Pausanias in Corinth: Burying Medea’s Children

Mnemosyne ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 569-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelle Abbenes
Keyword(s):  
Second Sophistic ◽  
Material Environment ◽  
New Tradition

The author discusses the tradition preserved in the scholia on Euripides’ Medea, namely that her children were buried in the sanctuary of Hera Akraia, comparing it with the statement of Pausanias, who claims to have seen a µνῆµα of Medea’s children in Corinth. He concludes that they are mutually exclusive. The sanctuary meant by the scholia must be that in Perachora, and by µνῆµα Pausanias definitely means ‘grave’. To solve the problem of having two graves for Medea’s children, he argues that the older, Euripidean tradition had been forgotten in Corinth in the 2nd century ad (due to the destruction of both Corinth and the sanctuary of Hera Akraia by Mummius in 146 bc) and that a new tradition with a new grave was invented. This kind of manipulation/reinterpretation of the material environment has its roots in the archaising tendency of the Second Sophistic.

Classical Conceptions of Visuality and Representation in John of Damascus' Defense of Holy Images1

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-308
Author(s):  
James A. Francis
Keyword(s):  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Second Sophistic ◽  
Word And Image ◽  
John Of Damascus ◽  
History Of ◽  
Classical Culture ◽  
Common Era ◽  
Iconoclastic Controversy

The Defense of Holy Images by John of Damascus stands as the archetypal exposition of the Christian theology of images. Written at the outbreak of the Iconoclastic Controversy, it has been mostly valued for its theological content and given scholarly short shrift as a narrowly focused polemic. The work is more than that. It presents a complex and profound explication of the nature of images and the phenomenon of representation, and is an important part of the “history of looking”in western culture. A long chain of visual conceptions connects classical Greek and Roman writers, such as Homer and Quintilian, to John: the living image, the interrelation of word and image, and image and memory, themes elaborated particularly in the Second Sophistic period of the early Common Era. For John to deploy this heritage so skillfully to the thorny problem of the place of images in Christianity, at the outbreak of a violent conflict that lasted a further 100 years after his writing, manifests an intellect and creativity that has not been sufficiently appreciated. The Defense of Holy Images, understood in this context, is another innovative synthesis of Christianity and classical culture produced by late antique Christian writers.

Research on the Economic Organization Environmental Impact

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 599-601
Author(s):  
Dan Paul Stefanescu ◽  
Oana Roxana Chivu ◽  
Claudiu Babis ◽  
Augustin Semenescu ◽  
Alina Gligor
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Economic Organization ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Environmental Implications ◽  
Minimal Impact ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Material Environment ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Harmful Effects

Any economic activity carried out by an organization, can generate a wide range of environmental implications. Particularly important, must be considered the activities that have a significant negative effect on the environment, meaning those which pollute. Being known the harmful effects of pollution on the human health, the paper presents two models of utmost importance, one of the material environment-economy interactions balance and the other of the material flows between environmental factors and socio-economic activities. The study of these models enable specific conditions that must be satisfied for the economic processes friendly coexist to the environment for long term, meaning to have a minimal impact in that the residues resulting from the economic activity of the organization to be as less harmful to the environment.

scholarly journals The Ethnobiology of Contemporary British Foragers: Foods They Teach, Their Sources of Inspiration and Impact

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3478
Author(s):  
Łukasz Łuczaj ◽  
Monica Wilde ◽  
Leanne Townsend
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Leafy Vegetables ◽  
Wild Food ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Personal Consumption ◽  
Foraging Movement ◽  
Choice Of Species ◽  
Processing Techniques ◽  
New Tradition ◽  
Wild Edibles

Foraging in the British Isles is an increasingly popular activity for both personal consumption and for commercial purposes. While legislation and guidelines exist regulating the sustainable collection of wild edibles, the founding principles of the British foraging movement are not well documented. For this research, 36 of the most active foraging instructors of the Association of Foragers were interviewed to understand their background, species collected, sources of knowledge, and problems faced during collection. Altogether, 102 species of leafy vegetables, fruits, fungi, and seaweeds were mentioned as frequently used, while 34 species of roadkill animals were listed, mostly for personal consumption. Instructors reported learning from wild food guidebooks, other foragers, or personal experience. Frequent contact among foragers has led to the standardisation of knowledge and practices among them forming a “new tradition”, partly based on old British traditions but modified by influences from other countries and cultures, both in terms of choice of species and processing techniques. Contrary to expectations, foragers rarely reported clashes with nature conservation or forestry managers. The authors argue that knowledge and practice developed by the Association of Foragers (AoF) are sustainable and could be integrated into the British food and nature conservation system.

scholarly journals Environmental racialisation and poetics of influence in the postgenomic era: fire, soil, spirit

2021 ◽  
pp. medhum-2020-012061
Author(s):  
Lara Choksey
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Environmental Racism ◽  
Politics Of Difference ◽  
Material Environment ◽  
Liberal Humanism ◽  
Influence At Work ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Genetic Reductionism

This article considers processes of environmental racialisation in the postgenomic era through their politics of difference and poetics of influence. Subfields like epigenetics promise to account for a plurality of possible influences on health outcomes. While this appears to present possibilities for historical reparation to communities whose epigenomes may have been chronically altered by histories of violence and trauma, the prevailing trend has been to compound processes of racialisation in the reproduction of good/bad environments. The postgenomic era has promised an epistemological transformation of ideas and values of human life, but its practices, technologies and ideology have so far prevented this. Epigenetics, rather, reproduces biomedical exclusions through imaginaries of embodied contexts, methods of occlusion and hypervisibility, and assignations of delay and deviance. This is more complex than both genetic reductionism and environmental racism: studies on epigenetics reveal a poetics of influence at work under liberal humanism complicit in the creation of death-worlds for racialised populations. Other experiments with life are possible and unfolding: Jay Bernard’s poem ‘Chemical’, set in the aftermath of London’s Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, unmoors its bodies from material environment, offering a spectral configuration of collective life. This configuration involves negotiating with the fixing of time and space on which genomic imaginaries depend.

The Inductive Coil Technique for High-Pressure Measurements: An Analysis of Nonhomogeneous Material Environment as a Source of Irreproducibility and Error

1967 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 554-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Giardini
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Internal Pressure ◽  
Elastic Constants ◽  
Graphical Form ◽  
Pressure Measurements ◽  
Pressure Data ◽  
Nonhomogeneous Material ◽  
Resistivity Measurements ◽  
Material Environment ◽  
Critical Yield

Significant sources of error independent of the apparatus are analyzed on the basis of experimental experience and elastic theory. All are mechanical in nature and subject to corrective action. The most serious is found to be self-generating internal pressure differences which result from differential elastic and dimensional values in multicomponent assemblies. High-pressure data on elastic constants, relative critical yield stresses, radial displacements, and ratios of external to internal pressure for various compositional arrangements of pyrophyllite, MgO, NaCl, and AgCl are given in graphical form. Observance of suggested corrective measures can render the inductive coil technique capable of operational accuracies of 2 percent or better in compressibility and resistivity measurements.

A Riddling Recipe?

Mnemosyne ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-615
Author(s):  
Floris Overduin
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Second Sophistic ◽  
Tone Of Voice ◽  
Detailed Interpretation

AbstractThis article provides a detailed interpretation and suggests a literary background for the brief (26 verses) elegiac recipe against colic (SH690), written by Philo of Tarsus in the first centuryAD. Although on one level it is a serious pharmacological prescription, on another level it is also a literary piece, concerned with a marked tone of voice, Homeric play, and general display ofpaideia. Particularly its play of substituting certain ingredients with mythological riddles is striking. Its appeal to both doctors and men of culture fits the intellectual pattern of the culture of the Second Sophistic. As a poetic hybrid it also plays on different genres inherited from the previous Hellenistic era. Moreover, it constitutes a telling example of the late subgenre of elegiac pharmacology, in an era in which elegiac had all but vanished from Greek literature.

Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition

1941 ◽  
Vol 1 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Kenneth John Conant ◽  
Siegfried Giedion
Keyword(s):  
Space Time ◽  
New Tradition
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