Arachnes Netz


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"Mit eLa rete di Arachneae ist den Herausgebern eine hochst erfreuliche Publikation gelungen, die sich in Konzept und Inhalt wohltuend von manch anderem Produkt zu Internet und Altertumswissenschaft unterscheidet." Gymnasium "Die Auswahl der Beitrage ist sowohl hinsichtlich ihrer geographischen Streuung als auch hinsichtlich ihrer fachlichen Bandbreite als sehr gelungen zu betrachten. Wer sich uber den aktuellen Stand verschiedener internationaler IKT-Projekte im Bereich der Altertumswissenschaften und des altsprachlichen Unterrichts und die Einsatzmoglichkeiten moderner Medien in unserer Disziplin informieren oder Anregungen fur eigene Projekte finden mochte, wird diesen Band sicher mit groaem Gewinn lesen." Plekos Inhalt: M. Alperowitz: Midas and the Golden Touch C. Bertagna: Utilite et usages des nouvelles technologies pour les langues anciennes S. Jenks: Geschichte und Netz L. Landi: Multimedialita e interattivita nella didattica del Latino R. Latousek: The Globalization of Classical Computing P. Mastandrea / L. Mondin / L. Tessarolo / F. Boschetti: Attivita del Laboratorio di Informatica Umanistica della Facolta di Lettere, Universita Ca'Foscari di Venezia A. Meurant / J. Poucet / J. Schumacher: Outils electroniques et etudes classiques a Louvain-la Neuve J. Morgan: Computanda Britannica C. Neri: Esperienze di addestramento all'uso delle nuove tecnologie all'Universita di Bologna D. Pellacani: L'uso del computer nella didattica del latino M. Pilar Rivero: Internet y la ensenanza de las ciencias de la Antiguedad en las universidades espanolas K. Ruffing: Elektronische Ressourcen in der Papyrologie L. Salvioni: Software e Liberta C. Salvaterra: Bytes loquuntur, Esperienze di addestramento all'uso delle nuove tecnologie all'Universita di Bologna U. Schmitzer: Und man braucht sie doch: Internet und EDV in Lehre und Forschung auf dem Gebiet der Antike D. Stenta: Storia antica e videogliochi . (Franz Steiner 2000)




Digital Papyrology I


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Since the very beginnings of the digital humanities, Papyrology has been in the vanguard of the application of information technologies to its own scientific purposes, for both theoretical and practical reasons (the strong awareness towards the problems of human memory and the material ways of preserving it; the need to work with a multifarious and overwhelming amount of different data). After more than thirty years of development, we have now at our disposal the most advanced tools to make papyrological studies more and more effective, and even to create a new conception of "papyrology" and a new model of "edition" of the ancient documents. At this turining point, it is important to build an epistemological framework including all the different expressions of Digital Papyrology, to trace a historical sketch setting the background of the contemporary tools, and to provide a clear overview of the current theoretical and technological trends, so that all the possibilities currently available can be exploited following uniform pathways. The volume represents an innovative attempt to deal with such topics, usually relegated into very quick and general treatments within journal articles or papyrological handbooks.










Historia


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Cyberscience


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Describes and analyses the use of information and communication technologies in the academic world.




Heavenly Stuff


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This book offers a reappraisal of basic aspects of Aristotelian cosmology. Aristotle believed that all celestial objects consist of the same substance that pervades the heavens, a stuff unlike those found near the center of the cosmos that compose us and everything in our immediate surroundings. Kouremenos argues that, contrary to the received view, Aristotle originally introduced this heavenly stuff as the matter of the stars alone, the remotest celestial objects from the Earth, and as filler of the outermost part of the heavens, forming a diurnally rotating spherical shell whose fixed parts are the stars, the crust of the cosmos which has the Earth at its center. The author also argues that, contrary to another common view, at no point in the development of his cosmological thought did Aristotle believe the heavens to be structured according to the theory of homocentric spheres developed by his older contemporary Eudoxus of Cnidus, in which the other celestial objects, the five planets known in antiquity, the Sun and the Moon, were hypothesized to move uniformly in circles, as if they were fixed stars.







Ancient Poetic Etymology


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The potential of ancient Greek poetic etymologizing and its reception in antiquity are analyzed with new interpretive models. The author studies poetic etymology in a holistic and integrative manner, as a tool of thematic and narrative unification. Select passages from Homer and archaic lyric poetry provide the matrix for etymological patterns; their validity is examined in an intertextual study of the names of Pelops and his kin. This family exhibits a consistent naming system: the signifiers and signifieds of its male members manifest a lexical and semantic affinity; fathers and sons are linked with inherited linguistic and behavioral bonds. Pelops is given a focal position on account of his preeminence at Olympia and his polyvalent and polysemous name, in which the ambiguities and polarities of his mythic and cultic identity are embedded.




In the Beginning was the Apeiron


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The book is a historical investigation of the problem of infinity in Greek ontology and physics - more specifically, the problem of the infinite size of the world and of its eternal existence, the problem of the infinity of worlds, of infinite divisibility of matter, of infinity of attributes or attribute modes (e.g., infinity of atom shapes), and the problem of infinity of nonphysical entities such as mathematical constructs. The view espoused here is that infinity was of paramount importance for Greek philosophers even if it was not explicitly discussed by them. It served as an unspoken assumption without which Greek philosophy could hardly be possible.