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  • Abelard castrated
  • Byzantine wife saves husband
  • Amphitryon & Geta duped
  • Chastelaine de Vergi tragedy
  • Aristotle’s advice to Alexander
  • Empress Theodora: woman leader
  • Tristan & Isuet
  • Xanthippe & Socrates
  • New Modern Sexism Scale

sensory ecology

Biological and behavioral description and analysis of human senses in ecologically relevant circumstances

Antoninus of Piacenza's strange sense in the Holy Land

The travel account of Antoninus of Piacenza is factual in ways completely inconsistent with modern practices of distinguishing between fact and fiction. … Read the post Antoninus of Piacenza's strange sense in the Holy Land

shipwreck beggars: popular pictorial communication in ancient Rome

Shipwreck beggars in ancient Rome used pictures. Pictures might have identified a beggar cross-linguistically as being particularly worthy of sympathy. … Read the post shipwreck beggars: popular pictorial communication in ancient Rome

Smithsonian Museum: the matter of history

The Smithsonian Museum of American History holds the piece of rock that Lewis Bradford at 4:15 pm on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 1830, chipped off the Plymouth Rock. … Read the post Smithsonian Museum: the matter of history

system, not signals, for biological analysis of communication

Communication between organisms is best understood as ongoing behavioral interactions of a particular formal type within a particular time frame. … Read the post system, not signals, for biological analysis of communication

al-Farazdaq realized Imruʼ al-Qays' poetic revelation

Through its theatrically enacted bi-narrative, al-Farazdaq’s story of the girls overturns biographical reading of Imruʼ al-Qays’s Muʻallaqah. … Read the post al-Farazdaq realized Imruʼ al-Qays' poetic revelation

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