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Shakespeare’s Classical Mythology: A Dictionary
Shakespeare’s Classical Mythology: A Dictionary
Why does Bassanio compare himself to Jason? What is Hecuba to Hamlet? Is the mechanicals’ staging of the Pyramus and Thisbe story funny or sad?
This dictionary elucidates Shak...
Relief Sculpture of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Relief Sculpture of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Abstract
The site of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, was rediscovered and partially excavated by C. T. Newton's expedition ...
Reconstructions
Reconstructions
Chapter 2 discusses two gypsum reliefs from Dura-Europos, a city on the Euphrates in modern Syria, once within the Roman Empire. Not only does Dura provide a rare example of two ca...
Poets, Wrestlers and Cricketers
Poets, Wrestlers and Cricketers
Chapter four discusses the impact of colonial rule on traditional cultural and sporting pastimes and the new activities that emerged, most notably cricket. There are three case stu...
Collective Martyrdom and Religious Suicide
Collective Martyrdom and Religious Suicide
The Branch Davidians and Heaven’s Gate, two religious groups marked by apocalyptic worldviews, are compared to elucidate two types of trajectories of apocalyptic groups involved in...
The Importance of Staging Oscar
The Importance of Staging Oscar
Oscar Wilde was adopted as something like a posthumous writer in residence at the Gate Theatre in the 1930s, where all of his plays including the controversialSaloméwere produced. ...
The Role of Iconographical Programs at the Baths of Caracalla
The Role of Iconographical Programs at the Baths of Caracalla
To query the sociopolitical rationale that may have prompted the emperor Caracalla to endow such a monumental bathing facility, Chapter 3 addresses the iconographical trends that m...