Medea: Greek myth and peculiar identity

Looking Forward, Looking Backward: The Greek Continuum Review of After Antiquity: Greek Language, Myth, and Metaphor

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...

Design automation in MEDEA: present and future

0272-1732/99/$10.00  1999 IEEE The semiconductor industry has been growing at an unprecedented level since its start in the early 1960s. Capitalizing on the outstanding properties of silicon and its stable oxide permitted the introduction of the CMOS industry, the leading semiconductor industry process. However, the average 15% to 16% annual growth in semiconductor sales has also presented tre...

Medea Genes, Handedness and Other Traits

Medea factors or genes are maternal-effects mechanisms, found in many species, in which the mother’s body selectively kills embryos of a certain genotype. Humans have a similar genetic mechanism, the gene RHD which produces Rh-factor involved in blood type. Recently I proposed that RHD acts as a maternal-effects gene that determines handedness (i.e., right handed or non-right handed) in individ...

The mediating of chanson: French identity and the myth Brel-Brassens-Ferré

of thesis The mediating of chanson: French identity and the myth Brel-Brassens-Ferré Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens and Léo Ferré are three emblematic figures of post-war French song, who have been seen by critics, journalists, and the public, as the epitome of chanson, and more generally of ‘Frenchness’. The starting point of this study is the observation that the legacy of the systematic asso...