The aim of this book is to explore the definition(s) of ‘theatre’ and ‘metatheatre’ that scholars use when studying the ancient Greek world. Although in modern languages their meaning is mostly straightforward, both concepts become problematical when applied to ancient reality. In fact, ‘theatre’ as well as ‘metatheatre’ are used in many differe…[Read more]

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This course provides a survey of sculptural forms in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds from the
time of Alexander the Great to Late Antiquity. Key sculptural media will be considered from
chronological and thematic perspectives. Attention will be given to contextual analysis, social
history, form, technique, commemoration, regionalism, the…[Read more]

Identity politics is subject to similar critiques in contemporary public debate and political theory. A central topos of this critique is that identity politics is essentializing: it fixes subjects to their social position and resorts to a politics of
particularity that leads to divisions in national citizenship and democratic discourse (the…[Read more]

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This article provides a short history of the methods and tools developed by the Pelagios initiative: a series of seven projects dedicated to linking digital historical resources based on the geographic places to which they relate and refer. The first section of the article situates the work within the wider field of semantic and geospatial…[Read more]

This article provides a short history of the methods and tools developed by the Pelagios initiative: a series of seven projects dedicated to linking digital historical resources based on the geographic places to which they relate and refer. The first section of the article situates the work within the wider field of semantic and geospatial…[Read more]

In this paper, I explore the literary aesthetics of Attalid Pergamon, one of the Ptolemies’ fiercest cultural rivals in the Hellenistic period. Traditionally, scholars have reconstructed Pergamene poetry from the city’s grand and monumental sculptural programme, hypothesizing an underlying aesthetic dichotomy between the two kingdoms: Ale…[Read more]

This article reconsiders a number of the metapoetic oppositions which Harder has identified between Callimachus and Apollonius (in the lead article of this volume of Aevum Antiquum, ‘Aspects of the Interaction between Apollonius Rhodius and Callimachus’) and subjects them to closer scrutiny. First, I explore two metapoetic motifs (talking birds…[Read more]

This chapter works with a mixture of discourse analysis, cultural anthropological empiricism, integration of behavioural research, and not al least conceptual argumentation. It integrates different, but corresponding strands of discussion and controversies from German-speaking politics and culture, from academic discourse, research, and art to…[Read more]

Spanish Abstract: Proponemos, en contraposición a la noción de ideología corriente en la crítica cultural y ejemplificada aquí por el libro de Teun A. van Dijk “Ideología: Un enfoque multidisciplinario” (Gedisa, 1999), una noción de ideología más interaccional, más dialógica y más unida a las situaciones efectivas en las que la ideología s…[Read more]

Das Buch beschreibt die Lebensgeschichten einer Gruppe von kommunistischen deutschen Überlebenden des Frauen-Konzentrationslagers Ravensbrück bei Berlin. Diese gründeten unmittelbar nach ihrer Befreiung und dem Ende des Nationalsozialismus ihre Lagergemeinschaft als gemeinsamen sozialen und politischen Verband. Ausgehend von der biografischen Pr…[Read more]

La presencia de virreyes en Sicilia se originó a partir de un pacto entre los habitantes de la isla y la Corona de Aragón. Los sicilianos se comprometieron a pagar donaciones fijadas periódicamente por su Parlamento a cambio de protección contra el enemigo externo. Sicilia por sí sola no podía evitar una invasión musulmana, como la que tuvo lugar…[Read more]

The Father of Modern India, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Nationalism

Ambedkarite Culture and Cultural Symbols after Accepting Dhamma

Changes and continuity in the religious life of Dhammadikshit Buddhists

Buddha Ambedkar’s philanthropic Dhamma

Farmer suicide and Dr. Ambedkar’s views on Agriculture of the relevance

Hindu religious continuity among Buddhists: 2056 The Challenges