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Сцената „Орфей с дивите животни“: между профанното и сакралното

Author(s): Vanya Lozanova-Stancheva / Language(s): English,Greek, Ancient (to 1453),Bulgarian Issue: 25/2020

The Orpheus Taming Wild Animals scene is particularly popular in all genres of ancient fine art. It is commonly perceived and interpreted as a metaphor for Orpheus’ magical and musical skills in the ancient Hellenic poetic tradition, which the Roman poets make locus communis. The aim of the present paper is to offer a new reading of the scene, which – in combination with the fragmented poetic evidences – allows the reconstruction of a possible mythological precedent for the journey of Orpheus to the World Beyond where he attained the mystic theological knowledge that allowed him to lay the foundations of the mysterial initiations. A serious digression from the conventional scene “The Orpheus Taming Wild Animals” shows the composition on some artifacts depicting unusual figures – a centaur(s), Pan, Satyroi. Thematic systematization and semantic analysis of the individual components in this type of compositions could outline some hypotheses regarding the ‘reading’ of its conceptual sources and messages. The analysis of the formal basic components of the images suggests that the scene presented a sacral topos in the World Beyond, associated with the myth-literary tradition of the Argonauts journey.

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Чашата на причастието. Към семантиката на съдовете от благороден метал в орфическата ритуална среда на тракийската аристокрация

Author(s): Michaela Yordanova / Language(s): English,Greek, Ancient (to 1453),Bulgarian Issue: 25/2020

The exposition analyzes the semantics of Thracian vessels of precious metal; an attempt was made to discuss their function in the context of sacred mysterious logos; a reinterpretation of the ritual symposial practices characteristic of the Orphic communities of Thracian political elites is proposed. Precisely because of their sacred functions, vessels of precious metal with inscriptions are found in the funerals and treasures of the aristocratic elite. They function in a certain way in the symposium rituals during the ruler’s symposia, and such practices in Thrace, are part of the Orphic religion and are associated with aristocratic political elites. There are several reasons for this topic: There is discussion in the literature and there is still a lack of a systematic and consistent thesis about the function of precious metal vessels in the Thracian cultural model. Despite the fundamental research of Al. Foul, the connection between the Thracian basic model of Orphism as aristocratic ideology and its projections in artifacts and folk narratives has not yet been sought. No effort was made to illuminate the function of the Thracian sacral artifacts in parallel with the Greek orphic sources.

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Още веднъж за епитета на Аполон – Таденос

Author(s): Petar Dimitrov / Language(s): English,Greek, Ancient (to 1453),Bulgarian Issue: 25/2020

In an inscription found near Brashlyan, in the territory of the town of Malko Tarnovo, South-East Bugaria, a new attestation of Apollo’s epithet – namely Ταδηνος, appears. It goes about a dedicatory inscription cut on a fragmentarily preserved altar. The epithet Ταδηνος is well known from both Greek and Latin inscriptions. The present paper offers a new linguistic analysis of this local cult name according to the modern theoretical standards. The morpheme /ΤΑΔ/ is typical in Thracian. And there is an alomorph /TAZ/, the two morphemes having the same meaning. Both morphemes are well attested in Greek as well. In our case the initial form of Ταδηνος would be *ταδ-σ-, then / ταδ-ζ-/, then two sigmas replacing the two deltas in /ταδδ-/ should be expected: after assimilation or assimilation with /ζ/. Thus the Thracian Ταδηνος would mean: “the one who arranges”. The linguistic argumentation presented here is to confront a recently published hypothesis which interprets Apollo’s epithet in relation with mining suggesting a meaning of “shining”. Although the Strandzha Mountain is known for its metal deposits, Ταδηνος has nothing to do with such activities.

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Морска храна в диетата на траките от Егейска Тракия

Author(s): Petya Ilieva / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 25/2020

The paper presents the still limited evidence on consumption of seafood by the native Thracian population of Aegean Thrace before the establishment of the Greek colonies in the area. Remains of various shellfish (shallow- and deep-water species) from several sites indicate that the local population knew how and where to collect it. The sites where evidence for the consumption of shellfish was found include the LBA – EIA inland settlement at Kastri on Thasos, the late 8th – early 7th c. BC coastal settlement below the later Parian apoikia on Thasos, the LBA – EIA hilltop settlement at Asar tepe, as well as the Samothracian apoikia of Zone (fig. 1). The pre-Greek settlement below the polis of Thasos is the source of a large amount of shellfish remains. However, such were not discovered in the upper strata associated with the Archaic Greek polis. The situation compares to that at Archaic Syracuse where stable isotop analysis of bones from the cemetery at Scala Greca indicates little if any seafood in the diet.

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Харпократ в Тракия през Гръко-римската епоха

Author(s): Vessela Atanassova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 25/2020

When Ptolemy I became ruler of Egypt (306 BC), he continued to have interests in Thrace and Asia Minor where Lysimachus, its ruler, married his daughter Arsinoe II. Most likely, their wedding was fixed with certain benefits, which led to the permanent presence of the Ptolemy in Southern Thrace. In fact, the whole 3rd century was marked by the presence of the Ptolemies in Thrace. This for sure, but also for some other unclear reasons facilitated the spreading of the Egyptian cults in that region. Several Egyptian deities, mainly Isis and Sarapis, but some other deities in relation with them, were found on various documents attesting their presence in Thrace from the Hellenistic period to the end of the Roman Era. Harpocrates, the presumed son of Isis and Sarapis in Greco-roman period, was one of those deities. Unlike his divine parents, he was a synnaos theos and his cult spread on a different manner. According to the monuments he was more likely worshiped because of his qualities as savior god and his magical competences. The study will examine the existing documentation and will discuss the mechanisms of spreading of the Harpocrates cult in Ancient Thrace from the Hellenistic period onward.

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Нови данни за поменалните практики в некропола на Аполония

Author(s): Pavlina Devlova,Milena Krumova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 25/2020

This part of the necropolis of Apollonia Pontica was actively used without interruption from the end of the 5th century BC to the III rd century BC. The space has been planned since its creation in the 5th century BC. The areas studied were most likely used by wealthier families, given the construction of such expensive burial and fencing facilities. For the first time in the necropolis of Apollonia, was discovered and documented a large section of the outer peribolus of the sacral space – the Southern Peribolos. The outer Peribolos was probably built in the 4th century BC. Confirmation of the date is the reused stelae, base and fragments of other similar elements. Since the beginning of the use of the family site, it has designated a special place for commemorative practices. It is certain that the places of burial, funeral and commemoration are different and memory is preserved in time, because there is no case of a broken grave. Numerous discovered preserved whole vessels may have been left behind after the change of sand, and he eventually poured them, helping to preserve them. Honoring deceased relatives is a long-standing practice. Probably the place is ennobled, there are stairs, open spaces that allow people to gather. Wine containers, jars, glasses, food containers allow us to visualize, although partially, the rituals of commemoration. Even though they come from a long way, the tradition is longlived, the remains remain in the necropolis – that is why the bottoms are punctured and missing, the knife left in the amphora. After the 3rd century BC this section has been abandoned and is no longer used – either with the function of a necropolis or for other purposes.

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Човешката коса в културата на Древна Тракия

Author(s): Miroslav Izdimirski / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 25/2020

In the analysis suggested, I make an attempt first and foremost to gather in one place all evidence on the function and meaning of human hair in Thracian culture. Human hair, save for being a biological factum, is an object of impression in human culture, i.e., it is a unique cultural phenomenon. I consider written evidences on the specific Thracian hair-do, as noted by the ancient authors, as well as the evidence according to which Thracians were red-haired. I pay attention to the archeologic findings of human hair in ancient Thrace, to visual evidences about hair-dos and colour in human hairs, as well as some folklore evidences on treatments of human hair, precisely as the object and subject of human culture.

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Религия, многообразие и взаимодействие по тракийските земи – примерът на еврейската общност в района на Филипопол (1–4 в.)

Author(s): Mina Tasseva-Bencheva / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 25/2020

During the I–IV centuries AD, religious diversity became one of the key features of the Graeco-roman world, as attested by literary evidence from the period and supported by a series of modern studies. Coexistence and interaction between various cults in the Empire, along with their understanding of the gods and the sacred, contributed to shape the specific culture of the period. The paper intends to examine some aspects of this culture through the example of the Jewish community in region of Philippopolis (modern Plovdiv). The existence of the Jewish community in the region of Philippopolis during the first centuries of the Roman Empire is attested by a group of inscriptions as well as the excavation of a building identified as a synagogue. This evidence is well known and it is currently being supplemented by new studies. However, few of them have focused specifically on the subject of the interaction between this community and its milieu. By exploring this subject, the paper contextualizes the community and brings a clearer image of its life, its understanding and expression of the sacred and its possible interactions with other religions on Thracian land.

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The ‘Selfie’ Phenomenon as a Basis for Self-identity Search. Preamble to a Philosophy of the Selfie Photography

Author(s): Sylvia Borissova,Liliana Yakovleva / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2020

The topicality of the problem is connected with the fact that nowadays photography has an important role in shaping the perception of ourselves. The state-of-the-arts analysis of the work related to the study of the ‘selfie’ phenomenon has shown the necessity for a deeper philosophical understanding of this issue. Thus, the article is meant by its authors as a pilot research to a larger and long-term humanitarian plunge in the philosophy of selfie photography, directly addressing the research fields of personality philosophy and psychology, visual anthropology, culture studies, self-presentation theory, behaviorist paradigm, semiotics of photography, and aesthetics of body. The study prospects shall provide an opportunity to develop and consider important discussions concerning contrasting philosophical aspects of selfie as social and culture phenomenon.

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Би Би Си и движенията 'Ме too' и 'Time’s Up': съдържателен анализ

Author(s): Tsvetelina Dzhambazova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 8/2020

Using content analysis, this report researches texts about the new social movements „Me Too” and „Time’s Up”, which are published on BBC’s website, bbc.com, between October 5th 2017 and December 31st 2018 (which marks the first anniversary of both campaigns). The aim is to study the methods through which both initiatives are presented in this British medium. Important tasks of this report are to analyze whether this website’s authors express an attitude towards the movements and to check whether there is any connection between the two campaigns and the existing calls for changes in the social roles of sexes in modern society.

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Дигитално присъствие на БНТ и БНР в социалните мрежи: революция или еволюция?

Author(s): Ivelina Georgieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 8/2020

The aim of this text is to encompass and analyze how the Bulgarian national television and the Bulgarian national radio use different social media platforms. The main thesis is that the two media are working hard on their active digital presence to stand out as information leaders with high public trust not only on television and radio but also online. BNT and BNR as the largest public media in our country also give a good perspective on how the Bulgarian media environment is developing online. For a long time now, this has included not only the media's websites, but also its full adaptation in the field of social networks where the user and his interests are most important.

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Университетски практики за създаване на студентски подкаст

Author(s): Stela Angova,Ivan Valchanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 8/2020

The study aims to identify university practices for creating a student podcast. The hypothesis is that there is a paradigm shift, but not a rejection, regarding the first steps of students in journalism and they rather attempt producing podcasts than creating a newspaper. The knowledge for creating print media products is upgraded through all media elements and digital communication strategies. This results in a real multimedia practice consisting of generating ideas, teamwork, script writing, editing, recording, publishing in online platforms and social media promotion. Empirical material has been collected from American, Australian, Western European, and Bulgarian universities. The case studies seek to discover the reasons for the increased interest in podcasts as a modern audio format. The study aims to outline the main characteristics of a successful student podcast and to examine the tendencies for production and listening to podcasts among the younger audience.

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НАДГРОБНИ ПАМЕТНИЦИ В ОРЯХОВО И СЕЛАНОВЦИ

Author(s): Nikolai Nenov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 18/2020

The text describes the cemeteries and tombstones in the town of Oryahovo and the nearby village of Selanovtsi. The rich plastic decoration of the traditional type of monuments has the characteristics of the Christian ritual system. In more recent times simple forms are established – plates predominate, on which various details are applied – niches for candles, vases for flowers, religious or communist signs, inscriptions, photos. According to the form and content of the tombstones, there are four time periods. The oldest are stone tombstones, which belong to the stonemakers school of the town of Vratsa and were used until the middle of the twentieth century. Simultaneously with them appear models of urban type memorial, which consists of a pedestal and a main body, a parallelepiped, crowned with a cross. Limestone or granite, applications of porcelain photographs, the appearance of sculptural figures – these differences suggest social inequalities. After the middle of the twentieth century, this type of monument was lost, with the appearance of simple slabs, cast from cement, which included the style of the communist regime in Bulgaria at that time.

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За авторството в популярната музика през погледа на Уил Стро

Author(s): Mihail Lukanov,Mihail Lukanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 10/2021

The article addresses a topic related to the complex problem of authorship in the field of popular music today, as well as the challenges of trying to highlight the ‘image’ of the author in the context of the joint and shared creative efforts involved in creating а final music product. The text analyses these issues through the interpretive optics of Professor Will Straw, a contemporary Canadian researcher in the field of media studies. The presented reflections are based on his commentary on the ‘diffused’ image of the author in popular music in view of certain specific developments in the second half of the 20th century.

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Оригиналът в епохата на дигиталната му възпроизводимост

Author(s): Ivan Svilenov Stefanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2022

The problem with the original in the era of its digital reproducibility concerns both photography, which until recently dominated media in contemporary art, and more conventional art forms, such as painting and music, which entered the digital universe and became irreversibly devalued because of the accessibility and malicious democracy of the new digital meta universe. Entering the second decade of the 21st century, the economic trap in which the arts fall is becoming clearer, and the traditional idea of the uniqueness of the original work falls under the pragmatic critique of the consumer world, in which everyone can and wants to own, in the digital format, all the information of interest or need. A new chance for artists to declare the originality of their digital work is the emerging NFT culture, and an interesting question that may arise from now on is whether a potential shift of big capital to the originals in their digital version will not orient the gallery spaces to other purposes than commercial? Obviously, interesting restructuring in the world of art is forthcoming and the emergence of new and more important institutions than galleries and museums is not excluded.

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Рекламата за „Чудото на XIX ВЕК“. Свидетелства в българския периодичен печат (1896–1914)

Author(s): Peter Kardjilov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 11/2022

Тoday, cinema is an art, accompanied by its own sciences, its own film criticism and its own film journalism. But what happened in the years immediately after its birth. There was a Word – describing something new and unknown; admiring a technical invention that even his fathers did not believe in; recreating the atmosphere that prevailed during the first sessions and the reactions of the surprised audience… It is from this Word, preserved to this day in the advertisements printed in the then Bulgarian periodicals, that modern film criticism is born. This article with the help of concrete examples, traces this process of turning the „reclamo” („cry of praise”) into an intellectual activity.

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Рецензия на книгата „Между миграция и уседналост: Екзотичният друг и новото българско кино (към културологичните полета на идентичността, различието и дискурса свой/чужд)“

Author(s): Peter Ayolov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 11/2022

The book by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Andronika Martonova is another contribution to the study of cinematography in Bulgaria. Author of numerous articles in the most popular Bulgarian media, the author presents a complete text of 200 pages, in which she masterfully traces the thread of otherness and alienation in the new Bulgarian cinema. The book is part of the project “Post-totalitarian Bulgarian cinema - models and identities” and manages to outline the contours of a bridge in the transition in Bulgarian cinema between the two eras. Cinema before the changes also had its hits in describing otherness, as most of the films are described accurately in the introduction. The book traces the search for a new Bulgarian identity as a theme for the new Bulgarian cinema.

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Съвременни научни изследвания в областта на интериорния дизайн

Author(s): Boris Serginov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 11/2022

The review addresses the book “Structural Approach in Interior Design in the Twentieth Century” by Bilyana Kaloyanova, PhD. The scientific and applied significance of the publication will benefit researchers and professionals working in the field of interior design.

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Van-e kiút a kulturális kapitalizmusból?

Author(s): Jean-Louis Fabiani / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 30/2022

Cultural commons are not as easy to define as natural commons, such as air, water and other natural resources, which should be equally and universally shared. Dipesh Chakrabarty helped us provincialize Europe, but in his article “The climate of histo

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Scenology of the Digital Image

Author(s): Marian Beneš / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

On the one hand the world of digital imaging is a continuously changing organism of almost unlimited creative possibilities. On the other hand, it is a very complicated environment full of technological systems and processing and production standards. The goal is to give to those never-ending flow of ideas, technological mutations and resulting artistic expressions, the theoretical system that would allow a readable and clear organization of teaching in the field of digital manipulation. At the same time, it should be a goal to lead students to independence and individuality. If their works of art also include a story with an unmistakable author‘s contribution, there is a high probability that the market will register such a work.The following text, among others, is focused on the following thematic areas: The importance of working with color in the digital age. Methodology of teaching creative applications of digital imaging in the circle of artistic and scientific approaches and the science of color. The role and position of the photographer in the field of applied art. Examples of researched approaches in the pursuit of integral connection of opposing levels of photographic representation.

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