On Systematicity. How to Write (Ancient Greek) Science

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Asper
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Ancient Greek

Abstract:This article asks what it takes to make the treatment of a given topic and thus a scientific or scholarly text ‘systematic’. After some remarks upon systems theory, the paper illustrates systematicity, the quality of being systematic, by readings of the Hippocratic

What Can Complex Abdominal Wall Hernia Surgeons Learn About Quality of Life From Ancient Greek Philosophers?

2020 ◽  
Vol 03 (03) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Smith ◽  
Miriam Isaac ◽  
Thomas Elanjithara ◽  
Praminthra Chitsabesan ◽  
Srinivas Chintapatla
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Abdominal Wall ◽  
Abdominal Wall Hernia ◽  
Ancient Greek

Conclusions

2019 ◽  
pp. 243-250
Author(s):  
Lucy C. M. M. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek Drama ◽  
Relevant Evidence ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Questions ◽  
The Way

As well as bringing together all the relevant evidence for the quality and activity of the chorus of drama in the fourth century, this monograph has raised certain key questions about the current understanding of the nature and development of Attic drama as a whole. First, it shows that the supposed ‘civic’ quality of the chorus of drama is, in fact, an association loaned, inappropriately, from the genre of circular, ‘dithyrambic’, choral performance. Being attentive to the cultural differences between these two genres should prompt a further re-evaluation of how to read dramatic choruses more generally. Second, the way in which key fourth-century authors such as Plato and Xenophon use the image of the chorus to discuss the concept of leadership has profoundly shaped ways of construing choreia in ancient Greek drama, and the ancient Mediterranean more generally. Armed with this knowledge, it is possible to retell the story and history of the chorus in drama.

Odysseus on the Niobid Krater

1989 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 191-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J. McNiven
Keyword(s):  
Classical Period ◽  
Mural Painting ◽  
Vase Painting ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
New Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Greek Art

The Niobid krater in Paris (Louvre G341) is not one of the masterpieces of Greek vase painting. The vase is not even one of the best works of the artist, who receives his name, the Niobid Painter, from the rare depiction of Apollo and Artemis killing the children of Niobe on the reverse. The vase is, however, one of the touchstones of the history of ancient Greek art. The Niobid krater has this distinction because it is the earliest contemporaneous witness to the new developments in mural painting in the Early Classical Period, developments best understood from the descriptions of the traveler Pausanias six centuries later. The actual quality of the Niobid krater is therefore secondary to its documentary value.Since the krater's discovery in 1881, most discussion has focused on the iconography of the scene on the obverse, showing a group of warriors with Athena (PLATE IIa). The ambiguity of the scene comes from the large number of figures and the lack of action or iconographical evidence to help in their identification. Of the 11 figures, only Herakles (figure 6 on PLATE IIb), with his club and lionskin and Athena (4) in her aegis and helmet are clearly identifiable.

scholarly journals Er de frivillige organisationers teknologiunderskud et problem?

2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-46
Author(s):  
Anders La Cour
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Future Role ◽  
The Third ◽  
Welfare Society ◽  
The Future ◽  
Third Dimension

Is the Lack of Technology a Problem for Voluntary Organizations? This article attempts to contribute to the discussion of voluntary organizations and the challenges they face in the development of the Danish welfare society by applying insights from systems theory. The article discusses three central dimensions of these challenges. The first is the government’s increasing expectations as regards both the content and quality of voluntary effort, as well as its expectations regarding the nature of organization of voluntary groups. The second dimension is the lack of technology that voluntary organizations have at their disposal. The third dimension is a discussion of the relevan-ce that their programs and technologies have for the future role of voluntary organizations in the modernization of the Danish welfare state. In this regard it asks the question as to whether voluntary organizations suffer from a lack of relevant technologies.

Reading Greek Literature

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Schmitz
Keyword(s):  
Literary Texts ◽  
Oral Poetry ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Special Quality ◽  
Egyptian Literature ◽  
Open Question

This chapter looks at Ancient Greek texts as a foil for Ancient Egyptian literature. Scholars who work on cultural products of premodern societies will always be faced with the question whether, by using modern terminology, they are unconsciously importing anachronistic and thus inappropriate concepts into their research. The word ‘literature’ implies literacy, but it is an open question whether the fundamental qualities of writing can reside in texts which have been produced and received as written and read texts. The chapter argues that the awareness of the special quality of literary texts can indeed be found in the earliest Greek texts. It compares the ways in which speaker and addressee are constructed in early oral poetry (such as lyrics and epic) and early written texts (such as epigrams) and argues that there is no clear-cut boundary between the two modes.

Grey incidence between KPIs and hospital performance

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioana Bradea ◽  
Virginia Mărăcine
Keyword(s):  
Nosocomial Infection ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Infection Rate ◽  
Death Rate ◽  
Utilization Rate ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Nosocomial Infection Rate ◽  
Grey Systems Theory ◽  
Diagnostic Concordance

Purpose – Performance indicates how well the activities, operations and business processes of an enterprise are performed. In health care, performance illustrates the quality of medical services and targets the strategic objectives, the efficiency and effectiveness and the obtaining of the desired financial results. In economic analysis, the key performance indicators (KPIs) offers real, relevant and accurate information regarding the performance, using analysis and diagnosis techniques. The purpose of this paper is to discuss grey systems theory in order to bridge the KPIs and the hospital’s performance. Design/methodology/approach – Using the grey systems theory, the impact of seven selected KPIs (the beds utilization rate, the average length of hospitalization, the average cost of hospitalization/day, the proportion of physicians in total staff, the nosocomial infection rate, the death rate and the diagnostic concordance) on the hospital’s turnover is determined. Findings – By analyzing the grey incidence between turnover and several KPIs, for a period of six years, it has been concluded that the greatest impact on performance has the diagnostic concordance and the percent of the physicians in the total staff, followed by the nosocomial infection rate, the average bed utilization rate and the death rate. Research limitations/implications – The considered case study should be extended by including a greater number of hospitals into the analysis. Originality/value – The usage of the grey systems theory in an uncertain and limited information field such as the medical one, is a premier in this field. According to the grey incidence analysis results, the performance of health care institutions depends mainly on the quality of medical staff (that influence the diagnostic concordance, the nosocomial infection rate and the death rate) and on the management ability to attract competent and well-trained physicians, which can conduct in a new approach that should be considered by the hospitals’ managerial staff.

scholarly journals Ἀμήχανόν τι κάλλος. Re-evaluating the Concept of Beauty in Heliodorus’ Aithiopika

Nova Tellus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-129
Author(s):  
Markus Hafner ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Concept Of Beauty ◽  
Persuasive Effect ◽  
Divine Beauty

Of the extant ancient Greek novels, Heliodorus’ Aithiopika is by far the most ‘sophisticated’. One of its topics is the virtually irresistible, and almost ‘divine’, beauty of both protagonists, Theagenes and Charicleia. Whereas earlier scholarship brought Heliodorean beauty into line with Platonic concepts and highlighted its ethical value or even metaphysical character, this article tries to throw into relief another aspect of Heliodorean κάλλος, emphasising a link between the Aithiopika and rhetorical exercises based on beauty. Thus, κάλλος makes explicit the persuasive effect of the text itself. By means of Heliodorus’ art of description, the quality of beauty also bears meta-literary implications. The Aithiopika, consequently, advertise in a self-referential way their own rhetorical attraction and persuasiveness.

scholarly journals Updating the Spatial Figures of Learning

2020 ◽  
pp. 226-241
Author(s):  
Barbara Coppetti
Keyword(s):  
Educational Institution ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Architectural Education ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Hidden Layer ◽  
Open Campus ◽  
Contemporary School

The educational institution represents the basis of civil society: any great empire or civilzation began to be considered when it developed a structured educational system capable to educate aware citizens participating in public life. Retracing the etymological origin of hte term school, the latter suggests a hidden component which should still be at the basis of the idea of contemporary school. The word comes from the Latin schola, which derives from the ancient Greek scholè that means to take care of free time. The scholè was the time in which one rested form the effort of daily life, to devote himself to study and reasoning. The proposal in this paper is that the first hidden layer of architectural education is to give back to the school its authentic meaning of scholè, place of the otium, where the love of knowledge lives. The Place on one side and the Educator on the other are the first components to update our universities: open campus, informal spaces, off-the-record paths + innovative teaching are the main tools to pursue a better quality of architectural education.

scholarly journals Virtual reassembly and completion of a fragmentary drinking vessel

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (15) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Despoina Tsiafaki ◽  
Anestis Koutsoudis ◽  
Fotis Arnaoutoglou ◽  
Natasa Michailidou
Keyword(s):  
Essential Role ◽  
Collection System ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Automated Data Collection ◽  
The Past ◽  
System A ◽  
Geometrical Features ◽  
And Function ◽  
3D Digitisation

<p class="VARAbstract">A  key  issue  in  the  study  of  cultural  assets  is theiroften  fragmentary  condition.  This  causes  serious  problems  and questions regarding theirstudy and presentation. Pottery fragments are the most numerous findings in every excavation. Furthermore, pottery plays an essential role for the reconstruction of the past, since it providesinformation for all aspects of  life  (private,  public,  religion,  death,  economy,  society,  trade,etc.). Therefore,a  thorough  study  and  presentation  of pottery fragments contribute to a better knowledge of the past.The focus of this work is the visualisation of an ancient Greek  drinking  vase,  a kantharos,  which  was  unearthed  during  the  excavations  at  the  settlement  of  Karabournaki (ancient Therme) in the area of Thessaloniki (Greece). It dates to the Archaic period (7th-6thc. B.C.) and it was found in fragments  among  the  settlement's  architectural  remains.  The  vase  is  of  great  archaeological  significance  due  to  its peculiarities  in  terms  of  shape,  decoration  and  function. Therefore,its  digital  completion  and  3D  reconstruction  willcontribute to its betterstudy and scholarly publication along with a general contribution to the field of pottery studies.We discuss  on  the  3D  digitisation  of  the kantharosfragments  that  werebased  onStructure from Motion/Multiple  View Stereovision  (SfM/MVS)  and  a  custom  automated  data  collection  system.  A  detailed  description  of  the  digitisation pipeline is given along with details related to the quality of the 3D digital replicas of the sherds. Furthermore, we presentour  manual  virtual  reassembly  and  reconstruction  pipelineof  the kantharosby  describing  the  challenges,  issues  and ambiguities discovered while analysing the geometrical features of each sherd. A number of photorealistic reconstruction visualisations  of  the  artefact  are  presented  in  order  to  question  the  applicability  of  the  solution  for  the  actual reconstruction</p>

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