Tracking the Odyssey’s Plot through Dawn\u27s Epithets

The three formulaic sunrises in Homer’s Odyssey share several characteristics. Particularly significant is the use of metrically similar epithets: rhododaktulos and xrusothronos, often translated “rose-fingered” and “golden-throned.” Previous scholarly work suggests these formulas have a role in assisting the Homeric audience in tracking the Odyssey’s complex plot. An analysis of formulaic uses of xrusothronos throughout the Odyssey shows that this formula focuses attention on important plot points concerning Odysseus’ revenge upon the suitors. The meanings and non-formulaic usages of these two epithets verify this interpretation. Overall, this paper shows that these sunrise formulas and their epithets serve important roles as focusing mechanisms for the Homeric audience

Corrections to the rate equation approximation for dynamic considerations in a semiconductor laser

Corrections to the rate equation approximation are derived and applied to a semiconductor laser. Whereas these corrections do not affect the operating point of the device, they do alter the dynamic operation. To first order the correction produces a renormalization of familiar dynamic parameters. This renormalization, in turn, leads to a 20% correction to the field spectrum linewidth formula

Review of Leonard Barkan\u27s Berlin for Jews: A Twenty-First-Century Companion

Berlin for Jews: A Twenty-First-Century Companion seems to be directed at an insider community of Jews who care about Jewish history, especially those considering a trip to Germany. The book\u27s meandering look at Berlin is broader and more nuanced than a travel guide, with close attention to how Jews of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries understood their own relationships to Jewishness. Still, it remains unclear who beyond a small subset of travelers will be interested in Leonard Barkan\u27s writing on Berlin. That the author is not an expert in either German or Jewish Studies has both merits and drawbacks. As a professor of comparative literature, art and archaeology, classics, and English, Barkan has written a type of memoir for a general audience that scholars in German or Jewish Studies might not venture or desire to write. The first two chapters use a cemetery in Prenzlauer Berg and a neighborhood in Schöneberg as windows into specific eras of history. Chapters 3 through 5 present Barkan\u27s own special Jewish pantheon of Berlin Jews: salon hostess Rahel Varnhagen, art collector James Simon, and writer Walter Benjamin, whose legacies are intertwined with the history, people, and places of Berlin. Barkan concludes with a brief discussion of Holocaust memorialization and tourism, with a few poignant pages on Jewish daily life in Nazi Germany. One highlight throughout is the book\u27s emphasis on architecture and works of art. [excerpt

The gift of dyslexia

The question which I would like to raise through this article is how much richer our society would be if our education system, rather than spending vast fortunes attempting to 'normalise' people with a perceived disability, found a way to value and optimise the skills of differently able students

Review and Recommendations for Promoting International Economic Development in U.S. Geo-Strategy: A Biblical Christian Worldview Approach

Undergraduate International Relation

Family Reunification and the Security State

Part of Symposium: The Constitution and the Famil