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What's in a Divine Name? Religious Systems and Human Agency in the Ancient Mediterranean, ed. by Alaya Palamidis and Corinne Bonnet
"If by This Name it Pleases Him to be Invoked": Ancient Etymology and Greek Polytheism2024 •
Is the etymological interpretation of divine names a good way to get to know the divine according to the perspective developed by a Greek intellectual elite (poets, orators, grammarians, philosophers) throughout the centuries? Applying etymology to divine names discloses a dynamic and relational approach to the divine figures within Greek polytheism. It underlines, on the one hand, the decoding of multiplicity in a unitarian direction and, on the other hand, the functionalisation of the divine figures according to the (literary, ritual, performative, local, historical) context. This chapter provides a theoretical overview of possible intersections between ancient etymology and Greek polytheism, corroborated by concrete examples from literary and philosophical texts. It is structured around three main topics: the mutual χάρις between gods and men, the exploitation of onomastic ambiguity and the intersection between etymology and interculturality.
2024 •
Available narrative sources describe two mass, well organized and protest actions by women that took place during the Roman Republic. The first action was related to the issue of revoking Lex Oppia, adopted as one of the war measures after Cannae disaster during Second Punic War, and which limited the freedoms and rights of women to a certain extent. After the end of the war, women demanded the repeal of this law, possibly with the support of the liberal pro-Hellenic faction in Roman politics at the time. The repeal was opposed by the conservative faction led by Cato the Elder. The fierce political conflict culminated in mass demonstrations by women, which took on a violent character when those officials who vetoed the repeal of the law were blocked in their homes. Eventually, Lex Oppia was repealed. During the Middle, and especially the Late Republic, the vast wealth was privately owned by a number of Roman women. At the beginning of Third Civil war, triumvirs occupied Rome, and began preparations for a decisive conflict with the remaining republicans. However, they soon realized that their financial resources were insufficient for the war effort, so they decided on extraordinary taxation of 1400 rich roman women. They refused this, and organized mass demonstrations as well. The leader was Hortensia, known for her excellent oratory. This time they did not have the support of any of the factions in Rome, because just before the triumvirs had exterminated all opposition in the City and Italy with proscriptions. Nevertheless, the determination of the pressure and the mass of the demonstrations eventually forced the triumvirs to compromise. After the Republic grew into a Principate and a paramonarchical system, the fight for women's rights left the public scene, state institutions and squares and indulged in court intrigues.
ScPo PhD Dissertation
State in Somalia PhD thesis FINAL2023 •
My thesis is that state-building interventions in Somalia strengthen the international order, while they disrupt the informal socio-political order and generate conflict within Somali society. The State and the international state order are first analysed as transient social constructs that have rooted themselves deeply in our minds. This is reflected within political science by the assumption that the Law-based State is the only legitimate source of political order. There is thus no theory to explain how stateless Somali society produces political order through self-governance. I develop a theory of self-governance that interacts with state governance, which I call the dual power theory: underlying state power is social power, which generates self-governance. The history of Somalia is then analysed through the dual power lens. The state connects Somali society to the international order and its resources in a dynamic, two-way manner, but when state power brought social power out of balance, the State collapsed in civil war. Self-governance resumed, bringing peace and some economic growth. Efforts by the international community to resurrect the Somali State or support Somaliland's self-initiated state formation ignore and disrupt functioning local governance practices. The relations of the 'International Community' with the three current state-forms in Somalia - Somaliland, the Federal Government and Al Shabaab – suggest that the first goal of statebuilding is to strengthen the international order. Given the failure rate of statebuilding interventions, it is time to start thinking about post-State forms of political order that integrate rather than deny self-governance.
The aim of this study is to find out the relationship between the different factors (financial rewards, personal traits, high salary plans, job design and supervision) and employees motivation. In present study financial rewards, high salary plans, job design, personal traits and supervision are the independent variables and employee’s motivation is dependent variable. It is the quantitative research. For the data collection, study used the questionnaire method and data collection concerned with the banking sector of the Pakistan. In this paper study specified the sample size of 150 employees of the different banks in Pakistan. For the analysis of the data used the multiple regressions in this study. All the different variables have the positive impact on employee’s motivation. They contribute positively towards the employee’s motivation. This study conducted with the reference of Pakistan. It concluded that these factors have positive effect on employee’s motivation.
Il sistema del velo
Il velo di Mosè e altri filtri ottici nella Bibbia ebraica2016 •
ABSTRACT Il regime del sacro è spesso caratterizzato da significative alterazioni del sistema generale della visibilità: vi sono cose che non possono oppure non devono essere viste, persone che vogliono o non vogliono, possono o non possono vedere. Questo saggio esamina alcune di tali alterazioni nella narrazione biblica: il velo che Mosè indossa al ritorno dal Sinai, perché troppo radioso, il roveto ardente da cui Mosé deve discostarsi per vederlo, la sua richiesta di "vedere la gloria divina" e la risposta che riceve, le "voci viste" dal popolo al Sinai, l'interdizione di accesso al Sancta sanctorum e le loro conseguenze nella liturgia ebraica moderna (gli occhi coperti in certe fasi della preghiera, la barriera di separazione fra i generi in sinagoga, l'interdizione a guardare la preghiera sacerdotale). Tutti questi esempi, insieme ad altre modifiche del regime di visibilità in altre tradizioni religiose (per esempio la strana capacità di vedere e di non essere visti degli dei greci) stabilisce una definizione "velata" del sacro, che probabilmente ha conseguenze sul modo tradizionale dell'occidente di concepire la visibilità di ciò che è politicamente o religiosamente elevato.
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Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy
On body memory and embodied therapy2013 •
Bulletin of the Geological Society of …
Greenhouse crises of the past 300 million years2009 •
2020 •
Revista Internacional de Contaminacion Ambiental
Síntesis y biodegradación de polihidroxialcanoatos: plásticos de origen microbianoMaterials Letters
Electrodeposited Ni-W nanoparticles: Enhanced catalytic activity toward hydrogen evolution reaction in acidic media2018 •
Journal of African Economies
Poverty and Inequality in the First Decade of South Africa's Democracy: What can be Learnt from Panel Data from KwaZulu-Natal?2007 •
Nature Neuroscience
Sortilin associates with Trk receptors to enhance anterograde transport and neurotrophin signaling2010 •
2022 •
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
Le Brésil et la Russie face au risque de crise financière1998 •
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Functional interaction with filamin A and intracellular Ca 2+ enhance the surface membrane expression of a small-conductance Ca 2+ -activated K + (SK2) channel2014 •
Iraqi Journal of Veterinary Sciences
The role of PLGA/TPGS nanoparticle on xylazine-ketamine anesthetic activity in male albino rabbits2021 •