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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Simonides"”.
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Aristotle’s On Memory and Recollection: Concepts, Sources, and Innovations of Aristotle’s Account of Mnemonic Capacities and Activities
… from gods for the epic poets, a technique for Simonides and the Sophists, a personal capacity for Aristotle. The last chapter spells out some original considerations about Aristotle’s On memory and recollection. Firstly, a reassessment of Sorabji’s theory of ‘imagination’ applied to memory is …
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Poetry in public: reperformance and publication of archaic Greek epigram
… variety of epigrams. In Chapter 4, I consider Simonides and perceived changes in epigrammatic commemoration at the end of the Archaic period. Such epigrams might be characterized as political or historical in nature, and I consider the applicability of concepts of authority to their study. I …
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Efficient Ensemble-based Bayesian Neural Networks for Depth Regression
Depth estimation is a computer vision task that involves the estimation of distance to objects based on provided images and plays a crucial role in a wide variety of applications, such as autonomous driving. In many application areas, the decisions of Neural Networks (NNs) are safety-critical and …
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Ἕρκος Ἀθηναίων: The Ajax Myth, the Trojan War, and Civic Ideology in Fifth-Century Athens
… culture” after Greek victory. I explore the new Simonides’ Plataea elegy and epigrams from the Athenian Agora to demonstrate that Greeks employed the Trojan War to parallel the Persian War. I then examine Aeschylus’ Persians and argue that he uses the Iliadic Ajax in order to epicize Athens’ role …