History of the Sciences in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Nature ◽  
1927 ◽  
Vol 119 (3004) ◽  
pp. 776-776 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. G. F. DRUCE
Keyword(s):  
Greco Roman ◽  
History Of ◽  
Roman Antiquity

Carlos Poveda's Menu

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 78-83
Author(s):  
marjorie ross
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Art Form ◽  
History Of ◽  
Roman Antiquity ◽  
Domestic Landscapes ◽  
Contemporary Artists

Carlos Poveda's Domestic Landscapes are linked to a history of food and art that reaches back to Greco-Roman antiquity and becomes empowered with contemporary artists who sculpt or paint their works in edible materials to be devoured by spectators. Poveda's Landscapes, however, offer food that is symbolic——inedible. He reinvents the organic by using industrial refuse that he converts, colors, and models in a cauldron in a process as akin to alchemy as to cooking. His is not a faithful transcription of meals in the style of classical still lifes, but rather an artistic overlapping of emotions, that surround the idea of the edible. Looking at his sculptures we may feel revulsion, but what sickens us is not so much his creation as the awareness it brings of our intrinsically predatory nature. He gives us an art form that not only fails to provoke appetite but also touches our deepest culinary memories and leads us back to a primal past by asserting the significance of food in our collective memory. Ultimately, our strongest reaction to his work may be the fear that we won't be able to digest the absurdity of our daily life.

scholarly journals Anchoring Innovation: A Classical Research Agenda

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ineke Sluiter
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Revolving Door ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
American Constitution ◽  
Electric Cars ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
History Of ◽  
Roman Antiquity ◽  
New Research

Several periods in classical (Greco-Roman) antiquity provide an intriguing mix of being ‘in the grip of the past’ and profoundly innovative in all societal domains at the same time. A new research agenda of the Dutch classicists investigates this combination, under the hypothesis that the two are connected. Successful innovations must somehow be ‘anchored’ for the relevant social group(s). This paper explores the new concept of ‘anchoring’, and some of the ways in which ‘the new’ and ‘the old’ are evaluated and used in classical antiquity and our own times. Its examples range from a piece of ancient theatrical equipment to the history of the revolving door, from an ornamental feature of Greek temples to the design of electric cars, and from the Delphic oracle to the role of the American constitution.

On Broken Glass: For a Semiotics of Anti-Materiality

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimo Leone
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Early Modernity ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
History Of ◽  
Roman Antiquity ◽  
Damaged Materials ◽  
Initial Exploration

AbstractScholars have mostly focused on “positive materiality,” studying the meaning of materials and techniques in the production of artifacts. Matter, however, means not only when it is shaped into materiality but also when it is destroyed. The essay that follows is meant to represent a first tentative enquiry into the meaning of anti-materiality. The study of destroyed artifacts aims at pointing out that matter is always materiality. It always conserves a shadow of meaning, independently from how profoundly its earlier form was disintegrated. The crepuscular significance of damaged materials has mostly escaped the attention of scholars. The essay attempts an initial exploration of it, proposing a condensed cultural history of broken glass. It therefore seeks to combine, in the same exposition, a chronological and a structural overview of broken glass, from Greco-Roman antiquity until early modernity.

History of the Sciences in Greco-Roman Antiquity

1928 ◽  
Vol 14 (196) ◽  
pp. 248
Author(s):  
A. Raymond ◽  
Ruth Gheury de Bray
Keyword(s):  
Greco Roman ◽  
History Of ◽  
Roman Antiquity

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-42
Author(s):  
Frederic Clark
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Book History ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
Reception Studies ◽  
Second Sophistic ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Weberian Theory ◽  
History Of ◽  
Roman Antiquity

The Introduction opens with broad reflections on the place of forgery, criticism, and debates over textual authenticity in the reception of Greco-Roman antiquity, whether in Renaissance Europe or today. It surveys recent literature on forgery and antiquity and also discusses the ongoing presence of moralizing language and polemic in works of ostensible dispassionate criticism. It then introduces readers to the text at the center of this book—Dares Phrygius’ De excidio Troiae historia or History of the Destruction of Troy—and discusses antecedents for works of this nature in the Second Sophistic. Thereafter, it examines Dares’ ambiguous place at the intersection of history, myth, and literary fiction, arguing that modern means of distinguishing among these concepts (such as the Weberian theory of “disenchantment”) are unable to explain the motivations of both Dares’ critics and believers. The remainder of the Introduction discusses issues of method, situating The First Pagan Historian within current trends in intellectual history, book history, and classical reception studies.

Writing agrarian histories of the Roman world: seasonality and scale as tools of analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 228-238
Author(s):  
Cam Grey
Keyword(s):  
Labor History ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Classical Studies ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
Intellectual Traditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Roman Antiquity ◽  
Written Materials

Agrarian labor history of Greco-Roman antiquity—indeed, labor history of the period more broadly—does not look very much like the agrarian labor histories of other periods. Many explanations might be adduced for why this is so, including the very particular circumstances that led to the development of ancient history as a discipline separate from (yet intimately related to) the humanistic intellectual traditions of classical studies in the last decades of the nineteenth century. But arguably the most fundamental constraining factor is the nature of the available evidence. Simply put, the wealthy, leisured elites responsible for the overwhelming bulk of the written materials available to us from the ancient Mediterranean world were emphatically uninterested in the sector of the population whose labor underpinned and sustained their privileged position.

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