Search results for "Mythology"

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.

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 …

Perioperative hyperoxia: Myths and realities

2017

«History’s stained canvas»: Uses and appropriations of medieval past in Enlightenment Historiography. The case of Peter «the cruel»

2020

The aim of this paper is to explore the political meanings of the medieval past in the historical understanding of individuals in the 18th century. Beyond the familiar Gothic myth, I will focus on the multilayered image of the monarch Peter of Castile (1334–1369), considered cruel, lustful and passionate in the eyes of enemies and historians. The aim is to analyse the different attitudes towards and uses of this historical figure (one that was quite problematic given the cultural values of the period), ranging from the most negative of connotations to the most passionate of defences and including some more ambiguous stances. For this analysis, I will explore certain Enlightenment debates th…

Civil Religion or Nationalism? The National Day Celebrations in Norway

2021

The Norwegian National Day (17 May, also referred to as Constitution Day) stands out as one of the most popular National Day celebrations in Europe. According to surveys, around seven out of every 10 Norwegians take part in a public celebration during this day. This means that the National Day potentially has an impact on the way people reflect upon national identity and its relationship to the Lutheran heritage. In this paper, I will focus on the role religion plays in the Norwegian National Day rituals. Researchers have described these rituals as both containing a significant religious element and being rather secularized. In this article, I discuss the extent to which the theoretical con…

Austrumu un rietumu mīti Salmana Rušdi romānā "Florences burve"

2020

Austrumu un rietumu mītiem daudzu gadsimtu garumā bijusi būtiska loma dažādos literārajos darbos. Šī pētnieciskā darba mērķis ir pierādīt, ka austrumu un rietumu mītiem ir nozīmīga loma Salmana Rušdi romānā „Florences burve”. Mērķa sasniegšanai tika studēti dažādi austrumu un rietumu mīti, ieskaitot mītus no Tuvo Austrumu folkloras stāstu krājuma „Tūkstoš un vienas nakts pasakas”, mītu par Pigmalionu un Galateju, renesanses laika dzejoļus „Orlando innamorato” un „Orlando furioso”. Rezultāti pierāda, ka austrumu un rietumu mīti Rušdi romānā ir komplicēti un pārklāj cits citu, tie skar politiskas un sociālas problēmas. Pētījumā tika pierādīts, ka eksistē būtiskas paralēles starp mītiem Salman…

Selective Kinship in Sicilian Cultural Identity: a Land Posing.

Sicilian history could be summarized as an endless succession of rulers that came from the sea. Thus Sicilian identity could be consid-ered as the epitome of a postcolonial identity, if there could be one. Its position at the exact center of the Mediterranean has made the island the gateway between European, African and Middle Eastern culture. This mix of insularity and cosmopolitism still dramatically affects the way Sicilians see themselves; in this paper my aim is to under-stand how this mix has impacted the perception of their own history by contemporary Sicilians.This paper seeks to shed light on some of the myths of the Sicilian past that influenced writers and thinkers from Sicily an…

Antropopoiesi eroica in Omero: Fenice maestro di Achille

2016

In chant IX of Iliad there is the long digression of Phoenix, Achilles’ pedagogue, and plays a strategic role, as is recognized by almost all scholars. For this reason, the mise en abyme is a tool to explore the ambiguous relationship between language and reality, which remain central to the relationship between Phoenix and Achilles. The mise en abyme reveals the sense of vertigo mirror between teacher and student, becoming a metaphor and representation of masterful strategy in which the teacher / parent connection, enacts generative operation and produces a continuous exchange of roles. Phoenix, teacher and “parent”, is a fragile figure, oscillating between authority and weakness.

Responsabilità e (de)merito negli epilli di Draconzio

2017

Questo intervento è centrato sui temi della responsabilità e del demerito in tre epilli mitologici di Blossio Emilio Draconzio, il più importante poeta e scrittore dell’Africa vandalica fra V e VI secolo. I tre epilli (De raptu Helenae, Medea e Orestis tragoedia) hanno una caratterizzazione cupa, opprimente e pessimistica e i loro personaggi principali (Paride ed Elena, Medea e Giasone, Clitennestra, Egisto e Oreste) vengono delineati come individui colpevoli e sciagurati, responsabili di misfatti quali l’adulterio, l’uxoricidio, il matricidio e l’infanticidio. Nella presentazione negativa dei suoi personaggi, Draconzio si discosta spesso dalla tradizione classica precedente. This paper dea…