Athenian lettering of the fifth century B.C. : the rise of the professional letter cutter / / Stephen V. Tracy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821731603321
• Autore: Tracy Stephen V. <1941->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 3-11-040759-0; 3-11-040763-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 481/.1
• Soggetti: Inscriptions, Greek - Greece - Athens; Lettering - Greece - Athens; Greek language - Alphabet
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Tedesco
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction and Methodology -- Inscriptions Discussed and/or Assigned -- The First Decrees and Laws of ca. 515 to ca. 450 B. C. -- Unique Examples of Writing of ca. 450 to ca. 400 -- The Inscribers of the Lapis Primus and Lapis Secundus (IG I3 259–280) -- The Inscribers of the So-called ‘Attic Stelai’ (IG I3 421–430) -- The Cutter of IG I3 263 Dates: 454/3–450/49 -- The Cutter of IG I3 270, 448–ca. 438 -- The Cutter of IG I3 35, 440/39–432/1 -- The Cutter of IG I3 364, 434/3–433/2 -- The Cutter of IG I3 392, ca. a. 425 a. -- The Cutter of IG I3 50, 424/3 -- The Cutter of IG II2 1386, 423/2–394/3 -- The Cutter of IG I3 80, 421/0 -- The Cutter of IG II2 17, 414/3–386/5 -- The Cutter of IG I3 102, 413/2–410/09 -- The Cutter of IG I3 316, ca. 408/7 -- The Cutter of IG II2 1401, ca. 395 -- Summation -- Appendix One: Hands in Fifth-Century B. C. Attic Inscriptions (reprint of Studies Dow 277–282) -- Appendix Two: The Wrongful Execution of the Hellenotamiai (Antiphon 5.69–71) and The Lapis Primus (reprint of CP 109, 2014, 1–10) -- Appendix Three: Down Dating Some Athenian Decrees with Three-Bar Sigma: A Palaeographic Approach (reprint of ZPE 190, 2014, 105–115) -- Index of Passages Cited -- General Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book has chapters on methodology, on the writing of the first decrees and laws of the years ca. 515 to 450 B.C., on unique examples of writing of ca. 450 to 400, on the inscribers of the Lapis Primus and Lapis Secundus (IG I3 259-280), and on those of the Attic Stelai (IG I3 421-430). These are followed by studies of 11 individual cutters arranged in chronological order. This study brings order to the study of hands of the fifth century by setting out a methodology and by discussing the attempts of others to identify hands. Another aim is to bring out the individuality of the writing of these early inscribers. It shows that from the beginning the writing on Athenian inscriptions on stone was very idiosyncratic, for all intents and purposes individual writing. It identifies the inscribing of the sacred inventories of Athena beginning about 450 B.C. as the genesis of the professional letter cutter in Athens and traces the trajectory of the profession. While the dating of many inscriptions will remain a matter for scholarly discussion, the present study narrows the dates of many texts. It also pinpoints the origin of the mistaken idea that three-bar sigma did not occur on public documents after the year 446 in order to make those who are not expert more aware that this is not a reliable means of dating.

IUTAM Symposium on Surface Effects in the Mechanics of Nanomaterials and Heterostructures : Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Beijing, China, 8-12 August, 2010 / / edited by Alan Cocks, Jianxiang Wang

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910438054603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-283-64085-6; 94-007-4911-2
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2013.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (308 p.)
• Collana: IUTAM Bookseries, , 1875-3493 ; ; 31
• Altri autori (Persone): CocksA. C. F; WangJianxiang
• Disciplina: 530.4/17; 620.11
• Soggetti: Mechanics, Applied; Solids; Mechanics; Nanotechnology; Solid Mechanics; Classical Mechanics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: International conference proceedings.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- A Biography of Bhushan L. Karihaloo -- Oriented Thermomechanics for Isothermal Planar Elastic Surfaces under Small Deformation, by Xia-Hui Pan, Shou-Wen Yu, Xi-Qiao Feng -- The Energetics of Self-Organised InAs/GaAs(100) Quantum Dots, by Simon P.A. Gill -- Elastic and Electric Fields in Quantum Wire/Dot Nanostructures via the Perturbation Theory, H. J. Chu, E. Pan, J. Wang -- Overall Properties of Thermoelastic Nanocomposites Incorporating Interface Energies, by Zhuping Huang, Yongqiang Chen, Ruchao Huang, Lizhi Sun -- Size and Surface Effects on Stress-Diffusion Doupling in Silicon Nanowire Electrodes, by Y. F. Gao and M. Zhou -- Growth Instability of Strained Film: an Elastic Green’s Function Force Monopole Approach, by Hao Hu and Feng Liu -- Fast Flow Through Nanotubes and Tube Blow-Out, by Duangkamon Baowan, Barry J. Cox and James ; M. Hill -- Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Study for Creating Graphene-based van der WaalsNano/microscale Devices, by Yilun Liu, Jiarui Yang, Ze Liu, Yao Cheng, Francois Grey, Quanshui Zheng -- Mechanical Properties of Materials Considering Surface Effects, by Holm Altenbach, Victor A. Eremeyev, and Nikita F. Morozov -- A Study on Cell-Substrate Interfacial Interaction Modulated by Substrate Stiffness, by Jianyong Huang, Lei Qin, Chunyang Xiong and Jing Fang -- Energy Approach for Nanoscale Beams with Surface Effects, by C. Liu, A. S. Phani and R.K.N.D. Rajapakse -- Multiple-scale Interface Fracture Analysis for Thin Film/Substrate System under Temperature Mismatch, by M.Z. Li, H.S. Ma, L.H. Liang, Y.G. Wei -- Quality Verification of Polished PCD Composites by Examining the Phase transformations, by Y. Chen and L. C. Zhang -- Size –Dependent Elastic Properties of Honeycombs, by H. X. Zhu -- Computational Modeling of Surface Effects: Distinctions from Classical Surface Elasticity Theory, by Harold S. Park -- Computational Thermomechanics with Boundary Structures, by Paul Steinmann and Ali Javili -- Thermodynamics and Kinetics of the Nanocheckerboard Formation, by Yong Ni , Linghui He, and Armen G. Khachaturyan -- Understanding Diffusion-Induced-Stresses in Lithium Ion Battery Electrodes, by Yang-Tse Cheng, Mark W. Verbrugge, Rutooj Deshpande -- Mechanical and Viscoelastic Properties of Polymer Layers on Solid-Liquid Interfaces, by Sheng Qin, Xuefeng Tang, Xianbin Du, Lifei Zhu, Yifeng Wei, Osung Kwon, Jiajie Fang, Ping Wang, and Da-Ming Zhu -- A density Functional Study of Zinc Oxide Elastic Properties under High Pressure, by Bin-Bin Wang and Ya-Pu Zhao -- A Multiscale Approach to the Influence of Geometry and Deformation on the Electronic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes, by Dong Qian -- Heterogeneous Structures with Negative Effective Mass, by Shanshan Yao, Xiaoming Zhou and Gengkai Hu -- Tuning Long-Range Elastic Interaction between Adsorbates by External Straining, by L. H. He -- On the Stress Field and Dislcoation Emission of an Elliptically Blunted Mode III Crack with Surface Stress Effect, by J. Luo -- Mechanics of Surface Enhanced Microcantilever Sensors, by Y.H. Xue, Y. Wang and H.L. Duan.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume constitutes the proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Surface Effects in the Mechanics of Nanomaterials and Heterostructures, held in Beijing, 8-12 August, 2010. The symposium brought together the most active scientists working in this area from the fields of solid mechanics, composites, physics, and materials science and summarized the state-of-the-art research results with a view to advancing the frontiers of mechanics and materials physics. Nanomaterials and heterostructures have a large fraction of their atoms at surfaces and interfaces. These atoms see a different environment to those in the interior and can have a substantial effect on the overall mechanical and physical behaviour of a material. The last decade has witnessed a growing interest in the study of surfaces and how the surface behaviour couples with that of the bulk to determine the overall system response. The papers in this proceedings cover: extension of continuum mechanics and thermodynamics to the nano-scale; multiscale simulations; surface effects in monolithic nano-scale elements and nanostructures; mechanical and physical properties of nanomaterials and heterostructures; self-assembly, etc. The surface stress effect is inherently a multidisciplinary and fertile field; the Symposium truly reflects these features. This IUTAM Symposium was also dedicated to Professor Bhushan L Karihaloo of Cardiff University on his impending retirement, in recognition of his contributions to the fields of solid mechanics and nanomechanics, and to IUTAM activities in general. .