Showing papers in "Classical World in 1994"
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TL;DR: Schmitt-Pantel as mentioned in this paper studied the history of the "Symposion" in the "Odyssey" and discussed its relationship with the idea of pederasty.
Abstract: Part 1 The study of the "Symposion": the study of the "Symposion" - sympotic history, Oswyn Murray sacrificial meal and "Symposion", Pauline Schmitt-Pantel. Part 2 Sympotic space: sympotic space, Birgitta Bergquist dining in round buildings, Fred Cooper and Sara Morris dining in the century of Demeter and Kore at Corinth, Nancy Bookidis the chronology of the Perachora "Hestiatorion" and its significance, R.A.Tomlinson. Part 3 Sympotic furniture: attic "Symposia" after the Persian Wars, Michael Vickers "Symposion" furniture, John Boardman. Part 4 Social forms: adolescents, "Symposion" and pederasty, Jan Bremmer the affair of the mysteries, Oswyn Murray the meal at the Hyakinthia, Louis Bruit. Part 5 The "Symposion" as entertainment: outlines of a morphology of sympotic entertainment, Ezio Pellizer entertainers at the "Symposion", Burkhard Fehr around the Krater, Francois Lissarrague. Part 6 Literature and thought in the "Symposion": sympotic ethics in the "Odyssey", W.J.Slater "Miles Ludens?", Ewen Bowie "Mnemosyne" in the "Symposion", Wolfgang Rosler "Logos sympotikos", Manuela Tecusan. Part 7 The "Symposion" as literary form: the play of reflections between literary form and the sympotic theme in the "Deipnosophistae" of Athenaeus, Alessandra Lukinovich the "Anacreontea", M.L.West. Part 8 From Greece to Rome: the adoption of the Homeric banquet in Central Italy in the Orientalizing period, Annette Rathje the "Carmina Convivalia", Nevio Zorzetti, Trieste the Roman "Convivium" and the idea of equality, John d'Arms.
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TL;DR: More Difficult Reading as discussed by the authors ) is a collection of more difficult reading articles on the subject of difficult reading in the classical Greek language, with a focus on the relation between literature and philosophy.
Abstract: Preface: "More Difficult Reading" Editors Part I. Literariness Introduction 1. Lollianos and the Desperadoes John J. Winkler 2. Simonides Painter Anne Carson Part II. Figures Introduction 3. Augustine's Region of Unlikeness: the Crossing of Exile and Language Margaret Ferguson 4. Narrative in Plato's Symposium David Halperin Part III. Variance Introduction 5. Anodos Drama: Euripides' Alcestis and Helen" Helene Foley 6. The First Roman Marriage and the Theft of the Sabine Women Gary Miles Part IV. Gender Introduction 7. The Politics of Eros Froma Zeitlin 8. Architecture Gender Philosophy Ann Bergren Part V. Absence Introduction 9. Mythological Exemplum in Homer Gregory Nagy 10. Sidonian Dido Ralph Hexter Part VI. Context Introduction 11. The Rhetoric of Dismemberment in Neronian Poetry Glenn Most 12. Signs, Magic and Letters in Euripides' Hippolytus Charles Segal Part VII. Persuasion Introduction 13. Ceveat lector: Catullus and the Rhetoric of Performance 14. Human Sacrifice in the Oresteia Pietro Pucci Part VIII. Traditions Introduction 15. A Look at Theocritus Idyll 7 through Virgil's Eyes 16. The Apocalypse of Islam Norman O. Brown Notes on Contributors.
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TL;DR: Hengel and Drijvers as discussed by the authors, for instance, used Hengel's work to investigate the relationship between the Hengels and the Millar-Goodman method.
Abstract: M. Hengel, University of T^D:ubingen, H. Drijvers, University of Groningen, Fergus Millar, Oxford University and M. Goodman, Oxford University
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TL;DR: Tov as mentioned in this paper provides extensive descriptions of the major witnesses to the text of the Hebrew Bible, including the Hebrew text from Qumran, the Septuagint, the Masoretic text, as well as the Aramic Targumim, the Syriac translations, the Vulgate, and others.
Abstract: A wide range of readers, from beginning students to research scholars, will find this book accessible and indispensable. Tov offers extensive descriptions of the major witnesses to the text of the Hebrew Bible--the Hebrew text from Qumran, the Septuagint, the Masoretic text--as well as the Aramic Targumim, the Syriac translations, the Vulgate, and others.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the author guides us through four centuries of Roman wall painting, mosaic, and stucco decoration, from the period of the 'Four Styles' (100 B.C. to A.D. 79) to the mid-third century.
Abstract: In this richly illustrated book, art historian John R. Clarke helps us see the ancient Roman house 'with Roman eyes'. Clarke presents a range of houses, from tenements to villas, and shows us how enduring patterns of Roman wall decoration tellingly bear the cultural, religious, and social imprints of the people who lived with them. In case studies of seventeen excavated houses, Clarke guides us through four centuries of Roman wall painting, mosaic, and stucco decoration, from the period of the 'Four Styles' (100 B.C. to A.D. 79) to the mid- third century. The First Style Samnite House shows its debt to public architecture in its clear integration of public and private spaces. The Villa of Oplontis asserts the extravagant social and cultural climate of the Second Style. Gem-like Third-Style rooms from the House of Lucretius Fronto reflect the refinement and elegance of Augustan tastes. The Vettii brothers' social climbing helps explain the overburdened Fourth-Style decoration of their famous house. And evidence of remodelling leads Clarke to conclude that the House of Jupiter and Ganymede became a gay hotel in the second century. In his emphasis on social and spiritual dimensions, Clarke offers a contribution to Roman art and architectural history that is both original and accessible to the general reader. The book's superb photographs not only support the author's findings but help to preserve an ancient legacy that is fast succumbing to modern deterioration resulting from pollution and vandalism.
TL;DR: Davis argues that the duality of "poetics" reaches out to the philosopher, writer, and political theorist and shows the importance of the ideal in our imaginings of and goals for the future as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Although Aristotle's "Poetics" is the most frequently read of his works, philosophers and political theorists have left analysis of the text to literary critics. In this book Michael Davis argues convincingly that in addition to teaching us something about poetry, "Poetics" contains an understanding of the common structure of human action and human thought which connects it to Aristotle's other writings on politics and morality. Davis demonstrates that the duality of "poetics" reaches out to the philosopher, writer, and political theorist and shows the importance of the ideal in our imaginings of and goals for the future.
TL;DR: This paper argued that aischos applied to Thersites in the Iliad 2.2.2 means not "ugliest" but "most shame-causing" and that the description of his physical appearance which follows does not simply detail the facts of his deformity, but rather characterises him as a traditional figure, the licensed abuser whose physical appearance marks him out as an appropriate agent and recipient of shameful ridicule.
Abstract: This book argues that aischistos applied to Thersites in Iliad2.2\\6 means not 'ugliest' but 'most shame-causing' (sic), and that the description of his physical appearance which follows does not simply detail the facts of his deformity, but rather characterises him as a traditional figure, the licensed abuser whose physical appearance marks him out as an appropriate agent and recipient of shameful ridicule. Chapters 1 to 5 develop the first point, discussing aischos and related terms in Homer and elsewhere, while later chapters trace the supposed recurrence of the typology of the 'shame-causing' individual in other authors. L.'s argument on the significance of aischros is untenable. He sees himself as following Adkins's dictum (From the Many to the One, pp. 2-6, and elsewhere) that, where Greek uses one word in what we regard as different contexts, we must speak not of separate 'meanings', but of different 'uses'; but in fact he goes much further. Adkins's insistence that monoglots can have no awareness of separate ' meanings' of the words they use may be naive, but even he would recognise that a term's several 'uses' can make all the difference. Thus he appreciates that personal (masculine and feminine) instances of agalhos and kakos, aischros and kalos must be evaluated differently from impersonal, neuter uses (Merit and Responsibility, pp. 30-1). For L., however, words have precisely one meaning, whatever the application, whatever the context. Hence he imagines that since aischros in the phrase aiaxpois ineeaaw refers to the abusive character of the words employed, aischistos applied to Thersites must refer to the abusive character of his outburst. But this entails, as L. cheerfully admits (13), the neglect of the (copious) post-Homeric evidence on the personal use of the adjective, in which the reference is normally to some physical deformity of the person so qualified. And even in those few cases in which the sense of the personal use is figurative rather than physical, aischros means not 'shame-causing' but 'base', i.e. shown up as socially/morally 'ugly' in the eyes of others (e.g. E. Med. 501, S. Phil. 906). To be sure, what is literally ugly will normally be an object of reproach, but L.'s insistence on the priority in sense of 'shameful' to 'ugly' ignores the fundamentally aesthetic nature of Homeric terms of moral and social evaluation. The aischron, whether figurative or literal, is that which excites the revulsion of others because it does not 'look nice'.
TL;DR: In this article, a collection of essays brings together the work of leading North American and European classics and patristic scholars, focusing on the common Platonic heritage of pagan philosophy and Christian theology, revealing the range and continuity of the Platonic tradition in late antiquity.
Abstract: This collection of essays brings together the work of leading North American and European classics and patristic scholars. By emphasizing the common Platonic heritage of pagan philosophy and Christian theology, it reveals the range and continuity of the Platonic tradition in late antiquity. Some of the papers treat specific authors, and others the evolution of particular doctrines. The topics covered range chronologically from Plutarch of Chaeronea (first-second century AD) to pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (fifth-sixth century AD), and all the major figures in late ancient Greek thought, including Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus and Proclus are discussed. Becayse late antique Platonism is increasingly recognized as a subject that lends itself to interdisciplinary study, this volume, although intended primarily for scholars of Neoplatonism, should also be of interest to students of classics, theology (especially patristics) and late ancient history.