Search results for "Mythology"

Baco o San Juan Bautista: lectura de un cuadro de Leonardo da Vinci

2019

We make a reading of the painting Bacchus or St John the Baptist, based on a method that applies to it the classic myth of Dionysus-Bacchus. We divide its content into three parts: 1. Introduction (objective and method; the double name, Dionysus-Bacchus; narration of the myth in ΝόννοςΠανοπολίτης) 2.  Reading of the painting(hipothesis of the representation as St John the Baptist: some opinions; hipothesis of the representation as Bacchus: our opinion) 3. Conclusion (Leonard's Bacchus: an interpretation of Dionysus-Bacchus as neutralizer-God of the opposites. We make punctual comparisons with Jheronimus Bosch.

Paradigma de la Continuidad Paleomítica

2020

La cada vez mayor evidencia de la existencia de mitos de origen paleolítico constituye un indirecto apoyo a los postulados del denominado Paradigma de la Continuidad Paleolítica, el cual aboga por un origen paleolítico para el conjunto lingüístico indoeuropeo y también para todos o la mayoría de los otros grandes conjuntos lingüísticos del mundo. The increasing evidence of myths with a Paleolithic origin represents an indirect support for the main claims of the so–called Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm, since it assumes a Paleolithic origin for the whole Indo–European linguistic group and, furthermore, for all or most of the other major linguistic groups of the world. Humanidades

How can Parmenides’ τὸ ἐόν be unending but non-endless?

2023

In this paper we shall walk a well-trodden but still only partially explored path, along which we shall attempt to establish a basis for the study of the Parmenides poem’s unity by way of a comparison with 20th-century physics. In particular, we shall investigate the hypothesis that Parmenides’ sphere-shaped τὸ ἐόν, as described in B8.42-49, could be understood as a hyperspherical unlimited whole cosmologically bounded by the διάκοσμος described by the complex sphere system in fragment B12.

GREEK MYTHS IN WESTERN ART - †K. KilinskiII Greek Myth and Western Art. The Presence of the Past. Pp. xxii + 281, ills, colour pls. Cambridge: Cambri…

2014

recensione a: Pindar, Pythian eleven, ed. by P. Finglass, Cambridge 2007

2011

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…

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…