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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Ancient World"”.
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From Steppe to Stable: Horses and Horsemanship in the Ancient World
… is a re-evaluation of the horse in the ancient world. The approach is not based on humans and human controls, rather it seeks to examine the equines of antiquity from the viewpoint of the horses themselves. This is accomplished by looking at equine conformation and how form dictated …
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Amazons of the Ancient World: Women in Greek and Roman Societies as Seen in the Amazon Myth.
<p>The myth of the Amazons began in Ancient Greece. Renditions of the myth were found in art and literature of the Greeks and Romans in the ancient world. The image of the Amazons changed with the culture and ideology that discussed them. The Amazon myth reflected Greek and Roman views of women. …
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The development of the notion of libraries in the ancient world with special reference to the Middle East, the Roman Republic and the Royal Alexandrian Library
… to represent the epitome of the development of ancient librarianship. Its extensive holdings imply the application of modern organizational procedures such as collection development, information retrieval and promotion of use - terms identifiable as elements embodied in the conceptual framework …
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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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The figurative use of "son(s) of" in the New Testament
… and what this relationship represents in the ancient world, as a tool to illustrate and explain various concepts and ideas in NT thought. As a result, the father-son relationship in the ancient world must be employed in the interpretation of these figurative "son(s) of" phrases. Failing to …
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Injury and blessing: a challenge to current readings of biblical discourse concerning impairment
In the ancient world, impairment was common knowledge: archaeological and written material demonstrate that people with impairments were included in society. Impairment was well understood and, in the rhetorical dynamic between author and reader, it was imaginatively used. The Early Church, for …
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Reflections of renaissance ideas of education in the plays of Shakespeare
… the law, the philosophy, and the science of the ancient world, including Greece, Rome, and the East provided the best models for a permanent culture. Furthermore, the Renaissance was a period when men in Italy, France, and England made an attempt to construct a vernacular literature and a …
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Wrestling’s Grip on the Past: A Comprehensive Study of Ancient Greek Wrestling
… was the first non-running event added to the ancient Olympics in the 18th Olympiad in 708 BC. Wrestling continued to appear in Greek and Roman art and literature all the way until the end of antiquity, leaving behind a large cultural legacy over a period of a thousand years. This long history …
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Egypt’s encounter with the West: Race, Culture and Identity
… involved in interpreting ethnic identity in the ancient world. Specifically, it focuses on the various “Libyan” groups currently found in Egyptological literature who are attested in ancient Egyptian sources from the dawn of Egyptian civilization. Set within the broader theoretical discussion of …
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’n Studie van Josua 23 gefokus op sosiale waardes as sleutel tot die verstaan van oorlogsdenke
… by the desire to make a difference in the world. A better understanding of how ancient peoples perceived the phenomenon of war, and how these perceptions were shaped by social values, can hold great value for contemporary peace processes. A large number of Old Testament passages can further …
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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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Sport, games, women and warriors: an historical and philosophical examination of the early Irish Ulster cycle
… and significance of sport-like activity in the ancient world. Taking the tales of the Ulster Cycle as its data, this thesis adopts a method of analysis which combines aspects of historical and postmodern philosophical processes. The relationships between and among sport, history, truth and …
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Sight and blindness as an index of character in Luke-Acts and its cultural milieu.
… literary study that seeks to understand what an ancient audience might have heard when reading these texts. Specifically, this dissertation is a literary study in characterization, particularly the use of physical descriptions as a means of characterization. In the ancient world, people often …
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Reading dreams : an audience-critical approach to the dreams in the Gospel of Matthew.
… literary character of dreams in the Greco-Roman world. Chapter Two describes the social function of dreams, noting that dreams constituted one form of divination in the ancient world. This religious character of dreams is further described by considering the practice of dreams in ancient magic …
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Plague in the Graeco-Roman world, 430 B.C.-A.D. 600
… for the existence of bubonic plague in the ancient world. Most major studies on the Black Death have concerned themselves with the great pandemics of the Middle Ages and none (to my knowledge), have systematically examined the ancient records for earlier evidence of the disease. The time …
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The Hands That Write: Life and Training of Greco-Roman Scribes
… answers the question, “How were scribes in the ancient world trained?” The following social history elevates the marginalized voices of ancient scribes, emphasizing their personhood and their agency as human individuals. Chapter 1 establishes the scope of the thesis along with the evidence used …
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Enemies of Mankind: the Developing Threat of Modern Maritime Piracy and Terrorism
… of maritime pirate attacks began to increase worldwide. These attacks ranged from simple thefts to the wholesale hijackings of large ocean-going vessels and the murder of their crews. While pirates have roamed the seven seas for countless centuries, modern pirates present a unique threat to …
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A re-evaluation of the kernos, with special reference to the kernos in Demeter's rites
… vessels are widely known throughout the ancient world, but vessels which may be related to those from Eleusis by virtue of their shape and provenience are rare. This study cannot be considered comprehensive because not all of the vases called "kernoi" by various modern scholars have been …
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The humanism of Dante
… attitudes. Dante's profound admiration for the ancient world is evident throughout his writings and goes far beyond anything which can be regarded as the general view of the Middle Ages. It is the task of this essay to examine the nature of this influence of the Classical past, to trace its …
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