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Heretical Hellenism Heretical Hellenism Shanyn Fiske "The prevailing assumption regarding the Victorians' relationship to ancient Greece is that Greek knowledge constituted an exclusive discourse within elite male domains. Heretical Hellenism: Women Wr… OL11938188W
The culture of classicism The culture of classicism Caroline Winterer Winterer argues that we cannot understand the rise of the American university or modern notions of selfhood and knowledge without an appreciation for the role of classicism in their creation OL12021167W
How early Muslim scholars assimilated Aristotle and made Iran the intellectual center of the Islami… How early Muslim scholars assimilated Aristotle and made Iran the intellectual center of the Islami… Farshad Sadri This work demonstrates how falsafah (which linguistically refers to a group of commentaries by Muslim scholars associated with their readings of "The Corpus Aristotelicum") in Iran has been always cl… OL15570764W
The gods of Olympus The gods of Olympus Barbara Graziosi "The gods of Olympus are the most colorful characters of Greek civilization: even in antiquity, they were said to be cruel, oversexed, mad, or just plain silly. Yet for all their foibles and flaws, t… OL19708626W
Beyond Greek Beyond Greek D. C. Feeney We take the existence of a literature in the Latin language for granted, but the emergence of this literature is a very strange moment in history. Latin literature should probably not have come into … OL20020470W
Classical influences on Western thought A.D. 1650-1870 Classical influences on Western thought A.D. 1650-1870 International Conference on Classical Influences King's College, Cambridge, Eng. 1977. xiii, 394 pages ; 24 cm OL6693406W