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Paideia : the world of the Second Sophistic, edited by B. E. Borg, Berlin-New York, De Gruyter, 2004 [Introduzione]
No full textGlamorous intellectuals: Portraits of pepaideumenoi in the second and third centuries AD
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Intersubjective comparisons are possible with an accurate use of the Borg CR scales.
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Int J Sports Physiol Perform. 2010 Sep;5(3):406-11
Performance evaluation of diving using the Borg CR100 Scale®
No full textIn some sports, as for example in diving, performance is measured as a subjectively evaluated artistic gestalt. The purpose of this study was to compare the traditional scale used in competitive diving with the Borg CR100 scale®, a scale where categorical expressions are placed where they perceptually belong on a ratio scale (e.g., G. Borg and E. Borg, 2001). Two internationally recognized Swedish judges volunteered as subjects and judged a sample of 45 videotaped dives, both with the traditional scale and with the CR scale. The results show that the Borg CR100 scale® worked at least equally well as the traditional scale, even though there might have been some tendency for translation between scales.</p
Crisis and ambition: tombs and burial customs in third-century CE Rome
No full textTombs and burial customs are an exquisite source for social history, as their commemorative character inevitably expresses much of the contemporaneous ideology of a society. This book presents, for the first time, a holistic view of the funerary culture of Rome and its surroundings during the third century AD. While the third century is often largely ignored in social history, it was a transitional period, an era of major challenges - political, economic, and social - which inspired creativity and innovation, and paved the way for the new system of late antiquity. Barbara Borg argues that during this time there was, in many ways, a return to practices known from the Late Republic and early imperial period, with spectacular monuments for the rich, and a large-scale reappearance of collective burial spaces. Through a study of terraced tombs, elite monuments, the catacomb nuclei, sarcophagi, and painted image decoration, this volume explores how the third century was an exciting period of experimentation and creativity, a time when non-Christians and Christians shared fundamental ideas, needs, and desires as well as cemeteries, tombs, and hypogea. Ambition continued to be a driving force and a determining factor in all social classes, who found innovative solutions to the challenges they encountered
No one is immortal: From exemplum mortalitatis to exemplum virtutis
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from de Gruyter via the DOI in this record.Book chapte
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