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Reshaping the Nature of Heroes: Heracles, Philoctetes and the Bow in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica
No full textIn the second part of Book & of Quintus’ Posthomerica, Odysseus and Diomedes must momentarily abandon the battlefield and travel to the island of Lemnos in order to bring Philoctetes to Troy. During the Achaean fleet’s initial voyage towards Troy, the hero is famously abandoned on Lemnos after having been bitten by a snake. As the myth narrates, Philoctetes, an exceptional archer, is the rightful possessor of the bow of He acles, which the hero donated to him while on his funeral pyre.# This bow – the famous toxon of Heracles, the mighty ero – is always described and treated as if it were more than a mere weapon. In this, Quintus makes no exception. Nevertheless, he addresses this extraordinary weapon in an original way.
The aim of this chapter is to examine the way in which Quintus deals with the famous myth regarding Heracles, Philoctetes and the siege of Troy. It contextualises it within the mythic tradition, highlighting where Quintus follows the predominant tradition as well as the moments where he chooses original or underexploited paths to describe this exceptional weapon. In his short description of the bow’s story and construction, Quintus carefully chooses every word and model, deciding which to follow and which to alter. By choosing and partially altering the literary models of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Quintus presents a bow with a similar technical structure to the weapons possessed by some important archers of the Iliad and, most of all, by Odysseus in the Odyssey. Quintus’ elaboration of the previous epic models, together with his choice to describe the bow as a weapon constructed by Heracles himself, provides a new portrayal, both for the internal and the external audience, of Philoctetes: he is a mighty hero who possesses a mighty weapon and is a warrior and a leader in line with Heracles and the most important heroes of the Achaeans
Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica: Writing Homer Under Rome
No full textThis collection offers a new collaborative reading of Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica: one of the most important Greek epics written at the height of the Roman Empire. Building on the surge of interest in imperial Greek poetry seen in the past decades, this book applies new approaches - literary, theoretical and historical - to ask new questions about this mysterious, challenging poet and to re-evaluate his role in the cultural history of his time.
Bringing together experienced imperial epic scholars and new voices in this growing field, the chapters reveal Quintus’ crucial place within the inherited epic tradition and his role in shaping the literary and identity politics of Late Antique society. This volume Intersects with the growing field of study of Late Antique literature, and the burgeoning interest in imperial Greek poetry and its accounts of the sack of Troy – a story which continues to resonate in scholarly and public discourse
Disempowering the gods
No full textThis chapter discusses the idea of the presence and the importance of the gods of the traditional pantheon in the Posthomerica. It analyses the techniques used by Quintus to deprive the divinities of their power on mortal affairs. The study is divided into two parts.
On one hand it considers the different sequences of the poem, showing both that the divinities are somehow actively present in the descriptive parts of the poem as much as (or even more than) in the narrative ones, and that the descriptive and dialogical parts are a means to unearth and resonate with some Homeric passages or peculiar mythical variants. On the other hand, it analyses some passages of the Posthomerica in which Quintus makes clear his lack of belief in the Olympian gods and in their intervention
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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