Hasil untuk "History of the Greco-Roman World"

Marchionni, Roberta

Epigraphic poem CLE 1166 is dedicated to Flavia Dionisiade, who passed away at the age of just seven. The aim of the epitaph was to commemorate the child and, with her, a particular talent of hers. For years, following Bücheler’s interpretation, this talent has been understood as skill in dancing. However, the poem’s wording tells a different story: an analysis, supported by the Thesaurus linguae Latinae, demonstrates that Flavia Dionisiade was a young poet, particularly devoted to elegiac poetry.

Fernicola, Fabio

This paper investigates Emperor Augustus’ alleged suicide attempt through starvation, as detailed by Pliny the Elder in a brief passage of Naturalis Historia 7.150. This study does not aim to reconstruct the historical event itself, but rather to offer a philosophical exegesis of Pliny’s account, demonstrating how Augustus’ crisis and his subsequent decision to live align with the ethical principles of Stoicism, particularly the concept of the ruler’s duty (statio principis) and the Stoic notion of the sapiens.

Emília M. da Rocha Oliveira

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Corrado Gagliardi

L’articolo mira a valutare alcune ipotesi in merito alla contestualizzazione dell’azione di un ignoto personaggio di nome Antioco, menzionato da Orosio nella sua versione dello scenario politico-militare successivo alla battaglia di Carre (VI 13,5). Un’analisi linguistica e storiografica del brano induce a escludere che il riferimento sia ad Antioco I di Commagene, così come che si tratti di una totale invenzione o di un errore dell’autore. L’informazione è probabilmente tratta dalla tradizione liviana, e questo ‘Antioco’ potrebbe essere stato o un comandante a capo dell’esercito di Parti che invase la Siria nel 52 oppure, più probabilmente, un tiranno locale che tentò di approfittare dei disordini successivi alla battaglia di Carre e di fomentare una rivolta anti-romana in Siria, repressa dal proquestore C. Cassio Longino.

Amanda Lemos Fontes, Amanda Prima Borges

A partir da comparação da obra História Romana, de Dião Cássio, com outras documentações compostas no decorrer da Antiguidade, é possível identificarmos uma particularidade inerente à narrativa de tal historiador no que concernia à atuação de Fúlvia durante as guerras civis romanas das décadas de 40-30 a.C.: o autor, como defenderemos, é particular e categórico ao retratar Fúlvia como uma mulher cruel e inescrupulosa. Neste artigo, objetivamos, portanto, levantar duas possibilidades de interpretação acerca dessa característica. Primeiramente, buscamos argumentar que a peculiaridade do trabalho de Dião Cássio em relação à figura de Fúlvia está relacionada, em partes, à sua principal fonte de consulta, o Memórias de Augusto, e à particular construção de memória dela feita por Otaviano e Marco Antônio à época da transição. Em seguida, procuramos defender que essa especificidade também está intimamente conectada ao contexto no qual Dião Cássio produziu sua obra e às críticas que o autor teceu às guerras civis e lideranças das mesmas.

Mohammed Tayeeb Hasan, Nikolaos Tsantalis, Pouria Alikhanifard

Tracking statements in the commit history of a project is in many cases useful for supporting various software maintenance, comprehension, and evolution tasks. A high level of accuracy can facilitate the adoption of code tracking tools by developers and researchers. To this end, we propose CodeTracker, a refactoring-aware tool that can generate the commit change history for code blocks. To evaluate its accuracy, we created an oracle with the change history of 1,280 code blocks found within 200 methods from 20 popular open-source project repositories. Moreover, we created a baseline based on the current state-of-the-art Abstract Syntax Tree diff tool, namely GumTree 3.0, in order to compare the accuracy and execution time. Our experiments have shown that CodeTracker has a considerably higher precision/recall and faster execution time than the GumTree-based baseline, and can extract the complete change history of a code block with a precision and recall of 99.5% within 3.6 seconds on average.

Adalberto Magnelli, Giuseppe Petrantoni

The aim of this work is to analyse the critical cruces about some geographical locations in reference to the western coast and the inland parts of the South Arabian and Nabataean area. In detail, the purpose of this research is to investigate the probable location of the port of Leuke Kome through a comparison between an epigraphic source written in Safaitic and some indication in Strabo’s account of the expedition of Aelius Gallus to Arabia Felix. In addition, a new reading of another Safaitic inscription mentioning a curious S1ly (Silleus?) could help to better understand some details of the Roman Arabian campaign too.

Hagen Ußler, Christian Setzefand, Daniel Kanis et al.

Intelligent infrastructure, currently often consisting of C-ITS stations and prospectively supplemented by 5G, is a key-enabler for application-oriented and area-wide realization of highly automated and connected driving. For this, radio coverage along the routes must be ensured, leading to high demands on location- and radio-specific planning and parameterization of roadside units (RSU). Hence, this paper presents efficient planning, measurement and evaluation methods for RSU coverage outlining, allowing economically efficient and technically secured planning of intelligent infrastructure. Necessary scientific technical steps are showcased along a 3.5 km testbed for automated and connected driving in rural environments. First, a radio propagation simulation based on a 3D environment model and its electro-magnetic properties is performed, allowing the examination and optimization of RSU quantity as well as site and antenna selection. Additionally, the necessary calibration of simulation results based on continuous wave (CW) and C-ITS service measurements in both lab-based and real-world scenarios is presented.

Xuan Long Do, Bowei Zou, Liangming Pan et al.

Conversational question generation (CQG) serves as a vital task for machines to assist humans, such as interactive reading comprehension, through conversations. Compared to traditional single-turn question generation (SQG), CQG is more challenging in the sense that the generated question is required not only to be meaningful, but also to align with the occurred conversation history. While previous studies mainly focus on how to model the flow and alignment of the conversation, there has been no thorough study to date on which parts of the context and history are necessary for the model. We argue that shortening the context and history is crucial as it can help the model to optimise more on the conversational alignment property. To this end, we propose CoHS-CQG, a two-stage CQG framework, which adopts a CoHS module to shorten the context and history of the input. In particular, CoHS selects contiguous sentences and history turns according to their relevance scores by a top-p strategy. Our model achieves state-of-the-art performances on CoQA in both the answer-aware and answer-unaware settings.

The Ligo Scientific Collaboration, T. Abbott, R. Abbott et al.

Advanced LIGO's second observing run (O2), conducted from November 30, 2016 to August 25, 2017, combined with Advanced Virgo's first observations in August 2017 witnessed the birth of gravitational-wave multi-messenger astronomy. The first ever gravitational-wave detection from the coalescence of two neutron stars, GW170817, and its gamma-ray counterpart, GRB 170817A, led to an electromagnetic follow-up of the event at an unprecedented scale. Several teams from across the world searched for EM/neutrino counterparts to GW170817, paving the way for the discovery of optical, X-ray, and radio counterparts. In this article, we describe the online identification of gravitational-wave transients and the distribution of gravitational-wave alerts by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations during O2. We also describe the gravitational-wave observables which were sent in the alerts to enable searches for their counterparts. Finally, we give an overview of the online candidate alerts shared with observing partners during O2. Alerts were issued for 14 candidates, six of which have been confirmed as gravitational-wave events associated with the merger of black holes or neutron stars. Eight of the 14 alerts were issued less than an hour after data acquisition.

Guangzhao Cheng, Siliang Tang

In many real-world games, such as traders repeatedly bargaining with customers, it is very hard for a single AI trader to make good deals with various customers in a few turns, since customers may adopt different strategies even the strategies they choose are quite simple. In this paper, we model this problem as fast adaptive learning in the finitely repeated games. We believe that past game history plays a vital role in such a learning procedure, and therefore we propose a novel framework (named, F3) to fuse the past and current game history with an Opponent Action Estimator (OAE) module that uses past game history to estimate the opponent's future behaviors. The experiments show that the agent trained by F3 can quickly defeat opponents who adopt unknown new strategies. The F3 trained agent obtains more rewards in a fixed number of turns than the agents that are trained by deep reinforcement learning. Further studies show that the OAE module in F3 contains meta-knowledge that can even be transferred across different games.

Damian Clarke, Manuel Llorca Jaña, Daniel Pailañir

Quantile regression and quantile treatment effect methods are powerful econometric tools for considering economic impacts of events or variables of interest beyond the mean. The use of quantile methods allows for an examination of impacts of some independent variable over the entire distribution of continuous dependent variables. Measurement in many quantative settings in economic history have as a key input continuous outcome variables of interest. Among many other cases, human height and demographics, economic growth, earnings and wages, and crop production are generally recorded as continuous measures, and are collected and studied by economic historians. In this paper we describe and discuss the broad utility of quantile regression for use in research in economic history, review recent quantitive literature in the field, and provide an illustrative example of the use of these methods based on 20,000 records of human height measured across 50-plus years in the 19th and 20th centuries. We suggest that there is considerably more room in the literature on economic history to convincingly and productively apply quantile regression methods.

G. Vieira

The article intends to foster a reflection on the possible meanings of the image of the snake associated with the creative constructions of ornaments associated with jewelry. Through the thoughts of the French philosopher Gilbert Durand (2012), this research starts from the understanding of the relevance of the snake in the human imagination, highlighting its presence as a timeless ornament in jewelry since the Egyptians, passing through the Greco- Roman mythology, your protagonism in the artistic movement Art Nouveau; and, finally, as a striking element in the so-called high jewelery in the 21st century. According to Durand, the imaginary is related to the extensive individual and collective capacity to give meaning to the world, having the symbol as a way to express it. The studies also include Bourdieu’s meditations (1989) on symbolic power; and the ideas of Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (2012) for the understanding of the construction of the ornament in the composition of the jewel as an adornment, in addition to the defense for the autonomy of design in the creative process. The brief tour of the important imaginary references of the snake recognized throughout human history culminates in a reflective and practical proposal for the development of a jewel adornment. The author then takes the serpent as an ornament for the realization of a creative exercise with the proposal to conceive an ornament inspired by the ophidic image as the main element for the development of a jewel.

Candela Potente

Author(s): Potente, Candela | Abstract: Psychoanalysis, as Carl Schorske claimed, was a child of its own epoch. Marked by the political situation in Austria, Victorian moral codes, the German language and its literary tradition, readings of Classical Greco-Roman culture, and bourgeois middle-European culture, however, Sigmund Freud conceived of psychoanalysis as universal. But when in its early days psychoanalysis began traveling across the world, what came to the fore was its situated and local character rather than its universality. Once established in different locales, psychoanalytic technique adapted to different populations, fundamental texts of the discipline began to be read in other languages, and new psychoanalytic concepts emerged. What made it possible for psychoanalysis to function clinically in other contexts was a process of translation. In this article, I propose to understand the process of translation that takes place in the international circulation of psychoanalysis as one that is informed by the psychoanalytic concept of transference. I explore the kind of translation that psychoanalysis underwent in its international circulation, focusing on its history in India, with specific reference to Girindrasekhar Bose, who founded the Indian Psychoanalytical Society in Calcutta and is often considered the first non-Western psychoanalyst. I focus not only on the versions of psychoanalysis that result from this process of translation as transference, but also on what those translations of psychoanalysis might reveal about Freudian thought.

Simone Rendina, Sascha Schäfer

Thomas Mann and the historian of the Late Empire Otto Seeck corresponded from 1911 until at least 1917. While all of Seeck’s letters to Mann appear to have been lost, there are five surviving letters from Mann to Seeck, four of which are being published here for the first time. Between 1911 and 1917, Mann generally professed conservative political ideas, and during the First World War he enthusiastically supported his country’s war efforts. A similar conservative and nationalistic trait can be found in Seeck’s popularising works at the time. Thus, before Mann turned to a republican allegiance, he had had an affinity with Seeck, and mentioned the writing of his conservative essay Betrachtungen eines Un­politischen in two letters to him. On 24 January 1911, Mann thanked Seeck for his hospitality on a visit to Münster and sent an autograph for one of Seeck’s daughters. In a letter dated 9 April 1916, Mann outlined the qualities and weak­nesses of his own essay on Frederick the Great, mentioned its reception among scholars and the wider public, and gave his opinion on historical fiction. On 16 February 1917, he thanked Seeck for sending him one of his essays, and, just over a month later (24 March 1917), for sending him a new essay, and men­tioned his own forthcoming book, Aufzeichnungen eines Unpolitischen (not yet entitled Betrachtungen).

Jean Bernard Chatelain, Kirsten Ralf

This paper is a study of the history of the transplant of mathematical tools using negative feedback for macroeconomic stabilization policy from 1948 to 1975 and the subsequent break of the use of control for stabilization policy which occurred from 1975 to 1993. New-classical macroeconomists selected a subset of the tools of control that favored their support of rules against discretionary stabilization policy. The Lucas critique and Kydland and Prescott's time-inconsistency were over-statements that led to the "dark ages" of the prevalence of the stabilization-policy-ineffectiveness idea. These over-statements were later revised following the success of the Taylor rule.

You Wu

As a candidate of dark matter, primordial black holes (PBHs) have attracted more and more attentions as they could be possible progenitors of the heavy binary black holes (BBHs) observed by LIGO/Virgo. Accurately estimating the merger rate of PBH binaries will be crucial to reconstruct the mass distribution of PBHs. It was pointed out the merger history of PBHs may shift the merger rate distribution depending on the mass function of PBHs. In this paper, we use 10 BBH events from LIGO/Virgo O1 and O2 observing runs to constrain the merger rate distribution of PBHs by accounting the effect of merger history. It is found that the second merger process makes subdominant contribution to the total merger rate, and hence the merger history effect can be safely neglected.

Lucas Sakizloglou, Sona Ghahremani, Thomas Brand et al.

Advanced systems such as IoT comprise many heterogeneous, interconnected, and autonomous entities operating in often highly dynamic environments. Due to their large scale and complexity, large volumes of monitoring data are generated and need to be stored, retrieved, and mined in a time- and resource-efficient manner. Architectural self-adaptation automates the control, orchestration, and operation of such systems. This can only be achieved via sophisticated decision-making schemes supported by monitoring data that fully captures the system behavior and its history. Employing model-driven engineering techniques we propose a highly scalable, history-aware approach to store and retrieve monitoring data in form of enriched runtime models. We take advantage of rule-based adaptation where change events in the system trigger adaptation rules. We first present a scheme to incrementally check model queries in the form of temporal logic formulas which represent the conditions of adaptation rules against a runtime model with history. Then we enhance the model to retain only information that is temporally relevant to the queries, therefore reducing the accumulation of information to a required minimum. Finally, we demonstrate the feasibility and scalability of our approach via experiments on a simulated smart healthcare system employing a real-world medical guideline.

Rugare Rukuni

The narrative of Indian Christianity that is compositely based on Thomine tradition derives significantly from the reality of Parthian-India geo-economics and geopolitics. Although Aksumite trade and diplomatic visibility are a prevalent feature of the Greco-Roman imperial history in the BCE – CE era, the narrative regarding Ethiopian Christianity is a 4th-century CE reality. Ground is made to deduce the possibility of early Christianity akin to apostolic Christianity in Ethiopia as a consequence of similar circumstances in Parthian-India. So as to solidify the arguments and engage relevant data, document analysis complemented by cultural historiography and the archaeology of religion was implemented in this study. A deductive parallel review of Indian and Ethiopian geopolitical and geo-economics history within the context of Christianity as an emergent religion of the 1st century CE is implicative. The narrative of Ethiopia is completed when it is placed within its extensive geographic context, thereby consequently acknowledging its role within the Mediterranean world. Reference to India substantiates the logic of the argument and entails the possibility of the 1st to 3rd century Christian presence in Ethiopia. Contribution: The research highlights a revisionist history of Ethiopian Christianity thereby creating a new narrative for Jewish Christianity and Christian origins, a subject key to the field of theology.

Slobodanka Prtija, Sanja Ljubišić

The book Lingua Latina: A Selection of Texts with Commentary is intended for students of history and for all those at a beginner and advanced level of studying the Latin language. The handbook includes texts in Latin that present important events from different periods of ancient history and culture, ranging from texts on Greco-Roman mythology and the history of Ancient Greece to texts describing significant events from the time of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. The chrestomathy contains texts from the works of prominent Roman authors such as Julius Caesar, Sallust, Cornelius Nepos, Livy, Pliny the Younger, Phaedrus, Tacitus, Suetonius, Eutropius, Velleius Paterculus, and others. Each of the 65 selected texts includes an introduction and commentary. The introductions provide basic information and the historical context of the events, mythological stories, and portraits of historical figures described in the texts themselves. Each Latin text is followed by detailed and clearly structured commentary on morphology and syntax, enabling students to more easily understand and master translation techniques from Latin into Serbian. At the end of the handbook, there is a Latin–Serbian vocabulary containing words and expressions from all the included texts, as well as a Glossary of names featuring Greek and Roman gods, historical figures, and toponyms from various parts of the ancient world, from Britain, Helvetia, Gallia, Hispania and through Carthage, Illyricum, and Greece, all the way to Asia Minor.