Diskin Clay
Biographic Data
| ID | 1002571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diskin Clay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diskin |
| FAMILY NAME | Clay |
| SIGNATURE | CLAY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Unspeakable Words in Greek Tragedy
Teiresias has “stirred up a word” as if words were things with a dormant life of their own. In Teiresias’ last words to Oedipus, the word for parricide is separated. The name Teiresias frames remain unspoken. It is one of the unspeakable words of Greek tragedy. What Teiresias knew was all too human and, in the context of Athenian society, the words to express this knowledge were either forbidden or unspeakable. In Greek, words, even those express…
Utopias
Plato and Homer
The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence – By Alison Brown
The Athenian Garden
“Fair Quiet, I have found you here” / “Mistaken long, I sought you then / In busie Companies of Men. / Your sacred Plants, if here below, / Only among the Plants will grow. / Society is all but rude, / To this delicious Solitude.” Andrew Marvell, The Garden / Epicurus' Garden was once located outside the walls of Athens and its Dipylon Gate. It has come to seem a metaphor for the retiring and non-political character of his philosophy. According t…
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology
Professor Roger Woodard brings together a group of the world's most authoritative scholars of classical myth to present a thorough treatment of all aspects of Greek mythology. Sixteen original articles guide the reader through all aspects of the ancient mythic tradition and its influence around the world and in later years. The articles examine the forms and uses of myth in Greek oral and written literature, from the epic poetry of 8th century BC…
The Islands of the Odyssey
Research Article| January 01 2007 The Islands of the Odyssey Diskin Clay Diskin Clay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (1): 141–161. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2006-013 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search S…
Xii — The Philosophical Inscription of Diogenes of Oenoanda
Journal Article XII — THE PHILOSOPHICAL INSCRIPTION OF DIOGENES OF OENOANDA Get access DISKIN CLAY DISKIN CLAY Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 50, Issue Supplement_94_Part_1, June 2007, Pages 283–291, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2007.tb02428.x Published: 20 January 2014
A Short List of Known and Suspected Epicureans
Journal Article A SHORT LIST OF KNOWN AND SUSPECTED EPICUREANS: IX — THE PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS OF DEMETRIUS OF LACONIA Get access DISKIN CLAY DISKIN CLAY Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 50, Issue Supplement_94_Part_1, June 2007, Pages 205–211, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2007.tb02425.x Published: 20 January 2014
Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans
The Epicurean teacher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110-c. 40/35 BC) exercised significant literary and philosophical influence on Roman writers of the Augustan Age, most notably the poets Vergil and Horace. Yet a modern appreciation for Philodemus' place in Roman intellectual history has had to wait on the decipherment of the charred remains of Philodemus' library, which was buried in Herculaneum by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. As impr…
Platonic Questions
The Portrait of the Lover
Paradosis and Survival
Paradosis and Survival presents Diskin Clay's fifteen essays devoted to recovering the three main phases of Epicureanism in antiquity: the origin in the first generation of the school in Athens; its spread to Italy in the first century b.c.e.; and its movement to Lycia in the second century c.e. Clay recognizes the subtle intertwining of philosophy and lifestyle, and he makes use of papyri and inscriptions as well as familiar philosophical texts …
Paradosis and survival
Picturing Diogenes
Framing the Margins of Philodemus and Poetry
Socrates alludes to an ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy in his sustained assault on the cognitive status and ethical dangers of poetry in Book 10 of the Republic (607B). Plato knew well of what Socrates spoke, for according to one tradition Plato began his career as a poet, and the voice of poetry can be heard in almost every one of the dramatic dialogues Plato wrote. Nevertheless, he banished poetry from his heavenly city, since he …
The ’Hellenistic’ Philosophers
Plato's first words
Socrates: ʾΑλλὰ τόδε γε οἶμαι σε φάναι ἄν, δεῦν πάντα λόγον ἕσπερ ζῷον συνεστάναι σῶμα τι ἔχοντα αὐτοῦ, ὣστε μήτε ἀκήφαλον εἶναι μήτε ἄπουν, ἀλλὰ μήσα τε ἔχειν καὶ ἄκρα, πρήποντα ἀλληλοις καὶ τῷ ὅλῳ γεγραμμήνα.Phaedrus: Πῶς γὰρ οὔ;Plato, Phaedrus 264c
The World of Hesiod
Toute pensée de l'origine des choses n'est jamais qu'une revérie de leur disposition actuelle, une manière de dégénérescence du réel, une variation sur ce qui est. Paul Valéry in his Preface to Poe's Eureka . The World of Hesiod is familiar as a title, but the world of Hesiod is difficult to locate in a single place. Indeed, it is a number of places. It seems to have its centre in Askra in Boiotia and to extend out in space as far as the high slo…
Epicurus' Ethical Theory
Lucretius and Epicurus
The Art of Glaukos (Plato Phaedo 108D4-9)
The Sculpted Word
Puns and Poetry in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura
Epicurus in the Archives of Athens
The World of Hesiod
Toute pensée de l'origine des choses n'est jamais qu'une revérie de leur disposition actuelle, une manière de dégénérescence du réel, une variation sur ce qui est. Paul Valéry in his Preface to Poe's Eureka . The World of Hesiod is familiar as a title, but the world of Hesiod is difficult to locate in a single place. Indeed, it is a number of places. It seems to have its centre in Askra in Boiotia and to extend out in space as far as the high slo…
A Gymnasium Inventory from the Athenian Agora
The Sculpted Word
Unspeakable Words in Greek Tragedy
The Silence of Hermippos
Hellene: a. An ancient Greek, of genuine Grecian race. b. A subject of the modern kingdom of Greece or Hellas. OED . 1. On 29 April 1933 Cavafy died in Alexandria, the city in which he was born. There is some reason for satisfaction in this. Visitors to his apartment on the second floor of 10 Rue Lepsius knew how self-contained Cavafy’s small and familiar world in Alexandria was. Rue Lepsius was home for the last twenty-six years of Cavafy’s life…
Socrates' Mulishness and Heroism
Epicurus’ Last Will and Testament
Iambi et Elegi Graeci Ante Alexandrum Cantati
V. 1. Archilochus, Hipponax. Theognidea.--v. 2. Callinus, Mimnermus.--Semonides, Solon. Tyrtaeus Minora Adespota.
Thirteen New Fragments of Diogenes of Oenoanda
The Silence of Hermippos
Hellene: a. An ancient Greek, of genuine Grecian race. b. A subject of the modern kingdom of Greece or Hellas. OED . 1. On 29 April 1933 Cavafy died in Alexandria, the city in which he was born. There is some reason for satisfaction in this. Visitors to his apartment on the second floor of 10 Rue Lepsius knew how self-contained Cavafy’s small and familiar world in Alexandria was. Rue Lepsius was home for the last twenty-six years of Cavafy’s life…
Cavafy's Alexandria
A Gymnasium Inventory from the Athenian Agora
An Epicurean Interpretation of Dreams
Puns and Poetry in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura
Epicurus in the Archives of Athens
Unspeakable Words in Greek Tragedy
The Sculpted Word
Lucretius and Epicurus
The Art of Glaukos (Plato Phaedo 108D4-9)
Epicurus' Ethical Theory
Plato's first words
Socrates: ʾΑλλὰ τόδε γε οἶμαι σε φάναι ἄν, δεῦν πάντα λόγον ἕσπερ ζῷον συνεστάναι σῶμα τι ἔχοντα αὐτοῦ, ὣστε μήτε ἀκήφαλον εἶναι μήτε ἄπουν, ἀλλὰ μήσα τε ἔχειν καὶ ἄκρα, πρήποντα ἀλληλοις καὶ τῷ ὅλῳ γεγραμμήνα.Phaedrus: Πῶς γὰρ οὔ;Plato, Phaedrus 264c
The World of Hesiod
Toute pensée de l'origine des choses n'est jamais qu'une revérie de leur disposition actuelle, une manière de dégénérescence du réel, une variation sur ce qui est. Paul Valéry in his Preface to Poe's Eureka . The World of Hesiod is familiar as a title, but the world of Hesiod is difficult to locate in a single place. Indeed, it is a number of places. It seems to have its centre in Askra in Boiotia and to extend out in space as far as the high slo…
The ’Hellenistic’ Philosophers
Framing the Margins of Philodemus and Poetry
Socrates alludes to an ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy in his sustained assault on the cognitive status and ethical dangers of poetry in Book 10 of the Republic (607B). Plato knew well of what Socrates spoke, for according to one tradition Plato began his career as a poet, and the voice of poetry can be heard in almost every one of the dramatic dialogues Plato wrote. Nevertheless, he banished poetry from his heavenly city, since he …
Picturing Diogenes
Paradosis and survival
Paradosis and Survival
Paradosis and Survival presents Diskin Clay's fifteen essays devoted to recovering the three main phases of Epicureanism in antiquity: the origin in the first generation of the school in Athens; its spread to Italy in the first century b.c.e.; and its movement to Lycia in the second century c.e. Clay recognizes the subtle intertwining of philosophy and lifestyle, and he makes use of papyri and inscriptions as well as familiar philosophical texts …
Platonic Questions
The Portrait of the Lover
Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans
The Epicurean teacher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110-c. 40/35 BC) exercised significant literary and philosophical influence on Roman writers of the Augustan Age, most notably the poets Vergil and Horace. Yet a modern appreciation for Philodemus' place in Roman intellectual history has had to wait on the decipherment of the charred remains of Philodemus' library, which was buried in Herculaneum by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. As impr…
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