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HOME IS THE HERO: DEIXIS AND SEMANTICS IN PINDAR \PYTHIAN 8\
Martin argues that Pythian 8, probably the last epinician Pindar composed, is unusual in the way that it ties the victor's home island to a number of landscapes. He traces several elaborate figural systems that Pindar employs to map out a vast parallel space within which gods, heroes, athletes, kings, mortals, and poets interact.
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Cut these words into my stone : ancient Greek epitaphs
The lively ancient epitaphs in this bilingual collection fit together like small mosaic tiles, forming a vivid portrait of Greek society.
Cut These Words into My Stone offers evidence that ancient Greek life was not only celebrated in great heroic epics, but was also commemorated in hundreds of artfully composed verse epitaphs. They have been preserved in anthologies and gleaned from weathered headstones.
Three-year-old Archianax, playing near a well,
Was drawn down by his own silent reflection.
His mother, afraid he had no breath left,
Hauled him back up wringing wet. He had a little.
He didn't taint the nymphs' deep home.
He dozed off in her lap. He's sleeping still.
These words, translated from the original Greek by poet and filmmaker Michael Wolfe, mark the passing of a child who died roughly 2, 000 years ago. Ancient Greek epitaphs honor the lives, and often describe the deaths, of a rich cross section of Greek society, including people of all ages and classes— paupers, fishermen, tyrants, virgins, drunks, foot soldiers, generals—and some non-people—horses, dolphins, and insects. With brief commentary and notes, this bilingual collection of 127 short, witty, and often tender epigrams spans 1, 000 years of the written word.
Cut These Words into My Stone provides an engaging introduction to this corner of classical literature that continues to speak eloquently in our time.
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GRAIL: a general purpose localization system
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to describe a general purpose localization system, GRAIL. GRAIL provides real-time, adaptable, indoor localization for wireless devices.Design methodology approach - In order to localize as diverse a set of devices as possible, GRAIL utilizes a centralized, anchor-based approach. GRAIL defines an abstract data model for various system components to support different physical modalities. The scalable architecture of GRAIL provides maximum flexibility to integrate various localization algorithms.Findings - The authors show through real deployments that GRAIL functions over a variety of physical modalities, networks, and algorithms. Further, the authors found that a centralized solution has critical advantages over distributed implementations for handling privacy concerns.Originality value - A key contribution of this system is its universal approach: it can integrate different hardware and software capabilities within a single localization framework. The deployment of such a system in academic and research environments allows researchers to explore issues beyond algorithms and investigate effects in real deployments.
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