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Review: S. Connolly, Wisdom From Rome, Gnomon 96.1(2024), Lee Pearcy Jan 2024

Review: S. Connolly, Wisdom From Rome, Gnomon 96.1(2024), Lee Pearcy

Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Contingent Catastrophe Or Agonistic Advantage: The Rhetoric Of Violence In Classical Athenian Curses, Radcliffe Edmonds Iii Jan 2022

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 …


Speech And Enchantment In Early Greek Thought From The Archaic To The Hellenistic Period, R. J. Barnes Jan 2022

Speech And Enchantment In Early Greek Thought From The Archaic To The Hellenistic Period, R. J. Barnes

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

When describing complex aesthetic or cognitive experiences, speakers often reach for idiomatic language. For ancient Greeks, one major cache of idiomatic terms comes from the language of enchantment. This dissertation accounts for how and why ancient Greeks used words related to θέλγω, κηλέω, γοητεία, μαγεία, μαγγανεία, ἐπῳδή, and ψυχαγωγία as a way of describing the effects of speech and song. Examination is given to writers from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period. Most important are Gorgias of Leontini, Plato, and Philodemus, who each remark in detail about the experience of enchantment. The study reveals that Greek writers use the language …


Augustine’S Marginalia Contra Julianum, Catherine Conybeare Jan 2021

Augustine’S Marginalia Contra Julianum, Catherine Conybeare

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 Jan 2020

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 …


Plutarch Reading Plato: Interpretation And Mythmaking In The Early Empire, Collin Miles Hilton Jan 2020

Plutarch Reading Plato: Interpretation And Mythmaking In The Early Empire, Collin Miles Hilton

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

Plutarch of Chaeronea, an eminent figure among the Platonists of the early Roman Empire, built his philosophy by continuously drawing frameworks and models from Plato’s dialogues, both in his works dedicated solely to exegesis and his own lively philosophical dialogues. He both interprets Plato and adapts various models from the Platonic dialogues. Each philosopher was especially concerned with problems posed by myth, yet each also employed their own elaborate and imagistic narratives. In this study, I argue two main points. First, Plutarch’s treatment of mythic narratives, in their dangers and their potential uses, is carefully modelled after Plato. Both are …


“Arrows Fletched From Our Own Wings”: The Early Church Fathers And The “Delphi Of The Mind”, Daniel J. Crosby Jan 2018

“Arrows Fletched From Our Own Wings”: The Early Church Fathers And The “Delphi Of The Mind”, Daniel J. Crosby

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Delphi, one of the most important sanctuaries of the classical world, presented the Early Church Fathers with an interesting challenge. Although it continued to be an institution of local importance, by their time, the Oracle had long since been a provincial backwater, requiring Imperial patronage, at times, which revived the sanctuary temporarily, but not to its former glory and importance. It was not the actual institution that presented hindrance to the advancement of Christianity, nevertheless the Early Church Fathers attacked it with arguments ranging from the irreverent to the obscene. The interesting fact is that none of these indictments were …


The Case For Another Son Of P. Quinctilius Varus: A Re-Examination Of The Textual And Scholarly Traditions Around Joseph. Bj 2.68 And Aj 17.288, Daniel J. Crosby Jun 2016

The Case For Another Son Of P. Quinctilius Varus: A Re-Examination Of The Textual And Scholarly Traditions Around Joseph. Bj 2.68 And Aj 17.288, Daniel J. Crosby

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

This paper addresses the issue of the historicity of another, older son of P. Quinctilius Varus who is attested in Joseph. AJ 17.288, but not in the parallel version at BJ 2.68. Modern scholarship, as evidenced by Ladislav Vidman (1998) and Klaus Wachtel (1999), finds itself at a loss as to which opinion, that of Walther John (1958) or of Meyer Reinhold (1972), to support. Whereas John rejects the evidence for an older son of Varus in AJ and proposes L. Nonius Asprenas (cos. suff. 6 CE) instead, Reinhold tersely rebuts John, supporting the validity of the text. This article …


Harpists, Flute-Players, And The Early Musical Contests At Delphi, Daniel J. Crosby Jan 2013

Harpists, Flute-Players, And The Early Musical Contests At Delphi, Daniel J. Crosby

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

No abstract provided.


Die Sage Von Agamemnos Ermordung Und Dem Rächer Orestes In Der Griechischen Poesie, Franz Lauczizky Jan 1888

Die Sage Von Agamemnos Ermordung Und Dem Rächer Orestes In Der Griechischen Poesie, Franz Lauczizky

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.


De Diis Plautinis Terentianisque, Theodor Hubrich Jan 1883

De Diis Plautinis Terentianisque, Theodor Hubrich

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.


Hugo Grotius Et Cornelius Tacitus, Johan Cornelis Gerard Boot Dec 1882

Hugo Grotius Et Cornelius Tacitus, Johan Cornelis Gerard Boot

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.


Bemerkungen Zu Tacitus, Otto Hirschfeld Jan 1880

Bemerkungen Zu Tacitus, Otto Hirschfeld

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.


De Aeschylo G. Hermanni: Accedunt Emendationes, Franz Volkmar Fritzschius Dec 1879

De Aeschylo G. Hermanni: Accedunt Emendationes, Franz Volkmar Fritzschius

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.


Ueber Das Mythische Und Geographische Wissen Des Aeschylos, Oder Die Wanderungen Der Io, Peter Wilhelm Forchhammer Dec 1879

Ueber Das Mythische Und Geographische Wissen Des Aeschylos, Oder Die Wanderungen Der Io, Peter Wilhelm Forchhammer

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.


BeiträGe Zur Lehre Vom Griechischen Pronomen Hode Und Hutos Bei Aeschylus, Philipp Braun Dec 1878

BeiträGe Zur Lehre Vom Griechischen Pronomen Hode Und Hutos Bei Aeschylus, Philipp Braun

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.


De Choro Persarum Fabulae Aeschyleae, Christian Muff Jan 1878

De Choro Persarum Fabulae Aeschyleae, Christian Muff

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.


Quaestionum Criticarum De Chalcidii In Timaeum Platonis Commentario, Specimen Tertium., Iwan Von MüLler Jan 1877

Quaestionum Criticarum De Chalcidii In Timaeum Platonis Commentario, Specimen Tertium., Iwan Von MüLler

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.


De Metonymia Abstractae Notionis Pro Concreta Apud Aeschylum, Heinrich Rüter Dec 1876

De Metonymia Abstractae Notionis Pro Concreta Apud Aeschylum, Heinrich Rüter

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.


Quaestionum Criticarum De Chalcidii In Timaeum Platonis Commentario Specimen Alterum, Iwan Von Müller Jan 1876

Quaestionum Criticarum De Chalcidii In Timaeum Platonis Commentario Specimen Alterum, Iwan Von Müller

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.


Dittographien Im Plautustexte, Nebst Methodischen Folgerungen: Eine Kritische Untersuchung, Georg Goetz Dec 1875

Dittographien Im Plautustexte, Nebst Methodischen Folgerungen: Eine Kritische Untersuchung, Georg Goetz

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.


Quaestionum Criticarum De Chalcidii In Timaeum Platonis Commentario, Specimen Primum, Iwan Von Müller Dec 1874

Quaestionum Criticarum De Chalcidii In Timaeum Platonis Commentario, Specimen Primum, Iwan Von Müller

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.


De Aeschyli Choephororum Stasimo Primo: Dissertatio Inauguralis, Aemilius Langheim Jan 1874

De Aeschyli Choephororum Stasimo Primo: Dissertatio Inauguralis, Aemilius Langheim

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.


Zur ErkläRung Der Worte In Platons Gorgias: P. 447. C. - 461. B. U. C. - 464 In Fine, Ludwig Karl Paul Dec 1873

Zur ErkläRung Der Worte In Platons Gorgias: P. 447. C. - 461. B. U. C. - 464 In Fine, Ludwig Karl Paul

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.


Commentatio De Taciti Historiarum Libri Primi Capite Lxxx, Albert Grumme Dec 1871

Commentatio De Taciti Historiarum Libri Primi Capite Lxxx, Albert Grumme

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.


Zur Parodos In Den Persem Des Aeschylus, Robert Enger Dec 1869

Zur Parodos In Den Persem Des Aeschylus, Robert Enger

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.


Kritisches Zu Tacitus, Ludwig Urlichs Jan 1868

Kritisches Zu Tacitus, Ludwig Urlichs

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.


Apollons Wahrspruch In Aeschylos Choephoren 266-302, Heinrich Keck Dec 1867

Apollons Wahrspruch In Aeschylos Choephoren 266-302, Heinrich Keck

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.


Kritisch-Exegetische Bemerkungen Zu Den Supplices Des Aeschylus, Johannes Oberdick Jan 1867

Kritisch-Exegetische Bemerkungen Zu Den Supplices Des Aeschylus, Johannes Oberdick

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.


De Quibusdam Aeschyli Choephororum Locis, Karl Gross Jan 1865

De Quibusdam Aeschyli Choephororum Locis, Karl Gross

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.