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Το 1896, δημοσιεύεται από τον Heinrich Menge η κριτική έκδοση και η λατινική μετάφραση του Υπομνήματος στα Δεδομένα του Ευκλείδη, ενός εκ των δύο σωζόμενων έργων του Μαρίνου του Νεαπολίτη. Τόσο στην κριτική έκδοση του Menge όσο και σε όλες τις άλλες μεταφράσεις του Υπομνήματος που ακολούθησαν, εμφανίζεται ένα μεταφραστικό ατόπημα σχετικά με την απόδοση της φράσης «τὸ λογικὸν πρὸς τὸ πεζόν». Ο στόχος του παρόντος σημειώματος είναι να αποκαταστήσει το νόημα του αρχαίου ελληνικού κειμένου και να αναδείξει τις δυνατές προεκτάσεις της προτεινόμενης μετάφρασης., Back in 1896, Heinrich Menge published the critical edition of the Introduction to Euclid’s Data, one of the two extant works by Marinus of Neapolis, accompanied by a Latin translation. In Menge’s work, as well as in all other translations that followed it, there appears an oversight regarding the translation of the phrase ‘τὸ λογικὸν πρὸς τὸ πεζόν’. The aim of the present note is to restore the meaning of the ancient Greek text and to examine the possible outcomes of the proposed translation.

In management of fisheries, knowledge about the species is crucial due to differences in life history traits. The first step is therefore species identification. For many species this task is straightforward, however for some species e.g. the two species of Atlantic redfish Sebastes mentella and Sebastes norvegicus, it can be difficult for an untrained eye. With the goal to separate the two species, we analysed otolith shape variation of S. mentella and S. norvegicus caught on the continental slope of East Greenland using the R package “Shape R”. Results were evaluated against genetic analysis of the same fish, and compared to results of both a visual identification of the two species and a separation based on a linear discriminant analysis on standardised values of fish length, fish weight and otolith weight. It was concluded that the objective otolith shape analysis using the Shape R package analysis achieve a reasonable classification success, however with a clear bias towards S. mentella. Classification using the otolith weight achieved a slightly higher success than the shape analysis making it a promising method. Furthermore, the method is at the same time both objective, less time consuming than the otolith shape analysis and less expensive than genetic analysis. However, the visual classification method of the whole fish had the highest success rate of the three tested methods, which despite the need for trained technicians makes it the most successful method.

This essay explores the trope of reincarnation across the works of British author David Mitchell (b.1969) as an alternative approach to linear temporality, whose spiralling cyclicality warns of the dangers of seeing past actions as separate from future consequences, and whose focus on human interconnection demonstrates the importance of collective, intergenerational action in the face of ecological crises. Drawing on the Buddhist philosophy of samsara, or the cycle of life, death, and rebirth, this paper identifies links between the author’s interest in reincarnation and its secular manifestation in the treatment of time in his fictions. These works draw on reincarnation in their structures and characterisation as part of an ethical approach to the Anthropocene, using the temporal model of ‘reincarnation time’ as a narrative strategy to demonstrate that a greater understanding of generational interdependence is urgently needed in order to challenge the linear ‘end of history’ narrative of global capitalism. Preprint Postprint

After the conquest of the Near East by Alexander the Great in 332 BCE, the Samaritans, like all other peoples in the region, fell under the influence of Greek culture. In a gradual process of Hellenization, the Samaritans developed their own variant of Hellenism. The extant fragments of Samaritan literature in Greek, as well as quite a number of Greco-Samaritan inscriptions (both in Palestine and the diaspora) testify to the existence of a variegated Samaritan Hellenism.

Se analiza el contenido estomacal de 37 sapos Bufo va/beeps procedentes de una zona agrícola en Metztitlan, Hidalgo y 6 sapos B. valliceps de una localidad con lagunas de temporal y dunas costeras en Alvarado, Veracruz; al mismo tiempo, se registraron los tipos alimenticios de 4 sapos Bufo marinus y 5 Bufo marmoreus que viven en simpatria con B. valliceps en la segunda localidad. Se observa que los sapos B. vallieeps de la zona agricola tienen una mayor disponibilidad de alimento y cuerpos de agua durante todo el año; mientras que en la localidad con lagunas de temporal estos recursos son estacionales. EI numero de individuos y de tipos alimenticios es menor en la localidad de las escolleras en Alvarado, Veracruz respecto a la localidad de Metztithin, Hidalgo. Los sapos B. marinus parecen preferir presas de gran tamano, mientras que B. marmoreus tiende a tener una alimentaci6n similar a la de B. valliceps.