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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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- 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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- 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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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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- Cullhed, Anders, 1951-
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Pärlor för svin : Augustinus och skriftens dunkel
- 2009
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Ingår i: Ordens negativ. - Stockholm/Stehag : Symposion Brutus Östlings bokförlag. - 9789171398352 ; , s. 25-43
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al.
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A Digital Periegesis : Implementing Spatial Research Infrastructures for Classical History and Archaeology
- 2023
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Ingår i: Digital Spatial Infrastructures and Worldviews in Pre-Modern Societies. - Leeds : ARC Humanities Press. - 9781641894692 - 9781802700794 ; , s. 205-223
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The classics have in many ways pioneered the application of digital methods to narrative spatial analysis and developed strong collaborative engagement with infrastructure, producing Pelagios, an ever-growing platform for a plethora of spatial databases and gazetteers, as well as Recogito a digital annotation tool. These two successful examples show a pressing need for community building around SRIs for early modern and medieval Scandinavia to ensure sustainable design, long-term preservation, and further collaborative development. This article discusses this development in the context of the digital periegesis project and the resources used for Pausanias's description of Greece
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- Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al.
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Digital Archaeology? Greece on Focus : Tools, methodologies and trends
- 2017
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Annan publikation (refereegranskat)abstract
- Archaeology is an interdisciplinary science, as it is a scholarly study of past processes that often combines space, place, natural science, materials and texts in its interpretation. Presently, the majority of practicing archaeologists include digital tools in their work (e.g. data keeping, digital mapping, visualization tools). And recently, digital visualization is trending beyond 3D modelling and landscape reconstruction and into the interactive, scientific visualization of data in order to render relations between geographies and cultures, sensory properties (Betts 2011, Betts 2017, Foka and Arvidsson 2016), external /internal networks and aerial visualizations. On an international level, we have come to speak of the notion of “cyber-archaeology” (Forte 2015): archaeological methods that utilize participatory technology to interact with past artefacts and spaces and to understand the past through reflection and cooperative efforts. Current digital tools and methodologies help capture and display knowledge about the past. While there is considerable room for improvement, both in terms of tools and of methodologies, from composing plain databases to visualizations intended for wider museum audiences, we address here the current progress within Greek archaeological practice and emphasize the importance of sustainable and updated digital research infrastructures in order to enhance access to materials for researchers and laypeople alike.
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- Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al.
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Semantically geo-annotating an ancient Greek "travel guide" : Itineraries, Chronotopes, Networks, and Linked Data
- 2020
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Ingår i: GeoHumanities'20. - New York, NY, United States : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). - 9781450381635 ; , s. 1-9
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Pausanias's second-century CE Periegesis Hellados presents a ten-volume grand tour of the Greek mainland. After the post-enlightenment rediscovery of ancient Greek literature, his Description of Greece proved highly influential as a guidebook to Greece's antiquities, directing travellers and archaeologists alike to uncovering and interpreting major sites, notably at Athens, Corinth and Olympia. Recent studies focusing on his Description as a narrative, however, have drawn attention to the textual construction of space, and the different ways in which space and place are conceptualised and related to each other. This paper outlines the initial work of the Digital Periegesis project, which is using semantic geo-annotation to capture and analyse the forms of space within and the spatial form of this narrative. In particular, it discusses the challenges and affordances of using geo-parsing, spatio-temporal analysis, network analysis, and Linked Open Data (LOD) for rethinking the geographies of a non-modern literary text as based more on topological connections than topographic proximity.
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- Landzelius, Kyra, 1963
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Hunger Strikes
- 2003
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Ingår i: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, S. Katz and W. Weaver (eds.), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ; 22, s. 220-222
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)
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- Lindqvist, Janne, 1969-
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Introduktion till Dissoi Logoi
- 2013. - 1
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Ingår i: Dissoi Logoi. - Ödåkra : Retorikförlaget. - 9789186093228 ; , s. 7-76
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Lindqvist, Janne, Docent, 1969-
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Pandemic and Rhetoric in Thucydides
- 2021
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Ingår i: Rhetoric in Society.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The current pandemic has throughout the world invited a renewed discussion on public policy making in the face of the situation. Should decisions on public health be political (i. e. the subject of democratic influence/control), or best left to the experts? Actually, this is a classical question within rhetorical theory, at the very core of the conflict between rhetoric and philosophy in antiquity. The theoretical discussion in Plato and Aristotle is well-known, but another source, Thucydides, offers us the possibility to study how the question played in concrete political and rhetorical action. Fittingly, the instance offered in Thucydides occurs in his account of the political handling of the plague that swept Greece during the Peleponessian war.Taking Thucydides account as the point of departure, one must however be observant to the fact that Athenian society around 400 BC neither had politicians, nor experts, in the modern sense. Although the Athenian orator was, in a sense, an expert in the art of the state, he was per definition a counsellor, whereas political decision-making was the privilege of the assembly. The objective of political rhetoric was also common decision-making – not, as in the communication directed at citizens today, to influence the behavior of individuals. These differences in the political institutions, and their rhetorical repercussions is touched upon in my paper. But the question is also raised when it comes to the issue of the experts, touched upon for instance in Protagoras (319c-320a) where it is described how experts on specific arts could be called upon to address the political assembly when this had to handle questions pertaining to their expertise.In this paper these questions are discussed in connection with the political situation at the time of the so-called Athenian Plague.
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- Lindqvist, Janne, Docent, 1969-
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Progymnasmata. Afthonios’ retoriska övningar översatta och kommenterade av Anders Eriksson.
- 2021
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Ingår i: Rhetorica Scandinavica. - Ödåkra : Retorikförlaget. - 1397-0534 .- 2002-7974. ; :83, s. i-vi
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Recension (refereegranskat)abstract
- Den västerländska skolundervisningen i retorik byggde från antiken och ända in på 1800-talet i hög grad på en serie tal- och skrivövningar som kallades progymnasmata, ett grekiskt ord som enkelt kan översättas ungefär som ’förberedande övningar’. Dessa övningar syftade uttryckligen till att träna eleven i (grekisk och latinsk) muntlig och skriftlig framställning, men genom att de bland annat tematiserade såväl historiskt som mytologiskt stoff kom övningarna att spela en roll för västerländsk bildning och utbildning som överskrider vad vi till vardags skulle räkna in i retorikens domäner. Afthonios Progymnasmata var den kanske mest använda övningsboken i denna tradition.
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- Lindqvist, Janne, Docent, 1969-
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Retoriken som retorik
- 2022. - 2
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Ingår i: Aristoteles <em>Retoriken</em>. - Uppsala : Retorikförlaget. ; , s. 31-74
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Denna introduktion är en väsentligt omarbetad och utökad version av den som återfanns i förstautgåvan av den svenska översättningen av Aristoteles Retoriken (2012). Begreppspresentationerna och teckningen av den intellektuella bakgrunden till texten har förtydligats och i vissa fall nyanserats eller helt reviderats med bakgrund i nyare forskning. Helt nyskrivna avsnitt om bland annat den grekiska stadsstatens institutioner harinfogats i texten och dessutom har den tillfogats en översikt över Retorikens innehåll.
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- Slaney, Helen, et al.
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Ghosts in the Machine : a motion-capture experiment in distributed reception
- 2018
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Ingår i: Digital Humanities Quarterly. - Boston : Alliance of digital humanities organisations. - 1938-4122. ; 12:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Digital reconstructions of classical antiquity are generally ocularcentric, appealing only to the sense of vision. We propose that new technologies may be used to engage the other senses in the act of reception, and specifically here we focus on kinaesthesia, or the sense of self-movement. This paper analyses a phase of the project Ancient Dance in Modern Dancers in which participants created performance pieces in a genre of Graeco-Roman dance for use in a motion-capture system. It was necessary for the performers to develop a range of translational strategies in order to communicate their movement to the system, entailing what we term “distributed reception”, in which the ultimate recipient of ancient source-material is not a human actor but rather the machine with which s/he is in collaboration.
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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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- Håkansson, Anders, 1960-
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Venus, Pax eller Pales? : den s.k. Tellusfrisens centralgestalt i gammalt och nytt ljus
- 2011
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Venus, Pax eller Pales? Den s.k. Tellusfrisens centralgestalt har alltsedan frisen hittades på 1500-talet varit föremål för återkommande försök till identifiering: elementet jord, Tellus, Pax, Italia, Venus, Rhea Silvia eller Ceres. Ikonografiska studier och texter av Horatius, Lucretius och Vergilius har använts som stöd för identifikationsförsöken. En utgångspunkt vid dessa identifikationer har varit att det altare frisen tillhör är det Ara Pacis Augustae, som invigdes år 9 f.Kr. Man har därför varit tvungen att sätta frisens motiv i relation till detta altare. De framförda identifieringarna undersöks och jämförelser med en fris från Karthago görs. Ingen av identifieringarna är problemfri; viktiga attribut saknas, eller så tycks någon gudinna framställas på ett tidigare okänt sätt.En tidigare oprövad identifiering, Pales, prövas och kopplingen till Ara Pacis släpps. Resultatet är en väl sammanhållen identifiering av helgedomen som ett altare helgat åt staden Roms grundläggning, eller gudinnan Roma. Några friser tycks visa deltagare i festen Parilia och i övrigt pekar motiven på den juliska, eller augusteiska, ättens ursprung och fortbestånd.För det fortsatta studiet av friserna och helgedomen hävdas att uppfattningen att det är fråga om Ara Pacis Augustae måste överges.
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- Leijonhufvud, Fredrik, 1972
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An approach to boat documentation: Examples of photogrammetry vs. Analogue recording
- 2021
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Ingår i: FormAkademisk. - 1890-9515. ; 14:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this contribution, I present a methodological approach for the documentation of craft objects, including a comparison of traditional analogue methods and modern digital photogrammetry. From a boat builder’s perspective, I document traditional boats. In my current PhD project, I investigate how documentation of objects, from a craft person´s perspective, can be used to reconstruct craft processes. The case study is on the ‘öka’ from the Stockholm archipelago, a local variation of the Nordic clinker boat tradition. In this contribution, I present the basic structure of my boat documentation work and pinpoint some specific examples from the use of digital methods in comparison with analogue measuring. A good practice of documentation needs to consider both the advantages and the possible shortcomings of digital methods. © 2021, The Assosiation FormAkademisk. All rights reserved.
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- Miller, Madelaine, 1966
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Pompejus seger över piraterna
- 2013
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Ingår i: En maritim värld : från stenåldern till idag / Katarina Streiffert Eikeland, Madelaine Miller, redaktörer. - Lindome : Bricoleur Press. - 9789185411245 ; , s. 146-147
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I Medelhavets antika värld var pirater ett återkommande problem. Med tiden kom piratverksamheten att bli ett nationellt problem för romerska riket. Till slut föreslogs ett av de mest omfattande operationerna i den marina historien. Genom ett lagförlag fick Pompejus Magnus befogenhet att under en treårsperiod rensa havet från pirater.
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- Stenger, Jan
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The "Pagans" of Late Antiquity
- 2018
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Ingår i: A Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity. - Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell. - 9781118968109 ; , s. 391-409
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- Azar, Michael, 1970
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Döden i Beirut
- 2007
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- Börjesson, Lisa, et al.
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A neo-documentalist lens for exploring the premises of disciplinary knowledge making
- 2016
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Ingår i: Proceedings from the annual meeting of the Document Academy. - 2376-8908. ; 3:1, s. 1-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article applies a neo-documentalist approach to explore disciplinary information and knowledge making practices. The aim is to show how conceptions and materialities of what counts as documentation and documents are intertwined with changing and persisting disciplinary and sub-disciplinary practices of producing information and knowledge, of knowing, and informing. A collective, multivocal autoethnographic method is used to obtain vignettes from five areas of activity in or related to the discipline archaeology. The ongoing digitization of archaeology is used as a shared point of departure in the vignettes, explaining how digitization influences documentation and documents in each area of archaeological practice. The vignettes illustrate a multitude of conceptions and materialities of documentation, and reveal frictions in-between, both between and within sub-disciplinary areas. In the light of the exploration of information and knowledge making practices in archaeology, we posit that a neo-documentalist perspective functions as a useful analytical tool for deconstructing canonical and habitual conceptions of documentation in disciplines and practices. The approach is especially powerful in pinpointing and explicating frictions between conceptions of documentation as potential sources of problems in information sharing. Moreover, we discuss the potential of the neo-documentalist approach as a practical tool to plan for and implement change in documents and documentation practices.
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- Flemestad, Peder, et al.
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En khlamys-klædt efeb? – klæder skaber folk
- 2023
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Ingår i: Aigis. Nordisk tidsskrift for klassiske studier. - 1901-6859. ; Suppl. VII:Festskrift til Thomas Heine Nielsen 2023, s. 1-17
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- Foka, Anna, 1981-
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Beyond Deviant : Theodora as the Other in Byzantine Imperial Historiography
- 2015
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Ingår i: Deviant Women. - Oxford : Peter Lang Publishing Group. - 9783653995923 - 9783653995923 - 9783631643297 - 9783653033199
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Early Byzantine historiography offers two contradictory portrayals of Theodora (Crowned Empress 427-458 CE). Whereas in Procopius’ Wars of Justinian and Buildings she appears to be a courageous and influential empress, in his later work, Secret History, she is represented as a deviant female figure. Procopius’ narrative of Theodora is overall disapproving of her character and actions. He discusses her early years as a ‘shameless’ performer and a prostitute, brought up in the social margins of Constantinople; Similarly, during her reign, he describes her exercise of power over the palace and her subjects as cruel and violent, driven by premeditated self-interest. In this chapter, I aim to discuss Theodora’s portrayal by Procopius as a sociologically deviant female; it is a systematic study of what the author considers to be social norm violations that are subject to social sanction. I will specifically concentrate on Theodora’s depiction as a sexually deviant young performer. I will then focus upon actions of cruelty and violence in her political and social career as an Empress. I will show how the paradigm of Theodora, in Procopius’ Secret History, can be read as both making visible coercive social, political and religious power structures, as well as, disenfranchising femininity in early Byzantium.
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- Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al.
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Mapping Ancient Heritage with Digital Tools
- 2021
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Ingår i: Virtual Heritage. - London : Ubiquity Press. - 9781914481000 - 9781914481024 - 9781914481017 ; , s. 55-66
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How does ‘digital’ apply to ancient pasts? Digital methods, especially meth- ods relating to identifying, visualizing, and analysing spatial data, have become increasingly important within the fields of classical literature, archaeology, and heritage. On the one hand, literary narratives offer potentially different ways of representing space and place than the usual cartographic maps to which we have become accustomed. On the other hand, by virtue of being able to locate cultural artefacts in space – where they were found, through whose hands they have passed, where they reside now, where they were produced and circulated – it becomes possible to construct biographies or even itineraries of objects that offer richer ways of understanding their use and agency.Unique in all classical literature, Pausanias’s second-century CE Periegesis Hellados presents an example of both types of spatial representation – a nar- rative that describes places of interest in the Greek landscape as well as the notable objects found there. This chapter discusses some of the ways in which Pausanias’s narrative of Greek heritage is good to consider when attempting to use digital methods for analysing the entanglements of place, people, and objects in a textual geography.
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- Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al.
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Mapping socio-ecological landscapes : geovisualization as method
- 2021
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Ingår i: Routledge international handbook of research methods in digital humanities. - Oxon & New York : Routledge. - 9781138363021 - 9780429777028 ; , s. 203-217
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Geovisualization, here perceived broadly as a representation of data on a digital map, has been used within a number of disciplines for different purposes: from creating new knowledge to sharing existing scholarly ideas. This chapter focuses on how building maps conceptually and with specific research questions in mind often requires a set of fresh methodologies. Methodologies ought to be tailored to conceptual research questions and existing limitations set by data, as well as aggregation, and visualization software. Through an analysis of three case studies spanning the disciplines of archaeology, linguistics and ethnology, classics and media studies, we identify a number of methodological choices and limitations for geovisualization set by available fragmented historical data, digital platforms for data aggregation, and visualization software. We then highlight two issues that are open for further development, more specifically 1) the complexities of representing multiple temporal data in one single mapping interface, as well as 2) the need for common global vocabularies and ontologies that provide us with the possibilities of linking common references.
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- Foka, Anna, 1981-
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Material Girls : Humor and Female Professional Seduction in Greek Literature and Culture
- 2014
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Ingår i: Eugesta: Journal of Gender Studies in Antiquity. - Lille, France : Lille Université. - 2156-2253 .- 2265-8777. ; 4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Current scholarship typically views the ancient Greek prostitute/ courtesan figure as an artificially manipulated, sexualized body motivated by material profit. By examining fragments of Middle Comedy and their echoes in post-classical antiquity, this article proposes an alternative view of courtesans and prostitutes as professionals of emotional labor. Through narrative analysis, I show that the Greek comic portrayal of courtesans is multifaceted and not sufficiently illuminated by discussions of their subjectivity, aesthetic modifications, and greed but also extends to the realm of their emotions. Intersecting gender and humor theories with the concept of Emotional Labor (Hochschild 1983), I then argue that these figures can be seen to comically modify their appearance and behavior in order to reflect contemporary ideological and cultural standards of female sexual conduct. Viewing humor as a communicative tool for social hierarchies consequently facilitates a more complex analysis of attitudes towards the commercialization of bodies and emotions in Greek literature and culture.
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- Foka, Anna, 1981-
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Remixing Classics for the Screen : Woody Allen and the Classical Tradition
- 2015
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Ingår i: Studia Oliveriana. - Pesaro : Bononia University Press. - 0562-2964. ; 1, s. 55-76
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Several films by Woody Allen (Interiors, Oedipus Wrecks, Match Point and Mighty Aphrodite) contain elements of classical tradition that have been neglected or oversimplified by film scholarship as references to the director’s personal engagement with psychoanalysis. Using Mighty Aphrodite (1995) as illustration, I argue that these films convey the expression of contemporary social issues through a complex and multi-layered reception of classical culture that goes beyond pure psychoanalysis. In Mighty Aphrodite, specifically, Allen deploys the strict formalism of tragedy and the myth of Oedipus as film mechanisms for contemporary societal discourse. Via evaluation of film and narrative, I demonstrate that Allen’s classical reception is self-reflexive as it refers back to the very processes of performative arts. Furthermore, Allen utilizes the classical tradition as a form of expression in contemporary classical Hollywood narratives and creates a rich cultural experience for his audience; a cinematic treatise on cultural remix, dramatic formalism and classical reception per se.
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- Friberg, Jöran, 1934, et al.
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An Ur III Table of Reciprocals without Place Value Numbers
- 2016
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Ingår i: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. - Cham : Springer International Publishing. ; , s. 487-518
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In Fig. 13.1.1 below is shown a hand copy and conform transliteration of SM 2685, a clay tablet from the Suleimaniyah Museum in the Kurdistan region in northeastern Iraq. The clay tablets in the Suleimaniyah Museum are acquired in the antiquities market and are therefore unprovenanced, but in most cases probably from Old Babylonian Larsa. However, the writing on SM 2685 is such that the text can be either from the Neo-Sumerian Ur III period or Early Old Babylonian, and, as will be shown below, the atypical table of reciprocals inscribed on the tablet is clearly older than all earlier known Ur III tables of reciprocals.
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- Golfomitsou, Stavroula, 1972, et al.
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The role of educators in promoting collaborative research
- 2017
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Ingår i: CeROArt. - 1784-5092.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines some of the current science policy paradigms set at international level to promote open science and participatory research, and discusses how key factors necessary for successful collaboration can usefully contribute to the training of future conservation professionals through group work and research-based learning programmes.
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- Hallgren, Cajsa, et al.
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Flamskyddsmedlen och konservatorn
- 2012
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Ingår i: Textilkonservering : att vårda ett kulturarv / Svenska föreningen för textilkonservering. - 0280-4174. - 9789176862438 ; 86, s. 208-214
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