The carceres of the Herodian hippodrome/stadium at Caesarea Maritima and connections with the Circus Maximus

2001 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 269-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Patrich
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
History Of ◽  
Circus Maximus ◽  
The University ◽  
Caesarea Maritima

The Herodian hippodrome/stadium at Caesarea was exposed between 1992 and 1998. It runs parallel to the shore between the Herodian harbour and the theatre, at the location specified by Josephus. Josephus refers to the structure as an amphitheatre but it is clear from him and from the archaeological evidence to be described below that equestrian events were an integral part of the games held in it. In the very late Republic and early Empire, the term amphitheatre was used indifferently to designate a stadium or a hippodrome rather than the traditional Roman oval amphitheatrum. Josephus also calls this building ‘the great stadium’ in conjunction with events at the time of the procurator Pontius Pilate in A.D. 26, and it was still known by that name in the 4th c. It was inaugurated in 10/9 B.C. The games held included athletics (gymnika), horse- and chariot-races (hippika), and Roman spectacles (munera gladiatorum and venationes), so the structure had to serve the needs of the contestants and spectators of all these events. The present article is a preliminary report that focuses on the carceres excavated by the team from the University of Haifa, but it will first be helpful to summarize the history of the building as a whole as known from the adjacent work by the Israel Antiquities Authority.

scholarly journals The development of the concept of uniform convergence in Karl Weierstrass’s lectures and publications between 1861 and 1886

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Viertel
Keyword(s):  
Uniform Convergence ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Elliptic Functions ◽  
Continuity Theorem ◽  
University Of Berlin ◽  
Lecture Notes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lecture Courses ◽  
The University ◽  
Independent Branch

AbstractThe history of uniform convergence is typically focused on the contributions of Cauchy, Seidel, Stokes, and Björling. While the mathematical contributions of these individuals to the concept of uniform convergence have been much discussed, Weierstrass is considered to be the actual inventor of today’s concept. This view is often based on his well-known article from 1841. However, Weierstrass’s works on a rigorous foundation of analytic and elliptic functions date primarily from his lecture courses at the University of Berlin up to the mid-1880s. For the history of uniform convergence, these lectures open up an independent branch of development that is disconnected from the approaches of the previously mentioned authors; to my knowledge, Weierstraß never explicitly referred to Cauchy’s continuity theorem (1821 or 1853) or to Seidel’s or Stokes’s contributions (1847). In the present article, Weierstrass’s contributions to the development of uniform convergence will be discussed, mainly based on lecture notes made by Weierstrass’s students between 1861 and the mid-1880s. The emphasis is on the notation and the mathematical rigor of the introductions to the concept, leading to the proposal to re-date the famous 1841 article and thus Weierstrass’s first introduction of uniform convergence.

scholarly journals From the history of ancient Rhizon/Risinium: Why the Illyrian king Agron and queen Teuta came to a bad end and who was Ballaios?

2011 ◽  
pp. 157-174
Author(s):  
Piotr Dyczek ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Sources ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
The Third ◽  
Adriatic Coast ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

The author, who has headed the University of Warsaw excavation project in Risan/Rhizon on the Adriatic coast in Montenegro since 2001, reviews the results of excavations ten years into the project and explores the archaeological evidence for historical sources mentioning the ill-fated King Agron and Queen Teuta, the latter being the queen who faced off the Romans in the Third Illyrian War before ultimately succumbing to the invaders. Also described is a hoard of more than 4000 bronze coins of a ruler called Ballaios, forgotten by history, whose person is now slowly being reintroduced into the lineage of Illyrian dynasts, correcting the erroneous dating that Arthur Evans, who was the first to note the existence of this king, assigned to his reign.

III. Recent Works on Medieval, Turkish and Modern Greece

1928 ◽  
Vol 2 (03) ◽  
pp. 229-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Miller
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Present Article ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Greek History ◽  
General Field ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Greece ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

I propose in the present article to mention the additions which have been made during recent years to our knowledge of the medieval, Turkish and modern periods of Greek history, especially by the Greeks themselves. In the fifth edition of Paparregopoulos' standardHistory of the Greek Nation, edited and continued by Professor P. Karolides, we have an account of the whole history of the Greeks from prehistoric times down to the annexation of Thessaly and Arta in 1881. The editor, who sat in the Turkish parliament and is particularly strong in all that regards the Moslem world, has, by large additions to the text and by footnotes, brought the classic masterpiece of his author up to date, while for the first time this work is illustrated and indexed. In the general field of medieval Greek history theAnnual of the Society of Byzantine Studies, which first appeared in 1924, has published a number of articles by Greek specialists, while theByzantinisch-Neugriechische Jahrbücherof Professor Nikos A. Bees, started at Berlin in 1920, has been published since 1926 in Athens, where a similar periodical,Helleniká, edited by Professors Amantos and Kougeas, is announced. The local medieval and modern history of Epeiros is being collected in theEpeirote Chronicles, of which two volumes and a biographical supplement have appeared; that of Thrace in the similar periodical,Thrakiká, of which one complete volume has been issued. Dr Franz Dölger has produced two instalments of theCorpus der griechischen Urkunden des Mittelalters und der neueren Zeit, planned by Krumbacher, and giving German summaries of documents from 565 to 1204, andBeiträge zur Geschichte der byzantinischen Finanzverwaltung besonders des10.und11.Fahrhunderts. Messrs A. E. R. Boak and James E. Dunlap have contributedTwo Studies in Later Roman and Byzantine Administrationon “The Master of the Offices” and “The Office of the Grand Chamberlain” respectively toThe University of Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series(vol. XIV, New York, 1924).

scholarly journals A História da Religião na Filosofia Positiva de Schelling – a tese tillichiana de 1910

Correlatio ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Carlos Eduardo Brandão Calvani
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Paul Tillich ◽  
Friedrich Schelling ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Style Of Writing ◽  
The University ◽  
Christian Message

A obra de Paul Tillich é fortemente influenciada pela filosofia de Friedrich Schelling. O doutorado em Filosofia de Tillich, defendido em 1910 na Universidade de Breslau evidencia seu interesse nesse autor. Intitulado “A história da religião na Filosofia Positiva de Schelling”, a tese de 1910 só foi publicada em 1974, em inglês, com tradução de Victor Nuovo. Embora seja um texto de juventude, nele se enuncia um estilo de escrita que acompanhará o posterior amadurecimento de Tillich, bem como temas que serão aprofundados ao longo de sua trajetória, tais como a importância da história, da mitologia, a busca por identidade, o símbolo da queda, a encarnação e a profundidade da mensagem cristã como revelação da possibilidade de harmonização entre o ser humano e o Absoluto. O presente artigo apresenta um resumo dessa tese, com considerações pontuais que identificam elementos que posteriormente serão desenvolvidos por Tillich, e é resultado de um projeto de IC (Iniciação Científica) coordenado pelo autor principal e acompanhado pelo discente que providenciou a tradução da tese de 1910.Abstract The work of Paul Tillich is strongly influenced by the philosophy of Friedrich Schelling. Tillich’s doctorate in philosophy, defended in 1910 at the University of Breslau evidences his interest in this author. Entitled "The History of Religion in Schelling's Positive Philosophy," the 1910 thesis was only published in 1974, in English, with translation by Victor Nuovo. Although it is a text of his youth, it already enunciates a style of writing that will accompany the later maturation of Tillich’s work, with themes that will be deepened along his trajectory, such as the importance of history, mythology, the search for identity, the symbol of the fall, the incarnation and depth of the Christian message as revelation of the possibility of harmonization between humanity and the Absolute. The present article presents a summary of Tillich’s thesis, with specific considerations that identify elements that will later be developed by Tillich, and is the result of an IC project (Scientific Initiation) coordinated by the main author of this article and accompanied by the student who provided the translation of the 1910 thesis.

Thai Buddhist Meditation Practice Tradition and a Case Study

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-15
Author(s):  
Somboon Watana, Ph.D.
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Meditation Practice ◽  
Master Teachers ◽  
Buddhist Meditation ◽  
Good Deed ◽  
University Level ◽  
The University ◽  
The Buddha

Thai Buddhist meditation practice tradition has its long history since the Sukhothai Kingdom about 18th B.E., until the present day at 26th B.E. in the Kingdom of Thailand. In history there were many well-known Buddhist meditation master teachers, i.e., SomdejPhraBhudhajaraya (To Bhramarangsi), Phraajarn Mun Puritatto, Luang Phor Sodh Chantasalo, PhramahaChodok Yanasitthi, and Buddhadasabhikkhu, etc. Buddhist meditation practice is generally regarded by Thai Buddhists to be a higher state of doing a good deed than doing a good deed by offering things to Buddhist monks even to the Buddha. Thai Buddhists believe that practicing Buddhist meditation can help them to have mindfulness, peacefulness in their own lives and to finally obtain Nibbana that is the ultimate goal of Buddhism. The present article aims to briefly review history, and movement of Thai Buddhist Meditation Practice Tradition and to take a case study of students’ Buddhist meditation practice research at the university level as an example of the movement of Buddhist meditation practice tradition in Thailand in the present.

Illustrations and the genesis of Barrett and Yonge's Collins pocket guide to the sea shore (1958)

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Publishing History ◽  
Biological Station ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Illustrated Text ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Twenty nine items of correspondence from the mid-1950s discovered recently in the archives of the University Marine Biological Station Millport, and others made available by one of the illustrators and a referee, shed unique light on the publishing history of Collins pocket guide to the sea shore. This handbook, generally regarded as a classic of its genre, marked a huge step forwards in 1958; providing generations of students with an authoritative, concise, affordable, well illustrated text with which to identify common organisms found between the tidemarks from around the coasts of the British Isles. The crucial role played by a select band of illustrators in making this publication the success it eventually became, is highlighted herein. The difficulties of accomplishing this production within commercial strictures, and generally as a sideline to the main employment of the participants, are revealed. Such stresses were not helped by changing demands on the illustrators made by the authors and by the publishers.

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