Saturnalia / Macrobius, and other text(s)

Summary: Macrobius' allusion to the Murder of the Innocents is considered by Alan Cameron as evidence of his having been a Christian. The murder itself, however, app...

Macrobius devotes almost the whole morning of the third day in his Saturnalia to Virgil. Eustathius, in response to a question from Euangelus, examines what Virgil drew from the Gr...

Abstract Proper observance of festivals is a major concern in early Jewish literature, but the festivals of the gentiles also figure prominently in this period. Two such festivals ...

Summary: Illustrations and mental models in text comprehension. We know that graphics in texts can be effective for learning, but we do not have much knowledge about how text ...

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O banquete romano (convivium) foi uma importante prática social, que consistia em uma ocasião de sociabilidade e de estreitamento de laços entre os participantes. Compreendemos tal...

We consider the equivalence of source and translation texts. Currently, various ways to achieve the adequacy of texts are being studied, which proves the relevance of this problem....

Quantity of data produced per day is around 2.5 quintillion bytes. Right now, no one has the time to pursue each and everything. With the growth of technology and digital media, pe...