For aficionados of the epic, to be in London between the summer of 1964 and the winter of 1972 must have been very exhilarating. During that period the London Seminar on Epic convened 31 times to hear lectures on diverse epics from both nearby and remote cultures, delivered by specialists of these poetic narratives and their literary traditions. The 12 articles that constitute the present volum...

I suppose that I ought to feel well-prepared to speak about the future of studies on the Aeneid, having just read and reviewed two new books dealing with the theme of prophecy in that poem. In reality, though, I feel utterly unable to make comfortable predictions about where our epic voyages will take us-particularly as one of the books I alluded to, Professor O'Hara's, sees prophecy in the Aen...

The only proof of this I know is kind of fiddly and not enlightening. But the point is that in most categories that appear ‘in nature,’ regular, strong, and extremal epics are about the same, and all are the correct notion of quotient, while ordinary epimorphisms may not be. For example, N→ Q is epic in Rings, but not extremal epic. In Top the epics are the surjective maps, while the regular = ...

Abstract A 58-year-old male patient with degenerated St. Jude Epic mitral bioprosthesis underwent successful valve replacement using 29 mm Medical mechanical prosthesis. Case history presented here to prevent organ injury via a transeptal approach for epic bioprosthesis.

We present a work in progress aimed at measuring the spectrum of the Cosmic X-ray Background (CXB) with the EPIC detectors onboard XMM-Newton. Our study includes a detailed characterization of the EPIC non X-ray background, which is crucial in making a robust measurement of the spectrum of CXB. We present preliminary results, based on the analysis of a set of Commissioning and Performance Verif...

We study the question when a ∗-autonomous (Mix-)category has a representation as a ∗-autonomous category of a compact one. We prove that necessary and sufficient condition is that weak distributivity maps are monic (or, equivalently epic). For a Mix-category, this condition is, in turn, equivalent to the requirement that Mix-maps be monic (or epic). We call categories satisfying this property t...