Classics and Ancient History
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Philip V of Macedon, 'Eromenos of the Greeks': A note and reassessment
(Franz Steiner Verlag, 2018-06-20)Polybios' famous description of Philip V of Macedon as "the darling of the Greeks" (ρώμενος ... τν λλήνων) comes about at a critical moment in the historian's narrative of the king's life: it appears at the end of a summary ... -
Dragonscapes and Dread
(Routledge, 2018-04-26)What impact did serpents of various sorts have on the world’s landscapes in Graeco-Roman eyes? Consideration is given to: the physical traces that the great dragons of myth, defeated by a god or a hero in the remote past, ... -
Telling stories with maps: digital experiments with Herodotean geography
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Lucian’s Alexander: technoprophecy, thaumatology and the poetics of wonder
(De Gruyter, 2018-04-30)This paper focuses on Lucian’s critique of the wonder-working of the second century CE prophet of Asclepius, Alexander of Abonouteichos, in Alexander or the False Prophet. It explores meta-literary depths of the essay which ... -
Linking early geospatial documents, one place at a time: annotation of geographic documents with recogito
(Professor Emer. Evangelos Livieratos, 2015)Recogito is an open source tool for the semi-automatic annotation of place references in maps and texts. It was developed as part of the Pelagios 3 research project, which aims to build up a comprehensive directory of ... -
Peripleo: a tool for exploring heterogenous data through the dimensions of space and time
(Code4Lib, 2016-01-28)This article introduces Peripleo, a prototype spatiotemporal search and visualization tool. Peripleo enables users to explore the geographic, temporal and thematic composition of distributed digital collections in their ... -
Medicalizing heresy: Doctors and patients in Epiphanius of Salamis
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Are Matter and Form Parts? Aristotle’s and Neo-Aristotelian Hylomorphism
(Quodlibet edizioni, 2018)The paper takes issue with Koslicki’s Neo-Aristotelian Mereology (NAM) and more particularly with her understanding of hylomorphism in mereological terms. NAM centres on two characteristic claims: (i) that Aristotle’s form ... -
Spatial Metaphors of Ambiguity in Roman Culture
(Paideia Institute, 2018)This chapter takes a somewhat different approach to the topic of ambiguity in Latin literature from the others in this volume. Taking as a given that Latin speakers were mindful of the capacity of some words, phrases, ... -
Comparativism then and now
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Embodied, Embedded and Distributed Cognition in Roman Technical Practice
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Aristotle's Metaphysics
(Oxford University Press, 2017-09-27)Aristotle’s Metaphysics, one of the most influential works in Western thought, is a collection of fourteen treatises or books. The title is not by Aristotle and is due to a Hellenistic editor, traditionally identified with ... -
Substantiae sunt sicut numeri. Aristotle on the structure of numbers
(De Gruyter, 2018-04-30)Aristotle’s contribution to the metaphysics of numbers is often described in terms of a critical response to the Platonist paradigm. Plato, we are told, conceives of numbers as abstract entities entirely distinct from the ... -
History Can't Always Help to Make Sense of the Future
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Destory History: first response
(Digital Press at the University of North Dakota., 2017-09-27)This piece is a response to Coyne’s Destory History. -
Counterfactualism and Anticipation
(Springer International, 2017-09-30)Most attempts at forecasting the future depend, explicitly or implicitly, on knowledge about the past, whether this is then used to offer possible analogies or to support normative theories with data about past events and ...