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This paper deals with El samurái de la Graflex, by Daniel Salinas Basave. The analysis focuses on the representation of a historical character of Japanese origin: Kingo Nonaka, whose figure represents the irruption of a culture that contrasts with the attitudes and ideosyncrasy of revolutionary Mexico. Non-aka concentrates elements that form the image of a Japan in transition towards modernity. Between meditation as a method for diving and fluency with a camera, Salinas Basave follows Nonaka in his wanderings and allows the reader to appreciate details of the history of the first half of the twentieth century from a perspective "alien" to the Mexican one, while building a space for reflection on writing and memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the texts of authors of Classical Antiquity (De abstinentia by Porphyry and De re coquinaria attributed to Apicius, among others), this paper analyzes the notion of pure food and their implication in the diet and over it. First, it studies the concept of diet, as a part of the therapeutic, that is, one of the medical instruments to restore health. For ancient Greeks and Romans, in addition to healthy eating, rest and exercise, the diet includes baths and purges; both elements are related to the idea of purity. Secondly, this paper shows the Latin terms that are used to describe pure food, crudus, recens, viridis and purus, specifically in the cases of olive oil and honey, which are considered the pure foods most characteristics. To conclude, pure food requires neither cooking nor preservation for consumption, and also can be consumed without mixing or adding any element to the product itself. In consequence, the notion of purity is associated not only with a dietetic domain, but this notion also reaches ethical and metaphoric dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In my PhD thesis (published in 2008), I applied the classification of symbols' method proposed by Gilbert Durand to the Orphic corpus. From Anthropology, Hermeneutics, Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology of religions, I board the symbols' hubbub, and I obtain interesting results. Du-rand defends that the human cosmovisions are tripartites: the symbols of a people have to do with (a) the instinct of "walking upright", (b) the instinct of nourishment (breastfeed) or (c) the reproduction (sex). Plato, in the Timaeus, also explains the structure of the world from three symbols (father, mother and son). In this paper I analyze the word ERIKEPAIOS in order to find its original meaning. I based my study on the most recent studies by Alberto Bernabé and his collaborators, and in certain interpretations of Greek philosophy (Marcel Detienne, Peter Kingsley, Walter Burkert, etc.). I conclude that, indeed, in the Orphic texts the protagonist is the dead individual; however, he is the main character because he is alive, as the reborn, the initiated, the saint child. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to conduct a reflection on the new reality that has occurred in the context of the present discipline of the Classical Tradition: the emergence of Reception Studies, in order to rereading Greek and Latin Classics over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jose Osorio Espinosa de los Monteros, who became Judge of the Royal Court of Mexico, attained a degree in Civil Law from the Royal University of Mexico with a thesis published in 1668, and now preserved at the Nation's General Archive (agn). The purpose of this paper is to present said thesis along with its paleographic transcription and his translation, as well as a philological and historical analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the topics of the discourse about decadence, a discourse which, as it is known, can be traced in many ancient and modern historical, philosophical and literary sources. Our investigation, which takes as its starting point the works of Edwards 2002, Freund 1984, Le Goff 1991, Lovejoy-Boas 1997, Momigliano 1984 and Starn 1975, contends that 'decadence' is not a process that actually operates in human reality, but a metaphor used to interpret historical change. We will thus not attempt to describe a supposedly existing 'decadence', but the various ways in which discourses about decadence have been used to interpret historical, social or literary phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a comparative reading of Prometheus, a novel by Ramón Pérez de Ayala, a Spanish writer, taking Greek mythology as a reference, specifically the heroic figures of Odysseus and Prometheus. This will be done in order to assess the analyses, both critical and literary, of the ideas related to humanism and progress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to study the primal relationship between music and epic poetry, whose traces are found in Homer. On one hand, such undertaking will be done under the light of ancient doctrines about musical teaching and its ethical effects. On the other, the study will also consider the way in wich moral readings of this kind, based on the Achilles at the lyre passage from the Iliad, IX, 186-189, were exploited by Statius in his Achilleid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on a rich selection of primary and secondary sources, this paper discusses the fundamental role that exegesis and commentarial literature played in the development and identity of Sanskrit culture throughout more than two millennia. In order to understand the richness and, above all, the continuity of Sanskrit ars interpretandi, the article argues for the necessity of going back to the Vedic period and retrieve a double legacy: on the one hand, the relationship between interpretation and revelation; on the other, between interpretation and liturgy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The structure of Cristina Rivera Garzas novel Nadie me verá llorar is organized with real documents taken from some patients' clinical stories at the mental hospital, La Castañeda, which was opened in 1910 to celebrate the Mexican Independence centenary. This paper explores the way in which the concepts of memory and archive are put in play to create a relationship between the historical and fictional discourses. The intersection of both discourses and its function in the level of the narrative construction and sense, bring, in the end, a particular idea of history as discipline and the question of its truth as an official discourse by the authority in power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses one type of important intermediaries of colonial Yucatan, the general interpreters of Yucatan's Juzgado Privado de Indios. From the time of Gaspar Antonio Chi in 1580 until the demise of this court in the 1820s, these men mediated directly in land disputes, complaints against priests and other officials, and translated decrees initially published in Spanish for the province's Maya-speaking majority. The activities of the interpreters demonstrate that Yucatan had a high number of individuals literate and fluent in both Maya and Spanish until the close of the colonial period. Furthermore, the quantity of qualified individuals serving unofficially as interpreters during the late eighteenth century and the surprising number of non-Mayas in need of their services also shows that the colonial period was a time in which Maya spread as the predominant language of Yucatan rather than a time of decline for the region's native language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Servius's Commentarii supported cultural and linguistic values of the pagan world, which existed through the process of triumphant Christianity's legalization. The paradigmatic authors Servius used were located in the rhetoric system as unconscious and conscious "strata", as a result of the intellectual background provided by the leading groups through Roman history. This paper demonstrates the stratified construction of Servius's Commentarii, with the purpose of rendering an evidence of this dialogic operation, which was characteristic of late antiquity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]