scholarly journals RESONATION OF THE VITRUVIUS'S MODULAR, SYSTEMATIC APPROACH WITH THE COMPUTATIONAL MINDSET OF THE DIGITAL AGE: 3D MODELING OF THE IONIAN TEMPLES OF AEGEAN TURKEY

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W15 ◽  
pp. 389-396
Author(s):  
A. Denker
Keyword(s):  
3D Modeling ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Visual Recovery ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
3D Visualisation ◽  
Comprehensive Treatise

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Eight of the greatest Ionic temples of the ancient world were built on or near the Aegean coast of Turkey, from the dipteros of Chersiphron in Ephesos to the pseudo-dipteroi of Hermogenes in Teos and Magnesia. The temples were the epitome of elegance and splendour, difficult to surpass in terms of architectural achievement for a period of four centuries from 6<sup>th</sup> century to 2<sup>nd</sup> century BC which spans Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic eras. All of these edifices now lie in ruins. As various empires in the region rose and fell, the temples suffered looting and destruction. Nature also played a part with rivers inundating the temenoses and silting up the archaeological remains, and earthquakes toppling columns and reducing the <i>cellas</i> to rubble. Despite this catacylism, tens of hundreds of years after they were built, these marble buildings still tantalise the human imagination. The objective of this paper is to present a systematic and comprehensive treatise of the logical procedure of the 3D visualisation of these monuments of the ancient cities of classical antiquity. The virtual rediscovery and visual recovery can never replace or remedy the loss of the temples. It can, however, visually awaken the imagination and provide a hypothesised experience of the temples as well as restoring a sense of the architecture and the place.</p>

scholarly journals Tradición clásica y mitos en la poesía cubana del siglo XIX

2020 ◽  
pp. 683-694
Author(s):  
Ángel Ruiz Pérez ◽  
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Jose Marti ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Julian Del Casal ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Poesia Cubana

Study of myths and motifs of classical antiquity in the poetry of some important Cuban poets of the 19th century (José María Heredia, Juan Clemente Zenea, Enrique José Varona Julián del Casal and especially José Martí). The importance of art as a subject and as a way of connecting with the ancient world and above all, the centrality of political issues are key aspects that explain the repeated presence of Prometheus and Laocoon

Embodied Antiquity

2020 ◽  
pp. 191-226
Author(s):  
James Uden
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Mary Shelley ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Emotional Connection ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Past ◽  
Verse Drama ◽  
The Last Man

The final chapter of the book turns to the nexus between classical antiquity, Romanticism, and the Gothic, as it is reflected in the writings of Mary Shelley. “Reanimation” has been frequently identified as a consistent trope in Shelley’s work. This chapter argues, by contrast, that Shelley repeatedly creates fantastic scenarios in which ancient and modern times meet, and modernity is revealed to be weak or insufficient when faced with the strength and vitality of the ancient world. The chapter turns first to Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), in which Victor Frankenstein’s efforts at creation are implicitly compared to the ancient model announced in the subtitle, and judged a grotesque failure. Then, the chapter turns to a series of texts written while Shelley was living in Italy—the short story “Valerius, the Reanimated Roman,” her novella Mathilda, and her verse drama Proserpine—each of which dramatizes the unsatisfying and disappointed search for emotional connection with characters from antiquity. Finally, the chapter turns to Shelley’s end-of-days novel The Last Man (1826). This novel’s many allusions to Rome and antiquity reinforce the gulf that separates an idealized antiquity from a doomed, weakening present. Shelley’s writings vividly demonstrate the seductive pleasures of engaging with ideas from antiquity, but ultimately she expresses little hope that we can truly connect with the frightening giants of the past.

Notes on anthropogenic risks mitigation management and recovery of ancient theatres’ heritage

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-256
Author(s):  
Naif Adel Haddad ◽  
Leen Adeeb Fakhoury ◽  
Talal S. Akasheh
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Preventive Conservation ◽  
Qualitative Risk Assessment ◽  
Technical Risks

Purpose Ancient theatres and odea are one of the most significant and creative socio-cultural edutainment centres of human history that are still in use. They stood and served as huge multi-functional structures for social, religious, propaganda and political meeting space. Meanwhile, ancient theatres’ sites have an intrinsic value for all people, and as a vital basis for cultural diversity, social and economic development, they should continue to be a source of information for future generations. Though, all places with ancient theatre heritage should be assessed as to their potential risk from any anthropogenic or natural process. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach The main paper’s objective is to discuss mainly the anthropogenic and technical risks, vulnerability and impact issues on the ancient classical theatres. While elaborating on relevant recent studies, where the authors were involved in ERATO and ATHENA European projects for ancient theatres and odea, this paper provides a brief overview of the main aspects of the anthropogenic qualitative risks and related issues for selected classical antiquity theatres. Some relevant cases are critically presented and investigated in order to examine and clarify the main risk mitigation issues as an essential prerequisite for theatre heritage preservation and its interface with heritage reuse. Findings Theatre risk mitigation is an ongoing and challenging task. By preventive conservation, theatre anthropogenic qualitative risks’ management can provide a framework for decision making. The needed related guidelines and recommendations that provide a systematic approach for sustainable management and planning in relation mainly to “ancient theatre compatible use” and “theatre technical risks” are analysed and presented. This is based on identification, classification and assessment of the theatre risk causes and contributing factors and their mitigation. Originality/value The paper also suggests a new methodological approach for the theatre anthropogenic qualitative risk assessment and mitigation management, and develop some recommendations that provide a systematic approach for theatre site managers and heritage experts to understand, assess, and mitigate risks mainly due to anthropogenic and technical threats.

Roman Germany and provincial archaeology

2019 ◽  
pp. 585-598
Author(s):  
Philip Kiernan
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
New World ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Huge Amount ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
Roman Provinces ◽  
Roman Germany ◽  
North American Perspective

This chapter presents a North American perspective on the state of archaeological research and methodology in Roman Germany. It suggests that despite the huge amount of interest in classical antiquity in the New World, and scholarly research in other Roman provinces, the Roman west has been of so little interest as a result of educational and scholarly traditions. The chapter explains how Roman Germany and other western provinces fit into a North American view of the ancient world. It then turns to the point of how German archaeological scholarship could be made more accessible to a North American audience, and why such accessibility and extending the profile of Germany’s archaeological traditions should be a desirable goal.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Daniel Ogden
Keyword(s):  
Ancient World ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
The World ◽  
General Abstract

The Introduction establishes the argument of the book (see general abstract) and lays out its structure. It explains the current volume’s origin in the author’s earlier books on dragons in the ancient world, Drakōn and Dragons, Serpents, and Slayers, and in the desirability of tracing the story of how the modern western dragon evolved out of the ancient one described there. The book is divided into three parts, bearing upon (I) classical antiquity, (II) the world of hagiography (saints’ lives), and (III) the Germanic world, principally the Norse one. It is stipulated that the book confines itself to documenting the development of a particular tradition, albeit a vast one, and that it is not an attempt to explain the dragon, or man’s obsession with it, at any universal level, psychological or other.

Archives and Dossiers

2011 ◽  
pp. 215-255
Author(s):  
Katelijn Vandorpe
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Ancient People ◽  
Roman Egypt ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Archival Documentation

Documentary papyri describe ancient people. Where unrelated texts are like instant snapshots, archives present a coherent film of a person, a family, or a community and may span several months, years, or decades. Bilingual archives show how some Egyptians tried to become Hellenized, but their private accounts betray their native language. An archive is bound to be of greater interest than isolated texts, and the possibilities of archival research for any aspect of life in Graeco-Roman Egypt are practically unlimited. This article offers a systematic approach to archival documents and explains what constitutes an archive, how archives come to light, how we can reconstruct them, the type of archives that may be discerned, and the types of documents in them. Such an approach to archival documentation of the ancient world has in general been attracting increasing interest and brings together scholars who are studying different regions.

scholarly journals A Goddess Arrives: Nineteenth Century Sources of the New Age Triple Moon Goddess

2005 ◽  
Vol 09 (01) ◽  
pp. 47-71
Author(s):  
Prudence Jones
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
New Age ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Poetic Imagination ◽  
Ex Nihilo ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Jane Ellen Harrison

The Triple Moon Goddess of contemporary Pagan and New Age thought is generally assumed to be an invention ex nihilo of the 20th century, with no precursor in classical antiquity, created by the poetic imagination of Robert Graves (1895-1985), with possible inspiration from the classicist and anthropologist Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928). However this hypothesis is incorrect. The Triple Goddess was presented in the 20th century before Graves. In addition, this paper is the first to reveal some astrological and esoteric as well as scholarly writings of the 19th century which presented and discussed a triple moon goddess from the ancient world whose identity would have been familiar to most educated men (and a few women) of the time.

Systematic Approach for Improving Accessibility and Usability in Online Courses

2018 ◽  
pp. 258-280
Author(s):  
Devrim Ozdemir ◽  
Vanessa Preast ◽  
Pamela Ann Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Design ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Examination Process

The purpose of this chapter is to provide a systematic approach for improving accessibility and usability in online courses. Accessibility and usability are of particular importance to provide equal human development opportunities to those who have various disabilities in the digital age. The authors developed a systematic approach as a result of a comprehensive accessibility and usability review process of an actual online course. The review involved a team-based collaborative approach. The team consisted of an accessibility professional, an instructional design coordinator, and a course instructor who collaborated to perform the thorough examination process. The presented model is of particular importance to improve accessibility and usability of online courses, which in turn enhances the quality of human development for disabled learners.

inflation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin P. Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Quantitative Measurements

Inflation typically refers to rising prices. In both ancient and modern societies, inflation is sometimes difficult to identify, measure, and explain with precision. Inflation can occur in the prices of individual goods, the goods and services associated with a particular industry or sector of an economy, or as a macro-phenomenon in which all or most prices in an economy rise. The magnitude of price rises and the duration during which prices stay elevated also have a bearing on how inflation is studied. The ancient world witnessed periods of both slow and steady inflation as well as punctuated surges in prices. Some regions, such as Egypt, offer hundreds of prices, which facilitate quantitative measurements of inflation. In many areas and periods, however, inflation is poorly understood because sufficient numbers of prices do not survive. Scholars, therefore, often use theoretical models and proxy evidence to better understand the nuances and complexity of inflation in classical antiquity.

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