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The statues near Lycurgus in the theatre of Sparta
No full textThis paper aims to analyse two statue bases which Sparta dedicated to two
proconsuls of Achaia in the 4th cent. AD in the theatre near the statue of
Lycurgus. After a brief description of the theatre and its building phases,
the paper focuses on the lives and careers of the two honorands: Publilius
Optatianus and Anatolius. The last part attempts to underline the significance
of setting up these two statues of provincial governors in the theatre, near
the one of mythical lawgiver. This choice will be analysed in relation to their
place of exhibition and to their socio-cultural context. In late antiquity, it was
common in the province of Achaia to set up statues of imperial officials and
local personalities in association with statues or monuments from its Greek
past
Species Presence/Absence R Trends Analyses - sparta v.0.1.30
No full text<p>Species Presence/Absence R Trends Analyses</p>
A priori complete active space self consistent field localized orbitals: an application on linear polyenes
No full textA recently proposed a priori localization technique is used to exploit the possibility to reduce the number of active orbitals in a Complete Active Space Self Consistent Field calculation. The work relies on the fact that the new approach allows a strict control on the nature of the active orbitals and therefore makes it possible to include in the active space only the relevant orbitals. The idea is tested on the calculation of the energy barrier for rigid rotation of linear polyenes. In order to obtain a relevant set of data, a number of possible rotations around double bonds have been considered in the ethylene, butadiene, hexatriene, octatetraene, decapentaene, dodecahexaene molecules. The possibility to reduce the dimension of the active space has been investigated, considering for each possible rotation different active spaces ranging from the minimal dimension of 2 electrons in 2 pi orbitals to the pi-complete space. The results show that the rigid isomerization in the polyene molecules can be described with a negligible loss in accuracy with active spaces no larger than ten orbitals and ten electrons. In the special case of the rotation around the terminal double bond, the space can be further reduced to six orbitals and six electrons with a large decrease of the computational cost. An interesting summation rule has been found and verified for the stabilization of the energy barriers as a function of the dimension of the conjugated lateral chains and of the dimension of the active space
Athen und Sparta
No full textSchulz R. Athen und Sparta. Geschichte Kompakt: Antike. 5. erg. Auf. Darmstadt: Wiss. Buchgesellschaft; 2015
Master plan study for the Township of Sparta
No full textThe purpose of this report is to provide a common understanding of the process of planning and to develop a framework within which the Township of Sparta can grow in a healthy manner. In addition, it offers a means of providing more and better facilities to both existing and future development at the least possible expense. At the same time Sparta's greatest asset, its community character, must be preserved. It is the individuality of Sparta that has made it attractive in the past and which must be preserved in order to attract desirable development in the future
Sparta - An R package for estimating trends in species’ status from unstructured, presence-only data
No full text<p>Sparta brings together six methods for analysing unstructured occurrence data into one R package.</p>
<p>The package is hosted on GitHub where you can find tutorials and bug and issue reporting.</p>
<p>This poster was presented as INTERCOL 2013, London, UK. For more information click the link below.</p
Sparta en Athene: ’n studie in altérité
No full textThesis (MPhil (Ancient Studies)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007.The main purpose of this study is to investigate and describe the differences
between the fifth-century city states of Athens and Sparta. The approach I use
is that of altérité (“otherness”). I look in particular at four of the most
important social phenomena: women, slaves, the army and the political
structures. In these respects there are extensive differences between the two
city states: Athens acquired its slaves through buying them or as spoils of war
over time and on an individual basis; Sparta conquered and enslaved a whole
nation, the Messenians, early on to serve permanently as their slaves.
Athenian women enjoyed no social or legal freedom or rights; Spartan women
enjoyed all these rights and could own and inherit property and goods. In
Athens, since the time of Themistocles the fleet was regarded as much more
important than the infantry; Sparta had very early on developed a professional
infantry which was regarded as the best right through the Greek-speaking
world. Athens started changing its constitution at a relatively late stage, but
once started, continued to work on it until they attained an early form of
democracy; Sparta never developed beyond the monarchical stage, but did
adapt it to suit their needs.
The second purpose of this study is to discover and attempt to explain why the
above-mentioned differences are so great. The point here is not so much that
Athens was the model city state which everybody tried to emulate, but rather
that Sparta was the city state which was significantly different from any of the
others.Master
Was Pythagoras ever really in Sparta?
No full textThis article examines the biographical evidence for a plausible connection between the philosopher Pythagoras and Sparta. It takes into consideration the sources that we have on the subject as well as their probable motivations. A variety of sources are employed to this end and they range from philosophical treatises to archaeological artefacts. It also considers other potential reasons as to why Pythagoras or Pythagorean philosophers might be interested in Sparta. These include, but are not limited to, issues of Spartan social organisation, (near) sexual equality and music
Was Pythagoras ever really in Sparta?
No full textThis article examines the biographical evidence for a plausible connection between the philosopher Pythagoras and Sparta. It takes into consideration the sources that we have on the subject as well as their probable motivations. A variety of sources are employed to this end and they range from philosophical treatises to archaeological artefacts. It also considers other potential reasons as to why Pythagoras or Pythagorean philosophers might be interested in Sparta. These include, but are not limited to, issues of Spartan social organisation, (near) sexual equality and music
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
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