Bruno Currie
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5627192 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bruno Currie |
| NOMBRES | Bruno |
| APELLIDO | Currie |
| FIRMA | CURRIE B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2509-0965 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Emotionally Reunited
Intertextuality in Early Greek Poetry
This paper offers a reappraisal of the role of intertextuality in fifth-century BCE epinician poetry by means of a comparison with the role of intertextuality in all of early Greek hexameter poetry, ‘lyric epic’, and fifth-century BCE tragedy and comedy. By considering the ways in which performance culture as well as the production of written texts affects the prospects for intertextuality, it challenges a scholarly view that would straightforwar…
Herodotus as a Homeric Critic
Aristophanes and the Cult of the Saviour
Aristophanes’ Knights, Peace, and Birds are deeply interested in the figure of the civic “saviour”, who is depicted as a Gottmensch: a man become god or, at least, a man deserving of religious treatment such as the gods receive. While the Aristophanic treatment of the theme contains many parodic, paratragic, and metatheatrical elements, it arguably still offers a utilizable and unique window onto real-life practices concerning fifth-century BCE G…
The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World
The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World
In The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext, a team of international scholars consider the afterlife of early Greek lyric poetry (iambic, elegiac, and melic) up to the 12th century CE, from a variety of intersecting perspectives: reperformance, textualization, the direct and indirect tradition, anthologies, poets’ Lives, and the disquisitions of philosophers and scholars. Particular attenti…
Festival, Symposium, and Epinician (Re)performance
Pindar and Bacchylides
This is the fourth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. The book deals with the narratological concepts of character and characterization and explores the textual devices used for purposes of characterization by ancient Greek authors from Homer to Heliodorus
Cypria
General The Cypria is first of six poems in the ‘Trojan Cycle’, dated sometimes to the seventh, but more usually to the late sixth century BC. The later dating relies on the doubtful evidence of isolated, rarely attested forms. These occur in particularly high concentration in PEG F1(= D., W.), but even here their implications are not clear-cut. Attempts to supply a terminus ante quem by identifying the influence of the Cypria on art and poetry a…
The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception
The poems of the Epic Cycle are assumed to be the reworking of myths and narratives which had their roots in an oral tradition predating that of many of the myths and narratives which took their present form in the Iliad and the Odyssey. The remains of these texts allow us to investigate diachronic aspects of epic diction as well as the extent of variation within it on the part of individual authors - two of the most important questions in modern…
The Iliad, Gilgamesh, and Neoanalysis
Choral Lyric Pindar and Bacchylides
Epinician space serves primarily as the setting for events, the exercise of human areta at different times. For the appreciation of the handling of space in epinician it is necessary to recognize three types of narrative in epinician: performance narrative, athletic narrative and mythical narrative. This still excludes gnomai, victory data, victory catalogues, and prayers, as non-narrative elements. The extreme compression of most performance and…
Anchises (1)
Kythereia
Demeter
E os
Iasion
Kypris
Aeneas
Tantalos
Tithonos
Persephone
Charites
Pelops
Aphrodite
Pindar and the Cult of Heroes
Pindar and the Cult of Heroes combines a study of Greek culture and religion (hero cult) with a literary-critical study of Pindar's epinician poetry. It looks at hero cult generally, but focuses especially on heroization in the 5th century BC. There are individual chapters on the heroization of war dead, of athletes, and on the religious treatment of the living in the 5th century. Hero cult, Bruno Currie argues, could be anticipated, in different…
Epic interactions
This collection of essays surveys the epic tradition from the 8th century BC to the 19th century of our era. Chapters focus on: Homer and the oral epic tradition; Homer in his religious context; Herodotus and Homer; Hellenistic epic; Virgil in his literary context; Virgil in his political-cultural context, and more
Intertextuality in Early Greek Poetry
This paper offers a reappraisal of the role of intertextuality in fifth-century BCE epinician poetry by means of a comparison with the role of intertextuality in all of early Greek hexameter poetry, ‘lyric epic’, and fifth-century BCE tragedy and comedy. By considering the ways in which performance culture as well as the production of written texts affects the prospects for intertextuality, it challenges a scholarly view that would straightforwar…
Aristophanes and the Cult of the Saviour
Aristophanes’ Knights, Peace, and Birds are deeply interested in the figure of the civic “saviour”, who is depicted as a Gottmensch: a man become god or, at least, a man deserving of religious treatment such as the gods receive. While the Aristophanic treatment of the theme contains many parodic, paratragic, and metatheatrical elements, it arguably still offers a utilizable and unique window onto real-life practices concerning fifth-century BCE G…
A note on Catullus 63.5
At Catullus 63.5, OGR read: deuoluit iletas acuto sibi pondere silices. The gist of this (‘he rolled down from (?) himself flints with sharp mass’) is improbable, and in particular the form iletas is a non-existent word and two syllables too long for the metre
A note on Catullus 63.5
At Catullus 63.5, OGR read: deuoluit iletas acuto sibi pondere silices. The gist of this (‘he rolled down from (?) himself flints with sharp mass’) is improbable, and in particular the form iletas is a non-existent word and two syllables too long for the metre
Dedication
Heroization of Athletes
The heroized athletes of the fifth century bc have been frequently investigated. But crucial aspects of the phenomenon remain unclear, including how often athletes were heroized, at what period their heroizations occurred, and what reasons led to the heroization. Again, we must start by reviewing the evidence.
Views of Death
In Homer death is final. Death, or rather cremation, marks the end of the dead person’s involvement in the world of the living (Iliad 23.75-6).The Homeric dead are devoid of vital energy.
Immortality in Renown
The same point recurs in many other odes. Such passages put it beyond doubt that KYCOS is an important concept in Pindar’s odes. Yet unlike Homer, Pindar, as we have seen, makes frequent reference to hero cult (see Chapter 4).
Epilogue
An important set of conclusions of this book concerns the extent of heroization: we should take seriously the possibility that in the Classical period heroization, particularly of the war dead and of athletes, was more widespread than has often been supposed. One consequence will be that the proliferation of heroizations in the Hellenistic period comes less suddenly than it is generally held to do. More radically though, this book has argued a ne…
Uses of the Word heros
In some cases it seems possible to assign the occurrence to one or other ofthe uses: this is class (3) above. In such cases we are dealing with hgures who are simultaneously heroes of epic and heroes of cult, in a context where both senses seem relevant. The ease with which in Pindar one use may shade into the other is an apparent difficulty for the view that the ‘two senses, the religious and the secular, are not derived one from the other, nor …
Pythian 5 The King and his Royal Forebears
Pythian 5 celebrates the chariot victory of Arkesilas IV of Cyrene in the 31st Pythian festival, in 466 or 462 bc (for the problem in dating Pythian victories, see above, Chapter 1). Arkesilas was also victorious in the same event at Olympia in 460 bc. The Olympic victory is not mentioned in either Pythian 4 or Pythian 5, and so may be assumed to postdate both poems (P. 5.124 is a prayer for success at Olympia).
Mortality and Immortality
In this chapter we will consider the Iliad and Odyssey separately, rather than speaking of both as ‘Homer’; the Iliad provides an instructively starker contrast with Pindar than the Odyssey. In the Iliad, it is insisted that mortals remain mortal, and immortals immortal (12.326—7, 21.106—10). We learn that Sarpedon might have been spared from death (16.4357, 443), and that Ares ‘might have died’ (5.388); but such possibilities remain just that in…
Note on conventions
Subject Textual Criticism Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Abbreviations
Nemean 7 Boy Pentathlete and Delphian Hero
Nemean 7 is one of the most controversial of Pindar’s odes. It celebrates the Nemean victory of the Aeginetan Sogenes in the boys’ pentathlon. Its date is unknown: the text gives no indications and the date assigned by the scholia is incurably corrupt.
Living in the Fifth Century
In our study of the heroization of athletes the possibility was raised that the process of heroization might begin in the athletes’ own lifetimes. This raises all sorts of questions; in particular, it has implications for the widespread view that a cult of the living (in the form of ruler cult) became common only after Alexander the Great. The reasons for this watershed in the cult of the living have been sought in both the religious and politica…
Pythian 2 Locrian Saviour and Cyprian Hero
The occasion of Pythian 2 has been debated since antiquity. On the one hand, verses 5-6 imply celebration of a specific chariot victory.On the other hand, verses 9-12 imply Hieron has already had several successes with the chariot. Hieron’s only attested chariot victories are in the 29th Pythian festival, in 474 or 470 bc, and at Olympia in 468 bg. Both of these have been proposed as the occasion for Pythian 2.However, it is awkward for each of t…
Pythian 3 Fire and Immortality
Pythian 3 was composed for Hieron of Syracuse. Its date and occasion are controversial. A terminus post quem is Hieron’s founding of Aitna in 476/5 bc (69 AItvomv £evov). Moreover, Hieron at the time of the ode was ailing; we know that he was suffering from ‘gallstones’ (?) from at least the battle of Cyme in 474 bc. The actual occasion is not easy to determine.
Hero Cult
There is near total silence on hero cult in Homer.A significant exception are the sacrifices to Erechtheus Iliad 2.547-51, Odyssey 7.80-1).Aipytos’ tomb may be a heroic one, in view of its role in defining the Arcadian national identity (Iliad 2.604). It is interesting that these two Iliadic allusions to hero cult come from the Catalogue of Ships; a further possible allusion comes between the Achaean and Trojan catalogues in the second book, with…
Heroization of the War Dead
The question of whether the Greek war dead were heroized has been repeatedly addressed and a range of answers returned. It has been claimed simply: ‘Those who fell in battle for their country were made heroes and received a cult.’ On the other hand it has been claimed, ‘it is the exception, not the rule, for those who fall in battle to receive heroic honours’. Finally, it has been denied that the war dead were heroized in the Classical period. Fa…
Isthmian 7 Pankration Victor and War Dead
Isthmian 7, at three triads in length, is one of Pindar’s shorter and more accessible odes. It celebrates the Isthmian victory of a Theban pankratiast, Strepsiades (verses 21-2). Its date is unknown. Verses 25-36 refer to a battle fought by Thebes in which the victor’s uncle, also called Strepsiades, fell, but the battle cannot be identified. We do not need to suppose that it was recent history when Isthmian 7 was composed. The ode was performed …
Pindar and the Cult of Heroes
Pindar and the Cult of Heroes combines a study of Greek culture and religion (hero cult) with a literary-critical study of Pindar's epinician poetry. It looks at hero cult generally, but focuses especially on heroization in the 5th century BC. There are individual chapters on the heroization of war dead, of athletes, and on the religious treatment of the living in the 5th century. Hero cult, Bruno Currie argues, could be anticipated, in different…
Homer and the Early Epic Tradition
This chapter seeks to establish what kind of interaction was possible between the Homeric poems and other early Greek epics. The question is crucially affected by the recognition that the early Greek epic tradition is oral-derived traditional poetry. It seems obvious that we must judge the interaction of the early Greek epic poems by different standards from the interaction of, say, Virgil's Aeneid with the epics that preceded it; but just how di…
Epic interactions
This collection of essays surveys the epic tradition from the 8th century BC to the 19th century of our era. Chapters focus on: Homer and the oral epic tradition; Homer in his religious context; Herodotus and Homer; Hellenistic epic; Virgil in his literary context; Virgil in his political-cultural context, and more
Anchises (1)
Kythereia
Demeter
E os
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