As former Kansas City Star editor Steve Paul reminds us in his superb Literary Alchemist: The Writing Life of Evan S. Connell, the versatile Connell consistently exceeded expectations. Just a few years after portraying the genteel Mrs. Bridge, he released ‘A Rapist’s Diary’ (1966), which takes the reader chillingly into the pathetic world and warped psychology of a monster. It really is an amazing book. Paul compares it to Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita”, both in its unsettling subject matter and brilliant artistry.
Evan Connell (1924-2013) grew up in a family similar to Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, was a handsome movie star and regularly wore a bomber jacket. He never married and always lived simply, even ascetically (one suit, two pairs of shoes). Introspective, publicity shy, and unable to chat over dinner, he enjoyed drinking in bars, playing chess, studying pre-Columbian antiquities, and spending time with women. His most earnest girlfriend, Gale Garnett, won a Grammy for her short-lived romance anthem, “We’ll Sing in the Sunshine.”
While based in the San Francisco area, Connell traveled extensively not only in reality — a few years in Paris, trips to Mexico, the Near East and Asia — but also in his books. His one true bestseller, “Son of the Morning Star,” is a digressive, fact-rich meditation on General George Armstrong Custer and the forces in American history that led to the Little Bighorn Massacre. Yet Connell also produced terrific short stories, mosaic-like poetic assemblages (“Notes from a Bottle Found on Carmel Beach”), novels about alchemists and crusaders, a score of essays exploring the paths romantics of history (grouped under the title “The Aztec Treasure House”) and even an idiosyncratic short life of painter Francisco Goya.
Following Connell’s career, “Literary Alchemist” tangentially documents his association with California literary magazine Contact and several publishing legends (George Plimpton, Robert Gottlieb, Jack Shoemaker), devotes fascinating pages to how the jury – which included Connell and was led by former Post critic Jonathan Yardley, chose the 1973 National Book Award in the fiction category and detailed the screenplay and production of the film “Mr. and Mrs. Bridge” and the television adaptation of “Son of the Morning Star”.
As Paul points out, Connell often struggled with this double-edged compliment of being “a writer’s writer.” The same could be said of Robert Aickman (1914-1981), whose “strange tales” are elegantly written, more or less surreal and, depending on the point of view, frustrating, inconclusive or haunting. Only occasionally ‘ghost stories’, they might more aptly be termed Kafkaesque nightmares, usually with a sexual undercurrent. At the end of “The Hospice”, “The Trains” or “Bind Your Hair”, the reader remains angry and wonders: what happened?
Nobody knows more about this author of beautifully composed and mind-blowing short fiction than RB Russell. “Robert Aickman: An Attempted Biography” – the subtitle echoes Aickman’s memoir, “The Attempted Rescue” – reveals a man, both charming and fiercely opinionated, who seems to have polarized everyone he has met.
Aickman grew up in privileged circumstances – his father worked as an architect, a grandfather, Richard Marsh, wrote the transgressive Victorian thriller “The Beetle” – and his own worldview could be summed up as conservative and elitist: “I believe that magnificence, elegance and charm are the things that matter most in everyday life. Aickman viewed our machine-dominated society as an abomination, the product of a Mephistophelian bargain in which Western civilization sold its soul for technological power. It’s no surprise, then, that he found solace in theatre, opera, books and female companionship (notably the writer Elizabeth Jane Howard). Given her rigid beliefs and prickly personality, as well as her polished prose, Aickman is frequently remembered as Evelyn Waugh, albeit without Catholicism. In its place, he believed in the paranormal and in the existence of a “world elsewhere”.
By all accounts, Aickman’s scintillating conversation – Oscar Wilde was one of his heroes – could turn a weekend trip, on foot, by car or boat, into something magical. As co-founder of the Inland Waterways Association, he devoted much time and energy to his campaign to restore England’s canals. (Russell recounts these activities in perhaps excessive detail for American readers.) It was not until he approached 40 that he began to write the 48 disturbing stories that place him in Arthur’s company. Machen, Henry James, Algernon Blackwood and Walter de la Jument. In recent years, Aickman champions RB Russell and Tartarus Press have produced a YouTube movie about the writer, a multi-volume edition of his complete works, and now this highly anticipated biography.
Readers new to Aickman might well start with Faber’s paperback “Dark Entries” or the out-of-print “Painted Devils,” both of which include his famous, relatively simple story, “Ringing the Changes.” Yet almost all of his “tales of love and death”, as he titled a collection, linger in the memory like poetry, recalling Sacheverell Sitwell’s observation: “In the end it is the enduring mystery, not the explanation. In truth, however, Aickman always deepens the mystery by skipping any explanation.
Michael Dirda reviews books for Style every Thursday.
The Writing Life of Evan S. Connell
University of Missouri. 412 pages. $45
Tartarus Press. 245 pages. £45


.... my family library is there..... :)
It takes me almost 2 months to set up my family library. Of course it started with brainstorming myself; thinking what ways should I arranged the books according to the book genre or according to the kind of readers. My utmost objective is I want to make the library friendly-user in finding books especially for my children.
My Husband loves reading, My eldest son loves reading. Both of them will take a book when they feel tired. They energize their body with reading.
All Praises To Allah I'm blessed with these people who loves reading. So, I dedicate my effort to my Husband and children.
When it started?
I started with a collection of books for children. It consists a set
of children encyclopedia, a set of good manner books for children, a set of '1 story for 1 day' books. I bought them with my first pay as a teacher and I spent almost RM2K.
Keeps on collecting ... My husband and I go to the bookshop every month. The kids will get a chance to choose what kind of books they want for that particular month. We do not set boundaries to buy books. The only thing we have to make sure we read the book then we can buy the new one! Happy Reading Everybody!


The Government of South Sudan has received a financing from the African Development Bank to implement the Non-Oil Revenue Mobilization and Accountability in South Sudan(NORMA-SS) Project and intends to apply part of the agreed amount of this loan to payments under the contract for hiring an individual consultant to design and implement an electronic records management and archive system (ERMAS) for NRA Headquarters, Customs Division and Domestic Tax Division of National Revenue Authority of South Sudan.
Under the direct supervision of the Commissioner General of NRA, the Consultant will design and implement a well-organized and modern ERMAS architecture through the establishment of procedures for creation and storage of documents in digital form that facilitates easy access and sharing of documents within the National Revenue Authority (NRA headquarters, Domestic Tax Division and Customs Division) while taking into account security related to Government documents and access protocols. In specific terms, the Consultant will undertake the following specific tasks: Develop documentation and digitization standards; Develop document identification and classification scheme; Develop software, do installation and test run the software.
Please refer to the attached details of the Expression of Interest and follow the instructions in order to apply.
EOI_ Electronic Records Keeping and Archives system.pdf (440.3 KB)


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Bob Kaufman was a distinguished American poet, writer, and critic. He was closely associated with the Beat Generation literary movement.
Who is Bob Kaufman?
Robert Garnell Kaufman, distinctly known as Bob Kaufman, was one of the most celebrated poets in the United States of America. He has contributed to the academic sector of the country for more than 30 years. For his deep insight and explicit portrayal of emotions through words, the poet was able to leave a mark among the legendary writers of his contemporary time. Kaufman has popularized the Beat poetic movement in the USA that got its existence in the late 1940s. It had its influence on literature as well as politics in the post-war situation of the country. He was a chief poet in the literary movement. Apart from this, the writer was a prominent surrealist of his time. Surrealism was widely practiced all over Europe post World War I.
This particular literary movement escapes from reality and digs into the imaginary world of the artists of that time. Surrealism introduced unrealistic representations of any situation solely based on the artists’ imagination. Bob Kaufman has also been a jazz musician and critic. His popular books include Abomunist Manifesto, Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness, Golden sardine, Watch My Tracks, Eremit in San Francisco: Lyrik & Prosa, The ancient rain, and others. Many of Kaufman’s books were published posthumously, including Cranial Guitar: Selected Poems by Bob Kaufman and Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman.
|Birth Name||Robert Garnell Kaufma|
|Birth Date||April 18, 1925 (Aged 60)|
|Birth Place||New Orleans, Louisiana, USA|
|Death Date||12 January 1986|
|Death Place||San Francisco, California, USA|
|Other Names||Bob Kaufman|
|College||The New School for Social Research|
|Profession||Poet, writer, jazz musician|
|Relationship||Married before death|
|Children||Parker Kaufman, Antoinette Victoria Marie Kaufman|
|Social Media Handles||M/A|
|Net worth||$1.6 Million|
Why is Bob Kaufman famous?
- He was a prominent poet and musician in the USA. Initially, he joined the United States Merchant Marine at the age of 13. But soon, Kaufman understood it was not something of his interest. He was more into artistic things. Thus, he left the US Merchant Marine to pursue literature in The New School for Social Research. Once Kaufman mentioned that he was inspired by the literary pieces of noted writers like Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Arthur Rimbaud, Guillaume Apollinaire, Federico Garcia Lorca, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Langston Hughes, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, and Nicolás Guillén. Gradually, he started composing poems as well as publishing them.
- Communist Manifesto was Kaufman’s first book of poems published in 1959. In the same year, he published Second April. In the following year, the poet released the book Does the Secret Mind Whisper. In 1981, The Ancient Rain: Poems 1956 to 1978 was published. Kaufman’s famous poem collections came up posthumously. Cranial Guitar: Selected Poems by Bob Kaufman was published in 1996. Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman was published recently in 2019.
How did Bob Kaufman die?
Bob Kaufman died on January 12, 1986, for emphysema. He was 60 years old at that time and took his last breath in San Francisco, California, USA. The poet was born on April 18, 1925, in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He never shared his parents’ identity.
Was Bob Kaufman married?
He married Ida Berrocal in 1944. After their separation, the poet married Eileen Singe and was married till his death. He has two children, Parker Kaufman and Antoinette Victoria Marie Kaufman.
How much did Bob Kaufman earn?
Bob Kaufman’s net worth was $1.6 million before his death.
- Bob Kaufman was a Beat poet.
- He died of emphysema.
- Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman was published in 2019.


Read Your Kids’ Books
Not read books to your kids, but read your kids’ books.
When they’re little you’ve gotta read books to your kids but once they get older you really can’t, mostly because they want to read the books themselves. And that’s when it’s easy to go on auto pilot, just bringing them to the library and then making sure the books are returned on time.
But over the last year or so I’ve learned how much fun it can be to read the same books as my kids. Now I’ve got an advantage in that my commute to work and home again takes about an hour every day. And an advantage in that my hoopty of a car has a radio that’s just awful, so books on tape are how I usually pass the time while driving.
Now I normally listen to history books (Krakatoa, The Men Who United The States, A Team of Rivals: The Political Genius Of Abraham Lincoln, or anything by Simon Winchester) or classics (The Three Musketeers, A Tale Of Two Cities, or anything by Alexandre Dumas). So when ReadsTheBooks found the Septimus Heap series on CD I was a little skeptical of a sudden transition to a book about teenage wizards. Similarly, I wasn’t quite sure I was ready to put down In The Kingdon Of Ice: The Grand And Terrible Polar Adventure Of The USS Jeannette in favor of Gregor The Overlander (a story about an underground world of giant roaches, bats, rats and people with purple eyes) that PlaysWithFire found a few weeks ago.
But I finished the Septimus series and am now two books into Overlander. And they’ve been great. I don’t know that I’d ever choose to read them just for the sake of their story alone, but books designed for the tween-teen crowd do have plots that are thick enough to keep your attention while driving to work. They might not explore man’s id with Hemingway’s grit, but there have been enough twists in the plot to make me look at the radio and say, “Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?” more than a few times.
But what I’ve taken away from these books hasn’t been their story line or character development. What I’ve taken away from them is quality time with the kids. And it’s been a different kind of quality time. Instead of doing stuff we’ve had an opportunity to talk about stuff in a new way, a way that we hadn’t before.
If we’re reading / listening to the book at the same time we’re constantly teasing each other with our own cliff hangers….. Have you gotten to the part where they’re in the cave yet? Oh, juuuuuust wait…. OK, right before he enters the House of Foryx, PAY ATTENTION to what he writes in the snow. Blow. Your. Mind!!! Or just talking about the books and plot together…..How did Gregor’s dad get to the Underland? What would you have done when you saw the cockroaches the first time?
Reading my kids’ book has given me a very different insight to their minds and how they think and view the world. Instead of me finding stuff for them to do with me, I’ve found something very different to do with them. And it’s been time well spent.


The actual title of my thesis is “Decision Support for Group-Based Configuration using Recommender Systems”. In it I looked at supporting a group during a configuration process with a recommender system. Basically during the configuration process the group can add their preferences and will get a recommendation based on the preferences of each member of the group. The system can be seen in action in this video:
And also in this video:
Unfortunatly I can only publish the code for my recommender system and not for the whole configurator but you can find it on GitHub.
Also you can find the history of my writing process and the documents of my thesis, proposals and other documents on GitHub.


eBook publisher PodTribe announces new titles
(Hong Kong, February 14, 2012) – Hong Kong-based eBook publisher PodTribe Ltd announced new titles under the ‘How to be an Icon’ and ‘Gurus’ series: How to be The Greatest Like Muhammad Ali by Steve Dawson, How to be Hot like the Glee Cast by Nury Vittachi and Food Gurus by Steve Vines.
The new titles will be sold on the Amazon Kindle Store and the PodTribe website during the first quarter of 2012. ‘How to be an Icon’ features the biographies of historical and contemporary icons. The new Gurus series presents the life and philosophy of similarly impressive personalities in a concise and entertaining format.
“PodTribe’s new lineup of books provides a new perspective on the personalities we have grown to admire in one way or another, and provides insights on how they’ve shaped our culture and consciousness,” said Michael Alan Hamlin, PodTribe CEO. “Aside from the great Muhammad Ali and the multi-talented cast of the hit television show Glee, we also take a look at the lives of ‘Food Gurus’, from Catherine de Medici and Ferran Adrià to Julia Child and Jaime Oliver.”
The eBooks How to be Wild like Keith Richards: 50 Years of Riffs, Spliffs, Snorting & Soul from the Original Wild Man of Rock ‘n’ Roll and How to be Ferocious like Sir Alex Ferguson: Hits & Memories of the Human Hairdryer: The Tantrums, the Tirades, the Trophies are now available on the Amazon Kindle Store and the PodTribe website.
In How to be Ferocious like Sir Alex Ferguson, Glenn Connley goes behind the scenes “to reveal the true story behind the tantrums, tirades, torments and trophies which have cemented Sir Alex as a managerial maestro.” Connley is the face and voice of European football in Singapore. He is best known as the presenter of FC Daily, the Football Channel’s nightly flagship news program.
Jack Wilson chronicles the life and music of The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards, offering “a humorous, often tongue-in-cheek look at the man who is still regarded as the poster boy for bad behavior.” Wilson not only looks at the rollercoaster life of “Keef”, but also those of musicians like Keith Moon, Eric Clapton, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ozzy Osbourne and Snoop Dogg, whose stellar yet controversial careers often mirrored that of Richards.
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd acquired the hardcopy rights to the two books and select titles in the series. “We’re excited to have Marshall Cavendish on board. Our teams collaborated on developing the book cover and illustrations for both the print and digital editions,” Hamlin said.
The series ‘How to be an Icon’ and ‘Gurus’ are packed with information, illustrations, quotes, anecdotes about icons and relevant links. Kindle and PodTribe ePub editions retail for US$6.99. For more information, visit PodTribe at www.podtribe.com.
PodTribe is an eBook publisher, distributor, and retailer delivering high-quality titles in various digital formats for a range of popular eReaders and other devices. Founded by author, commentator, and consultant Michael Alan Hamlin, PodTribe is committed to creating and distributing a body of engaging, thought-provoking work from respected authors and thinkers. PodTribe works with an award-winning team of designers and editors, and leverages extensive branding and marketing expertise and industry experience to develop exceptional eBooks.


The main district office will remain located at 1739 Rostraver Road, Belle Vernon
, and is open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The telephone number is 724-929-2655. Walsh’s office in the Mount Pleasant Borough Hall, 1 Etze Ave., will now be open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The telephone number is 724-542-0349.
In addition, Walsh has now opened satellite offices at the Jeannette Public Library, 500 Magee Ave., Jeannette
, and at the Sewickley Township Public Library, 201 Highland Ave., Herminie
. A staff member will be available at the Jeannette Public Library on the first and third Wednesdays of each month from noon to 6:30 p.m. At the Sewickley Township Public Library, a staffer will be available on the second and fourth Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
“I think these adjustments in locations and hours will better serve the needs of the 58th Legislative District residents,” Walsh said. “Our public libraries provide a valuable service to our communities and are gathering points. By having one of my staff members available twice a month, residents can receive assistance with state-related services and problems without visiting another location.”
Staff in the offices offer the following state-related services:
• Driver’s license and vehicle registration applications and renewals.
• Assistance with PennDOT paperwork, such as lost cards, changes, corrections, special plates and handicapped placards.
• PACE and PACENET applications.
• Help with public assistance, such as Medicaid and food stamp applications.
• Property Tax and Rent Rebate applications.
• Birth and death certificate applications.
• Access to state tax forms.
• Voter registration forms.
The 58th Legislative District in Westmoreland County includes Jeannette and Monessen cities, as well as East Huntingdon (part), Hempfield (part), Rostraver, Sewickley and South Huntingdon townships. Also, the district encompasses the boroughs of Adamsburg, Arona, Madison, Mount Pleasant, North Belle Vernon, Penn, Smithton, Sutersville and West Newton.
Representative Justin Walsh
58th Legislative District
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Media Contact: Tracy Polovick


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Country of origin: United States
In which Residency Program did you participate?
Sculpture, Installation and New Media Art, 2013
What led you to participate in the Summer Residency Program?
I desired a sense of community and challenge in a vibrant artistic environment in New York City. I received that and more at the SVA Summer Residency program.
What was the best part of your experience at SVA?
The social camaraderie amongst the artists in the residency, and the excellent resources and studio space that SVA offered.
How did the Residency Program contribute to your development as a professional artist, designer, etc?
I was able to work in an environment that offered constructive feedback and support.
What's going on in your studio now?
I’m working on my social media skills. As a media artist, I want to increase my presence online.
Is there anything else you'd like to share about your experiences in the program or after?
The staff and instructors in the program are friendly and very helpful. I cherished my experience at SVA and would recommend the Summer Residency to anyone interested in strengthening an artistic practice in an energetic and urban environment. Plus, the library at SVA is awesome!


I was sitting here in my home thinking about what to write for my next article on my blog. I thought about what could be most helpful for my readers. When I was in my initial learning days I found that DAX is the most important language in PowerBI. With the help of DAX, you can get the most out of the Power BI.
In this article, I will be helping you by providing the best resources to learn DAX. Well, the Best Choice varies from person to person but still, there are always a few important resources that can not be neglected.
Along with DAX, if you are interested in knowing some of the best resources to learn Power BI, you can check our article Ultimate Guide to learn Power BI. The article consists of step by step approach to learning Power BI which I have used and found really helpful. Also, I have mentioned some of the important books for learning Power BI in the article “6 Best Power BI Books for Self Learning” If you ask me, What are the best resources to learn DAX?
- Introduction to DAX Video Course
- The Definitive Guide to DAX
- DAX Fridays
- Microsoft Power BI Community
Introduction to DAX Video Course – SQLBI
The Introduction to the DAX Video Course is provided by SQL BI. SQL BI is run by Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari. They have expertise in DAX and are sharing their knowledge all around the world through the sessions. They also have a youtube channel SQL BI which can be a very good source to learn DAX for free. SQL BI has also launched multiple tools which can help you to optimize the Power BI reports, you can learn about the tools on SQL BI.
The Introduction to DAX Video Course is free of Cost and very valuable for beginners. This course will help you learn the basics of DAX from Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari who are experts in DAX. They also offer a lot of paid video courses as well related to Data Modeling, Power BI Dashboard Design, DAX Tools, etc so if you are interested you can check out SQL BI Training Page. You will not regret it even if you pay for their courses. Once you get hold of DAX and want to learn further, You can check out Mastering DAX Video Course.
The Definitive Guide to DAX
If you ask me what is the ultimate resource to learn DAX then I will recommend this book “The Definitive Guide to DAX“. This book is amazing and extremely helpful. Every topic explained in this book is explained with the help of the example so that it’s easy to understand. According to me, a simple measure and calculated column can be created by anyone but if someone really wants to understand DAX then you must read this book. This book is pure gold for people who are interested to work in Power BI. The Definitive Guide to DAX is written by Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari who are also founders of SQL BI. I recommend you to learn the context transition topic from this book as it is explained very beautifully in this book.
Curbal has been one of my favorites Youtube Channel for learning Microsoft Power BI. DAX Fridays is an initiative from Curbal Youtube Channel by posting videos every Friday explaining the DAX Function with the help of Example. Now, almost every DAX function has been explained by her. You can check out her videos as they are very useful and interesting. Curbal Youtube Channel has videos covering all the topics related to Power BI. You can learn Data Modelling, M Query, and Power BI Functionality in her Channel.
Microsoft Power BI Community
You must be wondering how does Microsoft Power BI Community help us in learning DAX. Does it provide any articles related to DAX? The answer is NO. An important aspect of learning is not only to read books or articles. The most important thing is to practice. If you don`t practice then your learning will be useless and you will soon forget everything.
So, You must be thinking that Where can I practice DAX after reading all the articles and watching all the Videos? You can practice DAX while working on a report in your project but sometimes the scenario which we use in reports is very straightforward, easy and we are not able to use all the formulas which we have learned through our reading.
For Example, Let’s suppose you are working on a report where you have to find some count of the record later filter it based on some dimension column and you are getting almost similar kind of scenario in your project what will you do? Will, you just wait and time will pass and you will not able to learn anything? The Best way to practice DAX is to go to Microsoft PowerBI Community which is an excellent place to help people with DAX and other Power BI-related problems and increase our learning. There are various forums where we can go and find the problem asked by people from all over the world. Below are some of the Categories in the Microsoft Power BI Community
- Report Server
- Power Query
- Mobile Apps
- DAX Commands and Tips
You can go directly to DAX Commands and Tips Section and find appropriate Questions which you can answer and help other fellow Power BI developers. In fact, I have recently started a DIY article series on my blog where I solve a problem using DAX in a step-by-step manner so that readers can follow along with me and practice on his/her own. I have learned a lot by helping people in this section of the Microsoft Power BI Community.
Some of the blogs from the DIY article series are mentioned below.
How to format the DAX Code?
Dax Formatter is an online tool provided by SQLBI which is very useful and beautifies your DAX code in an elegant manner. Formatting DAX code is extremely important for easy reading and as per best practices.
Using DAX FORMATTER is very easy, You just have to copy your DAX Code from Power BI and paste it into the space provided just by pressing in FORMAT button. Your nonaligned dax code gets aligned properly. Later, You can copy it and paste it into Power BI in order to maintain best practices. Even it provides HTML code so that you can copy DAX code in HTML Web Pages.
I hope the article provided value and helped you in your journey to learn DAX and Power BI. You can comment and share the article with your friends.


|STORYBOOK CHARACTER DRESS UP DAY - GRADES K-3|
On Friday, October 31, students in grades Kinder - 3rd grade are invited to dress as their favorite storybook character in this annual tradition!
A few things to note:
-- ONLY students in grades Kinder - 3rd may dress in costume
-- No scary make up or props
-- No face coverings/mask
-- Safe walking shoes should be worn
-- No "see through" costumes
Please contact your child's teacher with any questions.
|FALL SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR! NOV. 3-7|
Harmony Families and Friends!
Our fall Scholastic book fair is JUST around the corner… we will have the book fair at school from 8am Monday, November 3rd until noon on Friday, November 7th with extended hours until 7:30pm on Thursday evening. The more books we sell at the fair the books we'll be able to buy for the library to increase the selection that the children have to read.
On our book fair website you will find details about how to shop online, the hours for the fair (typically 8am-4pm daily) and information about the books that will be available. Flyers will be going home this week and we encourage family and loved ones to come have lunch with their children the week of the fair so that they can stop by the fair and buy some extra surprises for their children! It's not to early to think about shopping for the winter holidays and nothing makes a better gift than the gift of a good book!
We are also still looking for volunteer help with the book fair so if you are interested in helping or have any questions about the fair, please feel free to contact me.
Thank you so much for your support of the library,
Elizabeth Tomany, librarian
Please check out the school's book fair website at: read more . . .
|YANKEE CANDLE FUNDRAISER - LAST WEEKEND TO SELL!|
Sell those Yankee Candle items this week and weekend, Wildcats! The class with the highest sales will win a pizza party. The deadline is Monday Nov. 3rd.
|IT'S FAMILY NIGHT at HSA-WEST HOUSTON -- NOVEMBER 6|
On Thursday, November 6th, please join us and your fellow Wildcat Families.
5:30pm -- PTO MEETING -- Attend the November PTO meeting and learn about the wonderful things our PTO has in store for the remainder of the 1st semester!
6:00pm -- ESLFAMILY NIGHT -- Join us for family reading and fun. Learn more about the ESL program and meet the ESL team!
THEN…pop upstairs to the BOOK FAIR. The special extended evening hours are just for you! Bookfair will be open until 7:30pm with tons of new titles to preview!
Download the ESL flyer here… read more . . .
|Music Through the Decades, a family dance for all HSAWH families. |
Music Through the Decades, a family dance for all HSAWH families.
Come join us for a night to remember, Friday Nov. 14th from 6:30-8:30pm. Tickets on sale now, just fill out the form and drop it off with payment in the white PTO mailbox near the front office.
Tickets prepaid by Wednesday Nov. 5th are discounted and you are guaranteed a keepsake souvenir.
If you are interested in helping before, during or after the dance, please email Bala at email@example.com
Print a copy of the form here…
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|2014 Fall Festival was a success!|
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|I have absolutely no interest in reading Ed Klein's poorly sourced, factually challenged sleaze book on Hillary Clinton. In case you do, here's a succinct take on the book from someone who has read it: John Podhoretz (in the NY Post):
Even most conservatives can't abide the book, and by the way, Klein has now backed off the most dispicable charge in the book, namely the charge that Bill conceived daughter Chelsea by raping his wife. While we're going around demanding apologies, I think it's time someone demanded that Klein apologize to the Clinton family -- especially Chelsea. And Klein might take a second to apologize to genuine rape victims, too...
This is one of the most sordid volumes I've ever waded through. Thirty pages into it, I wanted to take a shower. Sixty pages into it, I wanted to be decontaminated. And 200 pages into it, I wanted someone to drive stakes through my eyes so I wouldn't have to suffer through another word.
Though Klein suggests in his subtitle that he has written a study of a power-hungry politician — "What She Knew, When She Knew It, And How Far She'll Go to Become President" — he's produced something quite different. An unduly celebratory biography is called a "hagiography." Klein's book is a "hate-eography."


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An initial version of this paper was given at a conference in honour of Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood held at Reading in 2008; a second version at a conference on communities and networks in the ancient Greek world at University College Dublin a year later. The paper has been greatly improved by comments from attendees at both conferences, and in particular by the detailed reading of Claire Taylor, Kostas Vlassopoulos, Robin Osborne, Simon Hornblower, and the referees of Kernos.
Isokrates, 19 (Aiginetikos), 5-7 (trans. Norlin ).
See Flower (2008) for an excellent overview of the ancient Greek seer.
For example, Meyer – Mirecki (1995), esp. the summary on p. 2. On how scholars have used the term, see Smith (1995), p. 16 and 20, while Styers (2004) argues that definitions of magic espoused by academics were, and continue to be, inherent in the formation of the idea of modernity. The heuristic value of the term is supported by Versnel (1991a); its usefulness is dismissed by Gager (1992), p. 24-25.
A brief and very clear description of a network can be found in the introduction to Constantakopoulou, Malkin and Panagopoulou (2009). The idea of a network may be implicit in some of Sourvinou-Inwood’s own descriptions of polis religion: for example, her account of how individual poleis, and individuals or groups from within poleis, participated in rites in other cities or at a panhellenic level, see 2001a, 15-17; see further below.
Horden – Purcell (2000); Malkin (2003); for 2006 conference see above, n. 4.
Collar (2009), p. 151. She poses the question in terms of ‘“vulnerability” to a new faith’ and examines evolutionary and network approaches to answering this question, suggesting that the two should not be considered as mutually exclusive (p. 152).
For example, Guettel Cole (1995), with response by Burkert (1995).
A selection of examples of scholars reconsidering aspects of polis religion: in Kernos, Bremmer (2010) and Kindt (2009), both of whose papers originated, like this one, in a conference at the University of Reading exploring the idea of polis religion (see n. 1); see also Kearns (2010) for a systematic appreciation of what polis religion can and cannot account for; Scott (2010) for reflections on Delphi as Sourvinou-Inwood’s ‘litmus test case for the primacy of the polis in the organisation of the religious experience’ (p. 271, n. 94); Boedeker (2008) for consideration of domestic religion in the context of polis religion (describing polis cult and family cult as ‘an interlocking set of practices, asymmetrical though often complementary’ p. 244); Hansen (2004), p. 130-134, for a thorough discussion of the role of the polis as a religious organisation, and the development of that role; Morgan (1997) for exploration of religious development in ethne as opposed to poleis. Erskine (2010) persuasively explores the implications of the polis focus.
I will draw particularly on White (2008), see further below. In its focus on the interactions in a network, this approach may recall the Actor Network Theory (ANT) of Bruno Latour. However, ANT ascribes agency to both humans and nonhumans (Latour 1997 and 1999), which is not the case with White’s approach.
See above, n. 9.
Sourvinou-Inwood (2000a), p. 19; she does add that the comparison with Christianity is misleading.
Sourvinou-Inwood (2000b), p. 51
Sourvinou-Inwood (2000a), p. 18: ‘Each person was a member of this Panhellenic group in virtue of being a member of a polis. It is not simply that being a citizen of a particular polis guarantees one’s Greekness; as we saw, the polis mediated participation in Panhellenic cult.’
Sourvinou-Inwood (2000a), p. 17: ‘Greek religion, then, consists of a network of religious systems interacting with each other and with the Panhellenic religious dimension.’ She also describes this participation in terms of ‘the openings and the closures of the polis towards outsiders’ where she allows some dynamism over time, noting that they vary according to city and time period (2000b, p. 47); a little later in the same description (p. 48), the ‘opening’ between a colony and mother city is described as ‘a link.’
For ethne, see, for example, Morgan (1997). Sourvinou-Inwood (2000a), n. 1: ‘I cannot consider ethnos religion here. The differences between ethnos and polis religion do not impinge on our investigation.’ Nevertheless, she does mention ethne in the rest of the paper, often in the formula polis/ethnos, as if the two were equivalent. (See n. 8, a discussion of permission needed to make dedications by the polis/ethnos which owned the sanctuary; and p. 16, in which she discusses ‘Amphictionies or Leagues, associations of poleis/ethne.’ The subsequent discussion however focuses on the ways in which a polis would mediate the activities of its members within these associations.)
Quotation from Knoke – Yang (2008), p. 4.
Breiger (2004), p. 505.
Breiger (2004), p. 519.
White (2008): I hope that this very brief overview of some of White’s key ideas does not do them too much harm, and might, at least, provide an illustration of how they might be deployed to help describe the physical, social and emotional ties that made up ancient Greek religion.
White et al. (2007), p. 553.
Personhood as a distinct technical meaning within White’s theory; fundamentally, ‘persons are formed from compounds of identities,’ White (2008), p. 129 (see further n. 25 below).
White (2008), p. 17.
White (2008), p. 5, 9-10: for example (p. 5), ‘when the clothes that classmates insist upon as their badge of belonging, are disdained by a parent at home who resists purchasing them.’
White (2008), p. 17-18.
Godart – White (2010), p. 570-571.
White (2008), p. 6.
White (2008), p. 7-9.
White (2008), p. 7-10.
Examples from Steiny (2007), p. 612-614, and White (2008), p. 63-109.
The overlap of identities is what creates ‘persons’ in the ordinary sense, who manifest what White (2008), p. 112-170 calls ‘style’ across and between their identities. Style presents as ‘sensibility’ in experience: White observes that it is ‘rather like Bourdieu’s habitus, but where Bourdieu proposes habitus as the signature of a person… [White argues] for person as style’ (p. 114). ‘Styles can be thought of as a fundamental specification of how individual agents live their lives through an ongoing process of combining understandings of situations with sets of practices arrayed across lives embedded within social networks (netdoms)’ (Mohr – White , p. 491). As well as descriptors of patterns of enactment, White (2008), p. 115 also argues that styles can be understood to provide ‘envelopes’ that limit and funnel attempts at control by identities.
Mohr – White (2008), p. 493. We may make up stories alone (e.g., in diary entries), or in conversation with others (e.g., in gossip), or we may learn them from other sources (e.g., onlookers, the media). For these and other examples see Steiny (2007), p. 611-612, and White (2008), p. 30.
White (2008), p. 31.
White (2008), p. 37.
‘Story-telling sets human interaction apart’, as Podolny (2001), quoted by White (1992), p. 20: relationship ties between people are ‘prisms for meaning as much as they are pipes for connectivity.’ The role of discourse in linking culture and networks is discussed in Mische (2003) and Mische – White (1998). The need to consider the ‘mesh of interrelations’ is discussed in White et al. (2007), p. 546, as part of an analysis of Niklas Luhman’s work and its relation to White’s social network theory. Godart – White (2010) describes the ways in which stories and meaning are related.
Godart – White (2010), p. 572.
White (1992), p. 40.
Godart – White (2010), p. 572. Mische – White (1998), p. 702: These so-called ‘network domains’ may also include other forms of discourse, including symbols, idioms, registers, grammatical patternings.
The difficulty of defining institutions is discussed by Mohr – White (2008), p. 488.
It comprises a series of dualities: at the individual level, between mind and body; at the group level, between story and network; at the institutional level, between rhetoric and systems of social organisation: see Mohr – White (2008), p. 496, and the Indian caste system, p. 496-500.
Mohr – White (2008), p. 508-509.
Plato, Republic, 364c-e. Carastro (2006), ch. 6 argues that Plato is intent on associating the practice of writing binding spells with magoi—itinerant specialists from the East who arrived in Greece during the fifth century—and therefore developing a foreign notion of mageia. This, in turn (he argues), has given rise to modern theories that this practice was Near Eastern in origin and introduced by the magoi (he gives Gager , preface and p. 10, and Graf , p. 194-198 as references), whereas, in fact, curse tablets were ‘des produits de la culture grecque qui préexistent à l’arrivée de ces personnages venus de Perse’ (p. 187). Carastro’s stimulating argument and conclusions raise some questions: first, although he is surely right to observe that Plato evokes hostility towards travelling ritual specialists (apparent in other ancient Greek sources), the argument that by the fifth century the term magoi would have indicated a specialist of Near Eastern origin is disputable (see Dickie ). Second, Plato notes only that curse tablets were sold by these individuals (along with other products which had long existed, such as healing incantations and oracles from oracle books), he does not say they introduced them. Neither Graf nor Gager argue for this idea: Graf (1994), p. 194 argues against the idea that these spells were simply spread from the Near East by travelling magoi; while Gager (1992), p. 4 suggests that professionals may not have been much involved in writing the majority of the early Greek curse tablets. Both (see Gager , p. 26-27 and Graf , p. 194-198) give Near Eastern parallels or influences for the practice that date to much earlier than the fifth century. Carastro agrees with the scholarly consensus that binding spells seem to have spread from west to east, and (p. 183) suggests that fear may account for this (for an alternative view, see Eidinow [2007b]). He does not offer an explanation for the similarities between Greek and early Near Eastern spells.
These salesmen apparently also provided sacrifices and incantations that can expiate and cure misdeeds by an ancestor; oracles from oracle collections of Musaios and Orpheus; and initiations for delivering individuals and cities, from ills in the next world. There is some debate about the overlap between travelling sellers of oracles (chresmologoi), and those who sold other supernatural services (manteis): Dillery (2005), p. 170, argues that they were thought of as being separate terms, although he admits that they could overlap and ‘even be used to describe the same man.’ He argues that by the fourth century, the chresmologue has almost totally disappeared, leaving the mantis to absorb any popular hostility directed at these independent diviners (p. 219-221). For a similar view on the separate sense of these terms see Flower (2008), esp. p. 58-65, and, in contrast, Bowden (2003); while Parker (2007) offers a carefully balanced view.
Plato, Laws, 933a.
Plato, Meno, 80b. Meno tells Socrates that he fears he has been bewitched by him, and that Socrates would be well advised not to travel out of Athens, since, if he behaved like this in another city where he was a stranger, he would probably be taken away to prison as a goes (‘magician’).
Carastro (2006) and Flower (2008).
Sourvinou-Inwood (2000b), p. 42.
Sourvinou-Inwood (2000b), p. 44.
Ozolian Lokris: IG IX, 1²3:609 (Meiggs and Lewis, no. 13); treaty with curse for anyone who destroyed the text: Argos, IG IV 506; public curse of the city of Teos (c. 470 BC), see Meiggs and Lewis, no. 30 (also repeated at the Teian colony of Abdera, see Herrmann ); foundation decree of Kyrene, see Meiggs and Lewis, no. 5. Rubinstein (2007) argues that the threat of divine punishment continued to be taken seriously into the Hellenistic period.
See discussion and examples in Eidinow (2007), p. 165-191.
See Faraone (1992), p. 74-85, and App. 4; and Graf (1985), p. 81-98. Olympiodoros of Thebes: FHG IV, 63, 27; oracle to Syedra at Claros: Parke (1985), p. 157-158; Inscription from Thrace: Palatine Anthology IX, 805. Bound gods: Artemis Eurynome at Phigalia (Pausanias, VIII, 41, 6); Artemis Ortheia (‘Lygodesma’) at Sparta (Pausanias, III, 16, 7-11); Aphrodite Morpho at Sparta (Pausanias, III, 15, 10-11). Shut in a box rather than bound: Dionysos Aisymnetes (Pausanias, VII, 19, 6-9).
Graf (1997), p. 27; Flower (2008), p. 68 also follows this definition.
Parker (2007), p. 122 questions the evidence, but does seem to imply that it is an object of social disapproval.
Parker is drawing on modern analyses of the term ‘magic’ to evoke ancient attitudes: (p. 122) ‘it is generally agreed today … magic differs from religion … merely by negative social evaluation.’ See also Versnel (1991b), p. 62 who argues that the use of curse tablets was not socially condoned.
In particular, such approaches bring to mind the distinction of Frazer (1911), p. 11 between magic and religion, which states that these practices can be distinguished not only by the number of practitioners, but by the nature of their intentions, and the approach used to attain their ends. Thus, magic is described broadly as a private ritual act (often coercive in approach) designed to foster individual ends, as opposed to the public and sacred practice of religion, which aims to persuade the gods in order to render assistance. Similarly, the idea that ‘magic’ is a private practice similarly draws on early anthropological reflections on the magician as ‘a being set apart’, as described by Mauss – Hubert (1972 ), p. 29.
Consider two of the earliest ethnographic works on magic: among Malinowski’s Trobriand islanders, garden magicians practice their rites for the benefit of, and along with, the community (Malinowski , p. 62-68) and (p. 153) ‘There seems also to be a general feeling … that it is not the right thing to carry out private magic’—an aspect of Trobriand life that Malinowski attributes to the importance of gardening, and the potential for competition to cause dangerous envies and jealousies; among the Azande, as described by Evans-Pritchard, although magic was importantly usually performed in private by individuals, its use was widespread (, p. 388-544 passim; for example, p. 432, ‘every Zande, except small children, whether old or young … is to some extent a magician’), and it was practiced by associations. Of course, good magic in these cases is different from witchcraft (which uses psycho-social powers, rather than medicines) and sorcery (bad magic), but good magic can have destructive functions (p. 389) and Evans-Pritchard observes that opinions vary when categorising magic as good or bad (p. 406); all this complexity is part of the point.
Compare for example, the binding spell by Phila from Pella in Macedonia (Voutiras 1988), an oracle tablet from Dodona (SGDI 1597) and the prayer of Chryses (Homer, Iliad I, 43-49), all of which beseech the gods for a personal advantage, while both spell and prayer also ask the god to act against particular individuals. As Graf (1997), p. 222-229, has demonstrated, we need to bear in mind the ways and places in which coercion appears in ritual texts, and consider its development in the context of wider social and political changes.
On magic-workers see the discussion in Frankfurter (2002). Graf (1997), p. 229, although arguing for the magician’s isolation as a deliberate reversal of traditional (religious) ritual, nevertheless provides a balanced interrogation of this image of the magician, by exploring his role as a healer (p. 229-32).
See n. 30.
See Faraone (1991), p. 5 and Eidinow (2007), p. 145-147. Gordon (1999) has argued that the presentation of victims in Athenian curses as lists of names is an allusion to that city state’s lists of atimoi, the public debtors, deserters, orthose condemned for homicide, which were set up on tablets for public view (Lysias, 26 [Euandros], 10).
DTA 24 and 103, DT 60, SGD 9, 14 and 48; see Eidinow (2007a), p. 168-173.
Godart – White (2010), p. 570-71.
Bremmer (2010), p. 21-22.
NGCT 14 (later fourth century; sanctuary of Pankrates, Athens) is a text found in the sanctuary of Pankrates, Attica, includes a plea made to Palaimon (who had a presence in the sanctuary); the group of binding spell texts found in the temple of (and dedicated to) Demeter in Knidos (DT 1-14). These particular texts seem to have engaged with a specific cult within the polis.
Godart – White (2010), p. 575.
Jordan (2000), no. 24; very early fourth century BC.
Olive – Myers (2003), p. 183-184. This would be in contrast to a broadcast network where a large number of people get information from a single source, a model that might better fit some aspects of group religious practice. As Olive – Myers (2003), p. 185 points out, the two models may also work simultaneously (for example, a node-to-node network may multiply and deepen broadcast information flows, and information received via node-to-node connections tends to much more influential) and may affect each other.
As Olive – Myers (2003), p. 191 notes, ‘people’s attitudes are shaped by those of the people to whom they have network ties, and in particular that the degree of influence will be affected by the homogeneity/heterogeneity of the opinions in the networks to which one is tied.’
Sourvinou-Inwood (2000b), p. 55.
A structuralist approach like that noted by Burkert (1983), p. 2.
Col. 20, l. 4 in Betegh (2004), p. 43; for the translation see Parker (2007), p. 116. The word translated as ‘profession’ is techne—a term that, as Parker observes, carries the sense of a craft or an expertise, which is (as the author of the papyrus observes) used as a profession or trade.
Hippocrates, On The Sacred Disease, 2, 12-13 and 4, 36 ff. Versnel (1991a), p. 197, n. 40. This passage is seen by some as providing an example of an ancient view of the opposition between ‘magical’ spells or charms vs. pious supplicatory prayer.
Graf – Johnston (2007), p. 178-181 also suggests that the ritual activities of the Orphics should be viewed as ‘supplemental’ rather than alternative.
Euripides, Hippolytos, 952-954. However, Burkert (1983), p. 11, does draw attention to the presumed isolation of Hippolytos.
Theophrastus, 16, 11; Plutarch, Saying of the Spartans (Mor., 224e-f): for example, in a retort given by Leotychidas to ‘Philip, priest of the Orphic mysteries’, who had, apparently, something of a reputation not only for his poverty, but also for his habit of complaining about it. In the Phaedrus, 244d-e, Plato’s discussion of curing madness through purifications and sacred rites at least suggests that the suppliers of these services may not always have been so resented and reviled as they appear in the description given above from the Republic, discussed by Burkert (1983), p. 5. The Phaedrus passage mentions Dionysos rather than Orpheus (implied in the description of the Republic). The evidence often creates an association between followers of Orpheus and followers of Dionysos, and it is not apparent that a clear distinction can be made; see discussion in Graf – Johnston (2007), p. 142-143.
Ansell (2003), p. 126-7.
Possibility of communities of initiated: Graf – Johnston (2007), p. 163-164. The term ‘orphikoi’ read on one of the bone plates from Olbia may also suggest this, see discussion Burkert (1983), p. 4. Private cults: see Henrichs (1983), p. 147, with p. 225, n. 99, who accepts Herodotus, IV, 78-80 as evidence for private and ecstatic cults of Dionysos at Olbia in the fifth century. For women, see Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 1, with the scholium; further discussion in Versnel (1990), p. 149. For the co-existence of a private male cult with a female ecstatic cult, see Euripides, Bacchae, 465-490, with Henrichs (1983), p. 147, although it is difficult to know to what extent this can be treated as evidence for actual practice.
Public and private cults somehow linked, see Henrichs (1969) and Seaford (1981), discussed Graf – Johnston (2007), p. 141. Plato, Phaedo, 69c contains a verse of Orpheus which differentiates between those who are worshippers of Dionysos and those who are Bacchoi—perhaps suggesting a similar smaller private cult within a larger public one, a view supported by Graf – Johnston (2007), p. 143.
Sourvinou-Inwood (2000b), p. 55.
If it means the foundation, then there is, indeed, evidence that this was sometimes the case, at least in the Hellenistic period, as suggested by an inscription from Magnesia, I Magnesia 215 (Parke – Wormell II , no. 338), an oracle from Magnesia that describes the establishment of a sanctuary of Dionysos, and involves the fetching of maenads from Thebes: part of the ‘official religious apparatus of the city,’ see Versnel (1990), p. 142 for quotation and further discussion. Sourvinou-Inwood (2000b), p. 55, n. 60, gives as evidence LSAM 48, a decree from Miletos, discussed below—it does seem to suggest that not all Dionysiac ritual was polis organised.
See Versnel (1990), p. 149.
Sourvinou-Inwood (2000b), p. 54 states that both Dionysiac rites and Eleusinian Mysteries were encompassed within polis religion.
Pausanias, X, 4, 3 (Athenian) and X, 32, 7 (in Parnassos); Pausanias, VI, 26, 1 (a feast outside Elis); see also Plutarch, Mulierum Virtutes, 13 (Mor., 249e), discussed further below and see Versnel (1990), p. 138. Maenadic activity seems to be referred to at Sophocles, Antigone, 1149-1151; Euripides, Ion, 550-552; Aristophanes, Clouds, 603-606; Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 498 and 836. Supernatural revels that evoke the cult of Dionysos referred to at Euripides, Bacchae, 306-309 and Sophocles, Antigone, 1126-1130; see for discussion and references Holzhausen (2008).
In contrast, there does seem to have been a polis-instituted cult of Dionysos: goat sacrifices to Semele and Dionysus are recorded in a fourth-century sacrificial calendar from the deme of Erchia, see Sokolowski LSCG no. 18, A 44-51, ∆33-40; see discussion in Henrichs (1983), p. 144.
A peace-making role has been evoked for the Sixteen Women at Elis, who seem to have had a reputation as peacemakers, according to the stories recorded by Plutarch and Pausanias. On the origins of the sixteen, chosen from sixteen cities in Elis, in order to help promote harmony between them see Pausanias, V, 16, 4-6. Plutarch (Mulierum Virtutes, 15 [Mor.,251e]) relates a story, dating to the third century BC, which does identify the women with the welfare of the people (specifically the women) of Elis, but also raises questions about allegiance to political authority. See discussion by Goff (2004), p. 191-193. Henrichs (1983), p. 220, n. 57 suggests that these congregations and the Delphic and Attic Thyiads ‘reflect ancient clan structures’. See Henrichs (1983), p. 150 for a discussion of the ways in which cults of Dionysos seem to have encouraged a sense of intra-group identity among worshippers.
See Aristophanes, Birds, 874-875; Wasps, 9; Lysistrata, 387 f., (where the rites of Adonis are likened to those of Sabazios); Kratinos, Horai, fr. 566 (ed. Kock), with scholia.
Demosthenes, 18 (De Corona), 129 and 259-260, and 19 (On the False Embassy), 249 and 281.
Inscription of Miletus: LSAM 48 (see n. 82 above and discussion in Henrichs ); Versnel (1990), p. 145 suggests this document demonstrates ‘a drastic routinization of maenadism in the context of the official cult practice.’
Sourvinou-Inwood (2000b), p. 48.
Deme-level activities discussed in Humphreys (2004), who suggests, for example, that the state became increasingly involved in managing cults because of its role in sanctuary loans to the state (p. 139), and discusses the apparent autonomy of the deme festival calendar. Aleshire (1994) argues that state control of cult was primarily focused on financial affairs. See also Faraone (2008) and Boedeker (2008) for discussion of the interaction between polis and smaller units of society, including gene and oikoi.
Aleshire (1994) provides a thorough and convincing analysis of the difficulties of describing ‘state cult’, and/or identifying the ways in which a polis exerted control over religious life.
The difficulties of describing variations in the details of ritual activity within the schema of polis religion are indicated in some of the language used by Sourvinou-Inwood herself: for example, she describes metic religious as being ‘“encompassed”, in the diluted sense of being sanctioned, by the polis’ (2000b, p. 49).
This idea of multiple connections is also conveyed by Sourvinou-Inwood (2000b), p. 46, who describes the ‘manifold identity elements, not all of which were dependent on the others’ of each individual. The ‘network or web’ pattern of cult connections for an individual within Athens is also described by Aleshire (1994), p. 10: ‘the cult associations of a given individual were multiple … cult associations could and usually did cut directly across the political hierarchy.’
A point also made by Aleshire (1994), p. 13.
Using the network theory language of Barabási – Albert (‘Statistical mechanics of Complex Networks,’ Reviews of Modern Physics 74 , p. 47-97, cited by Collar , p. 147), we might call Athens a ‘hub’, that is, a node that is massively well connected.
Mohr – White (2008).
The process by which the polis consolidated its power through absorption of social and political social formations is vividly described by Gabrielsen (2007) and Ismard (2007).
Josephus (Against Apion II, 267) offers a list of men ‘put to death by the Athenians because they uttered a word against their gods.’ How many of these men were actually prosecuted is famously debated, see, in particular Dover (1976). The women are Phryne, Theoris of Lemnos, and Ninon: see Eidinow (2010).
In the trial of Socrates, for example, we learn about his connections to politically dangerous individuals and his association with young men: see Hansen (1995). On Ninon, Theoris and Phryne, see Eidinow (2010).
Graf (1997), p. 59: Cicero, Laws II, 21; Paulus Sententiae V, 23, 15; FIRA II, 410; and Codex Theodosianus IX, 16, 7. The Peiraeus decree IG II2 1177 = LSCG 36 (mid-fourth century) constrains possible religious/ritual behaviour during the Thesmophoria, including forbidding anyone to assemble thiasoi; an Athenian decree (IG I3 78a, 55-59 = LSCG 5, c. 422 BC / 418 BC) dictates that no one should place an altar in the sacred territory of the Pelargikon without official consent. See also a lex sacra from the cult of Asklepios at Erythrai (380-60 BC), LSAM 24, I. Erythrai 205.
Sourvinou-Inwood (2000a), p. 37.
There is not room to consider this in depth here, but some specific examples for which network theory might provide a particularly useful approach, range from the conceptual questions involved in the figure of Herakles as both god and hero (Shapiro 1983); or to the specifics of cult practice (for example, such as Pausanias describes [V, 13, 3] in which a cult complex contains a hero and a god, where some types of participation in the cult of the hero renders the worshipper unfit to come before the god, see Kearns  p. 86 and 87). Also, to explore the variety of ways in which communities represented their gods as being involved in the life of the polis (this varied, as Guettel Cole  has demonstrated).Haut de page


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Kansas City, Mo. (Jan. 9, 2012) — Kansas City author Hughes Keenan www.hugheskeenan.com has published his first novel, The Harvest is Past, available on Amazon.com.
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- The user manual provides a guide on how to use MHIRA for mental health professionals.
- The guide for admins is for those who manage access to the software and who customise it for a specific service (e.g., creating user accounts, defining departments).
- The installation guide shows how to install and host MHIRA. Some previous IT knowledge is recommended for this section.
- MHIRA allows for creating custom reports. The documenation can be found in the MHIRA reporting guide
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It also talks about the first violation of the covenant when the Golden Calf was constructed (Exodus 32–34).
Exodus includes the instructions on building the Tabernacle and concludes with its actual construction (Exodus 25–31; 35–40).
The majority of Biblical scholars believe that the written books were a product of the Babylonian captivity (c.
600 BCE), based on earlier written and oral traditions, which could only have arisen from separate communities within ancient Israel, The 1979 discovery of fragments of the Hebrew Bible (Priestly Blessing from the Book of Numbers) at Ketef Hinnom dating to the late 7th century BC, and thus to before the Babylonian captivity, is the oldest evidence of elements of the Torah which were current before the Babylonian exile. The Torah starts from the beginning of God's creating the world, through the beginnings of the people of Israel, their descent into Egypt, and the giving of the Torah at biblical Mount Sinai.
The Alexandrian Jews who translated the Septuagint used the Greek word "nomos", meaning norm, standard, doctrine, and later "law". 8:3), which seems to be a contraction of a fuller name, "The Book of the Torah of God" (Neh. It ends with the death of Moses, just before the people of Israel cross to the promised land of Canaan.
Leviticus 17 establishes sacrifices at the Tabernacle as an everlasting ordinance, but this ordinance is altered in later books with the Temple being the only place in which sacrifices are allowed.Soon afterwards Israel begins the conquest of Canaan.This contemporary common hypothesis among biblical scholars states that the first major comprehensive draft of the Pentateuch was composed in the late 7th or the 6th century BC (the Jahwist source), and that this was later expanded by the addition of various narratives and laws (the Priestly source) into a work very like the one existing today.Deuteronomy is a series of speeches by Moses on the plains of Moab opposite Jericho.Also referred to as Mishneh Torah in Hebrew (a repeat of the Torah) the essential gist of the entire book is a rebuke to the Children of Israel to not worship idolatry, to not follow in the ways of Cana'an, and to cleave to God.