What's in a name? Using the example of a famous monster from Greek myth, this book challenges the dominant view that a mythical symbol denotes a single, clear-cut 'figure' and proposes instead to define the name 'Scylla' as a combination of three concepts - sea, dog and woman - whose articulation changes over time. While archaic and classical Greek versions usually emphasize the metaphorical coherence of Scylla's components, the name is increasingly treated as a well-defined but also paradoxical construct from the late fourth century BCE onward. Proceeding through detailed analyses of Greek and Roman texts and images, Professor Hopman shows how the same name can variously express anxieties about the sea, dogs, aggressive women and shy maidens, thus offering an empirical response to the semiotic puzzle raised by non-referential proper names.

The history of the Jews in Sicily covers a period of over a thousand years, from Antiquity to the Expulsion, based on some 40,000 archival records, most of them hitherto unpublished. It illustrates the political, legal, economic, social and religious vicissitudes of the Jewish minority and its relations with the surrounding majority of Romans, Moslems and Christians. While the antecedents of the Jewish presence on the island are shrouded in mystery, more and more historical records surface with the passage of time.

It was meant to be a paradise, it was supposed to be a place to escape the dying planet of Earth and thrive in ways that they couldn't. Aria had it all; the best clothes, the best home a reputable family, but what does that amount to when the sun explodes and plunges the world into darkness.

Scylla thought she was normal, with a normal home life, and only the normal oddities of being a teenager to cause her angst. Everything changes during her senior year in high school when she discovers that not everyone lives with demons, gargoyles, angels and vampires, and not everyone has a crazy group of people who are actively hunting them down and trying to kill them. When you're the granddaughter of some big-name gods and the daughter of a well-known, mass-murdering demigod, life can be really weird.

Clever Jake, his brave and curious little brother Max, and their dad were ready for a fun vacation—they didn’t know that the little Greek town of Katakolon had secrets hidden in its morning fog. On the morning the family arrived, Jake and Max met the mysterious lighthouse keeper who told them the story of a sea monster he believed had lived off the coast of Katakolon. Curious about his story, they thought it would be fun to take their dad out to fish using the lighthouse keeper’s boat which also would give them opportunity to explore his story. But the lighthouse keeper’s story wasn’t just tourist bait. When the Greek coast vanishes behind them, Jake and Max are drawn into a magical mystery that stretches back thousands of years—all the way into the time of myth and fairy tales. With only a mysterious blue stone to guide them, Jake and Max will have to find their way back to safety and escape the grasp of an ancient monster.... Who are the lighthouse keeper and his son, and what happened to them?

Scarlet Shadows is a chapbook of meticulously polished poetry describing a journey: from ignorance and pain to insight and hope. The poems use a combination of rhyme, meter, alliteration, assonance, and other literary techniques.

Build, maintain, and run databases that are easy to scale and quick to query—all with ScyllaDB. ScyllaDB in Action is your guide to everything you need to know about ScyllaDB, from your very first queries to running it in a production environment. It starts you with the basics of creating, reading, and deleting data and expands your knowledge from there. You’ll soon have mastered everything you need to build, maintain, and run an effective and efficient database. Inside ScyllaDB in Action you’ll learn how to: • Read, write, and delete data in ScyllaDB • Design database schemas for ScyllaDB • Write performant queries against ScyllaDB • Connect and query a ScyllaDB cluster from an application • Configure, monitor, and operate ScyllaDB in production This book teaches you ScyllaDB the best way—through hands-on examples. Dive into the node-based architecture of ScyllaDB to understand how its distributed systems work, how you can troubleshoot problems, and how you can constantly improve performance. About the technology ScyllaDB is a versatile NoSQL database that can move large volumes of data fast. Very, very, very fast. This drop-in replacement for Cassandra takes full advantage of modern multi-core hardware and scales to handle large real-time data workloads with incredibly low latency. It features built-in monitoring and management tools, and its efficient use of computing resources can save a lot of money on high-volume applications. About the book ScyllaDB in Action demonstrates how to integrate ScyllaDB into data-intensive applications. You’ll work through a hands-on project step by step as you use ScyllaDB to store data and learn to configure, monitor, and safely operate a distributed database. Along the way, you’ll discover how ScyllaDB’s unique “shard per core” approach helps you deliver impressive performance in real-time systems. What's inside • Design schemas for ScyllaDB • Write performant queries • Get an instant speed boost over Cassandra About the reader For backend and infrastructure engineers who know the basics of SQL. About the author Bo Ingram is a staff software engineer at Discord working in database infrastructure. He has extensive experience working with ScyllaDB as an operator and developer. The technical editor on this book was Piotr Wiktor Sarna. Table of Contents Part 1 1 Introducing ScyllaDB 2 Touring ScyllaDB Part 2 3 Data modeling in ScyllaDB 4 Data types in ScyllaDB 5 Tables in ScyllaDB Part 3 6 Writing data to ScyllaDB 7 Reading data from ScyllaDB Part 4 8 ScyllaDB’s architecture 9 Running ScyllaDB in production 10 Application development with ScyllaDB 11 Monitoring ScyllaDB 12 Moving data in bulk with ScyllaDB Appendix Docker