Poetry and Music in Ancient Iran

Mathematical Ideas in Ancient Indian Poetry

Modern mathematics owes a big debt to India’s contributions to the subject. Of particular importance is the decimal, place value number system that appeared in India during the Vedic period or soon after, circa 1300 BC to 300 AD, and made its way to Europe during the Middle Ages. That period of time in India also produced a heady mixture of poetic works: poems, songs, grand epics, biographies a...

soroush: poetry numen in ancient iran

in the mythology of nations, there has been a myth known as “the numen of poetry and art” and different cultures have samples for that. this numen has been the connecting point between human being and god (or divinities) that inspires poetry to the poet in an unconscious manner. the writer of this article has studied shahnameh and pahlavi literature to search for this myth in the culture of anc...

Transmitting (and Hiding) Knowledge in Ancient Greek Pharmaceutical Poetry

Comedies of Transgression in Gangsta Rap and Ancient Classical Poetry

First paragraph: The history of literature and art offers no shortage of works created to offend or shock an audience, but few have been as incendiary as gangsta rap. Apologists cannot deny the problematic content of this form of rap—the misogynistic posturing, themes of intense violence, freewheeling and gratuitous obscenity—and some detractors hold that even the attempt to analyze the genre b...

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