bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Use of zooplankton prey in aquaculture production of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus Linnaeus, 1758) in Daloa, Côte D'Ivoire
Authors: Bi Boly Valérie N'DO  , Jean Renaud ALLOUKO  , Gaoussou KEITA  , Kotchi Yves BONY  , Amidou OUATTARA
Published: July 2024

The aim of the study carried out at the Ouattara N'golo fish farm in Daloa was to contribute to the improvement of fish production in Côte d'Ivoire through the production of Nile tilapia fed on zooplankton prey. Larvae of the Brazilian strain of Oreochromis niloticus, with an initial weight of 0.03 ± 0.01 g and an initial total length of 1.7 ± 0.1 cm, were distributed in triplicate in three plastic tanks. Fish in BAC 1 were fed only low-grade rice flour (LSRF), while those in BAC 2 were fed LSRF and live zooplankton (LSRF + ZOO). Fish in BAC 3 were fed mainly live zooplankton (ZOO). The main results show that fish fed with low-grade rice flour and live zooplankton (FBR + ZOO), and those fed mainly with live zooplankton (ZOO) recorded the highest survival rates (95.25 ± 0.0025% and 97.5 ± 0.005% respectively). Furthermore, weight and length growth at the end of the experiment were greater in fish fed with low-grade rice flour and live zooplankton (2.66 ± 0.01 g and 6.8 ± 0.1 cm) than in those fed with low-grade rice flour only (2.46 ± 0.02 and 5.8 ± 0.1 cm) and those fed mainly with live zooplankton (1.93 ± 0.03 and 5.5 ± 0.1 cm). The involvement of zooplankton prey in the diet of Nile tilapia larvae confers better survival and growth performance on these small fish, while at the same time reducing the expense of producing them.
A study to assess the effectiveness of self-instructional module on knowledge regarding effect of lifestyle on cardio pulmonary system among adults working in selected institute, Mangalore
Authors: Soumya Sebastian  , Ashwin bromeo j
Published: July 2024

Sedentary lifestyles, marked by prolonged sitting and low physical activity, are linked to various health issues such as coronary artery diseases, hypertension, obesity, and diabetes. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a self-education module on the impact of lifestyle on the cardiopulmonary system among adults workers, highlighting the need for better health education and lifestyle changes. Objectives of the study: To determine the level of knowledge regarding effect of life style on cardio pulmonary system. To evaluate the effectiveness of self instructional module on level of knowledge regarding effect of life style on cardio pulmonary system. Methodology: The study aimed to assess the effectiveness of SIM in enhancing knowledge about lifestyle effects on cardiopulmonary system among adult workers. A one-group pre-test – post-test design was used, with 60 adults from a selected global institution in Mangalore selected. Data was collected using a structured knowledge questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Result: The study found that 98.3% of adult workers had moderate knowledge about lifestyle's impact on the cardiopulmonary system, while 46.7% had adequate knowledge post-test. The self-instruction module significantly improved knowledge scores, and no association was found between pre-test knowledge scores and demographic variables. Conclusion: The study suggests that introducing lifestyle effects on cardiopulmonary system among adult workers can improve their knowledge and reduce occupational stress. The self-instructional module was found to be an effective strategy, providing information and enhancing knowledge about lifestyle modifications, without any association with pre-test knowledge scores or demographic variables.
Evaluasi Keberhasilan Menyusui Ibu Post Sectio Caesarea
Authors: Juwariyah Juwariyah , Hamidah Siti
Published: July 2024

Prevalensi keberhasilan menyusui ASI eksklusif di Indonesia menurun  pada tahun 2021 (69,7%) menjadi 67,96% tahun 2022, hal ini karena dipengaruhi oleh banyak faktor, diantaranya tingkat kenyamanan saat menyusui. Pengaruh lingkungan yang semakin komplek, serta kemajuan dibidang tehnologi kedokteran semakin maju, mengakibatkan jumlah  persalinan  sectio caesaria semakin meningkat tinggi dari 7%  menjadi 21% dari  total persalinan. Tindakan Sectio Caesarea menimbulkan nyeri setelahnya yang dapat menghambat proses keberhasilan menyusui. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengkaji keberhasilan menyusui pada ibu post sectio caesarea
Jenis penelitiannya kuantitatif menggunakan desain observasional dengan pendekatan Cross-Sectioal. Pengambilan sampel secara Purposive , sebanyak 30 ibu Post Sectio Caesarea. Pengumpulan data menggunakan kuesioner dan lembar Observasi Latch untuk menilai keberhasilan menyusuinya. Menunjukkan bahwa tingkat keberhasilan menysui pada ibu post sectio caesarea di rs muhammadiyah gresik mencapai 67%. Ibu post sc menunjukkan bahwa  ibu post sectio caesarea yang berhasil menyusui rata-rata usia 20-35 tahun (53%), mempunyai pengetahuan yang baik  tentang metode persalinan (53,3%), dengan riayat pendidikan ibu SMA/Akademi sebesar 56,7%, ibu mempunyai anak lebih dari 1 sebesar 63,3%, tidak bekerja (36,6%), metode persalinan sectio caesarea dengan Metode eracs (53,4%). Dapat disimpulkan bahwa tingkat keberhasilan menyusui yg paling besar adalah pada ibu multigravida, hal ini karena pengalaman ibu mengenai proses menyusui serta lebih siap secara psiko sosialnya.
Morphometric variation and species density of Nerita (Neritidae: Gastropoda) in the coastal waters of Ambon Island, Indonesia
Authors: Leiwakabessy Fredy , Latupeirissa Louvenska Nona
Published: July 2024

Nerita is one of the species with high diversity in the coastal waters of Ambon Island. With this high diversity, the way to assess the length of various Nerita species is through a morphometric study. Meanwhile, density studies are useful for knowing the number of each of these diverse Nerita species. The purpose of this study was to identify the Nerita species to calculate the density and morphometrics. This research was conducted in an intertidal area in two locations, namely Seri and Tawiri villages. The morphometric characteristics of Nerita consist of shell length, shell width, aperture length, spire height, columella length, aperture length, and lip thickness. The density calculation refers to the density formula. The results showed that there were 9 species of Nerita, namely N. polita, N. chamaeleon, N. patula, N. exuvia, N. maxima, N. squamulata, N. albicilla, and N. planospira. N. polita has the highest density value (41.33 ind/m2) while N. patula (0.04 ind/m2) has the lowest density value. Morphometric analysis shows that there are variations in shell size among these species. Shell morphometric variations can be used as a reference for studying the phenetic diversity of Neritaidae in Ambon Island waters
FRACTION LEARNING USING DAILY CONTEXT FOR PRE-SERVICE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER EDUCATION
Authors: Lisnani Lisnani
Published: July 2024

Fractions are important material to understand because fractions are often encountered in everyday life. This research aims to analyze the fraction learning process using the PMRI approach for pre-service primary school teachers. This type of research is descriptive qualitative research with a PMRI approach using the context of everyday life. The subjects of this research were 20 students at second semester. Data collection techniques included tests, documentation and observation. The data analysis technique uses the Miles and Huberman model. The results of this research are a description of the thinking framework of pre-service primary school teachers using daily life contexts in the form of objects and food in determining the concept of fractions. Students are able to implement the concept of fractions using the   PMRI approach through the use of the context of objects and food that exist in everyday life. It is that this research will become a guide in learning fractions and can be developed into student worksheets
DEVELOPMENT OF LEARNING DEVICES BASED ON ETHNOMATHEMATICS OF THE MEHER TRIBE WOVEN FABRICS (KISAR ISLAND) WITH REALISTIC MATHEMATICS EDUCATION APPROACH ON NUMBER PATTERN MATERIAL
Authors: Dahoklory Andy Sunder Keer , Laurens Theresia , Palinussa Anderson L
Published: July 2024

This study aimed to develop a learning device based on ethnomathematics of the Meher tribe woven fabrics (Kisar Island) with a Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) approach on number pattern material for 8th-grade students of Public Junior High School 4 Southern Islands. The learning devices developed consisted of Learning Implementation Plans (RPP), Teaching Materials (BA), and Student Worksheets (LKPD). The development model used was the 4-D model, which consisted of four stages, namely define, design, develop, and disseminate but were limited to the development stage. The device was tested for quality (valid, practical and effective). Following the validation results by the five validators, it was found that the devices developed met the validity requirements with an average score of Learning Implementation Plans (RPP) 3.5 (very good), an average score of Teaching Materials (BA) 3.3 (good), the average score of Student Worksheets (LKPD) was 3.4 (good). The average validator's general assessment was 3.3 (good). According to the practicality test of the developed devices, it was found that the developed devices were categorized as practical, with an average positive response of educators of 100% and an average positive response of students of 91.3%. The developed devices also fulfilled the effectiveness requirements by achieving a classical completeness percentage of 79.2%. The results of the study obtained the quality of the devices developed
DEVELOPMENT OF INTERACTIVE TEACHING MATERIALS WITH RME-BASED ISPRING SUITE TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' CREATIVE THINKING SKILLS
Authors: Pradja Barra P , Saputra Nisvu Nanda , Baist Abdul , Andriyani Retno , Saleh Hairul
Published: July 2024

With the use of the RME-based iSpring suite, this project creates interactive teaching resources to enhance students' capacity for creative thought. Students' low capacity for creative thought, low levels of desire, low levels of activity, and low levels of involvement in the learning process are the field's problems. In order to address these issues, interactive instructional resources were created. With the help of RME-based ispring suites, interactive teaching materials will be created that are valid, useful in the educational process, and will enhance students' capacity for creative thought. 4D (define, design, development, disseminate) is the development model that is employed. Pretest-poste instruments, student response questionnaires, and validation sheets are used in data gathering procedures. Analysis methods include the paired sample t-test, validity test, and practicality test, n-gain test. With a score of 3.41, the validity test results indicate that the product is already in the legitimate category. According to the analysis of the practicality test results, the produced product already has a score of 3.43, placing it in the extremely practical category. It is established by the paired sample t-test that capacity differences exist between pre- and post-use of interactive training resources. Moreover, improving pupils' capacity for creative thought is known to fall into the effective group based on the results of the n-gain test. In order for the RME-based iSpring suite of interactive teaching resources to be generally appropriate for use in the learning process
ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ MATHEMATICAL COMMUNICATION ABILITY BASED ON SELF-CONFIDENCE AND COGNITIVE STYLE
Authors: Baskoro Jarot Aji , Turmudi Turmudi , Gozali Sumanang Muhtar
Published: July 2024

Self-confidence and cognitive style are important variables that influence the behavior of students in the academic field, the continued development of academic abilities, how learning is carried out, and how they interact in classroom activities. Learning activities will be expected more effective because all of the learning steps going to be attractive and get to reach the learning achievements if students have good self-confidence. So, all of these things are related to mathematical communication ability. The data on students' mathematical communication ability scores that were influenced by two factors, the level of self-confidence and different cognitive styles, were analyzed by the experimental design carried out in this research was a 3x2 Completely Randomized Factorial Design. The observation data were analyzed statistically with the F-test at a significance level of 5%. From the test of between-subjects effects, the output data was on the ANOVA table. We can get the conclusion that there was factors interaction which can be seen by p-value (Sig.) < α = 0.05, which means rejected H0. There was an effect of interaction between self-confidence with cognitive style significantly to mathematical communication ability
PENGARUH AKUNTABILITAS, TRANSPARANSI DAN EFISIENSI PENGELOLAAN ANGGARAN PENDAPATAN DAN BELANJA SEKOLAH TERHADAP PARTISIPASI KOMITE SEKOLAH
Authors: Christian Resti
Published: July 2024

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui pengaruh positif akuntabilitas, transparansi dan efisiensi pengelolaan APBS terhadap partisipasi komite sekolah. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah seluruh sekolah dasar dipulau moa kabupaten Maluku Barat Daya.. Data yang digunakan adalah data primer dengan menyebar langsung kuesioner kepada responden. Metode analisis data yang digunakan adalah analisis kuantitatif dan analisis kualitatif dengan metode analisis regresi linier berganda. Selain itu juga dilakukan uji asumsiklasik yang meliputi uji normalitas, uji multikolinieritas, uji autokorelasi dan uji heteroskedastitas. Hasil analisis menunjukkan akuntabilitas, transparansi dan efisiensi pengelolaan anggaran pendapatan dan belanja sekolah secara bersama- sama positif dan signifikan memengaruhi komite sekolah. Hasil uji secara parsial  menunjukkan  bahwa akuntabilitas positif dan signifikan memengaruhi komite sekolah. Variabel transparansi positif dan signifikan memengaruhi komite sekolah. Sedangkan efisiensi pengelolaan anggaran pendapatan dan belanja sekolah positif dan tidak signifikan memengaruhi komite sekolah .
PENGARUH PERGANTIAN MANAJEMEN DAN FINANCIAL DISTRESS TERHADAP AUDITORSWITCHING SECARA VOLUNTARY
Authors: Erna Wa , Atarwaman Rita J. D. , Usmany Alfrin Ernest Marthen
Published: July 2024

This study aims to obtain empirical evidence of the effect of management change and financial distress on voluntary auditor switching. This research was conducted on mining companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the 2013-2021 period. The number of samples was 7 companies with 9 years of observation  and obtained 63  observations. The sampling method used purposive sampling. Auditor switching in this study uses a  dummy  variable  proxy.  The analysis technique was carried out using logistic regression analysis techniques using the SPSS version 25 application. The results of the study show that management turnover has no significant effect on auditor switching. Financial distress has no significant effect on auditor switching.
Task-Based approach in Mixed Ability Classes
Authors: Caon Fabio , Meneghetti Claudia
Published: July 2024

The aim of this article is to present the task as a strategic tool to manage multi-level and multi-cultural classes (CAD), in which recognising the differences (i.e. cognitive styles, multiple intelligences, personalities etc.) among students is the point of departure to devise a didactic plan. After an overview of what CAD and Task-Based Language Teaching are, we will try to adapt few strategies used in the CAD to the different task phases. In particular, we will look at ways to grade the input, what variables to take into consideration to grade the task and what types of tasks have been proposed, through the years, as useful in terms of differentiation. Finally, we will explore what grading the focus on form means.
Joan F. Mira: «Des de la finestra veig Europa»
Authors: Grau Daniel P.
Published: July 2024

Joan F. Mira is one of the key figures in contemporary Catalan culture. Because of his many interests (anthropologist, translator and author in different genres) he is not easily classified. In the manner of T.S. Eliot, Mira has managed to tie his output with the great classical works of Catalan literature and that of Europe. His interests, strictu sensu, stretch from a microcosm located in his hometown in Valencia’s Horta, to the great European cities – and cultures far beyond – which he has visited during his life-long journey either physically or with his readings. This article seeks to offer an approach to strategies employed by Mira, including cultural anthropology or his narrative’s hybridity, to incorporate into his discourse spaces he has mapped during his life or by extension, those of his country. Methodology is based on a geocritical approach applied to literary studies (Bou, Marqués, Salvador, Tally, Westphal), with a transversal and multidisciplinary approach to the analysis of the work of Joan Francesc Mira.
Invenzione e identità nel gesuitismo
Authors: Motta Franco
Published: July 2024

The category of ‘Jesuitism’ must be counted among the most long-standing and blurred concepts in the political-religious debate of modern and contemporary Europe. Used both as a polemic and historiographical category – that is, describing doctrines and practices attributed to the Jesuits by their adversaries, but also their own historical features – it sums up different and often incongruous traits, mainly pertaining to the sphere of the power relationships between the Church and the State. Even if Jesuitism must be primarily considered as a myth shaped by the anti-Jesuits in different historical contexts, nonetheless it is possible to identify in it some original elements and trace them back to the late 16th century.
A Sisters’ World: Reasons of the South and Domestic Whispers in Grace King’s Memories of a Southern Woman of Letters
Authors: Daniele Daniela
Published: July 2024

Grace King documented the American Civil War from the Southern perspective of the losers, in times in which the Northern press urged her to embrace the winners’ ideology. As she witnessed the decline of the French colonial project in post-bellum Louisiana, her writing task was to preserve the Frenchified vernacular and the exquisite Creole traditions from oblivion. Her tales and memoirs from New Orleans’ history convey the tenacity of former mistresses and colored servants in mutual defense of their refined domestic order and family bonds disrupted by the brotherly fight.
Elena Lamberti. Controambienti letterari. Classici newyorkesi dell'era elettrica
Authors: Paladin Nicola
Published: July 2024

Recensione di Lamberti, Elena (2018). Controambienti letterari. Classici newyorkesi dell’era elettrica. Bologna: Clueb, 212 pp.
La trilogia distopica di Terry Gilliam: il presente e il futuribile
Authors: Oddi Stefano
Published: July 2024

The article focuses on Terry Gilliam’s so-called ‘Orwellian triptych’, a science fiction trilogy in which the director uses dystopia as a way to highlight some of the major concerns of the Western World. While Brazil (1984) reflects the fear of an all-pervading Capitalism through its Kafkaesque, overbureaucratized universe and The Zero Theorem (2013) aims to describe “the perils of our digitised existence” (Andrew Pulver), Twelve Monkeys (1995) pictures an apocalyptic future in which the human race has been wiped out by a deadly virus mirroring the threat of HIV, and the survivors have been turned into guinea pigs by the members of a grotesque medical oligarchy.
Le trappole della testimonianza
La rappresentazione dei rifugiati in Consigli per essere un bravo immigrato di Elvira Mujčić, La frontiera di Alessandro Leogrande e le antologie di Refugee Tales
Authors: De Capitani Lucio , Sbrojavacca Elena
Published: July 2024

In the wake of the so-called refugee crisis, the ethical imperative to write about the predicament of refugees has become hard to ignore. However, many representational pitfalls are involved in this process. Can refugees relate their story in a way that does not trap them into the role of victims? Can authors that choose to tell these stories avoid appropriating these experiences? This article tackles these issues in a comparative fashion, taking its case studies and theoretical insights from both the Italian and British cultural context, focusing on Elvira Mujčić’s Consigli per essere un bravo immigrato, Alessandro Leogrande’s La frontiera, and the short stories collections Refugee Tales.
Franco Marucci. History of English Literature. From the Late Inter-War Years to 2010 (Volume 8, Books 1 and 2)
Authors: Tomaiuolo Saverio
Published: July 2024

Review of Marucci, F. (2019). History of English Literature. From the Late Inter-War Years to 2010 (Volume 8, Book 1). Transl. from the Italian by A. Gillan. Bern: Peter Lang, pp. 674. | Marucci, F. (2019). History of English Literature. From the Late Inter-War Years to 2010 (Volume 8, Book 2). Transl. from the Italian by C. Durkan and D. Gailor. Bern: Peter Lang, pp. 746.
Franco Perrelli (2020). Kaj Munk e i suoi doppi
Authors: Ciaravolo Massimo
Published: July 2024

Review of Perrelli, F. (2020). Kaj Munk e i suoi doppi. Bari: Edizioni di Pagina, 330 pp.
Aishī’s ʿIshrat-nāma: a Dah-nāma with Unexpected Messengers
Authors: Beelaert Anna Livia
Published: July 2024

In the first part of this article I presented an edition with a short introduction of ʿAishī Shīrāzī’s ʿIshrat-nāma, a poem belonging to the dah-nāma genre. In this second part I discuss the messengers who convey the messengers between the two lovers. At the request of his patron, ʿInāyat, an amir of the Aq-Quyūnlū Khalīl b. Uzun Ḥasan, instead of the usual messenger, the wind, ʿAishī chose for ten musical instruments. I argue that the choice of these instruments, and the way they are decribed, are not accidental but subtly convey the evolution of the protagonists’ feelings.
Izayoi nikki. The History of a Disputed Heritage in the Kamakura Period (1185-1333)
Authors: Negri Carolina
Published: July 2024

This paper aims to cast fresh new light upon Izayoi nikki (The Diary of the Sixteenth Night Moon, c. 1280), the most representative work of Nun Abutsu. After considering why it has long been undervalued by Japanese scholars, this study takes a close look at the long and complicated legal dispute described in the diary. In this legal dispute, Nun Abutsu played a central role as loyal mother and widowed nun in struggling to ensure a future for her children, the natural descendants of a famous dynasty of poets. To fully understand the strength of the reasons behind her actions, it would seem to be of fundamental importance to read Izayoi nikki from a different perspective, taking into account not only the personal story of the author but also the socio-historical framework of the Kamakura period, focusing in particular on inheritance practices and the kinds of responsibilities women were expected to bear in relation to the family.
Pedon the Mercenary’s Votive Dedication
Authors: Barbaro Nicolò
Published: July 2024

In the Ionian city of Priene, in the first half of the 6th century BC, Pedon, son of Amphinneos, Greek mercenary at the service of the pharaohs of the 26th dynasty, dedicated an Egyptian block statue. It is not known if this statue was placed in a specific sanctuary, as it was found, in the late ’80s, in a cave near the same Priene. This block statue, headless and without feet and the base, according to some stylistic peculiarities, can be dated to the reign of Psammetichus I (664-610 BC), who hired Greek and Carian men, as mercenaries, to join and make his own kingdom stable. The inscription, which is on the front of the statue, is bustrophedic and consists of nine lines containing the typical formula of dedication and autobiographical references, as was typical in the use of this kind of sculpture by the Egyptians; on the last part of the inscription, Pedon mentions the pharaoh under whom he served as a mercenary, Psammetichus (Ψαμμήτιχος), and the particular gifts given to him by the pharaoh, a gold bracelet (ψίλιον τε χρύσεογ) and a city (πόλιν), attributable to some peculiarities of both Egyptian and Persian royal culture. A comparison of the paleographic characters dates instead this inscription to the reign of Psammetichus II (595-589 BC), fourth ruler of this dynasty, who also made great use of Greek mercenaries in his army, especially during an expedition in Nubia, which is known from the historical work of Herodotus and from the graffiti left by these Greeks to Abu Simbel. About the identity of the pharaoh mentioned in the inscription and the consequent dating of the same, numerous studies have been spent that have supported one or the other pharaoh, up to a final hypothesis that puts both theories in agreement: the mercenary Pedon would have served  Psammetichus I and, after buying this block statue, would have returned to Ionia, where he would have engraved the inscription and where centuries later the statue was found.
Alliance Treaty Between Athens and Reggio
Authors: Oranges Annabella
Published: July 2024

This inscription provides evidence for the conclusion of a military alliance (symmachia) between Athens and Rhegium. The reference to the eponym archon Apseudes allows us to safely date the inscription to the year 433/2 BC. Nevertheless, the fact that the first eight lines of the stone had been erased and inscribed again gives rise to the question about the actual meaning of the inscription, i.e. whether it should be considered as a renewal of a previous treaty of alliance or not. The analysis of literary sources, together with some remarks of technical nature, supports the hypothesis that the inscription represents the original military alliance between Athens and Rhegium. It was signed for the first time in 433/2 as a result of the economical and political common will both of Athens and of its syngenes Rhegium to strengthen their presence in Magna Graecia and on the Strait of Messina.
Athenian Decree for the Defenders of Democracy
Authors: Valente Marcello
Published: July 2024

After the overthrow of the oligarchic régime of the Thirty and the restoration of democracy, Thrasybulus proposed to grant citizenship to those who had fought in defence of democracy, among which there were several slaves. His decree was dismissed on a technicality by Archinus. Shortly thereafter, Archinus approved a decree granting only formal honours to those (citizens and foreigners) who had fought in defence of the Athenian demos. The decree preserved in this inscription displays the grant of honours to foreigners and metics who had fought for democracy. The fragmentary state of the document does not allow us to establish with certainty what kind of honours they received: the most likely are citizenship or isoteleia. The identification of this inscription with Archinus’ decree is, however, to be rejected on the basis of the granted honours. Possibly, the document could be another Thrasybulus’ decree or a law proposed by someone within his political circle. The decree, passed only later on, aimed at rewarding the defenders of democracy. Another debated issue concerns the number (one, two or three) of categories of recipients included in this stele, which is probably related to their individual contributions in the struggle for the defence of democracy. The type of reward and the date of the decree (between 404/3 and 401/0) push us to reconsider the matter of the status of the orator Lysias at the time of the trial against Eratosthenes: was he a citizen, an isoteles or a simple metic? Moreover, the list of the rewarded people, whose names appear together with their jobs, is a significant piece of evidence about Attic society at that time.
Decree for the Exiles of Mytilene
Authors: Fazzini Erica
Published: July 2024

The decree was enacted by the city of Mytilene, in Lesbos: it concerns the reinstatement of the exiles as a consequence of the diagramma of Alexander the Great addressed to the Greek cities. It dates back to 336 and 332 BE, during the war between Persian Empire and Macedonia for the domain on the Ionic Coast. This caused a continuos fight between the filo-Persian and filo-Macedonian parties in the Greek cities of the area. The most accredited date to the decree is the 332 BC. The decree treats the reconciliation between the two parties on a social and economical point of view. Many of the local authorities are involved in this process: boule, demos, basileis, but also a council of twenty men (diatatai). Another possible date is 319 BC; in this case the basileus mentioned in the decree would be Philip III Arrideo and the diagramma would refer to the decree that he emanated together with his prime minister Polyperchons.
Dedication of a Tithe to Apollo by the Phocians
Authors: Franchi Elena
Published: July 2024

At the beginning of the last century, French excavations at Delphi revealed a base with marks of statues’ feet (inv. 4553α­ζ = Jacquemin 1999, no. 397) featuring a fragmentary dedication (Syll.3 202B). The base most probably consisted in 9 slabs (but only 4 of them are preserved) and the inscription mentions the dedication of a tithe of the spoils to Apollo (the δ, dimly visible, is restored as δ[εκάταν]). It is very likely that the monument was erected after a victory in war. As such, it raises some relevant issues concerning Phocian history. The first issue relates to the chronology; the second issue, which is connected to the first one, to the battle that is commemorated. Most of the editors maintain that this monument refers to a battle fought between Phocians and Thessalians at the end of the 6th (or at the beginning of the 5th) century BC and told by Herodotus, Pausanias and Plutarch. The article also revisits the problem of the chronology of Aristomedon of Argos
Milesian Decree Relating to Political Banishments
Authors: Facella Margherita
Published: July 2024

The excavations conducted at Miletus in the North agora at the beginning of the last century have brought to light a marble base preserving an important document. It is a banishment decree by the city for a group of inhabitants of Miletus, together with their children and descendants. The initial part of the decree was engraved on a stele, which has never been found; hence, we cannot determine the number of offenders. The severity of the punishment and its extension to the descendants suggests, however, that it was a political crime, possibly treason. The officers who had to enforce the decree are the epimenioi. This term is attested in many Greek poleis to mean officers who had to fulfil monthly duties, for example sacrifices; at Miletus though, as it is implied by the present text, this board had wider duties. The mention of the epimenioi gives us 437-436 BC as a terminus ante quem: after this date the Milesian council was presided by a committee of prytaneis (hence substituting the epimenioi), which suggests a constitutional change based on the Athenian model. The historical context is obscure: the traditional interpretation sees these banishments as an evidence of the imposition of the democratic faction over the oligarchic faction at the middle of the fifth century, but it cannot be excluded that the decree was rather a measure against other groups (supporters of tyranny or supporters of the Persians).
Alexander the Great’s Edict for Priene
Authors: Squillace Giuseppe
Published: July 2024

Alexander the Great granted the inhabitans of Priene, who lived at Naulochon, autonomy, freedom, possession of land, and tax immunity. On the contrary, he confiscated the land of the remaining people forced to pay the tribute. The edict, enacted in 334 BC or later, but published in 284 under the reign of Lysimachus, was placed on Atena Polias’ temple in Priene.
Dedication by Alexander the Great in the Temple of Atena Polias in Priene
Authors: Squillace Giuseppe
Published: July 2024

The inscription, dated 334 or later and placed on Athena Polias’ temple in Priene, testifies to Alexander’s pity for the Goddess, but also his desire to show himself as champion of freedom and avenger of the Greek against the Persians.
Monument with Dedication by Kallimachos of Aphidna
Authors: Lanzillo Massimiliano
Published: July 2024

The inscription, written on two continuous lines in the two fluting cuts of an Ionic column, is a dedicatory epigram and consists of five hexameters. The dedication is attributed to Kallimachos of Aphidna, the Athenian polemarch who died at Marathon in 490 BC, according to Herodotus. The reconstruction of his name was made possible starting with the demotic Ἀφιδναῖο[ς] (l. 1) and the term πολέ]μαρχος (l. 3): it leads to the conclusion that the writing of the dedication took place likely in two moments: when Kallimachos was still alive (lines 1-2) and after his death (lines 3-5). The state of conservation is fragmentary: hence the multiple restitutions of the text proposed by scholars.
Votive Inscription by Archinos in the Sanctuary of Oropos
Authors: Savo Maria Barbara
Published: July 2024

Pentelic marble table with a brief dedicatory inscription of a patient, Archinos, found in the Amphiaraos sanctuary in Oropos during the excavations of Leonardos. The pinax, in relief, shows three significant moments of the postulant’s stay in the shrine. The narration begins on the left, where Amphiaraos is represented (with greater size if compared to the patient) intent to intervene with an instrument on Archinos’ right shoulder. Below is a scene of enkoimeterion, where Archinos, lying on a kline, is overhung by the sacred snake and touched on the right shoulder. The third image of the patient represents him at the right end of the pinax and seems to be looking and pointing at the votive table on the stele with his right hand: it is an offer as a sign of gratitude to the god.
Athenian Regulations for the Protection of Sacred Trees to Apollo Erithaseos
Authors: Gubbiotti Sara
Published: July 2024

The inscription is a religious regulation found in a suburb to the north-east of Athens, dated to the second half of the 4th century BC. The place of discovery corresponds to the location of an ancient attic deme. The purpose of the regulation was to protect the sacred grove of Apollo Erithaseos from cutting trees and collecting dead branches or leaves, and more generally from damaging plant elements. The punishment for the violators is different for slaves and for free men. The priest, together with the demarchos, has the legal right to impose a fine and perhaps, through the delivery of the name, the judicial procedure against the guilty continued according to the laws of the polis.
Collections of Epigraphic Squeezes: A New Digital Resource
Authors: Antonetti Claudia , Brunet Michèle , Paganoni Eloisa
Published: July 2024

This paper presents E-Stampages, a new digital tool for Greek Epigraphy. It publishes online a relevant number of squeezes from the collections of the Laboratory Histoire et Sources des Mondes Antiques (HiSoMA) of Lyon, the École française d’Athènes and the Laboratory of Greek Epigraphy of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. It stands out among similar resources for the accurate organisation of metadata, that is based upon ‘holistic’ concept of squeeze, and the 3D reconstruction. The paper describes the collaboration between the E-Stampages project, coordinated by Michèle Brunet, and the Venice Squeeze Project, coordinated by Claudia Antonetti. It highlights the shared methodologies and aims as well as the peculiarities of each of them.
For a Prosopography of Athenian Priests and Priestesses in the Imperial Age: Preliminary Notes
Authors: Camia Francesco
Published: July 2024

This paper offers an overview of an ongoing research project on priesthoods in Roman Athens, whose first purpose is to realise a prosopography of the Athenian cult personnel during the Roman imperial period (c. 27 BC-267 AD). Despite a growing interest in the last years on the social aspects of Greek (and Roman) religion and specifically on priesthoods as is also shown by the publication of several collective volumes on the latter subject, systematic investigations on the cult personnel of single poleis are still lacking. As regards Athens, in particular, while there are studies on specific priesthoods such as the Eleusinian priesthoods or the priests of Asklepios, to date there is no comprehensive investigation on the Athenian cult personnel. Furthermore, while different aspects connected with priesthood have been studied for Classical and Hellenistic Athens, the Roman imperial period has been left largely ‘in the shadows’. Having this in mind, I have begun a research on Athenian cult personnel during the Roman imperial period. Since any such investigation must be based on a systematic collection of the epigraphic evidence on the individual holders of the different priesthoods, my first aim is to realise a prosopography of all religious functionaries, both male and female, of Athenian cults (that is to say of cults performed in Athens) from Augustus up to the 3rd c. AD (ca. AD 267). The prosopography is to be followed in due time by a synthesis on the religious, social, and cultural aspects of priesthood in Roman Athens. The prosopographic catalogue, collecting the relevant epigraphic and literary testimonies, will provide for each priest the main data (name, chronology, status, other charges, bibliography) and a thorough commentary on his family relations and on his priestly activity and public career.
Two Notes on the Collection of Greek Ritual Norms
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Authors: Carbon Jan-Mathieu , Pirenne-Delforge Vinciane
Published: July 2024

Launched in 2017, the Collection of Greek Ritual Norms provides an open-access commentary on selected ancient Greek inscriptions which define parameters of ritual practice. These short notes address two issues superficially concerning the name of the Collection of Greek Ritual Norms, but more deeply engaging with what one means by the notion of 'ritual norm' and what one implies in considering such norms 'Greek'. A term like 'cult regulation' might conveniently be used to replace the misnomer 'sacred law', but this encompasses a similarly broad and miscellaneous group of inscriptions. By contrast, the category of 'ritual norm' aims to reframe the discussion by focussing on normativity – paradigms and exceptions – with regard to two key rituals, sacrifice and purification. It thus only partly reprises the corpus of 'sacred laws', while also including other inscriptions or excerpts from them. Calling such norms 'Greek' is not intended as an 'ethnic' designation of the rituals they describe but rather as a reference to the language of the inscriptions. The label 'Greek ritual norms' is thus programmatic, allowing for a wider investigation of the normative characteristics of rituals within the religious 'middle grounds' of the ancient Greek world.
PCR Aleria: Epigraphic Aspects
Authors: Grandinetti Paola
Published: July 2024

The project PCR Aléria is directed by Vincent Jolivet in collaboration with the Président de l’Exécutif de la Collectivité de Corse, the Président de l’Assemblée de Corse, the Conseillère exécutive en charge de la Culture, the D.R.A.C. and the Directeur du Département Histoire de l’Université. The work that I started in June in Corsica is part of this collective research project on the ancient city of Aleria and its territory, with the objective of studying ancient landscapes through the millennia, the systematic recognition of the hinterland and the urban centre, as well as a capillary study of the findings and of the Latin and Greek inscriptions. Only the epigraphic aspects will be presented here.
Customs Regulations from Kaunos (B10-C1)
An Interpretative Hypothesis
Authors: Radulova Lyuba
Published: July 2024

The paper focuses on the famous customs-law from Kaunos (SEG XIV, 639). Leaving aside those aspects of the text that have been better studied, such as the relations between a civitas libera and the Roman administration or the taxability of certain categories of goods from the portorium, the study concentrates on a less important point the obligation to declare the imported goods. The focal point of the study is paragraph B10-C1, which is in a very fragmentary state of conservation. The two editions of the inscription are analysed with special attention to the different integrations and interpretations proposed by the editors and by other scholars. The analysis leads to the conclusion that it is possible to make an internal parallel with paragraph C8-D5 of the same inscription and to propose a new integration of the damaged l. B13.
Inscription on greave from Montagna di Marzo
Authors: Fariello Francesca
Published: July 2024

A pair of bronze greaves – dated to the beginning of the 5th century BC – is preserved at the Antikensammlungen in Munich. On one of them it is possible to read the graffiti epigraph – Denda – that is most probably the anthroponym of their owner. The comparison with a pair of greaves found in a necropolis in the Sikel centre of Montagna di Marzo (Enna), that is generally identified with the ancient city of Herbessus, suggests that the original location of the greaves preserved in Munich can be identified with the same archaeological context. The anthroponym attested by the inscription has been interpreted both as Greek and as Sikel.
Decree from Falanna Concerning the Grant of Citizenship
Authors: De Luca Gaia
Published: July 2024

The decree records the bestowal of citizenship of the Thessalian city of Phalanna to a large group of individuals, among whom Perrhaibians, Magnesians, Ainians, and Achaians. The citizenship undergoes some conditions: the people enjoying the bestowal must be inscribed on the citizens’ registers and pass the dokimasia. Beside this groups of individuals, the text also mentions another group of people, the offspring of Phalannaian women with non-Phalannaian men. A list of the names of the newly made citizens follows: there are some fifty names including some siblings.
Re-run and Re-read
Tom McCarthy’s Remainder as an Archeology of the Present
Authors: Violi Alessandra
Published: July 2024

Hailed by critics as breaking paths for the direction of British fiction, Tom McCarthy’s novel Remainder (2005) has been described as a way of re-thinking literature in terms of intermedial spaces, be they installations, performance artworks or a ‘remix’ of writing and film. The newness of Remainder seems to hinge on its imitation of a contemporary mediascape saturated with technical images and simulacra, in which reality is totally metamorphosed into a filmic phantasmagoria that novel writing is striving to mimic. Following McCarthy’s eschewing of the rhetoric of the ‘new’, this essay discusses the practice of re-enactment described in Remainder as a way digging up images from the past to read the myth of postmodern hyperreality against its grain. McCarthy’s ‘archeology of the present’ takes the concern with mediation and visual culture back to the unfinished business of modernism and its encounter with cinematic technology, reproposing the materialist aesthetics of embodiment that emerged from the conversation among literature, film and medicine in writers such as Joyce or T.S. Eliot, down to Samuel Beckett.
Frances Greville’s A Prayer for Indifference
The Limits of Sentiment
Authors: Kukkonen Karin
Published: July 2024

The present article considers Frances Greville’s poem A Prayer for Indifference as the centre of a debate around the nature of the emotions and their social and cultural roles in the eighteenth century. Greville questions the models of the philosophers of sensibility, in particular Francis Hutcheson’s, and, drawing on Shakespeare’s newly prominent status, puts forward literature as an alternative.
Isaac Watts’s Hymnody as a Guide for the Passions
Authors: Johnson Daniel
Published: July 2024

Isaac Watts (1674-1748) argued that the passions, understood synonymously with the affections, were an essential component of the Christian experience. Watts designed a system of hymnody which allowed the worshipper to excite, cultivate, and express their passions. This paper traces the history of the passions and affections in those who were to influence Watts’ thought, before considering the ways Watts’ hymns allowed the passions to be experienced and articulated.
Tableaux and Melodramatic Realism
Authors: Williams Carolyn
Published: July 2024

If in many ways its aims are comparable to those of novelistic realism (a focus on ordinary characters and contemporary social issues), melodrama exhibits a form of realism all its own. This essay focuses on several elements of that form, especially on the workings of the tableau. At the moment of tableau, acting bodies suddenly freeze to make a silent and still stage picture whose significance can be interpreted. Though the critical history of the tableau is tightly related to genre painting, its formal operations within melodrama are more complex than the aim to offer verisimilitude in the depiction of ordinary life. Tableaux establish the melodramatic narrative form characterised by intermittent pictorialization. They interrupt the dramatic action, summing up the plot so far and adumbrating action to come; they form ‘points’ on which the suspense of dramatic unfolding might hang; and these sudden moments of silence and stasis carry affective and intellectual points as well. Using exemplary readings of melodramas across the English 19th century, this essay demonstrates the formal potentialities of the tableau, including the metatheatrical self-consciousness of its role in constructing melodramatic realism.
Social Representations and Motivation in FL Study
A Wall in the Face of the Spread of Italian in Morocco
Authors: Fawzi Karrami Jihad
Published: July 2024

The so called ‘social representations’ have long occupied enormous interest in scholars’ concern mainly in the field of language education. The research in this particular branch of social psychology has made it possible to understand that the attitudes and perception of students towards a language studied within a given society play a significant role in their desire to learn it or in their partial refusal of it or even in their rejection of that language. This article mainly examines the impact of social representations on students’ motivation for learning Italian in a context where several foreign languages are in competition. The research was undertaken in Moulay Abdellah High School in Rabat, adopting a quantitative and qualitative methodology to analyse students’ linguistic attitudes towards Italian. The research’s results proved, in compliance with previous literature, that social representations do define the de facto status of Italian in the Moroccan educational system.
Grammar and Grammars in Italian FL
Authors: Benucci Antonella
Published: July 2024

The contribution presents a reflection on an ever-present aspect of teaching second and foreign languages: the weight of linguistic reflection and of the choice of formal contents in teaching. Over the years, educational linguistics has matured more and more adequate responses to the diversification of the types of learners of Italian as a second/foreign language, that will be summarized in this contribution.
A Discussion of Gifted Students’ Evaluation in Language Teaching
Authors: Novello Alberta
Published: July 2024

Gifted students have peculiarities that make their learning noticeably different from their peers. If this distinctiveness is not taken into consideration in teaching, the efficacy of their learning can be affected. In language learning the particularities demonstrated by gifted students set their development of the foreign language completely apart from that of their schoolmates.
The essays describes how gifted students learn a foreign language and examines the main mistakes that can be made in assessing their learning. Some proposals are then described in order to avoid the main mistakes.