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Technology and culture in Greek and Roman antiquity [PDF]

, 2007
The technological achievements of the Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate and excite admiration. But what was the place of technology in their cultures?
Cuomo, Serafina
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Ancestral Irrigation and Women's Political Empowerment

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the adoption of irrigation agriculture during the preindustrial period is a predictor of contemporary cross‐country variation in women's political empowerment. Countries whose populations historically relied on irrigation agriculture as their primary subsistence mode tend to ...
Roberto Ezcurra
wiley   +1 more source

Eunus: the cowardly king [PDF]

, 2013
Astin, Beard, Beston, Bradley, Brennan, Callahan, Champion, Chantraine, Dench, Dickie, Dumont, Finley, Flintermann, Flower, Forrest, Forte, Gabba, Gallini, Gattinoni, Gibson, Gordon, Graf, Green, Green, Grünewald, Hau, Hau, Herman, Johnston, Manganaro, Marasco, Marincola, Marincola, Meijering, Meister, Murray, Murray, Nock, North, North, North, North, Pailler, Peter Morton, Rebenich, Richter, Sacks, Schubart, Seibert, Smith, Strauss, Toynbee, Urbainczyk, Verbrugghe, Verbrugghe, Vogt, Walbank, Walbank, Walbank, Walbank, Walbank, Wirth, Wirth, Yavetz   +63 more
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THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
wiley   +1 more source

Book review: B. Dignas, Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor [PDF]

, 2004
Erskine, Andrew
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Moral Practice in Late Stoicism and Buddhist Meditation [PDF]

, 2017
I argue in this essay that Stoic philosophers in the late Greco-Roman period utilized philosophical exercises and spiritual technologies similar in form to a meditative exercise currently practiced in Buddhism.
GOERGER, Michael
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Do National Histories Affect National Identities? Ancient Athens, Byzantium and Greece Today, a Survey Experiment

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Do national histories affect national identities? Most nations have complex and multiple pasts. Nationalist historians can smooth over discontinuities by either merging them into an unbroken national narrative or by skipping over pasts that do not fit the story.
Peter Gries, Stefanos Kordosis, Richard Turcsányi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

En torno al culto al gobernante y a Dea Roma en el Mundo Helenístico: Las póleis y la política de la reciprocidad

Anuario de la Escuela de Historia Virtual, 2010
ResumenEste trabajo aborda la cuestión de los cultos ofrecidos de manera voluntaria a los monarcas helenísticos y a Dea Roma por parte de las póleis del oriente griego. Se analiza desde una perspectiva histórica la cuestión de los isothéoi timaí (estatua,
Moreno Leoni, Álvaro Matías
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Independent Effects of Age, Education, Verbal Working Memory, Motor Speed of Processing, Locality, and Morphosyntactic Category on Verb‐Related Morphosyntactic Production: Evidence From Healthy Aging

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the role of locality (a task/material‐related variable), demographic factors (age, education, and sex), cognitive capacities (verbal working memory [WM], verbal short‐term memory [STM], speed of processing [SOP], and inhibition), and morphosyntactic category (time reference and grammatical aspect) in verb‐related ...
Marielena Soilemezidi, Maki Kubota, Marina Chrisikopoulou, Valantis Fyndanis   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Randomised, Double‐Blinded, Placebo‐Controlled Challenge Test With Single Food Items in Dogs With Atopic Dermatitis and Adverse Food Reactions

Veterinary Dermatology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Identification of offending foods in dogs with adverse food reactions is usually based on “deterioration” during open food challenges. Objectives To examine the placebo effect during double‐blinded, placebo‐controlled food challenges using a predefined set of criteria for relapse.
Evi I. Sofou, Elisa Samuel, Svetlina Aleksandrova, Manolis Chatzis, Manolis N. Saridomichelakis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source