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Metatheatre in Aeschylus’ Oresteia

Lionel Abel coined the word ‘metatheatre’ in his 1963 book, Metatheatre: A New View of Dramatic Form, claiming he had discovered a new type of theatre, and cited Shakespeare’s Hamlet as the first metatheatrical play. Over the intervening decades, various scholars have pushed the incidence of the earliest metatheatrical play back beyond Hamlet. Richard Hornby, in his 1986 book, Drama, Metadrama,...

Sophrosyne in Aeschylus

Prometheus Bound ?

The Promethean Dilemma claims to challenge the current wisdom on third-party statebuilding. It contends that contemporary policy-makers and scholars mistakenly identify the early transfer of coercive capacity to local forces as the key to successful state-building. In doing so, they risk not just creating armed forces that may turn against them, but undermining long-term stability in those stat...

Untangling the Prometheus Nightmare

A number of bush and forest fire simulators have been developed in the last two decades based on the deterministic spread equations of Gwynfor Richards (Int. J. Num. Meth. Eng. 1990) and the marker method for computing discrete approximations to the Richards equations. Unfortunately, all such implementations are plagued by topological complications. For example, sampling issues on the evolving ...

Experiences with Prometheus and the Prometheus Design Tool (PDT)

This document will briefly describe my experiences with the Prometheus methodology, in particular, the use of the Prometheus Design Tool (PDT) for the development of a Prometheus design for a Simple Path Planning Agent for a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). The overall impression of PDT is that it has facilitated the design process and enabled an iterative approach. This is due to the maintenance...