scholarly journals "Akritas" – Nikos Kazantzakis' Little-Known Unrealized Epic Project

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
Michał Bzinkowski
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Byzantine Empire ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Epic Poem ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
Modern Greece ◽  
Different Sources

Kazantzakis’ Odyssey – apart from the abundance of philosophical as well as ideological influences of many different sources which the writer tried to unify into a universal cosmotheory – constitutes a large-scale attempt by a Modern Greek writer to respond to Homeric epic. Yet, the author of Zorba the Greek sketched another epic composition that, according to his vision, aimed at reaching further than his magnum opus. His ambition was to encompass the long-lasting period between Ancient and Modern Greece, namely that of the Byzantine empire and its radiating influence on Greek consciousness and identity. He entitled his project Akritas, thus directly alluding to the only epic poem in Byzantine Greek literature, Digenes Akritas, and its protagonist as well as to acritic songs from Cyprus, where the latter’s name appears. In the present paper I would like to shed some light on Kazantzakis’ approach to Byzantium and its significance in defining the Greek identity through this unfinished sketch that the writer in fact never began.

Arts and Crafts of the Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia

2021 ◽  
pp. 846-873
Author(s):  
Dobrochna Zielińska
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Wall Painting ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
The Other ◽  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
Byzantine Empire ◽  
Late Period ◽  
Artistic Production ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Different Sources

After the collapse of the Meroitic Empire, three independent kingdoms arose within its former territory. Because of a lack of centralized political authority and artistic production, their early development, although based on the Meroitic inheritance, was determined by different sources of influence. From the 8th century two united northern kingdoms became a powerful state, which is also reflected in its art. Rising creativity from the 9th century onwards reflected local needs and ambitions. In the course of time, surrounded by Islamic neighbors, Nubian art on one hand remained independent in its forms of art, but on the other hand absorbed a new style and iconographic details, which is most visible in 12th-century wall painting. Most probably it reflected a changing lifestyle, inspired by the wider Middle Eastern world at that time. The late period, although characterized by much less activity and financial possibilities of individuals or communities, still shows flourishing activities of Nubian artists. Christian Nubian culture ended almost simultaneously with the Byzantine empire, leaving almost one thousand years of its unique heritage.

scholarly journals Οι νεοελληνικές τύχες του Αλκιβιάδη ως το τέλος του 19ου αιώνα

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Στέση Αθήνη
Keyword(s):  
Greek Literature ◽  
Historical Drama ◽  
Greek Culture ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Literary Character ◽  
The World ◽  
European Family

 The beginning of the closer acquaintance of Modern Greek literature with Alcibiades’ forceful personality is located during the years of Greek Enlightenment, with the discovery of the world of History and the “return to the antiquity” through foreign texts, translated into Greek. Nevertheless, Alcibiades’ appearance as a literary character was delayed compared with his reach European literary fortunes. Alcibiades appears in 1837 through Alcibiades byAugustusGottliebMeissner, a translated “bildungsroman” from German, and half a century later through a second translation, from Italian this time, the homonymous FelicioCavallotti’s historical drama (1889). Examining closely these two texts and considering their presence in the source literatures as well as the terms of their reception in Greek it is concluded that Socrates’ disciple array with literary raiment served the ideological schema aiming at the strengthening of the relations between Modern Greek culture and antiquity and simultaneously the European family.

The Late Wisconsinan Savanna Terrace in Tributaries to the Upper Mississippi River

1983 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Flock
Keyword(s):  
Mississippi River ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Lake Superior ◽  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
Red Clay ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Jackson County ◽  
Late Wisconsinan ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
Lacustrine Deposit

The Savanna Terrace, composed of alternating red and gray clayey sediments of late Wisconsinan age, can be found in five states along the upper Mississippi valley from Pepin County, Wisconsin, to Jackson County, Illinois. The terrace is the highest glaciofluvial-lacustrine deposit without a loess cover in the upper Mississippi valley. Chemical, physical, and mineralogical data show that two different sources provided sediment. The red clay is believed to have come from Lake Superior sources, while the gray clay is believed to have come from sources farther west. Large-scale flood events from glacial Lakes Agassiz, Grantsburg, and Superior were probably the main contributors of the sediments. The red clay in the terrace is similar in composition to red glaciolacustrine sediment found in eastern and northern Wisconsin. It also is mineralogically similar to the Hinckley Sandstone and the Fond du Lac Formation, which occur under and around Lake Superior. Radiocarbon dates obtained from the lower Illinois valley indicate that the terrace sediments were deposited sometime between about 13,100 and 9500 yr ago. Soils developed on the terrace are variable in their physical, chemical, and mineralogical properties, which reflect the composition of the clayey sediments.

Modern Greek Literature

PMLA ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 1064-1072
Keyword(s):  
Greek Literature ◽  
Modern Greek

The emergence of modern Greek studies in late-nineteenth-century France and England: The yearbooks of the Association pour l’encouragement des études grecques en France (1867) and of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (1877)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandros Katsigiannis
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Nineteenth Century France ◽  
French And English ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Modern Greece

Was the field of modern Greek studies perceived as an ‘exotic’ discipline in the making, or was it considered to be a branch of the already canonised Hellenic studies? This chapter examines two major associations that were established in the late nineteenth century in France and in England and dealt with the promotion of Greek studies: the Association pour l’encouragement des études grecques en France (1867) and the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (1877). Their yearbooks constitute an unexamined treasure of information illuminating the reception of modern Greece and, at the same time, the construction of the modern Greek cultural identity by French and English Hellenists, from the mid-1860s onward.

scholarly journals Observational constraints of a new unified dark fluid and the H0 tension

2019 ◽  
Vol 490 (2) ◽  
pp. 2071-2085 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiqiang Yang ◽  
Supriya Pan ◽  
Andronikos Paliathanasis ◽  
Subir Ghosh ◽  
Yabo Wu
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Dark Energy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Early Time ◽  
Observational Constraints ◽  
Minimal Extension ◽  
Energy Evolution ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Different Sources

ABSTRACT Unified cosmological models have received a lot of attention in astrophysics community for explaining both the dark matter and dark energy evolution. The Chaplygin cosmologies, a well-known name in this group have been investigated matched with observations from different sources. Obviously, Chaplygin cosmologies have to obey restrictions in order to be consistent with the observational data. As a consequence, alternative unified models, differing from Chaplygin model, are of special interest. In the present work, we consider a specific example of such a unified cosmological model, that is quantified by only a single parameter μ, that can be considered as a minimal extension of the Λ-cold dark matter cosmology. We investigate its observational boundaries together with an analysis of the universe at large scale. Our study shows that at early time the model behaves like a dust, and as time evolves, it mimics a dark energy fluid depicting a clear transition from the early decelerating phase to the late cosmic accelerating phase. Finally, the model approaches the cosmological constant boundary in an asymptotic manner. We remark that for the present unified model, the estimations of H0 are slightly higher than its local estimation and thus alleviating the H0 tension.

scholarly journals The Implication of Different Sets of Climate Variables on Regional Maize Yield Simulations

Atmosphere ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 180
Author(s):  
Amit Kumar Srivastava ◽  
Andrej Ceglar ◽  
Wenzhi Zeng ◽  
Thomas Gaiser ◽  
Cho Miltin Mboh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Crop Yield ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Maize Yield ◽  
Weather Data ◽  
Climate Data ◽  
Agricultural Planning ◽  
Input Variables ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
Grid Based

High-resolution and consistent grid-based climate data are important for model-based agricultural planning and farm risk assessment. However, the application of models at the regional scale is constrained by the lack of required high-quality weather data, which may be retrieved from different sources. This can potentially introduce large uncertainties into the crop simulation results. Therefore, in this study, we examined the impacts of grid-based time series of weather variables assembled from the same data source (Approach 1, consistent dataset) and from different sources (Approach 2, combined dataset) on regional scale crop yield simulations in Ghana, Ethiopia and Nigeria. There was less variability in the simulated yield under Approach 1, ranging to 58.2%, 45.6% and 8.2% in Ethiopia, Nigeria and Ghana, respectively, compared to those simulated using datasets retrieved under Approach 2. The two sources of climate data evaluated here were capable of producing both good and poor estimates of average maize yields ranging from lowest RMSE = 0.31 Mg/ha in Nigeria to highest RMSE = 0.78 Mg/ha under Approach 1 in Ghana, whereas, under Approach 2, the RMSE ranged from the lowest value of 0.51 Mg/ha in Nigeria to the highest of 0.72 Mg/ha in Ethiopia under Approach 2. The obtained results suggest that Approach 1 introduces less uncertainty to the yield estimates in large-scale regional simulations, and physical consistency between meteorological input variables is a relevant factor to consider for crop yield simulations under rain-fed conditions.

Making Sense of Team Information

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Stevens ◽  
Trysha Galloway ◽  
Ann Willemson-Dunlap ◽  
Jamie Gorman ◽  
Donald Halpin
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Team Member ◽  
Neural Dynamics ◽  
Neural Dynamic ◽  
Micro Scale ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Parietal Lobes ◽  
Gamma Frequencies ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
Practical Sense

This paper describes how meaning can be extracted from large-scale dynamical data to make inferences about teamwork that are useful in both the theoretical and practical sense. The dynamics of an anesthesiology team are viewed from the perspectives of: 1) changes in the team’s neurodynamic organizations with large and small changes in the task; 2) how team member’s neurodynamics contribute to team neurodynamics; 3) the relationships between task events, heart-rate and neural dynamic organizations; 4) the linkages between speech flow, team and team member neurodynamics and topic discussions during Debriefing; and, 5) the micro-scale neural dynamics reflecting the involvement of the parietal lobes and gamma frequencies. These examples show how different sources of team data can contribute to multi-modal understandings of individual and teams dynamics that span micro and macro scales of teamwork.

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