GREEKS, BARBARIANS AND AESCHYLUS' SUPPLIANTS

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,...

Barbarians at the gate

The paper by Liew et al. in this issue of the Journal confirms other observations on the consequences of switching from branded to generic statins [1]. The common pattern observed is that the staggering costs of lipid-lowering therapy lead to national guidelines and policies that recommend or even dictate switching to generic preparations. This is associated, on average, with a reduction in pha...

Sophrosyne in Aeschylus

Greeks and Trojans Together

This paper describes a comprehensive solution for the integration of object oriented ontology representation frameworks with logic-based agent communication frameworks. The proposed solution addresses the problem at both the agent communication level and the agent implementation level. At the agent communication level, we propose to extend logic content languages with some domain independent op...

Mammalian RGS proteins: barbarians at the gate.

Hundreds or thousands of chemical and physical stimuli regulate the functions of eukaryotic cells by controlling the activities of a surprisingly small number of core signaling units that have been duplicated and adapted to achieve the necessary diversity. The most prevalent of these units, at least in animal cells, are three-protein modules consisting of signal recognition elements (receptors)...