A D Morrison
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3979828 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A D Morrison |
| NOMBRES | A D |
| APELLIDO | Morrison |
| FIRMA | MORRISON A D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Manchester |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Pindar, Bacchylides, Archaic Epic, and Intertextuality
This chapter examines how Pindar and Bacchylides make use of early epic (esp. Homer) in their victory odes, from an explicitly ’intertextualist’ perspective. It discusses ( inter alia ) the meaning of ’Homer’ in the fifth century BC to the earliest audiences of Pindar and Bacchylides and adverts to the complexity and multiplicity of the audiences of their victory odes. It argues furthermore for the critical importance and benefits of intertextual…
Texts and Intertexts in Archaic and Classical Greece
Encompassing the period from the earliest archaic epics down through classical Athenian drama, this is the first concerted, step-by-step examination of the development of allusive poetics in the early Greek world. Recent decades have seen a marked rise in intertextual approaches to early Greek literature; as scholars increasingly agree on the need to read these texts in a comparative way, this only makes all the more urgent the question of how be…
Dead Letter Office? Making Sense of Greek Letter Collections
The letter collections of Greco-Roman antiquity dwarf in total size all of ancient drama or epic combined, but they have received far less attention than (say) the plays of Euripides or the epics of Homer or Virgil. Although classicists have long realised the crucial importance of the order and arrangement of poems into ‘poetry books’ for the reading and reception both of individual poems and the collection as a whole, the importance of order and…
Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography
This book examines the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes through one aspect of its relationship with other texts. The particular intertextual relationship examined is that with the Histories of Herodotus, focusing on the presence of the latter text in the former in terms of the poem's employment of characteristics and features of historiographical discourse, narrative structures, presentation and description of characters, aetiology and pattern…
Lycambae spretus infido gener | aut acer hostis Bupalo
Horace’s Epodes rank among the most undervalued texts of the early Roman principate. Abrasive in style and riddled with apparent inconsistencies, the Epodes have divided critics from the outset—infuriating and delighting them in equal measure. This introduction provides an overview of the volume, which offers its readers a collection of essays on the Epodes by new and established scholars. In the introduction, the editors deal with many of the ce…
Lucretius
CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION 1. Piety, labour, and justice in Lucretius and Hesiod 2. The political epistemology of infinity 3. Lucretius, Epicurus, and the Logic of Multiple Explanations 4. Nature, spontaneity, and voluntary action in Lucretius 5. Seeing and unseeing, seen and unseen 6. The poetic logic of negative exceptionalism in Lucretius, book five 7. Lucretius and the Epicurean attitude toward grief 8. Nil igitur mors est ad nosa Iphianas…
Nil igitur mors est ad nos? Iphianassa, the Athenian Plague, and Epicurean Views of Death
This chapter focuses on how Lucretius devises the evocation for the reader of what it feels like to be involved in some of the most distressing and intimate aspects of human life and death. It argues that, while non‐Epicurean readers (the vast majority) may be deeply moved and troubled by the powerful evocation of human suffering in the poem, for the Epicurean pupil such passages constitute a harsh and uncompromising lesson about fear, grief, and…
Narrative and Epistolarity in the ‘Platonic’ Epistles
The 'Platonic' Epistles deserve our attention in a volume on epistolary narrative in part because they form a good example of the limitations of the parallel of the modern Briefroman . They form, in fact, a telling illustration of the different ways in which ancient collections of letters can construct (or frustrate) different kinds of narrative. They are also clearly influential on later letter-collections in a number of ways, and form an import…
Poetry, Philosophy, Science
The volume unites the three aspects--poetry, philosophy, and science--found in Lucretius' 'De rerum natura'. With ten original essays and an analytical introduction, the volume aims not only to combine different approaches within single covers but to offer responses to the poem by experts from all three scholarly backgrounds--Adapted from the book jacket
Reading the Victory Ode
The victory ode was a short-lived poetic genre in the fifth century BC, but its impact has been substantial. Pindar, Bacchylides and others are now among the most widely read Greek authors precisely because of their significance for the literary development of poetry between Homer and tragedy and their historical involvement in promoting Greek rulers. Their influence was so great that it ultimately helped to define the European notion of lyric fr…
Pindar and the Aeginetan patrai
A Companion to Ancient Egypt
This companion provides the very latest accounts of the major and current aspects of Egyptology by leading scholars. Delivered in a highly readable style and extensively illustrated, it offers unprecedented breadth and depth of coverage, giving full scope to the discussion of this incredible civilization. Provides the very latest and, where relevant, well-illustrated accounts of the major aspects of Egypt?s ancient history and culture Covers a br…
Introduction
This introduction ponders the question of what defines a letter as used by some authors over other types of document. One way of deciding where the boundary between letters and other forms of text lies, and whether this is a worthwhile question to pose, is to consider borderline cases. Two such cases — the history of the classification as letters of various Greek poems, more recently thought not to qualify as letters, and Cicero's De Officiis — a…
Didacticism and Epistolarity in Horace's Epistles 1
This chapter investigates how the ‘epistolarity’, the ‘letteriness’ of Horace's Epistles relates to and complements the didactic, instructive element of the book and vice versa. Horace is the first poet to compose or construct a book of verse-letters, a dedicated poetry-book in epistolary form, Epistles book 1 (in 20/19 BC). Epistles 1 also plays an important role in the development of ancient philosophical epistolography. It adapts, in part, the…
Ancient Letters
Introduction: What is a letter? 1. Down among the documents: criticism and papyrus letters 2. '... when who should walk into the room but': epistoliterarity in Cicero, Ad Qfr 3.1 3. Cicero's 'stomach': political indignation and the use of repeated allusive expressions in Cicero's correspondence 4. Didacticism and epistolarity in Horace's Epistles 1 5. The importance of form in Seneca's philosophical letters 6. Letters of recommendation and the rh…
Sexual Ambiguity and the Identity of the Narrator in Callimachus‘hymn to Athena
This paper re-examines the narratorial voice in Callimachus' ‘mimetic’ Hymn to Athena and argues that we should see it as complex and experimental (cf. the voices of his hymns to Zeus and Apollo). The portrayal of a narrator whose sex is ambiguous (with some elements pointing to a female celebrant as the narrator, others to a male scholar-poet) is in fact closely connected to the subject-matter of the myth which the narrator tells — the blinding …
Ancient Letters
Introduction: What is a letter? 1. Down among the documents: criticism and papyrus letters 2. '... when who should walk into the room but': epistoliterarity in Cicero, Ad Qfr 3.1 3. Cicero's 'stomach': political indignation and the use of repeated allusive expressions in Cicero's correspondence 4. Didacticism and epistolarity in Horace's Epistles 1 5. The importance of form in Seneca's philosophical letters 6. Letters of recommendation and the rh…
Sexual Ambiguity and the Identity of the Narrator in Callimachus‘hymn to Athena
This paper re-examines the narratorial voice in Callimachus' ‘mimetic’ Hymn to Athena and argues that we should see it as complex and experimental (cf. the voices of his hymns to Zeus and Apollo). The portrayal of a narrator whose sex is ambiguous (with some elements pointing to a female celebrant as the narrator, others to a male scholar-poet) is in fact closely connected to the subject-matter of the myth which the narrator tells — the blinding …
Introduction
This introduction ponders the question of what defines a letter as used by some authors over other types of document. One way of deciding where the boundary between letters and other forms of text lies, and whether this is a worthwhile question to pose, is to consider borderline cases. Two such cases — the history of the classification as letters of various Greek poems, more recently thought not to qualify as letters, and Cicero's De Officiis — a…
Didacticism and Epistolarity in Horace's Epistles 1
This chapter investigates how the ‘epistolarity’, the ‘letteriness’ of Horace's Epistles relates to and complements the didactic, instructive element of the book and vice versa. Horace is the first poet to compose or construct a book of verse-letters, a dedicated poetry-book in epistolary form, Epistles book 1 (in 20/19 BC). Epistles 1 also plays an important role in the development of ancient philosophical epistolography. It adapts, in part, the…
Ancient Letters
Introduction: What is a letter? 1. Down among the documents: criticism and papyrus letters 2. '... when who should walk into the room but': epistoliterarity in Cicero, Ad Qfr 3.1 3. Cicero's 'stomach': political indignation and the use of repeated allusive expressions in Cicero's correspondence 4. Didacticism and epistolarity in Horace's Epistles 1 5. The importance of form in Seneca's philosophical letters 6. Letters of recommendation and the rh…
A Companion to Ancient Egypt
This companion provides the very latest accounts of the major and current aspects of Egyptology by leading scholars. Delivered in a highly readable style and extensively illustrated, it offers unprecedented breadth and depth of coverage, giving full scope to the discussion of this incredible civilization. Provides the very latest and, where relevant, well-illustrated accounts of the major aspects of Egypt?s ancient history and culture Covers a br…
Pindar and the Aeginetan patrai
Reading the Victory Ode
The victory ode was a short-lived poetic genre in the fifth century BC, but its impact has been substantial. Pindar, Bacchylides and others are now among the most widely read Greek authors precisely because of their significance for the literary development of poetry between Homer and tragedy and their historical involvement in promoting Greek rulers. Their influence was so great that it ultimately helped to define the European notion of lyric fr…
Lucretius
CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION 1. Piety, labour, and justice in Lucretius and Hesiod 2. The political epistemology of infinity 3. Lucretius, Epicurus, and the Logic of Multiple Explanations 4. Nature, spontaneity, and voluntary action in Lucretius 5. Seeing and unseeing, seen and unseen 6. The poetic logic of negative exceptionalism in Lucretius, book five 7. Lucretius and the Epicurean attitude toward grief 8. Nil igitur mors est ad nosa Iphianas…
Nil igitur mors est ad nos? Iphianassa, the Athenian Plague, and Epicurean Views of Death
This chapter focuses on how Lucretius devises the evocation for the reader of what it feels like to be involved in some of the most distressing and intimate aspects of human life and death. It argues that, while non‐Epicurean readers (the vast majority) may be deeply moved and troubled by the powerful evocation of human suffering in the poem, for the Epicurean pupil such passages constitute a harsh and uncompromising lesson about fear, grief, and…
Narrative and Epistolarity in the ‘Platonic’ Epistles
The 'Platonic' Epistles deserve our attention in a volume on epistolary narrative in part because they form a good example of the limitations of the parallel of the modern Briefroman . They form, in fact, a telling illustration of the different ways in which ancient collections of letters can construct (or frustrate) different kinds of narrative. They are also clearly influential on later letter-collections in a number of ways, and form an import…
Poetry, Philosophy, Science
The volume unites the three aspects--poetry, philosophy, and science--found in Lucretius' 'De rerum natura'. With ten original essays and an analytical introduction, the volume aims not only to combine different approaches within single covers but to offer responses to the poem by experts from all three scholarly backgrounds--Adapted from the book jacket
Lycambae spretus infido gener | aut acer hostis Bupalo
Horace’s Epodes rank among the most undervalued texts of the early Roman principate. Abrasive in style and riddled with apparent inconsistencies, the Epodes have divided critics from the outset—infuriating and delighting them in equal measure. This introduction provides an overview of the volume, which offers its readers a collection of essays on the Epodes by new and established scholars. In the introduction, the editors deal with many of the ce…
Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography
This book examines the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes through one aspect of its relationship with other texts. The particular intertextual relationship examined is that with the Histories of Herodotus, focusing on the presence of the latter text in the former in terms of the poem's employment of characteristics and features of historiographical discourse, narrative structures, presentation and description of characters, aetiology and pattern…
Dead Letter Office? Making Sense of Greek Letter Collections
The letter collections of Greco-Roman antiquity dwarf in total size all of ancient drama or epic combined, but they have received far less attention than (say) the plays of Euripides or the epics of Homer or Virgil. Although classicists have long realised the crucial importance of the order and arrangement of poems into ‘poetry books’ for the reading and reception both of individual poems and the collection as a whole, the importance of order and…
Pindar, Bacchylides, Archaic Epic, and Intertextuality
This chapter examines how Pindar and Bacchylides make use of early epic (esp. Homer) in their victory odes, from an explicitly ’intertextualist’ perspective. It discusses ( inter alia ) the meaning of ’Homer’ in the fifth century BC to the earliest audiences of Pindar and Bacchylides and adverts to the complexity and multiplicity of the audiences of their victory odes. It argues furthermore for the critical importance and benefits of intertextual…
Texts and Intertexts in Archaic and Classical Greece
Encompassing the period from the earliest archaic epics down through classical Athenian drama, this is the first concerted, step-by-step examination of the development of allusive poetics in the early Greek world. Recent decades have seen a marked rise in intertextual approaches to early Greek literature; as scholars increasingly agree on the need to read these texts in a comparative way, this only makes all the more urgent the question of how be…
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