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Tecniche libaniane dell’invettiva. Testo, traduzione e commento dell’Orazione LIV di Libanio.
L’orazione di Libanio numero LIV, “A Eustazio sugli onori”, fu composta intorno al 389 poco dopo, verosimilmente, la destituzione del consularis Syriae Eustazio, in carica ad Antiochia per soli dieci mesi, a cui (e contro cui) l’orazione è rivolta. Questa appartiene al gruppo delle invettive di Libanio, orazioni composte principalmente negli anni ’80 e scritte contro un rappresentante imperiale di Antiochia, sede del comes Orientis e del consularis Syriae. La produzione più politica, compromettente, delle orazioni di Libanio è stata a lungo screditata e ritenuta priva di alcun valore storico. D’altronde, è solo recente la rivalutazione, nonché la definizione, della vasta e poliedrica produzione retorica tardoantica che in senso lato può ricadere sotto la definizione di “invettiva” e la categoria, di per sé non univoca, di ψόγος. Nel caso particolare di Libanio, dunque, a lungo si è ritenuto che queste orazioni fossero scritte per sfogo personale, prive di rimandi reali e non destinate ad alcuna pubblicazione. Addirittura, che avessero una destinazione scolastica. Eppure, l’Orazione LIV di scolastico ha ben poco, costellata di riferimenti alla realtà contemporanea dell’autore e del suo pubblico che, sebbene ristretto, doveva esserci.Libanius’ ‘political’ works have fallen into disrepute since the 18th century, and important historians have placed almost no political value on the invectives of Libanius, deemed merely fictitious and thus discredited. Towards the end of the fourth century CE, the Antiochene rhetor Libanius wrote an invective against Eustathius, consularis Syriae in the city of Antioch, in office for ten months in the year 388. Only five manuscripts contain this speech, out of the one hundred and sixty manuscripts that contain the oratorical corpus of Libanius. The speech was first published in 1627 and then edited and commented in 1776. Lastly, Richard Förster provided a full and modern critical edition of the speech in 1908. Non only the state of art of this invective is almost non-existent, but there has been a particularly harsh appraisal of this speech among modern historians. The reason may be due to the genre itself, but also to the specific characteristics of this speech. In fact, Libanius accuses the governor Eustathius mostly from a private point of view. One of the main consequences of this aspect is a particular prosopographical effect: while according to Menander Rhetor, invectives should be as much as possible anonymous (Men. Rh. 2. 291. 6-10), this is definitely not the case of Libanius’ Oration 54, the invective written against the consularis Syriae Eustathius (389 ca). While the name of the governor is carefully avoided throughout the text, the oration is crowded by the many different characters that are mentioned one after the other by Libanius
Decreti onorari da Efeso per atleti vincitori in agoni panellenici
Un blocco marmoreo rinvenuto a Efeso riporta tre decreti onorari risalenti circa al 300 a.C. Con essi, il consiglio concede la cittadinanza efesina e premi in denaro ad alcuni giovani atleti che si distinsero in prestigiosi giochi panellenici. Il protagonista della seconda iscrizione, Athenodoros, meteco a Efeso, dove godeva dell’ἰσοτελία prima del conferimento della cittadinanza, è noto anche da I.Ephesos 2005: il suo talento gli valse una sovvenzione da parte della città. Lo stesso provvedimento potrebbe essere decretato per un altro promettente atleta, Timonax, nella terza iscrizione
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The 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
“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
We 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
We 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
We 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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