Simon Goldhill
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 105448 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Simon Goldhill |
| NOMBRES | Simon |
| APELLIDO | Goldhill |
| FIRMA | GOLDHILL S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1946-4839 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 115 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 304 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 107 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 8 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race
Race as a concept has had a fraught role in the history of Classics, woven into its formation as an academic discipline. While the texts and artefacts of the ancient Mediterranean world provide complex understandings of what race might mean and how it might operate, they have also provided fodder for modern racial ideologies. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and groundbreaking overview of 'race' and 'racism' in ancient Mediterranean cultures …
Godly Grooming
This article explores the religious injunctions for shaving male and female body hair, primarily within the rabbinical texts of the Jewish tradition. It contrasts the rules that are explicit in the Pentateuch with the exposition of the Talmud, followed by the further regulations collected in the Shulchan Aruch and later nineteenth-century responses to the Shulchan Aruch . It shows how religious regulations that claim to be either true for all tim…
Aristophanes in Britain
The Cambridge Companion to Lucian
Lucian is one of the most prolific and wide-ranging writers from antiquity and one of the most influential and controversial. His work is deeply embedded in the cultural and religious politics of the Greek world in the Roman Empire, but also played an important role in later periods, particularly during the Renaissance, and was considered a crucial example of the inherited wisdom of classical antiquity. Lucian's prose is limpid and elegant as wel…
Cambridge Companion to Lucian
Choral Tragedy
The Poet's Voice
How are poetry and the figure of the poet represented, discussed, contested within the poetry of ancient Greece? From what position does a poet speak? With what authority? With what debts to the past? With what involvement in the present? Through a series of interrelated essays on Homer, lyric poetry, Aristophanes, Theocritus and Apollonius of Rhodes, this landmark volume discusses key aspects of the history of poetics: tale-telling and the repre…
Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler
Considering Butler’s “tragic trilogy”—a set of interventions on Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Bacchae, and Aeschylus’s Eumenides—this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy, but also how tragedy shapes Butler’s thinking, even when their gaze is directed elsewhere. Through close readings of these tragedies, this book brings to light the tragic quality of Butler’s writing. It shows how Butler’s mode of read…
Writing Literary History in the Greek and Roman World
Covering a wide variety of Greek and Latin texts that span from the Archaic period down to Late Antiquity, this volume represents the first concerted attempt to understand ancient literary history in its full complexity and on its own terms. Abandoning long-standing misconceptions derived from the misleading application of modern assumptions and standards, the volume rehabilitates an often neglected but fundamentally important subject: the Greeks…
The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature
The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature offers a critical overview of work on Latin literature. Where are we? How did we get here? Where to next? Fifteen commissioned chapters, along with an extensive introduction and Mary Beard's postscript, approach these questions from a range of angles. They aim not to codify the field, but to give snapshots of the discipline from different perspectives, and to offer provocations for future developme…
Along Heroic Lines
Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity
The nineteenth century was a period in which ideas of history and time were challenged as never before. This is the first book to explore how the study of classical antiquity and the study of the Bible together formed an image of the past which became central to Victorian self-understanding. These specially commissioned, multi-disciplinary essays brilliantly reveal the richness of Victorian thinking about the past and how important these models o…
The Retrospective Muse
This book showcases the author's celebrated work. Over many decades, the author's innovative studies have changed the field of classics. Her instantly recognizable work brings together anthropology, gender studies, cultural studies, and an acute literary sensibility to open ancient texts and ideas to new forms of understanding. A selection of her essays on topics still timely today are collected for the first time in this book, showing the full r…
Resisting Resistance
In this epilogue, we consider first the language of resistance and how its rhetoric encodes a complex and competing set of positionalities: it is hard, we argue, to distinguish between cultural resistance and cultural difference. This process is especially complex in the Roman Empire, where cultural conflict between Roman and Greek, for example, has to negotiate the surprising dynamics of cultural authority where the colonisers privilege the cult…
Retrospective Muse
Reading Greek Tragedy
This book is an advanced critical introduction to Greek tragedy. It is written specifically for the reader who does not know Greek and who may be unfamiliar with the context of the Athenian drama festival but who nevertheless wants to appreciate the plays in all their complexity. Simon Goldhill aims to combine the best contemporary scholarly criticism in classics with a wide knowledge of modern literary studies in other fields. He discusses the m…
The First Pagan Historian
In this impressive first book, Clark explores the extraordinary history of the Destruction of Troy by Dares the Phrygian. Dares's account of the fall of Troy is a short, Latin prose narrative that claims to be an eyewitness account of the Trojan War, translated from the Phrygian by Cornelius Nepos, the Roman historian, and sent to Sallust, another, even more famous Roman historian. Dares's text came to light as late antiquity turned into the medi…
Temporality and Temper
Envoi
This chapter is a response to the volume’s arguments. It explores the book’s two central claims – that literary works must be seen as products of their time, and are best understood as being in dialogue with one another. It argues that ‘being of one’s time’ is a complex idea that requires a sophisticated sense of ‘situatedness’. Specifically, it first explores how the imperial and colonial conditions of Hellenistic culture produce contested perfo…
Eingegangene Bücher
The Christian Invention of Time
Time is integral to human culture. Over the last two centuries people's relationship with time has been transformed through industrialisation, trade and technology. But the first such life-changing transformation - under Christianity's influence - happened in late antiquity. It was then that time began to be conceptualised in new ways, with discussion of eternity, life after death and the end of days. Individuals also began to experience time dif…
What Is a Jewish Classicist
In recent years, there has been no issue that has convulsed academia and its role in society more stridently than the personal politics of its institutions: who has access to education? How does who you are change what you study and how you engage with it? How does scholarship reflect the politics of society – how should it? These new essays from one of the best-known scholars of ancient Greece offer a refreshing and provocative contribution to t…
A People's History of Classics
This very long book sets out to track and trace the working-class men and, less commonly, women who, against the limited expectations of their social position, learned Greek and Latin as an aspiration for personal change. The ideology of the book is clear and welcome: these figures “offer us a new ancestral backstory for a discipline sorely in need of a democratic makeover.” The book's twenty-five chapters explore how classics and class were link…
Homer and the Precarity of Tradition
Beginning with a striking passage in which the Sibylline narrator asserts her intellectual ownership of Homer’s work, I point out its Theogonic framing, before surveying other thematic and stylistic invocations of Hesiod across the Sibylline corpus. I argue that Hesiod, without being named, is given programmatic importance as a Classicizing alternative to Homeric authority and wisdom. I then distinguish three strategies of Sibylline transformatio…
Finding the Time for Ancient Novels
This essay looks at the history of the novel, starting from the influential postwar critical insistence on the importance of the novel as a nineteenth-century genre. It notes that this tradition singularly fails to take account of the history of the novel in antiquity–for clear ideological reasons. It then explores the degree to which the texts known as the novel from antiquity, such as Longus's Daphnis and Chloe, Petronius's Satyricon, or Heliod…
Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy
The Poet's Voice
'The project of this book', writes the author in his Preface, 'is to investigate how poetry and the figure of the poet are represented, discussed, contested within the poetry of ancient Greece'. Dr Goldhill seeks to discover how ancient authors broached the questions: From what position does a poet speak? With what authority? With what debts to the past? With what involvement in the present? Through a series of interrelated essays on Homer, lyric…
Language, Sexuality, Narrative
This book is concerned with the complexity and difficulty of reading the Oresteia. It is not a traditional commentary, although it is often concerned with problems of interpretation and language, nor is it simply what is generally understood by a literary study, although it often discusses the wider themes of the narrative. It is a close reading of the text concentrating on the developing meanings of words within the structuring of the play. In p…
Under the Sign of the Shield
Literary History without Literature
ture as a category is paralleled by the fall of Rhetoric as the privileged discipline of the liberal arts, and, with a beguilingly neat symmetry, as twentieth-century modernism has challenged the category literature, so rhetoric has regained its place as a master discourse in the modern academy.2 If we accept this narrative-at least in such broad terms-it leaves the classicist with something of a problem, however. A literary history that did not …
Reading Differences
This article comprises a discussion of four separate passages in Homer and some of the critical problems which each involves. My intention is not to produce a blueprint or set of rules for the interpretation of Homer, but rather — a more limited aim — to increase attention to the complex texture of the poetry of the Odyssey , and to the need for a critical practice alive to such complexity. The four passages are the speech of Amphimedon's ghost; …
Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece
Who Needs Greek? Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism
Being Greek under Rome
Mortals and Immortals
Jean-Pierre Vernant has profoundly transformed our perceptions of ancient Greece. Published in 1991, this collection of nineteen essays probes deeply into themes of enduring interest--death, the body, the soul, the individual, and relations between mortals and immortals; the mask, the mirror, the image, and the imagination; the self and the other, and, more broadly, the concept of otherness itself, or alterity
The Limits of the Case Study
This article considers the role of the case study as a form, with special reference to classical reception studies. It considers the history and theory of exemplification within rhetoric and within literary criticism (and other forms of writing), with due attention to the special place that classicism makes for the exemplary nature of the antiquity of Greece and Rome-and thus the special place of such exemplification in the reception of antiquity…
Doubling and Recognition in the Bacchae
Doubling and Récognition in the Bacchae (pp. 137-155) Cet article examine le problème de la reconnaissance dans les Bacchantes. Il traite de la difficulté d'appréhender Dionysos dont l'exigence de reconnaissance fonde le drame; il traite également du processus même de reconnaissance -en tant qu'il est informé par la répétition et la différence (re-connaissance). L'étude analyse en particulier la relation entre les pouvoirs de transformation de Di…
Language, Sexuality, Narrative
The Imperialism of Historical Arrogance
A Writer's Things
There are on display at Knebworth House two skulls excavated from Pompeii that are labeled with names of characters from Edward Bulwer Lytton's novel The Last Days of Pompeii. This article shows how the exhibition of these objects goes to the heart of changing Victorian discourses about the display of objects, especially skulls, the self-representation of authors, and the history of archaeology. It locates Bulwer's display between Scott at the be…
Enlightenment Now
Research Article| August 01 2007 Enlightenment Now: Concluding Reflections on Knowledge and Belief Mary Baine Campbell; Mary Baine Campbell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lorraine Daston; Lorraine Daston Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Arnold I. Davidson; Arnold I. Davidson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google John Forrester; John Forrester Search for other works by this…
On Knowingness
Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry
Being Greek under Rome
Language, sexuality, narrative, the Oresteia
Language, Sexuality, Narrative
This book is concerned with the complexity and difficulty of reading the Oresteia. It is not a traditional commentary, although it is often concerned with problems of interpretation and language, nor is it simply what is generally understood by a literary study, although it often discusses the wider themes of the narrative. It is a close reading of the text concentrating on the developing meanings of words within the structuring of the play. In p…
Reading Greek Tragedy
This book is an advanced critical introduction to Greek tragedy. It is written specifically for the reader who does not know Greek and who may be unfamiliar with the context of the Athenian drama festival but who nevertheless wants to appreciate the plays in all their complexity. Simon Goldhill aims to combine the best contemporary scholarly criticism in classics with a wide knowledge of modern literary studies in other fields. He discusses the m…
Language, Sexuality, Narrative
Under the Sign of the Shield
Language, Sexuality, Narrative
Language, Sexuality, Narrative
The Great Dionysia and civic ideology
There have been numerous attempts to understand the role and importance of the Great Dionysia in Athens, and it is a festival that has been made crucial to varied and important characterizations of Greek culture as well as the history of drama or literature. Recent scholarship, however, has greatly extended our understanding of the formation of fifth-century Athenian ideology—in the sense of the structure of attitudes and norms of behaviour—and t…
Reading Greek Tragedy
Doubling and Recognition in the Bacchae
Doubling and Récognition in the Bacchae (pp. 137-155) Cet article examine le problème de la reconnaissance dans les Bacchantes. Il traite de la difficulté d'appréhender Dionysos dont l'exigence de reconnaissance fonde le drame; il traite également du processus même de reconnaissance -en tant qu'il est informé par la répétition et la différence (re-connaissance). L'étude analyse en particulier la relation entre les pouvoirs de transformation de Di…
Reading Differences
This article comprises a discussion of four separate passages in Homer and some of the critical problems which each involves. My intention is not to produce a blueprint or set of rules for the interpretation of Homer, but rather — a more limited aim — to increase attention to the complex texture of the poetry of the Odyssey , and to the need for a critical practice alive to such complexity. The four passages are the speech of Amphimedon's ghost; …
A Footnote in the History of Greek Epitaphs
The Poet's Voice
'The project of this book', writes the author in his Preface, 'is to investigate how poetry and the figure of the poet are represented, discussed, contested within the poetry of ancient Greece'. Dr Goldhill seeks to discover how ancient authors broached the questions: From what position does a poet speak? With what authority? With what debts to the past? With what involvement in the present? Through a series of interrelated essays on Homer, lyric…
Mortals and Immortals
Jean-Pierre Vernant has profoundly transformed our perceptions of ancient Greece. Published in 1991, this collection of nineteen essays probes deeply into themes of enduring interest--death, the body, the soul, the individual, and relations between mortals and immortals; the mask, the mirror, the image, and the imagination; the self and the other, and, more broadly, the concept of otherness itself, or alterity
The Poet's Voice
Foucault's Virginity
The sexy, witty and often bizarre novels, poetry and dialogues of the first centuries of this era (works such as Longus' Daphnis and Chloe, Achilles Tatius' Leukippe and Cleitophon and Plutarch's Amatorius) were being composed at the same time as fundamental ideas about the body, gender and sexuality were being set in place with the rise of Christianity and the Church to dominate the pagan world. Modern writers on the history of sexuality have la…
Aeschylus
Modern critical approaches to Greek tragedy
How are the texts of ancient drama to be understood by modern interpreters - separated as we are by so great a distance of time and difference of culture? This problem has been treated in many ways in this century, as the study of ancient literature, like the study of other literatures, has undergone rapid institutional and intellectual changes. There are many paths and genealogies that could be traced through this history, and not only do many d…
The audience of Athenian tragedy
The culture of classical Greece was a performance culture. It valorised competitive public display across a vast range of social institutions and spheres of behaviour. The gymnasium with its competitions in manliness, the symposium with its performances of songs and speeches, and the theatre become - with the spreading of Greek culture throughout the Mediterranean world in the wake of Alexander the Great - the key signs of Greekness itself. The d…
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy
As a creative medium, ancient Greek tragedy has had an extraordinarily wide influence: many of the surviving plays are still part of the theatrical repertoire, and texts like Agamemnon, Antigone, and Medea have had a profound effect on Western culture. This Companion is not a conventional introductory textbook but an attempt, by seven distinguished scholars, to present the familiar corpus in the context of modern reading, criticism, and performan…
Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece
The Full-Knowing Reader
Literary allusions abound in Western literature, and those who study them tend to focus on the author's intentions to demonstrate erudition, embellish meaning, or exert control over tradition. In this original and illuminating book -- the first fullscale consideration of literary allusion in any language -- Joseph Pucci contends that the key to grasping the meaning of an allusive text is in the hands of the full-knowing reader. Pucci shows how al…
Literary History without Literature
ture as a category is paralleled by the fall of Rhetoric as the privileged discipline of the liberal arts, and, with a beguilingly neat symmetry, as twentieth-century modernism has challenged the category literature, so rhetoric has regained its place as a master discourse in the modern academy.2 If we accept this narrative-at least in such broad terms-it leaves the classicist with something of a problem, however. A literary history that did not …
Acting like Men
Le sexe incertain
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