Walter Benjamin's allegory and the modernity by João Batista Pereira

“…Committed since Classical Antiquity with the rhetoric and the rules of oratory, the allegory was like a displaced metaphor, striving for clarity of speech. …”
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The Heart of Hearths: Some Reflections on the Significance of Hearths in Nature, Culture and in Human Memory by Christer Westerdahl

“…The metaphoric and cosmological potential ofthe fire and the hearth is furthermore explored in sedentary societies, with examples in Classical Antiquity and in Scandinavia. Some implications concern different types of cairns. …”
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Prima del Traité? Alternative possibili per lo studio della corporeità del primo Ottocento by Bruno Ligore

“…A special relationship with the rediscovery of classical antiquity influenced creative processes which are, in theatrical dance, linked to connoisseurship practice and the perception of classical iconography through technique, aesthetic and moral values. …”
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An Idea of Higher Education Renewal by Marija Liudvika Drazdauskiene

“…With reference to concrete works of classical authors, a suggestion is made to stop never-ending reforms in universities, to recover the teaching of such subjects as style in language and literature programmes, to renew the subjects of history, philosophy and logic and to introduce memory-based learning while paying tribute to classical antiquity and regaining local traditions.…”
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Material Girls: Humor and Female Professional Seduction in Greek Literature and Culture by Anna Foka

“…By examining fragments of Middle Comedy and their echoes in post-classical antiquity, this article proposes an alternative view of courtesans and prostitutes as professionals of emotional labor. …”
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“Mutatio caparum”. Las citas de origen latino en el “Quijote” de Cervantes by Beatriz de la Fuente Marina

“…This paper focuses on references from Latin sources, both those hailing from classical antiquity and those coming from the biblical and liturgical background. …”
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Reading the Stars of the Renaissance. Fritz Saxl and Astrology by Rembrandt Duits

“…It aims to assess the importance of Saxl’s work and to show his development from a close follower of Aby Warburg to an independent theorist, with his own method and approach and his own answer to one of the central issues Warburg had raised – how the integrate the old image of the Renaissance as the revival of classical Antiquity with the new picture of the Renaissance as the birth of the modern rational world presented by Burckhardt during the nineteenth century.…”
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Delphi in Schwarz und Weiß.. Bilder der Antike in Claude Debussys Klaviermusik by Tihomir Popović

“…This essay discusses the compositional construction of images of ›classical antiquity‹ in the piano music of Claude Debussy. …”
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O kulawym bogu Hefajstosie. W antycznej pracowni Jana Dormana by Justyna Biernat

“…The extant  correspondence between the creators of the production and the director’s copies permit us to explore and analyse the ways in which classical antiquity inspired Dorman’s work. Although Dorman never adapted any ancient Greek text to the stage, his practice indicates a strong presence of the classical tradition, in particular the Greek comedy, in his mode of theatre.…”
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Parenté hippocratique et parenté aristotélicienne. Quelques réflexions sur les théories biologiques de la Grèce ancienne by Olivier Roux

“…Now ethnologists and anthropologists of extraeuropean areas have for long stressed the importance of those theories for a global understanding of social bonds and notably those of parenthood. As regards classical antiquity, that theoretical confrontation could then be read as a marker of diversity in the systems of parenthood in the Greek world, but also of an evolution and transformation of certain social relationships in keeping with the development of the City-State.…”
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The Ancient Greek Symbolism in the Religious Landscape. The Case of Delphi<br>Il simbolismo greco antico nel paesaggio religioso. Il caso di Delfi</br> by Andrea Malea

“…I refer to the studies of French anthropology and on the ethnological studies of the conceptualization of the landscape through oral tradition. Some classical antiquity researchers have already done so. Such authors that relate to ancient Greece as a whole discuss the symbolism of sacrifices and snakes. …”
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Myths in crisis? Marina Carr’s revision of feminine myths in contemporary Irish Theatre by María del Mar González Chacón

“…The use of mythology in the theatre of the leading contemporary Irish playwright Marina Carr evokes the classical antiquity in her first plays, The Mai (1994) amongst them, through characters that pursue a mythical ending and resemble Sophoclean Electra, and turns into a modern classical era in plays such as Marble (2009), in which the protagonists are unable to coexist with normative models and Trojan territories have turned into unknown dreamlands where lasting and immaculate existences that go beyond earthly life are pursued. …”
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Eskatologien i tidlig romersk kejsertid by Svend Erik Mathiassen

“…This article stresses certain aspects of this thought, namely its eschatological and soteriological implications: The primitivistic conception of the remote past as a Golden Age, exhibited in a majority of writers in classical antiquity since Hesiod, runs forth to the time of early imperial Rome. …”
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Aspects of reception of classical heritage in biography of despot Stefan Lazarević of Constantine the Philosopher by Ristović Nenad

“…The reception of the classical book heritage in the Biography of Despot Stefan Lazarević of Constantine the Philosopher (of Kostenec) is noticed through the conspicuous reminiscences on classical antiquity, but it is also manifested through the use of artistic procedures of classical literature and the author’s high estimate of the accomplishment of pre-Christian Greek thought. …”
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O Minotauro by Monteiro Lobato: a didactic adaptation of the myth in children’s literature by María-Elena Curbelo-Tavío

“…These stories display a series of mechanisms of adaptation that facilitate the readers’ approach to Classical Antiquity and their identification with the main characters. …”
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Medieval studies in Zacatecas, Mexico : ten years of work in the Zacatecan Association of Classical and Medieval Studies (AZECME) by Diana Arauz Mercado

“…This contribution stems from the concerns raised in the II International Symposium The Middle Ages view other horizons: theoretical and methodological problems, National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2015, together with a simple but nurtured overall balance of academic, dissemination and research conducted ten years of existence the AZECME, as relevant humanistic group with regard to the reflection of other cultures —especially the history of the Middle Ages— being part of an important national reference, if we remember that in the Mexican Republic only in the cities of Puebla, Queretaro and Mexico, there are universities, educational institutions, schools, associations or companies that provide in their curricula training in Classical Antiquity, the Middle Ages or Latin and Greek Languages.…”
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Herodotus and Egyptian women: the construction of female behaviors in the second logos of Histories by Nathalia Monseff Junqueira

“…Aiming at the presentation of new possibilities in studying the women in the Classical Antiquity involving the discussions of the Cultural History, gender studies, identity and subjectivity of the historical subjects, we have chosen as a source of such article the work of Herodotus from Halicarnassus, the Greek historian, who wrote Histories in the fifth century B.C. …”
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Ausgestorbene Meeresküstenungetüme τροχοί resp. rotae by Elwira Kaczynska, Witold Sadzinski, Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak

“…Generally, they avoid men and sailors by plunging in deep waters. In classical antiquity, these mysterious animals were already on the verge of extinction. …”
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Justice From the Perspective of World Literature's Classic Works: Antigone, the Merchant of Venice and the Trial. by Simone Peixoto Ferreira Porto

“…Thus, with footstool in these literary works, its reseach problem is the comparative examination of conceptions of justice drawn from such literary works since classical antiquity throughout the middle ages to modernity with its various shapes and forms of understanding the law according to the degree of complexity of human groups in history.…”
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History’s languages: between analysis and narration by Jaume Aurell

“…The article describes the diverse narrative forms that historians have used to deliver their texts. From classical antiquity till the 19th century, the prevailing style used by historians was descriptive narrative, which made their accounts a branch of literature. …”
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