Epigraphic Bulletin for Greek Religion 1997

Epigraphic Survey Giza

Since 1988 we have been excavating at Giza, 350 m south of the Great Sphinx and south of the gigantic stone Heit el-Ghurob ("Wall of the Crow"). The concession, 650 m north-south and 250 m east-west (16 ha), extends from the bottom of the slope where Zahi Hawass has excavated the "workers' cemetery" in recent years, to the modern paved road and houses of Nazlet es-Semman and Kafr Gebel. A subst...

Spring 1997 Issue Icfa Instrumentation Bulletin* Radiation Damage in Ccds Used as Particle Detectors

The development of silicon microstrip detectors for high luminosity application at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is described. The technical choices are most severely restricted by the anticipated radiation damage. The arguments are presented which led to the selection of the base line detectors for the silicon tracker of the LHC detector ATLAS: sandwiches of singlesided detectors of n-strips...

Patricia A. Johnson, Attilio Mastrocinque, Sophia Papaioannou (Eds.). “Animals in Greek and Roman Religion and Myth”

Grumentum, the old Roman city known today as Grumento Nova in the Basilicata region of Southern Italy, was the place chosen to hold the symposium “The Role of Animals in Ancient Myth and Religion”. Between the 5 and 7 of June 2013, scholars from diverse backgrounds maintained a dialogue about the different roles that were given to animals during Ancient Greece and Rome. Patricia A. Johnston, At...

Traces of Greek Mythology in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot

This study addresses Samuel Beckett’s most celebrated play, Waiting for Godot, in an effort to analyze its characters from a novel perspective. Since Greek mythology has been undisputedly influential on Western culture and literature, the researcher attempts to investigate a connection between Greek mythology and the play. This study aims to reveal that even after more than fifty seven years of...

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