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The Apocalypse in Early Christianity

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Amazons

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Hades: Cornucopiae, Fertility and Death

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A Literary Criticism of the Classical Themes and Allusions Found in The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games is a richly interwoven tapestry of numerous intriguing parallels to historical events and literary staples. Although set in a futuristic society, the chief inspirations for its narrative structure and themes are drawn from the ancient Mediterranean world. Classical themes and allusions permeate the first novel, and the connections to the classical are mythological, historical, linguistic, and stylistic in nature.

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The Monstrous and the Bestial: Animals in Greek Myths

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An Unexpected Province: The History of the Roman Province of Asia from 133 B.C. to 128 B.C.

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Instructive Irony in Herodotus: The Socles Scene

By contrasting Corinth

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The Date of the 'Oath of the Peloponnesian League'

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The Breath of Life in Aristotle

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Memorization and the Transmission of Sumerian Literary Compositions

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Did Ancient China Influence Olmec Mexico?

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Roman Mater: The Etruscan influence on the role of Roman women

The Etruscan culture, as can be understood by the material remains, gave a higher status to women and their role in the family than did their Athenian contemporaries. The Romans eventually subsumed the Etruscan culture into their own and took on many Etruscan practices.