Malta Classics Association
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In defence of Jason against Medea
Medea is one of the most prominent tragedies of ancient Greek literature that has managed to greatly influence the literature of antiquity until today. Most scholars - including myself - having used, among other things, modern feminist theory and female perspectives in ancient tragedies have argued that Medea is a victim of Jason. Euripides presents a betrayed woman who fell in love with a man who simply used her to serve his own selfish aims. Jason, therefore, has been characterized as a "utilitarian" husband, a "bad" father and an anti-hero. However, to what extent does this correspond to reality? Can we really accuse Jason of taking advantage of Medea and of being responsible for what ...
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Reception and Practical Use of Ancient Letter Collections in Durham Cathedral Priory (1090-1540)
Просмотров 295 месяцев назад
By Dr Lucas Amaya (9 April 2024) This paper investigates the complex nature and multifaceted uses of both surviving and non-surviving manuscripts that encompass ancient letters and collections of such letters found in Durham Cathedral Priory, a Benedictine community in northeast England. The focus on ancient Epistolography has been considerably understudied, despite a growing scholarly interest...
Transitioning and Transforming Female Character Conventions in Plutarch’s Life of Tiberius and Gaius
Просмотров 216 месяцев назад
In this talk, I show how the “unique double” Life of Tiberius and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus (with mostly Appian and Valerius Maximus as control sources) functions as a point of transition asthe beginning of Roman civic unrest in the Lives, as well as a pivoting point for the political situations and female roles. I will demonstrate this shift by regarding Cornelia, the mother ofthe Gracchi, as ...
Antiquity in Soviet Animation - Nana Mukeria,
Просмотров 2210 месяцев назад
Nana Mukheria is a second-year PhD student at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University whose main field is English studies. As is known, Soviet culture and art was not only an aesthetic and educational phenomenon, but also a powerful ideological weapon. The paper examines whether one of the artistic branches of Soviet culture - animation, whose target audience was mainly children and teenag...
The Cult of the Muses in Thespiai - Víctor García Martínez
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Ví ctor Garcí a Martí nez is an MA student in their second and final year of the Ancient Religions MA program in the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Even though they are mentioned in the Homeric poems, it was Hesiod who first introduced the Heliconian Muses to the Western world, for he exposes in his Theogony an undeniable link between the lands he inhabited and the daughters of Mnemos...
Greek Gladiators: Adoption and Adaptation of Roman Spectacle in the East - Alexandra Sills
Просмотров 4110 месяцев назад
Alexandra Sills is a postgraduate student at the University of Leicester. Her research interests are Roman spectacle and its reception, ancient and modern. The provincial backwater of Britannia has more amphitheatres than Achaia and Asia Minor combined. This, combined with a small number of Athenocentric ancient critics has led many scholars to believe that Greeks did not approve of Roman Spect...
The State of Hellenistic States: New Approaches and Directions - Eduardo Garcia-Molina
Просмотров 7910 месяцев назад
Eduardo Garcia-Molina is a PhD Candidate in Classics at the University of Chicago. His dissertation examines the interconnected role that archival information, administration, and communication had on the formation of Seleukid order among the local ecologies of the heterogenous empire.
Civil Strife as the Foundation for Classical Greek Political Thought - Francois Zammit
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Civil Strife as the Foundation for Classical Greek Political Thought - Francois Zammit
Using Semiotics for Approaching Ancient Silent People - Nelson Ferreira
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Using Semiotics for Approaching Ancient Silent People - Nelson Ferreira
The Euphrates River as Engagement Facilitator of Hellenistic-Roman Cities -Luis Maia de Freitas
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The Euphrates River as Engagement Facilitator of Hellenistic-Roman Cities -Luis Maia de Freitas
Exile Literature and Cultural Imagology - the Experience of Ovid Exsul - Dr Dalila d'Alfonso
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Exile Literature and Cultural Imagology - the Experience of Ovid Exsul - Dr Dalila d'Alfonso
The Emergence of Dower in Late Antique Roman Law - Samuel Azzopardi
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The Emergence of Dower in Late Antique Roman Law - Samuel Azzopardi
From Old Men to the Furies- The Development of the Chorus in Aeschylus’ Oresteia -Muditha Dharmasiri
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From Old Men to the Furies- The Development of the Chorus in Aeschylus’ Oresteia -Muditha Dharmasiri
Disability History and the Ancient World - Christian Laes
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Prof. Christian Laes gives a brief overview of the study of disability in the ancient world, focusing on the difficulties that this study poses and some of our major sources on this topic from the time of study.
Il-Klassici f'Malta - Part 3 (2011)
Просмотров 315 лет назад
Clare Agius interviews Maria Zammit, who teaches Latin at the University of Malta, on the Classics in Malta and on the nascent Malta Classics Association.
Il-Klassici f'Malta - Part 1 (2011)
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Il-Klassici f'Malta - Part 1 (2011)
Il-Klassici f'Malta - Part 2 (2011)
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Il-Klassici f'Malta - Part 2 (2011)
Homeric Hymn to Selene in the original Greek
Просмотров 4765 лет назад
Homeric Hymn to Selene in the original Greek
Catullus 34, Hymn to Diana
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Catullus 34, Hymn to Diana

Комментарии

  • @ldrg3518
    @ldrg3518 10 месяцев назад

    Great lecture! Keep it coming!

  • @BooBooKing
    @BooBooKing Год назад

    It is accurate? E.T. Merril said that some parts are exclusively sung by girls . Anyway, spetacular perfomance !

  • @SpookySoulGeek
    @SpookySoulGeek Год назад

    thank you for this video. It's hard to find a reading/singing of this or the Orphic hymn to Selene. I'm trying to work on my pronunciation since I work with this goddess.

  • @ellievoir
    @ellievoir 2 года назад

    Thank you for sharing this!

  • @mademjj
    @mademjj 4 года назад

    Thank you so much for this!