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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Mortals"”.
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Mere Mortals
<p><em>Mere Mortals </em>is a one-hour pilot script for a television drama series centered on the daily operations of Trinity Recovery and Rehabilitation Center and the lives of the mental health professionals who specialize in the treatment of high profile individuals.</p>
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Higher Powers: The Metrics of Divine Will and Agency in Euripides' Hippolytos and Herakles
… Herakles exhibit a high level of control over mortals. Each play has one primary god whose statements of will, identity, and offense control the actions of other characters. Each play features a distinct god/human dialectic, in which certain actions performed by mortals threaten or affirm …
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Telling presences: narrating divine epiphany in Homer and beyond.
… Greek narratives of encounter between gods and mortals cannot be understood simply in terms of constellations of recurrent descriptive features or in terms of the iterability of type-scene or ritual. Divine epiphanies are moments of disruption or antistructure which provoke strategic, …
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Thou Shall Not Suffer a Witch to Live: A History of Witchcraft in Scotland During the Reigns of James VI and Charles I, 1563-1649
… the forces for evil that gave out these powers. Mortals receiving these powers, at various times, became known as witches and warlocks, sorcerers and sorceresses, magicians or mathematicians, while the art they practiced was called witchcraft, sorcery, magic or science. | Page 88 missing in …
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The Queen's Poets
… the queen as virgin goddess, superior to mere mortals in power and beauty, and was designed to support Elizabeth’s choice to rule alone in an age when the prevailing climate of political, religious and cultural thought dictated that her gender made her ineligible to do so. It was also a period …
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Maintaining Untraditional Virginity
… Because of that, Diana stands out among gods and mortals alike as a superior being whose life does not follow the standard rules of her world. In a similar manner, the Cullen family from Stephenie Meyer's Twilight maintains their own brand of virginity by choosing to drink animal blood instead of …
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Time rendered form
… of the way I see the world created by mortals; these ideas shape my architectural perspective. The building is a museum designed to present a history of yachts: boats which present a way of building and a sensibility of materials. This consideration of the material used reveals each …
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Heidegger's Fourfold
… The fifth chapter is an analysis of mortals. This chapter focuses heavily on Heidegger’s analysis of death in Being and Time, his middle works, and his later works. The most important insight into the understanding of the relationship between Heidegger’s earlier and later work is …
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Recreating Beowulf’s “Pregnant Moment of Poise”: Pagan Doom and Christian Eucatastrophe Made Incarnate in the Dark Age Setting of The Lord of the Rings
… without the necessity of death. Because they are mortals faced by powerfully magical enemies and are bereft of hope in victory, they are endowed with all of the rhetorical power that Doom elicits, but their miraculous deliverance enacts divine eucatastrophe, the moment of supreme joy that, to …
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Recreating Beowulf’s “Pregnant Moment of Poise”: Pagan Doom and Christian Eucatastrophe Made Incarnate in the Dark Age Setting of The Lord of the Rings
… without the necessity of death. Because they are mortals faced by powerfully magical enemies and are bereft of hope in victory, they are endowed with all of the rhetorical power that Doom elicits, but their miraculous deliverance enacts divine eucatastrophe, the moment of supreme joy that, to …
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Lucian's Mythological Playground: Time, Space, and Myth in Lucian of Samosata
… contexts and elevates the belated world of mortals and even his literary production as worthy of divine intervention. Lucian’s playful manipulation of space and time, in each of these spatial domains, showcases his ingenuity as an author and encourages his audience to recognize their own …
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I consign her wretched walk, her words, deeds, and evil talk: erotic magic and women in the ancient Greco-Roman world
… to reveal a more complex relationship between mortals and their gods, and mainly between men and women. One of the most interesting categories of ancient magic involves erotic desire in sexual relationships. Both men and women had the option to create erotic magic in order to arouse sexual …
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Manufacturing the Marvellous: Technology and Divine Presence in Ancient Greek Religion
… objects, mechanical knowledge, gods, and mortals from the fifth century BCE to the second century CE. The technological ‘mode’ of epiphany is introduced through a reassessment of the well-known 'deus ex machina' of Greek tragedy. Instead of seeing the god on the machine as a structural …
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Playing with fire : Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the rewriting of the Prometheus myth
… stole fire from the gods and gave it to mortals, either in the form of culture, or by using it to bring to life the clay people he had made. Margaret Homans distinguishes between what she calls literal and figurative creativity (1980:223). The woman who is a mother, creating literally and …
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Religious Poetry and the Red Dot
… the power to please God/gods but also to inspire mortals to build worlds that mirror those higher moral concepts. Even the screenwriter is not exempt if we can, as a society, be lifted with the purity of "The Force" in Star Wars and then grow into that concept as we maneuver the daily politics of …
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Surviving matters : pluralism and the self
… be determined by the cares and concerns of mere mortals. Or perhaps we thought that nature played God's role as independent, all-powerful arbiter of when we live and die. Or perhaps we thought that something as important as the difference between life and death couldn't depend on something as …
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Surviving matters : pluralism and the self
… be determined by the cares and concerns of mere mortals. Or perhaps we thought that nature played God's role as independent, all-powerful arbiter of when we live and die. Or perhaps we thought that something as important as the difference between life and death couldn't depend on something as …
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Henry James and the moral will
… glowing acclamation are shown to be imperfect mortals capable of moral error. Sooner or later, a critic does have to resort to generalizing terms, and I hope that the reader will find mine adequate. Yet I hope even more that he will appreciate the close attention with which I have endeavored to …