The Date of Aristophanes' Birth

Latitude, Birth Date, and Allergy

BACKGROUND The space and time distribution of risk factors for allergic diseases may provide insights into disease mechanisms. Allergy is believed to vary by month of birth, but multinational studies taking into account latitude have not been conducted. METHODS AND FINDINGS A questionnaire was distributed in 54 centres to a representative sample of 20- to 44-y-old men and women mainly in Euro...

The Ionian at Aristophanes

Birth order as a quantitative expression of date of birth.

Publications on birth order mostly differ in their findings. In 1874 Galton1 stated that firstborn dominated among eminent men. Thirty years later, Pearson2 claimed that society was corrupted through the defects of firstborn. Surveys3-covering hundreds of books and articles give a remarkably inconsistent picture of the influence of sibling position on physical and psychological development. In ...

a study on the design of bio-ethanol process from date wastes of sistan and baluchistan province

اتانول کاربردهای متنوعی در صنایع لاستیک سازی، رنگسازی، حلالها ومکمل سوخت خودرو دارد. اتانول برخلاف نفت از جمله مواد تجدیدپذیر محسوب می شود که مشکلات زیست محیطی و آلودگی نیز ایجاد نمی کند. استفاده از اتانول به عنوان مکمل سوختخودروها از جمله مهمترین مصارف صنعتی این ماده بشمار می رود. با توجه به این موضوع تحقیق و توسعه در زمینه تولید اتانول با درجه خلوص بالا در سطح جهان، و نه تنها در کشور های پیشر...

Aristophanes on Tragedy

Fifty years before Aristotle wrote his Poetics, Aristophanes had devoted two comedies, Thesmophoriazusae (411) and Frogs (405), to the subject of tragedy. In both plays the plot shows the education of the main character in the nature of tragedy. Euripides learns in Thesmophoriazusae that he must present noble and not base women in his dramas. His depiction of perverse women in the theatre had m...