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Jan-Mathieu Carbon, Saskia Peels-Matthey éds., Purity and Purification in the Ancient Greek World. Texts, Rituals, and Norms, Liège, Presses universitaires de Liège, 2018
No full textMarchiando Anaïs. Jan-Mathieu Carbon, Saskia Peels-Matthey éds., Purity and Purification in the Ancient Greek World. Texts, Rituals, and Norms, Liège, Presses universitaires de Liège, 2018. In: ASDIWAL. Revue genevoise d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions, n°14, 2019. pp. 240-241
Priests and Cult Personnel in Three Hellenistic Families
Full text linkpeer reviewedThis paper offers an examination of three significant familial inscriptions from the Hellenistic period. The texts are detailed cultic dossiers initiated by three individuals—Diomedon on Cos, Poseidonios in Halicarnassus, and Epikteta on Thera. Though they are often very briefly grouped together, these inscriptions are discussed here in greater textual and contextual detail. In particular, the analysis focusses on the cult personnel, which is appointed in these families, demonstrating that it remains independent from the polis, but is organised with reference to a civic framework. By setting these inscriptions in parallel, the discussion opens up productive perspectives on the evolutions of familial cults in the Hellenistic period.—The inscription of Poseidonios is reedited in an Appendix by Jan-Mathieu Carbon
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
Zeus Theopomenos and Theopoma (“Divine Drink (of Water)”?)
Full text linkIn this journal, V. Sauer and E. Olshausen (Sauer - Olshausen, Gephyra, 29, 2025, 56 no. 2) have recently published an interesting Imperial-period dedication (“Votiv- oder Weihinschrift eines Altar”) to a deity which they were not able to identify. Following an attempt to elucidate the text, a brief discussion of the epithet of Zeus revealed by this inscription is offered. This is Theopomenos (Θεοπομηνός), a toponymic epithet which points to an ancient place name Θεοπόμα (Theopoma) or Θεοπόμη (Theopome). Etymologically, this can be thought to have been formed from a compound word—θεός + πόμα = “Divine Drink (of Water)”?—which in turn could perhaps be identified with a source of fresh water near the findspot of the inscription, at Ayvalı near Vezirköprü, Samsun İli, that is to say in the region of Neoklaudiopolis. The locality Theopoma / Theopome and its probable divine spring was most likely connected to the broader tributary-system of the Halys/Kızılırmak river which flows nearby
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
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