FEMALE GREEK PHILOSOPHERS OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY by VIRGINIA GRIGORIADOU

Subjects: “…Greece, female philosophers, classical antiquity, historical framework, list…”
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Polish Literature for Children and Young Adults Inspired by Classical Antiquity. A Catalogue. by Rafał Wójcik

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Kathleen Riley, Alastair J. L. Blanshard, and Iarla Manny, eds. Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity by Xavier Giudicelli

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Review: Lauriola, R. (2020). Brill’s Companion to Episodes of ‘Heroic’ Rape/Abduction in Classical Antiquity and Their Reception. Leiden: Brill. by Grace Figueroa

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Bodies in Agony: Classical Sculpture and Violence in Herman Melville's works by Ronan Ludot-Vlasak

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Claire Bubb, Dissection in Classical Antiquity. A Social and Medical History, Cambridge-New York, Cambridge University Press, 2022, x + 412 pp.... by Francisco J. García Martín

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Freedom of Labor from Ancient Societies to Modern Times by D. V. Ahmetyanov

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Hindu and Classical Ancient virtues in a comparative perspective by Vladimir Shokhin

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Antiquitized emblems of Andrea Alciato by E.S. Danilov

“…Alciato’s emblematic intention with the literary heritage of the classical antiquity. The book of the Italian humanist was originally intended for the erudite public. …”
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Votive Body Parts in Greek and Roman Religion by Jessica Hughes

“…This book examines a type of object that was widespread and very popular in classical antiquity - votive offerings in the shape of parts of the human body, using them to explore how beliefs about the body changed throughout the period.…”
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L’utilisation des tournures antiques et bibliques dans Salammbô by Walid Ezzine

“…The Metamorphoses contain, in fact, a model of a prayer of classical antiquity. Flaubert would have followed the same pattern that uses the “twists” and the resources of the prayer’s classical rhetoric. …”
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De la rhétorique des « nations » à la théorie des « races ». L’influence des théories scientifiques sur la pensée des stéréotypes « nationaux » (XIIIe-XVe-XVIIIe s.)... by Benoît Grévin

“…The various “proto-national” stereotypes developed in the late Middle Ages from a complex mixture of topoi, partly inherited from classical antiquity, and folkloric motifs. The study of sources of a classificatory type cataloguing the qualities and defects of “nations” (nationes, gentes, linguae...) allows us to show how this thought becomes scientific from the thirteenth century onwards by taking the paths of medicine and scholastic philosophy. …”
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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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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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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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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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CULTURAL MEMORY AS THE FOUNDATION OF EUROPEAN IDENTITY by LAZAREV, LUDMILA

“…Europe’s common cultural heritage, influenced by classical antiquity, Christianity, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment, also encompasses the ethical lessons of the two world wars and the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century. …”
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Ascenso y caída de las bestias: evolución de la alegoría animal en la Edad Media by Claudia Inés Raposo

“…Zoological knowledge inherited from classical antiquity was given new meaning and enriched through an exegesis that transformed beasts into examples that illustrated aspects of Christian doctrine or provided models of moral conduct. …”
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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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