Mille sono le figure che hanno plasmato la storia dell’Impero Romano, la più grande potenza del mondo antico. Ma non tutte sono state portate dalla narrazione storica con una evidenza adeguata al loro fascino. Tra esse si può senza dubbio annoverare Eudocia, donna colta, sensibile e indipendente, figlia dell’imperatore Valentiniano iii e dell’augusta Licinia Eudossia.Nel tempo turbolento in cui la gloria di Roma conosceva il proprio declino sotto i colpi delle popolazioni barbariche...

This issue of Neurologic Clinics, edited by Drs. Patrick Y. Wen and Eudocia Quant Lee, will focus on Neuro-oncology. Topiocs include, but are not limited to, Epidemiology of brain tumors, Molecular pathogenesis of brain tumors, Changes in WHO classification of brain tumors, Neurologic and medical management of brain tumors, Grade 2 and 3 Gliomas, Glioblastoma, Benign brain tumors, Primary CNS lymphoma and neurologic complications of systemic lymphoma, Pediatric brain tumors, Brain metastas...

The ancient cento-genre was prone to be used on all kinds of subjects. New texts were created out of the classical epics. Empress Eudocia followed this practice and composed the story of Jesus in lines lifted almost verbatim from Homer’s epics. Jesus and his relevance to her audience is thus presented within the confines of style and vocabulary offered by the Iliad and Odyssey. The lines picked to convey her theology are often clustered around key Homeric motifs or type scenes, such as war...

Inquietante, Faust muore e rinasce. Mimetizzato in Cipriano, che evoca i demoni ma poi, innamorato di Giustina, si fa cristiano e va al rogo, Faust appare durante lo scontro tra Riforma e Controriforma. Elaborazione protestante antipapalina, dannato per il suo patto con il diavolo, è protagonista prima dei teatri di marionette, poi di testi anonimi. È la leggenda che Marlowe fa diventare mito, con uno sguardo al pensiero scientifico e a quello magico. Calderón de la Barca recupererà Cipria...

Neurologic side effects of cancer therapy can inhibit treatment, can be dose-limiting and can diminish quality-of-life. Neurotoxicity related to cancer therapy is a common problem in oncology practice and in clinical neurology. Recognition of neurologic complications of anticancer therapy is necessary due to potential confusion with metastatic disease, paraneoplastic syndromes or comorbid neurologic disorders that do not require reduction or discontinuation of therapy.Neurologi...

Homeric Stitchings is the first extended study of the Homeric Centos, a long pastiche poem on a biblical theme composed by the Theodosian Empress Eudocia using only verses from the Iliad and the Odyssey. Building upon recent work on Homeric poetics, and utilizing linguistic and semiotic methods of analysis, this study introduces readers to the Centos as a sophisticated comparative reading of Homer and the Bible, based upon intertextual associations of ideas, word...