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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Greco-Roman antiquity"”.
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Female Friendship in Greco-Roman Antiquity
… Chapters Three and Four, which examine the Roman male and female perspectives. The male sources reveal a peculiarly Roman concern with power and hierarchy, while the theme of female speech continues in a way that is by turns suspicious, trivializing, and empowering The epigraphic evidence in …
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The Classical in the Contemporary: Contemporary Art in Britain and its Relationships with Greco-Roman Antiquity
… Art in Britain and its Relationships with Greco-Roman Antiquity.’ From the viewpoint of classical reception studies, I am asking what contemporary British art (by, for example, Sarah Lucas, Damien Hirst, and Mark Wallinger) has to do with the classical tradition – both the art and …
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The Letter of James and Middle Platonism: Tracing Early Christian Engagements with Greek Philosophy
… of James within the philosophical context of Greco-Roman antiquity, and argues that what are typically seen as Jewish “Wisdom themes” in the letter should instead be understood in terms of Greek philosophical discourse. Through comparative analysis, it shows that the central concerns in the …
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A liberdade de Foucault no interior de suas fronteiras
… and how the practices of the self operate in Greco-Roman antiquity, in the field of ethics. In the relationship between power and freedom, Foucault analyses how the subjected subject to power exercises its freedom. The aim of the research is to analyse how the subjected subject is able to …
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The Lord Opened Her Heart: Women, Work, and Leadership in Acts of the Apostles
… stories set against the expectations of women in Greco-Roman antiquity reveals their unconventional situations. In particular, this dissertation takes special notice of the ways in which representations of the `ideal woman' in the Greco Roman world are at variance with the portraits of Tabitha and …
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Poems of Debate and Praise: Women as Published Authors in Sixteenth-Century France
… better known. In poetic exchanges discussing romantic love, some women not only rejected the male suitor but encouraged him to adopt a more reasonable perspective on life after rejection, thus dispelling the idea of the “belle dame sans merci” and introducing the notion of individualized life …