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thersites 19
thersites is an international open access journal for innovative transdisciplinary classical studies edited by Annemarie Ambühl, Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Christian Rollinger and Christine Walde. thersites expands classical reception studies by publishing original scholarship free of charge and by reflecting on Greco-Roman antiquity as present phenomenon and diachronic culture that is part of today’s transcultural and highly diverse world. Antiquity, in our understanding, does not merely belong to the past, but is always experienced and engaged in the present. thersites contributes to the critical review on methods, theories, approaches and subjects in classical scholarship, which currently s...
Approaching Social Hierarchies in Byzantium
Utilising new methodological approaches to understanding not only the poor as a social and economic group but also of the internal means of stratification which informed social organisation within local communities, this book looks at the place of the poor within the multi-layered hierarchies of Byzantine society using evidence from archaeology, art, architecture, as well as narrative, theological, and legal texts. Rather than treating the different levels of society independently, it looks at the social interactions which replicated and reinforced hierarchies but were also subject to negotiation within local communities. Fifteen leading Byzantine scholars discuss and analyse the topic of social hierarchies in the Byzantine Empire, covering topics such as working lives, the material world, the stratification of space, and philanthropy and social obligation. The book will appeal to scholars and students alike interested in identity formation and expression in the Byzantine provinces, as well as those researching the social history of the poor in Byzantium, and the mechanisms of hierarchies, social marginalisation, and oppression.
En busca del tiempo y del espacio
Esta propuesta aborda cómo las categorías “tiempo” y “espacio”, entendidas en su dimensión física, han sido manipuladas para crear otras realidades, otros mundos en los que distintos autores y artistas han proyectado sus ideologías, miedos y esperanzas desde el mundo antiguo hasta nuestros días. Al amparo de la cada vez más recurrente pregunta “qué hubiera pasado si…”, este proyecto persigue sondear los mecanismos literarios y los mundos paralelos creados cuando nos imaginamos otros mundos así como unos futuros y unos pasados alternativos.
El concepto de hombre divino en el mundo antiguo y su recepción
El presente volumen colectivo recoge los resultados de un proyecto de investigación acerca de la noción de “hombre divino”. Esta figura del theios aner", como aparece en las fuentes griegas antiguas, permite indagar en las ideas acerca de la divinidad o la santidad de personajes que destacaron por sus habilidades en el campo de las artes, las letras o la política –sobre todo por sus capacidades de mando o magisterio– en la historia de las religiones, de la filosofía y de la política del mundo grecorromano –especialmente en la llamada Antigüedad Tardía–, y con referencia a su recepción posterior. Como marca de este tipo de figuras marcadas por un aura sacra –varones o mu...
Libanius
A professor of Greek rhetoric, frequent letter writer and influential social figure, Libanius (AD 314–393) is a key author for anybody interested in late antiquity, ancient rhetoric, ancient epistolography and ancient biography. Nevertheless, he remains understudied because it is such a daunting task to access his large and only partially translated oeuvre. This volume, which is the first comprehensive study of Libanius, offers a critical introduction to the man, his texts, their context and reception. Clear presentations of the orations, progymnasmata, declamations and letters unlock the corpus, and a survey of all available translations is provided. At the same time, the volume explores new interpretative approaches of the texts from a variety of angles. Written by a team of established as well as upcoming experts in the field, it substantially reassesses works such as the Autobiography, the Julianic speeches and letters, and Oration 30 For the Temples.
Authority and the Sacred
His illuminating analysis of religious change as the art of the possible has a wide relevance for other periods and regions.
Introduction to Smart Antennas
As the growing demand for mobile communications is constantly increasing, the need for better coverage, improved capacity, and higher transmission quality rises. Thus, a more efficient use of the radio spectrum is required. Smart antenna systems are capable of efficiently utilizing the radio spectrum and is a promise for an effective solution to the present wireless systems’ problems while achieving reliable and robust high-speed high-data-rate transmission. The purpose of this book is to provide the reader a broad view of the system aspects of smart antennas. In fact, smart antenna systems comprise several critical areas such as individual antenna array design, signal processing algorithms, space-time processing, wireless channel modeling and coding, and network performance. In this book we include an overview of smart antenna concepts, introduce some of the areas that impact smart antennas, and examine the influence of interaction and integration of these areas to Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks. In addition, the general principles and major benefits of using space-time processing are introduced, especially employing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques.
Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic
Explores Shakespeare's representation of the failure of democracy in ancient Rome This book introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche. It considers Shakespeare's place in the history of concepts of selfhood and reflects on his sympathy for Christianity, in light of his reception of medieval Biblical drama, as well as his allusions to the New Testament. Shakespeare's critique of Romanitas anticipates concerns about secularisation, individualism and liberalism shared by philosophers such as Hannah Arendt, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, Michael Sandel and Patrick Deneen.
Free Women of Spain
With fists upraised, Mujeres Libres struggled for their own emancipation and the freedom of all.
