1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455980703321

Titolo

Allusion, authority, and truth [[electronic resource] ] : critical perspectives on Greek poetic and rhetorical praxis / / edited by Phillip Mitsis, Christos Tsagalis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : De Gruyter, 2010

ISBN

1-282-91191-0

9786612911910

3-11-024540-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (468 p.)

Collana

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; ; 7

Altri autori (Persone)

MitsisPhillip

TsagalisChristos

Disciplina

881/.0109

Soggetti

Greek poetry - History and criticism

Allusions in literature

Rhetoric, Ancient

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- EPIC AND LYRIC -- 1. The Authority of Orpheus, Poet and Bard: Between Tradition and Written Practice -- 2. Remembering the Gastēr -- 3. Achilles Polytropos and Odysseus as Suitor: Iliad 9.307-429 -- 4. Hector's Inaction (Iliad 5.471-492) -- 5. Epic Space Revisited: Narrative and Intertext in the Episode between Diomedes and Glaucus (Il. 6.119-236) -- 6. Idealism in the Odyssey and the Meaning of mounos in Odyssey 16 -- 7. Reading the Epic Past: The Iliad on Heroic Epic -- 8. The Meaning of homoios (όμοĩος) in Theogony 27 and Elsewhere -- 9. Hesiod, Th. 117 and 128: Formula and the Text's Temporality -- 10. Pylades and Orestes in Pindar's Eleventh Pythian: The Uses of Friendship -- DRAMA -- 1. Aeschylus, Suppliants 112-150 -- 2. Sons of the Shield: Paternal Arms in Epic and Tragedy -- 3. Echoes from Mount Cithaeron -- 4. Notes on Tragic Rhetoric in Euripides' Hecuba -- 5. The Lady Vanishes: Helen and Her Phantom in Euripidean Drama -- 6. "A Song to Match my Song": Lyric Doubling in Euripides' Helen -- 7. Tyrants and Flatterers:



Kolakeia in Aristophanes' Knights and Wasps -- 8. Do Not Sit near Socrates (Aristophanes' Frogs, 1482-1499) -- 9. Veiled Venom: Comedy, Censorship and Figuration -- PROSE -- 1. Shifting Paradigms: Mimesis in Isocrates -- 2. Polybius and Daniel: Two Universal Histories, or What Does It Mean To Be Contemporary? -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Questions about how ancient Greek texts establish their authority, reflect on each other, and project their own truths have become central for a wide range of recent critical discourses. In this volume, an influential group of international scholars examines these themes in a variety of poetic and rhetorical genres. The result is a series of striking and original readings from different critical perspectives that display the centrality of these questions for understanding the poetic and rhetorical aims of ancient Greek texts. Characterized by a combination of close attention to philological detail and theoretical sophistication, the essays in this volume make a compelling case for this kind of focused, critically informed dialogue about the nature of ancient textual praxis.  Students of classical literature will find a wealth of critical insights and challenging new readings of many familiar texts.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911019216403321

Titolo

Policy, finance & management for public-private partnership / / edited by Akintola Akintoye & Matthias Beck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Ames, Iowa, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

ISBN

9786612034503

9781282034501

1282034502

9781444301427

144430142X

9781444301434

1444301438

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (504 p.)

Collana

Innovation in the built environment

Altri autori (Persone)

AkintoyeAkintola

BeckMatthias <1964->

Disciplina

332.1068

352.7724

352.7'724

Soggetti

Public-private sector cooperation

Infrastructure (Economics) - Management



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART ONE PPP POLICY; Chapter 1 Private Finance Initiative in Use; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Private Finance Initiative; 1.3 UK Government's Influence on the Use of PFI; 1.4 Private Sector Tasks in PFI; 1.5 Establishing PFI Contracts; 1.6 Forms of Finance Used in PFI; 1.7 Performance of PFI Schemes - A Theoretical Perspective; 1.8 Improving the Performance of PFI; 1.9 Performance of PFI Schemes - An Empirical Review; 1.10 A Generic Overview of PFI Schemes; 1.11 Comparative Studies; 1.12 Conclusion

Chapter 2 Usingthe Private Sector to Finance Capital Expenditure: The Financial Realities2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Control of PFI; 2.3 Post-implementation Evaluation of PFI; 2.4 Conclusion; Chapter 3 Obstacles to Accountability in PFI Projects; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Finance Capital and Institutional Decision Making; 3.3 Conclusion; Chapter 4 Refinancingand Profitability of UK PFI Projects; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 PFI Finance and Value for Money; 4.3 Mechanisms and Policies of Refinancing; 4.4 PFI Profits and Refinancing; 4.5 Conclusion

Chapter 5 The Dedicated PPP Unit of the South African National Treasury5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Rationale for PPPs; 5.3 The Rationale for a Dedicated PPP Unit; 5.4 A Brief History of PPPs and the PPP Unit in South Africa; 5.5 The Role of the South African Dedicated PPP Unit; 5.6 Future Challenges; 5.7 Conclusion; Chapter 6 PPP in Greenfield Airport Development:A Case Study of Cochin International Airport Limited; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Private Participation in New Airport Development; 6.3 Indian Aviation Sector; 6.4 The Cochin International Airport Project; 6.5 Performance of CIAL

6.6 Summary and LessonsChapter 7 PPPs for Physical Infrastructure in DevelopingCountries; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 An Overview of Public-Private Partnerships; 7.3 PPP: Developed Economies; 7.4 PPP: Developing Economies; 7.5 PPP: Analysis of Private Sector Participation; 7.6 Discussion; 7.7 Conclusions; Chapter 8 Team Buildingfor PPPs; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Integrating and Sustaining PPP Teams; 8.3 Hong Kong Perspectives of PPP Teams; 8.4 Singapore Perspectives of PPP Teams; 8.5 Integrating PPP Project Teams; 8.6 Selecting Project Consortium Teams; 8.7 Concluding Observations; PART TWOPPP FINANCE

Chapter 9 PPP Infrastructure Investments:Critical Aspects and Prospects9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Critical Issues in Financing PPP Projects; 9.3 Prospects for PPP Infrastructure Development; 9.4 Conclusion; Chapter 10 Patterns of FinancingPPP Projects; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 General Patterns of Financing PPP Projects; 10.3 Choice of Financing Patterns; 10.4 Summary; Chapter 11 PPP Financingin the USA; 11.1 Introduction; 11.2 PPP Financing Models in the US; 11.3 Case Studies; 11.4 Conclusions; Chapter 12 Financial Modellingof PPP Projects; 12.1 Introduction

12.2 Research in PPP Financial Modelling

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines some of the key policy, financial and managerial aspects of public-private partnerships within the context of the global spread of this form of procurement.The chapters investigate political and institutional issues surrounding PPPs, together with the financial and managerial strategies employed by the private sector. Adopting a cross-disciplinary perspective, the book highlights the often politically



sensitive nature of these projects and identifies a need for the private sector to investigate a broad set of parameters which relate to the particular political econom