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Auxiliaries
2014
The prototypical auxiliary in Ancient Greek is eimí “to be”, which is involved in some participial periphrases conveying aspectual value and variously interacting with the synthetic forms within the inflectional paradigm. However, many other verbs are involved in the Greek periphrastic constructions, although their status as auxiliaries is still a matter of debate. Resent research in grammaticalization allows to describe the entire range of such verbs in prototypical terms, that is, as a coherent category which includes more central and peripheral, i.e. less grammaticalized members.
Twins among history, mith and arts
2013
Senās DNS analīžu pielietojums Latvijas teritorijas dzelzs laikmeta apbedījumu raksturojumā
2022
Darba mērķis: analizēt Latvijas teritorijā iegūto arheoloģisko osteoloģisko materiālu, veicot senās DNS analīzi, lai novērtētu endogēnās DNS saglabātības pakāpi un paplašinātu esošās zināšanas par Daugavas un Mēmeles krastus apdzīvojušo iedzīvotāju ģenētisko izcelsmi. Tika veikta mtDNS haplogrupu sastopamības izpēte senās DNS paraugiem, gan izmantojot publicētus rezultātus, gan veicot senās DNS analīzi dzelzs laikmeta paraugiem. Dzelzs laikmetā Latvijas teritorijā konstatējamas jaunas mtDNS haplogrupas, kas sakrīt ar līdzīgi datētām arī citur Baltijas jūras reģionā. Pētījumā izmantotās metodes ir efektīvas, tomēr nelielais mtDNS haplogrupu rezultātu skaits var tikt saistīts ar zemu senās DN…
Stranieri. Figure dell'Altro nella Grecia antica
2020
l libro indaga, nel mondo greco antico, la divisione concettuale in “Noi” e “gli Altri” (e i connessi modi di pensare lo straniero), i rapporti tra il primo gruppo e il secondo (con particolare attenzione alle esperienze di gestione nonviolenta di tali rapporti), il diritto di cittadinanza e, più in generale, la convivenza in una società multiculturale. Il primo capitolo affronta il tema dell’ospitalità: nel mondo omerico l’accoglienza dello straniero aristocratico, ma anche del mendicante, si presenta non come un atto di carità individuale ma come una vera e propria istituzione sotto l’egida della divinità. Più tardi, nella struttura della polis, l’ospitalità diviene, nella forma della pro…
Reconstruction of human subsistence and husbandry strategies from the Iberian Early Neolithic: A stable isotope approach
2018
Objectives The Early Neolithic involved an important social and economic shift that can be tested not only with the material culture, but also through biomolecular approaches. The Iberian Peninsula presents few Early Neolithic sites where fauna and humans can be analyzed together from an isotopic perspective. Here we present an isotopic study on the site of Cueva de Chaves as an example for understanding the dietary and economical changes that took place during Early Neolithic in Iberia. Material and methods Here we apply carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis to bone collagen from 4 humans and 64 faunal samples from 14 different species. The large dataset belongs to the same unique ch…
Intensifiers
2014
The label ‘intensifiers’ (or ‘emphatics’) groups together words, widely attested crosslinguistically (e.g. Eng. x-self, Germ. selbst, Ital. stesso, Lat. ipse, Japanese zisin and zibun, Mandarin zı j ĭetc.), whose main function is to signal some sort of emphasis or focus with respect to a nominal head they are adjoined to in the sentence, as in The author herself will present the book. In addition to the term ‘intensifiers’ (Moravcsik 1972; Edmondson and Plank 1978), there exist many other labels in the relevant literature to define this sub-class of functional words, which reflect the (anything but closed) debate on their actual categorial status. This entry discuss the origin and the funct…
Interface model for the nonlinear analysis of blocky structures of ancient Greek temples
2010
The presence of singularity surfaces with reference to the displacement field is a characteristic of a number of structural systems. Strong discontinuities are present in old masonry structures where dry joints connect the blocks or the mortar ageing suggests to neglect the adhesion properties. These structures cannot be considered a continuum but rather an assembly of blocks. These discontinuous structures could be modelled as an assembly of blocks interacting trough frictional joints whose mechanical behaviour is described by appropriate interface laws. In the present work an interface model present in literature is adopted, the double asperity model, which has been implemented in a stand…
Barking at the Threshold
2019
Over the past few years, students of ancient Mediterranean societies have shown consistent interest in the cultural construction of dogs as reflected in texts, artefacts, and other media. However, whereas the cultural and literary implications of the Greek representation of dogs have been the subject of thorough investigations, Roman dogs have remained at the margins of the scholarly debate. By adopting an interdisciplinary methodology that combines cognitive theory, rhetorical analysis, and socio-anthropological research, the present paper discusses some affordances of dogs (in the terms of James Gibson’s 'ecological approach to visual perception') that are given special significance withi…
Introduzione
2019
Il volume indaga le radici storiche delle malattie che oggi definiamo genetiche e/o ereditarie, ponendo le premesse terminologiche e scientifiche che stanno a fondamento della riflessione moderna e contemporanea sulla malattia genetica, qui animata dal filo della continuità e della pur forte discontinuità con il pensiero antico. In tal senso, si presenta una retrospettiva storico-critica che, affondando le proprie radici nell’indagine lessicografica dei termini fondanti il pensiero embriogenetico moderno, interroga la validità storica ed epistemica di alcuni concetti e parole-chiave dell’era post-genomica, tra cui quello di causalità, o il rapporto tra natura e cultura, per toccare il nucle…
Concept and Treatment of Hydrocephalus in the Greco-Roman and Early Arabic Medicine
2007
In the ancient medical literature hydrocephalus was not often described although its existence and symptomatology were well known. Most detailed descriptions of hydrocephalus including the surgical treatment are extant in the encyclopaedic works on medicine of the physicians Oreibasios and Aetios from Amida from the 4th and 6th centuries AD, respectively. Because of their broad scientific interests, this type of physicians, typical for the late Roman empire, were known as philosophy-physicians (iota alpha tau rho o sigma o phi iota sigma tau alpha iota). They defined hydrocephalus in contrast to our present understanding as a fluid collection excluding abscesses visible as a bulging tumour …