Wandrey (ed.), Jewish Manuscript Cultures
Bees in Antiquity Part Two: Greece and Rome - Ancient Blogger
Tickets on sale for Denver DSS exhibit
BBC considers whether to stop showing ivory on Antiques Roadshow
This would be a welcome move, the BBC is considering whether to stop showing ivory on the Antiques Roadshow as the government looks to a total ban on the material’s sale in the UK (Graham Ruddick, ' BBC considers whether to stop showing ivory on Antiques Roadshow' BBC, Tue 9 Jan 2018).
China has already outlawed all trade in ivory and the UK government is consulting on whether to follow suit as attempts to stop the poaching of elephants increase around the world. It is already illegal in the UK to sell ivory from elephants killed after 1947. Campaigners claim it creates a gap in the law allowing dealers to declare items as antiques without providing evidence of their age.About 20,000 African elephants a year are slaughtered by poachers. Then maybe they can impose a similar ban on the showing of the valuation of archaeological material and paperless antiquities from abroad.
Vignette: Quit showing ivories
Open Access Journal: Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua
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Gerión, con ISSN: 0213-0181, es una revista con formato 17x24 cm, que fue fundada en 1983 con periodicidad anual. En 2002 pasó a tener periodicidad semestral y en 2012 de nuevo anual. Recoge en sus páginas artículos originales y una selección de reseñas de obras de reciente publicación (en todos los idiomas académicos) sobre temas relativos a las ciencias de la Antigüedad, con especial dedicación a la Historia Antigua. También acepta otros campos que inciden directamente sobre esta materia: Epigrafía, Arqueología, Filología, etc.
Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua (ISSN 0213-0181, ISSN-e 1988-3080) is a journal that was founded in 1983 and is published on an annual basis. In 2002, it became a six monthly publication and in 2012, annual once again. It compiles original articles and a selection of reviews of recently published works (in all academic languages) on topics relating to the Sciences of Antiquity, particularly devoted to Ancient History. It also accepts works from other fields that have a direct effect on this subject: Epigraphy, Archaeology, Philology, etc.
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Open Access Journal: Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios Latinos
Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios Latinos
ISSN:1131-9062
ISSN-e: 1988-2343
Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios Latinos (ISSN 1131-9062, ISSN-e 1988-2343), que realiza el Departamento de Filología Latina de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y continúa desde 1991 la antigua revista Cuadernos de Filología Clásica, consta de dos secciones: artículos y reseñas. Tiene una periodicidad semestral y acepta trabajos en todos los idiomas admitidos por la FIEC. Las contribuciones se enmarcan en el área de conocimiento de Filología Latina, referida esta no solo a la Lengua, la Literatura y los textos latinos de la época clásica, sino también a su pervivencia y toda la producción en lengua latina de épocas posteriores.
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La relación entre los contenidos semánticos existencial y elativo en verbos latinos con preverbio ex- Concepción Cabrillana 185-195
O discurso epistolográfico no "De officiis" de Cícero Mafalda Frade 197-217
La tradición indirecta de las "Geórgicas" de Virgilio y su recepción ecdótica Ángel Escobar 219-238
Horacio y su historia de la sátira Rosario Cortés Tovar 239-263
Hipólito-Virbio, San Hipólito y Pirro Ligorio María José Pena 265-282
Gramática modista "versus" gramática sanctiana: dos concepciones de análisis lingüístico contrapuestas Victoria Manzano Ventura 283-301
Sobre el conocimiento de Plauto y Terencio en Italia y España en el siglo XV Devid Paolini 303-316
Tradición y modernidad en el "De constructione octo partium orationis" (México, 1579) de Manuel Álvares, S.I Juan María Gómez Gómez 317-334
In Memoriam Gregorio Hinojo Rosario Cortés Tovar 335-339 Revista de libros
Carmen González-Vázquez (ed.), "El teatro en otros géneros y otros géneros en el teatro. II Estudios de Teatro Romano en honor del Profesor Benjamín García-Hernández" Antonio López Fonseca 341-344
Montero Cartelle, E. (ed.), "Carmina Burana (II). Poemas satírico-morales, lúdicos y de taberna", Madrid, Akal, 2017, 282 pp. Julia Aguilar Miquel 345-348
Hamesse, J. & Meirinhos, J. (eds.), "Les Auctoritates Aristotelis, leur utilisation et leur influence chez les auteurs médiévaux. État de la question 40 and après la publication", Barcelona – Madrid, FIDEM, 2015, 349 pp. Irene Etayo Martín 349-353
F. Manfrin & L. Ferroni, "Rinuccio Aretino e Lorenzo Lippi traduttori di Platone. Eutfrone.Ione", Florencia, Sismel, 2016, 183 pp. Iván López Martín 355-358
Valeria Mangraviti, "L´Odissea marciana di Leonzio tra Boccaccio e Petrarca", Textes et Études du Moyen Âge 81 (FIDEM), Brepols, Barcelona-Roma 2016 Marta Cruz Trujillo 359-360
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Open Access Journal: Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos
Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos
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ISSN-e 1988-2637
Cuadernos de Filología Clásica (Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos) (ISSN 1131-9070, ISSN-e 1988-2637) es una revista de periodicidad anual que continúa desde 1991 en su especialidad, juntamente con la sección la sección latina, la antigua revista Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Refundada por los Catedráticos José S. Lasso de la Vega y Luis Gil Fernández, acoge en sus páginas colaboraciones científicas españolas y extranjeras que versen sobre los ámbitos comprendidos bajo los conceptos de Filología Griega y Lingüística Indoeuropea.
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Rosa Aguilar (In memoriam) Ignacio Rodríguez Alfageme 9-10 Artículos
Palabras de Musas (Hes. Theog. 22-35) Ignacio Rodríguez Alfageme 11-30
La preposición ἀπό en el griego del Nuevo Testamento. Algunos casos de controversia Marta Merino Hernández 31-47
El prólogo y el primer estásimo de Edipo en Colono: un estudio comparativo Fernando Pérez Lambás 49-63
La sombra del poder: Egisto José Vicente Bañuls Oller 65-82
Reflexiones en torno al «juego de velos» del "Fedro" y una posible alusión al "Hipólito velado" Jonathan Lavilla de Lera 83-116
La δίκη ἐξούλης y la δίκη βιαίων Enrique García Domingo 117-132
Plutarco, dos "Vidas", tres oradores: Foción, Demóstenes y Démades Carlos Alcalde Martín 133-146
Mariano Escolástico, APl 201. Una interpretación de Eros en el reinado de Justino II y Sofi a Carlos A. Martins de Jesus 147-162
Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda frente a León de Castro: una carta inédita en defensa de su traducción latina de la política de Aristóteles Ignacio J. García Pinilla, Julián Solana Pujalte 163-195
Alfredo Adolfo Camús (ca. 1817-1889) y la historiografía hispana de la literatura griega: entre la realidad y el deseo Francisco García Jurado 197-233
Circe y las sirenas de la épica griega al microrrelato hispanoamericano Aurora Galindo Esparza 235-265 Reseñas
Carmen González Vázquez (dir), et allii, Diccionario de personajes de la Comedia antigua, Zaragoza: Ignacio Rodríguez Alfageme 267-268
J. Guillermo Montes Cala (†), Rafael J. Gallé Cejudo, Manuel Sánchez Ortiz de Landaluce y Tomás Silva Sánchez (eds.), Fronteras entre el verso y la prosa en la literatura helenística y helenístico-romana. Homenaje al Prof. José Guillermo Montes Cala, Ignacio Rodríguez Alfageme 269-270
Juan Antonio López Férez (ed.), Galeno. Lengua, composición literaria, léxico, estilo, Alicia Esteban Santos 271-275
Juan Antonio López Férez, Teorías de Galeno sobre el semen femenino, Alicia Esteban Santos 276-278
Giuseppina P. Viscardi, Munichia: la dea, il mare, la polis. Confi gurazioni di un spazio artemideo, Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal 279-281
Jorge Wiesse (ed.), Purgatorios, purgatori. Daniel Caballero Payá 282-284
Teresa Martínez Manzano, Historia del fondo manuscrito griego de la Universidad de Salamanca (Obras de referencia 37). Carmen García Bueno 285-287
María Teresa Gallego Pérez, Vida y muerte en el Corpus Hippocraticum, Jordi Redondo 288-291
E. Latorre Broto, Griegos que el estandarte alzáis de libres. Poesía fi lohelénica española e hispanoamericana (1821-1843), Diego Román Martínez 292-292
J. A. López Férez, Mitos en las obras conservadas de Eurípides. Guía para la lectura del trágico, A. Vicente Sánchez 293-294
Juan Antonio López Férez (ed.), La comedia griega en sus textos. Forma (lengua, léxico, estilo, métrica, crítica textual, pragmática) y contenido (crítica política y literaria, utopía, sátira, intertextualidad, evolución del género cómico), Vicente M. Ramón Palerm 295-297
G. Squillace 2015: I balsami di Afrodite. Medici, malattie e farmaci nel mondo antico César Sierra Martín 298-300
V. Piano, Il papiro di Derveni tra religione e fi losofia, Alberto Bernabé Pajares 301-303
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3d models from archival film/video footage
Yesterday, I helped Andrew troubleshoot some workflow regarding vr-to-real-world photogrammetry. You should go read his post. As I was doing that, I was thinking that the same flow would work for archival video (which I’ve done with visualSFM, but not Regard3d, so challenge accepted! By the way, the VSFM workflow was Ryan’s regarding models from drones). So I grabbed some aerial photography of Pompeii from WWII era ish, and gave it a spin. It worked, but it was an ugly ‘beta’-worked, so I left my machine running over the weekend and I’ll know by Monday whether or not the result is any better. I wrote up the workflow, thinking it’d be useful for my class, and deposited with Humanities Commons. I pasted it below, as well. Lemme know if it works for you, or if I’ve missed something.
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It is possible to make 3d models from archival film/video footage, although the quality of the resulting model may require a significant amount of sculpting work afterwards to achieve a desireable effect. It depends, really, on why one wants to build a 3d model in the first place. Archaeologists for instance might want to work with a 3d rendering of a building or site now lost.
The workflow
The workflow has a number of steps:
1. obtaining the video (if it is on eg. youtube)
2. slicing the video into still images
3. adding camera metadata to the images
4. computing matched points across the images
5. triangulation from the matched points
6. surface reconstruction
Necessary software
nb these are all open-source or free-to-use programs
1. Youtube-dl https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
2. ffmepg https://www.ffmpeg.org/
3. exiftool https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
4. regard3d http://www.regard3d.org/
5. meshlab (for post-processing) http://www.meshlab.net/
Step One Downloading from Youtube
Archival or interesting footage of all kinds may be found on youtube and other video streaming services. Youtube-dl is a sophisticated program for downloading this footage (and other associated metadata) from youtube and some other sites. Find a video of interest. Note the url. Then:
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSB2VeTeXXg
Try to find video that does not have watermarks (the example above has a watermark and probably is not the best source video one could use). Look for videos that are composed of long cuts, that sweep smoothly around the site/object/target of interest. You may wish to note the timing of interesting shots, as you can download or clip the video to those passages (see the youtube-dl documentation)
Step Two Slicing the Video into Stills
ffmepg is a powerful package for manipulating video and audio. We use it to cut the video into slices. Consult the full documentation to work out how to slice at say every 5 seconds or 10 seconds (whatever is appropriate to your video). Make a new directory in the folder where you’ve downloaded the video with mkdir images. Then the command below slices at every second, numbers the slices and puts them into the frames subdirectory:
ffmpeg -i "downloaded-film.mp4" -r 1 frames\images-%04d.jpeg
Windows users would call ffmpeg with ffmepg.exe (if they haven’t put it into their system’s path variable). Step Three Adding Camera Metadata
We will be using Regard3d to stitch the images together. Regard3d needs to know the camera make, model, focal length (mm), and sensor width (mm). We are going to fudge this information with our best approximation. ‘Sensor width’ is the width of the actual piece of hardware in a digital camera upon which light falls. You’ll have to do some searching to work out the best approximation for this measurement for the likely camera used to make the video you’re interested in.
Find the camera database that Regard3d uses (see the documentation for Regard3d for the location on your system). It is a csv file. Open it with a text editor (eg Sublime Text or Atom. not Excel, because Excel will introduce errors). Add the make, model, and sensor width information following this pattern:
make;model;width-in-mm
Regard3d reads the exif image metadata to work out which camera settings to use. Focal length is read from the exif metadata as well. We assign these like so, from the command line in your frames folder:
exiftool -FocalLength="3.97" *.jpeg exiftool -Make="CameraMake" *.jpeg exiftool -Model="CameraModel" *.jpeg
Note that the make and model must absolutely match what you put into the camera database csv file – uppercase, lowercase, etc matters. Also, Windows users might have to rename downloaded exiftool file to exiftool.exe and put it into their path variable (alternatively, rename it and then put it in the frames folder so that when you type the command, your system can find it easily).
Step Four Computing Matches
Open Regard3d and start a new project. Add a photoset by selecting your frames directory. Note that when you used the exiftool, the original images were copied within the folder with a new name. Don’t select those original images. As the images load up, you will see whether or not your metadata is being correctly read. If you get NaN under make, model, focal length, or sensor width, revisit step three again carefully. Click ok to use the images.
Click on compute matches. Slide the keypoint density sliders (two sliders) all the way to ‘ultra’. You can try with just the default values at first, which is faster, but using ‘ultra’ means we get as many data points as possible, which can be necessary given our source images.
This might take some time. When it is finished, proceed through the next steps as Regard3d presents them to you (the options in the bottom left panel of the program are context-specific. If you want to revisit a previous step and try different settings, select the results from that step in the inspector panel top left to redo).
The final procedure in model generation is to compute the surfaces. When you click on the ‘surface’ button (having just completed the ‘densification’ step), make sure to tick off the ‘texture’ radio button. When this step is complete, you can hit the ‘export’ button. The model will be in your project folder – .obj, .stl., and .png. To share the model on something like Sketchfab.com zip these three files into a single zip folder. On sketchfab, you upload the zip folder.
Step Five Clean Up
Double click on the .obj file in your project folder. Meshlab will open and display your model. The exact tools you might wish to use to enhance or clean up your model depends very much on how your model turned out. At the very least, you’ll use the ‘vertice select’ tool (which allows you to draw a box over the offending part) and the ‘vertice delete’ tool. Search the web for help and examples for the effective use of Meshlab.
Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: January 20
HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem tertium decimum Kalendas Februarias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Prometheus Bound, and there are more images here.
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word verb-less motto is In periculis audax (English: In dangers, bold).
ANIMAL PROVERBS: Today's animal proverb is Leo a leporibus insultatur mortuus (English: A lion, after he's dead, is mocked by the rabbits).
POLYDORUS: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Asinus magis stramina vult quam aurum (English: The donkey wants straw more than gold).
GREEK PROVERBS: Today's proverb is Μωρὸς σιωπᾷν οὐ δύναται (English: The fool is not able to keep quiet).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Maior Post Otia Virtus. Click here for a full-sized view.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
TODAY'S FABLES:
MILLE FABULAE: The English translation for today from the Mille Fabulae et Una book is Leo, Vulpes, et Simius, a story about tyranny.
PHAEDRI FABULAE: The illustrated fable from Phaedrus for today is Canis fidelis, a story about bribery and loyalty: Latin text and Smart's translation.
STEINHOWEL: The illustrated fable from Steinhowel for today is De Aquila et Vulpa, a story about the revenge of the downtrodden: Latin text and English versions.
Quaint UKDFD Supporters, Gotta Love Them
Traer Scott |
This UKDFD creation can only do a lot of good for the hobby and metal detectorists in general. Being a hobbyist myself I hope government continues to enable the hobby to continue and be regulated as it is. [...] The UKDFD’s webpage will encourage metal detectorists to record finds of interest to the authorities and help finders of metalwork identify what they have dug up. Towns, villages, parishes, counties all over the UK will have instant access to a facility that provides up to date historical information about any area within the UK. Looking forward to viewing the UKDFD’s new site.What a shame he did not visit the site first before writing about how jolly useful it will be. But like the puppies, maybe he's not learnt to read big words yet. When those 'authorities', 'towns, villages, parishes, counties all over the UK' get their access.... the money will be rolling into the UKDFD coffers. Somehow I do not think this actually will be doing artefact hunting the 'good' Mr Crombie anticipates. Another tekkie, one Micheal also commented on the same topic with even less understanding of what has been said about it:
An excellent idea whose time has come John… [...] And with the mapping that this project has undertaken, there will be a more complete analysis of where and when items are found. Hopefully patterns can be extrapolated MichealI suspect Mr Micheal has confused the UKDFD (which has not up to now had a mapping facility) with the PAS, which has. I'd like to ask Mr Micheal who he thinks will be doing this 'mapping' with data that the people who have now seized control of them want to charge them to even look at them. I am also curious what purpose he thinks these maps would serve if the UKDFD database has 47000 objects and the PAS one (free to use) a much larger sample thirty times larger.
Then we have this comment from another from over that side of the sea who can't quite seem to work out what is what either. Here's John from Ontario (AKA Geobound):
John not being from the UK, but fascinated and intrigued to see what has been found, I think this idea is fantastic. I’m sure there is an awful lot of time and energy put into compiling these lists, maintaining these lists and investigating the artifacts found, so a pay per use only seems fair and logical to me. Thanks for bringing this to my attention, I’m going to head over to the UKDFD site and sign up.One born every minute. If Geobound headed over to EBay.UK, he can see thousands of metal detected finds for free. The same goes for the PAS run by archaeologists and provided as a public service, but nobody with a metal detector over there has heard of it of course. In Ontario, it seems it's too difficult to grasp the idea that the 'time and energy' that went into finding these artefacts and posting them up on the database is not that of the people now pocketing the money that have taken over the results of other people's work and records and photos of other people's property. Anyway 'Geobound', have fun looking and dreaming.
Responsibility" in words, and "Then the Sad Reality About Literacy.
Oh, oh, isn't their that aaaa, you no, woss it called? You no, that Codey fing... the Code of, of..., um, Responsible... yeah, thass it, Responsible Metaldetecting! Woss that say then? Bury it and hope nobody hits it when hoeing the spuds next year? Gor Blimey!Incendiary found, advice pls (Post by 'panzer'', Sat Jan 20, 2018 2:29 pm)
I was digging a belting signal in an open field, relatively remote, and started to come across blueish clumps of crytallised gunk, bit more clearance showed it to be a 1kg WW2 incendiary with a heavily damaged aluminium casing with a rather nice bronze tailfin still attached. I had my little one with me so decided to rebury it for another day. I am making an assumption that this has been soaking up rainwater for 60 yrs and is likely very much inert, well the crystals certainly didn't fire up when exposed to the air anyway. Whats the guidance on this? I feel a call to EOD would be an over reaction in this case? The tailfin would look rather nice on my mantlepiece though [emoticon]
Vignette: 'Burning man', courtesy of a sawdust-for-brains-detectorist who can't follow even a simple code
Nur Fur Detectorists: The Red Pill about Artefact Hunters' "Contribution" to our Knowledge of the PASt
If we look at the pricing details for the use of the data entered in the past and currently on the UKFD we see that grabby detectorists with their smug feeling of entitlement think it is perfectly 'fair' to charge a member of the general public who's interested in seeing what a crotal bell looks like fifteen quid for the 'privilege'. But look at the red rectangle. The membership package for a 'professional' will cost them a hundred quid. That seems to be pretty symptomatic of the real degree to which artefact hunters are engaged in 'creating new knowledge about the past' through a partnership with archaeology. Here's what they say about their entitlement to charge us for even seeing what has been pocketed from the archaeological record:
I have a better idea. Let archaeologists demonstrate to these patronising creeps their 'integrity' by simply boycotting their commercial database. That is entirely within the terms of the current Code of Conduct of several major archaeological bodies, to have nothing to do with extralegal commercial transactions involving decontextualised archaeological material. The very idea!
The Uses of Heritage
“And I said to her, if you give the EU £40 billion, I will let you borrow an embroidered cloth that depicts the French beating the English. And she said yes!” |
R. Ash, Tacitus : Annals Book XV
Rhiannon Ash (éd.), Tacitus : Annals Book XV, Cambridge, 2017.
Éditeur : Cambridge University Press
382 pages
ISBN : 9780521269391
£ 24.99
Tacitus' account of Nero's principate is an extraordinary piece of historical writing. His graphic narrative (including Annals XV) is one of the highlights of the greatest surviving historian of the Roman Empire. It describes how the imperial system survived Nero's flamboyant and hedonistic tenure as emperor, and includes many famous passages, from the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64 to the city-wide party organised by Nero's praetorian prefect, Tigellinus, in Rome. This edition unlocks the difficulties and complexities of this challenging yet popular text for students and instructors alike. It elucidates the historical context of the work and the literary artistry of the author, as well as explaining grammatical difficulties of the Latin for students. It also includes a comprehensive introduction discussing historical, literary and stylistic issues.