Abstract When we consider classical receptions in terms of presences, often think how antiquity materializes visibly and/or substantially the fabric our histories, whether as physical remains or concrete traditions. Yet search for a solid, conspicuous phenomenon reveals only one side fascinating story can conceive its status and circulation across space time. This article investigates some key ...

This article investigates the origins and significance of images griffins sphinxes—hybrid creatures Greco-Roman tradition—in marginal decorations so-called “Neapolitan Ovid” (BNN ms. IV F 3), first illuminated manuscript Metamorphoses, probably from late 11th century. Their form style suggest specific iconographic links with decorative motifs Antiquity that circulated in artistic objects around...

conics or the science of conic sections is one of the highest theoretical topics of geometry in classical antiquity and the middle ages. it was also studied for its practical applications. in this paper, we first present a short history of conics in antiquity and the islamic civilization, then we show how this discipline was introduced in persian textbooks in the qajar period and a little after...

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WHEN GREGORY BATESON was conducting fieldwork in New Guinea, his friends among the native Iatmul could not understand why he had to work so hard to learn their language: “But our language is easy to understand” they told him, “we just talk.”1 I wonder how Romans would react to an American studying their gestures from a distance of two millennia. A predictable response would be that their body l...

We present a survey of con uence properties of (acyclic) term graph rewriting. Results and counterexamples are given for di erent kinds of term graph rewriting: besides plain applications of rewrite rules, extensions with the operations of collapsing and copying, and with both operations together are considered. Collapsing and copying together constitute bisimilarity of term graphs. We establis...