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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Classical Greece"”.
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Private initiation and the afterlife in classical Greece
… I survey the evidence for their activities in classical Greece, and try to determine the date they came into being, which I suggest may be the end of the fifth century, their relation to other forms of religion such as the cult of Dionysus and mainstream polis religion, and their views of the …
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Post-Traumatic Stress in Archaic and Classical Greece
… for evidence of post-traumatic stress in Ancient Greece. The thesis seeks to rebut and, in some cases, affirm individuals on the historical record who have been cited as aligning with post-traumatic stress' diagnostic criteria, as well as literary cases that appear to indicate that the Ancient …
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Post-Traumatic Stress in Archaic and Classical Greece
… for evidence of post-traumatic stress in Ancient Greece. The thesis seeks to rebut and, in some cases, affirm individuals on the historical record who have been cited as aligning with post-traumatic stress' diagnostic criteria, as well as literary cases that appear to indicate that the Ancient …
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The Interrelationship of Drama and Athletics in Classical Greece
The purpose of the dissertation is to argue for a change in the traditional approach to Greek drama and athletics: rather than viewing drama and athletics as essentially unrelated, it is preferable to consider each activity in the light of its relationship with the other.
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Doing History with Monsters: the Sphinx, Chimera, and Centaur in Archaic and Classical Greece
… their transformation across the Archaic and Classical periods. Monsters change with shifting historical and social contexts, but not all in the same way. Different monsters interact differently with historical conditions. In the frst chapter, I analyse the unique procedure by which the Sphinx …
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Dualism and the Critical Languages of Portraiture
… origins of dualism in Western culture in the Classical period in order to examine dualist modes of representation in the history of Western portraiture. Dualism - or the separation of soul and body - takes the form in portraiture of the representation of the head or head and shoulders at the …
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Cosmographic Origins for a New Classicism
… nothing like that of the Renaissance or of classical Greece. Non-Euclidean geometry and the math of higher dimensional space begin to break free of their abstract character as these symbolic disciplines now inform and reconcile the reality of cosmic space. It is therefore appropriate to …
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"Between the Staves" - Adaptations of Debussy's Six épigraphes antiques and Creative Tasks of the Performer
… techniques reflect the omnipresent symmetry of Classical Greece. Various other artistic creations emanated from the Épigraphes, most significantly the orchestration of Ernest Ansermet in 1939. A look at the techniques used by Ansermet for the augmentation of the piano work serves to extrapolate …
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Aristotle’s journey to Europe: A synthetic history of the role played by the Islamic Empire in the transmission of Western educational philosophy sources from the fall of Rome through the medieval period
… will pursue the historical connections between classical Greece and pre-Renaissance Europe on three interrelated levels—textual, philosophical, and cultural. First, I will examine the textual transmission of specific works by Plato and Aristotle, looking at the translation and transmission work …
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Armies, Navies and Economies in the Greek World in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E.
… examines a category of data--the logistics of classical Greek warfare--that has not been used before for ancient Greek economic history. This examination provides much new evidence for Greek economies in the fifth and fourth centuries. Close readings of contemporary literary …
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Invention or evolution in the provision of health care in late Antiquity in the Eastern Roman Empire : the case of the hospital.
… to be a predominance of continuity with the Classical past, and others where change ismost noticeable. Earlier historians such as Theodore Meyer-Steineg and Karl Sudhoff have attempted to furnish evidence of the existence in antiquity of institutions to house the sick, but their arguments, …
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Discours de la corruption dans la Grèce classique
… of tragedy, medicine, philosophy and history in classical Greece is significant, even essential. For these four discourses and their three main objects (body, soul and city), corruption plays a seminal function. The first part of this dissertation, "La corruption au prisme de la tragédie et de la …
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The Material Construction of Identity in Sparta and Lakonia (750–480 BCE)
This dissertation explores the construction of Spartan and Lakonian identity through material culture from 750–480 BCE. To resolve the lingering shadow of the mirage Spartiate, an image of Sparta constructed through a retrojection of later sources onto the Archaic period, I turn my attention in …
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Painted and decorated floors on the Greek mainland and Crete in the Bronze age
… stucco imitations of various materials in classical Greece and Rome, and indeed throughout the history of western art, is a tradition that is rooted in the Bronze Age.</p> <p>Although the heavy borrowing of Minoan motifs by the Mycenaeans often makes it difficult to distinguish between the …