TY  - JOUR
A1  - Matz, Alicia
A1  - Paprocki, Maciej
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
ED  - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo
ED  - Rollinger, Christian
ED  - Walde, Christine
T1  - There and Back Again: Tolkien and Greco-Roman Antiquity
JF  - thersites 15
N2  - The following introduction sketches the status questionis of the research on the influence of Greco-Roman antiquity on the works of Tolkien and provides details about the volume’s theoretical impetus and its broad themes. The editors discuss Tolkien’s complicated and indirect relationship with classical models, underscoring certain emergent themes in volume’s contributions, such as decline, multifocal reception and relationship with nature.
KW  - Tolkien
KW  - classical reception
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.228
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2022
IS  - 15
SP  - i
EP  - xii
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Matz, Alicia
A1  - Paprocki, Maciej
A1  - Cristini, Marco
A1  - Pezzini, Giuseppe
A1  - Capra, Elena Sofia
A1  - Kambo, Kevin
A1  - Oughton, Charles W.
A1  - Chinn, Christopher
A1  - Thompson, Phoebe
A1  - Praet, Raf
A1  - Stutz, Kathryn H.
A1  - Keen, Tony
A1  - Beck, Christian
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
ED  - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo
ED  - Rollinger, Christian
ED  - Walde, Christine
T1  - There and Back Again: Tolkien and the Greco-Roman World
T2  - thersites
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2022
IS  - 15
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Matz, Alicia
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
ED  - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo
ED  - Rollinger, Christian
ED  - Walde, Christine
T1  - Quis enim laesos impune putaret esse deos?: Ents, Sacred Groves, and the Cost of Desecration
JF  - thersites 15
N2  - Seneca the Younger, in his Letters, describes a sacred grove as a “thick grove of ancient trees which rise far above the usual height and block the view of the sky with their umbrella of intertwining branches” (Seneca the Younger, Letters 41.3). Fangorn Forest is clearly a sacred site as defined by Seneca, made even more sacred by the presence of the Ents. Thus, to violate it would be a terrible act of desecration, not unlike Lucan’s narrator’s shock at Caesar’s desecration of the sacred grove at Massilia (Lucan BC 3.447 – 8, quoted in the title of this paper). After exploring the relationship between Ents and sacred groves, the paper will compare the fate of Caesar to that of Saruman, who violated Fangorn Forest. Just as Augoustakis (2006) argues that the violation of the grove foreshadows Caesar’s death, so too Saruman’s death at the hands of Wormtongue becomes a fitting punishment for his violation of Fangorn.
KW  - sacred trees
KW  - Ents
KW  - Tolkien
KW  - Saruman
KW  - Julius Caesar
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.215
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2022
IS  - 15
SP  - 204
EP  - 231
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Düvel, Pia
A1  - Ehmig, Ulrike
A1  - McCall, Jeremiah
A1  - Unceta Gómez, Luis
A1  - Bakogianni, Anastasia
A1  - Fischer, Jens
A1  - Serrano Lozano, David
A1  - Ambühl, Annemarie
A1  - Matz, Alicia
A1  - Brinker, Wolfram
A1  - Mach, Jonas Konstantin
A1  - Mancini, Mattia
A1  - Werner, Eva
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
ED  - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo
ED  - Rollinger, Christian
ED  - Walde, Christine
T1  - Spring Issue
T2  - thersites
KW  - history textbooks
KW  - textbook research
KW  - historical consciousness
KW  - Spartacus
KW  - slavery
KW  - history teaching
KW  - Anfänge der systematischen lateinische Epigraphik
KW  - Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
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KW  - history
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KW  - classical reception
KW  - cartoons
Y1  - 2024
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol18
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2024
IS  - 18
ER  -