134 research outputs found
Omero, Maratona e Atene dalle ampie strade (Od. VII, 78-81). Una nota sulla rappresentazione dell’Atene micenea sotto i Pisistratidi
No full textIn commenting the celebrated passage of the Odyssey (VII 78-81) that describes the visit of the goddess Athena to the “well-built house of Erechtheus” on the Acropolis of Athens, scholars have focused on isolated features, such as the hapax legomenon name of the city in the singular accusative, or the attribute euryagyia. Other elements have been overlooked, such as the seemingly inconsistent route of the goddess from Scheria to Athens and the obscure mention of Marathon. This paper reappraises these elements to put forward a new interpretation of the passage. Rather than hinting at a Late Bronze Age origin, the unparalleled form of the city-name was necessary for metrical reasons, as it was modified by an attribute exclusively recurring in the singular to realize the fifth dactyl of the hexameter. The adjective euryagyia is used to equate Athens to both Mycenae and Troy in urban splendor and political importance. The reference to Marathon seems to imply that the goddess landed on the northeast coast of Attica, as if she were coming from Euboea or some other North Aegean island. This is entirely inconsistent with all the ancient traditions, which located the mythical island of Scheria at the westernmost limits of the world, but seems to hint at Peisistratus’ march in 547/6 BC, which started from Marathon and ledto his victory in the battle of Pallene. The author argues that Marathon is mentioned in this passage to acknowledge itsconnection with Peisistratus, and that the goddess Athena is accordingly represented as retracing Peisistratus’ route. This suggests that the passage is an interpolation of the 6th century BC
Book Reviews
No full textBook Review 1Book Title: BoiardoBook Authors: Jo Ann Cavallo & Corrado Confalonieri Milano: Unicopli, 2018.Reviewed by: Andrea PriviteraBook Review 2Book Title: All’ombra della memoria. Saggi su Paolo Volponi, 2° ed. riveduta e ampliataBook Author: Salvatore RitrovatoPesaro: Metauro, 2017Reviewed by: Diego SalvadoriBook Review 3Book Title: Francesca Turini Bufalini e la “letteratura di genere”Book Author: John ButlerCon una premessa di Antonio Lanza. Città di Castello, PG: Nuova Prhomos, 2018Reviewed by: Giulia Tonell
La corona di Damarete (Diod. XI 26,3): per una storia della tradizione
No full textThe article deals with a celebrated passage of Diodorus Siculus, where the gift of a golden crown to queen Damarete of Syracuse is mentioned. The author considers this passage in the light of other references to golden crowns, concluding that Diodorus makes reference to an amount of gold and not a jewel
I due pithoi globulari di Haghia Triada e la cronologia della "Casa dei vani aggiunti progressivamente"
No full textTwo globular pithoi were discovered inside Casa VAP at Haghia Triada. In the light of recent discoveries of similar vessels at other Cretan sites, the author proposes to date them to middle of LM IIIB and considers them part of the layer of abandonment of the settlement
Vivere dopo la catastrofe. La fine dei palazzi micenei e il lessico archeologico della "crisi"
No full textThe destruction of the Mycenaean citadels has been a focus of scholarly debate since
Schliemann’s discoveries at Mycenae and Tiryns. After succinctly reviewing the most recent studies
on this topic, the author makes reference to the material evidence that supports competition
and conflicts among Mycenaean states and within the territories depending on the latter. He
concludes that words such as “collapse” and “resilience” fail to describe the dynamic history of
state formation in the Aegean world, while stressing the usefulness of the notion of “fragility”
recently advocated by N. Yoffee
Solide case per tempi di crisi. Immagazzinamento e attività cerimoniali a Festòs nel periodo tra il primo e il secondo palazzo: le Case della Rampa e di Chalara a confronto
No full textThis paper deals with two domestic buildings located in the proximity of the palace at Phaistos, namely the House to the South of the Ramp (end of MM IIB-MM IIIA) and the LM IB House of Chalara. Both were built at a time when the palace was not in function, having been destroyed at the end of MM IIB, temporarily and partially reoccupied in MM IIIA, and eventually rebuilt as late as LM IB. The two houses can be usefully compared, as they show both storage facilities, comprising large storage jars and doorless spaces, that outnumber the needs of a purely domestic household, and boast ritual and cultic features, such as specialized vessels and/or dedicated ritual spaces (the so-called “lustral basin”). By analyzing the composition of the ceramic assemblages retrieved on the floors and nearby dumps and drawing on comparison with two ceramic deposits recently unearthed at Gournia, the author eventually argues that the House to the South of the Ramp was involved in the organization of empowering or entrepreneurial feasts, aimed at asserting the continuity between the local household and the former palace; conversely, the House of Chalara hosted patron-role feasts, that functioned within a more stable political framework, centred upon the nearby administrative site of Hagia Triada
“Nelle tasche dei marinai. Le monete siciliane da Anticitera e il commercio di opere d’arte in età tardo-repubblicana
No full textThis paper focuses on the bronze coins of Catana and Panormus retrieved from the Antikythera shipwreck, which were recently published in the catalogue of the exhibition held at the National Archaeological Museum at Athens in 2012. They belong to a group of about forty coins, most of which were too worn to be conclusively identified. Unlike the silver hoard of Cistophori found onboard, which seems to attest to the presence of a passenger originating in Asia Minor, such bronze coins no doubt represent the argent de poche that a member of the crew accepted as small change at the harbour–towns that the ship had called at on its previous journeys. Therefore, the light they can shed on the Antikythera shipwreck is twofold. On the one hand, since the Catana coins are only attested one more time in the Aegean area, namely at the island of Delos, their presence onboard can be considered a further clue of a connection between the ship and Delos. That the former journeys of the ship included the harbours of East Sicily is hinted at by the local discovery of several ceramic classes retrieved onboard (e.g., Eastern Sigillata Ware). On the other hand, both the Catana coins carry the representation of two mythic figures on one side, named eusebeis or pii
fratres, who became a popular symbol of piety comparable to Aeneas during the 2nd and 1st century BC. Scholars put forward different dating for such coins, ranging from as early as the beginning of the 2nd century BC to as late as the mid–1st century BC. The Antikythera wreck safely attests to their circulation in ca. 70–60 BC. By drawing on the economical, religious, and political connotations of the representation of Dionysus on the other side of the Catana coins, the author contends that they were minted in the last quarter of the 2nd century BC
Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Approach and Adaptation Planning Support Tools: Potential Implementation for the Urban Context
No full textClimate Change (CC) is having a progressively negative impact on natural resources management. It, indeed, worsens existing environmental challenges, placing socio-ecological systems in a situation of new risks. This process invites to reflect about the Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) approach, which combines concepts of sustainable land use and conservation in one integrated adaptation strategy. Challenges related to definition and integration of the EbA process into urban context exist, in particular concerning the necessity of a systemic methodology deployment in urban planning instruments and adaptation processes. As a possible entry point, this work aims to identify the adaptation planning support tools for building an EbA process at city scale, defining a possible methodology for tracing a shortlist of tools supporting EbA principles. The outcomes have demonstrated that tools, albeit not having exhaustive capacities, provide important directions for theoretical investigation and consequent actions. There is a need for tools explicitly addressed to the EbA approach, not still homogeneously supported in the various stages of the adaptation framework. Hence, they offer useful insights to establish a comprehensive adaptation process able to integrate EbA in urban planning practices. To date, this represents one of the triggering points for the implementation of an operational Nature-based Solution (NbS) framework
[Detergents containing micro-organisms "probiotics": is there a role for the sanitation of healthcare settings?]
No full textLa sanificazione degli ambienti ospedalieri riveste un ruolo importante per le implicazioni di ordine igienico-sanitario che influiscono sulla qualità e la sicurezza delle cure erogate e sull’efficienza ed efficacia dell’organizzazione dei servizi. In questo ambito è di recente emerso un orientamento verso l’impiego di detergenti con minor impatto ambientale, coerentemente con le raccomandazioni europee sul green procurement. Alcuni produttori, seguendo tale tendenza, hanno suggerito l’uso di detergenti contenenti batteri “probiotici”. Prodotti a base di microrganismi viventi sono stati, fino ad oggi, validati e impiegati in ambito ambientale per il bio-risanamento (bio-remediation), ovvero l’utilizzo di sistemi biologici con l’obiettivo di ridurre l’inquinamento dell’aria, delle acque o del suolo. Il bio-risanamento sfrutta le vie metaboliche dei micrororganismi, in particolare di quelli che sono in grado di metabolizzare sostanze inquinanti, quali ad esempio fenoli, benzene, toluene, olii, idrocarburi aromatici, in modo naturale (convertendoli in acqua e anidride carbonica), con un basso impatto ambientale e offrendo una valida alternativa ai metodi tradizionali che non risultano sempre efficaci oltre ad essere costosi
New approach to analyze relationships between agritouristic supply and territory
No full textThis paper defines the phenomenon of agritourism in Friuli Venezia Giulia (NE Italy) at the end of 2009, in the light of the multifunctionality of agritouristic farms and taking into account the land use. The proposed statistical approach to outline the situation includes (a) the classification of the variables linked to agritouristic supply to find the main supply types, (b) the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in order to classify the regional agritourisms according to their supply and (c) the Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) to investigate the relationships between agritouristic supply, agricultural land use and territory. Since the CCA is widely used only in social and environmental sciences, this work represents its first application in agribusiness field. The method becomes important during the agricultural policy planning processes because it provides decision makers with a means of rapid assessment of the relationships between rural supply and land uses on the territory.Rural Tourism, Agritourism, Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA), Agricultural Policy., Agribusiness, Agricultural and Food Policy, Q13, Q18.,
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