Military Leaders and Sacred Space in Classical Greek Warfare. Temples, Sanctuaries and Conflict in Antiquity

Les pratiques religieuses et l’activité guerrière sont deux facettes essentielles des cités grecques, c’est un fait bien connu et bien étudié. Pourtant, depuis les ouvrages séminaux de Pritchett et de Lonis, rares sont les monographies qui ont choisi de se placer à l’interface des deux domaines. Il faut donc savoir gré à Sonya Nevin de s’être confrontée résolument à cette problématique dans cet ouvrage stimulant, issu d’une thèse soutenue en 2009, paru en 2017 et tout récemment réédité en pap..

Il soldato e l’atleta. Guerra e sport nella Grecia antica

On connaît l’erreur d’interprétation du devin Teisamenos : ayant appris d’un oracle delphique qu’il remporterait cinq agônes, il s’était essayé au pentathlon et avait connu l’échec à Olympie. Il ne resta pas longtemps victime de l’ambiguïté de Loxias, puisque les Spartiates, plus habiles que lui, devinèrent que le terme agôn désignait ici une bataille rangée et remportèrent cinq grandes victoires grâce à son art mantique (Hdt., IX, 33–35). C’est cette idée d’une équivalence possible entre l’a..

Directional silicon nano-antennas for quantum emitter control designed by evolutionary optimization

We optimize silicon nano-antennas to enhance and steer the emission of local quantum sources. We combine global evolutionary optimization (EO) with frequency domain electrodynamical simulations, and compare design strategies based on resonant and non-resonant building blocks. Specifically, we investigate the performance of models with different degrees of freedom but comparable amount of available material. We find that simpler geometric models allow significantly faster convergence of the optimizer, which, expectedly, comes at the cost of a reduced optical performance. We finally analyze the physical mechanisms underlying the directional emission that also comes with an emission rate enhancement, and find a surprising robustness against perturbations of the source emitter location. This makes the structures highly interesting for actual nano-fabrication. We believe that optimized, all-dielectric silicon nano-antennas have high potential for genuine breakthroughs in a multitude of applications in nanophotonics and quantum technologies.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figure

Improving economic evaluations in stroke : A report from the ESO Health Economics Working Group

Introduction Approaches to economic evaluations of stroke therapies are varied and inconsistently described. An objective of the European Stroke Organisation (ESO) Health Economics Working Group is to standardise and improve the economic evaluations of interventions for stroke. Methods The ESO Health Economics Working Group and additional experts were contacted to develop a protocol and a guidance document for data collection for economic evaluations of stroke therapies. A modified Delphi approach, including a survey and consensus processes, was used to agree on content. We also asked the participants about resources that could be shared to improve economic evaluations of interventions for stroke. Results Of 28 experts invited, 16 (57%) completed the initial survey, with representation from universities, government, and industry. More than half of the survey respondents endorsed 13 specific items to include in a standard resource use questionnaire. Preferred functional/quality of life outcome measures to use for economic evaluations were the modified Rankin Scale (14 respondents, 88%) and the EQ-5D instrument (11 respondents, 69%). Of the 12 respondents who had access to data used in economic evaluations, 10 (83%) indicated a willingness to share data. A protocol template and a guidance document for data collection were developed and are presented in this article. Conclusion The protocol template and guidance document for data collection will support a more standardised and transparent approach for economic evaluations of stroke care.Peer reviewe

The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics' resources: focus on curated databases

The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (www.isb-sib.ch) provides world-class bioinformatics databases, software tools, services and training to the international life science community in academia and industry. These solutions allow life scientists to turn the exponentially growing amount of data into knowledge. Here, we provide an overview of SIB's resources and competence areas, with a strong focus on curated databases and SIB's most popular and widely used resources. In particular, SIB's Bioinformatics resource portal ExPASy features over 150 resources, including UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot, ENZYME, PROSITE, neXtProt, STRING, UniCarbKB, SugarBindDB, SwissRegulon, EPD, arrayMap, Bgee, SWISS-MODEL Repository, OMA, OrthoDB and other databases, which are briefly described in this article

Recension de Paola Angeli Bernardini, Il soldato e l’atleta. Guerra e sport nella Grecia antica, Bologne, Il Mulino, 2016

Recension de Paola Angeli Bernardini, Il soldato e l’atleta. Guerra e sport nella Grecia antica, Bologne, Il Mulino, 201

Ionian Festivals: The Encyclopedia of Ancient History

Encyclopedia | CHAP (écrite)Besides Panionian gatherings at Delos or Cape Mykale, Ionians distinguished themselves by celebrating some civic festivals of their own, as is demonstrated by the similarities between their various calendars. The so-called Ionian festivals included notably the Apatouria, designed as an Ionian ethnic marker, the Apollonian festival of the Thargelia and the Dionysian festival of the Anthesteria. Characteristics of many Ionian festivals are found in Athenian religion

Le coureur et le guerrier

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Athlètes et héros : le sport dans le monde grec

Présentation du monde des athlètes antique

La Fabrique de la relique : de quelques offrandes militaires dans les sanctuaires grecs

Cette intervention s'interroge sur le statut des armes et armements déposés en offrande dans les sanctuaires du monde grec. Immobilisés, ils peuvent continuer à raconter l'histoire de leurs propriétaires, réels ou fictifs. Dans certains cas bien spécifiques, ils peuvent connaître une nouvelle vie aux mains de soldats désireux de s'inscrire dans la biographie de ces objets