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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"classical antiquity"”.
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Metamorphoses of the Butterfly in Classical Antiquity: From the Female Body to the Soul of the Dead
… range of meanings assigned to the butterfly in classical antiquity. Although scholars have exclusively focused on its association with the soul in the Greco-Roman world, the butterfly was assigned a broader and more complex range of figurative meanings, specifically related to the erotic domain …
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History, Moral Philosophy, and Social Theory in David Hume’s Intellectual Development, 1739-1752
… particularly how he dealt with the status of classical antiquity. The thesis concludes that Hume’s history of general causes dislocated classical antiquity towards the ‘rude’ pole of the developmental account: modern European commercial societies had almost entirely modern (that is, …
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O papel da estampa didática na formação artística na Academia Imperial de Belas Artes: O acervo do Museu D.João VI
… through the practice of copying works of classical antiquity and of the old masters. It is also concluded that the didactic prints that now form the Museum's collection D. João VI was used in the initial design of instruction, in a sequential method of teaching, divided into three major …
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Unruly brides of Christ: virtuous transgression and interruption as ethos in religious women's rhetoric
… gendered notions of virtue inherited from pagan, classical antiquity, and existent up until Christian modernity. Linking recent feminist re-imaginings of ethos to the rhetorical strategy of interruption, this study seeks to trace how religious female rhetors, who by investing themselves with …
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The nightingale sings anew: The appropriation of antiquity in Virginia Woolf's "The Waves"
This thesis considers the impact of classical antiquity on the literary aesthetic of Virginia Woolf by focusing on the educational and theoretical assumptions that allowed Woolf to create her most experimental work, The Waves. Inspired by her brother Thoby Stephen and her tutor Janet Case, Woolf …
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Unification by replication: Music, architecture, and the imperial image of Ercole I d'Este
… modeled his image as a ruler after those of classical antiquity. This determined and focused agenda was the driving force behind the artistic outpouring of late fifteenth-century Ferrara. By drawing parallels between the music of his most prominent court composer, Johannes Martini, and the …
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Il commento di Benvenuto da Imola a Valerio Massimo. Edizione critica dell’Expositio
… of the author's desire to root his exegesis in classical antiquity.
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Astrology in the Torah: a comparative study of astrological themes in the Hebrew Bible and Babylonian Talmund.
… practices prevalent in the pagan cultures of Classical Antiquity were seemingly reviled in both the Bible and the Talmud. Yet, beneath that apparent veneer, there was evidence of an atti- tude towards celestial phenomena that paralleled that of contemporaneous culture, the cognition of a …
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Trans Metamorphoses: Gender, Race, and Classical Receptions
… theory, premodern critical race studies, and classical reception history, I construct a long genealogy of what we now call transgender, in which racial difference is inextricable from the assignment of sex. Through close readings of popular romance, early drama, Ovidian myth, and biblical …
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Linguistic Variation in MS 1751 Judaeo-Arabic Medical Manuscript of the Matenadaran Collection
… Jewish medical discourse, uniting Islamic and classical antiquity traditions.
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The Sanctity of the State under Frederick Barbarossa (1152 - 1190): Saint Charlemagne and the sacrum imperium
… the twelfth century because of the influence of classical antiquity via Byzantium and Italy. Meanwhile, Frederick’s part in the canonisation of Charlemagne and the visual elaboration of his cult shows how the German magnates and the canons of Aachen similarly reached back to their own founder …
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The Classics and the Broader Public in Philadelphia, 1783-1788: Avenues for Engagement
… As symbols and lessons in patriotism and virtue, classical antiquity was incorporated into civic iconography and national foundation narratives and projected to the broader public. This thesis examines the classical presence in Philadelphia, 1783-1788. It specifically analyses the public …
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The Feminine Self as a Critique of Spirit: A Cultural Phenomenology
… is obscured by the dominance of spirit from classical antiquity forward.
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The Orphic voice in Garcilaso de la Vega, Quevedo and Bocangel
… predecessors to include implicitly writers of classical antiquity. The "new poets" of the Renaissance found in ancient Rome exemplary models essential to the formulation of their modem poetics. However, the Spanish poets’ rediscovery and re-casting of the ancients was firmly rooted in an …
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A new lease on life: using advanced analytical techniques in bioarchaeology to maximise a new understanding of past populations of Sardinia
… (400000 – 120000 yo) till the early and classical antiquity (900 BC – 456 AC). Essential to understanding both the complexity and dynamicity of Sardinian cultural and biological landscape is the people themselves. The people of Sardinian are those who made the archaeological records, …
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Medievalism in the French Renaissance: Literature, History, and Nation in Claude Fauchet's Veilles ou Observations (1555)
… characterised by their prominent valorisation of Classical Antiquity, the overtly positive evaluation of the medieval found in the Veilles is unexpected and requires interrogation. In Chapter 1, I introduce the contents, immediate context, and material history of the Veilles, arguing that this …
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Traditions of Tenderness: Sensibility and the Classics in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain
… new cultural importance of sympathy changed how classical texts were interpreted and because the literature of sensibility drew on the literature of classical antiquity. I examine the development of sentimental classicism through three chapters which chart changes in the reception of key …
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Modernism with style : history, culture and the origins of modern architecture in Berlin, 1780-1870
… to be understood as sharing a common ancestry in classical antiquity, yet it was different and abstract enough such that it would not be closely associated with either the Neoclassical or Gothic. As such, Islamic forms were unlikely to be associated with the political, ideological and religious …
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Die Idee der Verbindung von Musik und Poesie im Frankreich des 16. Jahrhunderts
… humanists drew their inspiration from the classical antiquity. The Italian example played an important role in the confrontation with the antique ideal. The Italian impact taught the French amongst other things a new awareness for their own identity and language. They tried to enrich the …
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From scientific framing to architectural reconstruction : the creation of an ideal image at Didyma
… By the turn of the century the remains of the classical Didyma were rediscovered, the temple was redrawn and the site was literally and metaphorically "enframed." Reconstruction of the remains of classical antiquity provided beholders with the physical and aesthetic immediacy of a far distant …
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