219 research outputs found
Touching the Gods: physical interaction with cult statues in the Roman world
No full text„Touching the Gods: physical interaction with cult statues in the Roman world‟ explores different forms of physical interaction with cult statues in the many cults and beliefs evident across the Roman world, and proposes wide-ranging implications of this for the understanding of Roman religions and Roman art. Despite the theoretical detachment of the cult statue in the Roman world, an ideological language of close physical interaction was developed, which manifested itself through both „regular‟ (for example, ritual decoration and washing) and „irregular‟ (such as sexual and violent) contact. Although modern scholarship accepts that cult statues formed part of religious worship within which physical interaction took place, they are generally treated as passive objects. This research addresses the implications of physical interaction for the active role of the statue within Roman societies, through the assessment of the anthropological, social and psychological functions the statue could embody. It establishes a socio-cultural definition of the cult statue in the Roman world, supported by an assessment of Greek and Latin vocabulary for statuary and an assessment of the physical evidence for cult images. The thesis separately considers the different types of interaction, including washing and clothing, verbal communication, transportation, embrace, violence and feeding. The conclusions drawn from these separate types are based partly on a broad study of the full range of interactions, with an additional focus on the points in the ancient dialogue at which their limitations are placed. The cumulative effect of the evidence, across the whole empire and across all interactions possible, illuminates the vast complexity and vast potential of images of the gods in forming, informing and being influenced by human relationships with the divine
Polly H. Carder Collection on George F. Root
No full textGeorge Frederick Root (1820-1895) was an American songwriter and music educator. He is perhaps best known for his song "The Battle Cry of Freedom," which was written and rose to popularity during the U.S. Civil War. The Polly H. Carder Collection on George F. Root contains original published scores and songbooks from the period 1852-1907 and photocopied scores collected by Polly H. Carder, author of the book George F. Root, Civil War Songwriter: A Biography. The collection also contains a short article, "The Last Days of George F. Root," written by Root's daughter, Clara Louise Burnham
Peyton Polly legal fees document
No full textDocumentation of legal fees incurred by attorneys in the legal case of Peyton Polly, received and paid by the office of Governor Reuben Wood, March 10, 1852. Ralph Leete was prosecuting attorney for Lawrence County, Ohio, and led the legal effort to secure the freedom of family members in the case of Peyton Polly.
Reuben Wood was governor of Ohio from 1850 through 1853, and was closely involved with the Peyton Polly case and attempts to secure the Polly family's release. Peyton Polly and his family were freedmen living in Lawrence County, Ohio, when they were kidnapped on June 6, 1850, and sold back into slavery in Kentucky and Virginia
Polly Perkins
No full textRomance between a man and Polly Perkinshttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/1450/thumbnail.jp
Polly Oliver\u27s Rambles
No full textPolly travels to London to be with her lovehttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/1572/thumbnail.jp
Erratum to: Larger mammals have longer faces because of size-related constraints on skull form (Nature Communications, (2013), 4, 1, (2458), 10.1038/ncomms3458)
No full textIn Table 1 of this article, the descriptions of landmarks 14, 15, and 36 are incorrect. Landmarks 14 and 36 should read “Posterior extremity of occipital condyle along margin of foramen magnum” and landmark 15 should read “Opisthion”. A correct version of Table 2 appears in the Author Correction associated with this article; the error has not been fixed in the original article
The secret life of statues; ancient agalmatophilia narratives
No full textImages in antiquity had a complex and yet crucial role both within the social nexus, and also the literary imagination. The response of agalmatophilia, that is, a physically sexual response, is described in a variety of types of narrative, and is found in a wide range of (almost entirely fictional) literary sources throughout antiquity. This thesis considers the ways in which agalmatophilia was dealt with in these narratives, and why stories of agalmatophilia were told at all. Tales of agalmatophilia highlight the way in which the image could take on numerous roles in antiquity, and the importance of the existence of images for occupying a cultural space that could not be filled by anything else. In addition, the narratives combined create a picture of ancient discourses on the role and function of the relationships between images and society, as well as individuals. The thesis covers the cultural conditions that allowed images to be perceived as potential sexual partners, the ways an individual performing agalmatophilia could be described and understood, and the responsibility of those creating and responding to images. It argues that agalmatophilia narratives set up the image as existing on the boundaries of the ancient world, and as objects almost impossible to categorise, because of their unlimited potential in conceptual terms. These ideas are all considered with the aim of understanding why agalmatophilia narratives existed, what cultural space they filled, and how the stories can illuminate the multifarious role of the image in the ancient Mediterranean world
K+p Interactions at 10 GeV/c, and, Polly - A Film Measuring Machine
No full textThis thesis contains the work of the author on an experiment to study the interactions of positive K-mesons with protons at an incident laboratory momentum of 10 GeV/c. It also includes a description of the author's work in implementing a computer controlled bubble chamber film measuring device, Polly, at Glasgow University. A brief survey of current theoretical ideas relevant to the following work on high energy physics is given in Chapter I. Chapter II describes the experiment, which was a Birmingham-Glasgow-Oxford collaboration using the CERN Proton Synchrotron and 2 metre hydrogen bubble chamber. The Glasgow bubble chamber group system of analysis programmes is summarised, and the measurement and analysis of the events in which six charged particles were produced is described. The results of a spin-parity analysis of the I=1/2 low mass baryon system formed in four prong events are shown in Chapter III. These indicate that spin-parities 3/2 and 5/2 states are present, but no evidence for states with a A( 1236)pi decay mode was obtained. Chapter IV is based on the observation of an I=3/2 baryon resonance at 1.9 GeV/c2 in the four and five body final states. The branching ratios of this resonance are evaluated, and are compared with results obtained from other experiments. The theory of single particle momentum distributions has received attention recently: the momentum distributions for negative pions and neutral kaons produced in the experiment are presented in Chapter V, and compared with published data at different beam momenta. The results indicate that the scaling behaviour of the centre-of-mass longitudinal momentum with centre-of-mass energy is not observed in K+p interactions at around 10 GeV/c incident momentum, although further data from other experiments will be required before this can be definitely established. The remaining two chapters deal with the aspects of the computer controlled film measuring device, Polly, which have concerned the author. The extraction of bubble density information from the Polly data is treated in depth, and, although at the time of writing Polly had not reached the production stage, the predictions of the derived equations are shown to agree with the Polly data available. The appendix to this thesis explains the amplitude terms used in the analysis in Chapter III
Philip Strong letter to Reuben Wood, January 27, 1852
No full textLegal correspondence written by Philip Strong to Governor Reuben Wood regarding a warrant to arrest Peyton Polly, dated January 27, 1852.
Reuben Wood was governor of Ohio from 1850 through 1853, and was closely involved with the Peyton Polly case and attempts to secure the Polly family's release. Peyton Polly and his family were freedmen living in Lawrence County, Ohio, when they were kidnapped on June 6, 1850, and sold back into slavery in Kentucky and Virginia
Bland Ballard letter to Ralph Leete, March 18, 1852
No full textCopy of a letter written by Bland Ballard of Louisville, Kentucky, inquiring about outstanding fees owed in the legal case of Peyton Polly, from the papers of Ohio Governor Reuben Wood. Ballard was a District Judge in the United States District Court for the District of Kentucky, while Leete was prosecuting attorney for Lawrence County, Ohio, and led the legal effort to secure the freedom of family members in the case of Peyton Polly.
Reuben Wood was governor of Ohio from 1850 through 1853, and was closely involved with the Peyton Polly case and attempts to secure the Polly family's release. Peyton Polly and his family were freedmen living in Lawrence County, Ohio, when they were kidnapped on June 6, 1850, and sold back into slavery in Kentucky and Virginia
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