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"The legend of blood sucking vampires has captured peoples’ imagination for generations. Mysterious tales of the undead rising from their coffins to terrorise the living and drain their blood are the stuff of horror movies and novels. But a crack team of archaeologists and forensic scientists have uncovered hard evidence for the existence of the legend – a legend that continues to haunt communities in the present day…"

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Messengers From The Past, Anastasia Tsaliki Dec 2008

Messengers From The Past, Anastasia Tsaliki

Anastasia Tsaliki

Participation in this documentary directed by Gianni Minelli and produced by Zeeva Production in English and in Italian.

"On September 26th, 1997, a violent earthquake shook central Italy. The effects were devastating. Television stations from all over the world broadcasted images of the incomparable artistic heritage that risked being destroyed forever. In Monsanpolo del Tronto, a small town in the Marches, the earthquake damaged the beautiful church Maria Santissima Assunta. A few years later, during the restoration of the church, a sensational discovery was made: twenty perfectly preserved mummies from the middle of the sixteenth century wearing their original clothes. …

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Exile And The Poetics Of Loss In Greek Tradition, Nancy Sultan Dec 1998

Exile And The Poetics Of Loss In Greek Tradition, Nancy Sultan

Nancy Sultan

In Exile and the Poetics of Loss in Greek Tradition, Nancy Sultan examines the theme of heroic exile and return in Greek poetic tradition from the Archaic epic of Homer to modern Greek folk poetry and song. Sultan studies issues of how husbands and wives survive separation and communicate the painful experience of loss. Focusing on the role women play as obstacles and facilitators during the hero's exile and return, Sultan argues that the hero's reputation, his glory, that which he earns through suffering in exile, is managed by women―especially his wife and mother. Without their emotional support, the hero's …

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Two Byzantine Papyri From The Michigan Collection, James Keenan

James G. Keenan

'Die Binnenwanderung’ In Byzantine Egypt, James Keenan

James G. Keenan

From The Archive Of Flavius Eulogius And His Descendants, James Keenan

James G. Keenan

P.Laur. Iv 169: Fragmentary Constitution Of Constantine?, James Keenan

James G. Keenan

Papyrology And Byzantine Historiography, James Keenan

James G. Keenan

Vampire Island, Anastasia Tsaliki

Anastasia Tsaliki

Messengers From The Past, Anastasia Tsaliki

Anastasia Tsaliki

Exile And The Poetics Of Loss In Greek Tradition, Nancy Sultan

Nancy Sultan