Tiberiana 3: Odysseus at Rome – a Problem
The choice of a name is contingent on a number of factors or combination of factors, from individual taste to cultural influences, from liking the sound of it (forwhatever reason), to honoring relatives and friends, to expressing admiration for public figures past and present, real, fictional, or divine. Roman patterns of naming were also influenced by the involvement not just of family members but of slave-owners as choosers of names…and by the blending of very different systems of nomenclature in the great tapestry of cultures woven in the capital city.
Herodotus and the Poets
Herodotus and the Poets Ford, Andrew Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, September 2006 Abstract This is an attempt to describe Herodotus
Vergil's Aeneid VIII and the Shield of Aeneas: recurrent topics and cyclic structures
An analysis of Book VIII of Vergil’s Aeneid will result in the observation that this book forms a cyclus in the way that it ends as it starts, the preparations being underway for the war against Mezentius. Inside this frame, two units, the first larger than the second, concentrate on the topics of Hercules’ connection with Rome and the shield of Aeneas.
THE PLATONIC SAGE IN LOVE
How, then, one may ask, can the true philosopher have any truck with the passion of love? It is a basic axiom of Plato’s ethics, after all, that the irrational part, or aspect, of the soul, including the erotic impulse, should be subordinated to the reason, and that the passions, if not entirely eradicated, should at all times be reduced to ‘moderation’ by the exercise of the power of rationality.
DEMOCRATISATION OF GREEK SOCIETY DURING THE ARCHAIC ERA?
In the modern scholarship of the Ancient Greek history there is a well known and well established conception of an universal democratisation of Greek society during the Archaic and Early Classical periods. It could be summarised roughly as follows:1 Af- ter the fall of the Bronze Age Mycenaean civilisation, in the so-called Dark Ages (11th to 8th centuries B.C.), the Greek communities were governed by the kings (basilees).
THE ARCHAIC BIOGRAPHY OF HOMER
Thus the discussions about which of the epics might have been composed by Homer, as well as the considerations about his person and life seem to have taken place simultaneously, at the end of the 6th century. The increased interest in the person of the poet gives reason to assume that something in connection with those discussions might have also been put down at that time.
WORD-ENDS AND METRICAL BOUNDARIES IN ANCIENT IAMBIC TRIMETER OF COMEDY
The main purpose of the analysis is to study the relationship between metrical boundaries in deep structure and word-ends in surface structures that occur when the meter is realised.