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‘Persia’ and the western imagination | OUPblog - http://blog.oup.com/2015...

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В быту у нас тут очень часто, когда спрашиваешь иранца, откуда он, ответ: I am Persian/from Persia. Остальные говорят I am from Iran, но почти никогда I am an Iranian. Персов тут много, так что выборка приличная, и аффтар прав. - maitani - -

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"Iran has long had a difficult relationship with the West. Ever since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 overthrew the monarchy and established an Islamic Republic, Iran has been associated in the popular consciousness with militant Islam and radical anti-Westernism. ‘Persia’ by contrast has long been a source of fascination in the Western imagination eliciting both awe and contempt that only familiarity can bring. Indeed if ‘Iran’ seems altogether alien to us, ‘Persia’ seems strangely familiar. There are few cultural icons or aspirations that we would associate with Iran; there are by contrast quite a few we would relate to Persia, most obviously carpets, the occasional cat and for the truly affluent, caviar. That these two words would elicit such dramatically different associations is all the more striking because they are describing the same place. Persia is simply the name inherited from the Greeks and the Romans for the great empire to the East that its inhabitants came to know as ‘Iran’. Persia, from the province of Pars, was not unknown to the Iranians but they would not have used it to apply to the entirety of their state." - maitani - -

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AWOL - The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten - http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.de/2010...

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"Currently available online are: StBoT 1: Heinrich Otten, Vladimir Souček Das Gelübde der Königin Puduḫepa an die Göttin Lelwani 1965. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 2: Onofrio Carruba Das Beschwörungsritual für die Göttin Wišurijanza 1966. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 3: Hans Martin Kümmel Ersatzrituale für den hethitischen König 1967. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 4: Rudolf Werner Hethitische Gerichtsprotokolle 1967. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 5: Erich Neu Interpretation der hethitischen mediopassiven Verbalformen 1968. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 6: Erich Neu Das hethitische Mediopassiv und seine indogermanischen Grundlagen 1968. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 7: Heinrich Otten, Wolfram von Soden Das akkadisch-hethitische Vokabular Kbo I 44 + Kbo XIII1 1968. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 8: Heinrich Otten, Vladimir Souček Ein althethitisches Ritual für das Königspaar 1969. VI, [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 9: Kaspar Klaus Riemschneider Babylonische Geburtsomina in hethitischer Übersetzung 1970. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 10: Onofrio Carruba Das Palaische Texte, Grammatik, Lexikon 1970. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 11: Heinrich Otten Sprachliche Stellung und Datierung des Madduwatta-Textes 1969. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 12: Erich Neu Ein althethitisches Gewitterritual 1970. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 13: Heinrich Otten Ein hethitisches Festritual (KBo XIX 128) 1971. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 14: Jana Siegelová Appu-Märchen und Ḫ edammu-Mythus 1971. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 15: Heinrich Otten Materialien zum hethitischen Lexikon (Wörter beginnend mit zu...) 1971. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 16: Cord Kühne, Heinrich Otten Der Šaušgamuwa-Vertrag Eine Untersuchung zu Sprache und Graphik 1971. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 17: Heinrich Otten Eine althethitische Erzählung um die Stadt Zalpa 1973. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 18: Erich Neu Der Anitta-Text 1974. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 19: Cornelia Burde Hethitische medizinische Texte 1974. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 20: Christel Rüster Hethitische Keilschrift-Paläographie Mit einer Einleitung von Heinrich Otten 1972. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 21: Erich Neu, Christel Rüster Hethitische Keilschrift- Paläographie II (14./13. Jh.v.Chr.) 1975. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 22: Norbert Oettinger Die Militärischen Eide der Hethiter 1976. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 23: Frank Starke Die Funktionen der dimensionalen Kasus und Adverbien im Althethitischen 1977. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 24: Heinrich Otten Die Apologie Ḫattušilis III. Das Bild der Überlieferung 1981. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 25: Erich Neu Althethitische Ritualtexte in Umschrift 1980. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 26: Erich Neu Glossar zu den althethitischen Ritualtexten 1983. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 27: Itamar Singer The Hittite KI.LAM Festival, Part 1 1983. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 28: Itamar Singer The Hittite Kl.LAM Festival, Part 2 1984. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 29: Gary M. Beckman Hittite Birth Rituals 2nd rev. edition 1983.[vergriffen] PDF StBoT 30: Frank Starke Die keilschrift-luwischen Texte in Umschrift 1985. [vergriffen] PDF StBoT 31: Frank Starke Untersuchungen zur Stammbildung des keilschrift-luwischen Nomens 1990. XXVI, 705 Seiten, br ISBN 978-3-447-02879-0 alter Preis € 134,– jetzt € 20,– www.harrassowitz-verlag.de PDF StBoT 32: Erich Neu Das hurritische Epos der Freilassung 1 Untersuchungen zu einem hurritisch-hethitischen Textensemble aus Ḫattuša 1996. XIX, 596 Seiten, 6 Tafeln, br ISBN 978-3-447-03487-6 alter Preis € 124,– jetzt € 20,– www.harrassowitz-verlag.de PDF" - maitani - -

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BBC News - Would you be beautiful in the ancient world? - http://www.bbc.com/news...

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"In ancient Greece the rules of beauty were all important. Things were good for men who were buff and glossy. And for women, fuller-figured redheads were in favour - but they had to contend with an ominous undercurrent, historian Bettany Hughes explains." - maitani - -

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"A full-lipped, cheek-chiselled man in Ancient Greece knew two things - that his beauty was a blessing (a gift of the gods no less) and that his perfect exterior hid an inner perfection. For the Greeks a beautiful body was considered direct evidence of a beautiful mind. They even had a word for it - kaloskagathos - which meant being gorgeous to look at, and hence being a good person." - maitani - -

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What the World Will Speak in 2115 - WSJ - by John H. MCWhorter - http://www.wsj.com/article...

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"But it didn’t matter. By the time Esperanto got out of the gate, another language was already emerging as an international medium: English. Two thousand years ago, English was the unwritten tongue of Iron Age tribes in Denmark. A thousand years after that, it was living in the shadow of French-speaking overlords on a dampish little island. No one then living could have dreamed that English would be spoken today, to some degree, by almost two billion people, on its way to being spoken by every third person on the planet." - maitani - -

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If the masses use emoji I will switch to kamoji - maitani - -

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Deep Habits: Read a (Real) Book Slowly - Study Hacks - Cal Newport - http://calnewport.com/blog...

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Agreed, there is not much to learn here. I posted it mostly as a reminder for myself. :-) - maitani - -

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"There was a time when intellectual engagement necessarily included long hours reading old-fashioned paper tomes. But in an age when a digital attention economy is ascendant, it’s now possible to satisfy this curiosity without ever consuming more than a couple hundred highly digested and simplified words at a time." - maitani - -

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AWOL: Now We are Six! - http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.de/

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"AWOL' s Alphabetical list of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies currently includes 1447 titles. I continuously edit and revise the list as URLs change, titles go offline, and so on." - maitani - -

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3quarksdaily: Typical Dreams: A Comparison of Dreams Across Cultures - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarks...

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I have the strangest dreams every night. I don't understand why, but my brain loves to play while I sleep. I wish I could turn it off every once in awhile. - maitani - -

"Have you ever wondered how the content of your dreams differs from that of your friends? How about the dreams of people raised in different countries and cultures? It is not always easy to compare dreams of distinct individuals because the content of dreams depends on our personal experiences. This is why dream researchers have developed standardized dream questionnaires in which common thematic elements are grouped together. These questionnaires can be translated into various languages and used to survey and scientifically analyze the content of dreams. Open-ended questions about dreams might elicit free-form, subjective answers which are difficult to categorize and analyze. Therefore, standardized dream questionnaires ask study subjects "Have you ever dreamed of . . ." and provide research subjects with a list of defined dream themes such as being chased, flying or falling." - maitani - -

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Babel's Dawn: Signaling the Intent to Signal - http://www.babelsdawn.com/babels_...

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"Before I get distracted by too much nit-picking, let me get to the summary paragraph: Thomas Scott-Phillips' book, Speaking Our Minds, contributes seriously to the study of language origins. First and foremost, it demands that pragmatics—the study of language in its social context—be included in the effort to understand language origins. What's more, it makes good on its case. Pragmatics has been underplayed and anybody who thinks about language origins should read and study the book. If the book were not so danged expensive, I would even urge you to buy a copy. (By the way, I've mentioned Scott-Phillips before—see Reality Blogging—and I remember him as a promising fellow at the Barcelona Evolang conference of 2008.)" - maitani - -

"The case for pragmatics rests on its special view of language as an ostensive-inferential communications system. Sorry, I'd like to use some other term, but that is the one used by the author and others, so we might as well hold our noses and roll with the bandwagon. You can understand it by imagining the archetypal scene in which Homo erectus A points toward a charging sabertooth tiger and a second erectus (B) looks on. What is going on here? First, A has something it wishes to communicate to B. Second, A shows its communicative desire by pointing. Then B has to realize that A is trying to signal something and not just holding out a finger for B's admiration. B then follows A's finger and sees the charging sabertooth. B now infers that A is signaling danger. Both A and B then shout out the erectus version of, "Feets, don't fail me now," and start running." - maitani - -

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SARIT: Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts - http://sarit.indology.info/

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"Welcome to the SARIT website. Here you will find electronic editions of Sanskrit and other Indian-language texts. These are documented, dated and have embedded notes about their change history, so that they can be publicly cited and used with confidence as scholarly sources. The editions in the SARIT library currently include these works. This website also currently offers tools for text search, retrieval and analysis of the works in the SARIT library. You can search for a single word, phrase, words that occur in the same paragraph, and so forth. You can generate an index of terms, a KWIC index, and word-frequency lists. You can download all the texts at SARIT. They are licensed under a Creative Commons license. Once downloaded, you can use services such as OxGarage to convert the files to a format that is useful to you, for example PDF, HTML, or for reading on an ebook like the Kindle." - maitani - -

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Murty Classical Library Catalogs Indian Literature - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2015...

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Sure, but the scope of this series is different and much wider, as to the intention of the editors. The "Sacred Books of the East" series focuses on ancient religious texts, it is undispensable, of course, and precious, but what about secular literature, later works, works written in languages that are not Indo-Aryan? - maitani - -

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"The Murty Classical Library of India, whose first five dual-language volumes will be released next week, will include not only Sanskrit texts but also works in Bangla, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Persian, Prakrit, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and other languages. Projected to reach some 500 books over the next century, the series is to encompass poetry and prose, history and philosophy, Buddhist and Muslim texts as well as Hindu ones, and familiar works alongside those that have been all but unavailable to nonspecialists." - maitani - -

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Kumbh Mela: The Greatest Gathering or People on the Planet ~ Kuriositas - http://www.kuriositas.com/2015...

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"Kumbh Mela is a Hindu pilgrimage which attracts, each year, the greatest peaceful get together of people in the world. The Maha Kumbh Mela of 2013 saw over 100 million people gather to bathe at dawn in the sacred Ganges River." - maitani - -

"Time-lapse Photography and Adventure Filmmaker Rufus Blackwell was there and captured these astounding time-lapse images." - maitani - -

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A Calendar Page for January 2015 - Medieval manuscripts blog - http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitis...

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"Evidence that the book was Joanna’s is tantalising, but inconclusive. The repeated presence of Joanna’s name saint, John the Evangelist, is a potential clue, and the presence of a number of Spanish saints in the calendar suggests that it was probably produced for a member of the Spanish aristocracy." - maitani - -

"Regular readers will know that one of our blog traditions is to highlight a calendar from a particular medieval manuscript throughout the course of the year. Past manuscripts have included the Isabella Breviary, the Hours of Joanna the Mad, the Golf Book, and the Huth Hours. In 2015 we are pleased to present a manuscript that has featured on our blog before, the London Rothschild Hours. Confusingly, this manuscript is often also called the Hours of Joanna the Mad (or the Hours of Joanna I of Castile), as it has been suggested that the manuscript belonged to that famous lady." - maitani - -

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This Year in Philology 2014 | Memiyawanzi - http://memiyawanzi.wordpress.com/2014...

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"It occurs to me that music bloggers typically make year-end ‘best of’ lists for the best new music they’ve heard this year. Why shouldn’t I make a post to highlight the most interesting things I’ve read this year that were published this year? Thanks to my obsessive cataloging of my reading with EndNote, compiling a list is actually not so hard, so without further adieu, and in no particular order (aside from alphabetically, as every good bibliography should be) is my selective list of my philological favourites of 2014:" - maitani - -

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TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): The giant ash trees of Tasmania - http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.de/2014...

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"...the tallest trees can suffer from "xylem cavitation", in which gas bubbles form in the cells carrying water up the trunk. These tiny gas embolisms [sic] can prevent water from moving up the tiny conduit cells, much like a pulmonary embolism can stop blood flow to the lungs in humans. To avoid this, the tree regulates how much water is lost through its leaves by closing down the tiny pores all over their surfaces. But these pores are also the pathways for carbon dioxide to come in, so by closing them the trees limit how much sugar they can make." - maitani - -

"The trees in question are mountain ash, the tallest flowering trees in the world. They are not quite the tallest trees of any kind: that record belongs to the coast redwoods of the western US. But that might be because things have been skewed against the mountain ash..." - maitani - -

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19 Amazing Sites To Get Free Stock Photos » SideJobr: Labor for your neighbor - http://sidejobr.com/help...

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"In this post, we’ve created a list for you of awesome websites that have free stock photos. This is not the end all – be all of sites and if you find others, please feel free to list them in the comment section. Note: Most of these images fall under a creative commons license (just make sure you attribute properly) or are old enough that the photos have returned to the public domain. (This happens once the copyright on an image expires.)" - maitani - -

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December Darkness Across the Universe - Out There - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/outther...

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"Consider, for instance, Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko, the now-famous comet being explored by the Rosetta spacecraft (and home to the intrepid, hibernating Philae lander). In all the images you see online, it looks brightly lit. Even the allegedly “true color” image, which is supposed to show what the Comet C-G would look like to the human eye up close, is a bright green-tinged gray. Here’s the truth: The comet is blacker than coal." - maitani - -

"During the darkest days of December, it makes me feel better to think about all the other, more profound darknesses out there in the universe. A little dose of the old perspective, you know. And boy, there are a lot of them–not just a lot of dark places, but a lot of different forms of darkness out there. In fact, there’s a lot more darkness than most of us realize, for an obvious if easily overlooked reason: Space images are calibrated to highlight faint or even invisible detail, making the universe seem like a much brighter place than it really is." - maitani - -

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Kazuo Ishiguro: how I wrote The Remains of the Day in four weeks | Books | The Guardian - http://www.theguardian.com/books...

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"Until that point, since giving up the day job five years earlier, I’d managed reasonably well to maintain a steady rhythm of work and productivity. But my first flurry of public success following my second novel had brought with it many distractions. Potentially career-enhancing proposals, dinner and party invitations, alluring foreign trips and mountains of mail had all but put an end to my “proper” work. I’d written an opening chapter to a new novel the previous summer, but now, almost a year later, I was no further forward." - maitani - -

"Many people have to work long hours. When it comes to the writing of novels, however, the consensus seems to be that after four hours or so of continuous writing, diminishing returns set in. I’d always more or less gone along with this view, but as the summer of 1987 approached I became convinced a drastic approach was needed. Lorna, my wife, agreed." - maitani - -

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Merry Christmas, Gordon, Sepi, and Anne! :-) - maitani - -

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Families in Literature: the Flytes in Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh | Books | The Guardian - http://www.theguardian.com/books...

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"If you read Brideshead Revisited for the first time in your teens (as so many of us do) you can come away with the idea of a Cinderella story: middle-class Charles is scooped up by the happy aristocracy – the deserving poor boy looking longingly through the window is allowed in, gawps at the magnificence, is grateful for the attention, and of course falls in love with Sebastian." - maitani - -

"But when you read it again, you see that Brideshead is not a book about Oxford, or homoerotic love, or social climbing: it’s a book about religion – and about families. It is Sebastian who is in love with Charles, jealously wanting to keep him to himself:" - maitani - -

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Facts about the winter solstice | OUPblog - http://blog.oup.com/2014...

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Thanks for sharing this, Maitani. :) - maitani - -

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"The winter solstice settles on 21 December this year, which means it’s the day with the least amount of sunlight. It’s the official first day of winter, although people have been braving the cold for weeks, huddled in coats and scarves and probably wool socks. It’s easy to pass over the winter solstice because of the holidays; however, many traditions center around the solstices and equinoxes, and even Christmas has borrowed some ideas from the midwinter celebration. Below are a few facts about the winter solstice and the influence it has had on religion." - maitani - -

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The Oxford Linguistic History of English series lives on - Christopher Culver - http://www.christopherculver.com/languag...

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"Back in 2006, Oxford University Press published Don Ringe’s From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic, which was billed as the first volume in a new OUP series called A Linguistic History of English. That particular book wasn’t so much a history of the English language that we know as a reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European. Don Ringe is a major figure in Indo-European studies (as well as historical linguistics in general), and it was great to get a state-of-the-art reconstruction from his perspective." - maitani - -

"After enjoying that first volume, I would impatiently check the new arrivals shelf at the university library so I could read the second volume straightaway. Years passed, however, and nothing ever appeared. I had wondered if the series had been canceled, but now Oxford University Press finally unveiled the second volume: The Development of Old English, this time by Don Ringe and Ann Taylor." - maitani - -

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Ancient, hydrogen-rich waters deep underground around the world: Waters could support isolated life -- ScienceDaily - http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...

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"Common in Precambrian Shield rocks -- the oldest rocks on Earth -- the ancient waters have a chemistry similar to that found near deep sea vents, suggesting these waters can support microbes living in isolation from the surface." - maitani - -

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10 quotes to inspire a love of winter | OUPblog - http://blog.oup.com/2014...

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"Winter encourages a certain kind of idiosyncratic imagery not found during any other season: white, powdery snow, puffs of warm breath, be-scarfed holiday crowds. The following slideshow presents a lovely compilation of quotes from the eighth edition of our Oxford Dictionary of Quotations that will inspire a newfound love for winter, whether you’ve ever experienced snow or not!" - maitani - -

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, then where is it to be found?" It snowed here last night :) - maitani - -

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