410 research outputs found
An assessment of the impact of possible CAP reform scenarios on Romanian agriculture
Full text linkUsing a simplified model, with key-variable the prices of two different possible scenarios of CAP reform after 2013 (moderate and radical), this paper present a comparison between the price effects of implementation of each reform scenario at 2015 horizon on Romanian agriculture. This short analysis shows that, under the presented hypotheses, the net welfare effect, due to the price changes, for the selected products, is positive in both reform scenarios, yet greater in the case of the radical reform. Integrated in the large context of Romanian development, it seems that the influence of CAP reform upon agriculture and rural areas will be most likely a gradual one: an interpenetration between the two scenarios is foreseeable, starting with the moderate reform that will dominate the period around 2013, the reform measures acquiring a more radical character afterwards.CAP reform, Romania, welfare effects, Agricultural and Food Policy,
Lucian Seafaring Religion Passages
No full textSpreadsheet with passages from the ancient author Lucian relevant to ancient Greek seafaring religion, in both Greek and english translation
Lucian Seafaring Religion Passages
No full textSpreadsheet with passages from the ancient author Lucian relevant to ancient Greek seafaring religion, in both Greek and english translation
Lucian of Samosata
No full textThis chapter discusses the comic-satiric work of the Syrian author Lucian of Samosata (ca.125–180). Traditional biographical accounts of Lucian’s life are avoided in the interest of focusing the reader’s attention on the ways in which Lucian presents a series of authorial personae throughout his large and diverse corpus. In particular, the chapter describes how an interest in the antithesis of Greek and barbarian animates much of Lucian’s work and discusses the series of Hellenized barbarians—both mortal and immortal—who populate Lucian’s comic dialogues. The chapter focuses as well on how Lucian explores the novelty of what he presents as his own invention of the generically transgressive Comic Dialogue—here as well, the chapter suggests, Lucian maps his concerns with generic hybridity onto culture and ethnicity. Finally, the chapter discusses Lucian’s abiding interest in the various types of imposters that defined contemporary intellectual, social, and religious life.</p
The naturalism of Lucian Freud's figure painting
No full textThe theoretical-practical bachelor's thesis Naturalism of Lucian Freud is intended to introduce the reader to the complex and easily comprehensible summary and to the artistic significance of the British figurative painter Lucian Freud. This educational text will include a closer introduction of his personal life, inner motivations, external influences, important events, cultural contexts, and the impact of the painter's work on other artists from the past to recent times. In the following five chapters of the theoretical part of this work, the author attempts to provide a wide range of information with the motive of gaining a deep understanding of Lucian Freud's artistic influence in the broader context of the history of art. In the practical part, the author then presents his artistic outputs, in which he applied in practice the principles, methods, and ideas acquired during the preparatory studies
Lucian\u27s New Old Comedy
No full textThis study shows that Lucian is deeply engaged with Old Comedy as a literary model, and that the kind of comic dialogue he claims to invent (Bis Acc. 33, Prom. Es 6) is not an evenly balanced hybrid of Platonic Dialogue and Old Comedy as has been previously thought. Instead, Lucian prioritizes Old Comedy in his conception of the comic dialogue. Lucian solves the tension between the pedigree and prestige available to an imitator of Old Comedy and the risk of moral compromise for the same by enacting a satirist’s defense. He claims to be the morally righteous outsider, wins the audience to his side by appealing to their intellectual vanity, and vindicates his choice to style himself a writer of Comedy.
Lucian defends his position with the literary tools of Old Comedy: he employs parody, satire, parabasis, autobiography, personification, making the abstract concrete, metatheater, and fantasy, alongside comic language and tropes of mockery, to not only declare himself a skilled comic author, but to demonstrate it as well. One by one, he uses the mythology that has sprung up around the three lights of Old Comedy: Cratinus, Aristophanes, and Eupolis, to remedy their faults, rewrite their defeats, and undo their deaths, all while replacing them with himself in the center of their narratives.
In order to do this, Lucian engages polemically with these poets’ detractors using the same comic arsenal. He does what the comic poets cannot, he acknowledges the long biographical tradition, along with the doxography of his favored satirical targets, the hypocritical philosophers, heirs of Socrates, and wrests back the power to define the objects of his mockery and return them to the comic stage. Lucian recomposes the portrayals of Socrates and the philosophical schools as found in Plato, Lucian’s contemporaries, and the scholarship of his time into a new comic fantasy where mockery prevails, and Lucian’s stand-in emerges triumphant above all the rest
Lucian\u27s Imagines: A Student Reader, and Pro Imaginibus: a Translation
No full textThis student reader provides a complete Greek text of Lucian\u27s Imagines (Eikones, or Portraits), with linguistic and literary commentary for the intermediate student of Ancient Greek. There follows a new translation of Lucian\u27s Pro Imaginibus, the author\u27s own take on his work
Lucian Blaga: O Método na Ciência Moderna
Full text linkEste trabalho pretende apresentar aspectos do pensamento filosófico sobre a ciência desenvolvido pelo filósofo romeno Lucian Blaga. Tomando como base a história do desenvolvimento da pesquisa científica, o autor busca evidenciar o papel do experimento e sua singularidade na ciência de tipo galileo-newtoniano destacando a extensão metodológica e o lugar do supramétodo. Busca indicar de que maneira a presença da matemática, no âmbito da ciência moderna, conduziu a pesquisa científica para além dos horizontes da ciência grega.Abstract: The present study aims at introducing aspects of the philosophical thought on science developed by the Romanian philosopher Lucian Blaga. Based on the history of the development of scientific research the author aims at highlighting the role of experiments and their uniqueness in the Galileo-Newtonian science, emphasizing the methodological extension and the place of the super method. It aims to point out how the presence of mathematics in the context of modern science has led the scientific research beyond the horizons of Greek science. Keywords: Scientific experiment; method; Lucian Blaga
Rhetorical and philosophical Paideia in Lucian
Full text linkThe Greek author Lucian of Samosata (120 – 192 AD) has long remained an enigmatic figure for scholars of the Second Sophistic.This is due, in no small part, to his conflicting, satirical treatment of the two main cultural institutions of his day, the art of rhetoric and the practice of philosophy. Yet though he satirizes both of these in equal measure, upon more careful scrutiny it becomes clear that the underlying motivation for his critique of each stems from different emotional centers. It is the contention of the present paper that while Lucian’s critique of rhetoric is best understood as based on a deep respect and reverence for eloquence, combined with a concomitant disgust for unworthy, contemporary representatives of it, on the other hand,his motivation for satirizing philosophy appears to be simply the fact that Lucian cared little for, and thought little of the subject(despite his objections to the contrary), and that he preferred instead the uncomplicated principles of common sense and practical virtue.Keywords: Lucian, Second Sophistic, Paideia, Rhetoric, Philosoph
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