This chapter provides a series of case studies that explore different ways Archaic and Classical Greeks conceptualized human diversity (modern race and/or ethnicity) in relation to environment, in particular, the land. It explores three inter-related approaches the Greeks took towards understanding this relationship: myths of metals, autochthony,…[Read more]

The paper advances a new interpretation of Iamblichus’ De Vita Pythagorica and discusses its place in the history of neoplatonist biography from Porphyry’s Vita Plotini to Gregory of Nyssa’s De vita Moysis.

Bibliography for an advanced Greek seminar taught at Dartmouth in Winter 2015

Syllabus and bibliography for an advanced Greek seminar taught at Dartmouth in Winter 2016

Syllabus and bibliography for an advanced Greek seminar on Euripides’ Bacchae taught at Dartmouth in Winter 2017.

The paper proposes a new interpretation of Timon’s attack on Arcesilaus in fr. 806 SH.

This article considers a recent critical problematisation of the discussion of ›Otherness‹ in Merovingian archaeology (Halsall 2017), and extends this problematisation to the early mortuary archae- ology of post-Roman/early Anglo-Saxon England. The article first examines the literary goals of Gildas’ De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, and espec…[Read more]

from: A Companion to Sophocles, ed. K. Ormand (Wiley-Blackwell 2012) 440–461

Este nuevo trabajo, dentro de la fecunda labor intelectual de Oscar Martínez Peñate,
alcanza un doble objetivo: por una parte nos recuerda el déficit en la construcción de
nuestra identidad cultural, entendida ésta más allá de la “madeja de significados”
elaborados por nosotros mismos, como lo afirma Weber, sino como el conjunto
de valores, t…[Read more]

El Ministerio de Obras Públicas, Transporte y de Vivienda
y Desarrollo Urbano (MOP)1 es una de las instituciones
del Estado que históricamente ha sido señalada por
la ciudadanía como centro de corrupción y, como otra
dependencia más del Poder Ejecutivo que no cumplía
con las funciones que por ley estaba obligada a realizar

Esta obra coordinada por el Máster Oscar Martínez Peñate reúne los puntos de vista y la experiencia de connotadas personalidades de la vida nacional, quienes, en conjunto, aportan una visión crítica, importante para arribar a la comprensión de la sociedad salvadoreña, de cómo está organizada, de cuáles son sus intereses, intenciones y proyectos,…[Read more]

Con esta obra el autor pretende que se conozca la historia vista desde los de abajo, es una nueva perspectiva de analizar los hechos desde dos puntos de vista, los que dieron las órdenes y los que las acataron.
Se describen hechos que por su crueldad y salvajismo resultan más que repugnantes; difíciles de creer que hayan sucedido, por otra pa…[Read more]

Hugo Lundhaug and Lance Jenott offer a sustained argument for the monastic provenance of the Nag Hammadi Codices. They examine the arguments for and against a monastic Sitz im Leben and defend the view that the Codices were produced and read by Christian monks, most likely Pachomians, in the fourth- and fifth-century monasteries of Upper Egypt.…[Read more]

Joseph and Aseneth is a pseudepigraphic hellenistic romance novel that elaborates on the biblical character of Joseph and his wife aseneth. an expansion of genesis 41: 45, the text describes how aseneth is transformed into a radiant bride t for Joseph, and is thereby associated with his god.1 previous studies may have overstepped the limits of…[Read more]

In this article, I address the challenge of fostering better student engagement with ancient material, and discuss my experience with designing a course around creative use of technology. In my recent course, “The Ancient Christian Church: 54–604 CE,” I employed several tactics to encourage student engagement with ancient and modern sources, which…[Read more]

This paper argues that 4 Ezra 14 represents the climax of the sensory revelations experienced by Ezra, and as such, that this is the episode which finally facilitates Ezra’s understanding of divine wisdom. In each of episodes one through six Ezra is incapable of making sense of what has been revealed to him, even though Ezra’s sensory rev…[Read more]

This paper explores how gender can operate as a disguise for class in an examination of the self-sacrifice of the Maiden in Euripides’ Children of Herakles. In Part I, I discuss the role of human sacrifice in terms of its radical potential to transform society and the role of class struggle in Athens. In Part II, I argue that the representation o…[Read more]

Preliminary analysis of the representation of laborers in Greek tragedy and satyr drama.

Discussion of class structure in fifth-century Athens, historical constitution of theater audiences, and the changes in the comic representation of class antagonism from Aristophanes to Menander.