Sages at the Games: Intellectual Displays and Dissemination of Wisdom in Ancient Greece

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hååkan Tell
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Similar Type ◽  
Accurate Picture ◽  
Interpretive Framework ◽  
The Way

Abstract This paper explores the role the Panhellenic centers played in facilitating the circulation of wisdom in ancient Greece. It argues that there are substantial thematic overlaps among practitioners of wisdom (σσοοφφοοίί), who are typically understood as belonging to different categories (such as presocratics, sophists, poets, et al.). By focusing on the presence of σσοοφφοοίί at the Panhellenic centers in general, and Delphi in particular, we can acquire a more accurate picture of the particular expertise they possessed, and of the range of meanings the Greeks attributed to the word σσοοφφίίαα. This approach seeks to challenge the conventional categories of modern scholarship and to offer a broader and more inclusive interpretive framework in its stead. One such thematic overlap is the way in which many σσοοφφοοίί are described as exerting an almost uncanny, yet highly conventional ability to attract listeners and enchant them with their verbal performances. There is plenty of material to support the view that σσοοφφοοόό, through tapping into the repository of σσοοφφίίαα that Delphi constituted and by aligning themselves with its authority, were seen as themselves being a conduit for a similar type of charismatic speech.

On Purpose

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Ruse
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Design ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Western Thought ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Thought ◽  
The Way

Can we live without the idea of purpose? Should we even try to? Kant thought we were stuck with it, and even Darwin, who profoundly shook the idea, was unable to kill it. Indeed, purpose seems to be making a comeback today, as both religious advocates of intelligent design and some prominent secular philosophers argue that any explanation of life without the idea of purpose is missing something essential. This book explores the history of purpose in philosophical, religious, scientific, and historical thought, from ancient Greece to the present. The book traces how Platonic, Aristotelian, and Kantian ideas of purpose continue to shape Western thought. Along the way, it also takes up tough questions about the purpose of life—and whether it's possible to have meaning without purpose.

The Establishment of a Dominant Interpretive Framework in Language Intervention

1997 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 288-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack S. Damico ◽  
Sandra K. Damico
Keyword(s):  
School Culture ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Language Intervention ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Therapeutic Discourse ◽  
Therapeutic Encounter ◽  
Collection Strategies ◽  
Patterns Of Interaction ◽  
Interpretive Framework ◽  
The Way

One aspect of therapeutic discourse that has not been fully investigated in language intervention is the way that interactional dominance is established and maintained within the therapeutic encounter. Using various data collection strategies, therapeutic discourse from 10 language intervention sessions was collected and analyzed. By employing an analytic device known as the "dominant interpretive framework," the interactional styles and strategies of two speech-language pathologists were investigated. Data revealed several systematic patterns of interaction that constrained the ranges of interaction between the clinician and the client. Several implications regarding client empowerment, mediation, and assimilation into the school culture are discussed.

scholarly journals Evaluating how we evaluate

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (17) ◽  
pp. 3285-3289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald D. Vale
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Scientific Productivity ◽  
Academic Science ◽  
Scientific Enterprise ◽  
Accurate Picture ◽  
Funding Agencies ◽  
Curriculum Vitae ◽  
The Way

Evaluation of scientific work underlies the process of career advancement in academic science, with publications being a fundamental metric. Many aspects of the evaluation process for grants and promotions are deeply ingrained in institutions and funding agencies and have been altered very little in the past several decades, despite substantial changes that have taken place in the scientific work force, the funding landscape, and the way that science is being conducted. This article examines how scientific productivity is being evaluated, what it is rewarding, where it falls short, and why richer information than a standard curriculum vitae/biosketch might provide a more accurate picture of scientific and educational contributions. The article also explores how the evaluation process exerts a profound influence on many aspects of the scientific enterprise, including the training of new scientists, the way in which grant resources are distributed, the manner in which new knowledge is published, and the culture of science itself.

New perspectives on ancient science

1994 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Ancient Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

Did science develop differently in different ancient civilisations, and if so, why? This article compares the development of medicine, mathematics and astronomy in ancient Greece and ancient China. It identifies certain significant differences in the way in which the problems were formulated and the aims and methods used to resolve them, and it relates these to the social institutions and values of the society within which the scientists work.

The Value in Things: Folklore and the Anthropological Museum Exhibit

1985 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 19-20
Author(s):  
M. Young
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Museum Exhibit ◽  
Accurate Picture ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

In anthropological museums material objects serve to depict relationships between people, objects, and the physical world. Thus there is an obvious link between the museological side of anthropology and that branch of folklore or folklife studies which focuses on material culture. Both study objects as indices of the minds of their makers. Recently, however, the proponents of both of these subdisciplines have been taken to task for an over-emphasis on the object in and of itself which leads them to ignore or obscure the "environment" within which that object originally existed. Folklorists who wish to discern both the form and meaning of material items and those who recognize the importance of studying all aspects of a multi-faceted event have benefited from the performance-centered approach which extends its focus from the folkloric item to the total context within which that item was generated. It is this approach which enables folklorists to view verbal or visual forms in relationship to various cultural processes and to address topics in ethnoaesthetics, ethics, and education which folklore shares with anthropology and museology. The following is a brief discussion of the way in which concepts from folklore theory can be used in the anthropological museum exhibit to present a more dynamic and accurate picture of the relationship between people and things.

scholarly journals RACHUNKI I LICZBY STAROŻYTNYCH GREKÓW I RZYMIAN

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Piotr Gawrysiak
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Numerical Information ◽  
Mathematical Operations ◽  
Numerical Notation ◽  
The Way

Ancient Greek and Roman Numerical Notation and Counting AidsSummary The abilities to count and write down numbers are usually regarded as trivial, while in fact these skills are early technologies that significantly influenced the development of science, trade, culture and law. The lack of understanding of the way in which numerical information was conveyed among people and the ways in which daily computations - such as taxes, livestock accounts, prices etc. - were carried out, might lead to improper reasoning about the culture itself. It is, therefore, useful to know the basics of „daily” mathematics used by Greeks and Romans while studying – for example - Roman law.In this paper some basic information regarding the numerical notation used in ancient Greece and Rome is presented. This includes Roman numerals with examples of mathematical operations performed with their aid and two Greek numerical systems, namely herodianic and attic. Early aids to computation are also discussed, including finger reckoning and the abacus. 

The Notion of Synthesis in Harmonic Science (and Beyond)

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-173
Author(s):  
Eleonora Rocconi
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Specific Object ◽  
Rigorous Method ◽  
The Way

Abstract In ancient Greece, harmonics fully acquires the dignity of ‘science’ thanks to Aristoxenus of Tarentum, who first gives an account of a rigorous method of analysis of the structures underlying melodies. One of the most interesting concepts discussed in his extant writings is the notion of synthesis, which he uses to describe any orderly combination of elements (whether they are sounds, intervals or letters) into a sequence. This principle, which according to him governs the way of combining items in patterns, is described as a ‘natural’ principle (i.e. inherent in melos or lexis) and lies at the very bottom of his idea of ‘attuned melody’ (melos hērmosmenon), the specific object under investigation in his harmonics. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the pivotal significance of this notion within Aristoxenus’ thought and to identify its reception in later authors, not only within harmonics but also within the realm of rhetoric.

The Blind Storyteller

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris Berent
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
The Difference ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Intellectual Journey ◽  
The Way

Do newborns think? Do they know that 3 is greater than 2? Do they prefer right to wrong? What about emotions? Do newborns recognize happiness or anger? If they do, then how are our inborn thoughts and feelings encoded in our bodies? Could they persist after we die? Going all the way back to ancient Greece, human nature and the mind–body link are the topics of age-old scholarly debates. But laypeople also have strong opinions about such matters. Most people believe, for example, that newborn babies don’t know the difference between right and wrong—such knowledge, they insist, can only be learned. For emotions, they presume the opposite—that our capacity to feel fear, for example, is both inborn and embodied. These beliefs are stories we tell ourselves about what we know and who we are. They reflect and influence our understanding of ourselves and others, and they guide every aspect of our lives. In a twist that could have come out of a Greek tragedy, Berent proposes that our errors are our fate. These mistakes emanate from the very principles that make our minds tick: Our blindness to human nature is rooted in human nature itself. An intellectual journey that draws on philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, cognitive science, and Berent’s own cutting-edge research, The Blind Storyteller grapples with a host of provocative questions, from why we are so infatuated with our brains to what happens when we die. The end result is a startling new perspective on our humanity.

scholarly journals Uma análise de Reso, de Eurípides e da astúcia de Odisseu

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Lilian Amadei Sais
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Title Page ◽  
The Way

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>A tragédia <em>Reso</em>, cuja autoria é muito discutida, traz uma das versões do mito do rei trácio que dá nome à peça. Encontramos outra versão desse mesmo mito na <em>Ilíada</em> de Homero, no também controverso Canto X, conhecido como Dolonéia. As duas narrativas formam um <em>corpus</em> excelente para quem quer investigar o tema da astúcia na Grécia antiga. Nosso trabalho de mestrado visa a entender de que maneira a astúcia da tragédia <em>Reso</em> se dá, comparando-a com a Dolonéia. Neste artigo, pretendemos fazê-lo através do papel que Odisseu desempenha na trama e da visão que as demais personagens têm dele e de sua conduta na guerra, comparando estas evidências com aquelas relacionadas a Dólon, o outro personagem astucioso da trama, e contrapondo ambos aos seus opostos na tragédia, Reso e Heitor. </span></p><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><strong>An analysis of Euripides’ Rhesus and Odysseus Cunning Intelligence </strong></p><p><strong>Abstract </strong></p><p><span>The tragedy Rhesus, whose authorship is a matter of controversy, brings one version of the Thracian king's myth after whom the play is named. One finds another version of the same myth in Homer ́s Iliad, at the also controversial Book Tenth, known as Doloneia. Both narratives form an excellent corpus to investigate the theme of cunning intelligence in Ancient Greece. My mastering research explores the ways in which cunning intelligence is presented in the Rhesus tragedy, by comparing it with the Doloneia. In this article, I intend to analyze briefly the role played by Odysseus in the plot and the way other characters view him. </span></p><p><span><strong>Keywords: </strong></span><span>Cunning Intelligence; Rhesus; Dolon; Odysseus </span></p></div></div></div><p><span><br /></span></p></div></div></div>

scholarly journals Αρετη w przekazach przedchrześcijańskich. Zarys zagadnienia

Vox Patrum ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 767-787
Author(s):  
Brunon Zgraja
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Special Value ◽  
The Way

This article presents the development of the meaning of arete in the sources from Homer to Albinus (VIII B.C. - II A.D.), which, together with changes happening in the economical, social, political and cultural life of the ancient Greece, began to mean all that gives to a person or to a thing a special value: a bodilly one, a practical, moral and intellectual one. Moreover, the way leading to achievement of arete, as well as the values resulting from its possession, has been presented.

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