THE AMPHIAREION AT OROPOS IN CONTEXT - (A.) Wilding Reinventing the Amphiareion at Oropos. (<i>Mnemosyne</i> Supplements 445.) Pp. xvi + 308, colour figs, b/w & colour ills, b/w & colour maps. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022. Cased, €120, US$144. ISBN: 978-90-04-40499-1.

International audienceIn this book, stemming from her 2017 doctoral dissertation, W. provides a useful introduction to the shrine of Amphiaraos for students and non-specialists, especially those who might struggle with V.C. Petrakos's books published in modern Greek (Ὁ Ὠρωπὸς καὶ τὸ ἱερὸν τοῦ Ἀμφιαράου [1968] and Οἱ ἐπιγραφὲς τοῦ Ὠροποῦ [1997]). The introduction heralds the commendable aim of providing a 'politically-focused analysis' (p. 3) of the use and reuse of inscriptions by various agents active in the shrine: W. endeavours to bridge the gap between religious studies, epigraphy and political history by highlighting 'the politicising role of the cult', through 'the concept of reinvention, the process of redefining one's existing relation to things, places and events' (p. 3). This is undoubtedly a sound ambition, and W. shows precise command of the shrine's layout, history and large epigraphic corpus. However, the monograph does not quite achieve this aim because of its generally imprecise use of concepts, frequent circular reasoning and serious bibliographical omissions

Fête de la Saint-Jean-Porte-Latine, 1858. (Signé : J. Buffet.)

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Development of a large-area curved Trench-MWPC

The D16 instrument is a versatile cold-neutron diffractometer at the ILL. It has benefited from a number of upgrades over the years, such as the installation of a large-area 3He Multi-Wire Proportional Chamber (MWPC) in 2011. This detector has provided a resolution of 1 mm x 1 mm over an area of 32 cm x 32 cm. After 12 years of operation, it was replaced by a new curved detector which covers a wider solid angle while maintaining a high angular resolution. Its 86° horizontal angular coverage makes it possible to perform time-resolved experiments with a large q-range. This new detector is based on the Trench-MWPC detector technology developed at the ILL. In the D16 Trench-MWPC, 6 modules are mounted side by side in an 3He-filled curved vessel. Each module consists of 192 cathode blades positioned every 2 mm, and 192 anode wires spaced by 1.5 mm. The radius of curvature of the cathode blades is 1150 mm, providing a parallax-free resolution of 0.075°, horizontally along the 86° angular coverage of the 38 cm high detector. The various steps of the fabrication and mechanical inspection of the D16 Trench-MWPC detector modules and pressure vessel are presented, as well as experimental results obtained during the characterisation of the detector with neutrons

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