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  Made of pure chemicals only
A brief search reveals such mundanity as a letter from Darwin to the 'Gardener's Chronicle', on the value of saltpetre in manure, and highlights such as a letter to Charles Lyell (famous geologist and populariser of uniformitarianism), suggesting that Law of Gravity is not seen as requiring design.
Sitting in the second morning of a 2 day Baysian Statistics for Systems Biology workshop, it begins to dawn on me that it is probably aimed at statisticians, and if it isn't, they've really missed their market with the talks.
It may be B3ta, and therefore slightly crass and unsubtle, but the nail was hit right on the head with this post about this story.
ibycus.blogspot.com   (1082 words)

  
  Ibycus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ibycus, of Rhegium in Italy, Greek lyric poet, contemporary of Anacreon, flourished in the 6th century BC.
One of them, either in alarm or jest, exclaimed, "Behold the avengers of Ibycus," and thus gave the clue to the detection of the crime (Plutarch, De Garrulitate, xiv.).
The phrase, "the cranes of Ibycus," passed into a proverb among the Greeks for the discovery of crime through divine intervention.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ibycus   (273 words)

  
 XXV. b. Ibycus. Vols. I & II: Stories of Gods and Heroes. Bulfinch, Thomas. 1913. Age of Fable
order to understand the story of Ibycus which follows it is necessary to remember, first, that the theatres of the ancients were immense fabrics capable of containing from ten to thirty thousand spectators, and as they were used only on festival occasions, and admission was free to all, they were usually filled.
It is recorded that Æschylus, the tragic poet, having on one occasion represented the Furies in a chorus of fifty performers, the terror of the spectators was such that many fainted and were thrown into convulsions, and the magistrates forbade a like representation for the future.
Ibycus, the pious poet, was on his way to the chariot races and musical competitions held at the Isthmus of Corinth, which attracted all of Grecian lineage.
www.bartleby.com /181/252.html   (1109 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Ibycus
Ibycus (lived mid-6th century bc), Greek poet, born in Rhegium (now Reggio di Calabria, Italy).
He was a wanderer who spent time at the court of...
The wrongful death of Ibycus, a poet of ancient Greece, was avenged in an unusually dramatic manner.
ca.encarta.msn.com /Ibycus.html   (60 words)

  
 Maple Lake Releasing: IBYCUS Study Guide
Ibycus: A Poem by John Heath-Stubbs, a documentary by Carlos Klein is a look into the creative process with famed the famed English poet.
One of the most celebrated poets of his generation, John Heath-Stubbs is noted for his translations of Middle Eastern poets, his role as teacher to new generations of writers and as a voice keeping the long form poem an active and vibrant tradition.
In the poem IBYCUS, Heath-Stubbs revisits the classic Greek traditions in his recounting of the tale of Ibycus a poet who according to legend was murdered on his way to a music competition.
www.maplelake.mb.ca /studyiby.html   (606 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Ibycus
He was a wanderer who spent time at the court of Polycrates...
Ibycus was a lyric poet of the 6th century bc, some of whose works have survived.
The story of his death became a legend and established the...
uk.encarta.msn.com /Ibycus.html   (103 words)

  
 Yale University Library: Electronic Text Center
Ibycus is not simply a search engine, but rather a complete micro-computer system, including both hardware (CPU and drives) and software.
Ibycus is still favored, however, in certain respects: it has the ability to search word fragments, for example, which is not possible with indexed systems.
Only one Ibycus machine is publicly available at Yale; it is located in the Classics Library (Phelps 5th floor).
www.library.yale.edu /etc/grklat.html   (2543 words)

  
 Bulfinch's Mythology, The Age of Fable - Chapter 25: Poets: Arion, Ibycus, Simonides, Sappho.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In their present form, the first two are translated from the German, Arion from Schlegel, and Ibycus from Schiller.
Arion was a famous musician, and dwelt at the court of Periander, king of Corinth, with whom he was a great favourite.
In order to understand the story of Ibycus which follows it is necessary to remember, first, that the theatres of the ancients were immense fabrics capable of containing from ten to thirty thousand spectators, and as they were used only on festal occasions, and admission was free to all, they were usually filled.
www.bulfinch.org /fables/bull25.html   (2873 words)

  
 ibycus
The Ibycus system was an HP-1000 modified by David W. Packard to process the Greek texts.
The Ibycus system, as well as the Ibycus mini-computers (also created by David W. Packard) were used to search and browse TLG texts until the late 80's when a number of programs were developed to search TLG CD ROMs on the Macintosh or Windows platform.
Until recently, Ibycus was used at the TLG Project for text correction and verification.
www.tlg.uci.edu /ibycus.html   (100 words)

  
 EPCC   (Site not responding. Last check: )
At present the texts can be searched either on a specialist micro (Ibycus system) or on a 486 using special software (Lbase, TLG Workplace, Musaios, etc.).
The special software on the non-standard PC the Ibycus, gets good results at speeds better than is done with a 486.
Ibycus allows the span of a search to be modified between 3 and 200 characters.
www.epcc.ed.ac.uk /computing/visitor_programmes/SSP/1995/ProjectSummary/SS-95-04.php   (460 words)

  
 Ibycus, Greece, ancient history
Ibycus was known to have a passion for boys, and there is definitely a homosexual stroke in his poetry.
Not much of his work has survived, but we know he wrote mythological stories as well as personal love poems.
One of them then said "look, the avengers of Ibycus", which the crowd heard and apprehended them.
www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/history/ancient/ibycus.htm   (209 words)

  
 Archaic Period - Culture - Monody
Probably they were addressed to exclusive circles of friends and admirers and in certain cases only to the court of their patron.
Sappho and Alcaeus wrote in the Aeolic dialect, whereas Anacreon and Ibycus in the Ionic.
Ibycus wrote in a rich and sensitive style and praised young male beauty.
www.fhw.gr /chronos/04/en/culture/223lit_lyric_monody.html   (416 words)

  
 The Road To Megara   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ibycus turns on his heel and storms out before she can see too deeply into his pain.
Ibycus unlocks her cuffs and Eve collapses to the floor in a heap.
Ibycus moves to leave the cell, but Virgil shoves him roughly into the wall and gets in his face.
www.xena.com /villagers/fanfic/caina/The_Road_To_Megara.html   (2055 words)

  
 Meander’s Nod » Ibygrep/Libycus
Libycus is named in honor of the Ibycus computer which provided many classicists their first view of the texts on the TLG and PHI CD-ROMS.
The Ibycus had grown up almost as a sibling to the electronic TLG.
He created the Ibycus computer as a machine dedicated specifically to working with classical languages, complete with a Greek/Roman alphabet wordprocessor and a text-search tool for the TLG built in.
www.jiffycomp.com /smr/libycus   (642 words)

  
 The Greek Lyric Poets, U. of Saskatchewan   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The poets dealt, not with the grand events passed down by the mythopoetic tradition, but with contemporary occurrences and their own experiences.
The poems are called lyric poems because many of them — those, e.g., of Sappho, Alcaeus, and Ibycus — were intended to be sung to the lyre.
Ibycus was popular court poet, renowned for his sensuous imagery: see frg.
duke.usask.ca /~porterj/CourseNotes/LyricPoets.html   (2214 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ibycus: Second century BC Three columns from a de-luxe papyrus roll written in an unusually ornamental hand.
The text is a corrected copy of an encomium of the sixth century BC lyric poet Ibycus comparing the famous tyrant Polycrates of Samos to the heroes of the Trojan war (Poetarum Melicorum Graecorum fragmenta fr.
At the foot of the empty space an ancient scholar has written a note (scholium) in a cursive hand, commenting on the name Kyanippos, and enabled J. Barron to restore this name in an incomplete line of the preceding column.
www.csad.ox.ac.uk /POxy/VExhibition/1790.htm   (183 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: )
They are based, with some slight modifications where David Packard's Ibycus input coding seems too misleading, on the Ibycus adaptation of TLG beta-code.
The names of PK and TFM files follow Karl Berry's font name convention (84 is the encoding for Ibycus 4).
Foundry Facename Weights Variants Encoding_Variants DesignSize f ib [r], b r, o 84 [10], 9, 8 fibr84 fibo84 fibb84 with METAFONT design-size additions fibr848 fibo848 fibb848 fibr849 fibo849 fibb849 Driver files for the Bold Oblique variant can be provided but their use is discouraged.
wikisophia.org /doc/ibycus4.txt   (1483 words)

  
 IBYCUS - LoveToKnow Article on IBYCUS
One of them, either in alarm or jest, ejaculated, Behold the avengers of Ibycus, and thus gave the clue to the detection of the crime (Plutarch, Dc Garrulitate, xiv.).
According to Suidas, Ibycus wrote seven books of lyrics, to some extent mythical and heroic, but mainly erotic (Cicero, Tusc.
To properly cite this IBYCUS article in your work, copy the complete reference below:
www.1911encyclopedia.org /I/IB/IBYCUS.htm   (243 words)

  
 Greek Mythology and Ancient Greece - Ibycus   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In order to understand the story of Ibycus which follows, it is necessary to remember, first, that the theatres of the ancients were immense buildings providing seats for from ten to thirty thousand spectators, and as they were used only on festal occasions, and admission was free to all, they were usually filled.
It is recorded that AEschylus, the tragic poet, having on one occasion represented the Furies in a chorus of fifty performers, the terror of the spectators was such that many fainted and were thrown into convulsions, and the magistrates forbade a like representation for the future.
The people took them before the judge, they confessed their crime and suffered the punishment they deserved.
www.greekhistoryandmythology.com /Greek_Mythology/Greek_Myths/Ibycus   (1046 words)

  
 A Problem in Greek Ethics: XI. Paiderastia in poetry of the lyric age
Before proceeding to discuss the conditions under which paiderastia existed in Athens, it may be well to pause and to consider the tone adopted with regard to it by some of the earlier Greek poets.
It is not a little curious to observe how all the poets of the despotic age resent and fret against the force of their own feeling, differing herein from the singers of chivalry, who idealised the very pains of passion.
He never fails to teach by precept and example; he does not, as Ibycus is reported to have done, adorn his verse with legends of Ganymede and Tithonus, for the sake of insinuating compliments.
www.sacred-texts.com /lgbt/pge/pge13.htm   (1722 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Ibycus (Classical Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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He spent some time at the court of Polycrates of Samos.
The "cranes of Ibycus" as an expression of triumphant justice refers to the tale that Ibycus, murdered at sea, was revenged by cranes who saw the crime and eventually revealed the murderers.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/I/Ibycus.html   (179 words)

  
 Ibycus of Rhegium   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ibycus was born in Rhegium (Italy), but later left for the court of Polycrates in Samos.
Sources confict on his floruit, but it was probably somewhere in the 560-530s BC.
All material Copyright 2002-2005 Aoidoi.org or of the given author.
www.aoidoi.org /texts/ibycus   (82 words)

  
 Harvard University Press/Edited and Translated by David A. Campbell, Greek Lyric, III, Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides, ...
The most important poets writing in Greek in the sixth century BC came from Sicily and southern Italy.
He may have been a solo singer, performing these poems to his own cithara accompaniment.
Ibycus probably belonged to the colony of Rhegium in southwestern Italy.
www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/L476.html   (316 words)

  
 De Tolbrug - Aidan Chambers
Co-written with the three young professional actors, their manager and designer in the Ibycus company of Flanders, who commissioned the play, De Tolbrug was first performed in Antwerp before touring cities in Belgium and the Netherlands during 1998.
The production was so successful it was given the Hans Snoek Prize for the best production of the year, and was revived for a second tour in 2001.
The Dutch text, a video film about the play and the novel, and an educational handbook are all now available for teachers and students who are studying both texts in schools and colleges.
www.aidanchambers.co.uk /books/tolbrug.htm   (156 words)

  
 IBYCUS - Online Information article about IBYCUS   (Site not responding. Last check: )
avengers of Ibycus," and thus gave the See also:
The phrase, " the cranes of Ibycus," passed into a See also:
According to Suidas, Ibycus wrote seven books of lyrics, to some extent mythical and heroic, but mainly erotic (See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /I27_INV/IBYCUS.html   (353 words)

  
 Society of Biblical Literature
Meanwhile, David Packard, using Hewlett-Packard equipment, developed the IBYCUS mini-computer system and we were fortunate enough to be able to obtain the necessary hardware (used) and to have several terminals installed in the Religious Studies offices in Duhring Wing at the University of Pennsylvania.
By then, the micro-computer was on the rise, and David Packard's development of the IBYCUS Scholarly Computer, with built-in Greek, Hebrew, and Coptic fonts, made it easier to show what we, and others, were doing with the technology.
Back at the CATSS offices, we were at one point running the original IBYCUS mini-computer and terminals, the newer IBYCUS micro-computer (we have the third that was made), a networked Mac (or two), and a networked IBM PC (or two).
www.sbl-site.org /Article.aspx?ArticleId=246   (2804 words)

  
 Thaiticketmaster.com : Your Ticket to Great Entertainment :   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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Ibycus Concert Series 2004 No. 3 "Flute Oboe and Piano Trio"
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www.thaiticketmaster.com /concert/ibc31mar04_eng.php   (189 words)

  
 Omnibus: ETC
Marked up in the non-standard Beta code, the TLG was originally designed to run a special computer called Ibycus.
There are now packages allowing the disk to be run on PC's and Mac's as well as on Ibycus.
The PHI disks can be accessed on Ibycus or a PC.
www.yale.edu /omnibus/Feb95/select.html   (926 words)

  
 Avian Demography Unit: Bird Numbers 7(3) Article 19   (Site not responding. Last check: )
According to legend, when the Greek poet Ibycus was murdered by unknown robbers, cranes pointed to the killers by mysteriously circling over the head of one of the guilty.
In terror, the man cried out, 'The cranes of Ibycus', henceforth a proverb for the avenging agents of the gods.
Even today in America's rural south, many believe if a crane circles over a house three times, it means someone inside will die.
web.uct.ac.za /depts/stats/adu/bn7_3_19.htm   (368 words)

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