Much influenced by these important literary figures, a young philosophy graduate from Cairo University began to explore the novel genre, and in 1939 the first novel of Naguib Mahfouz (Najīb Maḥfūẓ) appeared, a historical novel set in ancient Egypt entitled ʿAbath al-aqdār (“Fates’...
I think you overlooked some music types which are very ancient and very comprehensive, with their own melody and language. You only mentioned Ethio-jazz, which is a very small part of the types in that country. There are more than 11 styles which are unique and some inherent. I am doing...
The music offers a dynamic combination between ancient-traditional music of the West and synthesised sonic soundscapes. The most representative artists of this movement are Michael Stream (Lyra Sound Constellation, 1983) Robert Rich (Numena, 1987) and Steve Roach (Dreamtime Return, 1988).In the ...
Yet the reception of ancient Greece has posi-tioned it so firmly within the Western canon that, regardless of the historical reality, ancient Greek literature and the works of philosophers such as Aristotle have become part of a colonial apparatus which makes them contentious when looking at ...
None of these studies, however, gave attention to the difference in useof the wordpokupqaclos¼mgin theMoraliaversus theLives.7 Unless indicated differently, forOn Curiosity, all text quotations are taken from theedition of Pohlenz, all translations from Helmbold, whereas for all other ancient ...
Within this larger historicalcontext, comics can be seen both as an ancient medium that combines words and images, two of the primal building blocks forcommunication, and as a modern medium that continues to develop and evolve. By the last quarter of the 20th century, the termcomicshad suddenl...