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Full-Text Articles in Classics
Review: S. Connolly, Wisdom From Rome, Gnomon 96.1(2024), Lee Pearcy
Review: S. Connolly, Wisdom From Rome, Gnomon 96.1(2024), Lee Pearcy
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Who Does That?: Further Conversations On Drawing Down The Moon, Radcliffe Edmonds Iii
Who Does That?: Further Conversations On Drawing Down The Moon, Radcliffe Edmonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
This paper addresses responses to Drawing Down the Moon by Shannon Grimes, James Davila, Gregory Shaw, and Naomi Janowitz, using the cues of extraordinary efficacy, performance, social location, and ends to determine whether something is labeled magic and by whom. In each of the papers, the cue of social location appears as the most significant, even though the others each play a role as well.
Contingent Catastrophe Or Agonistic Advantage: The Rhetoric Of Violence In Classical Athenian Curses, Radcliffe Edmonds Iii
Contingent Catastrophe Or Agonistic Advantage: The Rhetoric Of Violence In Classical Athenian Curses, Radcliffe Edmonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
The surprising absence of violent language from classical Athenian curses is best understood as a rhetorical strategy appropriate for getting the divine powers to enact the curser's desire to harm his or her enemies and to gain an advantage in the particular agonistic context. A contrast with the extravagantly violent language of other contemporary curses, which call for unmitigated catastrophe to befall their targets, shows that the fundamental difference between these curses is the audience that they primarily address, which shapes the nature of the request that is made in the imprecation. Whereas contingent curses primarily address the human community …
Augustine’S Marginalia Contra Julianum, Catherine Conybeare
Augustine’S Marginalia Contra Julianum, Catherine Conybeare
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Review Of Chrysanthou, Anthi. "Defining Orphism: The Beliefs, The Teletae And The Writings.", Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Review Of Chrysanthou, Anthi. "Defining Orphism: The Beliefs, The Teletae And The Writings.", Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
And You Will Be Amazed: The Rhetoric Of Authority In The Greek Magical Papyri, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
And You Will Be Amazed: The Rhetoric Of Authority In The Greek Magical Papyri, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
An analysis of the rhetorical strategies used in the so-called Greek Magical Papyri to bolster the authority of the authors provides insight into the authors of these texts and their intended audiences. This article reviews the scholarship on the identity of the composers of the Greek Magical Papyri and explores the rhetorical strategies used in the texts to create authority, before comparing the dominant strategies in the Greek Magical Papyri with similar ones in other kinds of recipe collections, specifically alchemical and medical texts. The authors of the recipes in the Greek Magical Papyri make little use of the traditional …
Magic, Greek, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Magic, Greek, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
Greek magic is the discourse of magic within the ancient Greek world. Greek magic includes a range of practices, from malevolent curses to benevolent protections, from divinatory practices to alchemical procedures, but what is labelled magic depends on who is doing the labelling and the circumstances in which the label is applied. The discourse of magic pertains to non-normative ritualized activity, in which the deviation from the norm is most often marked in terms of the perceived efficacy of the act, the familiarity of the performance within the cultural tradition, the ends for which the act is performed, or the …
Misleading And Unclear To The Many: Allegory In The Derveni Papyrus And The Orphic Theogony Of Hieronymus, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Misleading And Unclear To The Many: Allegory In The Derveni Papyrus And The Orphic Theogony Of Hieronymus, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Contents: Drawing Down The Moon: Magic In The Ancient Greco-Roman World, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Contents: Drawing Down The Moon: Magic In The Ancient Greco-Roman World, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
What did magic mean to the people of ancient Greece and Rome? How did Greeks and Romans not only imagine what magic could do, but also use it to try to influence the world around them? In Drawing Down the Moon, Radcliffe Edmonds, one of the foremost experts on magic, religion, and the occult in the ancient world, provides the most comprehensive account of the varieties of phenomena labeled as magic in classical antiquity. Exploring why certain practices, images, and ideas were labeled as “magic” and set apart from “normal” kinds of practices, Edmonds gives insight into the shifting …
Underworld, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Underworld, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
Depictions of the underworld, in ancient Greek and Roman textual and visual sources, differ significantly from source to source, but they all draw on a common pool of traditional mythic motifs. These motifs, such as the realm of Hades and its denizens, the rivers of the underworld, the paradise of the blessed dead, and the places of punishment for the wicked, are developed and transformed through all their uses throughout the ages, depending upon the aims of the author or artist depicting the underworld. Some sources explore the relation of the world of the living to that of the dead …
Review: Irene Ceccherini, Sozomeno Da Pistoia (1387–1458): Scrittura E Libri Di Un Umanista., Julia H. Gaisser
Review: Irene Ceccherini, Sozomeno Da Pistoia (1387–1458): Scrittura E Libri Di Un Umanista., Julia H. Gaisser
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Deviant Origins: Hesiodic Theogony And The Orphica, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Deviant Origins: Hesiodic Theogony And The Orphica, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
Hesiod’s Theogony provides one of the most widely authoritative accounts of the origin of the cosmos, but his account has always been challenged by rivals claiming to be older, wiser, and better, and the name of Orpheus has always been privileged in the evidence for ancient rivals to Hesiod. The Orphic accounts play their variations on the Hesiodic themes, riffing in different ways on the idea of the ultimate origin of the cosmos; the processes of reproduction by which subsequent entities were generated; the conflicts between these divinities that created the changes from the original state to the current one; …
Introduction: The Power—And The Problems—Of Plato’S Images, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Introduction: The Power—And The Problems—Of Plato’S Images, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Putting Him On A Pedestal: (Re)Collection And The Use Of Images In Plato’S Phaedrus, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Putting Him On A Pedestal: (Re)Collection And The Use Of Images In Plato’S Phaedrus, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Alcibiades The Profane: Images Of The Mysteries In Plato’S Symposium, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Alcibiades The Profane: Images Of The Mysteries In Plato’S Symposium, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Reviewed Work(S): The Anatomy Of Myth: The Art Of Interpretation From The Presocratics To The Church Fathers By Michael W. Herren, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Reviewed Work(S): The Anatomy Of Myth: The Art Of Interpretation From The Presocratics To The Church Fathers By Michael W. Herren, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Euripides And The Politics Of Form, Joel A. Schlosser
Euripides And The Politics Of Form, Joel A. Schlosser
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
When I Walked The Dark Road Of Hades: Orphic Katabasis And The Katabasis Of Orpheus, Radcliffe Edmonds Iii
When I Walked The Dark Road Of Hades: Orphic Katabasis And The Katabasis Of Orpheus, Radcliffe Edmonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
Accounts of the descent to the Underworld attributed to Orpheus have been presumed to provide privileged information about the Underworld from the first hand experience of the narrator Orpheus, giving such accounts a special eschatological significance (R. PARKER [1995]). The surviving evidence, however, suggests that accounts of katábasis in texts attributed to Orpheus are not in the first person, while accounts of Orpheus’ katábasisare not attributed to Orpheus (with exception of the allusion in the late Orphic Argonautica). The possibility that the Orphic katabáseis might have recounted the descent of Herakles or Theseus rather than Orpheus himself opens …
Imagining The Afterlife In Greek Religion, Radcliffe Emonds Iii
Imagining The Afterlife In Greek Religion, Radcliffe Emonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Review: Julia Kindt, Rethinking Greek Religion, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Review: Julia Kindt, Rethinking Greek Religion, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
There And Back Again: Temporary Immortality In The Mithras Liturgy, Radcliffe Edmonds Iii
There And Back Again: Temporary Immortality In The Mithras Liturgy, Radcliffe Edmonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
A Lively Afterlife And Beyond: The Soul In Plato, Homer, And The Orphica, Radcliffe Edmonds Iii
A Lively Afterlife And Beyond: The Soul In Plato, Homer, And The Orphica, Radcliffe Edmonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Talfourd’S Ion: Classical Reception And Gender In Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia, Lee Pearcy
Talfourd’S Ion: Classical Reception And Gender In Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia, Lee Pearcy
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
In mid-nineteenth-century Philadelphia, plays with classical subjects were nearly as popular as Shakespeare. Contemporary reac- tion to one of these plays, Thomas Talfourd’s Ion, or The Foundling of Argos, reveals its audiences’ expectations about gender on stage and in society. American audiences, unlike their English counterparts, expected to see the role of Ion played by a woman. Especially in the 1830s, actresses playing Ion faced audiences who expected to see their feminine qualities preserved. They were disguised as a boy on the edge of manhood, but to be successful, the disguise had to fail by preserving their essential character as …
Review: Renate Schlesier (Ed.), A Different God? Dionysos And Ancient Polytheism., Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Review: Renate Schlesier (Ed.), A Different God? Dionysos And Ancient Polytheism., Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Dionysos In Egypt? Epaphian Dionysos In The Orphic Hymns, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Dionysos In Egypt? Epaphian Dionysos In The Orphic Hymns, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Ephesia Grammata: Logos Orphaikos Or Apolline Alexima Pharmaka?, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
The Ephesia Grammata: Logos Orphaikos Or Apolline Alexima Pharmaka?, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Whip Scars On The Naked Soul: Myth And Elenchos In Plato's Gorgias, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Whip Scars On The Naked Soul: Myth And Elenchos In Plato's Gorgias, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
Stripped of his regal robes and all the trappings of his worldly power, the soul of the Great King cowers naked before Rhadamanthys, who looks down upon the crippled wretch before him, disfigured like the basest slave by the marks of the whip and covered with festering sores. Many scholars (most importantly Annas, "Plato's Myths of Judgement," Phronesis, Vol. XXVII 1982, pp. 119-143) have interpreted this horrific image of the judgement of the soul from Plato's Gorgias as a threat of hell-fire designed to convince the skeptical Callicles that justice pays 'in the end.' Socrates' myth, however, does not supply …
Does Dying Hurt? Philodemus Of Gadara, De Morte And Asclepiades Of Bithynia, Lee Pearcy
Does Dying Hurt? Philodemus Of Gadara, De Morte And Asclepiades Of Bithynia, Lee Pearcy
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Review: Tzifopoulos, Yannis. ‘Paradise’ Earned: The Bacchic-Orphic Lamellae Of Crete, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Review: Tzifopoulos, Yannis. ‘Paradise’ Earned: The Bacchic-Orphic Lamellae Of Crete, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Review Of Naming The Witch: Magic, Ideology, And Stereotype In The Ancient World, By Kimberly B. Stratton, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Review Of Naming The Witch: Magic, Ideology, And Stereotype In The Ancient World, By Kimberly B. Stratton, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.