Atlantís - review https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/atlantis <p>ATLANTÍS makes available in aggregated form book reviews published in journals hosted at the digital platform <em><strong><a title="Impactum" href="https://impactum.uc.pt/en/journals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Impactum</a></strong></em> of Coimbra University Press, with the objective of promoting the visibility of research and the transfer of knowledge. The reviews cover a wide range of topics and approaches (literature, culture, ancient history, archaeology, art history, philosophy, language and linguistics), while maintaining as common denominator the world of Classical Antiquity and its projection in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as well as its reception in modern times.</p> en-US <p>Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a&nbsp;<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_new">Creative Commons Attribution License</a>&nbsp;that allows sharing the work with recognition of authorship and initial publication in Antropologia Portuguesa journal.</p> leo@fl.uc.pt (Delfim Leão) imprensa.revistas@uc.pt (Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra) Mon, 17 Nov 2025 10:45:53 +0000 OJS 3.2.1.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Retarded Gravitational Field of a Hubble Sphere with Radially Varying Density https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/atlantis/article/view/17699 <p><sub>Birkhoff's theorem in general relativity states that the metric outside a static, spherically symmetric mass distribution is necessarily the Schwarzschild metric. This work demonstrates that when the cosmological density evolves temporally and spatially due to relativistic contraction along the radial direction, differential propagation delays combined with an overdensity in peripheral regions induce anisotropy in the energy-momentum tensor perturbations. This anisotropy leads to the emergence of a positive, non-zero additional curvature inside the Hubble sphere, manifesting as an effective outward-oriented gravitational field. Numerical simulations reveal accelerations on the order of 10^-10 to 10^-8 m/s^2 in the local universe, sufficient to induce cumulative velocity changes on the order of 10^8 m/s over the Hubble time. This mechanism provides a natural geometric explanation for the acceleration of cosmic expansion without resorting to the dark energy hypothesis. The model's predictions are in qualitative agreement with observations from the Cosmicflows-4 catalog, showing marked acceleration up to 300 Mpc followed by gradual weakening. Long-term extrapolation of this model predicts a reversal of the cosmological dynamics, culminating in an ultimate phase of global gravitational collapse.</sub></p> rouini Ahmed Copyright (c) https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/atlantis/article/view/17699 [Review of] TSIAMPOKALOS, T., Plutarch and Rhetoric. The Relationship of Rhetoric to Ethics, Politics and Education in the First and Second Centuries AD (Plutarchea Hypomnemata), Leuven, Leuven University Press, 2024. pp. 248. ISBN: 978-946270419-0 https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/atlantis/article/view/17455 Vicente M. Ramón Palerm Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/atlantis/article/view/17455 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 [Review of] PRESS, Gerald A. Press & DUQUE, Mateo (eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato, 2nd edition, London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 544 pp. 978-135022723-1 https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/atlantis/article/view/17453 Christopher J. Rowe Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/atlantis/article/view/17453 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 [Review of] PINTO, António Guimarães & LOURENÇO, Miguel Rodrigues, Cartas Ânuas da Cochinchina (1619-1635), Lisboa/Macau, Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau/Universidade de Macau, 2023, 411 pp. ISBN: 978-972-8586-62-1 https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/atlantis/article/view/17450 Guilherme Sousa Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/atlantis/article/view/17450 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 [Review of] BARATA, Filomena, Flora e fauna de Miróbriga: referências literárias, arqueológicas e mitológicas, Carviçais, Lema d’Origem, 2024. 348 pp. ISBN: 978-989-9114-81-4 https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/atlantis/article/view/17449 José d'Encarnação Copyright (c) 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/atlantis/article/view/17449 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000