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Renaissance Science and the Urgent Need to Readdress Social Economics

Final draft for 15 Renaissance science and the urgent need to readdress social economics During the 1930s The Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University, F M Cornford, the author of Principium Sapientiae: The Origins of Greek Philosophical Thought, was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. His book Before and After Socrates has […]

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Northanger Abbey – An Analysis of Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody

Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey is widely considered to be a parody of the Gothic genre of novels. Throughout its narrative, Austen engages with several well-known Gothic novels of the late eighteenth century by authors such as Ann Radcliffe. Typical Gothic set-pieces form the backbone of several scenes in Austen’s narrative, as well as many famous […]

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Evolution of Ancient Greek Hairstyles

Ancient Greek hairstyles changed as ancient Greece changed, reflecting the preoccupations and aspirations of its residents. Hairstyles signified something about the wearer’s age, taste and city of origin, but not much about his or her social class (except for slaves, whose hair was usually short). In their private lives, Athenians were, according to Demosthenes, “severe […]

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The Phosphoglucose Isomerase (Pgi) Locus in Butterfly Population

  Modelling the evolution of the phosphoglucose isomerase (Pgi) locus in butterfly metapopulations: project proposal. Background: Metapopulation theory, as developed by R. Levins in 1969, concerns the dynamics of metapopulations, which consist of several distinct local populations that exhibit some degree of interaction and occupy isolated areas of suitable habitat, referred to as patches. Each local […]

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