Greek Craftspeople from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period (6th - 2nd c. BCE)
… study addresses a previously neglected aspect of ancient Greek popular religion, the specific practices undertaken by craftspeople to enhance their lives and protect their livelihood. By collecting the archaeological and iconographic evidence of workers' or industrial cult, primarily from the …
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Signifying on the Greeks: the use of rhetorical devices in jazz improvisation analysis
… which jazz draws: the Western European, via the ancient Greeks and Romans, and the African American, via the Africans and ancient Egyptians. Additionally, Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” is transcribed and analyzed for its rhetorical and musical-rhetorical use; the solo analysis …
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The role of machine learning in personalised instructional sequencing for language learning
… sequencing can be dated back to the times of the Ancient Greeks to the times of Alexander The Great's tutor, Aristotle. However, over the centuries the demand for education and growth of students has been disproportionately greater than the number of teachers in training. Therefore, there has been …
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A program evaluation of the character education program at a junior high school in Saint Louis County
Starting with the Ancient Greeks, Pilgrims, Puritans and Quakers and now all school districts across the United States of America are faced with continually increasing challenges of developing students who are well-rounded human beings capable of making moral and ethical decisions in an …
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Belęšė holografijos sistema žadinimo zondavimo eksperimentuose /
From ancient times, light has captivated human imagination. While ancient Greeks attributed supernatural properties to light phenomena, modern advancements in technology allow us to explore light as an electromagnetic wave with far greater precision. The ability to capture and interpret information …
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Fully differential cross sections for four-body scattering processes
… concept of the atom can be traced back to the ancient Greeks, current knowledge of the atom is due largely to the study of atomic collisions. The structure of atoms is now fairly well understood, but the understanding of their interactions remains incomplete. In atomic collisions, the particles …
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Characterization of neurite growth on a novel neurotube platform
… philosophers and scientists alike since the ancient Greeks. Despite enormous advances in science, engineering, and medicine, we are still working to understand one of the greatest mysteries: the brain. For years, neuroscientists, biologists, physicists, and engineers have been investigating …
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Global Health, Social Justice, and Corporate Accountability
… to tackle these problems. From the works of ancient Greeks to contemporary art and literature, moral progress is enriched and advanced by social immersion in the arts and humanities. Public discourse includes collective voices, such as those highlighted in chapter five, but also the …
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I consign her wretched walk, her words, deeds, and evil talk: erotic magic and women in the ancient Greco-Roman world
Magic in the ancient Greco-Roman world has only recently begun to receive attention from historians. Thousands of curses, spells, and remnants of magical practices prior to widespread Christianity have been overlooked in the past mainly because they were seen as unimportant, or at least not …
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‘The Oracular Tale’ and the Oracles of the Greeks: Storytelling, Conjecture, and Oracular Ambiguity in Herodotus’ Histories and its Historical and Cultural Context
… the belief in the power of prophecy in ancient Greece. More specifically, I study how the ancient Greeks used oracles, like those of the famous oracle at Delphi, to make their past, present, and future knowable. I analyze the stories about oracles from Herodotus’ Histories as well as …
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Malory, Chivalric Medievalism, and New Imperialist Masculinity
… and in the past, celebrating the heroism of ancient Greeks and Romans, Viking warriors, and medieval knights. I argue that Malory’s ascent to canonical status was largely due to this rise of ultranationalism and atavistic masculinity. Le Morte Darthur provided England with a prestigious, …
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Comunicare la salute nelle istituzioni pubbliche: potenzialità delle strategie retoriche tra emozioni, persuasione e deontologia
… in the positive progress of care processes. The ancient Greeks were already aware of this. For example, consider the crucial role of language as portrayed by Homer in the Iliad: Eurypylus, struck by an arrow and bleeding, asks Patroclus for help, who responds: “...I will not leave you, suffering …
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