The purpose of this study is to illustrate the role of fertility goddesses in the lives and beliefs of the people of the Ancient Near East. Artefacts from the late Paleolithic period were crude female figures of pregnant women representing fertility. A mother goddess was specified as the giver and taker of life and vegetation. The polytheism of pre-exilic Israel that existed proves that not only Yahweh but also other gods existed. In the creation stories of the Ancient Near East, creation myths played a major role; in the Ugaritic myths the universe was ruled by powerful deities, and their presence could be felt in rain, vegetation and crops. Fertility cults were the force in their worship. Cultic sites associated with deities were often located in groves of trees, which made them sacred to the people. There was a close relationship between tree and tree figures, as well as gods and goddess images. / Biblical and Ancient Studies / M.A. (Biblical Archaeology)

In literary discourse from the Genesis creation myth through John Milton's Paradise Lost and beyond, Eve has been patriarchally considered to be the bringer of Sin and Death into the world. In Paradise Lost Eve is depicted as deceiving Adam into the Fall by way of the Serpent. Paradise Lost creates a Miltonic command that helps to further blame Woman for Sin and Death. Milton's poem is based on the Genesis creation myth written by Canaanite authors. In this myth the Canaanite authors wished to rid the world of Goddess worship and, by humanizing Eve, they successfully obliterate that form of worship. As a result of this obliteration of the Goddess, Eve, as a humanized form of the ancient Goddess Asherah, remains unredeemed for her sin and forever held to blame. Throughout what Michel Foucault calls the archive, or discourse in which power resides, Eve/Woman continues to be seen by patriarchal discourse as to blame for the Fall. There has never been a successful redemption for Eve in the archive. Although Samuel Richardson's Clarissa has been suggested as a successful redeemer of Eve, Clarissa's blatant will to death and, therefore, will to power precludes a successful redemption of Eve. The successful Redemption of Eve comes in Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles. By way of Tess's Goddess stature and her self-sacrifice at the end of the novel she successfully effects a redemption of Eve/Woman. As Goddess, Tess enters a state of otherwise than being in the intertext and becomes the Supernatural narrator who narrates both her own story and the unsaid story of the Goddess in the mythic narrative. By way of this otherwise than being as the Supernatural narrator, Tess takes on Eve's blame and intertextually subverts the Miltonic command by narrating the Goddess's prehistorical purity. As a result, then, Eve is redeemed and the Goddess's unsaid story is reinstated in the mythic narrative.

Orientador: Brunno Vinicius Gonçalves Vieira / Banca: Márcio Meirelles Gouvêa Júnior / Banca: Márcio Thamos / Resumo: Considerando as múltiplas representações que o herói Jasão recebe desde a Antiguidade, escolheu-se a epopeia de Valério Flaco, autor do século I d.C., como principal objeto de análise para refletir sobre a construção do líder dos argonautas. Oferece-se um panorama dos autores que trabalham com as narrativas relacionadas ao herói em obras literárias anteriores a Flaco, de modo a que se possa ter uma visão geral da tradição que foi construída acerca do herói e das diferenças que existem na abordagem do mito, o que poderia impactar a construção do herói. Nessa exposição, dá-se destaque à obra de Apolônio de Rodes, por ser considerada um marco no que se refere a essa construção, tendo em vista que o poeta trata da viagem dos argonautas em gênero épico, o que permitiria um maior detalhamento acerca de diversos aspectos do mito que poderiam não ser possíveis em um gênero mais curto, não predominantemente narrativo e em que a figura central não fosse o herói. Aborda-se a representação dada a Jasão por Valério Flaco, confrontando o herói, intrinsecamente, a seus companheiros de viagem e, extrinsecamente, a seus antecessores, de modo a refletir sobre essa nova inserção do herói em gênero épico em contexto latino. Assim, pretende-se analisar tanto a construção do herói isoladamente na obra em que está inserido quanto, ao mostrar as diversas possibilidades oferecidas por poetas anteriores, quais versões Valério Flaco poderia ter explorado, seja por um processo de eleição de modelo a ser... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Considering the multiple representations that the hero Jason received since Antiquity, the epic of Valerius Flaccus, a first century AD author, was chosen as the main object of analysis to reflect on the construction of the leader of the Argonauts. It is offered an overview of the authors who work with the narratives related to the hero in literary works previous to Flaccus, so that the reader can have an overview of the tradition that was constructed about the hero and the possible differences in the approach of the myth, which could affect his construction. In this exhibition, the work of Apollonius of Rhodes is emphasized as it's considered a mark in regard to this construction, given that the poet deals with the Argonauts' journey in epic genre, which would allow greater detail about various aspects of the myth that might not be possible in a shorter genre, in which the narrative was not predominant and the central figure was not the hero. The representation given to Jason by Valerius Flaccus is dealt confronting the hero intrinsically to his fellows and extrinsically to his predecessors in order to reflect on his new insertion in the epic genre in Latin context. Thus, it is intended to analyze both the construction of the hero alone in the work in which he is inserted and, by showing the various possibilities offered by previous poets, which versions Valerius Flaccus could have explored, either by a process of election of a model to be followed, affiliating to a traditio... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Thesis (M.S.)--Florida State University, 2003. / Advisor: Dr. Kathleen Erndl, Florida State University, College of Social Sciences, Dept. of International Affairs. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Mar. 2, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2002. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 185-197). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2002. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 185-197). Also available on the Internet.

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Inaug.-Diss.--Königsberg. / Filmed with: Keck, Emil / Ueber die Lebensweisheit Koheleths u. Horaz' -- Kannengiesser, Adolf / De Lucretii versibus transpondendis -- Kok, Adrianus Gerardus / Dissertatio literaria exhibens quaestiones Plutarcheas -- Loercher, Adolf / De compositione et fonte libri Ciceronis, qui est De fato -- Karo, Georg / De arte vascularia antiquissima quaestiones -- Lundburg, Karl August / De ratione Herodotea praepositionibus utendi a scriptoribus atticis diversa -- Kaemper, J.L.C. / Commentarius in Persi Satiram VI -- Lugge, Georg / Quomodo Euripides in Supplicibus tempora sua respexerit -- Koenig, Christoph Gottfried Samuel / Specimen interpretandi Platonis dialogi qui Crito inscribitur -- Illek, Franz / Ueber den Gebrauch der Präpositionen bei Hesiod : I. Theil -- Lunyak, Ivan Ivanovich / De paricidii vocis origine -- Lobeck, Christian August / De vocabulorum Graecorum parathesi : dissertatio tertia -- Kapp, Alexander / De Platonis re gymnastica -- Hermann, Gottfried / De legibus quibusdam subtilioribus sermonis Homerici : dissertatio prima -- Lucas, Karl Wilhelm / Observationum in difficiliora quaedam Cratini aliorumque comicorum Graecorum fragmenta : specimen alterum -- Lucas, Karl Wilhelm / De voce Homerica polypaipalos aliisque cognatis vocabulis : observationes philologicae -- Lücke, Otto / Bürgers Homerübersetzung -- Kausch, Eduard / Quatenus Hesiodi elocutio ab exemplo Homeri pendeat -- Keck, Karl Heinrich Christian / Der theologische Charakter des Zeus in Aeschylos' Prometheustrilogie -- Karbaum, Hermann / De origine exemplorum, quae ex Ciceronis scriptis a Charisio, Diomede, Arusiano Messio, Prisciano Caesariensi, aliis grammaticis Latinis allata sunt -- Kaufmann, Nicolaus / Die teleologische Naturphilosophie des Aristoteles und ihre Bedeutung in der Gegenwart -- Kappe, Friedrich / Der Bekker'sche Paraphrast der Ilias und seine Bedeutung für die Textkritik -- Kapff, Sixt Franz Alexander / Die poëtische Sprache der griechischen Tragiker zunächst im Anschluss an des Euripides Iphigenie in Tauris -- Karstens, Johann / De infinitivi usu Aeschyleo. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1997. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 356-384). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1997. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 356-384). Also available on the Internet.