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Aristotle's Hippodamos (Politics 2.1267b22-30), Vanessa B. Gorman
Aristotle's Hippodamos (Politics 2.1267b22-30), Vanessa B. Gorman
Department of History: Faculty Publications
"Hippodamos, the son of Euryphon and a Milesian, who both invented the division of cities and cut out the Piraeus, was in the rest of his life very extraordinary because of his love of reputation, so that to some people he seemed to live his life very elaborately, wearing his hair long and arranged in a costly manner, while his clothes were of cheap material that was nevertheless warm, which he wore both in the winter and in the summer alike. He wanted to be knowledgeable about nature in general. First among those who were not statesmen he tried to …
Review Of Folklore And Fascism: The Reich Institute For German Volkskunde, By Hannjost Lixfeld, And The Nazification Of An Academic Discipline: Folklore In The Third Reich, Edited And Translated By James R. Dow And Hannjost Lixfeld, Alan E. Steinweis
Department of History: Faculty Publications
Taken together, these two books do much to explode what they characterize as the myth of "two German folklores." This is the notion, still disturbingly widespread in German academia, that during the National Socialist era the field of Volkskunde was split into two distinct groups, the first consisting of serious scholars whose work remained largely untainted by Nazism, and the second consisting of hacks, publicists, and weak scholars who championed the Nazi ideology and program. By dispelling this myth, these volumes contribute to the ever-growing body of scholarship that documents the role of traditional German elites in the legitimation and …
Review Of The Usurer's Daughter: Male Friendship And Fictions Of Women In Sixteenth-Century England By Lorna Hutson, Carole Levin
Review Of The Usurer's Daughter: Male Friendship And Fictions Of Women In Sixteenth-Century England By Lorna Hutson, Carole Levin
Department of History: Faculty Publications
Hutson's study of the impact of humanism on male friendship and the anxieties in the changing nature of friendship expressed in literature and Shakespearean drama is brilliant and thought provoking, a work that stands at the intersection of economic, cultural, and literary history. Hutson's writing style is dense and rather difficult, and her thesis will certainly provoke debate, especially as she takes on feminist and new historicist critics. Hutson's title is provocative, and a reader would probably pick up her study thinking it was about Jessica, the most famous usurer's daughter, and The Merchant of Venice. Though one would have …
Vergilian Models For The Characterization Of Scylla In The Ciris, Vanessa Gorman
Vergilian Models For The Characterization Of Scylla In The Ciris, Vanessa Gorman
Department of History: Faculty Publications
The Ciris, a Latin epyllion of uncertain date and authorship, exemplifies the late-antique fascination with Vergilian imitation, as explored most thoroughly in the commentary by R. O. A. M. Lyne (1978). Verse by verse, Lyne indicates what he feels are direct verbal borrowings of verses, half-verses, and phrases from Vergil. Yet for all the care Lyne dedicates to this task, for the most part he limits himself to the verbal dimension of the borrowings. The borrowings have other dimensions as well, and it is the purpose of this paper to examine these allusions from a thematic perspective. The focus will …