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Frazier Polymetis: Cold Mountain And The Odyssey, Emily A. Mcdermott Jan 2004

Frazier Polymetis: Cold Mountain And The Odyssey, Emily A. Mcdermott

Classics & Religious Studies Faculty Publication Series

Ever since its appearance in 1997, Charles Frazier’s novel, Cold Mountain, has been billed as a latter-day Odyssey. Separate unattributed book notes on the world wide web speak of its protagonist’s “dangerous odyssey” and his “odyssey through the devastated landscape of the soon-to-be-defeated South.” One reviewer styles the novel "a Confederate deserter's homeward odyssey"; another characterizes it as having “reset much of the 'Odyssey' in 19th-century America.” While such assertion of parallelism between the novel and Homer’s epic is widespread, it also tends to remain general and relatively unadorned. It evidently rests on such typically odyssean plot elements …

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A History Of Alexander On The Big Screen, Jeanne Reames Jan 2004

A History Of Alexander On The Big Screen, Jeanne Reames

History Faculty Publications

Oliver Stone’s Alexander arrived in theaters on November 24, 2004 – one of two big-budget films slated to deal with the life and times of the conqueror. The other, to be directed by Baz Luhrmann and produced by Martin Scorsese, will not begin shooting until 2005. And despite Luhrman’s protests that his film will go forward, the general mood in Hollywood seems to be “wait and see.” In addition to these two high-profile Alexander projects, a small, independent film about Alexander’s youth, Alexander the Great of Macedonia, produced by Ilya Salkind (known best for Superman), was filmed and slated to …

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Neutrosophic Dialogues, Florentin Smarandache, Feng Liu Jan 2004

Neutrosophic Dialogues, Florentin Smarandache, Feng Liu

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

Thanks to Dr. Smarandache for his interest in Chinese culture. I cannot decline his warm request to write the preface, even with my fragments of knowledge – no insight nor wisdom, and therefore can be misleading. I have been extremely regretful for my ideological errors and mistakes in previous publications, especially those concerning Buddhism. As I mentioned in this book, I am not qualified. So please note that I am limited in my knowledge and enlightenment of the giant of Chinese heritage. I can express nothing more than my personal bias. In what aspect can Chinese culture be distinctive from …

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Reassessing The "Basel-Wittenberg Conflict": Dimensions Of The Reformation-Era Discussion Of Hebrew Scholarship, Stephen G. Burnett Jan 2004

Reassessing The "Basel-Wittenberg Conflict": Dimensions Of The Reformation-Era Discussion Of Hebrew Scholarship, Stephen G. Burnett

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

The study of Reformation-era Christian Hebraism has benefited from increased scholarly attention over the past fifty years. Sebastian Münster, Paul Fagius, Wolfgang Capito, and Conrad Pellican have all been the subjects of biographies. Luther scholars have analyzed not only Luther's use of Hebrew but to a lesser extent the Hebrew scholarship of Melanchthon, Bugenhagen, and Goldhahn. Historians of the book trade have provided analytic bibliographies and studies of prominent Christian Hebrew printers, including Heinrich Petri, Thomas Anselm, and Robert Estienne as well as studies of the Hebrew book trade in Augsburg and Basel. The role of Jewish scholars in facilitating …

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Review Of Jodi Magness, The Archaeology Of Qumran And The Dead Sea Scrolls, Sidnie White Crawford Jan 2004

Review Of Jodi Magness, The Archaeology Of Qumran And The Dead Sea Scrolls, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

This volume by Jodi Magness is part of a series entitled Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature, edited by Peter W. Flint, Martin G. Abegg, Jr., and Florentino Garcia Martinez. The purpose o f the series is "to make the latest and best Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship accessible to scholars, students, and the thinking public" (i). Magness has designed her book with that general readership, not the specialist in the field, in mind. It contains no footnotes, very few quotations from the scholarly literature, and its bibliography is gathered and annotated at the end o f each …

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Review Of Duane L. Christensen, Deuteronomy 21:10–34:12, Sidnie White Crawford Jan 2004

Review Of Duane L. Christensen, Deuteronomy 21:10–34:12, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

This commentary, which covers Deut 21: 10-34:12, is the second volume of Duane Christensen’s massive work on Deuteronomy (the revised first volume. WBC 6A, encompasses 1:1–21:9) in the WBC series. The series is written from an evangelical Christian perspective, and each volume follows the same format, presenting an exposition of the text in the original language (Hebrew or Greek). Each volume contains an original translation by the author, with explicating notes and commentary. ... On the whole, however, C. has done a marvelous job distilling the vast field of Deuteronomic research into a usable commentary. This volume, along with its …

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Singing Heroes: The Poetics Of Hero Cult In The Heroikos, Corinne Ondine Pache Jan 2004

Singing Heroes: The Poetics Of Hero Cult In The Heroikos, Corinne Ondine Pache

Classical Studies Faculty Research

In this essay, I explore the poetic, emotional, and ritual dimensions of hero cult as presented in Philostratus's Heroikos. After a short digression on hero cult in the Greek period, I focus on the emphasis placed on the emotional bond between worshiper and hero, as well as the important role played by hymns and laments in the narrative. l propose to investigate these twin themes in depth by focusing on examples provided by Philostratus himself, and particularly the cult of Melikertês. Because Philostratus associates hymns and laments with initiation or mystery cults, I also consider the link between hero …

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Ontological Independence In Aristotle's Categories, Phil Corkum Dec 2003

Ontological Independence In Aristotle's Categories, Phil Corkum

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Aristotle holds that substances (such as you and me) are ontologically independent from nonsubstances (such as our qualities and quantities) but nonsubstances are ontologically dependent on substances. There is then an asymmetry between substances and nonsubstances with respect to ontological dependence. Such asymmetry is widely and rightly thought to be a lynchpin of Aristotelian metaphysics. What is really real for Aristotle are such ordinary objects as you and me. Our properties - my paleness, your generosity - inhabit Aristotle's ontology only in so far as they are ours. This much we can all agree on; and I'll only briefly rehearse …

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Metaphysics H 6 And The Problem Of Unity, Hye-Kyung Kim Dec 2003

Metaphysics H 6 And The Problem Of Unity, Hye-Kyung Kim

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

I argue that H 6 should be taken as Aristotle's clarification on the causelessness in the unity of the parts of definition. In H 6 Aristotle is concerned with a general metaphysical problem affecting - threatening - his theory of substance at two major points. The unity of genus and differentia in the definition of form has to be accounted for without appealing to a unifying cause. If it were not accounted for, form would not be the primary cause of being and thus not primary substance. The unity of the parts of the definition of composite substance also has …

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Sagp Newsletter 2003 2004 1 December, Anthony Preus Dec 2003

Sagp Newsletter 2003 2004 1 December, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Program of the 50th Anniversary Year of the Society, with the three divisions of the American Philosophical Association.

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John Milton, Blackfriars Spectator?: "Elegia Prima" And Ben Jonson's The Staple Of News, Timothy J. Burbery Nov 2003

John Milton, Blackfriars Spectator?: "Elegia Prima" And Ben Jonson's The Staple Of News, Timothy J. Burbery

English Faculty Research

In the spring of 1626 John Milton was temporarily expelled from Cambridge University, perhaps over a quarrel with his tutor William Chappell, and sent home to London, where he remained for at least several weeks. There, the seventeen-year-old poet composed his first elegy, a Latin verse-letter to his closest friend, Charles Diodati. In it, Milton claims to be enjoying his unexpected holiday by reading, girl watching, and attending the theater. Milton scholars have never reached consensus about his alleged playgoing, for while the young man speaks as a spectator, the plots and characters he mentions-these include comic types such as …

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Was The Chronicler A Spin Doctor?: David In The Books Of Chronicles, Mark A. Throntveit Oct 2003

Was The Chronicler A Spin Doctor?: David In The Books Of Chronicles, Mark A. Throntveit

Faculty Publications

Yes, the Chronicler was a spin doctor—but a necessary one. He used the David story to address the needs of his postexilic community who questioned the value of God’s old promises to David in this new time of Persian domination, without a king, worshiping in a temple that was the mere shadow of Solomon’s glorious edifice.

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Frontmatter, Providence College Oct 2003

Frontmatter, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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Introduction To The Study Of Analogy, Borghild Gundersen Oct 2003

Introduction To The Study Of Analogy, Borghild Gundersen

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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The Myth Of Heaven: Religion And The American Landscape, Chard Deniord Oct 2003

The Myth Of Heaven: Religion And The American Landscape, Chard Deniord

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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Providence: Studies In Western Civilization Fall/Winter 2003, Providence College Oct 2003

Providence: Studies In Western Civilization Fall/Winter 2003, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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Incommensurability And Moral Conflicts: A Critical Assessment Of The Response Of Alasdair C. Macintyre, Joseph Torchia, O. P. Oct 2003

Incommensurability And Moral Conflicts: A Critical Assessment Of The Response Of Alasdair C. Macintyre, Joseph Torchia, O. P.

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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What’S So Funny? Joking Around With Philosophers, John F. Millard Oct 2003

What’S So Funny? Joking Around With Philosophers, John F. Millard

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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Resurrecting Decadent And Modernist Catholicism, Todd Avery Oct 2003

Resurrecting Decadent And Modernist Catholicism, Todd Avery

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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The Passion Of Edith Stein, Freda Mary Oben Oct 2003

The Passion Of Edith Stein, Freda Mary Oben

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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Dostoevsky: The Mantle Of The Prophet, 1871-1881 And Dostoevsky The Thinker, Rodney Delasanta Oct 2003

Dostoevsky: The Mantle Of The Prophet, 1871-1881 And Dostoevsky The Thinker, Rodney Delasanta

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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The Future Of Catholic Biblical Scholarship: A Constructive Conversation, Terence J. Keegan, O. P. Oct 2003

The Future Of Catholic Biblical Scholarship: A Constructive Conversation, Terence J. Keegan, O. P.

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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The Courage To Be Catholic: Crisis, Reform, And The Future Of The Church, James Keating Oct 2003

The Courage To Be Catholic: Crisis, Reform, And The Future Of The Church, James Keating

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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What Went Wrong? Western Impact And Middle Eastern Response, Sandra Toenies Keating Oct 2003

What Went Wrong? Western Impact And Middle Eastern Response, Sandra Toenies Keating

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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Notes On Contributors, Providence College Oct 2003

Notes On Contributors, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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Review Of Greek And Roman Actors: Aspects Of An Ancient Profession, Edited By Pat Easterling And Edith Hall., Anne Duncan Sep 2003

Review Of Greek And Roman Actors: Aspects Of An Ancient Profession, Edited By Pat Easterling And Edith Hall., Anne Duncan

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

This is an excellent collection of essays, and an important one for anyone interested in performance, theater history, literature, cultural studies, gender, and a host of other fields. Ancient actors, as real individuals who engaged professionally with literary texts, provide a point of interdisciplinary contact between literature and history, as well as novel avenues of approach into archaeology, epigraphy, rhetoric, philosophy, textual criticism, and other subfields of Classics. The twenty essays in this volume stretch from Classical Greece to the Byzantine era and beyond, and cover a wide range of evidence and methodologies. They are divided into three groups: The …

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Guenevere's Conflict: Pagan Love Or Christian Ethics, Jacquelyn Sweeney Johnson Aug 2003

Guenevere's Conflict: Pagan Love Or Christian Ethics, Jacquelyn Sweeney Johnson

Theses & Honors Papers

This thesis examines the character of Guenevere in the broader, historical story of King Arthur. Analyzing newer, pagan, and feminist interpretations of her character as opposed to her original characterization in the Christian tale, it discusses the changes made in reinterpretation, especially as it relates to her relationship with Sir Lancelot.

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The Influence Of Byzantium On The Slavs: Bulgaria And Kievan Rus, 512-1055, Michael A. Lushbaugh Aug 2003

The Influence Of Byzantium On The Slavs: Bulgaria And Kievan Rus, 512-1055, Michael A. Lushbaugh

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The development of Bulgaria and Ukraine can be traced to the middle ages. During this time period the migrant groups of Bulgars and Varangians settled into those regions and began to create homogenous states that still stand to this day. But the question remains, how did these two nomadic tribal groups pull together a state out of a patchwork of indigenous tribes and ethnic groups? The answer can be found in examining the role of another well established state in the Balkans, the empire of Byzantium. But just how far did the Byzantine Greeks go 1n influencing the development of …

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Rolling Around: Paris By Night, Thomas Nelson Winter Jul 2003

Rolling Around: Paris By Night, Thomas Nelson Winter

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

Riddle: What’s the difference between Lincoln, Nebraska and Paris, France?

1 In Paris, you're can skate in the streets!
2 If you see police on rollerskates in Lincoln, you're dreaming!
3 The Louvre is in Paris, and the whole block north of it is an asphalt plaza open to skating every night of the summer.
4 In Paris every Friday night at 10, a river of skaters floods through a 20-25K course, leaving the occasional misplaced motorist cowering by the curb.

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[Review Of] Odysseus In America: Combat Trauma And The Trials Of Homecoming, Jonathan Roth Jul 2003

[Review Of] Odysseus In America: Combat Trauma And The Trials Of Homecoming, Jonathan Roth

Faculty Publications, History

No abstract provided.

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