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Record W2990501417 · doi:10.3138/mous.16.3.004

Slinking Home to Mother: Pindar on Losers (Pyth. 8.81–87)

2019· article· en· W2990501417 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Christopher G. Brown

Bibliographic record

VenueMouseion Journal of the Classical Association of Canada · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicClassical Antiquity Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVictoryPoetryCompetition (biology)Extant taxonLiteraturePresentation (obstetrics)OdeHistoryArtLawPolitical scienceMedicine

Abstract

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The Eighth Pythian is the last datable poem in the extant remains of Pindar’s poetry. It celebrates a victory won in 446 bc by Aristomenes of Aegina, who seems to have competed at Delphi in the boys’ wrestling competition. It has often been observed that Pindar seems remarkably reluctant to describe the details of the competition that occasioned an ode, and in this case the poem is noteworthy for containing one of only two passages in the corpus of epinicians that describe the defeated (81–87). The present article will consider this passage in detail. It will be argued that Pindar’s presentation of Aristomenes’ victory reflects the initiatory aspects of boys’ athletics in Greek society, suggesting that the victor flying aloft on wings of manly deeds has joined the company of adult men, whereas the defeated slinking home to their mothers remain in the world of childhood.

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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)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.597
Threshold uncertainty score0.620

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.010
GPT teacher head0.243
Teacher spread0.233 · 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 designNot applicable
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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