Euripides and the Poetics of Nostalgia

Meltzer, Gary S.

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“…5 and ran the 3 approximation techniques: Greedy, LBP and TRW on the test set comprising 4952 images from PASCAL VOC 2007 dataset. We used the publicly available software from Meltzer (2006) for LBP and the software from MSR (2006) for TRW-S. 2 Table 3 compares the approximation techniques in terms of how well they maximize the score function, and their accuracy on PASCAL 2007 test set. For 4942 out of 4952 images (99.8%), Greedy and LBP yield identical results.…”

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Discriminative Models for Multi-Class Object Layout

2011

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Many state-of-the-art approaches for object recognition reduce the problem to a 0-1 classification task. This allows one to leverage sophisticated machine learning techniques for training classifiers from labeled examples. However, these models are typically trained independently for each class using positive and negative examples cropped from images. At test-time, various post-processing heuristics such as non-maxima suppression (NMS) are required to reconcile multiple detections within and between different classes for each image. Though crucial to good performance on benchmarks, this post-processing is usually defined heuristically.We introduce a unified model for multi-class object recognition that casts the problem as a structured prediction task. Rather than predicting a binary label for each image window independently, our model simultaneously predicts a structured labeling of the entire image (Fig. 1). Our model learns statistics that capture the spatial arrangements of various object classes in real images, both in terms of which arrangements to suppress through NMS and which arrangements to favor through spatial co-occurrence statistics.We formulate parameter estimation in our model as a max-margin learning problem. Given training images with The Marr Prize is awarded to the best paper(s) at the biannual flagship vision conference, the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). This paper is an extended and re-reviewed journal version of the 2009 prize-winning conference paper. ground-truth object locations, we show how to formulate learning as a convex optimization problem. We employ the cutting plane algorithm of Joachims et al. (Mach. Learn. 2009) to efficiently learn a model from thousands of training images. We show state-of-the-art results on the PASCAL VOC benchmark that indicate the benefits of learning a global model encapsulating the spatial layout of multiple object classes (a preliminary version of this work appeared in ICCV 2009, Desai et al., IEEE international conference on computer vision, 2009).

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Section: Analysis Of Greedy Inferencementioning

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Discriminative Models for Multi-Class Object Layout

2011

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“…It narrates about an orphan Ion who was in search of his origin. Some scholars lay their emphasis on saying that the myth of 'Ion' is not only a simple play, but it shows the search of identity of the race of the origin (Hall 1997, Meltzer 2006). 1 This play highlights many myths of Ion, among which one of the myths of Ion has resemblance with the myth related to Karna of Mahabharata.…”

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Ion (Euripides) and Karna (Mahabharat, Sanga Ilakkiyam) - Deconstruction of Binary Oppositions

Pugazhendhi¹

2022

AJP

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“Ion” is a Greek play authored by Euripides depicting the story of Ion. The “Mahabharata” is an epic written in both the Tamil and Sanskrit languages. The story of Karna is one of the sub plots in this epic. In the Greek play, Creusa who is impregnated by Apollo, the Sun God, keeps Ion in a casket together with a breast plate for his protection. In the Tamil myth, Kunti who is impregnated by the Sun God places her son Karna in a casket and sets it afloat in a river to conceal the birth of the child. Regarding the breast plate in this story, it is shown that Karna was born with the breast plate glued to his breast. Creusa, the mother of Ion, had had an illegitimate son born to her before marriage and remains childless for a long time after getting married to another person. Kunti too gave birth to a son before marriage and remains childless for a long time with her lawful husband. After that, Creusa had offspring by the grace of the God and Kunti too had offspring by the boon of the Gods. Thus, the parallels of binary oppositions and deconstruction are seen in these two myths. Noble birth and low birth, men and women, willing and out of compulsion, happiness and unhappiness are some of the binary oppositions. Theism and Atheism, biological mother and step mother are some of the deconstructions of binary opposition. This article deals with the parallels seen between these two myths, identifying the binary oppositions in these myths and deconstructing the binary oppositions by identifying their instabilities. Keywords: Ion, Karna, myth, Sanskrit, Tamil

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“…For the moment, the pressing question is what a unitary praise is to be contrasted with. Pausanias' objection to unitary praise recalls the famous words of Polyneices, in his exchange with Eteocles in Euripides' Phoenician Women: 'Simple (haplous) is the word of truth; and of complex (poikilōn) interpretations justice has no need' (de Romilly 1984;Sansone 1996;Meltzer 2006). For Polyneices haplous connoted a received truth: simple, clear, decisive, plain, open, straightforward, frank.…”

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Pausanian Classification or Socratic Participation: Theologizing the Plurality of Erotic Praxis in Plato’s Symposium

Krinks¹

2018

Religions

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Read theologically, Plato’s Symposium is an exercise in doxology: how Eros is to be praised. Pausanias observes that, since Eros is not one, a unitary praise will be inadequate. Proposing a focus on praxis, he classifies erotic praxes, and praises one, in a synthesis of contemporary convention, sophistic rationality, social responsibility and polytheistic fidelity. Against this Socrates praises erotic praxis as one of a plurality of desires mediating between mortals and an otherwise transcendent good. Desire which is specifically erotic involves a praxis of (pro)creation through attention to beauty. In this praxis mortals participate in immortality and the divine. Pausanias’ praise is seriously offered. However, lacking a participatory element, it delivers an underwhelming doxology, making Eros at best an instrument of a sophistically constructed virtue ethic to which his polytheism is ambiguously connected. It is the philosophical theology of Socrates, which, praising Eros as a mediator enabling participation in the divine realm, and offering itself as an analogous form of mediation, is able to be consummated liturgically.

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Euripides and the Poetics of Nostalgia

Cited by 19 publications

References 92 publications

Discriminative Models for Multi-Class Object Layout

Discriminative Models for Multi-Class Object Layout

Ion (Euripides) and Karna (Mahabharat, Sanga Ilakkiyam) - Deconstruction of Binary Oppositions

Pausanian Classification or Socratic Participation: Theologizing the Plurality of Erotic Praxis in Plato’s Symposium

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