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The Construction of Authority in Ancient Rome and Byzantium: ...
Sarolta A. TakácsIn The Construction of Authority in Ancient Rome and Byzantium, Sarolta Takács examines the role of the Roman emperor, who was the single most important law-giving authority in Roman society.
Reading Rivers in Roman Literature and Culture
Prudence J. JonesSarolta A. Takács, Editor With the introduction of this series, Roman Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches, we hope to enhance understanding of the ancient Roman world. This empire was multicultural and lasted, from a mythological ...
Cybelle, Attis and related cults: essays in memory of M. J. ...
PreviewMAGNA DEUM MATER IDAEA, CYBELE, AND CATULLUS' A TTIS Sarolta A. Takacs Before Hannibal's victories at Lake Trasimene and Cannae, the decemviri consulted the libri Sibyllini three times in 218/7 B.C.E.1 Unfavorable prodigies ...
Vestal Virgins, Sibyls, and Matrons: Women in Roman Religion
Sarolta A. Takácshis book grew out of a discussion with Peg Fulton at an American Philological Association Meeting many years ago. At one point, as it happens with many projects, it took a different turn. Instead of becoming a general book on Roman women, ...
Isis and Sarapis in the Roman world
Sarolta A. TakácsIsis and Sarapis in the Roman World deals with the integration of the cult of Isis among Roman cults, the subsequent transformation of Isis and Sarapis into gods of the Roman state, and the epigraphic employment of the names of these two ...
Post-9/11 Espionage Fiction in the US and Pakistan: Spies ...
Cara CilanoStacy Takacs (2012: 22) adds to this formulation the idea that such security measures also “offe[r] clarity by dividing the world into categories of 'us' and 'them '.” These divisions, in turn, operate at the “level of affect,” in Takacs's analysis, ...
Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History
Peter Rollins... security to notions of masculinity. “Characteristics, actions, and reactions deemed feminine—such as diplomacy, negotiation, and compromise” have been systematically devalued in public discourse 488 / Stacy Takacs 22 / Stacy Takacs .
Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: ...
Preview6 Takacs (1994); and Montserrat (1998). 7 Ebers Papyrus, lines 12-16 (Ebers ( 1987), 23). 8 For a translation of this myth of Ra, see J. A. Wilson in Pritchard ( 1955), 12-14. most powerful of all gods, is old and spit falls. 354 SaroltaA. Takacs .
The Spectator
More editionsIn "TV Nationalism: History as Spectacle on Miami Vice," Stacy Takacs focuses on the ways this series, and its use of the logics of spectacle, articulates the connections between ideas of nationhood and the spread of global capitalism. Takacs ...
Cultural Studies
Intellect BooksStacy Takacs Oklahoma State University, American Studies, 700 North Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, 74106-0700, United States of America Keywords trauma, therapeutic rhetoric, militarism, US television, militainment Stacy Takacs is an Associate ...
TV Nationalisms: Reflections on the Contemporary State ...
Stacy TakacsReflections on the Contemporary State And/of US Imperialism Stacy Takacs. for being probably the sweetest, most supportive guy on the planet. Thanks for the pre-exam poem, which I still cherish, and all of the encouragement over the years .
Terrorism TV: Popular Entertainment in Post-9/11 America
Stacy TakacsThe first comprehensive survey and analysis of War on Terror themes in post-9/11 American television.
The Footprints of Michael the Archangel: The Formation and ...
J. Arnold... Monuments,” Journal ofRoman Archaeology 3 (1990): 55–109; Francesca L' Hoir, “Three Sandalled Footlamps: Their Apotropaic Potentiality in the Cult of Serapis,” ArchäologischerAnzeiger 15 (1983): 225– 237.Also, SaroltaA.Takács ...
Molecular Immunological Considerations in Malaria Vaccine ...
Michael F. GoodJakobsen, P. H., Moon, R., Ridley, R. G., Bate, C. A. W., Taverne, J., Hansen, M. B., Takacs, B., Playfair, J. H. L., and McBride, J. S., Tumour necrosis factor and interleukin6 production induced by components associated with merozoite proteins ...
Interrogating Popular Culture: Key Questions
Stacy TakacsHarold E. Hinds, Jr., Marilyn F. Motz, and Angela M.S. Nelson (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006). 36 John Fiske, Television Culture (New York: Routledge, 1987), 239. 37 Joke Hermes, Reading Women's Magazines ...
American Militarism on the Small Screen
PreviewAnna Froula, Stacy Takacs. series that made the rare move of engaging the conflict—such as Biff Baker, USA (CBS, 1952–1953), Navy Log (CBS, 1955– 1956; ABC, 1956–1958), and Alcoa Premiere (ABC, 1961–1963). Laderman argues that ...
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