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[1] From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG> (24)
Subject: Ubiquity 4.27
[2] From: Ross Scaife <scaife@UKY.EDU> (24)
Subject: Demos
[3] From: ptrourke@methymna.com (124)
Subject: Suda Classic September 2003
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Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:20:48 +0100
From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 4.27
Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM
Volume 4, Number 27, Week of September 2 - September 9, 2003
In this issue:
Ethical and Social Aspects of Biotechnology
By Bernhard Irrgang
The globalisation of biotechnology brings not only new economic prospects
but also new risks. The development of international bio-safety guidelines
is essential.
Article: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i27_irrgang.html
Forum:
http://campus.acm.org/forums/ubiquity/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=270
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The Development of a Case Study Methodology in the Information Technology
(IT) Field: A Step by Step Approach
By Sam Lubbe
An important step any researcher should take is establishing a framework in
which to conduct the research.
Article: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i27_lubbe.pdf
Forum:
http://campus.acm.org/forums/ubiquity/messageview.cfm?catid=1&threadid=271
Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the
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Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:21:33 +0100
From: Ross Scaife <scaife@UKY.EDU>
Subject: Demos
Today we have published an enhancement to Christopher Blackwell's
"Demos: Classical Athenian Democracy," available at
http://www.stoa.org/projects/demos/home
Here is the summary for the new section,
Democracy in the Politics of Aristotle
by Thomas R. Martin, with Neel Smith & Jennifer F. Stuart
Ancient Greek democracy has regularly attracted the attention of modern
political scientists as part of the discussion of the theory and
practice of democratic systems of government. By far the most important
ancient text for this discussion is the Politics of Aristotle. Studying
what Aristotle has to say about democracy in the Politics is
challenging for several reasons. First of all, his remarks on the
subject are spread widely throughout this extended work. The challenge
is further increased by the discursive character of Aristotle's
arguments in the Politics, which for one thing mix discussions of
theoretical principles for systems of government with observations
about actual Greek states of Aristotle's time (and before it). Finally,
there is the strong possibility that the traditionally accepted order
of the eight "Books" or chapters of the Politics is not the order in
which Aristotle meant his arguments to be presented.
Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the
Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20
7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk
www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/
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Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:22:41 +0100
From: ptrourke@methymna.com
Subject: Suda Classic September 2003
The Suda On Line, the collaborative, distributed web-based project to
translate and annotate the entire text of the Suda lexicon, wishes you a
happy beginning-to-the-academic-year with the latest edition of Suda
Classics, highlighting recent contributions to the Suda On Line
database.
Since our last update in May, some 1,700 entries have been vetted, and
1,000 more translated, bringing our totals to 13,788 currently assigned
to translators, 13,276 translated, and 11,700 have received at least a
cursory examination by editors, out of the approximately 32,000 entries
in the Suda.
In the past 30 days, our most prolific contributors have been:
David Whitehead (performed 307 vettings)
Catharine Roth (translated 35 entries, performed 265 vettings)
Elizabeth Vandiver (performed 35 vettings)
Bobbiejo Winfrey (translated 32 entries,)
Nicholas Fincher (translated 21 entries, performed 4 vettings)
Once again I'd like to provide two example entries in this message. Our
first example is a entry translated and comprehensively annotated by new
contributor Alan Sommerstein, and vetted by managing editor David
Whitehead: Lambda 853 Adler, on a phrase from Aristophanes' Clouds. This
entry is marked as having a "high" editorial status, which means that
the editor considers it appropriate for citation as a published entry.
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*lusani/as patrw|/wn mega/lwn kakw=3Dn
(grief-dispeller of his father's great troubles)
He who dispels the griefs of his father. The word[1] is a coinage.
Sophokles :[2] "May Zeus bring a return home[3] that is victorious and
that ends all grief and that is free from fear[4]."
Notes:
A quotation from a paratragic monody by Strepsiades in Aristophanes
'Clouds (1162), rejoicing in the completion by his son Pheidippides of a
course of sophistic education which should enable him to help his father
cheat his pressing creditors out of their money. The monody is known to
contain at least one and probably two Euripidean quotations, and
elsewhere it displays some typically Euripidean stylistic features (so
Angel y Espin=F3s), so it is possible that the present headword phrase
is also quoted or adapted from Euripides, though its source, if any,
cannot be identified.
[1] viz. lusani/as "grief-dispeller". The word is also a common Athenian
name (73 in LGPN ii s.v.), and Storey has suggested that it might allude
to one of two contemporaries - Lysanias of Sphettos (PA 9324; LGPN 53),
father of Aischines the Socratic (alphaiota 346, alphaiota 349), and
Lysanias of Thorikos (PA 9312, LGPN 54), father of the cavalryman
Dexileos (414/3-394/3) whose death in battle at Corinth is commemorated
by a famous surviving monument. Storey thinks the reference is more
likely to be to the former, Sommerstein (262) to the latter.
[2] Sophokles fr. 887, from an unidentified play. It is cited because of
its use of a similar coined compound, pausani/as "that ends all grief" -
which is likewise a common personal name, and may carry an allusion to
the Spartan regent Pausanias, the victor of Plataia (for another
possible implicit comparison between Agamemnon and Pausanias in Athenian
tragedy, cf. Dover 156-7).
[3] sc. from the Trojan War (cf. next note).
[4] Greek atrei/dan , another coinage (from tre/w "tremble"), but this
time with an indisputable allusion to the Atreidai (sons of Atreus:
Agamemnon and Menelaos), the leaders of the expedition against Troy.
[the bibliography is available by looking up lambda,853 under Adler
Number in the SOL database]
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We would also like to bring to your attention this entry translated by
David Whitehead and vetted by Catharine Roth, Kalanos, kappa 203 Adler:
*ka/lanos (Kalanos)
An Indian, from the [sc.caste of the] Brahmans.[1] That is what the
Indians call every sage. It was for this man that Alexander the
Macedonian, when Kalanos died after Alexander had appeared in India,
provided a funeral contest, and arranged a competition between drinkers
of neat wine, because of the love of wine amongst Indians. This man gave
Alexander an apt reply to his every question.
Notes:
Alexander the Great encountered Kalanos (=3D Berve, Das Alexanderreich
auf prosopographische Grundlage no.396) in the Punjab in 327 BCE, and
the sage was part of the Macedonian entourage between then and his death
(by suicide) in Persis three years later. The principal sources on him
are Arrian, Plutarch, Diodorus, and Strabo. For this wine-drinking
competition, which is said to have resulted in 41 fatalities, see
Chares, FGrH 125 F19; Athenaeus 437A-B; Plut. Alex.70.1.
[1] On the Brahmans see generally beta 524 .
[the bibliography is available by looking up lambda,853 under Adler
Number in the SOL database]
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On another note, one of our last Suda Classics, *tu/xh (Tyche, Tau 1232
Adler), has been revised since it was posted with an improved
translation and notes incorporating contributions from Professor F. W.
Walbank. The nature of the Suda On Line database system allows entries
to continue to be refined throughout their lifetime, leading to
ever-more-complete translations and annotations.
We hope these entries have convinced you to contribute to the Suda On
Line as a translator or editor. For editors, we are looking for
contributors who have substantial experience with ancient or Byzantine
Greek, a background in the scholarship of one of the areas covered by
the Suda (classical, Byzantine, and biblical literature, history, and
culture), a fluency in English, and a willingness to devote at least a
few hours a month to reading and refining entries in the SOL database.
For more information on the responsibilities of editors in the Suda On
Line, see our editorial guidelines at
http://www.stoa.org/sol/edinst.shtml
As with editors, translators should be willing to provide a few hours of
work a month reading and translating entries in the database.
Translators should also have a facility with ancient or Byzantine Greek
and with English, and knowledge of the scholarship of the areas covered
by the Suda. For more information on the responsibilities of translators
in the Suda On Line, see our translator guidelines at
http://www.stoa.org/sol/instruct.shtml
To volunteer, navigate to the SOL registration page at
http://www.stoa.org/sol/sol_register.shtml . Prospective translators
should provide some account of their language and academic background in
their registration, while prospective editors should provide a more
substantial CV covering their academic work in areas of relevance to the
Suda.
We encourage the participation of graduate seminars: instructors can
volunteer their class as translators, and themselves as editors for
their own students' work (and we won't stop you from providing a little
help elsewhere if you'd like). If you'd like more information about
using the Suda On Line in your course assignments, please contact the
Managing Editors of the Suda On Line at sudatores@lsv.uky.edu
If you would like to nominate an entry for Suda Classics, please contact
the Managing Editors of the Suda On Line at sudatores@lsv.uky.edu .
Thanks for your time,
Patrick Rourke
on behalf of the managing committee of the Suda On Line
Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the
Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20
7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk
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