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Gli Sciti nell'opera di Luciano di Samosata
No full textThe contribution aims at identifying the characteristic traits of the Scythians in the Lucianic works, in order to distinguish one viewpoint from another in relation to their culture and society. Therefore, these features seem to focus on the Greek way of thinking, especially in cases where the Scythians are represented as a savage people without education. However, once the characters have changed, for example in the passages with Anacharsis or Toxaris, various elements reflect the Scythians' outlook on themselves and the others
Gli Sciti tra storia e retorica, da Erodoto a Luciano
No full textStarting from the description of Scythian society in the fourth book of Herodotus’ Histories, the contribution aims at examining some of the main lines of representation of the Scythians in Greek literature. For this purpose, a path is reconstructed that, first of all, takes into consideration the Hippocratic treaty On Airs, Waters and Places, thanks to which we can investigate the everyday life in Scythia in relation to the natural environment. Secondly, turning to the imperial age, Strabo’s work gives us an idea of the moral corruption of the Scythians due to a bad influence exercised on them by Greek civilization, while Dion of Prusa writes about a Scythian negative cultural effect on the inhabitants of Borysthenes. Finally, Lucian focuses on Anacharsis’ perceived extraneousness to Athenian culture, highlighting Scythians’ otherness compared to the Greek world
Antenore, le vie della pace
No full textPrefiggendosi il compito di istituire e coltivare legami di comunione e di solidarietà
reciproca, Antenore intende salvaguardare l’unità e il benessere dei concittadini e, al
contempo, promuovere la ricomposizione relazionale tra la propria comunità e quella
achea. Su questa linea, viene analizzata la qualità del rapporto amichevole
maturato, in particolare, con Menelao, delimitando l’ambito d’indagine alla presenza
del consigliere troiano all’interno della narrazione della poesia epica greca, da Omero a Quinto Smirneo e Trifiodoro.Setting itself the task of establishing and cultivating bonds of communion and solidarity
mutual, Antenore intends to safeguard the unity and well-being of fellow citizens and, al
at the same time, promote relational reconstruction between one's own community and that
achaean. Along this line, the quality of the friendly relationship is analyzed
developed, in particular, with Menelaus, delimiting the scope of investigation to presence
of the Trojan counselor within the narrative of Greek epic poetry, from Homer to Quintus Smyrnaeus and Trifiodorus
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
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