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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Greek Literature"”.
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Anthropophagy and cannibalism in ancient Greek literature
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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The concept of Aidos in Greek literature from Homer to 404 BC
… application to the differences between ancient Greek culture and our own is largely superficial. The challenge to the shame-culture/guilt culture antithesis continues in the chapter on Homer, of which one of the central topics is the extent to which Homeric man possesses an internal conscience. …
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Tracing the Establishment of Political Society: Remembering and Forgetting in Ancient Greek Literature
… the formation of political society in ancient Greek literature. It is grounded in the notion that memory is a political process: its narratives are shaped by the social and political groups to which we belong. In turn, what and how we remember plays a role in shaping and reshaping those same …
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Ainoi, Logoi, Muthoi. Fables in Contexts in Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greek Literature. With a Study of the Theory and Terminology of the Genre
Contains fulltext : mmubn000001_252845846.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Slow to Understand: the Disciples in Synoptic Perspective
… of the Second Temple period as well as in Greek literature, especially in texts relating to Greek paideia.</p> <p>The convergence of hearing and sight for comprehension seems to be a recurring feature in Jewish writings and Greek literature. A more accurate image of the disciples emerges …
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The effects of blindness on tactile and auditory perception in rats
… probably first appeared in mythology in early Greek literature. Oedipus Rex was attributed greater awareness of people’s nature after this blindness. It is still a prevalent myth in contemporary American culture, to the extent that it appears in “Little Orphan Annie.” Experimental attempts at …
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Ο ΚΩΣΤΗΣ ΠΑΛΑΜΑΣ ΩΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΚΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΝΕΟΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΑΣ
… FOLLOW THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF LITERATURE AND THE MAKING OF A LITERARY CANON IN GREECE DURING THE 19TH CENTURY AND THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH UNTIL 1940. THE CENTRAL ISSUE WAS TO EXTRACT A LITERARY CANON FROM THE CRITICAL ESSAYS OF PALAMAS AND TO ANALYZE ITS THEORETICAL AND …
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Studies in Septuagint Leviticus: Linguistics, Tradition, and Lexical Choice
… three features of Septuagint Leviticus’ Greek text as a means to better understand the translator, his world, and his text. After an introductory chapter, chapter 2 shows that the valency of Hebrew verbs (in this instance qṭr) is an important tool for the analysis of translation …
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The Moral Characterisation of the Ἰουδαῖοι: A Comparative Study of Opponents to the Divine in the Gospel of John and Euripides' Bacchae
… Priests, and Nicodemus). I argue that ancient Greek writers held a primarily moral conception of character. Throughout Greek literature, characters were conceived of and evaluated primarily according to their virtues and vices, as writers sought to give ethical intelligibility to their actions. …
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“Light shining from a dead star”: Narratology and Perspective in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History
… nineteenth-century American gothic and classical Greek literature.</p>
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Embracing Evil: The Threat and Allure of the Female in Greek Poetry
… often noted the harsh depictions of women in Greek literature and account for them as simply part of the tradition of Greek misogyny' that exists throughout ancient Greek texts from the archaic period to classical times. This project argues that these sentiments, which have so often been …
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Conceptualizing Variation in Greek Exodus and Postclassical Greek
… frames Jewish translation practice within Greek diachrony and the broader realities of bilingual cognitive processing. Often, linguistic research on the Greek of the Pentateuch has focused on isolated lexemes, resulting in an overemphasis on a ‘literal’ translation process representative of …
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Three Nuances of the Perfect Indicative in the Greek New Testament
… nuances of the perfect tense occurring in the Greek New Testament: resultative-stative, anterior (current relevance), and simple past. Chapter 1 introduces an introduction, thesis and methodology of this project, with briefly introducing verbal aspect debate and the historical development of …
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L'intertextualité comme procédé dramaturgique dans Hécube et Les Troyennes d'Euripide
… of “intertextuality” in the field of ancient Greek literature, and more specifically Greek theatre, the two dramas are each studied in depth. Chapters I to IV are concerned with the stasima of these plays and raise the question of the specific manner in which intertextuality is inscribed in …
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"Nothing that is not Zeus" the unknowability of the Gods and the limits of human knowledge in Sophoclean tragedy
… of the idea of divine unknowability in archaic Greek literature and in Presocratic philosophy. There follows a detailed examination of the extant plays one by one (with special emphasis on the close reading of practically all the choral odes), by means of which the author endeavours to …
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A theory of Greek colonisation : EIA Thrace and initial Greek contacts.
The study of Greek colonisation is still dominated by Hellenocentric and Imperialist approaches. Furthermore, culture historical methodologies are still common. Studies often prioritise Imperialist readings of Greek literature, and even (as demonstrated here) restore fragments of Archilochos …
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Theories of Fate among Present-day Astrologers
The accepted view of the secondary 'outsider' literature on present-day astrology tends to argue that astrology's appeal is based on its determinism and the individual's surrender of personal responsibility to a larger external force. In contradiction to this is the primary, 'insider' literature …
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Linking Vocational Education to the World of Employment: the Case of Business English in Greece
… to learners’ future working needs. In the Greek context this research is unique in that it investigates the link between VE of secondary level and workplace, which has not been addressed in the Greek literature so far. The research has implications for practitioners who could participate in …
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Disarming the canon : exploring Tepper’s and Atwood’s retelling of classical (her)story
… prevalence of adaptations of classical Greek literature in contemporary culture and the often negative perception of adaptations. I then explore the inequalities of gender, originality, and genre in both the contemporary texts and their classical counterparts before suggesting that …
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