scholarly journals AS AVENTURAS DE TELÉMACO E DIÓFANES: A FORMAÇÃO VIRTUOSA ATRAVÉS DE NARRATIVAS ROMANESCAS NO SÉCULO XVIII | THE ADVENTURES OF TELÉMACO AND DIÓFANES: THE VIRTUOUS UPBRINGING THROUGH NOVELISTIC NARRATIVES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

2016 ◽  
pp. 292
Author(s):  
Valnikson Viana Oliveira ◽  
Daniela Maria Segabinazi
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Civic Values ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
French Author ◽  
Roman Antiquity

<p>Este artigo procura mostrar de que maneira os romances <em>As aventuras de Telémaco</em> (2006), do autor francês François Fénelon, e <em>Aventuras de Diófanes</em> (1993), da escritora luso-brasileira Teresa Margarida da Silva e Orta, contribuíam para a formação virtuosa de crianças durante o século XVIII. As narrativas resgataram personagens e mitos da antiguidade clássica greco-romana para difundir determinados valores morais e cívicos, também envolvendo críticas ao contexto político e social de França e Portugal. Para embasar nosso trabalho, nos valemos principalmente de Abreu (2003), Coelho (1991) e Hipolito (2004), compreendendo as obras em seu contexto histórico de produção e circulação. </p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> <em>This article aims to show how the novels </em>As aventuras de Telémaco<em> (2006) by the French author Francois Fénelon and </em>Aventuras de Diófanes<em> (1993) by the Luso-Brazilian writer Teresa Margarida da Silva e Orta contributed to the virtuous upbringing of children during the eighteenth century. The narratives not only revived characters and myths of Greco-Roman antiquity to diffuse certain moral and civic values but also entailed criticism of the political and social context of France and Portugal. As the basis for the discussion, the works of Abreu (2003), Coleho (1991) and Hipolito (2004) are utilized to assist in the understanding of the novels in the historical context of their production and circulation</em>.</p>

The reception of Greek figurative terracottas in the Age of Enlightenment1

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-38
Author(s):  
Jaimee P Uhlenbrock
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Greek Sculpture ◽  
Roman Antiquity

Abstract While figurative terracottas from Greco-Roman antiquity were brought to light in considerable numbers from sites on the Italian mainland and in Sicily in the seventeenth century, they were consistently overlooked as important and representative examples of classical art. It was only in the later eighteenth century in Sicily that important collections of Greek figurative terracottas were assembled that began to attract the attention of northern Europeans. A demand for these accessible examples of miniature Greek sculpture arose that ultimately contributed to the formation of some of the most important antiquities collections in Europe.

The Seigneurial Domestic Buildings of Brittany: A Provisional Assessment

1989 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Jones ◽  
Gwyn I. Meirion-Jones ◽  
Frédéric Guibal ◽  
Jon R. Pilcher
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
House Type ◽  
Manor House ◽  
Work Up ◽  
The Middle Ages

Since 1983 a multi-disciplinary survey of buildings of the manor-house type in the historic duchy of Brittany has been undertaken. The present paper presents provisional results, chiefly based on work up to the 1987 season in two of the five modern départements of the province: Côtes-du-Nord and Ille-et-Vilaine. After a brief historical introduction discussing the political and social context of the manoirs, their relationship to earlier seigneurial dwellings such as motte-and-bailey castles or maisons-fortes, their origins and numbers are considered. Then the different forms of the manorial ensemble and existing types of building are surveyed, highlighting those where detailed archival, archaeological and dendrochronological studies have been carried out. The survey has brought to light a small number of standard forms originating in the Middle Ages. Their main features and variants are described and the general architectural evolution of this class of building down to the Renaissance is traced, concluding with a limited commentary on the broader historical context.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Emanuela Bianchi ◽  
Sara Brill ◽  
Brooke Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
Classical Scholarship ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
New Materialisms ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Roman Antiquity ◽  
Ancient Texts

This chapter introduces the main purpose of the volume, namely staging, through fourteen essays, an encounter between the texts of classical Greco-Roman antiquity and the insights of posthumanism and the “new materialisms,” which point toward entities, forces, and systems that pass through and beyond the human, It discusses how ancient texts, experienced through this lens as both familiar and strange, can forge new understandings of life, whether understood as zoological, psychical, ethical, juridical, political, theological, or cosmic. Further, it situates the volume within the history of classical scholarship since the eighteenth century, and relates how the volume contributes to the broader milieu of contemporary philosophy and the theoretical humanities. Finally, it gives an outline of each chapter, showing how each contributes to the volume’s project as a whole.

Emasculating healers. Medical castration practices in Greco-Roman antiquity*

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline G. M. König
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Therapeutic Measure ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Roman Antiquity ◽  
Medical Indications ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract In the course of the human past the elimination of the testicles of boys and men – what we call castration – has taken place for a variety of reasons. Many times it was meant to deliberately hurt people. It is and was also performed, though, as a therapeutic measure by well-meaning physicians. Studying the motivations of medical practitioners involved in castration practices provides insight into the deontology and cultural context of these healers. This article explores the healing activities of the physicians of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds in this special field of surgery. In the extant literary sources we find medical indications for castration which are quite obvious to a modern eye, but also more mysterious and unexpected occasions which need to be explained from the historical context.

scholarly journals Religion, Platonist Dialectics, and Pragmatist Analysis: Marcus Tullius Cicero’s Contributions to the Philosophy and Sociology of Divine and Human Knowing

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Robert Prus
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
Symbolic Interactionist ◽  
Marcus Tullius Cicero ◽  
Valuable Source ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Interactionist Approach

Whereas Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Augustine are probably the best known of the early Western philosophers of religion, Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) also played a particularly consequential role in the development and continuity of Greco-Latin-European social thought. Cicero may be best known for his work on rhetoric and his involvements in the political intrigues of Rome, but Cicero’s comparative examinations of the Greco-Roman philosophies of his day merit much more attention than they have received from contemporary scholars. Cicero’s considerations of philosophy encompass much more than the theological issues considered in this statement, but, in the process of engaging Epicurean and Stoic thought from an Academician (Platonist) perspective, Cicero significantly extends the remarkable insights provided by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Although especially central to the present analysis, Cicero’s On the Nature of the Gods (1972) is only one of several texts that Cicero directs to a comparative (multiparadigmatic and transhistorical) analysis of divine and human knowing. Much of Cicero’s treatment of the philosophy of religion revolves around variants of the Socratic standpoints (i.e., dialectics, theology, moralism) that characterized the philosophies of Cicero’s era (i.e., Stoicism, Epicureanism, Academician dialectics), but Cicero also engages the matters of human knowing and acting in what may be envisioned as more distinctively pragmatist sociological terms. As well, although Cicero’s materials reflect the socio-historical context in which he worked, his detailed analysis of religion represents a valuable source of comparison with present day viewpoints and practices. Likewise, a closer examination of Cicero’s texts indicates that many of the issues of divine and human knowing, with which he explicitly grapples, have maintained an enduring conceptual currency. This paper concludes with a consideration of the relevance of Cicero’s works for a contemporary pragmatist sociological (symbolic interactionist) approach to the more generic study of human knowing and acting.

ANALISIS BERITA POLITIK PADA SURAT KABAR HARIAN (SKH) KEDAULATAN RAKYAT TENTANG PEMBERANTASAN KORUPSI DI ERA PEMERINTAHAN JOKOWI-JK

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-250
Author(s):  
Ririn Risnawati
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Text Structure ◽  
The Political ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Political News ◽  
Local Mass ◽  
News Analysis ◽  
The Mass Media

This study examines the Political News Analysis of the Sovereignty of the People's Sovereignty on Eradicating Corruption as the Independence of the Mass Media in Proclaiming the Performance of the Jokowi-JK Government which focuses on 1 year of its administration (20 October 2014 October 20 2015). This research is based on two things, namely: first, how is the analysis of the political news regarding Corruption Eradication in the local mass media (Kedaulatan Rakyat) in reporting on the performance of the Jokowi-JK government; second, how the independence of the local mass media in reporting on the performance of the Jokowi-JK government in the area of ??corruption eradication. Media independence is seen from the method of Qualitative Approach with Critical Paradigm namely Critical Discourse Analysis; using Teun A. van Dijk's Model Analysis of text production involving aspects of cognition and social context.  The production of text in the political news regarding the Eradication of Corruption in Judging the Performance of the Jokowi-JK Government presented by the Kedaulatan Rakyat SKH is a strong text structure. The Kedaulatan Rakyat Daily Newspaper is able to provide detailed Semantic Structure and more coherent relationships between words / sentences. In addition, the Kedaulatan Rakyat Daily Newspaper minimizes graphics and metaphor as rhetorical elements so as to be able to present more real and factual news. starting from text, social cognition and social context. The news on SKH Kedaulatan Rakyat is able to present the factual news objectivity in accordance with the truth and relevance. Not only that, the objectivity of the news about justice is able to be fulfilled by the People's Sovereignty SKH by presenting balanced news and explaining it more neutral without the support of the mass media. Keywords: Political News, Independence, Mass Media, Eradication of Corruption

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Simone
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cartesian Dualism ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Existential Perspective

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world: A Heideggerian Study explores Woolf’s treatment of the relationship between self and world from a phenomenological-existential perspective. This study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf’s textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Drawing on Woolf’s novels, essays, reviews, letters, diary entries, short stories, and memoirs, the book explores the political and the ontological, as the individual’s connection to the world comes to be defined by an involvement and engagement that is always already situated within a particular physical, societal, and historical context. Emma Simone argues that at the heart of what it means to be an individual making his or her way in the world, the perspectives of Woolf and Heidegger are founded upon certain shared concerns, including the sustained critique of Cartesian dualism, particularly the resultant binary oppositions of subject and object, and self and Other; the understanding that the individual is a temporal being; an emphasis upon intersubjective relations insofar as Being-in-the-world is defined by Being-with-Others; and a consistent emphasis upon average everydayness as both determinative and representative of the individual’s relationship to and with the world.

A.I. Solzhenitsyn Apropos of Russia’s Future: Specific Outlook Features Depending on Different Historical Context

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 327-334
Author(s):  
Inga V. Zheltikova ◽  
Elena I. Khokhlova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Pessimistic Attitude ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
Images Of The Future ◽  
The Church

The article considers the dependence of the images of future on the socio-cultural context of their formation. Comparison of the images of the future found in A.I. Solzhenitsyn’s works of various years reveals his generally pessimistic attitude to the future in the situation of social stability and moderate optimism in times of society destabilization. At the same time, the author's images of the future both in the seventies and the nineties of the last century demonstrate the mismatch of social expectations and reality that was generally typical for the images of the future. According to the authors of the present article, Solzhenitsyn’s ideas that the revival of spirituality could serve as the basis for the development of economy, that the influence of the Church on the process of socio-economic development would grow, and that the political situation strongly depends on the personal qualities of the leader, are unjustified. Nevertheless, such ideas are still present in many images of the future of Russia, including contemporary ones.

The Gallic Singularity and the Royal Mistress

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-66
Author(s):  
Christine Adams
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Political Power ◽  
The Political ◽  
Marie Antoinette ◽  
Louis Xvi ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Political Realm

The relationship of the French king and royal mistress, complementary but unequal, embodied the Gallic singularity; the royal mistress exercised a civilizing manner and the soft power of women on the king’s behalf. However, both her contemporaries and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century historians were uncomfortable with the mistress’s political power. Furthermore, paradoxical attitudes about French womanhood have led to analyses of her role that are often contradictory. Royal mistresses have simultaneously been celebrated for their civilizing effect in the realm of culture, chided for their frivolous expenditures on clothing and jewelry, and excoriated for their dangerous meddling in politics. Their increasing visibility in the political realm by the eighteenth century led many to blame Louis XV’s mistresses—along with Queen Marie-Antoinette, who exercised a similar influence over her husband, Louis XVI—for the degradation and eventual fall of the monarchy. This article reexamines the historiography of the royal mistress.

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