Literature Archive
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Ovid, Tristia 1.2 : high drama on the high seas
Posted on March 10, 2013 | No CommentsIn this paper, I explore the political implications of Tristia 1.2 by examining three important elements of the poem: (a) exploitation of the Aeneid and the Odyssey; (b) allusions to Ovid -
Isocrates
Posted on March 9, 2013 | No CommentsThe main sources in Greek literature for the cult of Helen and/or Menelaus at Therapn? are Herodotus (6.61.3), Isocrates 10 (Encomium of Helen), and Pausanias (3.19.9-10). Isocrates is the one who speaks of joint-worship of Helen and Menelaus (10.63). -
THUCYDIDES CONSTRUCTS HIS SPEAKERS: THE CASE OF DIODOTUS
Posted on March 8, 2013 | No CommentsIn a nutshell: there is no way to avoid the conclusion that Thucydides himself is responsible for the most important parts of his speakers' speeches, that is, that for all practical purposes he composed them. -
Seeing One’s Way: The Image and Action of Oidipous Tyrannos
Posted on February 25, 2013 | No CommentsTo find ours, let us step back once more and examine Sophokles' use of words. At a glance we notice a great deal of words related to sight in Oidipous Tyrannos . Roughly twice as many appear to us here than in the Antigone. The number picks up once more where Oidipous makes his final appearance in Oidipous at Kolonos. We can draw little more from this than that seeing and Oidipous are connected, fundamentally connected. -
Information, Interaction and Society
Posted on February 25, 2013 | No CommentsThe use of data to analyse broader perspectives is not a straightforward process. Unpublished excavation reports, specialist reports, archaeological databases and theses comprise the -
Tomb and social status: The textual evidence
Posted on February 24, 2013 | No CommentsIn archaeological theoretical literature it has been stressed that tombs might rather show the status of the living persons who organized the burial than the status of the buried person. This is of course an important argument but in Ancient Egypt we have the anthropologically quite exceptional situation that the tomb-owner already began the construction of his tomb and the organisation of his burial equipment when he was still alive. -
Up at a Villa, Down in the City? Four Epigrams of Martial
Posted on February 24, 2013 | No CommentsIt did not seem to us that rendition into the rhyming couplets of, say, an Alexander Pope from an earlier age or a James Michie from our own, or into the more contemporary free-verse style of a Palmer Bovie, would offer any more faithful a guide to Martial than the sort of fidelity we were aiming for. Especially for a readership coming from a background in modern English poetry, it seemed to us that a translation which attempts to simulate the discipline and constraints of the elegiac couplets, the hendecasyllabics, the limping iambic trimeters, and so on, of Martial's original poems might have real value. -
Hector and Iliad VI
Posted on February 13, 2013 | No CommentsHomer?s Iliad is the tale of the ninth year of the Trojan War, narrating events in both the Trojan city and the Achaean camp. The work is grand in its scope and remains character driven; for this reason we still discuss Achilles, Odysseus, Hector, and Paris as if they were real people. -
Echoes of Gilgamesh in the Jacob Story
Posted on February 10, 2013 | No CommentsI will argue here that the Israelite author utilized -
Monsters in the Roman Sky: Heaven and Earth in Manilius’ Astronomica
Posted on January 31, 2013 | No CommentsThe five-book astrological poem of Manilius, composed during the final years of Augustus
