The Ancient Scythian Kings according to Herodotus

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Paolo Ognibene
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Strict Sense ◽  
Traditional Sense ◽  
Fourth Book

In the fourth book of Herodotus’ Histories, in one of the two legends on the origin of the Scythians, we read the name of the progenitor of this people and his descendants. In the following paragraphs, Herodotus recalls names of other Scythian kings. These data cannot be useful in the traditional sense that genealogies have: they do not contribute in any way to date events or to put order in their sequence. They do not even help us to understand the problem of the transmission of power in strict sense. Nevertheless, they are important to enlighten the “Scythian question” and the aspects of the conservation of traditions in the Scythian society. In this article I examine these last two aspects in the context of Scythian studies from the mid-19th century up to now with a particular attention to the so-called “Scythian question” in Russia.

Study on Sculpture Based on New Materials

2013 ◽  
Vol 340 ◽  
pp. 335-338
Author(s):  
Jun Xiao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Culture Shock ◽  
Visual Image ◽  
Strict Sense ◽  
Western Art ◽  
Post Modernism ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Type ◽  
Traditional Sense ◽  
Aesthetic Ideas

In the field of sculpture, the material is a sculptor's medium for the expression of aesthetic ideas, presenting a visual image. In a strict sense, all of the sculptures in the world are reflected through the material. It is recorded in the history of Western civilization development that ancient man started the sculpture very early and they also learned to take advantage of them during the creation of the material. As time goes on, the material has been an extremely important role to play in the sculpture development. In China, traditional sculpture materials have thousands of years of development, and our predecessors have already been familiar with heat and use it freely. After the beginning of the 20th century, the traditional Chinese culture triggered major changes in the concept under the influence of Western culture shock, the traditional realist sculpture in the West spread in China for more than half a century. During this period, Western art experienced the evolution of modernism and post-modernism, and the Western modernist sculpture broaden people's understanding of the "material", they were no longer the four materials of clay, wood, stone and copper of the traditional sense. And the use of the material is very extensive. In view of this, the article analyzes and discusses the application of a new type of material in sculpture.

An Indian Dancer

Tempo ◽  
1948 ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
W. H. Haddon Squire
Keyword(s):  
Strict Sense ◽  
Late Professor ◽  
Original Language ◽  
Emotional Effect ◽  
Ritual Dance

The late Professor Collingwood claimed that the dance is the mother of all languages in the sense that every kind or order of language (speech, gesture, and so forth) is an offshoot from an original language of total bodily gesture; a language which we all use, whether aware of it or not—even to stand perfectly still, no less than making a movement, is in the strict sense a gesture. He also relates the dance to the artist's language of form and shape. He asks us to imagine an artist who wants to reproduce the emotional effect of a ritual dance in which the dancers trace a pattern on the ground. The emotional effect of the dance depends not on any instantaneous posture, but on the traced pattern. Obviously, he concludes, the sensible thing would be to leave out the dancers altogether, and draw the pattern by itself.

EMF—a 19th-Century mistake

IEE Review ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
Michael V. Worstall
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century

Grammatical Descriptions in Manchu Grammar Books from the Qing Dynasty

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-55
Author(s):  
Takashi Takekoshi
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Qing Dynasty ◽  
The Qing Dynasty ◽  
Chinese Scholars ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The 19Th Century

In this paper, we analyse features of the grammatical descriptions in Manchu grammar books from the Qing Dynasty. Manchu grammar books exemplify how Chinese scholars gave Chinese names to grammatical concepts in Manchu such as case, conjugation, and derivation which exist in agglutinating languages but not in isolating languages. A thorough examination reveals that Chinese scholarly understanding of Manchu grammar at the time had attained a high degree of sophistication. We conclude that the reason they did not apply modern grammatical concepts until the end of the 19th century was not a lack of ability but because the object of their grammatical descriptions was Chinese, a typical isolating language.

The Kitajskaja grammatika (1835) and Bičurin’s ideas on the “mechanism” of Chinese between European and Chinese grammatical traditions

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-77
Author(s):  
Anna Di Toro
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Early 19Th Century

The main contribution of Bičurin in the field of Chinese language, the Kitajskaja grammatika (1835), is still quite understudied, even though it represents the first grammar of Chinese written in Russian. Through a rapid overview of some of the early grammars of Chinese written by European authors and the analysis of some sections of the book, in which the Russian sinologist expounds the mechanism of Chinese, the paper dwells on the original ideas on this language developed by the Russian sinologist, inspired both by European and Chinese grammatical traditions. A particular attention is devoted to Bičurin’s concept of “mental modification”, related to the linguistic ideas discussed in Europe in the early 19th century.

Immigrant Arab Women in Chile during the Renaissance (Nahda), 1910s-1920s

1970 ◽  
pp. 47-55
Author(s):  
Sarah Limorté
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
New World ◽  
Arab Women ◽  
Arab Woman ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 19Th Century

Levantine immigration to Chile started during the last quarter of the 19th century. This immigration, almost exclusively male at the outset, changed at the beginning of the 20th century when women started following their fathers, brothers, and husbands to the New World. Defining the role and status of the Arab woman within her community in Chile has never before been tackled in a detailed study. This article attempts to broach the subject by looking at Arabic newspapers published in Chile between 1912 and the end of the 1920s. A thematic analysis of articles dealing with the question of women or written by women, appearing in publications such as Al-Murshid, Asch-Schabibat, Al-Watan, and Oriente, will be discussed.

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