Robert: A Case Study using Art Therapy to Facilitate Growth

This research documents a nine-month treatment period of a latency-age boy in twice-weekly milieu group therapy. Artwork produced at different periods during the therapy is presented, together with a narrative of the behavior of the child at the time the work was produced. The artwork produced by the child was submitted to evaluators to determine whether the personal growth perceived in the subject by staff members could be substantiated by a blind rating of the artwork. Ratings of the artwork alone by independent evaluators did not support the growth trend shown in the narrative. Results indicate that art therapy can be useful as a clinical tool in treatment of children. A study of finished artwork accompanied by narrative of the process and changes that occurred during the time the art was produced can often furnish more information than the artwork alone

LITHIC POETICS: POSIDIPPUS AND HIS STONES

The 20 poems collected together as the lithika of Posidippus, the first surviving poems on a papyrus roll only published in 2001 and dating from the third century BCE, offer a range of spectacular new evidence for a series of issues in Hellenistic history, art and literature. The standard view is that Posidippus was probably author of all the epigrams in the roll known as P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309, although this has been contested and by no means need certainly be the case. For my purposes here, I do assume that the interconnected poetics of the poems in the lithika do imply a single poet who is quite likely to be Posidippus, since poem 15—independently anthologised in antiquity and known through a manuscript tradition—was attributed to Posidippus in the twelfth century by the Byzantine poet and grammarian John Tzetzes. Historically speaking, the fact that so many of these poems focus on gems from the east gives remarkable insight into the interchange between Hellenistic and Achaemenid cultures: specifically, they signal the prestige of treasures from the east in the Hellenistic courts. In the history of collections, they represent a very early example of exoticism in elite collecting, of the accumulation of valuables in what we may assume was a royal and non-sacred Schatzkammer, of the need for an aesthetic response (in this case through short poems) to ‘label’ and valorise the precious items in the collection. In the history of ancient Wissenschaft, the poems’ use of late Classical gem-lore (exemplified in texts like the On Stones of Theophrastus) offers a vivid instance of the ways theoretical knowledge circulated at least in elite contexts around the royal circle

Radio continuum sources behind the Large Magellanic Cloud

We present a comprehensive multifrequency catalogue of radio sources behind the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) between 0.2 and 20 GHz, gathered from a combination of new and legacy radio continuum surveys. This catalogue covers an area of ∼144 deg2 at angular resolutions from 45 arcsec to ∼3 arcmin. We find 6434 discrete radio sources in total, of which 3789 are detected at two or more radio frequencies. We estimate the median spectral index (α; where Sv ∼ να) of α = −0.89 and mean of −0.88 ± 0.48 for 3636 sources detected exclusively at two frequencies (0.843 and 1.384 GHz) with similar resolution [full width at half-maximum (FWHM) ∼40–45 arcsec]. The large frequency range of the surveys makes it an effective tool to investigate Gigahertz Peak Spectrum (GPS), Compact Steep Spectrum (CSS), and Infrared Faint Radio Source (IFRS) populations within our sample. We find 10 GPS candidates with peak frequencies near 5 GHz, from which we estimate their linear size. 1866 sources from our catalogue are CSS candidates with α 0.5. We found optical counterparts for 343 of the radio continuum sources, of which 128 have a redshift measurement. Finally, we investigate the population of 123 IFRSs found in this study