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Archaeological and Historical Aspects of West-European Societies : Album Amicorum André Van Doorselaer
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Year: 1996 Publisher: Leuven : Leuven University Press,

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The contents of this volume of essays in his honour gives a good overview of the fields in which Prof. Van Doorselaer has been active throughout his academic career. This book is especially an Album Amicorum, filled with reminiscences and intentions to continue the work. The voluminous size of this book may be considered as an adequate measure of the overall sympathy for Prof. Van Doorselaer. We hope that this publication may encourage him to remain active in the field of archaeology, and that the co-operation among colleagues, stimulated by this project, may be continued in the future.


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Trasparenze ed epifanie : Quando la luce diventa letteratura, arte, storia, scienza
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Year: 2016 Publisher: Florence : Firenze University Press,

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The volume Trasparenze ed epifanie. Quando la luce diventa letteratura, arte, storia, scienza ("Transparencies and epiphanies. When light becomes literature, art, history, science") brings together thirty contributions presented at the interdisciplinary conference organized at the University of Florence on the occasion of the International Year of Light 2015. Scholars in the fields of science, history, history of art and cinema, philosophy, philology, Italian and foreign literature and literature literary theory from seven departments of the Florentine university introduce various meanings and symbolic representations of the concept light during the ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary epoch. Moreover, they also propose a common "luminous journey" in the civilisation of open scientific and cultural discussion.


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Mnemosyne kai sophia
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Year: 2014 Publisher: Coimbra University Press

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Na mitologia grega, Mnemósine é a personificação da Memória. Filha de Úrano e de Gaia, i.e. do Céu e da Terra, Mnemósine pertence ao grupo das chamadas Titânides, tendo sido igualmente uma das figuras femininas a quem Zeus se uniu sexualmente e de quem nasceram as nove Musas. Sofia é a personificação da Sabedoria, não tendo, porém, uma presença tão marcante no corpus mitológico clássico como a que se reconhece a Mnemósine.


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Religion, institutions and society in ancient Rome
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ISBN: 9782722602663 2722602660 Year: 2013 Publisher: Collège de France

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By opposing sectarian discourses with the universal weapons of history, philology and anthropology, in short, the entire arsenal of science and reason, the history of religions of the past enables us to deflate modern myths, and not only those of others but also our own. It allows us to identify the projection, in the imaginary past, of the "origins" of nationalist, religious or racist fantasies, and to disarm exaggerated interpretations of the sacred texts. Within nations inherited from the 19th century, ancient history can help to deconstruct the representation that nation states sometimes create of their past, by showing that despite their apparent proximity, their "ancestors", often simply assumed to be so, were as distant from the current society as the inhabitants of the antipodes, and hardly resembled the image assigned to them. It enables us to challenge the "Greek miracle", the "Roman genius", the "Germanic superiority", or the Hegelian dialectic professing that religions and history tend towards Christian monotheism

La mort, les morts dans les sociétés anciennes
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ISBN: 2735103846 2735119246 9782735103843 Year: 2016 Publisher: Paris : Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme,

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Étudier les divers aspects de la relation entre mythe et pensée chez les Grecs, de la période archaïque (Homère et Hésiode) à la période hellénistique, en s'efforçant d'éclairer à la fois les continuités et les ruptures au plan des interprétations et de l' "usage" du mythe, tel est l'objet de cet ouvrage. Les essais qui le composent, extraits des travaux de Louis Gernet, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet et Marcel Detienne (les trois derniers étroitement unis par leur dette commune à l'égard du premier et leurs enseignements parallèles à l'École des Hautes Études depuis plus de dix ans), témoignent tous, à l'exception de celui de Louis Gernet, de la volonté des auteurs de réconcilier les conceptions anciennes, issues pour l'essentiel de Durkheim et de ses élèves, avec le structuralisme tel qu'élaboré par Lévi-Strauss. Vu l'énormité du champ, quatre grands domaines ont été choisis : le mythe comme révélateur de la cohérence interne de l'idée que se faisaient les Grecs du divin ; le mythe comme producteur de sens pour l'ensemble de la culture grecque, pour autant qu'il combine en lui des motifs venus des domaines les plus divers de l'existence ; le rapport entre le mythe et certains secteurs mal assurés de la vie sociale, tels que la valeur de certains objets ou les changements de statut des individus ; enfin, le mythe comme donneur de "formes" dans lesquelles enfreindre les règles, à la fois pour confirmer la norme et pour échapper, symboliquement et réellement, aux lois et aux signifiés sociaux dominants. Ce livre s'adresse à tous ceux qui, quelle que soit leur discipline, s'intéressent au mythe et à la société antique.


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Mediterranean Identities : Environment, Society, Culture
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ISBN: 9535135864 9535135856 9535146122 Year: 2017 Publisher: IntechOpen

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What is the Mediterranean? The perception of the Mediterranean leans equally on the nature, culture, history, lifestyle, and landscape. To approach the question of identity, it seems that we have to give importance to all of these. There is no Mediterranean identity, but Mediterranean identities. Mediterranean is not about the homogeneity and uniformity, but about the unity that comes from diversities, contacts, and interconnections. The book tends to embrace the environment, society, and culture of the Mediterranean in their multiple and unique interconnections over the millennia, contributing to the better understanding of the essential human-environmental interrelations. The choice of 17 chapters of the book, written by a number of prominent scholars, clearly shows the necessity of the interdisciplinary approach to the Mediterranean identity issues. The book stresses the most serious concerns of the Mediterranean today - threats to biodiversity, risks, and hazards - mostly the increasing wildfires and finally depletion of traditional Mediterranean practices and landscapes, as constituent parts of the Mediterranean heritage.


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Religion, institutions et société de la Rome antique
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ISBN: 9782722602656 2722602652 Year: 2003 Publisher: Collège de France

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En opposant aux discours sectaires les armes universelles de l'histoire, de la philologie et de l'anthropologie, bref tout l'arsenal de la science et de la raison, l'histoire des religions du passé nous met en mesure de dégonfler les mythes modernes, ceux des autres, mais également les nôtres. Elle permet de repérer la projection dans le passé imaginaire des "origines" de fantasmes nationalistes, religieux ou racistes, et de désarmer les interprétations outrées qui peuvent être faites des textes sacrés. À l'intérieur des nations héritées du XIXe siècle, l'histoire ancienne peut aider à déconstruire la représentation que les États-nations se font parfois de leur passé, en montrant que malgré leur apparente proximité, leurs "ancêtres" sont aussi éloignés de la société actuelle que les habitants des antipodes. Elle permet de contester le "miracle grec", le "génie romain", la "supériorité germanique", ou encore la dialectique hégélienne selon laquelle les religions et l'histoire tendent vers le monothéisme chrétien. By opposing sectarian discourses with the universal weapons of history, philology and anthropology, in short, the entire arsenal of science and reason, the history of religions of the past enables us to deflate modern myths, and not only those of others but also our own. It allows us to identify the projection, in the imaginary past, of the "origins" of nationalist, religious or racist fantasies, and to disarm exaggerated interpretations of the sacred texts. Within nations inherited from the 19th century, ancient history can help to deconstruct the representation that nation states sometimes create of their past, by showing that despite their apparent proximity, their "ancestors", often simply assumed to be so, were as distant from the current society as the inhabitants of the antipodes, and hardly resembled the image assigned to them. It enables us to challenge the "Greek miracle", the "Roman genius", the "Germanic superiority", or the Hegelian ..


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Studies in Nietzsche and the Classical Tradition
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ISBN: 1469658100 1469658097 Year: 2020 Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse,

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Ancient worlds in film and television : gender and politics
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ISBN: 9789004183209 9789004241923 9004241922 9004183205 1283854899 Year: 2013 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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More than a century ago, filmmakers made their primary focus innovative and widely promulgated visions of antiquity, creating a profound effect on the critical, popular, and scholarly reception of antiquity. In this volume, scholars from a variety of countries and varying academic disciplines have addressed film’s way of using the field of Classical Reception to investigate, contemplate, and develop hypotheses about present-day culture, society, and politics, with a particular emphasis on gender and gender roles, their relationship to one another, and how filmic constructions of masculinity and femininity shape and are shaped by interacting economic, political, and ideological practices.


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Theatron : Rhetorische Kultur in Spätantike und Mittelalter / Rhetorical Culture in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 3110923866 3110194767 Year: 2012 Publisher: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter

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Der Begriff ,Theatron', der die Zusammenkunft von an Literatur Interessierten bezeichnet, lässt sich über den gesamten Zeitraum des byzantinischen Zeitraumes nachweisen. Angefangen bei Libanios findet man Zeugnisse in der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit und in der spätbyzantinischen Periode erlebte diese Form des Austausches, bei dem es auch um den sozialen Aufstieg und networking ging, eine letzte Blüte. Einige der 22 Studien dieses Bandes widmen sich diesem gesellschaftlichen Phänomen, während sich die übrigen mit der Untersuchung der rhetorischen Kultur in unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen Sphären befassen. Rhetorik hatte über den Unterrichtsbereich hinaus eine wichtige Funktion in der Öffentlichkeit, etwa bei Trauerreden oder bei Reden vor dem Kaiser. Aber auch im militärischen Bereich war die Feldherrenrede ein wichtiger Bestandteil des Alltags.

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