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The Trial Of Abraham And The Trembling Of The Audience: Rereading The Aqedah, Zhaohan (Mikey) Tang
The Trial Of Abraham And The Trembling Of The Audience: Rereading The Aqedah, Zhaohan (Mikey) Tang
Classical Mediterranean and Middle East Honors Projects
This thesis reexamines the Aqedah narrative from Genesis 22:1–19, focusing on the conveyance of emotions and the portrayal of characters in a story that lacks explicit descriptions of thoughts and feelings. Approaching the text through a literary and narratological lens, I propose that through phraseological techniques like diction and parataxis and compositional strategies such as allusion and juxtaposition, the text captures the psychological depth of biblical characters, thereby enhancing its emotional impact on the audience. I dissect the narrative into eight scenes and within each scene, I conduct close readings to identify and analyze subtle lexical choices and rhetorical devices. …
Οἴμοι Τάλας: A Modern[Ist] Translation Of Aristophanes’ Acharnians, Jake Sawyer
Οἴμοι Τάλας: A Modern[Ist] Translation Of Aristophanes’ Acharnians, Jake Sawyer
Classical Mediterranean and Middle East Honors Projects
Adapting ancient works of art for a modern audience provides a challenge that authors often approach with a methodology of familiarization and normalization. Meanwhile, the public consciousness idealizes ancient Athens as a golden age of rationality and classic perfection. This translation of Aristophanes’ Acharnians seeks to challenge both of these notions by combining distinctly foreignizing language and Modernist theater practices that challenge the audience to interact with the action of the drama more directly. Aristophanes’ comedy is especially suited to this venture in the ways it criticizes Athenian society and deploys metatheatrical devices also prominent in many twentieth-century plays and …
Nationalism, Archaeology, And The Antiquities Trade In Turkey And Iraq, Miranda Pettengill
Nationalism, Archaeology, And The Antiquities Trade In Turkey And Iraq, Miranda Pettengill
Classical Mediterranean and Middle East Honors Projects
The illicit antiquities trade is a vast and complex network comprising a large number of participants across the globe. This paper focuses specifically on looters and illegal excavators, those who first retrieve ancient objects from the ground to be traded on the black market. My research examines the reasoning and motivation behind looting; specifically, I evaluate how nationalistic ideologies in Turkey and Iraq affect the choices and actions of illegal excavators living there. I also discuss the benefits of community archaeology, an approach that includes local people in the practice and presentation of excavation, as a strategy to minimize the …
Interview With William Donovan, Professor Of Classics, William Donovan
Interview With William Donovan, Professor Of Classics, William Donovan
Classical Mediterranean and Middle East Oral Histories
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