The Church of Surb Prkich in Ani (1035). Part 1: History and Historiography – Architectural Plan – Excavations of 2012 and Starting of Conservation by Kazaryan, Armen, Özkaya, İsmail Yavuz, Pontioğlu, Alin

“…Dated to 1035, this polyconch church stands as a beautiful example of the metropolitan school, which was especially dedicated to interpreting the architectural forms and principles of Classical antiquity. The church has survived both medieval reconstructions and a subsequent restoration in 1912, as well as remained extant within the ruins of Ani despite its western half preserved in poor condition. …”
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Etnogeografie a archeologie údolí Jaghnóbu by Ľubomír Novák

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Monarch’s Multiple Bodies: Implementing Body Politic Metaphor on Present-Day North American Stages by Natalia Vysotska

“…The paper seeks to explore the strategies instrumental for the implementation of the body politic metaphor that had been active in Western culture since classical antiquity in the plays authored by present-day North American dramatists (Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play, USA, 2010, and Timothy Findley’s Elizabeth Rex, Canada, 2000). …”
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Estructuras comparativas intensivas en la Edad Media: el adjetivo checo ‘černý’ y el nórdico antiguo ‘svartr’ en comparación con el adjetivo español ‘negro’ by Xavier Blanco, Rafael García Pérez, Enrique Gutiérrez Rubio

“…Numerous convergences are observed, largely due to the existence of deep common cultural bases, such as Christianity and the literary tradition of classical antiquity, but also numerous divergences and even singularities of each of the languages considered.…”
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O estresse agudo de Orestes em Eurípides by Luciano Heidrich Bisol

“…The aim of this article is to verify the metonymic relationships between the concept of mania in classical antiquity and the concept of post-traumatic stress in contemporary psychology.…”
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Going East or West? Finnish Travelers in Nineteenth Century Greece by Letsios Vassilis

“…The first recognized in modern Greece the light of classical antiquity and the importance of its conveying to the west, the second focused on contemporary Greece and its connection with the east. …”
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The ancient economy, Modernity and the East and West relationship: the contributions of Karl Marx and Max Weber by Alexandre Galvão Carvalho

“…In addition to this similarity, these thinkers have reinforced the Eurocentric view by stating that the cultural and political roots of modern west lie in Classical Antiquity, reinforcing a tradition of thought of deep rifts between the ancient societies of the East and the societies of the Greco-Roman world, much contested in current historiography.…”
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Circling Round Vitruvius, Linear Perspective, and the Design of Roman Wall Painting by Jocelyn Penny Small

“…Many scholars believe that linear perspective existed in classical antiquity, but a fresh examination of two key texts in Vitruvius shows that 1.2.2 is about modularity and <i>symmetria</i>, while 7.Pr.11 describes shading (<i>skiagraphia</i>). …”
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Les effets néfastes de la kubeia. Mise en jeu du prestige et de l’image sociale en Grèce classique by Marco Vespa

“…In several texts from classical antiquity, the invention of dice and board games is associated with attempts to put an end to crisis in the political community, as the stories about Palamedes seem to show. …”
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Boire ou ne pas boire, telle est la question by Maria do Rosário Girão

“…Indeed, we’ve lauded wine from Homer and the Classical Antiquity to modern times: all we have to do is take a quick look at the 20th century and stop at De Quincey’s Confessions, Edgar Allan Poe’s « paradises », the Hoffmannian correspondence between wine and music, the Balzacian Treatise on Modern Stimulants and the Flaubertian / Baudelairean physical or liberating, spiritual or mystical poetics of drunkenness through wine. …”
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Renaissance square header with pseudo-hemispherical cross vault in Santiago parish church in Orihuela (Alicante) by Antonio Luis López González

“…This involves the fusion of the Classical antiquity with the Hispano-Muslim tradition. By reference thereto, will be discussed briefly the Benavides Chapel in Baeza (Jaén), a building of Andrés Vandelvira. …”
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«Huego de amor»: la metáfora amor fuego en la estructura de <i>Celestina</i> by Antonio Sánchez Jiménez

“…The expression appears in connection to two famous urban fires of classical Antiquity: those of Troy and Rome. Fiery love played a decisive role in these two well-known fires, and that connection implies that both the love as fire metaphor and urban fires warn the reader about the tragical end of Celestina’s lovers. …”
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L’empreinte du théâtre dans la conscience globale by Maria Orquídea Leite de Faria Borges-Bispo

“…The Imprint of the Theater in the Global Consciousness By observing the painting of the eighteenth century, we are witnessing, so to speak, a pictorial earthquake: on the one hand, the neo-classicism that follows the model of classical antiquity in search of a simple, sober, capable style to convey serious moral values such as justice, honor and patriotism; on the other, the romantic movement, which is projected in the opposite direction and approaches the modern by focusing on the capacity for expression. …”
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Daniele Barbaro, Vitruve et deux icônes crétoises by Maria Georgilaki

“…This article seeks to contextualize Vitruvian theories developed in mid-to-late 16th century Venice and connect those theories with Venetian collections of objects of classical antiquity brought from Venice's overseas territories. …”
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Perennial Penelope and lingering lotus-eaters: Revaluing mythological figures in the poetry of the Greek financial crisis by Philippou, E

“…This article looks specifically at the manner in which these poetic anthologies speak (if at all) to Greece’s classical antiquity. I explore the ways in which specific poets, who circulate in different spheres of publication (blogs, online magazines, literary journals, and published collections), engage antiquity in their poetry. …”

How to do things with signs: Rousseau’s ancient performative idiom by Lifschitz, AS

“…The article examines the performative aspects of this imagined ancient language, while situating it within the context of other eighteenth-century projections of a vivid language of action onto classical antiquity. It is argued that Rousseau’s originality lies not only in his emphasis on the performative rather than merely passionate character of this idiom. …”

Libraries, Archives, and Museums : An Introduction to Cultural Heritage Institutions through the Ages / by Stauffer, Suzanne M. (Suzanne Marie), 1957-, editor 643103

Le corps social à l’origine de l’invention du mot « émotion » by Nicole Hochner

“…Despite the fact that historians analyze emotions of classical antiquity, the term 'emotion' itself is a rather recent term that appears only in the fifteenth century. …”
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A arte na arquitetura militar portuguesa dos Setecentos by Luiza Nascimento de Oliveira da Silva

“…The language of art is perceptible, for e-xample, when one of the greatest names of classical antiquity, which served as the theoretical matrix for the-se men, was Vitruvius. …”
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Women in Howard Barker’s Theatre: Object or Subject? by Clare Finburgh

“…According to the Oxford English Dictionary, an object can be defined, amongst other things, as “the person or thing to which something is done, or on which something acts or operates”. Since classical antiquity, no form has been used as symbol, icon or image in European culture, more than the female body: from Athena as emblem of military victory; to Medusa as figuration of horror, to Mary as incarnation of purity. …”
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