David Sider

Biographic Data

ID1019322
NAMEDavid Sider
GIVEN NAMESDavid
FAMILY NAMESider
SIGNATURESIDER D
AFFILIATIONSNew York University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS51
TOTAL CITATIONS93
AUTHOR COUNT47
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX4

  • Song Regained: Working with Greek Poetic Fragments

    Giovan Battista D ́Alessio, Giovan Battista D´Alessio et al.BOOKSong Regained2021

    Apart from relatively few exceptions of texts which survive intact, what we have of Ancient Greek literature remains, to a great degree, fragmentary. As a result it is often misread, overlooked or mined not for its own sake but to support the investigation of texts which survive in their entirety. This collection of chapters addresses a range of poetic fragments, with a strong (though not exclusive) focus on Archaic epic and lyric, and an emphasi…

  • The Emergence of the Lyric Canon by Theodora A. Hadjimichael

    David SiderARTICLEPhoenix2020

    146 PHOENIX Davies’s text of the Cypria is rather conservative and avoids unnecessary emendations and audacious conjectures. This can also be said of his reconstruction of the plot, in which his main concern is to rely strictly on available data and to resist speculation, which is an obvious risk when we deal with fragments. On the other hand, his statements are often very peremptory, and one might expect that, in a work devoted to such a controv…

  • Beer, Greek and Roman world

    Open AccessDavid SiderCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2019

    Beer took second place to wine in Greece and Rome, being drunk more by foreigners, and thus useful for marking social distinctions.

  • Anaxagoras from Egypt to Herculaneum: A Contribution to the History of Ancient ‘Atheism’

    Christian Vassallo, David SiderCHAPTERPresocratics and Papyrological…2019

  • The So-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases: Between Paideia and Paidiá by Sara Chiarini

    David SiderARTICLEThe Classical World2019

    Reviewed by: The So-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases: Between Paideia and Paidiá by Sara Chiarini David Sider Sara Chiarini, The So-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases: Between Paideia and Paidiá. Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy 10. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Pp. xiv, 543. $172.00. ISBN 978-90-04-37118-7. Sara Chiarini is the author of a small gem of a book on the Hesiodic Shield of Heracles, whi…

  • Vice's Secret: Prodicus and the Choice of Heracles

    Open AccessDavid SiderARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2019References: 5

    In a well-known parable, told by Xenophon but credited by him to the sophist Prodicus, the young Heracles setting out on the road meets two women whose appearance turns out to be in accord with their characters and names, which are soon proclaimed by each to be Virtue and Vice. The former comports herself as a proper Greek woman should, ‘becoming to look at and freeborn by nature, her body (σῶμα) adorned with purity, her eyes with shame, her stat…

  • Hellenistic Epigrams: Contexts of Exploration by Francis Cairns

    David SiderARTICLEThe Classical World2018

    Reviewed by: Hellenistic Epigrams: Contexts of Exploration by Francis Cairns David Sider Francis Cairns. Hellenistic Epigrams: Contexts of Exploration. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xviii, 516. $120.00. ISBN 978-1-107-16850-3. Hellenistic epigrams can be quite recondite, showing off their learning in the compressed space of only a few distichs, the fewer the better. In preferring shortness along with the form of the elegiac cou…

  • Hellenistic Poetry: A Selection

    David SiderBOOKHellenistic Poetry2016

    Introduzione, testo greco e commento dei più rilevanti frammenti di Euforione ------------ Introduction, Greek text and commentary of Euphorion's most relevant fragments

  • Simonides’ Personal Elegies

    David SiderCHAPTERIambus and Elegy2016

    The long and complex tradition of attributing, citing, editing, and collecting poems short enough to need a significant number to make one book roll has played particular havoc with those ascribed to Simonides, who himself unwittingly laid the ground for confusion by embedding within orally delivered elegies passages that the narrative identified as inscribed epigrams. Since they were complete in only two or four lines, these epigrams, clearly id…

  • Galen’s De Indolentia: Essays on a Newly Discovered Letter ed. by Clare K. Rothschild, Trevor W. Thompson (review)

    David SiderARTICLEThe Classical World2016

    Reviewed by: Galen’s De Indolentia: Essays on a Newly Discovered Letter ed. by Clare K. Rothschild, Trevor W. Thompson David Sider Clare K. Rothschild and Trevor W. Thompson (eds.). Galen’s De Indolentia: Essays on a Newly Discovered Letter. Studien und Texte zu Antike und Chris-tentum, 88. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014. Pp. xi, 336. 94.00 (pb.). ISBN 978–3–16–153215–3. Galen’s On Not Feeling Pain is a long-lost book about the loss of books. How “…

  • Didactic poetry: The Hellenistic invention of a pre-existing genre

    David SiderCHAPTERHellenistic Studies at a Crossroads2014

  • Doctrine and Doxography: Studies on Heraclitus and Pythagoras

    David Sider, Dirk ObbinkBOOKDoctrine and Doxography2013

  • Beer, Greek and Roman world

    Open AccessDavid SiderCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Although the chemistry of beer and wine (and bread, too) is essentially the same–in a liquid suspension yeast converts sugars to alcohol and gaseous carbon dioxide–most drinkers find it easy to consider the two quite distinct.

  • Greek Verse on a Vase by Douris

    David SiderARTICLEHesperia The Journal of the…2010Cited by: 16References: 2

    A schoolroom scene on an Attic red-figure kylix painted by Douris (Berlin, Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen 2285) presents two interdependent problems of reading. One concerns the text on the scroll held up by the teacher: is it in hexameters or lyric, and is it part of a preexisting poem or an ad hoc composition by the painter? The second problem is iconographical: how is the viewer to interpret the action? Here it is argued that the verse is …

  • M. Annaeus Lucanus: Bellum Civile, Liber IX. Einleitung, Text und Übersetzung , and: M. Annaeus Lucanus: Bellum Civile, Liber IX. Kommentar (review)

    Martin T Dinter, David SiderARTICLEThe Classical World2008

    Reviewed by: M. Annaeus Lucanus: Bellum Civile, Liber IX. Einleitung, Text und Übersetzung, and: M. Annaeus Lucanus: Bellum Civile, Liber IX. Kommentar Martin T. Dinter and David Sider, Professor Claudia Wick . M. Annaeus Lucanus: Bellum Civile, Liber IX. Einleitung, Text und Übersetzung. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 201. Munich: K. G. Saur, 2004. Pp. xiv, 155. €82.00. ISBN 978-3-598-77813-1. Claudia Wick . M. Annaeus Lucanus: Bellum Civile, Libe…

  • Sylloge Simonidea

    David SiderCHAPTERBrill's Companion to Hellenistic…2007

  • Theophrastus of Eresus: On Weather Signs

    Paracelsus Paracelsus, Theophrastus Theophrastus et al.BOOKOn weather signs2007

    On Weather Signs, traditionally ascribed to Theophrastus, contains the most complete list of such signs in antiquity and it was, in this or some very similar form, consulted by Aratus, Vergil (in Georgics I), and Pliny the Elder, as well as by many other authors throughout the Byzantine period. This edition is the first to take account of all the manuscripts and the commentary, the first in over a century, is on a far grander scale than earlier o…

  • The New Simonides and the Question of Historical Elegy

    David SiderARTICLEThe American Journal of Philology2006Cited by: 3References: 8

    In this paper I question the validity of the notion of "historical elegy" as a genre of classical Greek elegy. My approach is to view elegy as a whole in order to understand first how the Greeks themselves used the term "elegy" and then what we can learn of the contents of other classical elegies that touched upon historical subjects. I show that the Greeks never attached any descriptive label to "elegy," whether "historical" or otherwise, and th…

  • How To Commit Philosophy Obliquely: Philodemus’ Epigrams In The Light Of His Peri Parrhesias

    David SiderCHAPTERPhilodemus and the New Testament…2004

    Philodemus occasionally fashioned a persona for himself in his epigrams that differs from that of the serious voice he uses in his prose treatises, in that his poetic self often falls short of the aims set by his prosaic self. This essay looks closely at two of these epigrams in order to show both how they accord with Philodemus’ Περí παρρησíας, and how the particular technique of speaking frankly therein derives from poetic and Platonic models

  • Qu'est-ce que la philosophie présocratique ?: What is presocratic philosophy ?

    Open AccessMantas Adomėnas, Alberto Bernabé et al.BOOKQu'est-ce que la philosophie…2002

    « Philosophie présocratique » : un objet historique, et donc construit, dont on peut tracer l’origine, comprendre les enjeux, et suivre les avatars. Mais quelle en est la légitimité ? Telle est la question que la série de contributions réunies dans le présent volume explore. Il s’agit à la fois de mieux comprendre comment la réflexion philosophique a trouvé, en Grèce, les voies d’un développement spécifique, et de s’interroger sur les instruments…

  • The new Simonides: Contexts of Praise and Desire

    Deborah Boedeker, David SiderBOOKThe new Simonides2001

  • Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. Parte I: Autori noti. Vol. 1

    David SiderARTICLEThe Classical World2001

  • The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus. Fragments. A Text and Translation with a Commentary

    David Sider, C C W TaylorARTICLEThe Classical World2000

  • Gods, Temples and Ritual Practices: The Transformation of Religious Ideas and Values in Roman Gaul

    Karl Christ, David Sider et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1999

  • Economy of the Unlost: Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan

    David Sider, Anne CarsonARTICLEThe Classical World1999