scholarly journals I. On the Historical Evidence of Volcanic Eruptions in Central France in the Fifth Century

1865 ◽  
Vol 2 (12) ◽  
pp. 241-244
Author(s):  
T. G. Bonney
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Eruptions ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Daily News ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Permanent Form

Between Bishop Colenso and the volcanoes of Central France, and between these and ‘Rogation Days,’ there would at first sight seem to be but little connection. Nevertheless, a statement made by the Bishop was the cause of some curious information, which had previously been known to but few, being generally circulated; and as it then appeared only in one or two newspapers, and at different times, it may be useful to give a résumé of the controversy in a more permanent form. The Bishop, referring to Lyell (‘Elementary Geology,’ pp. 197, 198), adduced the exitstence of cones of loose scoriæ and pumice in Auvergne and Languedoc as an argument against the Noachian Deluge; because these, which ‘must have been formed ages before’ that happended, did not show the slighttest sign of having ever been disturbed. In the course of the endless controversy which has arisen from the Bishop's works, a Mr. E. L. Garbett addressed a rather angry letter to the ‘Guardian’ newspaper (Aug.24, 1864), taxing the Bishop with wilfully shutting his eyes to the fact that there had been eruptions in these districts in the fifth century, which had given rise to the ecclesiastical fasts commonly called ‘Rogation Days.’ The Bishop replied in a letter, which was refused by the ' Guardian' on account of its length, and was afterwards published in the ‘Daily News.’ However, in the ‘Guardian’ of Sept. 14, a summary of it is given, in which the following statements are made: (1) that volcanic cones do exist as above described; (2) that, according to Hoffman's ‘Lexicon,’ Rogations were instituted owing to earthquakes and to the irruption of wild beasts into Vienne; (3) that there are no volcanoes near Vienne; (4) that the authors who are supposed to describe volcanic eruptions, only speak of earthquakes and ordinary fires, or perhaps of lightning.

Lament and Revenge in the Hekabe of Euripides

2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian M. Billing
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Funerary Practices ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Female Lament

In this article Christian M. Billing considers the relationship between female lament and acts of vengeance in fifth-century Athenian society and its theatre, with particular emphasis on the Hekabe of Euripides. He uses historical evidence to argue that female mourning was held to be a powerfully transgressive force in the classical period; that considerable social tensions existed as a result of the suppression of female roles in traditional funerary practices (social control arising from the move towards democracy and the development of forensic processes as a means of social redress); and that as a piece of transvestite theatre, authored and performed by men to an audience made up largely, if not entirely, of that sex, Euripides' Hekabe demonstrates significant gender-related anxiety regarding the supposedly horrific consequences of allowing women to speak at burials, or to engage in lament as part of uncontrolled funerary ritual. Christian M. Billing is an academic and theatre practitioner working in the fields of ancient Athenian and early modern English and European drama. He has worked extensively as a director and actor and has also taught at a number of universities in the United Kingdom and the USA. He is currently Lecturer in Drama at the University of Hull.

Open Justice or Open Season?: Should the Media Report the Names of Suspects and Defendants?

2010 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 321-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Bohlander
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Media Report ◽  
Daily News ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
German Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Uk Supreme Court ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Guardian

The daily news in England and Wales is full of reports about people who have been arrested, arraigned before a court, convicted and sometimes also acquitted, of some heinous crime or other. Most disturbingly, the suspects are named in full with their address and more often than not their photo will also be printed or broadcast. Their private lives and professional reputation are highly likely to be seriously affected the minute the news is made public, regardless of a later acquittal, which may not come until the Supreme Court decides years after the event. This article queries what open justice can be taken to mean in today's media society, whether the media are in it for the sake of enhancing justice or the sake of enhancing sales. The situation in the UK will be set out using the example of the decision of the UK Supreme Court in the Guardian News case and compared with the German press code of conduct.

Excavations at Carthage 1976: Third Interim Report

1977 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Hurst
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Eighth Century ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
City Wall ◽  
The North ◽  
New Information ◽  
Defensive Activity

SummaryAt the end of the third season of work by the British team participating in the UNESCO Save Carthage project, a summary is given of present knowledge of the occupation sequence on the Ilôt de l'Amirauté from c. 400 B.C. to A.D. 700. New information or reinterpretation since 1975 covers the relationship between the Punic and Roman planning of the island and the nature of its possible Augustan, Severan, and Justinianic rebuildings. The structures which have been excavated since 1974 between two Roman streets on the north side of the circular harbour are interpreted as a series of shops or small commercial premises of Roman and Byzantine date. Here, as on the island, a large-scale redevelopment of early Byzantine date is indicated. On the Avenue Habib Bourguiba the city wall now has archaeological dating consistent with the historical evidence that it was constructed c.A.D. 425 and it appears to be associated with a major defensive ditch. Burials were made between the wall and possible ditch shortly after, and perhaps during, the wall's construction. There is also archaeological confirmation of the historical evidence for the neglect of the defences under the Vandal occupation and for their repair following Belisarius' capture of Carthage in 533. By the end of the sixth century the defences were again being neglected and in the early seventh century there was a building on the site of the presumed Belisarian ditch. There is a suggestion of further defensive activity at the time of the Arab invasion. Within the wall, the sequence has been taken back to the destruction of a Roman building in the fifth century and a summary is made of the sequence for the whole site from the early fifth to the late seventh or early eighth century A.D. Field-work has now finished on this site while a further two seasons are anticipated on the two harbour sites.

Visual Language and Concepts of Cult on the "Lenaia Vases"

1998 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Peirce
Keyword(s):  
Visual Language ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Historical Information ◽  
Visual Record

"Lenaia vases" is the traditional title given to a group of some seventy fifth-century Attic vases, black- and red-figure. These vases have in common that they show a cult-image of Dionysos, consisting of a mask or masks on a column, in combination with the conventional Attic imagery of the revelling ecstatic female worshippers usually called "maenads." The vases are important and their meaning much debated because they seem to hold out the promise of providing otherwise unavailable information about historical bacchic religion. There is no consensus on the character of the historical information of these scenes. In an older view the imagery records the appearance of enacted ritual; in a newer view, the imagery "discusses," in a fashion analogous to language, concepts about Dionysiac religion. This paper proposes a reinterpretation of a coherent subset of the "Lenaia vases," based on a linguistic reading of the imagery. This subset consists of twenty-eight red-figure stamnoi, a group that has traditionally been the focus of studies of the "Lenaia vases." I analyze the vases as describing, in conventional visual terms of reference, a rite of theoxenia celebrated by ecstatic female worshippers. The imagery says that these worshippers perform a thysia, offer Dionysos a banquet of meat and wine, and celebrate a symposion and komos. It also comments on the practice of such rituals by women, saying that they derive honor from these actions. These rituals find parallels in historical evidence for Dionysiac theoxenia and banquets; the scenes thus may provide additional evidence that Dionysiac celebrations took this form. The scenes, however, are not about the historical enactment of such rituals, and still less a visual record of such enactments. Rather, their message, conveyed by the interweaving of mythical and social references, is that for the worshipper of Dionysos the worlds of myth and of the polis are one.

scholarly journals Saxon Kent versus Roman London? Presenting Borderland Heritage at the Faesten Dic in Joyden’s Wood, Kent

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ethan Doyle White
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
The Public ◽  
Western Border ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Standing on Kent’s western border with Greater London, the Faesten Dic in Joyden’s Wood is one of Britain’s less-well known linear earthworks. There has been speculation as to its origins since the late nineteenth century, although as of yet no conclusive dating evidence has been revealed. This article reviews the archaeological and historical evidence for the site, before exploring the ways in which the heritage of this earthwork has been presented to the public by the Woodland Trust, a charity which own Joyden’s Wood, focusing on how both information boards and installed sculptures have foregrounded the narrative of the earthwork as a fifth-century defensive barrier between ‘Roman London’ and ‘Saxon Kent.’ This, in turn, has interesting connotations regarding the current administrative divisions between Greater London and Kent.

El éxito de los podcasts de noticias y su impacto en los medios de comunicación digital

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 317-334
Author(s):  
María Pilar Martínez-Costa Pérez ◽  
Eva Lus Gárate
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Daily News ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

Los podcasts de noticias están acaparando el interés de las empresas periodísticas a medida que crece su consumo, que se espera mayor a medida que se generalice la implantación de los altavoces inteligentes. Estas nuevas modalidades de acceso a los contenidos informativos abren nuevas oportunidades narrativas para contar las noticias a través del audio y pueden ayudar a consolidar el prestigio informativo de las grandes marcas periodísticas en el entorno digital. Este trabajo es una primera aproximación teórica al fenómeno de los denominados daily news podcasts o podcast de noticias, su definición, sus características, sus tipologías y sus peculiaridades narrativas. A partir de la revisión bibliográfica de este formato novedoso y del análisis de contenido de tres casos —The Daily (The New York Times), Today in Focus (The Guardian) y Las noticias de ABC (Vocento)— se concluirá que el éxito de los podcasts de noticias permitirá a los medios de comunicación digital llegar a nuevas audiencias, crear comunidades de marca a partir del audio, explorar nuevas narrativas y abrir nuevas oportunidades de negocio.

Response to David Woods

2000 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
James C. Skedros
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Century ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Port City ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Historical Individual

The origins of the cult of St. Demetrios are indeed obscure. The earliest indisputable evidence for the existence of the cult of St. Demetrios at Thessaloniki is the large five-aisle basilica built in honor of the martyr and located in the center of this important port city. Based upon archaeological and art historical evidence, the basilica can be dated to the last quarter of the fifth century. However, the written tradition of the cult of St. Demetrios, as preserved in various martyrdom accounts (whose dates remain problematic), places the saint's martyrdom at Thessaloniki during the persecution of Diocletian, that is, during the first decade of the fourth century, some one-hundred and seventy five years before the erection of the saint's basilica. To complicate matters even more, in the earliest surviving martyrologies dating from the fourth and fifth centuries, there is no mention of a martyr Demetrios who was martyred or venerated at Thessaloniki. Given such lack of historical evidence, most scholars, including David Woods, whose article appears in the pages of this journal, have argued that St. Demetrios of Thessaloniki is a fictitious saint and that the origin of his veneration at Thessaloniki is not to be found in a historical individual who was martyred under Diocletian at Thessaloniki, but rather must be sought elsewhere.

scholarly journals A lead isotope perspective on urban development in ancient Naples

2016 ◽  
Vol 113 (22) ◽  
pp. 6148-6153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo Delile ◽  
Duncan Keenan-Jones ◽  
Janne Blichert-Toft ◽  
Jean-Philippe Goiran ◽  
Florent Arnaud-Godet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Water Distribution ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Water Distribution System ◽  
Volcanic Eruptions ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Isotopic Signatures ◽  
Steady Growth ◽  
The Impact

The influence of a sophisticated water distribution system on urban development in Roman times is tested against the impact of Vesuvius volcanic activity, in particular the great eruption of AD 79, on all of the ancient cities of the Bay of Naples (Neapolis). Written accounts on urbanization outside of Rome are scarce and the archaeological record sketchy, especially during the tumultuous fifth and sixth centuries AD when Neapolis became the dominant city in the region. Here we show that isotopic ratios of lead measured on a well-dated sedimentary sequence from Neapolis’ harbor covering the first six centuries CE have recorded how the AD 79 eruption was followed by a complete overhaul of Neapolis’ water supply network. The Pb isotopic signatures of the sediments further reveal that the previously steady growth of Neapolis’ water distribution system ceased during the collapse of the fifth century AD, although vital repairs to this critical infrastructure were still carried out in the aftermath of invasions and volcanic eruptions.

Debating Early Republican Urbanism in Latium Vetus: The Town Planning of Gabii, between Archaeology and History

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 91-121
Author(s):  
Andrew C. Johnston ◽  
Marcello Mogetta
Keyword(s):  
Fifth Century ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Roman History ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Regional Context ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Early Republican ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

AbstractRecent archaeological investigations have revealed that at the end of the fifth century b.c.e., Gabii, an ancient centre of Latium Vetus, was reorganised in a planned, quasi-orthogonal pattern, which constitutes an anomaly in the regional context. This is indicative of an important transformational moment in its history, representing a break from previous patterns of occupation and involving significant spatial and socio-political discontinuities with the previous settlement. This article proposes that the reorganisation reflects a moment of refoundation after a period of abandonment, an urban trajectory that can be clarified by a critical re-examination of the historical evidence, focusing on two pivotal processes: the devotio of the city by the Romans and the dynamics of early colonisation in Latium. This new interpretation not only has important implications for understanding the archaeology of Gabii and of early republican urbanism, but also sheds light on one of the ‘darkest’ ages in Roman history.

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