TY - JOUR A1 - Kleßmann, Christoph T1 - The burden of the past in the two German states Y1 - 1993 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vermeesch, Griet T1 - War, fortified towns and the countryside, Gorinchem and Doesburg (1570-1680) JF - Militär und Gesellschaft in der frühen Neuzeit Y1 - 2005 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-20767 SN - 1861-910X SN - 1617-9722 VL - 9 IS - 2 SP - 155 EP - 163 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krebs, Daniel T1 - "War in an Age of Revolution: The Wars of American Independence and the French Revolution, 1775-1815" BT - (10. bis 12. März 2005 am Deutschen Historischen Institut, Washington D.C.) JF - Militär und Gesellschaft in der frühen Neuzeit Y1 - 2005 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-20791 SN - 1861-910X SN - 1617-9722 VL - 9 IS - 2 SP - 192 EP - 195 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lang, Heinrich T1 - Maurizio Arfaioli: The Black Bands of Giovanni. Infantry and Diplomacy during the Italian Wars (1526-1528) / [rezensiert von] Heinrich Lang JF - Militär und Gesellschaft in der frühen Neuzeit N2 - Rezensiertes Werk: Arfaioli, Maurizio: The black bands of Giovanni : infantry and diplomacy during the Italian wars; 1526-1528 / Maurizio Arfaioli. - Pisa : Edizioni Plus-Pisa University Press, 2005. - 204 S.: Ill. ISBN 88-8492-231-3 Y1 - 2005 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-20834 SN - 1861-910X SN - 1617-9722 VL - 9 IS - 2 SP - 202 EP - 205 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Marschke, Benjamin T1 - The development of the army chaplaincy in early eighteenth-century Prussia JF - Militär und Gesellschaft in der frühen Neuzeit Y1 - 2001 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-28852 SN - 1861-910X SN - 1617-9722 VL - 5 IS - 1 SP - 36 EP - 38 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - van Nimwegen, Olaf T1 - The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions (1588-1688) JF - Militär und Gesellschaft in der frühen Neuzeit Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-20881 SN - 1861-910X SN - 1617-9722 VL - 10 IS - 1 SP - 55 EP - 73 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Oestmann, Anne T1 - Billeting in England During the Reign of Charles I : 1625-1649 BT - the Case of Tickhill/Yorkshire JF - Militär und Gesellschaft in der frühen Neuzeit N2 - Behandelte Themen sind: Billeting in England during the reign of Charles I, 1625-1649; Organisation; Tickhill: A community's response to abuse and disorder Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-20891 SN - 1861-910X SN - 1617-9722 VL - 10 IS - 1 SP - 74 EP - 90 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Piltz, Eric T1 - Ellis, Steven G.; Eßer, Raingard (Hrsg.), Frontiers and the Writing of History, 1500-1850 / [rezensiert von] Eric Piltz JF - Militär und Gesellschaft in der frühen Neuzeit N2 - Rezensiertes Werk: Frontiers and the writing of history, 1500-1850 / ed. by Steven G. Ellis and Raingard Esser. - Hannover-Laatzen : Wehrhahn, 2006. - 318 S. ISBN 3–86525–251-6 Y1 - 2007 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-21271 SN - 1861-910X SN - 1617-9722 VL - 11 IS - 2 SP - 191 EP - 197 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Berg, Holger T1 - Military Occupation under the Eyes of the Lord BT - Studies in Erfurt during the Thirty Years War JF - Militär und Gesellschaft in der frühen Neuzeit Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-21318 SN - 1861-910X SN - 1617-9722 VL - 12 IS - 1 SP - 53 EP - 57 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lang, Heinrich T1 - Caferro, William, John Hawkwood; an English mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy / [rezensiert von] Heinrich Lang JF - Militär und Gesellschaft in der frühen Neuzeit N2 - Rezensiertes Werk: Caferro, William: John Hawkwood : an English mercenary in fourteenth-century Italy / William Caferro. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. - XV, 459 S. ISBN 0-8018-8323-7 Y1 - 2007 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-21268 SN - 1861-910X SN - 1617-9722 VL - 11 IS - 2 SP - 188 EP - 191 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bösch, Frank T1 - Rezension zu: Elian Nathans. Peter von Zahn’s Cold War Broadcasts to West Germany: Assessing America. - (Palgrave Macmillan, Studies in the History of the Media.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xxi, 334. - ISBN 978-3-319-50614-2 JF - The American historical review N2 - It is well known that Western Europe and especially West Germany have been strongly influenced by the United States past 1945. Foreign correspondents played a crucial role in this field. One of the most influential postwar journalists in Germany, and the first permanent TV correspondent in the U.S., was Peter von Zahn (1913–2001). His weekly radio columns and his monthly TV documentary Bilder aus der Neuen Welt (Pictures from the New World) reached millions in the 1950s. Eli Nathans’s Peter von Zahn’s Cold War Broadcasts to West Germany: Assessing America is still the first book that analyzes the life and work of Zahn as an influential intermediary between America and West Germany. Luckily, many private letters of Zahn... Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhz956 SN - 0002-8762 SN - 1937-5239 VL - 124 IS - 4 SP - 1539 EP - 1540 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bösch, Frank T1 - Taming Nuclear Power BT - the Accident near Harrisburg and the Change in West German and International Nuclear Policy in the 1970s and early 1980s JF - German history : the journal of the German History Societ N2 - In 2011 a broad majority in the German Federal Parliament voted to abandon nuclear energy. This article explores the origins of the change in attitude towards nuclear energy and argues that seven years before the Chernobyl disaster, the accident at the U.S. power plant Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1979, had a profound impact which nowadays seems to be largely forgotten in Europe. The article identifies the structural causes underlying the transnational reception of the Three Mile Island accident and explores international reactions, particularly in the Federal Republic of Germany. The accident near Harrisburg led to a loss of public confidence and created unease about nuclear expansion in many industrialized nations. Reactions to the accident can be understood as an attempt to tame nuclear energy both technically, by increasing safety measures and abandoning plans for new nuclear power stations, and politically, with a more critical appraisal of nuclear energy and with semantics that encouraged a long-term withdrawal from nuclear power. Critics were now also accepted as experts. Nuclear policy in all countries became closely dependent on public opinion, indicating a high level of political responsiveness. Various factors, however, including the contemporaneous oil crisis put the brakes on this critical approach to nuclear power, while safety improvements and the limited expansion of nuclear power created new confidence in the early 1980s. KW - Nuclear energy KW - experts KW - social movements KW - media KW - 1970s KW - Germany Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghw143 SN - 0266-3554 SN - 1477-089X VL - 35 IS - 1 SP - 71 EP - 95 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - BOOK ED - Tietze, Christian ED - Lange, Eva T1 - Baset - Bubastis - Tell Basta BT - eine Quellensammlung ; Teil 2 (1957-1964) T3 - Arcus: Berichte aus Archäologie, Baugeschichte und Nachbargebieten N2 - Inhalt: Habachi, Labib: Tell Basta Chapter 1: Introductory: Bubatis and its monuments Chapter II: The temple of Pepi I [I]: Description Chapter III: The temple of Pepi [III]: Finds and importance Chapter IV: General notes on the great temple [I]: Mihos temple and entrance hall Chapter V: General notes on the great temple [II]: Festival hall and hypostyle hall Chapter VI: General notes on the great temple [III]: The temple of Nektanebos (Nekht-har-hebi) Chapter VII: Work outside the temples Chapter VIII: Blocks transferred to Bubastis Chapter IX: Blocks removed from Bubastis Farid, Shafik: Preliminary report on the excavations of the antiquities department at Tell Basta T3 - Arcus: Berichte aus Archäologie, Baugeschichte und Nachbargebieten - 8 Y1 - 2005 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-42682 SN - 978-3-937786-31-5 SN - 0947-1081 IS - 8 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - BOOK ED - Ball, Simon James ED - Gassert, Philipp Leonhard ED - Gestrich, Andreas ED - Neitzel, Sönke T1 - Cultures of intelligence in the era of the World Wars T3 - Studies of the German Historical Institute London N2 - Cultures of Intelligence analyses the intelligence services of Germany, Britain, the USA, and France in the first half of the twentieth century. It asks whether there were national traditions in intelligence, or whether each of the sophisticated Western intelligence powers was part of a transnational intelligence culture? The book is a contribution to the cultural turn in intelligence studies. Its underlying purpose is to place intelligence in its proper historical and comparative context. As such it is also a contribution to the history of political culture and its study. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-0-19-886720-3 PB - Oxford CY - University Press ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Neitzel, Sönke T1 - National Cultures of Military Intelligence? BT - Comparative Perspectives JF - Cultures of intelligence in the era of the world wars Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-0-19-886720-3 SP - 13 EP - 36 PB - University Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vandewalle, Alexander ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Review of Ross Clare: Ancient Greece and Rome in Videogames. Representation, Play, Transmedia BT - Bloomsbury Academic (London, New York 2021) (= IMAGINES – Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts), x + 230 pages, 25 illustrations. ISBN: 9781350157194 (hardback), $ 115.00, £ 85.00 hardback, also available as e-book (PDF, Epub, Mobi) JF - thersites 16 Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol16.220 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2023 IS - 16 SP - 173 EP - 177 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Avalli, Andrea ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Review of Dario Barbera: Processo al Classico. L’epurazione dell’archeologia fascista BT - ETS (Pisa 2022) (= Studi di archeologia e storia del mondo antico e medievale), 264 pp. ISBN: 9788846762191, € 25 JF - thersites 16 Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol16.233 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2023 IS - 16 SP - 168 EP - 172 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pufelska, Agnieszka T1 - Between bourgeoisie and natural science the Danzig research society as model for the Berlin society of friends of natural history Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-83-7842-018-7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kunst, Christiane T1 - Grant, M., The Antonines, the roman empire in transition; Routledge, London [u.a.], 1994 BT - The Antonines : the roman empire in transition Y1 - 1998 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bueschel, Hubertus T1 - Friedrich Meinecke in his time Y1 - 2009 SN - 0149-7952 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wyrwa, Ulrich T1 - Narratives of Jewish Historiography in Europe Y1 - 2008 SN - 978-0-230-50006-8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Görtemaker, Manfred T1 - The historical process of nation-building in Germany and the development of cultural self-understanding and identity, including the role of historiography Y1 - 1997 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Görtemaker, Manfred T1 - Europe after the Cold War : a german perspective Y1 - 1997 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kunst, Christiane T1 - William Camden's Britannia : History and Historiography Y1 - 1995 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Rink, Martin T1 - Is there anything new in smal-scale warfare? Developments in asymmetric violence, 1740-1815 T3 - Working Papers in Military and International History Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-1-902496-56-6 VL - 6 PB - Centre for Contemporary History & Politics European Studies Research Institute CY - Salford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bergien, Rüdiger T1 - The Consensus on Defense and Weimar Prussia's Civil Service Y1 - 2008 UR - http://journals.cambridge.org/action/ displayFulltext?type=6&fid=1860244&jid=CCC&volumeId=41&issueId=02&aid=1860240&bodyId=&membershipNumber=&societyETOCSessio n=&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0008938908000307 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - de Libero, Loretana T1 - Precibus ac lacrimis : tears in roman historiographers Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-11-020111-6 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Görtemaker, Manfred T1 - Security in the post-cold war era : the role of Germany and new lessons for Korea Y1 - 1995 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schorn-Schütte, Luise T1 - Formation and career of catholic clergy and protestant pastors in the Ancient Empire, XVIIth until XIXth century Y1 - 1994 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Barceló, Pedro T1 - The Perception of Carthage in Classical Greek Historiography Y1 - 1994 SN - 0065-1141 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Görtemaker, Manfred T1 - Unifying Germany : 1989 - 1990 Y1 - 1994 PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kunst, Christiane T1 - Eyben, E., Restless youth in ancient Rome; Routledge, London [u.a.], 1993 BT - Restless youth in ancient Rome Y1 - 1997 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tillack-Graf, Anne-Kathleen T1 - Nurses and Midwives in Nazi Germany: The "Euthanasia Programs" JF - Social history of medicine : the journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkv027 SN - 0951-631X SN - 1477-4666 VL - 28 IS - 2 SP - 413 EP - 415 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Giese, Holger A1 - Henkler, Stefan A1 - Hirsch, Martin T1 - A multi-paradigm approach supporting the modular execution of reconfigurable hybrid systems JF - Simulation : transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International N2 - Advanced mechatronic systems have to integrate existing technologies from mechanical, electrical and software engineering. They must be able to adapt their structure and behavior at runtime by reconfiguration to react flexibly to changes in the environment. Therefore, a tight integration of structural and behavioral models of the different domains is required. This integration results in complex reconfigurable hybrid systems, the execution logic of which cannot be addressed directly with existing standard modeling, simulation, and code-generation techniques. We present in this paper how our component-based approach for reconfigurable mechatronic systems, MECHATRONIC UML, efficiently handles the complex interplay of discrete behavior and continuous behavior in a modular manner. In addition, its extension to even more flexible reconfiguration cases is presented. KW - code generation KW - hybrid systems KW - reconfigurable systems KW - simulation Y1 - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0037549710366824 SN - 0037-5497 VL - 87 IS - 9 SP - 775 EP - 808 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blom, Hans W. T1 - Sociability and Hugo Grotius JF - History of European ideas N2 - Grotius has a rudimentary theory of sociability. Only with hindsight has a remark about appetitus societatis been promoted to the starting point of a theory that flourished in the writings of later natural jurists. In this article, I address the issue of the appearance in Grotius's natural law of sociability [as the 1715/38 English translation of John Morrice renders appetitus societatis, following Barbeyrac's sociabilite]. Writing in the just war tradition, Grotius is first of all interested in finding out the conditions for peace, and although injustice is a condition of war, it is not per se true that injustice is a perversion of society. Apparently, not all societies are perfect and the violence of war and the legal actions of peace are both instruments for achieving a greater modicum of justice in this world. Yet appetitus et custodia societatis is called the foundation of justice. Grotius achieved this context for sociability in phases, through a series of writings from c. 1600 until De iure belli ac pacis of 1625, and its revision of 1631. In this development the notion of fides plays an intriguing role, through which we can obtain a better understanding of the meaning of appetitus societatis in the later work. The present article is a sequel to a previous publication, on fides in De iure praedae (Ms. 1604/5). Analysing the genesis of appetitus societatis in De iure belli ac pacis, I argue that Grotius was changing his strategy over the years, without however arriving at a definitive solution to the question of what commits men to the pursuit of justice. KW - Hugo Grotius KW - justice KW - natural rights KW - civitas perfecta KW - fides KW - sociability Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2014.987558 SN - 0191-6599 SN - 1873-541X VL - 41 IS - 5 SP - 589 EP - 604 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tillack-Graf, Anne-Kathleen T1 - Madness and Sense BT - Patients, Doctors, Personnel and institutions of Psychiatry in Saxony from the Middle Ages until the End of the 20th Century JF - History of psychiatry Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X15605782d SN - 0957-154X SN - 1740-2360 VL - 26 IS - 4 SP - 498 EP - 499 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mayar, Mahshid T1 - A Case for Serious Play BT - Virtual Pacifism in Historical Digital Games JF - Militär und Gesellschaft in der frühen Neuzeit Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-408309 SN - 1617-9722 SN - 1861-910X VL - 20 SP - 117 EP - 135 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wyrwa, Ulrich T1 - The Language of Anti-Semitism in the Catholic Newspapers II Veneto Cattolico/La Difesa in Late Nineteenth-Century Venice JF - Church history and religious culture N2 - The dispute between social versus religious interpretations of anti-Semitism pervaded the whole history of scholarly research. Whereas socio-historical interpretations had underlined the social aspects, current studies on anti-Semitism focus on religious motifs. The thesis that anti-Semitism was a result of a religious conflict, however, is far more alleged than substantially proved by the sources. So it seems necessary to go back to the sources. Therefore this paper analyzes the language of the Venetian Catholic newspaper Il Veneto Cattolico/La Difesa from the foundation of the newspaper in 1867 up to the First World War. Just a few years before the term anti-Semitism was coined, Catholic journalists of Venice had created the new semantic of secular anti-Semitism. They turned back to religious issues when they tried to systematize their anti-Jewish sentiments. Thus one can observe in the coverage of the Venetian Catholic journals the invention of an anti-Semitic tradition. KW - anti-Semitism KW - anti-Judaism KW - Venice KW - Catholic Church KW - nineteenth century Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/18712428-09603002 SN - 1871-241X SN - 1871-2428 VL - 96 SP - 346 EP - 369 PB - Brill CY - Leiden ER - TY - THES A1 - Scianna, Bastian Matteo T1 - The Italian war on the eastern front, 1941–1943 BT - operations, myths and memories T2 - Italian and Italian American Studies N2 - The Italian Army’s participation in Hitler’s war against the Soviet Union has remained unrecognized and understudied. Bastian Matteo Scianna offers a wide-ranging, in-depth corrective. Mining Italian, German and Russian sources, he examines the history of the Italian campaign in the East between 1941 and 1943, as well as how the campaign was remembered and memorialized in the domestic and international arena during the Cold War. Linking operational military history with memory studies, this book revises our understanding of the Italian Army in the Second World War. Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-3-03026-523-6 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Skibinski, Connie ED - Potter, Amanda ED - Gardner, Hunter H. T1 - ‘Crazy Man-Killing Monsters’ BT - The Inimical Portrayal of the Amazons in Supernatural’s ‘Slice Girls’ JF - thersites 17 N2 - The Amazons have a long legacy in literature and the visual arts, extending from antiquity to the present day. Prior scholarship tends to treat the Amazons as hostile ‘Other’ figures, embodying the antithesis of Greco-Roman cultural norms. Recently, scholars have begun to examine positive portrayals of Amazons in contemporary media, as role models and heroic figures. However, there is a dearth of scholarship examining the Amazons’ inherently multifaceted nature, and their subsequent polarised reception in popular media. This article builds upon the large body of scholarship on contemporary Amazon narratives, in which the figures of Wonder Woman and Xena, Warrior Princess dominate scholarly discourse. These ‘modern Amazon’ figures epitomise the dominant contemporary trend of portraying Amazons as strong female role models and feminist icons. To highlight the complexity of the Amazon image in contemporary media, this article examines the representation of the Amazons in the Supernatural episode ‘Slice Girls’ (S7 E13, 2012), where their portrayal as hostile, monstrous figures diverges greatly from the positive characterisation of Wonder Woman and Xena. I also consider the show’s engagement with ancient written sources, to examine how the writers draw upon the motifs of ancient Amazon narratives when crafting their unique Amazon characters. By contrasting the Amazons of ‘Slice Girls’ to contemporary figures and ancient narratives, this article examines how factors such as feminist ideology, narrative story arcs, characters’/audience’s perspectives and male bias shape the representation of Amazons post-antiquity. KW - Amazons KW - Warrior women KW - Classical reception KW - Supernatural KW - Monsters Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol17.240 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2023 IS - 17 SP - 183 EP - 211 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Martínez Jiménez, Javier ED - Potter, Amanda ED - Gardner, Hunter H. T1 - Lycaon and classical versipelles in MTV’s Teen Wolf JF - thersites 17 N2 - The modern conception of the werewolf is heavily influenced by Gothic reinterpretations of medieval European stories. This kind of werewolf is the one that has appeared on screen and written fiction for decades, but MTV’s Teen Wolf, a re-boot of the 1980s film which aired between 2011 – 17, is different. In this young adult supernatural drama, werewolves descend directly from Lycaon, and a substantial proportion of the show’s werewolf lore derives from Graeco-Roman stories about wolf-shifters and versipelles. This paper wants to explore the extent of the use in the show of the myth of Lycaon in particular, of Classical versipelles in general, the significance of these two references for the narrative, and the degree of innovation in modern supernatural fiction of this adaptation of Greek and Roman stories. KW - Teen Wolf KW - Werewolves KW - Versipelles KW - Lycaon KW - Television series KW - World-building Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol17.248 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2023 IS - 17 SP - 212 EP - 244 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Maurice, Lisa ED - Potter, Amanda ED - Gardner, Hunter H. T1 - From Olympian to Christ-figure: Lucifer (2016 – 2021) JF - thersites 17 N2 - On the surface the television series Lucifer (2016 – 21) is a simple police procedural but, in actuality, the criminal cases in the show serve merely as window-dressing and structure for the deeper consideration of issues, such as guilt, shame, love, and even the meaning of life on both an individual and universal level. These topics are explored through the ever-developing character of Lucifer himself, who, like other recent anti-hero depictions, is initially presented in a manner that is very different from traditional portrayals of the Devil, and is, in fact, far closer to that of the Greek Olympian gods. Over the course of six seasons, the depiction of Lucifer alters, however, as he becomes a figure that is in many ways Christ-like, but with a 21st century twist that places the individual in an exalted position that is superior to that of divinity. KW - Lucifer KW - Devil KW - Olympians KW - God KW - Christ Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol17.244 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2023 IS - 17 SP - 245 EP - 272 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Potter, Amanda ED - Potter, Amanda ED - Gardner, Hunter H. T1 - Classical Monsters and Hero(ines) in InSEXts, Eros/Psyche and Porcelain JF - thersites 17 N2 - This paper applies Monster Theory to the use of Greek mythology in three creator-owned comic series by female writers: InSEXts (2016 – 2017) by American comic writer Marguerite Bennett and Indonesian artist working in America Ariela Kristantina as well as Eros/Psyche (2021) and Porcelain (2021) by Maria Llovet, a comic writer and artist from Barcelona. In the first volume of InSEXts, set in Victorian London, there are allusions to the Furies and Pandora, linked with the discourse of the repression of women. In the second volume, set in the late nineteenth century Paris art world, the representation of classical subjects in art becomes a means to repress women, and a goddess with a Gorgon-like appearance takes revenge on the male repressors. In Eros/Psyche the story of Eros and Psyche and broken statues forms the backdrop and context for a tale of love and deception at a girls’ school, and in Porcelain a girl is faced with a choice of paths towards Eros or Thanatos, like Herakles at the crossroads choosing between the paths of virtue and vice. With reference to Cohen’s seven theses of Monster Culture I examine how Bennett and Lovett subvert the idea of the monster and the hero. KW - Comics KW - Eros KW - Psyche KW - Pygmalion KW - Medusa Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol17.247 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2023 IS - 17 SP - 96 EP - 124 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Toscano, Margaret Merrill ED - Potter, Amanda ED - Gardner, Hunter H. T1 - Varieties of Supernatural Depictions BT - Classics in Contemporary Media JF - thersites 17 N2 - This article proposes several conceptual frameworks for examining the widespread use of classical intertexts depicting the supernatural in popular media. Whether the supernatural is viewed as reality or simply a trope, it represents the human capacity and desire to explore worlds and meanings beyond the obvious and mundane. Representations of classical gods, heroes, and monsters evoke the power of mythic stories to probe and explain human psychology, social concerns, philosophical questions, and religious beliefs, including belief about the paranormal and supernatural. The entertainment value of popular media allows creators and audiences to engage with larger issues in non-dogmatic and playful ways that help them negotiate tensions among various beliefs and identities. This paper also gives an overview of the other articles in this journal issue, showing overlapping themes and patterns that connect with these tensions. By combining knowledge of classical myths in their original contexts with knowledge about contemporary culture, classical scholars contribute unique perspectives about why classical intertexts dominate in popular media today. KW - Myth Theory KW - Classical Mythology KW - Supernatural KW - Paranormal KW - Afterlife Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol17.249 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2023 IS - 17 SP - 2 EP - 31 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Foster, Frances ED - Potter, Amanda ED - Gardner, Hunter H. T1 - Gods and Magic in Megan Whalen Turner’s The Thief JF - thersites 17 N2 - Megan Whalen Turner’s series The Queen’s Thief (1996 – 2020) centres on the political intrigues in a group of countries which are at once very like – but also very unlike – Bronze Age and archaic Greece threatened by a powerful Persian Empire. The first book in the series, The Thief (1996), begins as a political adventure haunted by stories of the gods. When those gods directly influence the action, the narrative changes from present political intrigue to a fantasy from the distant past. The mythology in The Thief reflects, imitates and distorts archaic Greek creation myths – stories about how the earth and sky were formed, the divine pantheon and heroes. I examine the presentation of this divine pantheon against the narratives about the gods in Hesiod, the Homeric hymns and Homer’s epics. I evaluate how the supernatural element interacts with the largely political narrative of The Thief. In so doing, I explore how the text blends a ‘classical supernatural’ with a world that is like – but in many ways very unlike – Bronze Age and archaic Greece. KW - Greek gods KW - Mythology KW - Young Adult literature KW - Fantasy KW - Magic Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol17.242 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2023 IS - 17 SP - 32 EP - 54 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lovatt, Helen ED - Potter, Amanda ED - Gardner, Hunter H. T1 - Resurrecting the Argo BT - Supernatural Re-makings in Robert Holdstock’s Merlin Codex JF - thersites 17 N2 - This paper analyses the relationship between the figure of the Argo (ship and character) and the supernatural in the mythic fantasy of Robert Holdstock’s Merlin Codex. It shows how Holdstock’s re-writing of the Argonautica draws on various versions from the Argonautic tradition, including Euripides’ Medea, Apollonius, Valerius Flaccus, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Treece and the 1963 film Jason and the Argonauts. It sets Holdstock’s Argo alongside other representations, as divine herself, possessed by divinity, and a channel of communication with the divine, and in the context of Holdstock’s previous work, particularly Mythago Wood, Lavondyss and Merlin’s Wood. The paper argues that Holdstock uses the Argo as a reflection of myth itself, a version of the forest in Mythago Wood, as well as a metapoetic image for the challenges and complexities of adapting a well-known story, bringing multiple mythological traditions (Arthurian, Finnish and Argonautic) together. It reflects on Holdstock’s relationship to the ancient genres of epic and tragedy, as well as Argo as plot facilitator and mechanism of transformation and transition. Holdstock’s relationship with ancient literature is richer and deeper than previously acknowledged; his self-conscious plays reveal a deep understanding of the polymorphous nature of mythical traditions. KW - Holdstock KW - Merlin Codex KW - Argonauts KW - Argo KW - myth Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol17.254 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2023 IS - 17 SP - 55 EP - 95 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Strong, Anise K. ED - Potter, Amanda ED - Gardner, Hunter H. T1 - The Persistence of Memory BT - Forgiveness, Forgetting, and Cultural Assimilation JF - thersites 17 N2 - The 2017 Pixar film Coco and the 2021 Disney film Encanto form a small part of an increasing modern wave of media focused on parent-child conflicts caused by intergenerational trauma and rejection. Other recent works in this genre include the video game Hades, the films Turning Red and Everything Everywhere All At Once, and the television series Ms. Marvel. The traumas in all these films, some directed explicitly at a younger audience and some pitched more broadly, serve as a distinct set of meditations on the immigrant experience, even while not necessarily focusing on literal immigration. They also all invoke imagery of ghosts and death, both echoing specific classical Mediterranean motifs and tropes and incorporating a wide variety of other cultures’ supernatural traditions. These works’ concern with familial traumas of separation, culture shock, and loss of ancestral memories and connections contrasts sharply with the individual-focused myth of the American Dream common to earlier generations of American media, in which a lone individual typically emigrates, assimilates, and succeeds in a new culture, forming a new family and set of myths. However, themes of assimilation and questions of cultural imperialism also form a bridge between ancient Roman and modern North American anxieties and traditions. KW - Classical Reception KW - Coco KW - Immigration KW - Ancestors KW - Underworld Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol17.255 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2023 IS - 17 SP - 125 EP - 142 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Siegel, Janice ED - Potter, Amanda ED - Gardner, Hunter H. T1 - Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy: A Kinder, Gentler, More Modern Heracles JF - thersites 17 N2 - In Hellboy (2004, Sony Pictures), Guillermo del Toro presents a mythic hero (half human/half demon) seemingly made from the same mold as the classical hero Heracles (Hercules). Hellboy’s modern world is shaped by a cosmology not unlike that of Greek mythology, and as is true for Heracles, his unique pedigree and superior physicality empower him to mediate between the forces of supernaturality and humanity. Hellboy’s experiences evoke comparison with most characters and exploits in the Heraclean mythological corpus; his good character precludes comparison with others. Hellboy must contend with his own versions of Hera, Eurystheus, and a Nemean Lion/Hydra-like monster. He, too, relies on his own superhuman strength, innate cunning and an Athena-like protector to be successful at his job. Both heroes navigate a difficult path to their very different destinies. But in the end, Hellboy’s compassion, humility, unerring moral compass, and genuinely altruistic motivations make him both a better man and a better mythic hero, one worthy even of being loved. KW - Hellboy KW - Heracles/Herakles/Hercules KW - Classical Reception KW - Reception of Mythology KW - Mythic Hero Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol17.253 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2023 IS - 17 SP - 143 EP - 182 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blomeier, Hans-Hartwig A1 - Girón, Patricio Garza A1 - Rieck, Christian E. T1 - Mehr als Mauern T1 - More than Walls BT - Latin America’s Role in the Triangle with the US and Europe BT - Lateinamerikas Rolle im Dreieck mit Europa und den USA JF - International Reports Of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung N2 - If Germany and Europe turned their attention to Latin America, they could extend the transatlantic partnership by adding new partners and focussing on new issues without breaking ties with Washington. However, the countries of the region have differing views of Europe. Mexico is a special case in Latin America because of its close ties with the US, and the economic, political, and strategic interests that it shares with Europe. There is a need for Europe and the US to work together more closely in order to counterbalance China’s growing influence. N2 - Eine Hinwendung Deutschlands und Europas zu Lateinamerika könnte die transatlantischen Beziehungen um neue Partner und neue Themen ergänzen, ohne den Kontakt zu Washington abreißen zu lassen. In der Region gibt es jedoch unterschiedliche Sichtweisen auf Europa. Mexiko ist in Lateinamerika aufgrund der engen Verflechtungen mit den USA und den mit Europa gemeinsamen wirtschaftlichen, politischen und strategischen Interessen ein Sonderfall. Gerade als Gegengewicht zu Chinas Einfluss ist eine verstärkte europäische und US-amerikanische Zusammenarbeit wünschenswert. Y1 - 2019 IS - 1 SP - 73 EP - 84 PB - Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V. CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kotthaus, Jochem A1 - Schäfer, Matthias A1 - Stankovic, Nikola A1 - Weitzel, Gerrit T1 - How soccer becomes politics BT - a case study on the communication of a transnational popular media event JF - International journal of sport communication N2 - In this case study, the authors elaborate on the narrative structure of transnational popular media events. Drawing from Dayan and Katz's concept of media events and Julia Sonnevend's exceptional work on iconic global media events, they argue that fundamental changes in the way occurrences are being reported on and news is structured must be considered. Allowing for recent technological advancements, the role of the consumer and the compression of time in media use, the authors develop a methodological and theoretical framework fitting a more mundane and everyday life-based approach. They derive their results from the analysis of the "Podgorica Media Event," a news cycle emerging from a racist incident during an international soccer game between England and Montenegro. Based on the body of 250 international news pieces, they identify a primary mother narration and a distinctive narration as the typical ways of storytelling on a transnational level. While differing greatly in content, aspects of transnational popular media events serve to protect and reify the cultural background they are grounded in on a national level. Thus, we assume that sport, or, more specifically, soccer, may become political in media communication not by the impact of state government but by the consumers themselves choosing and developing a popular media event in the first place. KW - banal nationalism KW - digital media KW - everyday life KW - prosumer KW - racism Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1123/ijsc.2020-0320 SN - 1936-3915 SN - 1936-3907 VL - 14 IS - 3 SP - 428 EP - 447 PB - Human Kinetics Publ. CY - Champaign ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rieck, Christian E. T1 - Strange New Worlds BT - the European Union's Search for Like-Minded Partners in the Indo-Pacific JF - European Strategic Approaches to the Indo-Pacific N2 - The Indo-Pacific is fast becoming the main arena for great power competition. After explaining the regional power hierarchy, the paper describes how the EU defines like-mindedness as an explicit partnership category in the Indo-Pacific and which of the countries qualify. Finally, the paper also examines the structural problems the EU faces when projecting power into a faraway region such as this one. The paper argues that for China’s rise to remain peaceful and in the absence of fully regional security arrangements, other Asian actors are increasingly looking for new regional structures that combine elements of cooperation, competition and containment vis-à-vis China - including a more pronounced EU role in the region. Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.kas.de/en/web/politikdialog-asien/panorama SN - 0119-5204 VL - 2021 IS - 1 SP - 39 EP - 53 PB - Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung CY - Singapore ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Potter, Amanda A1 - Gardner, Hunter H. ED - Potter, Amanda ED - Gardner, Hunter H. T1 - Classics and the Supernatural in Modern Media JF - thersites 17 N2 - Short preface to the special edition of Thersites. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol17.256 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2023 IS - 17 SP - 1 EP - 1 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brechenmacher, Thomas ED - Luh, Jürgen T1 - The Potsdam Conference and the Jewish Organisations JF - Potsdam Conference 1945 : Shaping the World Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-95498-547-0 SP - 142 EP - 155 PB - Sandstein CY - Dresden ER - TY - GEN A1 - Liedhegener, Antonius A1 - Kösters, Christoph A1 - Brechenmacher, Thomas T1 - Catholicism BT - On the Past, Present, and Future of its modern Notion T2 - Historisches Jahrbuch Y1 - 2019 SN - 0018-2621 VL - 139 SP - 601 EP - 618 PB - Herder CY - Freiburg Breisgau ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Göse, Frank T1 - European aristocrats in the early modern age Y1 - 2009 SN - 0044-2828 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Göse, Frank T1 - The intellectual states at the end of the Ancient Empire : Essay on a balance sheet Y1 - 2005 SN - 0044-2828 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schenck, Marcia C. ED - Schenck, Marcia C. ED - Njung, George N. T1 - A different class of refugee: university scholarships and developmentalism in late 1960s Africa JF - Africa Today N2 - Using documents assembled in connection with the 1967 Conference on the Legal, Economic and Social Aspects of African Refugee Problems, this article discusses African refugee higher-education discourses in the 1960s at the level of international organizations, volunteer agencies, and government representatives. Education and development history have recently been studied together, but this article focuses on the history of refugee higher education, which, it argues, needs to be understood within the development framework of human-capital theory, meant to support political pan African concerns for a decolonized continent and merged with humanitarian arguments to create a hybrid form of humanitarian developmentalism. The article zooms in on higher-education scholarships, above all for refugees from Southern Africa, as a means of support for human-capital development. It shows that refugee higher education was both a result and a driver of increased international exchanges, as evidenced at the 1967 conference. Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-569066 SN - 1527-1978 SN - 0001-9887 VL - 69 IS - 1-2 SP - 134 EP - 161 PB - Indiana Univ. Press CY - Bloomington ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hübener, Kristina T1 - lusatia (Lausitz) Y1 - 1996 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Menachem Zoufala, Marcela A1 - Dyduch, Joanna A1 - Glöckner, Olaf T1 - Jews and muslims in Dubai, Berlin, and Warsaw BT - interactions, peacebuilding initiatives, and improbable encounters JF - Religions N2 - What is the nature of interactions between Jews and Muslims in contemporary Dubai, Berlin, and Warsaw? The purpose of the three presented case studies is to evaluate the state of affairs and identify newly emerging trends and patterns in the given trans-urban context. The methodology is based on qualitative anthropological research, emphasising an emic perspective that centralises respondents' own lived experiences and worldviews. The main research's findings made evident that interactions between Muslims and Jews in each examined location are, to various extents, acknowledged, and in some cases, also embody a formative part of public discourses. Perhaps the most visible manifestations of these relations are represented by the ambitious interfaith projects that were recently established in each geographical area in focus. The Abrahamic Family House (UEA), The House of One (GE), and The Community of Conscience (PL) reveal the aspirations of multi-faith religious leaders to overcome polarising dichotomies and search for common ground. One of the conclusive outcomes of the study is a somewhat diminishing impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the Jewish-Muslim relations; however, the extent differs in each destination in focus. Finally, an unpredicted observation can be made. A surfacing inclination towards embracing a joint Muslim-Jewish Middle Eastern identity was perceived. KW - Jews and Muslims KW - Dubai KW - Berlin KW - Warsaw KW - multi-faith projects KW - The Abrahamic Family House KW - The House of One KW - The Community of Conscience; KW - cultural hybridisation KW - Abraham Accords Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13010013 SN - 2077-1444 VL - 13 IS - 1 PB - MDPI CY - Basel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Keen, Tony ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Legolas in Troy BT - The influence of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies on cinematic portrayals of ancient Greece and Rome JF - thersites 15 N2 - The Lord of the Rings movies were a cinematic phenomenon, extremely popular. They are not often considered as works of Classical Reception. These films’ influence on subsequent ancient world movies has been understudied, and undervalued. A common model of cinematic Greece and Rome in the twenty-first century looks solely back to Gladiator. Undoubtedly Gladiator, and its commercial success, is important to how ancient world movies developed; but focussing solely on Gladiator does not explain a move away from Roman history towards Greek mythology, culminating in a flurry of movies about Greek mythological heroes. Lord of the Rings is an overlooked factor. Already in Troy two LOTR stars are in key roles, and the battle scenes seek to imitate those of Jackson’s trilogy. 300 mythologizes far beyond Frank Miller’s graphic novel, adding several monsters; LOTR’s influence is at play here. LOTR’s influence was one factor in a complex process that saw ancient world movies change in the twentyfirst century. LOTR fed into an atmosphere that moved ancient world movies towards Greece, away from Rome, through promoting the appeal of a combination of epic and the fantastic. KW - classical movies KW - Lord of the Rings KW - classical reception KW - Peter Jackson KW - fantasy movies Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.223 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 15 SP - 285 EP - 313 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Grewing, Farouk F. ED - Ambühl, Annemarie T1 - A Saturnalian poet as a literary critic BT - the carnivalesque poetics of Martial’s Apophoreta 183-196 JF - thersites = tessellae – Birthday Issue for Christine Walde N2 - This paper analyzes a specific section of Martial’s Apophoreta (Book 14), the ‘list’ of fourteen literary works that the poet-persona suggests to the reader as potentially suitable presents to give to friends on the occasion of the Saturnalia. It focuses strictly on the literary aspects of the poems and their underlying carnivalesque poetics. This includes an assessment of the logic of the poems’ arrangement and alleged inconsistencies. It is suggested that the section be read as a complex statement of Martial’s on various works and genres of Greek and Roman literature. The last couplet of the section (14.196), a certain Calvus’ work ‘On the use of cold water’ (De aquae frigidae usu), which is unidentifiable, receives particular attention, for previous scholarship has wasted a lot of ink on guessing what kind of work this may have been, thereby losing touch with the rich (meta-)poetics the couplet actually conveys. KW - Martial KW - epigram KW - Saturnalia KW - poetics KW - Apophoreta Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.170 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2020 IS - 11 SP - 176 EP - 204 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Löbcke, Konrad ED - Ambühl, Annemarie T1 - Review of Jesse Weiner, Benjamin E. Stevens & Brett M. Rogers (eds.): Frankenstein and Its Classics. The Modern Prometheus from Antiquity to Science Fiction BT - Bloomsbury Academic (London & New York 2018) (= Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception), xiv + 273 p., with 14 b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781350054905, £ 22.99/US$ 30.95 (pb)/£ 70.00/US$ 95 .00 (hb) JF - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.180 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2020 IS - 11 SP - 385 EP - 391 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wesselmann, Katharina ED - Ambühl, Annemarie T1 - Review of Rachel Bryant Davies: Victorian Epic Burlesques. A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Entertainments after Homer BT - Bloomsbury (London & New York 2019) (= Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception), xi & 284 p., 12 illustrations. ISBN: 9781350027176, £ 26.09 (pb)/£ 81.00 (hb) JF - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.181 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2020 IS - 11 SP - 379 EP - 384 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Di Rocco, Emilia ED - Ambühl, Annemarie T1 - Review of Silvio Bär & Emily Hauser (eds.), Reading Poetry, Writing Genre. English Poetry and Literary Criticism in Dialogue with Classical Scholarship BT - Bloomsbury Academic (London & New York 2019) (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception), xii & 256 p. ISBN: 978-1-350-03932-2, $ 102.60 (hb) JF - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.183 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2020 IS - 11 SP - 370 EP - 378 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Heinemann, Matthias ED - Ambühl, Annemarie T1 - Review of Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice (eds.), The Reception of Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture. Beauty, Bravery, Blood and Glory BT - Brill (Leiden/Boston 2017) (= Metaforms 11), XIV + 424 pp., 32 mostly color illustrations. ISBN: 9789004347724, € 149.00 (hb, also available as e-book) JF - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/0.34679/thersites.vol11.111 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2020 IS - 11 SP - 392 EP - 400 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Colbert, Vivian ED - Rollinger, Christian T1 - Queen Zenobia’s ‘Campaign’ for British Women’s Suffrage JF - thersites 12 N2 - This article focuses on the feminist reception of Zenobia of Palmyra in Great Britain during the long nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. A special focus lies on her reception by the British suffragettes who belonged to the Women’s Social and Political Union. Even though Zenobia’s story did not end happily, the warrior queen’s example served to inspire these early feminists. Several products of historical culture – such as books, pieces of art, newspaper articles and theatre plays – provide insight into the reception of her as an historical figure, which is dominated by the image of a strong and courageous woman. The article will shed light on how exactly Zenobia’s example was instrumentalised throughout the first feminist movement in Britain. KW - Zenobia KW - reception studies KW - British suffrage movement KW - nineteenth century KW - feminism Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/0.34679/thersites.vol12.186 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2020 IS - 12 SP - 71 EP - 94 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian T1 - Interview with Alana Jelinek JF - thersites 12 N2 - Alana Jelinek is an art historian and artist — “an artist making art, and also writing about art”, in her words — , a former European Research Council artist in residence at the Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, and currently teaching in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire. Her art has revolved mostly around the issues of post- and neocolonialism and their connections with neoliberalism — a more implicit topic in her works from the 1990s on the “tourist gaze” developed into an interest in museums, collecting and ethnography throughout the past two decades. In this interview, she talks to thersites about the role of classical heritage and ancient art in her own work. KW - classical archaeology KW - art history KW - installation art KW - classical receptions Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol12.163 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2020 IS - 12 SP - 95 EP - 103 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffensen, Nils A1 - Ursin, Frank A1 - Colbert, Vivian A1 - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo A1 - Brilke, Clara A1 - Werner, Eva A1 - Warnking, Pascal A1 - Potter, Amanda A1 - Reinard, Patrick ED - Rollinger, Christian T1 - Spring Issue T2 - thersites Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol12 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2020 IS - 12 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bièvre-Perrin, Fabien ED - Bièvre-Perrin, Fabien ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - “Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy” BT - Preface JF - thersites 13: Antiquipop – Chefs d’œuvres revisités N2 - A quote from Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk, 1996) may seem unusual for a Classicist. Nevertheless, this famous sentence summarises the contents of this special issue of thersites perfectly. As specialists in classical reception frequently witness, there is a sort of déjà-vu effect when it comes to the presence of Antiquity within popular culture. In 2019, to try to better understand the phenomenon, Antiquipop invited researchers to take an interest in the construction and semantic path of these “masterpieces” in contemporary popular culture, with a particular focus on the 21st century. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol13.191 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2021 IS - 13 SP - i EP - v ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brilke, Clara A1 - Werner, Eva ED - Rollinger, Christian T1 - I am not sure that I feel like singing, thanks very much for asking! BT - Interview with Natalie Haynes JF - thersites 12 N2 - In her writings on ancient myth, the British author Natalie Haynes moves women to the centre of attention. Her two latest books, A Thousand Ships and Pandora’s Jar – a fiction novel and a non-fiction one – approach this topic from two different perspectives. This interview takes stock of Haynes’ motives and methodology as well as of the challenges she faces in the process of writing. KW - Women in Ancient Myth KW - Classical Reception KW - Classics in Popular Culture Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol12.189 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2020 IS - 12 SP - 104 EP - 115 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Potter, Amanda ED - Rollinger, Christian T1 - Review of Meredith E. Safran (ed.): Screening the Golden Ages of the Classical Tradition BT - Edinburgh University Press (Edinburgh 2019), 329 pp ., ISBN: 9781474440844 , £ 80.00 ( b, also available as pb and e-book) including filmography, bibliography and index JF - thersites 12 KW - Review of Safran KW - Screening the Golden Ages of the Classical Tradition Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/thersites.vol12.123 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2020 IS - 12 SP - 136 EP - 139 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pampanay, Élise ED - Bièvre-Perrin, Fabien ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - The Nike of Samothrace’s presences during the XX and XXI centuries: mysteries and victories JF - thersites 13: Antiquipop – Chefs d’œuvres revisités N2 - Despite its fame, the Winged Victory of Samothrace keeps on fascinating not only every visitor of the Louvre museum, but also the eye of the connoisseur. Despite its recent restoration in 2014, some of its mysteries might indeed never be solved, like the identity of its sculptor. But this fascination also comes from the statue itself, its majestic aesthetics and lack of head, in a similar fashion perhaps to the loss of the Venus of Milo’s arms. Since her discovery more than 150 years ago by Charles Champoiseau, she’s been on the throne at the top of the Daru stairs at the Louvre Museum. This hellenistic masterpiece, that Champoiseau called a ”mousseline de marbre”, became a must see in the Paris museum, together with the Mona Lisa and its other chefs d’oeuvre. But this statue’s fate is not set in stone. Many modern artists, like Omar Hassan or Xu Zhen, have tried to make it their own and give it a new depth. Recently, Beyonce and Jay-Z also offered a new perspective by including this Louvre masterpiece, among others, in their political masterstroke, the video clip ”Apeshit”. This paper seeks to decode the meanings and symbolism of these new versions of the Nike. KW - Nike of Samothrace KW - sculpture KW - polychromy KW - victories KW - modern art Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol13.146 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2021 IS - 13 SP - 71 EP - 83 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bièvre-Perrin, Fabien A1 - Briand, Michel A1 - Jouteur, Isabelle A1 - Pampanay, Élise A1 - Besnard, Tiphaine Annabelle A1 - Costanzo, Daniela A1 - Renault, Manon A1 - Saura-Ziegelmeyer, Arnaud A1 - Scapin, Mathieu A1 - González Vázquez, Mateo A1 - Mihanovic, Andelko ED - Bièvre-Perrin, Fabien ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Antiquipop – Chefs d’œuvres revisités T2 - thersites N2 - This special issue hosts the proceedings of a workshop that took place in Lyon in 2019, dedicated to discussing the modern receptions of some "masterpieces" from ancient Greek art. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol13 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2021 IS - 13 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mihanovic, Andelko ED - Bièvre-Perrin, Fabien ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Review of Patrick Gray: Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War BT - Edinburgh University Press (Edinburgh 2019) (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy), pp. xii + 308. ISBN: 978 I 4744 2745 6 (hardback), £80 JF - thersites 13: Antiquipop – Chefs d’œuvres revisités N2 - The article is a review of Patrick Gray's latest monograph: Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War. Gray analyzes Shakespare's and his characters' representation of the 'self' in Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra, with Coriolanus used for comparative purposes. The book induced a lively discussion of its content in academic community. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol13.195 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2021 IS - 13 SP - 213 EP - 218 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cromwell, Jennifer ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - From Pyramids to Obscure Gods BT - The Creation of an Egyptian World in Persona 5 JF - thersites 14 N2 - Within Persona 5’s modern Tokyo setting, imagined worlds are created that represent the cognitive processes of various characters. These ‘palaces’ allow the player to explore locations far removed from the game’s real-world, contemporary backdrop. One episode creates an ancient Egyptian world. This article examines how this world has been produced and the different transmedial tropes and other influences that its developers have drawn upon. Many references are recognisable to a broad audience (pyramids, gods, hieroglyphs), while others reflect Japanese pop-cultural trends (in various manga and anime), including the mention of an obscure Egyptian god, Medjed. The intentionally fictitious nature of these ‘palaces’ means that the Egypt that appears in this game is not bound by the need to replicate an ‘accurate’ landscape. Instead, the developers were free to design a gamescape that combines multiple and diverse receptions of ancient Egypt. KW - Egypt KW - videogames KW - Persona 5 KW - pyramids KW - gods Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol14.199 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 14 SP - 1 EP - 40 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cromwell, Jennifer A1 - Brück, Alexander A1 - Unceta Gómez, Luis A1 - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo A1 - Freitag, Florian A1 - Hanisch, Xenia A1 - Dix, Sophie A1 - Klohr, Silvia A1 - Brilke, Clara A1 - Klooster, Jacqueline A1 - Fischer, Jens A1 - Loconte, Riccardo A1 - Weiß, Adrian A1 - Vitello, Eugenia ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Spring Issue T2 - thersites Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol14 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 14 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klooster, Jacqueline ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian T1 - Review of Sophia Xenophontos and Katerina Oikonomopoulou: Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plutarch BT - Brill (Leiden 2019) (= Brill’s Companions to Classical Reception 20), 693 pages, 2 figures. ISBN: 978-90-04-28040-3, € 198 JF - thersites 14 Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol14.197 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 14 SP - 160 EP - 167 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vitello, Eugenia ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Review of Emilio Zucchetti & Anna Maria Cimino (eds.): Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World BT - London/New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021 (= Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies), xiv + 387 pp., ISBN: 978-0-36-719314-0, £ 96.00 (hb.) JF - thersites 14 Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol14.203 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 14 SP - 188 EP - 196 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pezzini, Giuseppe ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - (Classical) Narratives of Decline in Tolkien: Renewal, Accommodation, Focalisation JF - thersites 15 N2 - The paper investigates Tolkien’s narratives of decline through the lens of their classical ancestry. Narratives of decline are widespread in ancient culture, in both philosophical and literary discourses. They normally posit a gradual degradation (moral and ontological) from an idealized Golden Age, which went hand-in-hand with increasing detachment of gods from mortal affairs. Narratives of decline are also at the core of Tolkien’s mythology, constituting yet another underresearched aspect of classical influence on Tolkien. Such Classical narratives reverberate e.g. in Tolkien’s division of Arda’s history into ages, from an idealized First Age filled with Joy and Light to a Third Age, described as “Twilight Age (…) the first of the broken and changed world” (Letters 131). More generally, these narratives are related to Tolkien’s notorious perception of history as a “long defeat” (Letters 195) and to that “heart-racking sense of the vanished past” which pervades Tolkien’s works – the emotion which, in his words, moved him “supremely” and which he found “small difficulty in evoking” (Letters 91). The paper analyses the reception of narratives of decline in Tolkien’s legendarium, pointing out similarities but also contrasts and differences, with the aim to discuss some key patterns of (classical) reception in Tolkien’s theory and practice (‘renewal’, ‘accommodation’, ‘focalization’). KW - narrative of decline KW - Hesiod KW - reception KW - focalization KW - accommodation Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.213 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 15 SP - 25 EP - 51 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kambo, Kevin ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Platonic Tripartition and the Peoples of Middle-Earth JF - thersites 15 N2 - Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings employ traditional races from fairy tales: elves, men and dwarves. These peoples are differentiated principally by their dominant desires, but also by their speech, diet, and realms. I argue that these three races are significantly inspired by the three aspects that characterize the Republic’s tripartite soul—logistikon, thumoeides, and epithumetikon—along with their respective principal desires: desire for truth, greatness, and material goods. For Tolkien, therefore, these races have a corporate or political psychology that explains who they are as peoples in the history of Middle-earth. I offer a comprehensive view of the major races, connecting the dwarves with the appetitive artisans of the Republic, humans with the honour- and glory-seeking auxiliaries, and elves with the ruling guardians. This treatment explains the artisanal dwarves, as well as the battle-loving men (and women) of Rohan and Gondor, and the nostalgic, ‘anamnetic’ condition of exile that distinguishes the elves. Indeed, the condition of elves in many descriptions recalls a Platonic philosopher returned to the Cave, as well as the Neo-Platonic sagacity pictured in the biographies of Plotinus and Proclus. KW - Plato KW - Tolkien KW - republic KW - Tripartite KW - race Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.219 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 15 SP - 90 EP - 122 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Capra, Elena Sofia ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - "Orfeo out of Care" BT - The Reception of the Classical Myth of Orpheus from Sir Orfeo to Tolkien JF - thersites 15 N2 - The paper focuses on an example of multiple-step reception: the contribution of the classical story of Orpheus and Eurydice and the mediaeval lay Sir Orfeo to Tolkien’s work. In the first part, I compare the lay with Virgilian and Ovidian versions of Orpheus’ myth. This comparison shows the anonymous author’s deep knowledge of the ancient texts and complex way of rewriting them through stealing and hybridization. The lay was highly esteemed by Tolkien, who translated it and took inspiration from it while describing the Elven kingdom in The Hobbit and building the storyline of Beren and Lúthien in The Silmarillion. Through this key tale, Orpheus/Orfeo’s romance has a deep influence also on Aragorn and Arwen’s story in The Lord of the Rings. The most important element that Tolkien takes from the Sir Orfeo figuration of the ancient story is undoubtedly the insertion of political theme: the link established between the recovery of the main character’s beloved and the return to royal responsability. The second part of the paper is, thus, dedicated to the reception of Sir Orfeo and the classical myth in Tolkien. It shows how in his work the different steps of the tradition of Orpheus’ story are co-present, creating an inextricable substrate of inspiration that nourishes his imagination. KW - Orpheus and Eurydice KW - Sir Orfeo KW - reception KW - Tolkien KW - Beren and Lúthien Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.209 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 15 SP - 52 EP - 89 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Oughton, Charles W. ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Roman Heroes at Helm’s Deep? BT - Livy, Macaulay, and Tolkien on the Horatius Cocles Episode JF - thersites 15 N2 - This article analyzes Tolkien’s narrative of the Battle of Helm’s Deep as a retelling of the Horatius Cocles episode from Livy’s AUC, which contains descriptions of the defenses and the bridge, a rally encouraged by Horatius, his bold stand both with his companions and alone, and the honors paid to him after the battle. Tolkien’s Battle of Helm’s Deep contains the same elements split across two narratives: the defense of the causeway leading to the gates of the Deep by Aragorn, Éomer, and Gimli; and, after the fall of the Deeping wall, Aragorn’s defiant stand alone on the stairway leading to the inner doors of the Hornburg. Aragorn’s double action demonstrates a fulfillment of Livy’s exemplary arc. Tolkien’s knowledge of Macaulay’s “Horatius” provides a possible intermediary that accounts for various additions to the story. However, the larger structure of Tolkien’s narrative as well as the imagery that resonates throughout the text distinctly evoke the vivid descriptions of Livy. While both sets of heroes make brave stands against their enemies, Tolkien’s warriors represent a civilizing force in their efforts to build and restore their defenses while Livy’s Roman heroes destroy the bridge to save their state. KW - Livy KW - Horatius Cocles KW - Tolkien KW - Macaulay KW - reception KW - exemplarity Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.214 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 15 SP - 123 EP - 162 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cristini, Marco ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - The Fall of Two Cities: Troy and Gondolin JF - thersites 15 N2 - Vergil was a fundamental source of inspiration for Tolkien, not only when writing the Lord of the Rings, but also at the beginning of his “world-building”. The Fall of Gondolin, written in 1916, was modeled upon the Aeneid, whose second book shares many similarities with the description of Gondolin’s last day. For instance, the attack that seals the fate of the city takes place during a feast in both works, whereas both protagonists (Aeneas and Tuor) leave wives and sons to fight the enemy and witness deaths of their kings (Priam/Turgon). Other analogies include the topos of the fall of the tallest tower of the city as well as the scenes of Creusa/Idril clasping the knees of her husband and begging him not to go back to the battle. Tolkien chose the Aeneid as his main model because, in his opinion, the Aeneid and The Fall of Gondolin evoked the air of antiquity and melancholy. Vergil’s nostalgia for a “lost world” conveyed in the Aeneid greatly resembles the nostalgia pervading both Tolkien’s writing and life. KW - Tolkien KW - reception of Vergil KW - Aeneid KW - Troy KW - Gondolin Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.200 VL - 2022 IS - 15 SP - 1 EP - 24 ER - 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 - Stutz, Kathryn H. ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - G. B. Smith’s “Elzevir Cicero” and the Construction of Queer Immortality in Tolkien’s Mythopoeia JF - thersites 15 N2 - Following the death of J. R. R. Tolkien in 1973, an obituary appeared in The Times quoting Tolkien as having said that his “love for the classics took ten years to recover from lectures on Cicero and Demosthenes.” This contentious relationship between Tolkien and the Greco-Roman past contrasts with the work of unabashedly classicizing poet Geoffrey Bache Smith, a school friend of Tolkien’s who was killed in the Great War. When Tolkien collected Smith’s poems for posthumous publication, this paper shows, Smith’s engagements with the ancient world became part of Tolkien’s own philosophy of immortality through literary composition. Within his 1931 poem “Mythopoeia,” and his 1939 speech “On Fairy-Stories,” Tolkien articulated a unified method of mythmaking by looking back to his lost friend’s understanding of mythology as a type of ancient story-craft that enabled poets to preserve the dead against the ravages of time. By tracing a triangular path through the relationships between Tolkien, Smith, and the classical past inhabited by figures like Cicero, this paper argues that Tolkien not only recovered a “love for the classics,” but used classical texts to “recover” his lost friend, granting Smith a queer, classical immortality in return. KW - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien KW - Geoffrey Bache Smith KW - hauntology KW - queer theory KW - mythopoeia Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.225 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 15 SP - 253 EP - 284 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Praet, Raf ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - The Throne of the King BT - The Throne Room in Minas Tirith and Late Antique Ruler Ideology JF - thersites 15 N2 - A conspicuous feature of Tolkien’s description of the city of Minas Tirith in The Return of The King is the depiction of two thrones in the Great Hall; one empty throne reserved for the king, and one seat for the steward of Gondor. This paper aims to ascertain the late antique and mediaeval sources of inspiration behind Tolkien’s creation of the throne room in Minas Tirith. As a starting point, we shall compare the setting of the two thrones in Minas Tirith with a motive in Christian iconography, the hetoimasia, and its architectural expression in the Chrysotriklinos, the throne room in the Byzantine Great Palace in Constantinople. Next, we shall show that Tolkien intentionally obscured his appropriation of the Byzantine throne room to create a multi-layered image of rulership, in accordance with his aesthetics of applicability and allegory. In conclusion, we shall formulate some remarks on the interpretation of the association between the Byzantine Chrysotriklinos and the Gondorian Great Hall. As a form of Tolkien’s literary process of sub-creation, the description of the throne room in Minas Tirith serves to emphasise the significance of The Return of the King as a retelling of Christ’s restoration of the fallen world, placing the work of Tolkien in the context of a strong personal Catholic piety. KW - late antique palace architecture KW - Chrysotriklinos KW - allegory and applicability KW - sub-creation KW - Christ the King Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.210 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 15 SP - 232 EP - 252 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 - Chinn, Christopher A1 - Thompson, Phoebe ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Tolkien’s Ithilien and the Landscape of the Ancient Mediterranean JF - thersites 15 N2 - This paper examines the intertext between Tolkien’s Ithilien episode in Two Towers and artistic presentations of plants in the art and literature of Augustan Rome. We argue that the evident ‘superbloom’ depicted in the ekphrasis of the flora of Ithilien recalls both Vergilian botanical adynata (especially in the Georgics) and Roman wall paintings of the Augustan period. KW - Tolkien KW - Vergil KW - ecocriticism KW - Ithilien KW - flora Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.211 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 15 SP - 163 EP - 203 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Beck, Christian ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Review of Hamish Williams: Tolkien and the Classical World BT - Walking Tree Publishers (Zurich/Jena 2021) (= Cormarë Series No. 45), 414 pp . ISBN: 978-3-905703-45-0, 44 € JF - thersites 15 Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.230 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 15 SP - 314 EP - 320 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sanchez Sanz, Arturo A1 - Laudenbach, Benoît A1 - Weiß, Adrian A1 - Werner, Eva A1 - Stachon, Markus A1 - Anders, Friedrich A1 - Barthel, Christian A1 - Berrens, Dominik A1 - Avalli, Andrea A1 - Vandewalle, Alexander A1 - Ferrara, Pasquale A1 - Pohl, Patrik ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Spring Issue T2 - thersites Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol16 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2023 IS - 16 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Potter, Amanda A1 - Gardner, Hunter H. A1 - Toscano, Margaret Merrill A1 - Foster, Frances A1 - Lovatt, Helen A1 - Strong, Anise K. A1 - Siegel, Janice A1 - Skibinski, Connie A1 - Martínez Jiménez, Javier A1 - Maurice, Lisa ED - Potter, Amanda ED - Gardner, Hunter H. T1 - Classics and the supernatural in modern media T2 - thersites Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol17 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2023 IS - 17 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo A1 - García Morcillo, Marta T1 - Discursive constructions of corruption in Ancient Rome BT - Introduction JF - Cultural History Y1 - 2024 UR - https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/cult.2024.0293 SN - 2045-290X SN - 2045-2918 VL - 13 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 11 PB - Edinburgh University Press CY - Edinburgh ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cantenar, Ömer Faruk A1 - Kozera, Cyprian Aleksander T1 - Fighting ISIS in Syria BT - Operation Euphrates Shield and the lessons learned from the al-Bab Battle JF - Small wars & insurgencies N2 - This paper analyses the Operation Euphrates Shield (OES) al-Bab battle and presents the lessons learned. OES started with a mixed force of Free Syrian Army, Turkish special forces and armoured units. During the operation, the aims and the force structure gradually changed, yet not the command structure. When OES aimed to capture al-Bab, ISIS employed conventional active defence strategy. The OES commander's insistence on employing special forces increased own casualties and al-Bab was seized only after resorting to a conventional urban attack. OES presents tactical and operational lessons for the militaries on structure and execution of operations against an irregular adversary employing conventional means. KW - Operation Euphrates Shield KW - Turkish military in Syria KW - al-Bab Battle KW - ISIS KW - proxy force KW - urban warfare Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2021.1875308 SN - 0959-2318 SN - 1743-9558 VL - 33 IS - 3 SP - 350 EP - 381 PB - Routledge CY - Basingstoke ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schoeps, Julius H. T1 - The (non)-assuming legacy : the debate on German-Jewish memorial culture N2 - This essay shows how Jewish identity in pre-1933 Germany defined itself and how the widely known concept of German-Jewish symbiosis came into question after the organized murder of the European Jews. The search for a German- Jewish legacy in postwar Germany as well as in the countries in which the Jewish emigres found a new home will be explored. Moreover, the Eastern European cultural roots of Jews who migrated from Russia to Germany in the 1990s will also be discussed Y1 - 2005 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schoeps, Julius H. T1 - The Images of germany held by russian jews : trends and developments in jewish migration to the federal republic of germany Y1 - 2000 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Schoeps, Julius H. T1 - Theodor Herzl and the Zionist dream Y1 - 1997 PB - Thames and Hudson CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schoeps, Julius H. T1 - From Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism : on Structure, Function, and Effect of a Prejudice Y1 - 1996 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schoeps, Julius H. T1 - The Jewish Museum in Vienna : a place to rediscover Austrian Jewish History Y1 - 1996 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schoeps, Julius H. T1 - Yiddish culture : Proposals for institutional co-operation Y1 - 1996 ER -