Kate Stevens Harvard College Joint Concentration in Human Evolutionary Biology and the Comparative Study of Religions
Sufism is commonly regarded as the “spiritual realm” of Islam. This sect of Islam is often characterized by a particular focus on Islamic spirituality, asceticism, and esotericism. The ‘whirling dervishes’ are an example of this …
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Alexander Krauzlis College Year in Athens Siena College alexanderkrauzlis@gmail.com
The history of Alexandria is one which often is wanting of archeological evidence, so chronicles become the main source of our understanding of Alexandrias past. This article will provide a narrative of the first Christians in Alexandria and in doing so, insight into …
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Blaike Cheramie
Scripps College Classical Languages and French Studies
Saint Perpetua is a well known figure, popularized for her unapologetic Christianity, famous for her powerful and still feminine display of agency within a male-centric society. Perpetua, a young Christian woman who had not even been baptized at the time …
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Nicole Tubman
University of Southern California
Art and Art History
If someone were to describe to you a being, a man who is half man, half goat, with horns, hooves, a tail, and is bearded, probably the first thing you think of is an image of the …
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Joshua Anthony
Classics and Theology, University of Notre Dame, 2020
Ennodius’ biography of Saint Epiphanius illustrates very well some of the cultural elements accompanying the political transformation of Western Europe from Roman provinces to Germanic kingdoms, most notably the manner in which the legacy of a distinctly Christian Rome …
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Dr Despina Iosif
In Achilleas Tatius’ Leucippe and Kleitophon 4.9-17, written in the third quarter of the second century AD, a story that allows us a wonderful glimpse of how illness could be approached in the Graeco-Roman world is preserved. The beautiful protagonist Leucippe faces at some point something we would …
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Dr Despina Iosif
‘If there is a virginity test, I will take it’, the protagonist Leukippe in the Achilleas Tatius’ novel Leucippe and Clitophon, written in the third quarter of the second century, declared to her mother who refused since she wished to avoid all the gossip and attention this would …
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Κωνσταντίνος Λαγός
Ιστορικός – Συγγραφέας
“ΧΟΙΡΟC O ΠACI ΦΙΛΟC TETΡΑΠΟΥC ΝΕΟC ΕΝΘΑΔΕ ΚΕΙΜΑΙ…..”
ΕΠΙΤΥΜΒΙΟ ΜΙΚΡΟΥ ΓΟΥΡΟΥΝΙΟΥ ΠΟΥ ΣΚΟΤΩΘΗΚΕ ΤΗ ΡΩΜΑΪΚΗ ΕΠΟΧΗ ΣΕ ΤΡΟΧΑΙΟ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΓΝΑΤΙΑ!
Τον 2ο ή 3ο αιώνα μ.Χ. στην Έδεσσα της Ημαθίας φιλοτεχνήθηκε μια επιτύμβια στήλη που απεικόνιζε μία …
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Colby D. Kirkpatrick
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Media & Journalism | Advertising
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Despite popular opinion, the Christian bible is not a linear narrative, a comprehensive religious foundation, or an explicit framework for spiritual practice. …
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