Search results for "mytho"
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Anti-aging: Myth or reality
2019
Aging of the world populations embodies a remarkable success of humankind and a source of challenge. Aging is a complex, continuous, multifactorial process that is accompanied by a progressive loss of physical and mental functions and the onset of various age-related diseases, which are not caused by aging per se. Currently, an increasing number of people are asking to arrive at advanced age in good health overcoming the modifications elicited by aging (the dream of remaining young forever). In the past decades there have been remarkable advances in the understanding of the aging process from results of biogerontological research in experimental models, that is, life extension through genet…
Counter-Clock World: How Planning Backwards Helps in Moving Forward in Collapsing Environments
2021
Research on corporate decline and turnarounds as well as the strategic use of history have so far remained two separate research fields. We integrate these two fields with a thought experiment, proposing ways in which strategists can work with, and through time in managing and turning around declines. Our thought experiment involves two very different types of analogies: a textual one from Philip K. Dick’s science fiction novels, on the one hand, and a visual one from Einsteinian relativity science, on the other hand. Inspired and informed by these different conceptualizations of the past and time, we develop four forms of backward strategizing to successfully manage a struggling corporatio…
Vēsture: Latvijas Universitātes Žurnāls, Nr.11/12
2021
Re-giardinieri e Natura selvaggia. Implicazioni politico-simboliche dello sradicamento, taglio e trasporto in città degli alberi nella Mesopotamia de…
2022
In Sumerian mythological literature, as in coeval Akkadian one, between the end of the 3rd and the beginning of the 2nd millennium, the ruler, foremost among them Gilgameš, on several occasions uproots and/or cuts down trees. These trees should be understood as elements of a wider ‘Wilderness’, with which they share a powerful and ambiguous ontological otherness compared to the city and, more generally, to the land of Sumer. The action of the king on the tree, like that of a farmer or gardener, with the consequent realization of ‘artefacts’, allows, through a cultural organization of the power of the tree, the renewal of the relationship, always subject to crisis, between the human communit…
Riflessioni sul mito di Aiace e sulle interpolazioni tragiche in margine a un nuovo commento all´ "Aiace" di Sofocle
2017
Partendo dal nuovo commento di Finglass, vengono discussi numerosi passi dell´ "Aiace" di Sofocle. Si cerca anche di determinare come il mito di Aiace si era diffuso ed era stato trattato nella letteratura greca arcaica e viene proposta l´ ipotesi che buona parte della seconda parte della tragedia sofoclea sia in realta´ profondamente interpolata.
Una nuova testimonianza sul mito di Fineo e di Paraibios
2012
Melancolía de mujeres Solas.
2019
En este trabajo vamos a relacionar la película de Benito Zambrano Solas (1999) con el género o familia de films del melodrama de la mujer desconocida que propone Cavell (2009). Para ello, después de introducir el “método” asociativo cavelliano, vamos a presentar los rasgos más característicos de dicho género y la imagen de la mujer que en ellos se dibuja: el autoconocimiento de la protagonista, su relación con el mundo masculino, su emancipación del mismo a través de la conquista de la voz. El resto del trabajo consiste en una propuesta de lectura de la película de Zambrano, dentro de un marco cavelliano, pero subrayando el papel de la melancolía como mito cultural (Bartra 2001), la relació…
Mythical Creatures, the Making of Wearing Apparel, and the Landscape
2011
Stones where mythical creatures carry out work connected with wearing apparel appear in publications on the mythological stones of Lithuania and Belarus. This theme is not so widely considered in Latvian research literature. The aim of this work is to show that in Latvian folklore, by natural (stone, tree, stump, water, cave, etc) and man-made objects of the cultural space (threshing barn, cemetery, hill-fort, etc), mythical creatures tailor, spin, knit and mend for people or for themselves. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.15181/ab.v15i1.17
Beyond the myth: A social interpretation about the mosaic of the Twelve Labours of Hercules (Liria, Valencia)
2018
On the occasion of the centenary of the mosaic’s discovery of the Twelve Labours of Hercules in Liria (Valencia), this article aims to approach to some aspects overlooked in previous works. Within the study of Roman domestic spaces, the room’s decoration is an essential factor in order to understand its function. Over the years, several studies have focused their efforts on a descriptive analysis of the mosaic, mentioning only the social interpretation, whereas the current trends try to analyze other aspects such as the study of elites and their symbolism. For this reason, our goal in this article is to analyze the social aspect of this pavement, which particular choice of the central motif…
Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth
2021
For a site as famous as Masada (Arabic es-Sebba), we have been lacking a good overview. There is a popular treatment of the excavations (Yadin 1966), a resume of the excavations in light of the fin...