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Fauna in archaic Greek and Kalanga oral wisdom literatures

Author: Moyo, Madhlozi Date: 2016 Animals play an important role in the communication of wisdom. In songs, proverbs, aphorisms, riddles and other oral modes of communication, animals sometimes play the roles of human beings. Homeric similes, Hesiodic and Aesopic fables, and ... Read more
Horace in dialogue : a Bakhtinian study of speakers, interlocutors, addressees and audiences in the moralising satires of horace sermones books one and two

Author: Sharland, Suzanne Jane Date: 2000 This thesis examines a selection of poems from both books of Horace's Satires against a backdrop of the dialogic theoretical system conceptualised by the Russian thinker Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975). The thesis proposes examining ... Read more
Martial's Apophoreta : an introduction and commentary

Author: Leary, Timothy John Date: 1993 No commentary on Martial Book 14 has appeared since that of Ludwig Friedlander (1886). Since Friedlӓnder dealt with Martial' s entire corpus, his introductory remarks to Book 14 were necessarily subordinated to his wider concerns. While his ... Read more
Narrative strategies in the gospel according to Luke : a Bakhtinian exploration

Author: Fischer, Bettina Irene Date: 2004 Using the theory of the twentieth century Russian literary scholar and linguist, Mikhail Bakhtin, this thesis has set out to explore narrative strategy in the Gospel of Luke, the aim being to consider how this would affect a generic reading, ... Read more
The role of the traditional Mediterranean diet in the development of Minoan Crete : archaeological, nutritional and biochemical evidence

Author: Riley, Frank Richard Date: 1997 Archaeological evidence reveals that a diet consisting of mainly of cereals, pulses and olives, supplemented by fish and with a low percentage of animal products, was consumed on Crete in the Minoan period, as it was up to this century. Modem ... Read more
The shepherd of Hermas : some aspects of its composition and transmission

Author: Kirkland, Alastair Date: 1990 The authorship and time of origin of the Shepherd have not been subjected to the same rigorous enquiry as the First Epistle of Clement and the Epistles of Ignatius. The reason for this is probably that the Shepherd has had little to contribute ... Read more
The typical and connotative character of Xeinoi situations across the Apologue: Three studies in repetition

Author: Williams, Hamish Date: 2017 This dissertation engages in a close reading and analysis of the Apologue of Homer's Odyssey; specifically, I am concerned with characterizing the nature of xeinoi situations or interactions in these books - that is, the relationship between ... Read more
Valerius Maximus on Vice: a commentary on Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 9.1-11

Author: Murray, Jeffrey Date: 2016 The Facta et Dicta Memorabilia of Valerius Maximus, written during the formative stages of the Roman imperial system, survives as a near unique instance of an entire work composed in the genre of Latin exemplary literature. By providing the ... Read more

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