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The letter of 1 John is thought to have been written from Ephesus late in the apostle John's life, probably sometime from AD 70-85. The book's theme is "a test for genuine faith in Christ." The purpose of the letter is to encourage... more
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The latest results of my research project on Greek theatre in Roman Italy during the Republic will be presented in a seminar and a public lecture taking place at Monash University, 17-18 October 2019. See attached abstracts.
Lecture at the "Μηνιαίο Σεμινάριο Φιλοσοφίας" — Research Centre for Greek Philosophy (K.E.E.F.), Academy of Athens.
(Athens, 04/06/2019)
(Athens, 04/06/2019)
H μελέτη προσεγγίζει τις μετα-γραφές των πεζογραφημάτων του Παπαδιαμάντη με προορισμό τη θεατρική σκηνή, την κινηματο-γραφική αίθουσα και τους τηλεοπτικούς δέκτες. Παρά τη συ-στηματική τεκμηρίωση όλων των θεατρικών, κινηματογραφικών και... more
A reassessment of he authorship of the Love Stories and argues that, for one of them, Plutarch recurred to a local Boiotian source.
Archaic Greek thought on language conceives the ‘word/object’ relation as responding to a sort of one-to-one principle of correspondence, which presupposes an ontological link between a name and denoted object. In this phase asymmetry... more
O que podemos saber sobre a tragédia grega? O conhecimento que possuímos ou acredita em tê-lo está em conformidade com a realidade do que era essa forma de teatro em Atenas por volta do século V antes de nossa era? Vamos avançar ainda... more
G. Ekroth / I. Nilsson (eds.), Roundtrip to Hades, visits to the underworld in the eastern Mediterranean traditions. Boston/Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2018, 57-81.
Ch. Carey / M. Edwards (eds.), Marathon – 2,500 Years. London: Institute of Classical Studies, BICS Suppl. 124, 2013, 45-61.
The study provides, on the one hand, a computational methodology to determine key concepts in the surviving speeches of Aeschines, and, on the other hand, an analysis of some of these key concepts appropriated by the orator: the... more
This piece is accepted for publication with Brill's Mnemosyne journal. Abstract: The present article hypothesizes that a bizarre omen story of Alexander's death belongs in a Hellenistic literary context rather than a historical... more
Anteus’ characteristic features are examined in this paper. He was son of the earth and the sea god Poseidon and took his strength from physical contact with the ground. Heracles killed him putting an end to his activeness of headhunter.... more
L’étude des désastres connaît un nouvel intérêt depuis la fin des années 2000. Le développement des resilience studies dans la recherche anglo-saxonne engage une réflexion en science humaine qui porte, d’une part, sur l’acceptation de la... more
A figure from North American mythology, which has been used as an anthropological comparandum for the comic hero in the Old Comedy of Aristophanes. Both are crafty, lie and cheat, in order to achieve their aim of socially and culturally... more
L’étude ses prix distribués au cours des jeux funéraires en l’honneur de Patrocle, au chant XXIII de l’Iliade d’Homère, permet d’explorer la complexité de la notion de valeur dans les sociétés de l’âge du Fer égéen. A côté de biens... more