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In this paper I discuss the relationship between Cornelius Castoriadis and Ancient Greece by focusing on the meaning of tradition and on the possibility to produce new philosophical and political reflections through it. I analyze the general features of his reading and I argue that his interest also develops in many texts and forms. I distinguish different dimensions of this relationship, which does not concern only the analysis of Greek society but also that of philosophers and their works. I clarify that Castoriadis turns to ancient authors' texts in order to philosophize through them and to develop his own thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the evolution of the organization of timber roofing carpentry in Greece and in the colonies of Sicily and Magna Graecia in a chronological scope between the archaic and classical periods. A substantial continuity, lacking evident innovations, characterizes the organization of the carpentry of the roofs constituted, in general, by a horizontal member on which rest on props -- king and queen posts -- coinciding with the purlins, useful for receiving the secondary framework and the roof covering. The lack of evident indicators, in a cognitive framework that is however extremely fragmented, and a constructive culture on timber that does not seem to excel for technological advancement raises many doubts about a possible pioneering use, even in constructions with high distance between supports, of carpentry organized as a truss system, with no pushing component on the wall. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper will be analyzed a close relationship between Priestess of the Moon, a novel by Croatian writer Milena Benini (1966-2020), and the Platonic myth of Atlantis, in light of the power exercised by archaic civilization. This work, as well as the author's entire production, belongs to the genre that in Slavic cultures is called fantastika, an all-encompassing formula for fantasy, science fiction and horror, although in this regard Benini prefers the label of "speculative fiction". Benini wrote the first draft of this novel in the early 1990s, in English, and started publishing it on her blog. She published the English version in 2013 and the Croatian (Svećenica mjeseca) in 2014. The story, that takes place in an indefinite time and clearly draws on the classical age, is the first act of a trilogy dedicated to a strong-willed woman, the young priestess Kalaide Reolis Kharaonda, endowed with superhuman powers that allow her to communicate with the goddess Matrielen. Kalaide comes into contact with Enaor, whose figure reflects various sources of inspiration: the Illyrian world, the civilization of ancient Greece, the Slavic tradition. Benini is aware of the timelessness of the myth and avoids giving the story and the characters a precise chronological position; she laid the foundations for a wide range of possibilities, prefiguring an open and epic narration, with the evolutionary profile suggested in the foreground by time and space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The two-days conference "Open Access to research data as a driver for Open Science" (Athens, 15-16 January 2015), as the final event of the RECODE project (Policy RECommendations for Open Access to Research Data in Europe) has been a unique occasion to think about Open Access to research data as a way to move towards Open science. High-level speakers and an active audience have discussed on values, risks, opportunities, open issues, best practices; the aim of this paper is to deal with the complexity of these issues and to give a taste of the importance of open data in the near future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The textual analysis of Linear A tablets presented in this paper is the result of preliminary philological research done in the unpublished dissertation "Administration and accounting systems in Haghia Triada during the LM IB" (in Italian). This paper is an examination of syllabic groups and isolated signs which appear most frequently and/or are present in contexts which are easier to understand. It seems wise to not rely on the many suggested decipherments and linguistic interpretations which attribute meanings based on assonance or on unfounded etymology. Rather the interpretation of the written records should be based on the analysis of textual organisation and on the reciprocal relationships among signs. Analysis done so far reveals, for example, that the lists of words which are followed by the number one and the numbers later are totalled are not necessarily made up of anhroponyms (see case of AB 81-56-55/KU-56-NU in the text). It also states that the only characteristic that distinguishes AB 31-76/SA-RA2 from many other phonetic groups, whose function is senders or recipients, is the high frequency (the word is attested in 18 tablets) and thus we exclude the hypothesis that this could be a "transactional term". Given the available traces, we propose also to integrate six units at the beginning of HT 100.2, so the sum of the numbers from lines 1-3 should be 99, while the total indicated at line 3 is 97, which can be explained if the 2 associated units, on line 2, at AB 67/KI were a deficit, since the sign would be abbreviation of AB 67-02/KI-RO, and for this reason would not be included in the sum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with two Greek reliefs found in Catania, an Attic relief with Demeter and Kore (late fifth c. B.C.), and a funerary relief of the late second - early first c. B.C., from Delos or Asia Minor. The Attic relief carries a votive inscription in Dorian dialect, which is possible to date to the second c. B.C., and raises the possibility that it was bought by a Catanaean family to be reoffered in the local sanctuary of Demeter. Traces of erased letters, belonging to an older inscription, seem to confirm such a proposal. The intense relations between Catana, Athens, and Asia Minor in such a period are clearly hinted at by inscriptions found at Oropos and Smyrna, which celebrate Catanaean athletes. In a wider perspective, moreover, the two reliefs, along with several references in Cicero's De signis and possibly the well known Mahdia shipwreck, strengthen the idea that Sicily played a first-rate role within the trade in works of art during the Late Republic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is the presentation of the MM IIA ceramic phase of Protopalatial Phaistos. Since 1994, V. La Rosa and F. Carinci have been directing a new programme of excavations and revision of 1950-1966 Levi's work at Phaistos, with support from the Italian Archaeological School in Athens. Within this project, my work has focused on the re-study of Levi's excavations of the quarter West to the West Court (Piazzale I) of the Phaistos Palace (rooms C, CI, CIII, ICα and ICβ). The analytical study of contextual data and MM IB-MM II ceramics retrieved from this quarter has been the starting point for attempting a new definition of the MM IIA ceramic phase at Phaistos. In fact, this work has allowed me to identify some levels (the uppermost fill levels) containing pottery easily comparable with that retrieved from MM IIA levels at Knossos. Phaistian MM IIA is characterized by the widespread use of the potter's wheel for small vases, as at Kommos, Knossos and Archanes, and by the appearance of new variants of previous forms and of new wares. The definition of the ceramic phase of MM IIA at Phaistos is remarkable because it also means that all the Phaistian deposits which were previously dated to a transitional phase between the MM IB and MM II phases, can now be re-dated to MM IIA. The uppermost fill levels from the rooms of the quarter West to the West Court, the floor-deposit of room 13 at Haghia Photeini, as well as the deposits found beneath the slab floor of rooms CVI and CVII on the southern slopes of the Acropofi Mediana, are MM IIA ceramic deposits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a paper from an archaeological and historical conference held on 4 May 2011 in Naples, Italy. That paper discusses the project funding the archaeological excavation on the Greek island of Lemnos or Limnos, Greece, and its findings to that date. Among other topics addressed are the research specializations of various participants in the project, which include the archaeology of the island's cult center of Efestia, linguistic issues related to a stele at the site, and the island's archaic period in relation to the rest of the Aegean and Mediterranean world.

This work presents a survey on gender identity - conducted on a sample of about 4,000 Italians - which explores the differences between genders regarding embodiment, that is the consciousness we have of our body, the awareness of "having" a body and "being" a body, and the relationship between these differences, age, and political orientation. The debate nature vs. nurture, that is whether the differences between genders are more related to genetic heritage or to the influence of the environment, is millennia old and it is outlined with mentions from ancient Greece to the French Revolution and positivism, also to the different waves of feminism, and finally to the contemporary contributions of neuroscientists. In order to study empirically, on a large number of cases, the influence of gender on conceptions and desires about one's own body, trying to circumvent "social desirability", an original tool was used. This tool consists of a battery of twenty-eight self-anchoring scales which, unusually for a survey, explore the desire to possess bodily faculties peculiar to animals and plants, or to natural events, which human beings do not possess or which they possess in a reduced form. Therefore, no direct questions are asked about value options or attitudes; nor are social meanings offered, as "non-social" objects are asked to be evaluated. The choices of the subjects and the relationships with the mentioned properties (age and political orientation) are analyzed and interpreted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The magic rites are divided into oral (spells) and manual (sympathetic rites or symbolic rites, sacrificial rites, healing rites, purification rites), complementary to each other. These rites present a recitative part, λόγος, with formulas and spells, and an operational part, πρᾶξις, with particular gestures, tools and substances. In both cases the word is fundamental because it is the magic tool par excellence, thanks to its evocative and expressive power: it is a creative and pragmatic force that acts directly on reality. This act of speech is expressed either through simple pronunciation, as in the case of oral spells, or through writing, generally on particular objects. The study will attempt investigate the power of the logos in magic rites, the ritual formulas and the different types of written objects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]