Metamorphoses in Greco-Roman Antiquity. Concerning Ovid's Metamorphoses

Theology as Academic Discourse in Greco-roman Late Antiquity

Following conventional wisdom Theology as an academic discipline (taught at Universities) is something which developed only in the Middle Ages, or in a certain sense even as late as the 19 century. The present essay in contrast traces its origins to Classical Antiquity and outlines its development in early Christianity, especially with a view to institutions of higher education that existed in ...

Antiquity in Antiquity Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World

Metamorphoses : The Myth of Evolutionary Possibility

Metamorphoses Through Lie Group Action

We formally analyze a computational problem which has important applications in image understanding and shape analysis. The problem can be summarized as follows. Starting from a group action on a Riemannian manifold M , we introduce a modification of the metric by partly expressing displacements on M as an effect of the action of some group element. The study of this new structure relates to ev...

Patterns of Rape in Ovid's Metamorphoses

The subject of rape is pervasive throughout Ovid's Metamorphoses. The myths themselves are by no means originals of the poet; however, his treatment of these stories is remarkably divergent from his predecessors' in that he provides a uniquely female perspective by outlining both the victim's suffering and the barbaric nature of the perpetrator. In Ovid's representations of these rape myths, ra...