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- Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al.
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Introduction to the DHQ Special Issue : Digital Technology in the Study of the Past
- 2018
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Ingår i: Digital Humanities Quarterly. - Boston : Alliance for Digital Humanities Organisations. - 1938-4122. ; 12:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Digital technology is transforming the assemblage and dissemination of historical information. Museums, libraries, archives, and universities increasingly modify their digital research infrastructures in order to make data open and available (see [Crane, Seales, and Terras 2009]; [Smithies 2014]; [Terras, Nyhan, and Vanhoutte 2013]; cf [Foka et al. 2017]). The imminent assessment and representation of historical data has admittedly challenged the boundaries of historical knowledge and generated new research questions [Drucker 2013] [Nygren, Foka, and Buckland 2014] #nygren2016 [Westin 2014] #westin2015[Chapman, Foka, and Westin 2016] [Foka and Arvidsson 2016]. The process of reconstructing, visualizing and rendering historical data has equally developed together with technology [Westin, Foka, and Chapman 2018]. This is the case in both academic and heritage contexts and in less immediately obvious popular uses, such as the increasingly significant presence and use of history within video games [Chapman 2016]. Regardless of specific context, as this collection of articles shows, the process of digitally capturing and representing historical data is often analogous to and determined by the digital platform used.
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- Barker, Elton, et al.
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Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece
- 2023
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Ingår i: Literary Geographies. - 0324-8305 .- 2397-1797. ; 9:1, s. 124-160
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of narrative, the entities of place and time, relate to and intersect with each other. In this article, we establish a framework for systematically investigating Pausanias’s chronotopes through a process of semantic annotation. We describe our typology for categorizing place and time, with the aim of enabling this text’s database of information — the descriptions of the built environment, its temples, statues, etc. — to be mapped and analysed. Our emphasis, however, is on how the technology equally facilitates close reading, as we trace how individual locations, objects and people relate to each other through the unfolding of chronotopes, and examine how in turn these chronotopes transform our understanding of the spaces of Greece and Greece as a place. We conclude by offering reflections on the potential for semantic annotation of the kind documented here not only for conducting chronotopic investigations of literary geographies, but also for bringing the textualization of space into direct dialogue with the material culture on the ground.
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- Foka, Anna, 1981-
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Half-Naked yet Empowered? : Spartacus (2010-) (Ancient) Gender Equality in Contemporary Television
- 2013
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Ingår i: 12th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences. - Honolulu Hawaii.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Spartacus is attested in several ancient sources (Plutarch, Appian, and Florus) as the leader of a rebellion against the Roman Republic (73 to 71 BC). Despite that none of Spartacus' historical representations overtly suggest that he aimed at reforming Roman society by abolishing slavery and promoting equality, he has inspired a number of intellectuals across times and cultures as a egalitarian leader. Marx, in the Manchester letter to Engels (1861), considered him a real representative of the ancient 'proletariat’ and members of the German Spartacus League, a forerunner of the Communist Party of Germany. In contemporary popular culture, the most recent reception of the tale of Spartacus is the US Television series Spartacus: Blood and Sand (premiered on Starz in: 2010- followed by a late prequel and a sequel), where he is also portrayed as a just and egalitarian leader.In this paper, I will discuss how Spartacus (2010-) promotes social and gender equality as an ancient virtue within a contemporary context. Unlike Spartacus’ historical and other cinematic representations, women play a major role in the 2010- TV series either as slaves that join the rebellion, inspired by the egalitarian Thracian slave-leader, or wealthy Romans who oppose him. Despite incidental nudity, scenes of a sexual and violent nature, a TV MA rating for graphic violence, and strong sexual content in overexposed video stylization, I will show that female characters evolve from the older sexualized and objectified females of gladiatorial Sword and Sandals (e.g. Warrior and the Slave Girl: 1958) to strong and brave action heroines. Finally, I will discuss how the 2010- TV series reflects upon the impact of equality and feminism in the portrayal of the ancient world in our contemporary popular culture.
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- Foka, Anna, 1981-
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The digital aesthetic in 'Atlantis: the evidence' (2010)
- 2018
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Ingår i: Ancient Greece on British television. - Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press. - 9781474412599 - 9781474412612 - 9781474412605 ; , s. 187-202
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Hale, Elizabeth, et al.
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Myths of Classical Education in Australia : Fostering Classics trough Fabrication, Visualization and Reception
- 2021
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Ingår i: Our Mythical Education. - Warsaw : European Research Council. - 9788323546320 - 9788323546245 - 9788323546160 ; , s. 295-310
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While Classics is nominally taught throughout Australia, and the Australian National Curriculum has established a framework to support the teaching of Classics and Classical Languages wherever schools can sustain a programme, the bulk of Classics teaching occurs on the east coast, and mostly in the states of New South Wales and Victoria. This chapter takes New South Wales as its focus and uses examples from Sydney Classics teachers as case studies. We focus on NSW's global antiquity approach as well as the use of visualization, fabrication and classical. reception in the school teaching of classical mytology
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- Mäntymäki, Tiina, et al.
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Introduction
- 2015
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Ingår i: Deviant Women. - Oxford : Peter Lang Publishing Group. - 9783653995923 ; , s. 9-25
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The construct of the deviant woman is analysed from literary, sociolinguistic and historical-cultural perspectives, revealing insights about cultures and societies. Furthermore, the studies recognise and explain the significance of the concept of deviance in relation to gender that bespeaks a contemporary cultural concern about narratives of femininity.
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Challenge the past / diversify the future - proceedings
- 2015
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Challenge the Past / Diversify the Future is a multidisciplinary conference for scholars and practitioners who study the implementation and potential of visual and multi-sensory representations to challenge and diversify our understanding of history and culture. This volume contains an overview of all the presentations.
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- Westin, Jonathan, 1980
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Towards a vocabulary of limitations: the translation of a painted goddess into a symbol of classical education
- 2012
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 18:1, s. 18-32
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper discusses how ties with society are accumulated and interpreted as the ‘culture’ of an artefact. Following the reinterpretation of a painted statue into a white museum artefact, I argue that the rules we have to follow in approaching an artefact create a series of unrelated socio-cultural connotations which shape our perception of the object. The culture of the artefact is therefore largely the culture of the context through which it is presented. Hence, by distancing an artefact from an established context you also distance it from the networks that make up a large part of its cultural value. To discuss this process I draw on the works of Michael Callon and Bruno Latour, describing the presentation as a ‘translation’ – a process where the artefact is reinterpreted from one state into another. As a method to describe values sprung from the presentation of the artefact, I propose, and exemplify, a vocabulary of limitations for mapping the ties between society and artefact in different contexts. This vocabulary – developed for this article – helps us identify deeper connections between artefact, context and society by focusing on how interaction has been shaped around the artefact.
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- Bengtson, Erik, 1985-
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The Epistemology of Rhetoric : Plato, Doxa and Post-Truth
- 2024
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In The Epistemology of Rhetoric: Plato, Doxa, and Post-Truth, Erik Bengtson sets out to formulate a contemporary epistemology of rhetoric considering the prevailing post-truth condition. In pursuit of this objective, Bengtson challenges dominant myths surrounding Plato's influence on rhetoric and examines the contemporary scholarly discourse on doxa, shedding light on its various facets. He also introduces the concepts of sedimentation and erosion as tools for comprehending the protracted nature of argumentation on foundational issues. This work not only advances our comprehension of rhetoric in the context of the post-truth era. It also invites readers to reconsider established perspectives, offering fresh insights into the dynamics of argumentationover time.
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- Elzinga, Aant, 1937
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Symposium with Martin Bernal, the Historical Construction of Europe : Thematic issue of the journal VEST (Vetenskapsstudier)
- 1995
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Ingår i: Vest: Tidskrift för Vetenskapsstudier. - 0283-6025. ; 8:4, s. 4-127
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The thematic issue of Tidskriften för vetenskapsstudier (Journal of Science Studies) in its 4th issue of 1995 contains proceedings from a symposium with Martin Bernal on the reception of the latter'scontroversial book Black Athena. The symposium organized by Aant Elzinga at the Humanities faculty, Gotehnburg Univeristy in 1994 contains a record of a debate between Martin bernal and several scholars at Gothenburg University plus papers on Eurocentrism and the constructin of a Euroipean identity (contributed by Ronny Ambjörnsson, Aant Elzinga,Everett Medelsohn, and Sven-Eric Liedman among others).
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