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Bodily Fluids in Antiquity

Bodily Fluids in Antiquity

Bradley, Mark (editor)

Leonard, Victoria (editor)

Totelin, Laurence (editor)

"From ancient Egypt to Imperial Rome, from Greek medicine to early Christianity, this volume examines how human bodily fluids influenced ideas about gender, sexuality, politics, emotions, and morality, and how those ideas shaped later European thought. Comprising 24 chapters across seven key themes—language, gender, eroticism, nutrition, dissolution, death, and afterlife—this volume investigates bodily fluids in the context of the current sensory turn. It asks fundamental questions about physicality and fluidity: how were bodily fluids categorised and differentiated? How were fluids trapped inside the body perceived, and how did this perception alter when those fluids were externalised? Do ancient approaches complement or challenge our modern sensibilities about bodily fluids? How were religious practices influenced by attitudes towards bodily fluids, and how did religious authorities attempt to regulate or restrict their appearance? Why were some fluids taboo, and others cherished? In what ways were bodily fluids gendered? Offering a range of scholarly approaches and voices, this volume explores how ideas about the body and the fluids it contained and externalised are culturally conditioned and ideologically determined. The analysis encompasses the key geographic centres of the ancient Mediterranean basin, including Greece, Rome, Byzantium, and Egypt. By taking a longue durée perspective across a richly intertwined set of territories, this collection is the first to provide a comprehensive, wide-ranging study of bodily fluids in the ancient world. Bodily Fluids in Antiquity will be of particular interest to academic readers working in the fields of classics and its reception, archaeology, anthropology, and ancient to Early Modern history. It will also appeal to more general readers with an interest in the history of the body and history of medicine."

URI

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49403

Keywords

History;Ancient history

DOI

10.4324/9780429438974

ISBN

9780367764067, 9780429438974, 9781138343726, 9780429798603

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Publisher website

https://taylorandfrancis.com/

Publication date and place

2021

Imprint

Routledge

Classification

Ancient history: to c 500 CE

Pages

452

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

 

 

The Stoic Theory of Beauty

The Stoic Theory of Beauty

Celkyte, Aiste

Highlights the important contribution Stoic philosophy made to aesthetics Shows that this is a largely unexplored area of interest to scholars of both ancient philosophy and aesthetics Analyses material to show that there is a coherent and substantial attempt at systematic enquiry into aesthetic phenomena Discusses how Stoic ideas could enhance our understanding of ancient aesthetics and even contribute to contemporary aesthetics Aistė Čelkytė shows us that Stoic views about beauty were substantial and compelling. She examines the ways in which the Stoics used aesthetic vocabulary in their arguments to demonstrate that aesthetic concepts played an important role in their philosophy. Čelkytė argues that understanding the Stoic’s aesthetic views allows us to interpret their famous account of virtue more thoroughly. She also explores the place that Stoic aesthetics has within the broader ancient Greek and Roman tradition, highlighting the value of incorporating Stoic views in the discussions of aesthetic properties and values.

URI

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47100

Keywords

Philosophy; History & Surveys; Ancient & Classical; Biography & Autobiography; History; Ancient; Greece; Philosophy; Aesthetics

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Publisher website

https://www.euppublishing.com/

Publication date and place

2020

Imprint

Edinburgh University Press

Classification

Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

Biography: general

Ancient history: to c 500 CE

Philosophy: aesthetics

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

 

Intermediate Ancient Greek Language

Intermediate Ancient Greek Language

ntermediate Ancient Greek Language is a series of Lessons and Exercises intended for students who have already covered most of an introductory course in the ancient Greek language. It aims to broaden and deepen students' understanding of the main grammatical constructions of Greek. Further attention is given to grammatical forms to illustrate their functions. In the Lessons, tragedy, comedy, historiography, oratory and philosophy are sources for dramatic material. The Cases have been deliberately placed late in the series of Lessons 36 to 41; students by now will be prepared to analyse Case usage. Consideration of prepositions in Lesson 42 naturally follows the Cases. Lesson 43, on correlative clauses, links with adjectival and adverbial constructions in previous Lessons. The final Lesson 44 deals with exclamations. Throughout the book, the author relies on genuine Greek sources for the passages in the Lessons and Exercises.

URI

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48451

Keywords

Ancient Greek Language; Greek; Greek language; Greek Lessons; Greek Exercises

DOI

10.22459/IAGL.2021

ISBN

9781760463434, 9781760463434

Publisher

ANU Press

Publisher website

https://press.anu.edu.au/

Publication date and place

Canberra, 2021

Classification

Language: history & general works

linguistics

Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)

Pages

402

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

 

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Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989

Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989

Hall, Edith (editor)

Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989 explores the diverse ways that contemporary world fiction has engaged with ancient Greek myth. Whether as a framing device, or a filter, or via resonances and parallels, Greek myth has proven fruitful for many writers of fiction since the end of the Cold War. This volume examines the varied ways that writers from around the world have turned to classical antiquity to articulate their own contemporary concerns. Featuring contributions by an international group of scholars from a number of disciplines, the volume offers a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach to contemporary literature from around the world. Analysing a range of significant authors and works, not usually brought together in one place, the book introduces readers to some less-familiar fiction, while demonstrating the central place that classical literature can claim in the global literary curriculum of the third millennium.

URI

http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25794

Keywords

Classics; Literary Studies; Ancient Greek Myth; Classical Literature; Fiction

DOI

10.5040/9781474256278

ISBN

9781472579409;9781472579393

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Publisher website

https://www.bloomsbury.com/academic/

Publication date and place

London, 2016-06-02

Grantor

• Knowledge Unlatched - 102537 - KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

 

 

Open Access Journal: Annals of the Náprstek Museum

[First posted in AWOL 13 June 2018, updated 19 August 2021]

 

Annals of the Náprstek Museum 

ISSN: 0231-844X (print)

ISSN: 2533-5685 (online) 

Annals of the Náprstek Museum, a National Museum journal, publishes the results of scientific research which have not been published yet, and which deals with material and spiritual culture and social relations in non-European cultures. Since its foundation in 1962 it was published once a year, since 2013 two issues per year are published. Each issue is structured into four sections: Papers, Research reports, Materialia, Revies of the literature dealing with non-European cultures. Since 2008 the journal has been included to EBSCO database with full-text searching, in a group "Central & Eastern European Academic Source (CEEAS)", and in ERIH PLUS.

2021/42/1

ISSN: 0231-844X (print), 2533-5685 (online)
Editor in Chief: Jiří Honzl (executive editor)

Bestia Triumphans: Enrique Stanko Vráz in Beijing in 1901

Iveta Nakládalová

This study focuses on a description of the Boxer Rebellion in Beijing, in the first months of 1901, written by E. S. Vraz during his second journey to China. Enrique Stanko Vraz (1860–1932) was a Czech naturalist and explorer, renowned for his travels to Africa, Latin America, and Asia, which he…

Skulls from Tiwanaku: A Forgotten Part of Nestler’s Collection in the Hrdlička Museum of Man in Prague

Markéta Křížová

Julius Nestler, high school teacher and amateur archaeologist from Prague, brought home more than 3,500 archaeological and anthropological artifacts from his expedition to Bolivia (1909–1912). At present they are in the possession of the Náprstek Museum in Prague. a smaller corpus of human bones,…

Notes on a Folio from the Gulshan Album in the Collection of the Náprstek Museum, Prague

Adriana Stříbrná

In 2015 the Naprstek Museum, in cooperation with the National Library of the Czech Republic, carried out a conservation survey of two rare folios from the Gulshan Album of the Mughal emperor Jahāngīr which form part of the Naprstek Museum’s Indian collection. During the survey an unknown signature…

Preliminary Report on the Eighteenth Excavation Season of the Archaeological Expedition to Wad Ben Naga

Pavel Onderka, Vlastimil Vrtal, Gabriela Jungová, Jiří Honzl

The eighteenth excavation season of the Archaeological Expedition to Wad Ben Naga focused on the continued excavations of the so-called Isis Temple (WBN 300; more specifically on the frontal part of the proper temple), the continued excavations of structure WBN 250, and the continued excavations of…

 

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2020/41/2

2020/41/1

2019/40/2

2019/40/1

2018/39/2

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2016/37/2

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1974/7/1

1967/6/1

1966/5/1

1964/3/1

1963/2/1

1962/1/1

1695/4/1

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