Valerie Hannon Smitherman
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Carol Atack's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
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Nathaniel Harrington deposited ‘Mae llyfr yn ddelwedd o fywyd’: Fìorachd is ficsean ann an An Dosan Norma NicLeòid is Melog Mihangel Morgan on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
Anns an aiste seo bheirear sùil air dà nobhail, An Dosan (2015), le Norma NicLeòid, agus Melog (1997), le Mihangel Morgan, a’ sgrùdadh mar a tha iad a’ riochdachadh agus a’ ceasnachadh na dàimhe eadar ‘fìorachd’ is ‘ficsean’. Le bhith a’ sgrùdadh an dà theacsa seo ri taobh a chèile, feuchar ri sealltainn gur urrainn do theacsaichean litreachas…[Read more]
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Matthew Scarborough deposited Bactrian χϸονο ‘(calendar) year, (regnal) year’ in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoSince H. Humbach’s Baktrische Sprachdenkmäler (Wiesbaden, 1966) the main etymological
proposal for Bactrian χϸονο ‘(calendar) year, (regnal) year’ has been A. Thierfelder’s suggestion of a loanword from Hellenistic Greek χρόνος ‘time’. In this article the plausibility of this etymology is re-examined, and it is further argued that it should b…[Read more] -
Matthew Scarborough deposited Bactrian χϸονο ‘(calendar) year, (regnal) year’ in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoSince H. Humbach’s Baktrische Sprachdenkmäler (Wiesbaden, 1966) the main etymological
proposal for Bactrian χϸονο ‘(calendar) year, (regnal) year’ has been A. Thierfelder’s suggestion of a loanword from Hellenistic Greek χρόνος ‘time’. In this article the plausibility of this etymology is re-examined, and it is further argued that it should b…[Read more] -
Matthew Scarborough deposited Bactrian χϸονο ‘(calendar) year, (regnal) year’ on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
Since H. Humbach’s Baktrische Sprachdenkmäler (Wiesbaden, 1966) the main etymological
proposal for Bactrian χϸονο ‘(calendar) year, (regnal) year’ has been A. Thierfelder’s suggestion of a loanword from Hellenistic Greek χρόνος ‘time’. In this article the plausibility of this etymology is re-examined, and it is further argued that it should b…[Read more] -
Matthew Scarborough's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
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This is the first chapter of ‘The ARM RISC chip: a programmer’s guide’ published by Addison-Wesley at the end of 1993, and documenting the prehistory and very early years of what was then ARM Ltd, developing RISC CPUs for desktop computers and increasingly for mobile platforms.
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Alexandre Roberts deposited Heretics, Dissidents, and Society: Narrating the Trial of John bar ʿAbdun in the group
Syriac Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis article analyzes narratives of a single series of eleventh-century events, the trial of Syrian Miaphysite (Jacobite) patriarch John bar ʿAbdun.
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Alexandre Roberts deposited Heretics, Dissidents, and Society: Narrating the Trial of John bar ʿAbdun in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis article analyzes narratives of a single series of eleventh-century events, the trial of Syrian Miaphysite (Jacobite) patriarch John bar ʿAbdun.
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Alexandre Roberts deposited Heretics, Dissidents, and Society: Narrating the Trial of John bar ʿAbdun in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis article analyzes narratives of a single series of eleventh-century events, the trial of Syrian Miaphysite (Jacobite) patriarch John bar ʿAbdun.
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Alexandre Roberts deposited Heretics, Dissidents, and Society: Narrating the Trial of John bar ʿAbdun in the group
Christian Arabic Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis article analyzes narratives of a single series of eleventh-century events, the trial of Syrian Miaphysite (Jacobite) patriarch John bar ʿAbdun.
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Alexandre Roberts deposited Heretics, Dissidents, and Society: Narrating the Trial of John bar ʿAbdun in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis article analyzes narratives of a single series of eleventh-century events, the trial of Syrian Miaphysite (Jacobite) patriarch John bar ʿAbdun.
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Alexandre Roberts deposited Heretics, Dissidents, and Society: Narrating the Trial of John bar ʿAbdun on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
This article analyzes narratives of a single series of eleventh-century events, the trial of Syrian Miaphysite (Jacobite) patriarch John bar ʿAbdun.
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Carol Atack's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
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Carol Atack deposited The shepherd king and his flock: paradoxes of leadership and care in classical Greek philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
Chapter in Paradox and Power in Caring Leadership: Critical and Philosophical Reflections (2020), edited by Leah Tomkins, published by Edward Elgar, pp. 75-85.
When Xenophon, the fourth-century BCE Athenian soldier and writer, and once one of Socrates’ students, tried to explain the nature of leadership, in his extended case study and b…[Read more]
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Thomas J. Nelson's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
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Matthew Scarborough's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months ago
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Matthew Scarborough deposited Can the Greek dialects be grouped? A Response to Parker and Ringe on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months ago
Slides of to accompany a presentation given at the Indo-European Seminar at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge on February 17th 2016. The presentation addressed recent arguments made about the phylogenetic subgrouping of the Ancient Greek dialects and proposes an alternative model of analysis, introducing for the first time a…[Read more]
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Thomas J. Nelson deposited Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIn this paper, I argue that the traditional narrative of Iphigenia’s sacrifice lies allusively behind the opening scenes of the Iliad (1.8–487). Scholars have long suspected that this episode is evoked in Agamemnon’s scathing rebuke of Calchas (1.105–8), but I contend that this is only one moment in a far more sustained allusive dialogue: both th…[Read more]
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Thomas J. Nelson deposited Beating the Galatians: Ideologies, Analogies and Allegories in Hellenistic Literature and Art in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoHellenistic literature and art commemorated victories over the Galatians through a variety of analogies and allegories, ranging from the historical Persian Wars to the cosmic Gigantomachy: each individual victory was incorporated into a larger sequence in which order constantly quelled the forces of chaos. This paper explores this analogical…[Read more]
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