Josefo : Entre la historia y la ficción

En la lectura de Guerra de los Judíos, de Flavio Josefo, tenemos la sensación de ser presentados a los hechos transparentes que marcaron la relación entre judíos y romanos en el siglo I d.C. Josefo se presenta como alguien que se opone a los historiadores griegos, que según é habían elaborado una versión falsa de esta relación. Sin embargo, su preocupación por la "verdad" de los hechos, no lo exime de muchas reservas hechas a sus obras. Muchos errores se pueden atribuir al tiempo transcurrido entre los hechos y sus narraciones y por haber escrito su obra en Roma, donde la proximidad del poder romano - Josefo tiene la ciudadanía romana - puede haber influido y reorientado su narrativa. Si bien no se puede impugnar toda la obra de Josefo, se argumenta que el autor hace uso de exageraciones, tergiversaciones y adornos típicos de los historiadores de la antigüedad

Josefo : Entre la historia y la ficción

En la lectura de Guerra de los Judíos, de Flavio Josefo, tenemos la sensación de ser presentados a los hechos transparentes que marcaron la relación entre judíos y romanos en el siglo I d.C. Josefo se presenta como alguien que se opone a los historiadores griegos, que según é habían elaborado una versión falsa de esta relación. Sin embargo, su preocupación por la "verdad" de los hechos, no lo exime de muchas reservas hechas a sus obras. Muchos errores se pueden atribuir al tiempo transcurrido entre los hechos y sus narraciones y por haber escrito su obra en Roma, donde la proximidad del poder romano - Josefo tiene la ciudadanía romana - puede haber influido y reorientado su narrativa. Si bien no se puede impugnar toda la obra de Josefo, se argumenta que el autor hace uso de exageraciones, tergiversaciones y adornos típicos de los historiadores de la antigüedad

Josefo : Entre la historia y la ficción

En la lectura de Guerra de los Judíos, de Flavio Josefo, tenemos la sensación de ser presentados a los hechos transparentes que marcaron la relación entre judíos y romanos en el siglo I d.C. Josefo se presenta como alguien que se opone a los historiadores griegos, que según é habían elaborado una versión falsa de esta relación. Sin embargo, su preocupación por la "verdad" de los hechos, no lo exime de muchas reservas hechas a sus obras. Muchos errores se pueden atribuir al tiempo transcurrido entre los hechos y sus narraciones y por haber escrito su obra en Roma, donde la proximidad del poder romano - Josefo tiene la ciudadanía romana - puede haber influido y reorientado su narrativa. Si bien no se puede impugnar toda la obra de Josefo, se argumenta que el autor hace uso de exageraciones, tergiversaciones y adornos típicos de los historiadores de la antigüedad

Eklogai historikai : selecta principum historicorum : Herodoti, Thucydidis, Xenophontis, Polybii illustres loci, Plutarchi Vitae Demosthenis et Ciceronis /

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A reappraisal of Baskerville's Greek types

Ιn the eighteenth century the printing of Greek texts continued to be central to scholarship and discourse. The typography of Greek texts could be characterised as a continuation of French models from the sixteenth century, with a gradual dilution of the complexity of ligatures and abbreviations, mostly through printers in the Low Countries. In Britain, Greek printing was dominated by the university presses, which reproduced conservatively the continental models – exemplified by Oxford's Fell types, which were Dutch adaptations of earlier French models. Hindsight allows us to identify a meaningful development in the Greek types cut by Alexander Wilson for the Foulis Press in Glasgow, but we can argue that in the middle of the eighteenth century Baskerville was considering Greek printing the typographic environment was ripe for a new style of Greek types. The opportunity to cut the types for a New Testament (in an twin edition that included a generous octavo and a large quarto version) would seem perfect for showcasing Baskerville's capacity for innovation. His Greek type maintained the cursive ductus of earlier models, but abandoned complex ligatures and any hint of scribal flourish. He homogenised the modulation of the letter strokes and the treatment of terminals, and normalised the horizontal alignments of all letters. Although the strokes are in some letters too delicate, the narrow set of the style composes a consistent, uniform texture that is a clean break from contemporaneous models. The argument is made that this is the first Greek typeface that can be described as fully typographic in the context of the technology of the time. It sets a pattern that was to be followed, without acknowledgement, by Richard Porson nearly a century and a half later. The typeface received little praise by typographic historians, and was condemned by Victor Scholderer in his retrospective of Greek typography. A survey of typeface reviews in the surrounding decades establishes that the commentators were mostly reproducing the views of an arbitrary typographic orthodoxy, for which only types with direct references to Renaissance models were acceptable. In these comments we detect a bias against someone considered an arriviste in the scholarly printing establishment, as well as a conservative attitude to typographic innovation.

The post-Nicene Greek fathers.

The Alexandrian and the Antiochian schools.--Symbols of the first four councils.--The post-Nicene Greek fathers: Eusebius. Athanasius. Arius. Cyril of Jerusalem. Ephraem Syrus. Marcelius and the Apollinaril. Basil. Gregory Nazianzen. Gregory Nyssa. Didymus. Epiphanius. Diodorus of Tarsus. Chrysostom. Synesius. Theodore of Mopsuestia. Theophilus. Cyril of Alexandria. Nestorius. Theodoret. The church historians. Other writers of the fouth and fifth centuries. John of Damascus. Other late writers. The Greek hymnologists.

YouTube versus the national film and sound archive: Which is the more useful resource for historians of Australian television?

This article compares YouTube and the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) as resources for television historians interested in viewing old Australian television programs. The author searched for seventeen important television programs, identified in a previous research project, to compare what was available in the two archives and how easy it was to find. The analysis focused on differences in curatorial practices of accessioning and cataloguing. NFSA is stronger in current affairs and older programs, while YouTube is stronger in game shows and lifestyle programs. YouTube is stronger than the NFSA on “human interest” material—births, marriages, and deaths. YouTube accessioning more strongly accords with popular histories of Australian television. Both NFSA and YouTube offer complete episodes of programs, while YouTube also offers many short clips of “moments.” YouTube has more surprising pieces of rare ephemera. YouTube cataloguing is more reliable than that of the NFSA, with fewer broken links. The YouTube metadata can be searched more intuitively. The NFSA generally provides more useful reference information about production and broadcast dates.

From Greek temple to bird's nest : mapping, assessing and understanding national integrity systems

In this paper, I would like to outline the approach we have taken to mapping and assessing integrity systems and how this has led us to see integrity systems in a new light. Indeed, it has led us to a new visual metaphor for integrity systems – a bird’s nest rather than a Greek temple. This was the result of a pair of major research projects completed in partnership with Transparency International (TI). One worked on refining and extending the measurement of corruption. This, the second, looked at what was then the emerging institutional means for reducing corruption – ‘national integrity systems’

Greek or not : the use of symbols and abbreviations in mathematics

The use of symbols and abbreviations adds uniqueness and complexity to the mathematical language register. In this article, the reader’s attention is drawn to the multitude of symbols and abbreviations which are used in mathematics. The conventions which underpin the use of the symbols and abbreviations and the linguistic difficulties which learners of mathematics may encounter due to the inclusion of the symbolic language are discussed. 2010 NAPLAN numeracy tests are used to illustrate examples of the complexities of the symbolic language of mathematics.

“They’re My Two Favourites” versus “The Bigger Scheme of Things” : pro-Am historians remember Australian television

This chapter reports on eleven interviews with Pro-Am archivists of Australian television which aimed to find out how they decide what materials are important enough to archive. Interviewees mostly choose to collect materials in which they have a personal interest. But they are also aware of the relationship between their own favourites and wider accounts of Australian television history, and negotiate between these two positions. Most interviewees acknowledged Australian television’s links with British and American programming, but also felt that Australian television is distinctive. They argued that Australian television history is ignored in a way that isn’t true for the UK or the US. Several also argued that Australian television has had a ‘naïve’ nature that has allowed it to be more experimental.

Pro-Am curators of Australian television history : how is their practice different from that of professional television historians?

Eleven Pro-Am curators of Australian television history were interviewed about their practice. The data helps us to understand the relationship between professional and Pro-Am approaches to Australian television history. There is no simple binary – the lines are blurred – but there are some differences. Pro-Am curators of Australian television history are not paid for their work and present other motivations for practice – particularly being that ‘weird child’ who was obsessed with gathering information and objects related to television. They have freedom to curate only programs and genres that interest them, and they tend to collect merchandise as much as program texts themselves. And they have less interest in formally cataloguing their material than do professional curators of Australian television history.

‘…souvlaki and a bit of lemon’: An Aboriginal Australian Greek Story.

In Victoria, Aboriginal peoples are collectively known as Koories (Koori History Website 2014). It’s a name that most people are comfortable with, even though each Koori will also hold their own specific tribal affiliations (Horton 1999). For example, the people of the Kulin nation are the Traditional Owners of the land that is now known by the English name of Melbourne. I am an Aboriginal Australian woman who originates from south-east Queensland (Brisbane/Ipswich). In south-east Queensland, some groups are collectively referred to as Murries...