Sökning: "Mythology"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 50 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Mythology.

1. 16. Varying Virtue : Mythological Paragons of Wifely Virtues in Roman Elegy

   Författare :Magdalena Öhrman; Latin; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ovid; Elegy; Propertius; Ovid’s exile poetry; erotodidactic elegy; Tibullus; mythology; genre;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates references to five mythological characters (Penelope, Laodamia, Andromache, Alcestis and Euadne) used as paragons of wifely virtues in Roman elegy. Providing extensive close readings, it discusses the usage of these five characters in the works of Propertius and Tibullus, and in the elegiac works of Ovid, with special reference to issues of narratology, intertextuality, and literary genre. LÄS MER

3. 17. Claiming Rome : Portraiture and Social Identity in the Eighteenth Century

   Författare :Sabrina Norlander; Solfrid Söderlind; Shearer West; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art history; portraiture; new mythology; Grand Tour; gender roles; eighteenth-century Rome; portrait display; reception; Pompeo Batoni; Doria Pamphilj; Barberini; Pallavicini-Rospigliosi.; Konstvetenskap; Art; Konstvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This study examines two groups of European nobility, the Roman aristocracy and the British Grand Tour travellers, specifically, their attitudes towards Antiquity as expressed in portraits produced in eighteenth-century Rome. Antiquity in this study connotes Ancient Rome, particularly its political system, religious system and architecture, and assumes it to be the quintessence of a Western mythology that had supported the legitimation of the ruling classes since the Middle Ages. LÄS MER

4. 18. Tecknets tragedi : Symbol och allegori i Atterboms sagospel Lycksalighetens ö : [symbol and allegory in Atterboms fairytale play The Island of Felicity]

   Författare :Otto Fischer; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; romanticism; symbol; allegory; F.W.J. Schelling; Karl Philipp Moritz; new mythology; german idealism; semiotics; romantic drama; poetics; aesthetics; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This study deals with the concepts of symbol and allegory in Idealist/Romantic aesthetic doctrine, with special consideration given to one of the principal works of Swedish Romantic literature, P.D.A. Atterbom's fairytale play Lycksalighetens ö (The island of Felicity). LÄS MER

5. 19. Vikingatida sköldar : Ting, bild och text som associativt fält

   Författare :Kerstin Odebäck; Mats Burström; Anders Andrén; Terje Gansum; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Viking Age; shields; miniature shields; picture stones; rune stones; burials; skaldic poetry; warrior ideal; Norse mythology; arkeologi med inriktning mot allmän arkeologi; Archaeology with General Specialisation;

   Sammanfattning : Shields are among the most iconic artefacts associated with the Viking Age. Even though shields occur frequently in various archaeological and written sources, the function and meaning of shields have been sparsely researched and they have mainly been considered relevant as part of the warrior’s equipment. LÄS MER

7. 20. The Viking Way : Religion and War in Late Iron Age Scandinavia

   Författare :Neil Price; Martin Carver; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Viking Age; Vikings; Óðinn; seiðr; sorcery; shamanism; warfare; Norse religion; Norse mythology; Sámi; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology;

   Sammanfattning : The social role of magic is a prevalent theme of the medieval Icelandic sagas that claim to describe life several centuries earlier in the Viking Age, and indeed also saturates the Eddic poetry that is our primary source for the mythology and cosmology of the time. However, little archaeological or historical research has been done to explore what this aspect of ritual may really have meant to the men and women of late Iron Age Scandinavia. LÄS MER