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"Oportunidades y riesgos en la politicas y en los programas para Valparaiso, ciudad patrimonial y ciudad normal"
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Economies of Memory in Greek Tragedy
Full text linkThis chapter explores the interaction between immaterial memory, the materiality of writing and forms of reciprocity. After a survey of the ways in which tragic playwrights bring memory into play, it focuses on two case studies. In Sophocles’ Ajax social ties and economies of gratitude break down since some of the protagonists refuse to remember: the Atreidae consign to oblivion Ajax’s services to the common Greek cause; Ajax himself is indifferent to Tecmessa’s appeal to remember his social obligations to his next of kin. Their behaviour contrasts with the investment in memory as a prerequisite for reciprocity and justice shown by Tecmessa, Teucer and the chorus. The problem of how to ensure gratitude across time resurfaces in Euripides' Suppliant Women. Whereas Theseus appears willing to trust the Argives’ oral commitment to remember and repay his help in the future, Athena feels called upon to intervene: she insists on a written contract sanctioned by an oath put on record in a Panhellenic sanctuary as the only guarantee of memory and reciprocity, very much in line with the broader developments of writing and the externalisation of memory in the wider socio-political context
Introduction
No full textThe introduction offers a frame of reference for the individual studies that follow. It starts with modern definitions and taxonomies of memory and introduces some approaches to memory studies. It then focuses on some key aspects of memory in ancient Greece: (1) its connection with time and history; (2) its perceived divine nature and trans-temporal power; (3) the impact of the introduction of writing on Greek conceptions of memory and memorial practices; (4) memory and archives; (5) memory's persistence as a powerful divinity, for instance in the 'Dionysiac-Orphic' tablets; (6) the dynamic tension between memory and forgetting; (7) the relations between memory, cognition, and knowledge; (8) the connections between memory, reciprocity, justice, and retribution; (9) gender and memory; (10) the role of objects and places as sites of memory. The chapter then proposes a reading of the contributions to the volume, pointing out intersections, coincidences and divergences among the various approaches adopted by the Contributors
Letters and Decrees: Diplomatic Protocols in the Hellenistic Period
Full text linkDuring the Hellenistic period, royal correspondence constituted a challenging mode of diplomacy for polis communities. The chapter offers a case study of how one such community, Magnesia on the Maeander, responded to the challenge. The dossier in question concerns the request of acceptance of a new contest for Artemis Leukophryene, first celebrated in 208 BCE, which Magnesia addressed to all of the Greek world. The answers from kings, leagues, and cities make it possible to compare different ‘discursive styles’, in particular the contrastive ideologies of power instantiated in the royal letter and the city-decree. In addition, Ceccarelli shows how the way in which they were set up in the agora of Magnesia affords insights into the Magnesians’ own perception of these acts of international diplomacy—and how they used the responses to project an image of a political community that was both internally cohesive and well connected with the outside world
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Anatomy and GIS (Geographical Information Systems): from macro to micro anatomy through the application of an advanced technology
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