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Showing 1 to 20 of 340 for “"Antiquity"”.
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Female Friendship in Greco-Roman Antiquity
<p>Despite a recent elevation in scholarly and mainstream studies on friendship, female friendship is a topic that has been obstructed on account of multiple difficulties. This dissertation is an interdisciplinary attempt to surmount some of these obstacles by compiling literary, visuaL and …
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The Roots of Fascist Aesthetics in Antiquity
<p>This research is an attempt to ascertain whether, and if so how, Platonic philosophy, particularly the Republic and Laws , influenced the development of aestheticized politics in National Socialist Germany. This is contextualized within the theoretical framework of aesthetic politics, which …
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The Latin Controversial Dialogues of Late Antiquity
… dialogue was used by Latin authors in late antiquity (300–700 AD) to negotiate ongoing anti-heretical debates. ❧Traditional scholarship on this topic has focused mostly on the Greek dialogues. When the Latin material received attention, it was read in terms of its appropriation of and …
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Out of antiquity : Umayyad baths in context
This dissertation explores the relationship between the art and architecture of the early Islamic period to those of pre-Islamic Bilad al-Sham (the region encompassing the modem-day countries of Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Israel), and focuses on the Umayyad bathhouse as a paradigm …
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Writing Practical Mathematics in Greek and Roman Antiquity
… of ancient mathematics preserved from classical antiquity, this has included a focus on reading texts as evidence for mathematical practice, and attempts to place them in their socio-historical context. This thesis aims to explore how mathematical knowledge was presented, organised, and adapted …
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Amidst the Trees: Encountering the Arboreal in Late Antiquity
… upon them, helped Christians and others in late antiquity understand both themselves and the arboreal world. A tactile relationship with trees shaped cultural, religious, and philosophical knowledge to such an extent that articulations of salvation, nature, pleasure, and identity can no longer be …
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Oribasius’ Woman: Medicine, Christianity and Society in Late Antiquity
… in the cultural and social landscape of late antiquity. Chapter one examines the scholarly biases that surround Oribasius’ career, positing that his Medical Collections were produced in response to the intellectual priorities of the Emperor Julian’s scholarly circle. Moreover, both the medical …
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An Alternate Antiquity: The Etruscans in Renaissance Florence and Rome
… ancestry which rivaled Rome with its great antiquity, piety, and strength. Consequently, to proclaim the Etruscan origins of one's city or family became a technique of self-promotion and securing patronage. This dissertation explores how artists and authors manipulated Etruscan history and …
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History's Perilous Pleasures: Experiencing Antiquity in the Postwar Hollywood Epic
… and punishment, imperial zenith and nadir. While antiquity seems to offer the modern world the ability to escape from the traumas of World War II, the imminence of a nuclear Armageddon, and the possibility of no future, the epic renders visible and forces an encounter with the very terrors it …
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Baths and Public Bathing Culture in Late Antiquity, 300-700
In antiquity, bathing was not the private affair it is today. It was a public activity involving all classes of Roman society. Baths dotted the landscapes of cities across the empire, and even villages, military forts, monasteries, and villas contained public (or semi-public) baths. After an …
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Persians, Ports, and Pepper: The Red Sea Trade in Late Antiquity
… recent scholarship on the Red Sea trade in Late Antiquity by merging all of the most up to date information into a concise narrative. In order to accomplish this, three major sources of information have been analyzed. Firstly, the historical time frame of all of the major regions of the Red Sea …
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Eating People Is Might: Power and the Representation of Anthropophagy in Antiquity
… the core of the various established topoi in antiquity, which are employed in different ways according to their function in a text, the genre of the text, and even the language and culture in which that text is written.</p>
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Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Discovery, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity
This dissertation analyzes the paradigms Christian writers (150-500 C.E.) used to array, historicize, and polemicize ethnographic data. A study of late antique heresiological literature (orthodox treatises about heretics) demonstrates how the religious practices, doctrinal beliefs, and historical …
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Trans history from antiquity for today: reading gender in Imperial Roman literature
This project highlights how modern binary conceptions of gender have limited scholarly discussion of gender within the literature of the Roman Empire by erasing the trans potentiality of these texts’ fluid and multifaceted conception of gender. The lack of distinction between gender and the sexed …
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