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Record W2514099242 · doi:10.71390/arctos.85847

Learning from Silence: Disabled Children in Roman Antiquity

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Christian Laes

Bibliographic record

VenueArctos – Acta Philologica Fennica · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicEthics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSilenceArtLate AntiquityAncient historyHistoryPsychologyLiteratureAesthetics

Abstract

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narrative, only to turn up later in Greek and Latin literature, sometimes as a proverbial paradigm. 2 Only the historian Nicolaus of Damascus (first century BC) dramatically elaborates upon the theme.When the boy approaches his father awaiting his death standing before the pyre, Croesus for the first time bursts out in tears.The lad emphatically begs his father to let him die together with him: "From the time I was born, I have always brought sorrow to you as well as to my self.I just couldn't be happy by the shame which was caused by my dumbness () and by the disgrace.Only when misfortune began to fall on us, was I able to utter my first words.The gods have only rendered me articulate as to be able to mourn our fate."Eventually, only Croesus ascends the pyre.His son beseeches the gods to come to help and not make perish all human piety together with Croesus. 3 I remember a vivid class room discussion which followed after the reading of the Croesus saga, where one student claimed not to be surprised at all at the -in our eyes somewhat ambiguous -attitude of Croesus towards his unnamed son.Travelling through Albania, he had come across villagers hiding their disabled child in the anonymity of their homes and thus covering their very existence with silence, while at the same time they took care of them, doing their outmost best to somehow secure their existence.As a historian of ancient childhood, I retained the story of Croesus' son and the subsequent classroom discussion as a possible subject for further inquiry.The subject returned to my mind, when I was discussing my interest in history of disabilities with some colleagues at Hamilton, Canada.I was informed about a passage in Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae.During his Persian campaign, in May of the year 363, the Emperor Julian sacked the town of Maozamalcha."Then when the booty was divided () the emperor, being content with little, took only a dumb boy who was offered to him, who was World.",directed by Katariina Mustakallio.I would like to thank the Latin section of the Catholic University of Leuven for research facilities during my stay as a replacement professor.I am also particularly grateful towards my Ph.D. student, Bert Gevaert, whose inspiring enthusiasm initiated me into the history of disabilities, as

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.051
Threshold uncertainty score0.943

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.035
GPT teacher head0.333
Teacher spread0.298 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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