All aspects of Greek and Roman intellectual history and its reception
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Miklos Mezosi deposited „…szörnyü elbeszélni mi van ottan…” vagy “…per verba nincs mód, nyelv hogy elbeszélje”? A „perszonifikáció intertextuális lebeg(tet)ése”: Dante Commediá-ja és Petőfi János vitéze in the group
Greek and Roman Intellectual History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoWhenever we think of “literary travel,” or “travel literature”, we are liable to encounter the history and poetics of genres forming an essential part of what we call literary history.
In this paper I seek to explore the “great literary voyages” that were to substantially contribute to the Western canon. The travels and trials of Odysseus in…[Read more] -
Carol Atack deposited Imagined Superpowers: Isocrates’ Opposition of Athens and Sparta in the group
Greek and Roman Intellectual History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoIsocrates has been comparatively neglected as a source for political and cultural history and theory. However, the many works of his long career show a continuing
engagement with Athenian political culture and the education of its political class, and his assessment of Sparta is significant for both of these. He imagines and explores the struggle…[Read more] -
Carol Atack deposited “Cyrus appeared both great and good”: Xenophon and the Performativity of Kingship in the group
Greek and Roman Intellectual History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agon this chapter, Atack argues that Xenophon’s depiction of the performance of kingship by Cyrus (Cyropaedia), Agesilaus (Hellenica, Agesilaus), and other kings contains an evaluative model that explores alternative techniques a ruler can use to persuade others to be ruled. By deploying frameworks of performativity and spectacle derived from J…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Vandalisches oder römisches Recht? Betrachtungen zu Recht und Konsens im vandalischen Nordafrika am Beispiel der Verfolgungsgeschichte Victors von Vita in the group
Greek and Roman Intellectual History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoWir verfügen insgesamt über wenige Quellen zur Verfassungsgeschichte und dem
Rechtswesen im vandalischen Nordafrika. Die vorherrschende Sicht lässt sich in etwa
folgendermaßen zusammenfassen: Das vandalische Afrika war ein zweigeteiltes Gemeinwesen.
›Germanische‹ Vandalen und ›Romanen‹ lebten nebeneinander und jede dieser
Gru…[Read more] -
Carol Atack deposited Models of Inclusion and Exclusion in Democracy Ancient and Modern: A Response to Paul Cartledge’s Democracy: A Life in the group
Greek and Roman Intellectual History on Humanities Commons 6 years agoThis article forms part of a symposium on Paul Cartledge’s ‘Democracy: a life’ (2016). It argues in support of new approaches to Athenian democracy focused on the experience of those who were not active participants in the political institutions of the democracy but excluded because of their status (women, metics, slaves). It further argues that…[Read more]
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Carol Atack deposited The History of Athenian Democracy, Now in the group
Greek and Roman Intellectual History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months agoReview article from History of Political Thought covering books on the history of Athenian democracy and its relevance to politics now (as of publication date in 2017)
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Roland Steinacher deposited Migrations and Conquest: Easy Pictures for Complicated Backgrounds in Ancient and Medieval Structures in the group
Greek and Roman Intellectual History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoWe must, first of all, ask what a barbarian is or could have been in our sources. There were different kinds of barbarians, based upon the Roman and Greek ethnographic tradition and view of geography. Greek writers defined identities of human societies in the known world and bequeathed ethnonyms. Since the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.E., these…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited The So-called Laterculus Regum Vandalorum et Alanorum: A Sixth-century African Addition to Prosper Tiro’s Chronicle? in the group
Greek and Roman Intellectual History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis essay will show, however, that the text is not linked to diplomas, but belonged to an African version of Prosper’s chronicle. I will propose a new edition, which will put the text back in its original context. Rather than looking for ‘good’ and ‘bad’ texts according to 19th-century categories, I will try to analyze the specific character…[Read more]
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Carol Atack deposited Aristotle’s Pambasileia and the Metaphysics of Monarchy in the group
Greek and Roman Intellectual History on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoAristotle’s account of kingship in Politics 3 responds to the rich discourse on kingship that permeates Greek political thought (notably in the works of Herodotus, Xenophon and Isocrates), in which the king is the paradigm of virtue, and also the instantiator and guarantor of order, linking the political microcosm to the macrocosm of the u…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop deposited Athens: A Work-in-Progress in the group
Greek and Roman Intellectual History on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis provocation contests the familiar construction of classical Athens as an ideal exemplar of democratic politics through a focus on the city’s material fabric, its visual artworks, and the performances which took place within its public spaces. It highlights the city’s ongoing process of material re-building (particularly following the Per…[Read more]
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Michael Lurie deposited Seneca Tragicus course 2011 in the group
Greek and Roman Intellectual History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoAn Honours course taught by me at Edinburgh in 2011
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Michael Lurie deposited Lucretius course 2009-2012 in the group
Greek and Roman Intellectual History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoAn Honours course taught by me at Edinburgh in 2009 and 2012
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Michael Lurie deposited Jean Terrasson: cette Pièce pernicieuse oder de la Tragédie, ancienne & moderne in the group
Greek and Roman Intellectual History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoPart of a much larger study in the intellectual history of Sophocles (and Greek tragedy in general) in the 18th century, this chapter brings to light, for the first time, Jean Terrasson’s incisive and highly influential attempt to dismantle Christianising and Neo-Classicist interpretations of both Greek tragedy and Aristotle’s Poetics and to…[Read more]
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Michael Lurie deposited Das hoellische Weben. Hamartia und die Handlungstheorie des Aristoteles in the group
Greek and Roman Intellectual History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis is a comprehensive reassessment of Aristotle’s concept of tragic hamartia, and its different interpretations from the 1530s to the present day, in the context of Aristotle’s theory of action.
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Carol Atack deposited The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Athenian Thought in the group
Greek and Roman Intellectual History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoAtack, C. (2014), ‘The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Athenian Thought’, Histos, 8, 329-62. .
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Michael Lurie created the group
Greek and Roman Intellectual History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months ago