Claude Calame. Prométhée généticien: Profits techniques et usages de métaphores. Editions Les Belles Lettres- Encre Marine, Paris, 2010, 204 pp. (Collection A présent)

Fil: Moretti, María Inés. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Thomas Van Nortwick. Somewhere I Have Never Travelled. The Hero's Journey. New York-Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996, 204 pp.

Fil: Errecalde, Alejandro Martín. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

¡Me engañaste, me mentiste! La embajada persa a Atenas (Ar. Ach. 61-124) y sus implicaturas frente al público

Atendiendo a la relación establecida entre la comedia y los ámbitos político- legales que la circundan, se ha podido instituir un vínculo entre la ficción cómica y la realidad política de la Atenas clásica que se percibe fundamentalmente en las primeras comedias de Aristófanes. Dentro de Acarnienses podremos entonces determinar un nuevo punto de análisis si consideramos que en las breves declamaciones del persa se cifra uno de los recursos más notorios de la diplomacia estatal: la manipulación ante la asamblea del discurso de los embajadores de una nación por parte de la voz autorizada de la pólis receptora (Ammendola: 2001-2002). Será nuestro propósito abordar un costado diverso de esta escena definiendo su peso específico, aparentemente secundario, en la trama total de la obra. De ese modo nos interesará detectar la verdadera trascendencia del comportamiento del embajador persa respecto de los ciudadanos atenienses representados en la persona del viejo Diceópolis

Hydrate, ice and quartz content of eight holes of Leg 204

The state of preservation of natural gas hydrate samples, recovered from 6 sites drilled during ODP Leg 204 at southern summit of Hydrate Ridge, Oregon Margin, has been investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and cryo-scanning-electron-microscopy (cryo-SEM) techniques. A detailed characterization of the state of decomposition of gas hydrates is necessary since no pressurized autoclave tools were used for sampling and partial dissociation must have occurred during recovery prior to the quench and storage in liquid nitrogen. Samples from 16 distinct horizons have been investigated by synchrotron X-ray diffraction measurements at HASYLAB/ Hamburg. A full profile fitting analysis ("Rietveld method") of synchrotron XRD data provides quantitative phase determinations of the major sample constituents such as gas hydrate structure I (sI), hexagonal ice (Ih) and quartz. The ice content (Ih) in each sample is related to frozen water composed of both original existing pore water and the water from decomposed hydrates. Hydrate contents as measured by diffraction vary between 0 and 68 wt.% in the samples we measured. Samples with low hydrate content usually show micro-structural features in cryo-SEM ascribed to extensive decomposition. Comparing the appearance of hydrates at different scales, the grade of preservation seems to be primarily correlated with the contiguous volume of the original existing hydrate; the dissociation front appears to be indicated by micrometer-sized pores in a dense ice matrix.