Freedom of expression in the digital age: a historian’s perspective by Richard R. John

“…This essay surveys the history of freedom of expression from classical antiquity to the present. It contends that a principled defense of free expression dates to the seventeenth century, when it was championed by the political theorist John Locke. …”
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Un motif iconographique entre Étrurie et Apulie : les retrouvailles d’Hélène et de Ménélas en contexte italique by Caroline Vandenberghe

“…The Helen of Troy’s myth inspired poets and artists from classical Antiquity. We will review the portrayal of her reunion with Menelaus during the Ilioupersis in the Italian peninsula, back in the 4th century BC. …”
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Platón a Aristotelés o boží vládě v obci. Možné zdroje ideje suverenity v řeckém politickém myšlení by Jakub Jinek

“…Contrary to those critical voices which view political theology as an attempt to misuse theology for practical-political purposes on the one hand, and those who question the very presence of political theology in classical Antiquity on the other, our interpretation shows that, first, both Plato and Aristotle do develop clear, though mutually distinct, political-theological positions and second, that in both cases, theological speculation has priority over considerations of practical policy. …”
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Do We Have a New Song Yet? The New Wave of Women’s Novels and the Homeric Tradition by Barbara Goff

“…The relationship between women and classical antiquity, its texts, artefacts, and study, has been fraught to say the least; the discipline of Classics has often been defined by the exclusion of women, in terms of their education and their ability to contribute to debates more generally. …”
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Penia in Entenhausen: Ökonomische Theorie, soziale Utopie und politische Ideologie bei Aristophanes und Carl Barks by Hans Kopp

“…Carl Barks, the most influential chronicler of the Duckburg universe and the creator of such memorable characters as Scrooge McDuck, only very rarely made references to classical antiquity in his comic stories. Nevertheless, there is a striking resemblance between ideas propounded in "Plutos," Aristophanes’ last extant comedy of 388 B.C., and “A Financial Fable,” a story by Barks published in 1951. …”
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Valery Podoroga’s Theory of Mimesis: the Sensory Aspects of Text Perception by Rytis Juodeika

“…Classical mimesis theories, which stretch from classical antiquity to modern works by E. Auerbach or P. …”
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Social imaginary of the poisonous women: Science, metaphore and hermeneutic by Carmen Fernández Tijero, Juan R. Coca, Eulalia Pérez Sedeño

“…We can found this idea in some medical texts, from the very first “scientific” text in the Classical Antiquity, enduring even in the scientific works by the medical auctoritates up to the Renaissance and in current medical textbooks.…”
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EVOLUTION OF THE IMAGE OF THE SHIP IN CLASSICAL LITERATURE (THE EXAMPLE OF “ARGONAUTICA” BY APOLLONIUS OF RHODES AND “ODYSSEY” BY HOMER) by I. S. Makarova

“…The analysis of the classical antiquity Ship by the example of classical poems by Apollonius of Rhodes and Homer makes it possible to get a clearer picture of the world Ship’s most popular artistic hypostasis – the Flying Dutchman.…”
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Le divorce dans l’Antiquité classique : perspective comparatiste by Jean-Baptiste Bonnard, Camille Noûs

“…Divorce existed in Classical Antiquity (Greek and Roman worlds, 5th century BCE – 2nd century CE), but it differed significantly from the modern homonymous reality in several features which have more to do with the distinctly patriarchal structures of these ancient societies. …”
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La Prose poétique comme Philosophie du Langage ? by Marianne Garin

“…Since the Sophists, and later on Plato and Aristotle, great philosophers of the Classical Antiquity showed significant interest regarding the issue that language was, in both its different component parts and in its pragmatic dimension. …”
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Arma sumpserit (Lucan. 7, 259-260). Maradona, Malvinas and the art of safe criticism by GABRIELA ANDREA MARRON

“…<p class="western" align="justify"><span><span style="color: #353637;"><span><span style="font-family: 'Liberation Sans', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><span><span>The purpose of this research article is to study the discurse strategies used by Frederick Ahl in the academic paper entitled “The hand of God: Diego Maradona and the divine nature of cheating in Classical Antiquity”, establishing their convergences with certain poetic resources and rhetorical devices described by him in his researches on classical literature. …”
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Poltergeist: quem tem medo de φαντάσµατα? (Phleg. Mir. 1-3 em consideração) by Reina Marisol Troca Pereira

“…Palabras clave: muerte; resurrección; fantasma; aparición; terror; miedo Abstract This paper contains summarized observations regarding mythology as a recurring presence in Classical Antiquity. Besides the accumulation of realities and events never heard of, paradoxography also presents episodes of phantasmagoric apparitions. …”
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Massacres of early modernity: story, truth and distance for the intelección by José Emilio Burucúa, Nicolás Kwiatkowski

“…This article studies the ways in which Early Modern massacres were understood and represented through the use of images driven from Classical Antiquity and the Christian tradition of martyrdom. …”
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Pedagogický dualizmus teoretického a praktického: historické pozadie a súčasné ilúzie. Pedagogical dualism of theory and practice: historic background and current illusions.... by Višňovský Emil, Kaščák Ondrej, Pupala Branislav

“…Using this umbrella, transformations of relationship between theory and practice, discussed from the period of Classical Antiquity, through Modern period until present times, are interpreted. …”
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Roman Antiquity in Early Byzantine Antiquarian Tradition: John the Lydian and John Malalas by Marina Sinitsa, Nicholay Bolgov

“…John the Lydi-an and John Malalas. Interest in classical antiquity, at this time already definitely formed as a so-called antique tradition in the first reception. …”
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L’architecture en pisé dans le canton de Boën (Loire) by Caroline Guibaud

“…The oldest surviving examples date from the thirteenth century, although pisé is known to have been used in classical antiquity. The pisé buildings which can be dated show how the use of the material evolved from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth and how this use achieved certain stability around the time of the architect François Cointereaux, writing in 1790. …”
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Self news: the fiction that mirrors you by Ana Paula Grillo El-Jaick

“…Finally, there is the defense of the thesis that if there is any embryo of “The Post-Truth Era" in classical antiquity, in contemporary times there is a cynicism and an ultra-narcissism that redefine this linguistic idea. …”
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Tidigare än, men ändå samtida by Dimitrios Iordanoglou, Mats Persson

“…The first part presents the discussions of the last decades on the guiding principles of the writing of history in Classical antiquity. It focuses particularly on the view that ancient historiography has more in common with Classical literature and rhetoric than with history, as we understand it today. …”
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New Representations of the Myth of Pelops and Hippodamia in Roman Mosaic Art by Miguel Ángel VALERO TÉVAR

“…The discovery of the mosaic at Noheda, featuring, for the first time, the entire narrative sequence of the myth, coupled with the discovery of a possible new specimen, in which Pothos is portrayed as a main character for the first time, not only makes it possible to reconstrue hitherto misinterpreted ancient tapestries, but also furthers understanding of the legend’s iconography in Classical Antiquity.…”
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Ionesco’s Rhinocéros and the Menippean Tradition by Preston Fambrough

“…Mikhail Bakhtin argues that Menippean satire, one of the two serio-comic genres of classical antiquity from which the carnivalesque strain in Western literature derives, continues its development in modern times in the “fantastic story” and the “philosophical fairy tale.” …”
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