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Il santuario di Zeus Olympios ad Agrigento: al di là del tempio monumentale
No full textThe paper aims to reassess the entire architectural and archaeological evidence
of the southern part of the sanctuary of Zeus Olympios. This includes the
oikos near the SE corner of the big temple (with two building phases dated respectively
to the mid-6th century and to the first half of the 5th century), and the area with
a large pool and two halls located to the south. This is equipped with a complex
drainage system connected with two big cisterns.
All these structures can now be referred to as a coherent building program carried
out from 480 to 450 B.C. The monumentality of the buildings and infrastructures
reflects a grandeur of the rituals that has not been previously addressed. Until
now, most scholars have focused only on the colossal Temple of Zeus, and the sanctuary
was not perceived as a whole. On the contrary, it was a structured and organic
ensemble that could fulfil the multiple needs of religious and festive occasions. At
the same time, it engaged in dialogue with the other components of the ‘sacred
acropolis’, from the ‘Herakles Temple’ to the sanctuaries to the west.
As for the rites and cults practiced in this area, the findings related mainly to
the last phase of usage of the sacellum suggest a female divinity, with a sphere of
activities linked to female maturation. The large swimming pool and the adjoining
open-air area were an integral part of these rituals. To the same group of structures
belongs the next monumental hall; a stone structure facing the main entrance
(a big kline or trapeza) suggests the performance of theoxenic rituals. It is an intriguing
coincidence that Pindar describes how the Tyndaridae were honoured with a
special emphasis by the same Teron, to whom the project of the Zeus Olympios
sanctuary can be attributed
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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Nel segno di Zeus: su alcuni louteria fittili da Akragas
No full textThe study considers some louteria from Agrigento (from the Sanctuary of Zeus Olympios and the so-called Sanctuary of chthonic deities), dated from the sixth to the fifth century BC. In particular we propose a reading of the images that decorate these basins in relation to the sacred contexts in which they were used, paying particular attention to a series of louteria with running quadrigae and winged figures and an example depicting the transport of Achilles’ weapons by the Nereids. Thus symbolic imagerie which refers to the rituals and cults practised in these sacred spaces is reconstructed
Dioscuri spartani, Dioscuri beotici: alcune testimonianze iconografiche
No full textThe paper discusses an iconographic type recorded on a series of pinakes from the Mannella sanctuary at Locri Epizephyrii portraying two young horsemen (one has a lyra, the other a kantharos) in front of a female figure. This is thought to be the variant of a more common type representing the Spartan Dioskouroi with a shield and phiale. The attributes of the horsemen (kantharos and lyra), unusual for the Tyndaridai, have been interpreted as a reference to the educational value of music and symposia relating to the male element within the context of wedding rituals held in the sanctuary. The lyra, however, may not be a simple element to enrich the meaning of the image, but rather an attribute aimed at clarifying the identity of the two characters, which we propose interpreting as Amphion and Zethus, the so-called Theban Dioskouroi
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