scholarly journals Damascius in Alexandria (2). Selected fragments of his “Philosophical History”

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 295-316
Author(s):  
Eugene Afonasin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
First Time

In the paper, I trace the evolution of the Neoplatonic school in Alexandria on the basis of select fragments from Damascius’ “Philosophical History,” translated into Russian for the first time. The fragments concern the Alexandrian intellectual scene of the second part of the fifth century (fragments 72–96 Athanassiadi). Damascius vividly presents the major philosophical figures of this period, such as Heraiscus, Asclepiades, Asclepiodoti (Senior and Junior), and Domninus. Most information is preserved about Asclepiodotus the Junior, who against the background of the general fascination of the Platonists with theurgy and other forms of philosophical religion, the practice of piety and, as a scientific component, theoretical mathematics, stands out for his penchant for empirical research, which could be applied to botany, biology, medicine, geology, for the study and development of technology, and even, if we believe Damascus' account that during his journey from Athens to Aphrodisias he "studied men", then psychology.

scholarly journals TRADISI BUKA PINTU DALAM PERKAWINAN MASYARAKAT BANTEN: Studi terhadap Tradisi Ya Lail di Kampung Pakuncen Ciwedus, Cilegon

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Dayan Fithoroini
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Marriage Contract ◽  
Contemporary Development ◽  
First Time

This article discusses about the tradition of yalil/yalail practiced in Kampung Pakuncen Cilegon Banten in the process of marriage celebration. It is a symbol of the beginning of family life. This tradition is conducted after marriage contract. The discussion concentrate on the meaning of the tradition among the society. Based on empirical research, this paper argues that the tradition of yalil is a symbol of the arrival of the first time the groom goes to the bride's house and the acceptance of the bride’s family to the groom. In Kampung Pakuncen, Ya lail tradition has important meaning for the society, even it was considered as a compulsory in wedding procession and give impact to the validity of marriage. As a fruit of social development, contemporary development shows that ya lail is considered as a good tradition which does not give impact to the validity of marriage.  Tulisan ini membahas tentang tradisi yalil/ya lail, sebuah tradisi yang ada dalam pesta perkawinan, yang dipraktikkan di Kampung Pakuncen, Cilegon, Banten. Tradisi Yalil ini dianggap sebagai simbol dimulainya kehidupan berumah tangga dan biasanya diadakan setelah akad nikah. Tulisan ini berfokus pada makna tradisi ya lail bagi masyarakat kampung Pakuncen. Berdasarkan penelitian empiris, tulisan ini menyimpulkan bahwa tradisi Yalil merupakan tanda kedatangan mempelai laki-laki ke rumah mempelai perempuan untuk pertama kalinya, dan simbol penerimaan keluarga mempelai perempuan terhadap mempelai laki-laki. Bagi masyarakat Pekuncen, tradisi Ya lail mempunyai makna yang penting dalam perkawinan. Tradisi ini pernah dianggap sebagai salah satu syarat yang menentukan sahnya perkawinan. Namun, seiring dengan perkembangan sosial yang terjadi, sekarang masyarakat hanya menganggap ya lail sebagai tradisi baik yang tidak berpengaruh terhadap keabsahan perkawinan. 

scholarly journals Literatuurgeschiedschrijving én empirische literatuurwetenschap?

1970 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 21-35
Author(s):  
Daan Vandenhaute
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Empirical Approach ◽  
First Time

The empirical study of literature might be tolerated as a discipline, withinliterary studies it remains an unknown, peripheral possibility, that has to dealwith a lot of scepticism and ignorance. Often it is associated with sheer quantitativeresearch, only focusing, moreover, on the contemporary. In this articleI try to show that the empirical approach also can be applied for the study ofliterary history, with attention paid to qualitative aspects. I demonstrate thisby means of empirical research I have done into the Swedish first time poetsof the 1970s. I point out that the empirical study of literature is conceived ofas a methodology that is applied within a specific theoretical framework, thesystemic study of literature.

scholarly journals The Significance of Employability Training Courses According to Graduate Views: Empirical Research for Greece

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 320
Author(s):  
Andreas Dimopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Personal Attributes ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Transferable Skills ◽  
Ongoing Training ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Time

There is a consensus that employability isn’t only gathering degrees and other qualifications but rather is a set of various factors such as possessing the right transferable skills, the knowledge of job market, the combination of personal attributes, the ongoing training, self presentation skills, networking and ego drive to navigate yourself effectively in a continuous changing world of work. On the other hand, there is an opinion in general that graduates have a remarkable problem to enter the job market for the first time. They don’t know how to search effectively for new job positions, how to present their skills and abilities towards the recruiters or employers and have no idea how to react in the interview process. Finally, employee candidates after graduation need help and consultancy to enter the job market.This study aims to search the role of training courses in enhancing candidates’ employability outcomes according to their opinion. For this purpose, an empirical research has been conducted in order to explore the view of the candidates’ about the importance of relative courses to enhance their employability. In particular we asked two hundreds and thirteen post graduates students in Greece about their opinion of the usefulness in participating and attaint such courses. Furthermore, combined we asked them how much they agree with particular statements that employability is more than having someone qualifications.Results show that employability training courses could contribute effectively in employability outcomes .Also participants agree to the statements that to be someone employable depends not only on their qualifications but also on other factors such as the effectiveness of utilizing job search methods, self promotion skills, networking etc.

scholarly journals The Story of Dr Stella (1927-2006)

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-128
Author(s):  
Richard Van Praagh
Keyword(s):  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Surgical Repair ◽  
Venous Drainage ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Septal Defects ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
First Time ◽  
Survival Of The Fittest ◽  
Heterotaxy Syndromes

A life of professional caring, research, teaching, and inspiration—this is the legacy of Dr Stella Zacharioudaki Van Praagh, MD. Among her many outstanding contributions, only a few are recorded here: (1) a new surgical operation for closing apical muscular ventricular septal defects, (2) a newly discovered form of anomalous pulmonary venous drainage and its surgical repair, (3) a new understanding of sinus venosus defects and their surgical repair, (4) the realization that the concept of atrial-level isomerism (mirror-imagery) in the heterotaxy syndromes of asplenia, polysplenia, and single right-sided spleen is erroneous, (5) the understanding that it is possible to diagnose the atrial situs in the majority of cases of the heterotaxy syndromes, and (6) the fact that the concepts of evolution, natural selection, and survival of the fittest were described by Empedocles, an ancient Greek philosopher, in the fifth century bc, and that these concepts were not discovered and published for the first time by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace in the 19th century (1858 ad). Dr Stella was conversant with ancient Greek and read it frequently in an ancient Greek study group that she headed. Dr Stella translated from ancient Greek into English a portion of Aristotle’s The Physics in which Empedocles’ understanding is cited at length. There is no doubt about what Empedocles thought.

Gender, role and performer in Athenian theatre iconography: A masked tragic chorus with KALOS and KALE captions from Olbia

2014 ◽  
Vol 134 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Braund ◽  
Edith Hall
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Biological Sex ◽  
Female Roles ◽  
First Time

Abstract:A vase fragment from Olbia has been recognized in recent years as a key piece of evidence for the tragic chorus in fifth-century Athenian drama, especially because it shows the use of masks by dancers in such a chorus. This article provides the first clear illustration of the fragment, revealing much detail about the dress of the dancers, with a range of further information about the object (its size, discovery etc.). The illustration shows for the first time that the scene on the fragment includes inscriptions which declare the central aulete and percussionist to be KALOS and each of the two dancers to be KALE. A survey of KALE tags and similar inscriptions shows that there is no direct parallel for these KALE inscriptions. Moreover, these KALE tags are all the more remarkable in that they are attached to dancers who are appearing in female dress and female roles, but who are also male in biological sex. That usage raises the larger issue of gender in the theatre, which is set beside other indications that actors might be treated as in some sense female.

scholarly journals Tragic Narrative Strategies in Contemporary American Cinema. Eastwood-Penn-Grey (1995-2001)

Panoptikum ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 43-55
Author(s):  
Martina Olivero
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Political Role ◽  
American Cinema ◽  
Clint Eastwood ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
Good And Evil

Tragedies were performed for the first time in ancient Greece between the sixth and fifth century BC. A century later, Aristotle in the Poetics gave his famous definition of tragedy, transforming it into a narrative genre. Our aim is primarily to introduce and analyse some characteristics of the tragic scheme. Three main elements will be taken into consideration. We will see that at the very heart of the tragic narration there is “something” unrepresentable, unbearable and nameless that Lacan, in the VII seminar on ethics, names Das Ding or La Chose, The Thing. After that, we will consider the representation of an ethical power which disputes the traditional and institutionalised order. Thirdly, the presence of sacred forces will be evoked to contextualise the ancien and contemporary tragic narrations in a mythical, pre-logical, pre-textual framework. However, in order to identify any forms of tragic narratives in the contemporary era, a consideration of the medium itself cannot be avoided, as tragedies were shown and affected large crowds of people and had a substantial political role. Cinema is thus revealed to be the most privileged media device to present modern tragic narrations and their typical aesthetic solutions. In this article, we will discuss three examples of tragic narratives in mainstream American cinema from the last three decades. Works by Sean Penn (The Pledge, 2001), James Grey (Little Odessa, 1995) and Clint Eastwood (Midnight in the garden of good and evil, 1997) will be investigated.

Athenian Synoikism of the Fifth Century B.C., or Two Stories of Theseus

1999 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerij Goušchin
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Physical Aspect ◽  
Naval Power ◽  
Delian League ◽  
The Difference ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town ◽  
Greek World

On the eve of the Peloponnesian War Athens was a great urban agglomeration. It was almost invulnerable to an enemy. So in 431 B.C. the Athenians began to migrate from the countryside into the city on the advice of Pericles (Thuc. 2.14–16). This recalled to Thucydides the time of Theseus (Thuc. 2.15). S. Hornblower regards this migration as the long-postponed physical synoikism, or synoikism in its physical aspect. He insists on the difference between political and physical synoikism, the former being the political unification of the state and the latter mainly the migration into the city. But the Athenians did not migrate into the city for the first time in 431. At the time of Xerxes' invasion the inhabitants of Attica were to be moved into the city before being evacuated to Salamis and elsewhere, and the invasion made their vulnerability clear to the Athenians. They suffered two evacuations, the devastation of Attica and the substantial destruction of Athens. Through driving back the Persians Athens became the leader of the Delian League and acquired great naval power. The change of Athens' position in the Greek world and the damage caused by the Persians necessitated a major reconstruction of the town. The Athenians began with the town and harbour. They built the walls of the city and of the Piraeus first of all. Beforelong the Piraeus had been built on a large scale. In these years the Athenians remembered Theseus again, and he now gained honour and esteem among all the Athenians.

Psalmi ante sacrificium and the origin of the introit

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Dyer
Keyword(s):  
Ninth Century ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
The North ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
First Time

ABSTRACTThe biography of Pope Celestine I (422–32) in the first edition of the Liber pontificalis (c.530) credits him with introducing the singing of ‘psalmi ante sacrificium’ at Mass. Several decades later, the second edition added that these psalms were sung ‘antephanatim ex omnibus’. Since the early ninth century, these statements have been interpreted to mean that Celestine introduced the introit chant, a conclusion challenged for the first time about twenty-five years ago. The new interpretation of the passage proposed that Celestine did not introduce the introit, but the responsorial psalm sung between the (two) readings at Mass. An analysis of the terminology used in Celestine's biography, especially the word sacrificium, indicates that the Liber pontificalis author did most likely intend to attribute to him the introduction of the introit, which was certainly in existence by the early sixth century. The presence of a processional solea in certain churches of Rome and the North Adriatic littoral indicates that architectural accommodations were being made for the entrance procession by the fifth century. Psalmic texts form the basis of the repertoire, and non-psalmic introits give every indication of post-dating those with texts drawn from the Psalter.

scholarly journals Critical Analysis on Tasawwuf Schools

Teosofia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-274
Author(s):  
Mokhamad Rohma Rozikin
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time

As one of disciplines, Sufism has undergone the stages of scientific development. It is difficult to reach an agreement related to the classification of Sufism schools from the first time it appeared until today. However, by taking the characteristics of each thought into account, Sufism can be classified into several schools, namely Rajā 'wa khauf Sufism, Maḥabbah Sufism, Happy Sufism, Al-Ḥallāj Sufism, Al-Gazzālī Sufism, Philosophical Sufism, and Ibn Taimiyyah Sufism. Sufism that grew in the early days, in the first and second centuries of Hegira, such as Maḥabbah and Rajā' wa khauf Sufism, was in general undisputed because it was still far from the influence of foreign elements and had strong attachments to Al-Qur'an and Sunah. Sufism in the third and fourth centuries of Hijra, although from the scientific side is more established, systematic, and structured, the symptoms of conflict with Fiqh began to grow which reached its peak in the time of Al-Hallāj. Sufism in the fifth century, at the time of Al-Gazzālī, was the most beautiful period in the history of Sufism because Sufism and Fiqh could be integrated. Sufism in the next period began to had another conflict because of the influence of philosophy until the time of Ibn Taimiyyah who wanted to return Sufism to its origin. This paper conducted a literature review on the history of Sufism to capture the schools that have emerged since its inception. In the final section, a critical analysis of the Sufism schools was carried out and it was closed with a few ideas on how to eclectically adapt the results of this critical analysis for the Islamic Education learning.

scholarly journals Aspetti economici di un nuovo calendario sacrificale arcade del V secolo a.C.

Axon ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilio Rosamilia
Keyword(s):  
Fifth Century ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
The One ◽  
First Time

In 2015, a new 22-line-long fifth-century-BC Arkadian inscription was published for the first time. While prior editors thought that the document dealt with rites pertaining to a single festival, a new interpretation of the text as a sacrificial calendar covering a few months is here envisaged. In addition, closer examination of the inscription’s economic aspects calls for a lower dating. Although spits recur twice, local silver coinage is likely mentioned in line 22. Therefore, the text cannot be earlier than the mid-fifth century BC. Lastly, an educated guess is made about the nature of the “one-hundred” mentioned in line 10.

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