Historia Antigua e Historia de la relación entre Antigüedad Clásica e ideologías políticas : apuntes para una convivencia necesaria by Ricardo del Molino García

“…</p><p>This paper aims to reflect on the place, role and necessity of Ancient History in the History of the reception and political appropriation of Antiquity, starting from several key aspects of Antiquity itself and from a brief statement of the doctoral project conducted by the author, entitled Classical Antiquity in Nueva Granada, 1767-1816.</p>…”
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Embracing Greek philosophical thinking in the fathers of the 2nd - 5th centuries by Eirini Artemi

“…The Church Fathers put together the best parts of Greek classical antiquity with the best of the teaching of Christian theology. …”
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Pleuronectes platessa, a ghost fish in the Mediterranean Sea? by Jordi Lleonart, Henri Farrugio

“…The ichthyologic sources available, from classical antiquity to recent times, were checked in order to follow the track of the citations (i.e. true field observations or citations of former authors), and to try to detect misidentifications, if any. …”
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‘Too Young to Die’: Grief and Mourning in Ancient Rome by Diana Gorostidi Pi

“…Like in contemporary societies, only philosophy and faith seem to offer any measure of relief when faced with the horrors of death, particularly in the case of deceased youth (mors im-matura), unfortunately a very common occurrence in classical antiquity. Ancient texts and inscriptions provide us with a wealth of expressions of grief and bereavement for children and young people who died prematurely. …”
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POLÍTICA E LINGUAGENS:UMA ANÁLISE DIACRÔNICA by Danilo Motta de Macedo

“…ABSTRACT: This work consists of an analysis of the transformation of political discourses since classical antiquity, with Aristotle’s study of rhetoric. …”
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Couto the Classicist – Ancient Literary Sources in O Soldado Prático by Matthew Gorey

“…This article examines the most frequently cited texts that Couto used as sources for stories and quotations from classical antiquity. It demonstrates that Couto translated or paraphrased many of these anecdotes from two sets of works: Spanish translations of Plutarch and the moralizing works of the Spanish bishop Antonio de Guevara. …”
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The Ghost Tradition: Helen Of Troy In The Elizabethan Era by RADUCANU ADRIANA

“…Homer wrote that the greatest war of Western classical antiquity started because of Helen's adultery followed by her elopement to Troy. …”
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Controversy about the Spanish court in Luis Vélez de Guevara’s short plays: playwright and literary subject by María del Rosario Martínez Navarro, Alejandro Ramos Iglesias

“…This literary motif already echoed in Classical Antiquity, but, for the research that concerns us, we will focus on its development in 17th century anti-courtly literature, since it was the period when the playwright Luis Vélez de Guevara (1579-1644) lived. …”
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Review of “Papyri.info” by Lucia Vannini

“…Papyri.info, made available by the Duke University, is a text collection of over 50,000 documentary papyri, i.e., Greek and Latin documents, dating back to the IV century BC – VIII century AD, which constitute a fundamental body of evidence for ancient everyday life in the classical antiquity. The collection consists of transcriptions encoded in EpiDoc (a subset of TEI for the representation of ancient documents preserved in inscriptions and in papyri), metadata, links to related resources, and, for some records, images and translations. …”
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Excavating the fossils of India : representations of the Mahabharata and Ramayana in post-colonial Indian literature and film by Rathiy Devi Ramanathan

“…In the discourse on the nation, the manner in which India is imagined through a regression into classical antiquity will be discussed. This will be done by examining Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel (1993). …”
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Law and state as holes in Marxist theory by MacNair, M

“…The resulting theoretical impasse may be relevant to Marx's failure to complete Capital, and led Engels in later work to project back the Hegelian transition from 'civil society' to the Rechtsstaat onto classical antiquity. Subsequent Marxist theorists of law have been led to one of two courses: either to cling to the transition from civil society to the state and in the process to abandon fundamentals of historical materialism, or to borrow from orthodox academic legal theory. …”

“Following our own path”: Pavel Katenin’s political theater by New, K

“…The paper suggests that Classical antiquity served as a “mask,” allowing contemporary Decembrist circles to apply ancient models and situational resolutions to their own political crises. …”

&#x201C;Taste is not to conform to the art, but the art to the taste&#x201D;: aesthetic instrumentalism and the British body politic in the neoclassical age by Karl Axelsson

“…In order to recognise the distinctiveness of aesthetic instrumentalism, as well as to acknowledge by what means it operated, I make essentially two claims: (1) aesthetic instrumentalism rediscovered its effective interaction with a national body politic by exploring a possible nexus between Britain and classical antiquity, and (2) although the philosophy of art advanced by Joseph Addison (1672&#x2013;1719) frequently is held as a possible commencement of aesthetic autonomy, it was, first and foremost, characterised by a systematic aesthetic instrumentalism intended to reinforce the British body politic.…”
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Thomas Hobbes’s Theological and Political Anthropology and the Essential Mutations of the Perception of the Laws of Nature and Natural Rights in Seventeenth-Century England by Ionut Untea

“…If, according to Skinner, republican theorists appealed to sources of classical antiquity, I argue that Hobbes chooses to offer a blend of classical and theological ideas in order to generate a “science” of the political life within the confines of a postlapsarian world dominated by passion and the fear of death. …”
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Brännspegeln som myt och objekt by Olov Amelin

“…Burning mirrors have appeared in stories since classical antiquity, when Archimedes is claimed to have destroyed a fleet at Syracuse with the help of burning mirrors. …”
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When Latin gets sick: mocking medical language in macaronic poetry by Å ime Demo

“… Macaronic poetry is a curious cultural phenomenon, having originated in classical antiquity and taken its standard form in the 15th century in northern Italy. …”
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Experimenting with a new tragic model: Elechi Amadi’s Isiburu by Omeh Obasi Ngwoke

“…Aristotle’s Poetics has remained one of the most resourceful reference materials to literary critics and theorists over the centuries from classical antiquity to contemporary times. However, in spite of its lofty status and acclaim the classical source material has also faced serious criticisms especially concerning certain unrealistic and vague postulations made in it about tragedy. …”
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Cosimo’s Genius and Ammannati’s Ingenium: The Wax Model for the Genio Mediceo by Frits Scholten

“…The Genio Mediceo, a naked youth holding a Capricorn and a sphere – representing the cosmos (‘cosmo’, as an allusion to Cosimo) – represents the personal protector (genius) of the Medici ruler, and harks back to a concept from Classical Antiquity. Cosimo modelled his image on the Roman emperor Augustus, the supposed founder of Florence, and also adopted his genius cult and star sign of Capricorn. …”
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La 'industria' como cualidad propia del historiador. Sobre la pervivencia de los proemios de Salustio en la Historiografía Latina del Renacimiento by Joaquín Villalba Álvarez

“…In classical antiquity the debate arose about what was more important: human actions or their recreation in writing, in the form of history. …”
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A Note on Ricœur’s Early Notion of Cultural Memory by Suzi Adams

“…In the former, cultural memory appears as an ongoing and dynamic process of retroaction focussed on questioning and rethinking the meaning of classical antiquity for contemporary worlds, on the one hand, that is linked to an important critical aspect as a counterweight to the flattening effects of modernity, on the other. …”
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