scholarly journals Circe and Rome. The Origin of the Legend

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 77-87
Author(s):  
Hanna Zalewska-Jura
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Ancient Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Roman Italy

Circe is associated first of all with the episode narrated in the 10th book of the Odyssey, in which she turns Odysseus’s crewmen into pigs using her herbal pharmaka. Odysseus survives due to divine help, his inborn cleverness, and the miraculous herb moly. The fairy-tale theme of the spells of Circe, clearly showing its folk provenance, got entrenched in ancient literature: featured most often in poems of playful content, Circe symbolized the power to subjugate male souls and bodies. From the Hellenistic era to the Byzantine times, however, Circe is mentioned in scholarly works – in the context of the history of Roman Italy. The aim of the present article is, first of all, to analyse the Greek-language source texts and show the ways in which ancient authors managed to connect a character from a folk fairy tale – intrinsically different in form and not identifiable with any heroic myth – with the prehistory of Roman Italy, and even place her among the ancestors of Rome. The considerations also allow us to identify some of the mechanisms of the creation and functioning of the legend as a cultural phenomenon of the ancient world.

Interesting facts from the history of medicine of Ancient Rus

2020 ◽  
pp. 60-63
Author(s):  
Natalya Sakhno
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
History Of Medicine ◽  
European Country ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
History Of

Ancient Rus is a country known to us all from childhood. When someone mentions it, we immediately see famous fairy-tale characters in front of our eyes: Alyosha Popovich and Ilya Muromets, Solovey-Razboynik (Nightingale the Robber) and Tugarin Zmeevich, and many other epic heroes. And how Baba Yaga seems to be a wisewoman and healer. After all, she not only harmed Ivan Tsarevich, but also soared him in the bathhouse, and gave potions. And the bathhouse, as you know, was the basis of the healing methods of the ancient world, it was widespread in Rus much more than in any other European country, and healers highly appreciated its healing properties. Thus, this we can conclude that traditional medicine is one of the most powerful treatment factors in Rus.

Building of the Hodonín u Kunštátu Memorial during the Years 2011–2017

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Markéta Pánková ◽  
Jakub Seiner
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Building Activities

The present article “Building of the Hodonín u Kunštátu Memorial” represents an overview of the history of the former concentration camp in Hodonín u Kunštátu and focuses mainly on describing the complicated steps leading to the construction of the Hodonín u Kunštátu Memorial. The article briefly mentions the negotiations regarding the purchase of the premises and the identification of the institution responsible for building the monument. In particular, it focuses on the discussion leading to the choice of the most appropriate ideological intent for the future memorial. The paper is also dedicated to the outline of the demanding work associated with building activities on the memorial site. It also refers to the cooperation of various scientific institutions in regard to the creation of the scenario and the resulting form of the libretto of the actual exhibition. The last part of the article deals with the transfer of the Hodonín u Kunštátu Memorial through the Office for Government Representation in Property Affairs from the National Pedagogical Museum to The Museum of Romani Culture.

scholarly journals The 1623 Plan for Global Governance: the obscure history of its reception

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-160
Author(s):  
GERMAN A. DE LA REZA
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Limited Impact ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The One

Abstract In the present article we analyze the characteristics and the reception of the first plan for global governance, the New Cyneas by Émeric Crucé. With this goal in mind, we examine the history of its readings and the possible influence on the Duke of Sully's project for European confederation, the case most often cited by historians of ideas. Our analysis takes into consideration the 17th century reception, the scant dissemination of the work and the possible causes of its limited impact. Our conclusions support, on the one hand, the novelty of Crucé's principal ideas, and on the other, their limited impact over the time with the exception of the period surrounding the creation of the League of Nations.

scholarly journals Rupture – Integration – Renewal: The gathering in Dalma and the creation of a political community in the Chronicle of the Priest of Dioclea

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wawrzyniec Kowalski
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
New Order ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Coastal Cities ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation

Rupture – Integration – Renewal: The gathering in Dalma and the creation of a political community in the Chronicle of the Priest of DiocleaIn this paper I would like to discuss an excerpt from the Chronicle of the Priest of Dioclea that concerns a great gathering ordered by the newly baptized King Svetopelek at the fields of Dalma. The Chronicle is a rather mysterious and controversial source which presents the history of a fictional state stretching through medieval Dalmatia and the hinterland. The division of the state which took place during Svetopelek’s reign shows how the chronicler believed the kingdom was to be governed. Space played a special role in the narrative about the gathering. Describing the King’s actions, the Priest of Dioclea simultaneously offered a geographical and political vision of a new order. The interpretation of the events that took place in Dalma (the coronation ceremony, the process of defining the borders of the kingdom and, above all, the unification of the newly founded state community) led to the conclusion that the chronicler was most interested in the problem of creating a political community of two previously hostile groups: the barbarian Slavs and the inhabitants of coastal cities, who were the heirs of the ancient world. Zerwanie, scalenie, odnowa. Wiec w Dalmie i tworzenie się wspólnoty politycznej w Latopisie popa DukljaninaLatopis popa Dukljanina to tajemnicza i kontrowersyjna narracja, która przedstawia losy fikcyjnego państwa rozciągającego się na terenie średniowiecznej Dalmacji i interioru. W artykule omówiono jego fragment poświęcony wydarzeniom na polach Dalmy, gdzie według dziejopisu odbył się wielki zjazd zwołany przez króla Svetopelka. Przedstawiono tu liczne opinie i pomysły dotyczące interpretacji opisanych wydarzeń: ceremonię koronacyjną, proces wytyczania granic, a przede wszystkim jednanie wspólnoty nowego państwa, i sformułowano wniosek, że Dukljanina najbardziej interesowała kwestia wyodrębniania się społeczności politycznej dwóch grup – dzikich Słowian i będących spadkobiercami antycznego świata mieszkańców wybrzeża.

From linguistic liberalism to legal regulation

2001 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilena Karyolemou
Keyword(s):  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
Legal Intervention ◽  
Greek Cypriot ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Linguistic Practices ◽  
Laissez Faire ◽  
State Language

One of the main difficulties in describing state language policies and planning has to do with the fact that very often one has to decide whether changes observed in state attitude vis-à-vis specific languages indicate the adoption of a new policy or reflect activation processes which tend to unveil previously covert or de facto policies. The interpretation of apparent changes in policy often becomes more difficult because of the existence of divergent, even conflicting, linguistic practices within the same polity. The introduction of legislation aiming to protect the Greek language in Cyprus in the mid 80s can be interpreted as an activation of the Cypriot state de facto policy in favor of the Greek language, a policy that marks the history of the Greek Cypriot community even before the creation of the Cypriot state. The shift from a laissez faire attitude that prevailed in the years after Independence (1960) toward legal intervention in favor of the Greek language in the mid 1980s cannot be understood without reference to a set of interrelated factors that distinguish this period from previous periods of the history of the Cypriot state.

Fairy Tales and the Creation of the “Future Nation” of Manchukuo

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-43
Author(s):  
Chen Shi
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Northeast China ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Japanese Occupation ◽  
Blank Field ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Imperial Japan

From 1932 to 1945, imperial Japan established the puppet state of Manchukuo in a region now known as Northeast China. During those 14 years, the region’s literary world did not fall silent, though after the regime's demise, it was scarcely studied by scholars for over three decades. Since 1978, investigation of Manchukuo literature has revived considerably. However, research on children's literature, especially of fairy tales, is still a blank field. This continues, even though substantial numbers of fairy tales were published during the Japanese occupation, consciously and unconsciously shaping what was deemed the "future nation" of Manchukuo. Fairy tales exerted far-reaching influences upon local children's education. This chapter argues, through analysis of fairy tale writers’ careers, texts, and media networks, that these tales were not only entertaining literary creations but constituted powerful propaganda tools to construct and deconstruct the puppet regime’s "Kingly Paradise." Manchukuo’s fairy tales thus deserve greater status in research of the history of modern Chinese – and East Asian – literature.

Märchen and Historical Fiction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara Vetter
Keyword(s):  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
The Novel ◽  
History Of

Chapter 3 examines the second half of The Sword Went Out to Sea. This chapter looks at how H.D. combines fairy tale and historical fiction to create the fragmentary vignettes that comprise Part II of the novel. In the second half of Sword, the narrative spins out centrifugally into vignettes that record the history of Britain by focusing on scenes of war and imperialism from the ancient world to the Renaissance. In these vignettes, history is a seemingly endless series of one nation conquering and colonizing another. The unresolvable fracture of narrative form recreates the experience of war, in effect traumatizing her readers. Moreover, by constructing a text of generic hybridity that deconstructs the myriad genres it deploys, she demonstrates the fictionality of nationhood and the impossibility of its representation.

Myth and eponymy on the tetrarchic frieze from Nicomedia

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 417-431
Author(s):  
Tuna Şare Ağtürk
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Political History ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Ancient City ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Major Urban Centre ◽  
Shed Light

Situated at the NE corner of the Propontis, Nicomedia (modern İzmit) was a major urban centre throughout history. Since the ancient city is buried directly beneath the modern industrial Turkish one, little was known archaeologically until recently1 when a series of painted reliefs, part of a continuous marble frieze of which c.55 m in length have been uncovered, was discovered in the Çukurbağ district. They contain a remarkable combination of imperial, agonistic and mythological scenes.2 The depictions on the frieze, precious examples of tetrarchic art, shed light not only on the socio-political history of the Later Empire but also on the creation, self-identification and reception of a new tetrarchic capital.3 The marble frieze seems to have decorated an imperial complex dating to the late 3rd and early 4th c. when Nicomedia was Diocletian‘s administrative capital for the eastern Roman empire. Among the scenes on the frieze, the group of blocks representing an adventus with Diocletian and Maximian has been published in detail, and a monograph on the Diocletianic complex is under preparation. The present article will examine the mythological depictions on the frieze.

scholarly journals Two Fates of Georgy Grebenshchikov

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 302-315
Author(s):  
Yu. A. Azarov
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Individual

The present article deals with a comparative study of the two periods of G. D. Grebenshchikov’s creative activity – in Russia and abroad. It examines the biography of the writer, his memoirs, analyzes the history of the creation of the most famous works, their artistic features. It is noted that his epic “The Churaevs” is an attempt to comprehend the historical fate of Russia in the pre-revolutionary and revolutionary periods. It is shown that G. D. Grebenshchikov’s attitude to the problem of the development of society and the improvement of the individual was based on the denial of class morality in combination with utopian perception of the future of Russia. At the same time, different assessments of his works are given in Russian Émigré literary criticism, which was pointed to both their advantages and disadvantages.

You Say You Want a Reformation? Parsing the Ubiquitous Rhetoric of an “Islamic Reformation”

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 37-73
Author(s):  
Paul R. Powers
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Political Change ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Protestant Reformation ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
History Of

The ideas of an “Islamic Reformation” and a “Muslim Luther” have been much discussed, especially since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This “Reformation” rhetoric, however, displays little consistency, encompassing moderate, liberalizing trends as well as their putative opposite, Islamist “fundamentalism.” The rhetoric and the diverse phenomena to which it refers have provoked both enthusiastic endorsement and vigorous rejection. After briefly surveying the history of “Islamic Reformation” rhetoric, the present article argues for a four-part typology to account for most recent instances of such rhetoric. The analysis reveals that few who employ the terminology of an “Islamic Reformation” consider the specific details of its implicit analogy to the Protestant Reformation, but rather use this language to add emotional weight to various prescriptive agendas. However, some examples demonstrate the potential power of the analogy to illuminate important aspects of religious, social, and political change in the modern Islamic world.

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