The Failure of the Aetolian Deditio as a Didactic Cultural Clash in the Histories of Polybius (20.9-10)

This paper examines the Aetolian deditio in fidem of 191 as described by Polybius 20.9-10. Erich Gruen influentially interpreted Polybius’ description as inconsistent and exaggerated, on the grounds that Greeks and Romans from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC had a common understanding of πίστις and fides and that Polybius’ own evidence on deditio was inconsistent. This paper reasserts the older view: that Greeks generally then had a hazy knowledge of Roman culture, including the practice of deditio, and that—even if weight be granted to factors such as the Roman commander’s personal character and ambitions or the historian’s supposed dislike of the Aetolians or his deployment of a degree of dramatic licence or a possible ‘hardening’ in the Romans’ general practice—this passage properly emphasises a genuine cultural clash, thereby promoting Polybius’ fundamental paideia-objective of teaching Greek readers, above all Greek politicians, how to respond competently to the realities of Roman power.Fil: Moreno Leoni, Álvaro Matías. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad; Argentin

Pausanias, Greek Freedom and History of the Hellenistic Achaean Confederacy: Greek Memory and Identity in the Roman Empire

El objetivo de este artículo es analizar el concepto de libertad griega en la Periégesis de Pausanias, evaluando la importancia de la historia de la Confederación Aquea helenística que propone este autor durante el siglo ii d. C., a fin de entender la definición de su proyecto cultural e ideológico basado en el rescate de la memoria bajo el dominio romano.The aim of this article is to analyze the concept of Greek freedom in the Periegesis of Pausanias we will do so by assessing the importance of the history of the Hellenistic Achaean Confederacy proposed by this writer during the 2nd century BC in order to understand the definition of his cultural and ideological project in an attempt to rescue of the memory under Roman dominion.Fil: Moreno Leoni, Álvaro Matías. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad; Argentina. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Méxic

A politician is writing the history: Sources, competence and authority in the Histories of Polybius

El presente artículo intenta analizar el problema de la construcción de competencia y autoridad en las Historias de Polibio. En ese sentido, este historiador griego postula la necesidad para cualquier historia pragmática de usar algunos tipos de fuentes en particular analizamos la selección de fuentes para relacionar esta opción con la construcción de competencia y autoridad por parte de este historiador griego. La autopsía y la autopátheia, como fuentes históricas, son defendidas por un político con experiencia militar y política que está escribiendo la historia.The current article intends to analyze the problem of the construction of competence and authority in the Histories of Polybius. In this way, this Greek historian postulates the necessity for any pragmatic history to use some kinds of sources especially, and we analyse this selection of sources in order to connect this option with the construction of competence and authority by this Greek historian. The autopsía and autopátheia, as historical sources, are defended by a politician with military and political experience who is writing the history.Fil: Moreno Leoni, Álvaro Matías. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad; Argentin

Dilogarithm ladders from Wilson loops

We consider a light-like Wilson loop in N = 4 SYM evaluated on a regular n-polygon contour. Sending the number of edges to infinity the polygon approximates a circle and the expectation value of the light-like WL is expected to tend to the localization result for the circular one. We show this explicitly at one loop, providing a prescription to deal with the divergences of the light-like WL and the large n limit. Taking this limit entails evaluating certain sums of dilogarithms which, for a regular polygon, evaluate to the same constant independently of n. We show that this occurs thanks to underlying dilogarithm identities, related to the so-called “polylogarithm ladders”, which appear in rather different contexts of physics and mathematics and enable us to perform the large n limit analytically.Instituto de Física La Plat

Current-current deformations, conformal integrals and correlation functions

Motivated by the recent work on TT¯ -type deformations of 2D CFTs, a especial class of single-trace deformations of AdS3/CFT2 correspondence has been investigated. From the worldsheet perspective, this corresponds to a marginal deformation of the σ - model on AdS3 that yields a string background that interpolates between AdS3 and a flat linear dilaton solution. Here, with the intention of studying this worldsheet CFT further, we consider it in the presence of a boundary. In a previous paper, we computed different correlation functions of this theory on the disk, including the bulk 1-point function, the boundary-boundary 2-point function, and the bulk-boundary 2-point function. This led us to compute the anomalous dimension of both bulk and boundary vertex operators, which first required a proper regularization of the ultraviolet divergences of the conformal integrals. Here, we extend the analysis by computing the bulk-bulk 2-point function on the disk and other observables on the sphere. We prove that the renormalization of the vertex operators proposed in our previous works is consistent with the form of the sphere N -point functions.Fil: Giribet, Gaston Enrique. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires; ArgentinaFil: Leoni Olivera, Matías. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires; Argentin

ABJM amplitudes and WL at finite N

We evaluate ABJM observables at two loops, for any value of the rank N of the gauge group. We compute the color subleading contributions to the four-point scattering amplitude in ABJM at two loops. Contrary to the four dimensional case, IR divergent N-subleading contributions are proportional to leading poles in the regularization parameter. We then exploit the non-planar calculation for the amplitude to derive an expression for the two-loop Sudakov form factor at any N. In the planar limit the result coincides with the one recently obtained in literature by using Feynman diagrams and unitarity. Finally, we analyze the subleading contributions to the light-like four-cusps Wilson loop and interpret the result in terms of the non-abelian exponentiation theorem. All these perturbative results satisfy the uniform transcendentality principle, hinting at its validity in ABJM beyond the planar limit.Fil: Bianchi, Marco. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; AlemaniaFil: Leoni, Marta. Universita Degli Studi Di Milano; Italia. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare; ItaliaFil: Leoni Olivera, Matías. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires; ArgentinaFil: Mauri, Andrea. Universita Degli Studi Di Milano; Italia. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare; ItaliaFil: Penati, Silvia. Universita Degli Studi Di Milano; Italia. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare; ItaliaFil: Santambrogio, Alberto. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare; Itali

Power and Sexual Violence against Women: Models of Hegemony and Didactics in The Histories of Polybius

Este artículo trata sobre la violencia sexual contra las mujeres en las Historias de Polibio. Los estudios modernos acerca del tema son escasos y no han abordado esta cuestión. Aunque las mujeres no desempeñaron un papel central en los hechos narrados en la obra, algunos pasajes parecen relacionar la violación de mujeres con reflexiones políticas y didácticas concretas. Aquí, se argumenta que Polibio exploró conscientemente las consecuencias de la degradación de las alianzas entre estados y su transformación de la igualdad al gobierno tiránico mediante el uso de una metáfora sexual explícita. En ese sentido, se estudian los ejemplos de Filipo V de Macedonia, los cartagineses en Iberia y Escipión Africano.This paper deals with sexual violence against women in Polybius’ Histories. Modern scholarship on the subject is scarce and has not addressed this issue. Though women did not play a central role in the narrated deeds in the work, some passages seem to relate women’s rape to concrete political and didactic reflexions. Here, it is argued that Polybius consciously explored the consequences of the degradation of alliances between states and its transformation from equality to tyrannical rule by using an explicit sexual metaphor. In that sense, the examples of Philip V of Macedon, the Carthaginians in Iberia, and Scipio Africanus are studied.Fil: Moreno Leoni, Álvaro Matías. Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas. Departamento de Historia; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Area Historia; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad; Argentin

Reseña bibliográfica: Cortés Copete, J. M., Muñiz Grijalbo, E. y Lozano Gómez, F. (Eds.) (2015). Ruling the Greek World. Approaches to the Roman Empire in the East. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. 192 pp.

Se trata de una reseña bibliográfica del libro: Cortés Copete, J. M., Muñiz Grijalbo, E. y Lozano Gómez, F. (Eds.) (2015). Ruling the Greek World. Approaches to the Roman Empire in the East. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. 192 pp

Interpreting Roman world: rhetoric of otherness, audience and greek culture in the histories of Polybius

Los estudiosos han subestimado a menudo la problemática del contacto cultural en las Historias de Polibio, reduciendo el alcance de este tipo de aproximación sólo a la descripción de las prácticas culturales de pueblos bárbaros. Ha sido incluso planteado que el historiador tuvo cierta incapacidad para interesarse por Roma como un objeto de reflexión cultural porque él mismo había sufrido un proceso de aculturación en esa ciudad durante su estadía allí. El propósito de este artículo es reconsiderar estas ideas a través de una exploración de algunas estrategias discursivas que nos revelan una compleja operación destinada a trasladar el mundo narrado al mundo donde es narrado.Scholars have often undervalued the problem of cultural contact in the Histories of Polybius, reducing the scope of this kind of approach only to the description of Barbarian peoples. It has even been argued that the historian had some inability to inquire about Rome as an object of cultural reflection resulting from a process of acculturation experienced by him in that city during his stay there. The purpose of this paper is to reconsider these ideas through an exploration of certain discursive devices that reveal us a complex cultural operation aimed at bringing the narrated world into the world where it is narrated.Fil: Moreno Leoni, Álvaro Matías. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Historia; Argentin