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Authors: Marek Winiarczyk
Categories: Literary Criticism
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In his utopian novel Hiera Anagraphe (Sacred History) Euhemerus of Messene (ca. 300 B.C.) describes his travel to the island Panchaia in the Indian Ocean where
An Ancient Theory of Religion
Language: en
Pages: 203
Authors: Nickolas Roubekas
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-08 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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An Ancient Theory of Religion examines a theory of religion put forward by Euhemerus of Messene (late 4th—early 3rd century BCE) in his lost work Sacred Inscr
Diagoras of Melos
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Marek Winiarczyk
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-11 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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Diagoras of Melos (lyric poet, 5th c. B.C.) has received special attention for some time now because he was regarded as a radical atheist and the author of a pr
Beyond the Second Sophistic
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Tim Whitmarsh
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-05 - Publisher: University of California Press

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The “Second Sophistic” traditionally refers to a period at the height of the Roman Empire’s power that witnessed a flourishing of Greek rhetoric and orato
Aesthetic Response and Traditional Social Valuation in Euripides’ ›Electra‹
Language: en
Pages: 171
Authors: Nicholas Baechle
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-22 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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Euripides’ Electra opened up for its audience an opportunity to become self-aware as to the appeal of tragic Kunstsprache: it both reflected and sustained tra