Search results for "Myth"

Per l'interpretazione di Pindaro fr. 140 a S./M. (=G 8 Ruth.)

2011

Superheroes, Social Responsibility, and the Metaphor of Gods in Mark Waid and Alex Ross’s Kingdom Come

2015

Some decades ago, Umberto Eco, in » The Myth of Superman, « pointed out the paradoxical nature of the all-powerful superhero. » Superman, « Eco notes, » is practically omnipotent; « consequently » one could expect the most bewildering political, economic, and technological upheavals in the world « from Superman – or any other › practically ‹ omnipotent superhero. But no such transformations occur in the narratives.

Science and ideology: The case of physics in Nazi Germany

2016

Science is not «above» politics and ethics: it is intrinsically political, and constantly raises ethical dilemmas. The consequences of evading such issues were made particularly clear in the actions of scientists working in Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 40s. The accusation in 2006 that Dutch physicist Peter Debye was an opportunist who colluded with the Nazis reopened the debate about the conduct of physicists at that time. Here I consider what those events can tell us about the relationship of science and politics today. I argue that an insistence that science is an abstract, apolitical inquiry into nature is a myth that can leave it morally compromised and vulnerable to political manipula…

Mediterranean crossings in the fiction of Marina Warner: The Queen of Sheba, Rahab and Leto

2009

Visual legitimisation of astronomy in the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries: Atlas, Hercules and Tycho’s nose

2007

Abstract Images of the virtuous hero Hercules and the crowned King Atlas offered considerable potential for legitimising the new astronomy of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The accomplishments of Hercules, a seeker after virtue, with his exceptional learning, his role as disseminator of knowledge, his significance as an example of ideal manhood and, in addition to all, his achievement of immortality, invited comparison with the endeavours of astronomers. Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Hercules and Atlas appear as the spiritual authorities of the discipline, and each was called into use to symbolise both the old and the new astronomy. Both figures embodied qual…

Algunas reflexiones sobre el significado de Hernán Cortés a finales del Antiguo Régimen: Discursos de poder, identidad y usos de la historia

2016

This article aims to reflect on the construction of identities about the conqueror Hernan Cortes in the Late Eighteenth Century. It deals with the different channels which were used to transmit his image and to build the myth of Cortes. This approach allows us to pay attention to the connections and relationships between the individual and the collective scopes. It focuses on how the interests of different historical actors (peninsular Spaniards) were projected on Cortes as a symbol of the modern subject. The political uses of Cortes and his historical uniqueness allow us to establish connections between the national question, colonialism, the production of discourses of power and the trans…

Procne e Filomela. Dal mito al simbolo letterario

2005

Una monografia sulla saga di Procne e Filomela da Omero a Ovidio, esaminata in primo luogo dal punto di vista mitografico, nello sviluppo delle diverse versioni del mito, quindi da quello metaletterario, in relazione alla metafora del poeta-usignolo e al suo percorso dalla letteratura greca arcaica alla letteratura latina di età augustea A monograph on the saga of Procne and Philomela from Homer to Ovid, surveyed first from a mythological point of view - taking into account the development of the myth's different versions -, then from a metaliterary one, following the path of the poet-nightingale metaphor from archaic Greek literature to augustan Latin literature.

Il racconto di Procri e l’ombra di Lucrezia. Ov. met. 7, 700-865 e fast. 2, 721-856

2021

Procris and Lucretia. Ov. met. 7, 700-865 and fast. 2, 721-856 · When Ovid decides to re-write the Greek tale of Cephalus and Procris in the Metamorphoses, he is faced with a “literary vacuum”: he cannot count on any Latin model with which to measure himself, except for a brief quotation in the Aeneid of Virgil (6, 445) – and his own version of Procris in Ars amatoria. In light of this, his only option is to refer to the Greek sources of the myth or to other female archetypes (such as Dido). I argue that, among them, the poet focuses on a female iconic figure of the Ro-man tradition: Lucretia, who is particularly suited to embodying the ethic patterns of pudicitia, fides and castitas, that …

Interpretations of Suffering in Phenomenology of Life and Today’s Life-World

2012

Philosophers make difference between pain and suffering. Pain can be characterized as phenomenon of internal experience of sentient beings, mainly based on psycho-physical experience. Suffering from the phenomenologican point of view is reflected painful feeling with meaning constituted in intentional act. Suffering manifest Mensch-Schmerz (F. Nietzsche), painful creative affects of the life process. Attitude to suffering shows human positioning in the Universe. It have been described at the philosophy of Stoics, B. Pascal, A. Schopenhauer, F. Nietzsche, M. Scheler, V. Frankl, S. Weil, Z. Maurina, A.-T. Tymieniecka and others. Phenomenology of life sees birth, death and suffering as a drama…

Tradition and Foreign Influences in the 19th Century Codification of Criminal Law: Dispelling the Myth of the Pervasive French Influence in Europe an…

2018

Any civil law student knows that most of provisions in any European or Latin American civil code derive from Roman law, that they were the outcome of a long and gradual scholarly elaboration extending from 12th century glossators to the natural lawyers of the 18th century. However, there is no such consensus about criminal law. The civil law tradition has doubtlessly committed more effort to the scholarly development of private law institutions than to those of public law, privileging civil law over criminal law. The main consequences of this fact are twofold: (i) 19th century criminal jurisprudence is sometimes presented as if had arisen out of the blue, or as if institutions contained in …