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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"amazons"”.
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Amazons of the Ancient World: Women in Greek and Roman Societies as Seen in the Amazon Myth.
<p>The myth of the Amazons began in Ancient Greece. Renditions of the myth were found in art and literature of the Greeks and Romans in the ancient world. The image of the Amazons changed with the culture and ideology that discussed them. The Amazon myth reflected Greek and Roman views of women. …
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Des Amazones parmi les pères de l'église : témoignage de la condition féminine durant la période de l'église primitive
… six centuries. In this study, the story of the Amazons is scrutinized in order to see what the Fathers of the Church have said about these 'barbarian' women. Since the main concern for the time was to convert pagan citizen to Christianity and as the social context of this conversion was set in a …
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Penthesilea
… unlike in Greek mythology, the queen of the Amazons Penthesilea survives after being struck by Achilles, who falls in love with her. The romantic relationship between the two warriors is tragic and results in the death of both. Penthesilea features contrapuntal writing, elaborate harmonic …
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Writing in the borderlands: A critical review of literary journalism and historiography, 1989-2011
… out of the author’s three historical books, ‘Amazons and Military Maids: Women Who Dressed as Men in Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness’ (1989), ‘The Fatal Lover: Mata Hari and the Myth of Women in Espionage’ (1992) and ‘Esther: The Remarkable True Story of Esther Wheelwright: Puritan …
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Platform thinking and business of selling groceries online : assessing US and China based platforms
… food ecommerce platforms learn from Walmarts, Amazons, Alibabas and JDs of the world? What are some of the challenges both existing and new players must address in a competitive market to delight customers, and win? The goal of the thesis is to introduce and assess Online Grocery space in the …
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The Amazon in antiquity and on television : deployments of a figure within gender (re)negotiations
… of gender identities and relations. Who are the Amazons? How does the figure of the Amazon, in its multiplicity, indeterminacy, and instability, play in ancient and modern discourses of gender? What investments has it borne in the past and what promises, if any, does it hold for a feminist …
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Games, puzzles, and computation
… plank puzzles, hinged polygon dissections, Amazons, Kohane, Cross Purposes, Tip over, and others.
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"Reading Is Meant For Training": Maps, Nation, and Empire In British Children's Literature, 1800-1940
… Winnie-the-Pooh, Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons, and J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. The four texts and their accompanying maps suggest a shift away from the goal-oriented maps of foreign countries that characterized the maps of the last chapter. These books dispel with the strict, …
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Exploring ‘Zelmaneship’: Developing Queer Inwardness from Sidney to Stage
Zelmane the Amazon, a central character in Philip Sidney’s epic romance The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1590), has often been studied for her transgressive gender and sexuality. Zelmane’s first words in the New Arcadia direct readers to look within, “Transform’d in show, but more transform’d in …