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Olivier Dufault deposited Early Greek Alchemy, Patronage and Innovation in Late Antiquity in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoNew evidence on scholarly patronage under the Roman empire can be garnered by analyzing the descriptions of learned magoi in several texts from the second to the fourth century CE. Since a common use of the term magos connoted flatterer-like figures (kolakes), it is likely that the figures of “learned sorcerers” found in texts such as Luc…[Read more]
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Thomas J. Nelson deposited Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIn this paper, I argue that the traditional narrative of Iphigenia’s sacrifice lies allusively behind the opening scenes of the Iliad (1.8–487). Scholars have long suspected that this episode is evoked in Agamemnon’s scathing rebuke of Calchas (1.105–8), but I contend that this is only one moment in a far more sustained allusive dialogue: both th…[Read more]
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Thomas J. Nelson deposited Beating the Galatians: Ideologies, Analogies and Allegories in Hellenistic Literature and Art in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoHellenistic literature and art commemorated victories over the Galatians through a variety of analogies and allegories, ranging from the historical Persian Wars to the cosmic Gigantomachy: each individual victory was incorporated into a larger sequence in which order constantly quelled the forces of chaos. This paper explores this analogical…[Read more]
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Thomas J. Nelson deposited Intertextual Agōnes in Archaic Greek Epic: Penelope vs. the Catalogue of Women in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoArchaic Greek epic exhibits a pervasive eristic intertextuality, repeatedly positioning its heroes and itself against pre-existing traditions. Here I focus on a specific case study from the Odyssey: Homer’s agonistic relationship with the Catalogue of Women tradition. Hesiodic-style Catalogue poetry has long been recognized as an important i…[Read more]
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Thomas J. Nelson deposited Archilochus’ Cologne Epode and Homer’s Quivering Spear (fr. 196a.52 IEG2) in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIn this note, I highlight a hitherto unrecognized literary resonance in the climactic final verses of Archilochus’ First Cologne Epode: Archilochus parodically and subversively reworks the Homeric description of a quivering spear. This Homeric resonance caps the poem’s ongoing clash between the generic conventions of epic and iambus, while also…[Read more]
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Thomas J. Nelson deposited Repeating the Unrepeated: Allusions to Homeric Hapax Legomena in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIn this paper, I investigate the repetition of Homeric hapax legomena in archaic and classical Greek poetry. Scholars frequently assume that fine-grained engagement with Homeric rarities is a distinctive feature of the Hellenistic period, but I reveal the significant precedent for this phenomenon in earlier poetry. Proceeding through comedy,…[Read more]
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Thomas J. Nelson deposited Tragic Noise and Rhetorical Frigidity in Lycophron’s Alexandra in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThis paper seeks to shed fresh light on the aesthetic and stylistic affiliations of Lycophron’s Alexandra, approaching the poem from two distinct but complementary angles. First, it explores what can be gained by reading Lycophron’s poem against the backdrop of Callimachus’ poetry. It contends that the Alexandra presents a radical and polem…[Read more]
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Thomas J. Nelson deposited The Coma Stratonices: Royal Hair Encomia and Ptolemaic-Seleucid Rivalry? in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIn this paper, I investigate how Ptolemaic poets’ presentation of their queens compares with and relates to the practice of their major rivals, the Seleucids. No poetic celebration of a Seleucid queen survives extant, but an anecdote preserved by Lucian sheds intriguing light on Seleucid poetic practice (Pro Imaginibus 5): queen Stratonice, bald…[Read more]
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Thomas J. Nelson deposited Achilles’ Heel: (Im)mortality in the Iliad in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIn this article for sixth-formers and school teachers, I explore the story of Achilles’ heel and Homer’s likely suppression of the myth in the Iliad. Homer’s Iliad appears to acknowledge, but simultaneously reject, an alternative tradition in which Achilles was more than mortal, part of a broader downplaying of heroic invulnerability and…[Read more]
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Dr Mark Perkins deposited Linguistics and Classical Theories of Rhetoric: Connections and Continuity in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoThe Connections between ancient approaches to rhetoric, as found in Plato and Aristotle, the prime ancient theorists of rhetoric, and modern linguistic approaches to register and genre theory, as in Hallidayan linguistics, show continuity of thought across the centuries. They also suggest that there may be such things as universal rhetorical…[Read more]
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Sarah Bond deposited “Chapter 7: Maintaining the City Enslaved Labor and Trade in Roman Philippi” in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months ago“Chapter 7: Maintaining the City Enslaved Labor and Trade in Roman Philippi” in Philippi, From Colonia Augusta to Communitas Christiana: Religion and Society in Transition, edited by Steven J. Friesen, Michalis Lychounas, and Daniel N. Schowalter (Leiden: Brill, 2021).
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Johannes Bernhardt deposited From Homer to Solon. Continuity and Change in Archaic Greece in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoThe study of Archaic Greece has undergone a fundamental transformation in recent decades. Whereas studies up to the 1980s had favoured narratives that converged on the more tangible reality of the Classical period and emphasized radical change, the increase in archaeological data and the cultural turn have led to an emphasis on long-term…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Laloo Prasad Conviction: Fodder for Thought in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoThe case in which Laloo has been convicted is popularly known as the Fodder Scam. A brief recapitulation of the scam would be in order. The scam first began unfolding in Bihar in 1975-76, when the state was under Congress rule and Jagannath Mishra was the chief minister. The scam continued to flourish for the entire decade. The scam continued even…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited लालू प्रसाद यादव को सजा : वैचारिक जुगाली के लिए चारा in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoजिस मामले में लालू प्रसाद को सजा हुई है, वह चारा घोटाले के नाम से जाना जाता है। इस घोटाले की संक्षिप्त कथा जानना आवश्यक है। सन् 1974-75 की शुरुआत में ही जब इस घोटाले की शुरुआत हुई, तब बिहार में कांग्रेस का शासन था और डॉ. जगन्नाथ मिश्र मुख्यमंत्री हुआ करते थे। अबाध गति से पूरे दो दशक यह घोटाला चलता रहा। 1990 में जब लालू प्रसाद मुख्यमंत्री बन…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Aam Aadmi Party: Partner, what is your politics? in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoThis article was written after Aam Aadmi Party formed the government for the first time in Delhi. The article discusses the concept of social justice of the Aam Aadmi Party. This article concludes that the party does not care about the interests of Dalits, Backwards.
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Pramod Ranjan deposited आम आदमी पार्टी: पार्टनर, तुम्हारी पॉलिटिक्स क्या है? in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoयह आलेख आम आदमी पार्टी की दिल्ली में पहली बार सरकार बनने के बाद लिखा गया था।
आलेख में आम आदमी पार्टी की सामाजिक न्याय की अवधारणा पर विचार किया गया है। यह लेख बताता है कि पार्टी दलित, पिछड़ों के हितों की परवाह नहीं करती। -
Pramod Ranjan deposited सवर्ण आरक्षण, मोदी और मंदिर के मुद्दे को पलीता in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoसरकार ने सामन्य तबके, जिन्हें सामान्य तौर पर हम सवर्ण कहते हैं, उन्हें भी आरक्षण देने की घोषणा की है।
लेकिन, आरक्षण नामक काठ की हांडी में येन केन प्रकारेण कई बार राजनीति का पानी गर्म किया जा चुका है। अब यह व्यापक सरोकार वाला मुद्दा नहीं रह गया है। कम-से-कम महानगरों में तो नहीं। यह बूढ़े होते अधेड़ों को युवाओं की अपेक्षा अधिक अपील करता है। जबकि…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited वैज्ञानिक सोच को झटका किया जाना चाहिए या हलाल? in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoपूर्वी दिल्ली नगर निगम ने 27 दिसंबर, 2018 को आदेश जारी किया कि उसके क्षेत्र में आने वाली, कच्चा और पका चिकन और मीट बेचने वाली सभी दुकानों और रेस्तरांओं को एक बोर्ड लगवाना होगा। जिस पर साफ और बड़े अक्षरों में लिखना हो कि यहां झटका मीट मिलता है या हलाल। नगर निगम पर भाजपा का कब्जा है।भाजपा का तर्क है कि “पूर्वी दिल्ली में बड़ी संख्या में हिंदू और सिख…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited प्रोफेसर, क्या आप जानते हो कि नालंदा क्यों जलता रहा? in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoइस लेख में यूनिवर्सिटियों में सामाजिक न्याय की अवहेलना के कारण होने वाले नुकासान की चर्चा की गई है। लेख में कहा गया है कि प्राध्यापकों का मुख्य काम शिक्षण, यानी ज्ञान की व्याख्या करना है। ज्ञान का निर्माण एक सतत प्रक्रिया है, जो समाज में घटित होती है, यूनिवर्सिटियां भी इस प्रकिया का उतना ही अंग हैं, जितना किसी किस…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited कोविड का हमाम और भारतीय राजनीति in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoकोविड से संबंधित नीतियों के मामले में कांग्रेस पार्टी भाजपा से अलग नहीं है। यह एक नूरा-कुश्ती है, एक हमाम है, जिसमें सभी एक जैसे हैं, इन सबने मिलकर कोविड को भगवान और भूत की तरह आस्था का सवाल बना दिया है। इस आलेख में भारत की इन दो प्रमुख पार्टियों की कोविड संबंधी रणनीति का विश्लेषण है।
लेख में बताया गया है कि भारत में कोविड के दौरान जो कुछ भी ह…[Read more]
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