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Alexander the Great: the path to divinity and contemporary reactions to his new role
No full textV diplomskem delu se bom posvetila Aleksandru Velikemu, njegovi poti do božanskosti in zapuščini njegovega kulta v antičnem svetu v Aleksandriji. Makedonski vladar je v želji po osvajanju in gradnji čim večjega imperija uporabljal različne taktike, izkazalo pa se je, da je izjemno vlogo pri dosegu tega cilja odigrala ravno predstava o njegovi božanskosti. Prerokbam, ki so obkrožale njegovo rojstvo, in vprašanjem o tem, kdo je pravzaprav njegov oče, se je priključila Aleksandrova lastna ideja o božanskem poreklu. Ko je svoji državi priključil Egipt, kjer je začel vladati po zgledu egipčanskih vladarjev faraonov, se je po odgovore o svojem poreklu in prihodnosti odpravil v oazo Siwa v Amonovo svetišče. Svečenik naj bi potrdil Aleksandrovo božanskost, zadovoljen Aleksander pa je nadaljeval s svojimi osvajanji in se usmeril proti Perziji. Ko je tudi to naposled osvojil, je tam začel voditi politiko stapljanja perzijske in grško-makedonske kulture. To je želel doseči tudi s pomočjo obreda proskineze, ki bi ga v grških in makedonskih očeh povzdignila med božanstva, česar pa ti niso želeli. Uradno je božanskost, ki so jo Grki sprejeli, dosegel leta 324 pr. Kr. z izdajo odloka o deifikaciji, vendar njegova božanska vladavina ni trajala dolgo, saj je že naslednjega leta umrl. Kljub zgodnji smrti Aleksander ni bil pozabljen, saj se je v Aleksandriji oblikoval kult, v katerem so Aleksandra častili kot ustanovitelja mesta. Aleksandrovemu zgledu božanskega vladarja so sledili helenistični vladarji, kasneje pa so njegov kult vladarja posnemali tudi rimski cesarji.In my thesis I will focus on Alexander the Great, his path to divinity and the legacy of his cult in Alexandria in the ancient world. The Macedonian ruler employed a variety of tactics in his quest to conquer and build the largest empire possible, and it turns out that his divinity played an important role in achieving this goal. The prophecies surrounding his birth and the questions surrounding who his father actually was were compounded by Alexander\u27s own ideas of divine origin. When he annexed Egypt to his country, and began to rule in the manner of Egypt\u27s previous rulers, the pharaohs, he went to the oasis of Siwa in the Sanctuary of Amun for answers about his origins and future. The priest supposedly proclaimed Alexander a deity and, Alexander, satisfied with the answers, continued his conquests and headed towards Persia. When he finally conquered it, he began to pursue a policy of fusing Persian and Greco-Macedonian culture. He wanted to achieve this by means of the rite of proskynesis, which would elevate him to the rank of deity in the eyes of the Greeks and Macedonians, however they did not take kindly to that. Regardless, he thus officially achieved divinity, which was accepted by the Greeks, in 324 BC by issuing a decree of deification, but his divine reign did not last long, as he died the following year. Despite his sudden death, Alexander did not fade into obscurity, since a cult was formed in Alexandria, revered for his status as the city\u27s founder. Alexander\u27s example as a divine ruler was followed by Hellenistic rulers, and later by Roman emperors
Legal accountability of European Central Bank in bank supervision: a case study in conceptualising the legal effects of Union acts
No full textThis contribution offers a conceptual framework, which allows a clear and transparent assessment of the legal/judicial accountability of acts adopted within the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) based on an evaluation of their legal effects. It shows, that the Union courts are the relevant judicial forum to hold the European Central Bank (ECB) to account for acts, which have primary legal effects, that is all acts or omissions which, directly or indirectly, are capable of determining rights or imposing obligations. Such acts can be challenged by way of direct actions under Articles 263 and 265 TFEU. Where the change in the legal position of a person is caused by at least two distinct acts, the former providing the basis for the adoption of the latter binding act without having itself primary legal effect, then the Union courts may review the former act only indirectly, such as via Articles 267 and 277 TFEU. The judicial accountability mechanisms within the SSM mirror the allocation of competences between the national authorities and the ECB within the SSM by providing for a separate but integrated system of judicial review
Positive of Glass-Plate Negative of Lincoln
No full textPositive of the collodion wet-plate negative portrait of Abraham Lincoln taken 8 November 1863. This is one of the rare photographs of Lincoln looking directly at the viewer. It shows a haggard president with heavy lines on his face. His "lazy" left eye is noticeable.This positive image was made from the original Alexander Gardner negative by Indiana Historical Society photographer David Turk. He made the print from a duplicate negative (a negative of a transparency output from a digital scan of the original negative)
Douglas Alexander Stewart, poet, author and playwright
No full textDouglas Alexander Stewart, poet, author and playwrigh
Sentiment popularity - Amazon Mechanical Turk dataset
No full textDataset re-collected from an original dataset collected by Pang, B., and Lee, L. 2004. "A sentimental education: Sentiment analysis using subjectivity summarization based on minimum cuts". In Proceedings of the 42nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics. The dataset presents a binary classification problem, with workers asked to select either positive (1) or negative (0) for a 500 sentences extracted from movie reviews, with gold labels assigned by the website. It contains 10,000 sentiment judgements collected from 143 using the Amazon Mechanical Turk platform. Each row is in the format WorkerID, TaskID, Worker label, Gold label, time spent on the judgement by the worker</span
Weather Sentiment - Amazon Mechanical Turk dataset
No full textDataset re-collected using Amazon Mechanical Turk from an original dataset provided by CrowdFlower as part of the 2013 Crowdsourcing at Scale shared task challenge. The dataset contains 6000 classifications of the sentiment of 300 tweets, with gold-standard sentiment labels, provided by 110 workers. The sentiment judgements are provided in the following categories: negative (0), neutral (1), positive (2), tweet not related to weather (3) and can't tell (4). Each row contains workerID, taskID, Worker label, gold label, time spent by the worker to produce the judgment</span
Replication Data for: Generalizing from Survey Experiments Conducted on Mechanical Turk: A Replication Approach
No full textTo what extent do survey experimental treatment effect estimates generalize to other populations and contexts? Survey experiments conducted on convenience samples have often been criticized on the grounds that subjects are sufficiently different from the public at large to render the results of such experiments uninformative more broadly. In the presence of moderate treatment effect heterogeneity, however, such concerns may be allayed. I provide evidence from a series of 15 replication experiments that results derived from convenience samples like Amazon's Mechanical Turk are similar to those obtained from national samples. These results suggest that either the treatments deployed in these experiments cause similar responses for many subject types or convenience and national samples do not differ much with respect to treatment effect moderators. Using evidence of limited within-experiment heterogeneity, I show that the former is likely to be the case. Despite a wide diversity of background characteristics across samples, the effects uncovered in these experiments appear to be relatively homogeneous
Replication Data for: Generalizing from Survey Experiments Conducted on Mechanical Turk: A Replication Approach
No full textTo what extent do survey experimental treatment effect estimates generalize to other populations and contexts? Survey experiments conducted on convenience samples have often been criticized on the grounds that subjects are sufficiently different from the public at large to render the results of such experiments uninformative more broadly. In the presence of moderate treatment effect heterogeneity, however, such concerns may be allayed. I provide evidence from a series of 15 replication experiments that results derived from convenience samples like Amazon's Mechanical Turk are similar to those obtained from national samples. These results suggest that either the treatments deployed in these experiments cause similar responses for many subject types or convenience and national samples do not differ much with respect to treatment effect moderators. Using evidence of limited within-experiment heterogeneity, I show that the former is likely to be the case. Despite a wide diversity of background characteristics across samples, the effects uncovered in these experiments appear to be relatively homogeneous
Author inscription in William Hazlitt, essayist and critic; selections from his writings, with a memoir, biographical and critical by Alexander Ireland
No full textAuthor's gift inscription, "To W. C. Hazlitt Esq with kind regards, from Alexr Ireland," with tipped-in review of the book.ASU Library edition has inscription from Ireland to Hazlitt [a child of William Hazlitt?].
Hazlitt , William, 1778-1830.
Ireland, Alexander, 1810-1894
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