Essays about: "the classics"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the words the classics.
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1. "Not your darlings – but their mother's!" : Interpretative Difficulties with "Love" in Euripides' Medea
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och retorikAbstract : The aim of this Master’s thesis is to achieve philosophical clarity on an interpretative problem I have been struggle with in Euripides’ Medea: That Medea murders her own children, while claimingto love them. Situated within the philosophical and literary tradition of ordinary language philosophy and ordinary language criticism, the thesis draws on ideas, theoretical discussions, and concepts from Ludwig Wittgenstein, Toril Moi, Stanley Cavell, Cora Diamond, and Niklas Forsberg – but also Søren Kierkegaard. READ MORE
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2. The Fictional World of Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and The Sea: Emic and Etic Perspectives on its Worldbuilding
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Reading is a past time activity that is popular all around the world. It is something thathelps us escape reality and put our focus elsewhere. When immersing yourself in afictional world, it can be intriguing to think of how it was created. READ MORE
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3. Violence Against the Elite : A Comparative Analysis of two Terminal Classic Mass Graves in Cancuén
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : In this essay a comparative analysis will be conducted on two mass graves from the terminal classics in the Maya lowlands. This will be done by analysing interpretations of the Cancuén site in Guatemala. Cancuén was a major trading port city in the terminal classics’ southern lowlands. It flourished until its decline in the late 700’s CE. READ MORE
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4. LSTM-attack on polyalphabetic cyphers with known plaintext : Case study on the Hagelin C-38 and Siemens and Halske T52
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : Polyalphabetic cyphers have been used for centuries and well into the 1970s to transmit all kinds of messages. Since then, computers and modern cryptography have taken over making bruteforce attacks unfeasible when designed properly. READ MORE
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5. Salkinson’s Pursuit of Bringing the New Testament into the Treasure Houseof Hebrew Literature : The controversy surrounding a Haskalah Hebrew translation of the New Testament
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Semitiska språk: Arabiska, Arameiska/Syriska, Etiopiska, HebreiskaAbstract : This study deals with the surprising commissioning of a new translation into Hebrew of the New Testament only months after the prestigious translation by the celebrated German Hebraist Prof. Franz Delitzsch had been published, in 1877. READ MORE