Authors:Sonya Nevin Pages: 5 - 15 Abstract: The Panoply Vase Animation Project has created a new animation from the decoration on an ancient Greek hydria. The vase depicts the poet Sappho with a lyre. The animation enables her to move, touch the strings, and play the instrument. It also features the words from Fragment 44 of her poetry and geometric figures acting out the poem. The music accompanying the animation was scored from the original poem and therefore offers the melody that the poem would have been sung to. This article discusses the decision-making process that informed the creation of the animation and suggests ways in which the animation and its vase can be used in the classroom or lecture-hall as a flexible learning resource. PubDate: 2019-12-20 DOI: 10.4312/clotho.1.2.5-15 Issue No:Vol. 1, No. 2 (2019)
Authors:Andreja Inkret Pages: 17 - 33 Abstract: The paper analyses a short scene that forms part of the opening of Sophocles’ Aias (66–133): Aias, suffering from the madness that was inflicted upon him by Athena, is displayed by the goddess to Odysseus. In the corpus of extant ancient drama, this inset appears to be unique. Its expressive power is derived from the scene’s specific structure that doubles the integral elements of theatre. The paper suggests the reasons why the scene has often been labeled “a play-within-a-play,” describing and illustrating the elements that can be paralleled with the structural components of theatre. Taking as basis concepts and ideas proposed by modern theatre theoreticians (Anne Ubersfeld, Tadeusz Kowzan, Umberto Eco), the paper argues that the essence of the performative dimension of the scene is to be found in the phenomenon of the “ostentation act” first described by Umberto Eco. Tracing the meaning of the inset within the tragedy as a whole, the paper emphasizes the fact that the “ostentation” in Aias is a divine creation, and examines how Odysseus, a privileged recipient of the spectacle, reacts to the display of Aias’ shameful condition. PubDate: 2019-12-20 DOI: 10.4312/clotho.1.2.17-33 Issue No:Vol. 1, No. 2 (2019)
Authors:Tomaž Potočnik, Matej Hriberšek Pages: 35 - 53 Abstract: The article tackles the problem of studying diachronic semantic changes of modal markers in Latin. It proposes to do so by using context as a proxy for tracing the development of otherwise unchanging forms. In the first part, the main theoretical positions in modality studies are presented, especially the notions of deontic modality, epistemic modality, and pathways of modality. In the second part, Heine’s model for studying the role of context in language change is presented and applied to the modal verb licet. In the case study of licet, an attempt is made to identify the so-called switch context which co-creates the conditions necessary for the semantic change. PubDate: 2019-12-20 DOI: 10.4312/clotho.1.2.35-53 Issue No:Vol. 1, No. 2 (2019)
Authors:Viktoryia Bartsevich, Karolina Anna Kulpa, Agnieszka Monika Maciejewska Pages: 55 - 72 Abstract: The motif of ancient beliefs about afterlife and contemporary idea of them appears increasingly in contemporary works directed to young audience. The combination of mythology and history known from ancient sources and popular culture works is essential for reception studies. The paper presents three cases of transformation of characters connected with ancient beliefs about afterlife as protagonists or villains in works directed to youth; Hades as a villain known from Disney’s works, especially Hercules; Persephone and Hades’s love story in three web comics: Underworld Love Story and Hades & Persephone Shorts by Gau Meo and Hades’ Holiday by Elvishness; and the way the Cleopatra VII Philopator’s image in Scooby Doo! in Where’s My Mummy' is different than others representations of the queen. PubDate: 2019-12-20 DOI: 10.4312/clotho.1.2.55-72 Issue No:Vol. 1, No. 2 (2019)
Authors:Blaž Zabel, Jan Ciglenečki Pages: 75 - 112 Abstract: This paper analyses the personal documents of two early explorers of the Eastern Desert who recorded several monastic monuments in the area: Sir John Gardner Wilkinson and James Burton. We argue that these papers are an important source for the history of early monasticism as they record many of the monuments now destroyed, severely damaged, or forgotten. It is also suggested that Burton preceded Wilkinson in visiting and documenting some of these archaeological sites, even though Wilkinson was the first to publish them. PubDate: 2019-12-20 DOI: 10.4312/clotho.1.2.75-112 Issue No:Vol. 1, No. 2 (2019)
Authors:Clotho Editors Pages: 115 - 118 Abstract: Clotho follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit: – a blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page; – a separate title page containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Please follow the hyperlink “Make a Submission” on the journal homepage (revije.ff.uni-lj.si/clotho) and upload all of your manuscript files following the instructions given on the screen. PubDate: 2019-12-20 DOI: 10.4312/clotho.1.2.115-118 Issue No:Vol. 1, No. 2 (2019)
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