Robert L Fowler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1056933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert L Fowler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert L |
| FAMILY NAME | Fowler |
| SIGNATURE | FOWLER R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-8120-668X |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Myth, Mythography, and Historiography
This volume collects Robert L. Fowler's major papers on Greek myth, mythography, and historiography published since 1996, the date of the foundational article 'Herodotus and his Contemporaries', together with two new chapters specially written for this publication. Alongside his edition and commentary of the earliest texts (Early Greek Mythography, Oxford 2000-2013), his work has promoted a re-evaluation of mythography as an important part of Gre…
Pindar and the Sublime
Pindar – the ‘Theban eagle’, as Thomas Gray famously called him - has often been taken as the archetype of the sublime poet: soaring into the heavens on wings of language and inspired by visions of eternity. In this much-anticipated new study, Robert Fowler asks in what ways the concept of the sublime can still guide a reading of the greatest of the Greek lyric poets. Working with ancient and modern treatments of the topic, especially the poetry …
Myth(ography), History and the Peripatos
Some Possible Fragments of Early Mythography in Stephanus of Byzantium
In this article I consider five anonymous quotations in Stephanus of Byzantium. The first is very probably an overlooked fragment of early mythography. The other four are much less likely to be early, but theoretically could be and are included for the sake of completeness
The nostoi and Archaic Greek Ethnicity
The theme of this chapter is early Greek ethnicity. It illuminates the processes of ethnogenesis and demonstrates the implications of the relation, or rather the impressive dovetailing, between nostoi traditions and myths of Greek origins.
Imaginary Itineraries in the Beyond
This chapter explores the contrasting conceptions of the Beyond (whether the afterlife, or the fantastic world at and beyond the fringes of our own) found in Homer, Pherecydes of Athens, and Herodotus. In Homer, the interpenetration of the two worlds is remarkable, and related both to his conception of the Beyond and his poetic aims. In Pherecydes, so far as our fragmentary evidence permits us to determine, there is no clear demarcation between t…
Early Greek Mythography, Vol. 2
Magic
Oïleus (1)
Pelasgian Argos
Leleges
Achaeans
Ainienes
Oichalia
Argives
Thessaly
H ellenes
Genealogies
Mythos and logos
While the simplistic thesis of Greek progress from mythos to logos in the form stated by Wilhelm Nestle is rightly rejected, some aspects of the emerging new consensus are open to challenge. ‘ Mythos ’ corresponds in important ways to modern ‘myth’ and Greek logos , with which it is contrasted, stands at the beginning of an unbroken tradition of Western rationalism. The semantic history of the terms is freshly analyzed, with particular attention …
Pelasgians
The Gods of Ancient Greece
The Greek gods are still very much present in modern consciousness. Although Apollo and Dionysos, Artemis and Aphrodite, Zeus and Hermes are household names, it is much less clear what these divinities meant and stood for in ancient Greece. In fact, they have been very much neglected in modern scholarship. This book brings together a team of international scholars with the aim of remedying this situation and generating new approaches to the natur…
Blood for the Ghosts
This essay offers thoughts on the scholarship and legacy of Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848-1931) on the centenary of his two lectures in Oxford, "Greek Historical Writing" and "Apollo." The circumstances of the visit are reviewed, and the lectures are analysed in the light of the rest of his oeuvre. The strong tension between Wilamowitz's historicism and classicism refutes his popular image as an arch-positivist. The reasons why he cont…
Herodotus and his prose predecessors
Herodotus being so miraculous, and the Herodotean urge to seek origins still being so strong with us, the desire to historicise him remains irresistible. Knowing what lay around and behind him could make clearer what was unique about him; it could, assuming an agreed definition of history, tell us whether he really was its Father. It happens that we do have a certain amount of information - desperately fragmentary, permitting only the smallest nu…
The Cambridge Companion to Homer
The Cambridge Companion to Homer is a guide to the essential aspects of Homeric criticism and scholarship, including the reception of the poems in ancient and modern times. Written by an international team of scholars, it is intended to be the first port of call for students at all levels, with introductions to important subjects and suggestions for further exploration. Alongside traditional topics like the Homeric Question, the divine apparatus …
Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions
As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, a total of 17,804 participants from 62 cultural regions completedthe RelationshipQuestionnaire(RQ), a self-reportmeasure of adult romanticattachment. Correlational analyses within each culture suggested that the Model of Self and the Model of Other scales of the RQ were psychometrically valid within most cultures. Contrary to expectations, the Model of Self and Model of Other dimensions …
Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions
As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, a total of 17,804 participants from 62 cultural regions completedthe RelationshipQuestionnaire(RQ), a self-reportmeasure of adult romanticattachment. Correlational analyses within each culture suggested that the Model of Self and the Model of Other scales of the RQ were psychometrically valid within most cultures. Contrary to expectations, the Model of Self and Model of Other dimensions …
Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns
English Classical Scholarship
1. The way to Bentley: the New Learning in England the seventeenth century, Thomas Gataker and John Pearson. 2. Richard Bentley and Trinity College, Cambridge. 3. The inauguration of the great age of classical scholarship: Bentley's Epistola ad Joannem Millium and A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris. 4. Bentley the textual critic. 5. The way from Bentley. 6. Porson and the Porsonians. 7. Classical education and scholarship in the Victori…
Genealogical thinking, Hesiod's Catalogue , and the creation of the Hellenes
Genealogy was important in early Greece. One thinks readily of aristocratic lineages proudly recited by Homeric heroes, and the family lore carefully recorded by epinician poets; but passing remarks are even more revealing. In the seventh book of the Iliad Nestor tells of an embassy he once led north to Phthia, where he hoped to enlist the aid of Peleus' mighty son in the coming campaign. Welcoming his Argive guests, Peleus asks eagerly about the…
The Nature of Early Greek Lyric
The Authors Named Pherecydes
Fifty years ago Felix Jacoby published The First Athenian Prose Writer1)^ in which he decisively refuted Wilamowitz' thesis2) that works of Ionic mythography were ascribed generally to 'Pherecydes' in the same manner as medical treatises were ascribed to Hippocrates or laws to Solon. The only historical person behind the tradition was Pherecydes of Syrus; the work assigned to Pherecydes the Athenian by Eratosthenes, though indeed a separate book,…
Aristotle on the Period (Rhet. 3. 9)
Aristotle (Rhet. 3.9) distinguishes two types of style, the ‘periodic’ or ‘rounded’ (λ⋯ξιςκατεστραμμέη) and the ‘non-periodic’, ‘strung-on’ or ‘continuous’ (λέξιςε;ἰρομένη).* The latter is typical of prose in its young and unsophisticated state, and Aristotle is not much interested in it; his discussion of the periodic style is much longer, with subdivisions being introduced and numerous examples given. His basic definition of the period is not, …
Pelasgians
Blood for the Ghosts
This essay offers thoughts on the scholarship and legacy of Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848-1931) on the centenary of his two lectures in Oxford, "Greek Historical Writing" and "Apollo." The circumstances of the visit are reviewed, and the lectures are analysed in the light of the rest of his oeuvre. The strong tension between Wilamowitz's historicism and classicism refutes his popular image as an arch-positivist. The reasons why he cont…
Polos of Akragas
The testimonia of the pupil of Gorgias and eminent Sophist Polos of Akragas have never been fully collected. He is omitted from Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, and Ludwig Radermacher's collection, which had a special focus, is not complete1). In the course of preparing an edition of the early mythographers, one of whom according to the doubtful test, la was Polos, I have had occasion to put these testimonia together; but as they all pertain to h…
Inter-Sensory Generalization in Compound Classical Conditioning
Awarding of Credit Cards
Criteria employed by 40 companies in deciding which applicants for credit should receive credit cards were examined in two ways. First 16 consumers equally representing males with and without previous credit, and females with and without previous credit, each requested credit from a random 30 of the companies and selectively omitted one piece of information from half of their credit card applications. Analyses of responses to these unobtrusive re…
Aristotle on the Period (Rhet. 3. 9)
Aristotle (Rhet. 3.9) distinguishes two types of style, the ‘periodic’ or ‘rounded’ (λ⋯ξιςκατεστραμμέη) and the ‘non-periodic’, ‘strung-on’ or ‘continuous’ (λέξιςε;ἰρομένη).* The latter is typical of prose in its young and unsophisticated state, and Aristotle is not much interested in it; his discussion of the periodic style is much longer, with subdivisions being introduced and numerous examples given. His basic definition of the period is not, …
Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns
Approximating Probability Levels for Testing Null Hypotheses with Noncentral F Distributions
Laubscher (1960) offered two approximations for normalizing noncentral F distributions and concluded that a formula based on the square root of the chi-square distribution (SRA) gave values closer to the particular exact probabilities chosen than did a formula derived from a cube root of chi-square distribution (CRA). However, the range of values selected for degrees of freedom and A, the noncentrality parameter, are not representative of those i…
Point estimates and confidence intervals in measures of association
Point estimates and confidence intervals in measures of association
A General Method for Comparing Effect Magnitudes in Anova Designs
Researchers employing multiple treatment fixed effects analysis of variance (ANOVA) designs may be interested in comparing the magnitude of effects for factors within the same experiment. Often this comparison is done without the use of appropriate inferential techniques. Although Ronis (1981) proposed a novel test of the proper null hypothesis, it is limited to the main effects of designs with only two levels of each factor for which the directi…
The Nature of Early Greek Lyric
Three important literary questions in early Greek lyrics are addressed in this study. First, Fowler attempts to determine the extent that Homer and epic poetry generally influenced the lyric poets, with respect to both the style of compositions and their content. Identifying the certain examples of influence – which are far fewer than often thought – he analyses the technique of imitation, tracing a development from simpler to more complex as the…
English Classical Scholarship
1. The way to Bentley: the New Learning in England the seventeenth century, Thomas Gataker and John Pearson. 2. Richard Bentley and Trinity College, Cambridge. 3. The inauguration of the great age of classical scholarship: Bentley's Epistola ad Joannem Millium and A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris. 4. Bentley the textual critic. 5. The way from Bentley. 6. Porson and the Porsonians. 7. Classical education and scholarship in the Victori…
The Nature of Early Greek Lyric
Hesiod
Identifying Negatively Discriminating Items When Test Scores are Not Normally Distributed
Traditional item analysis procedures for norm referenced testing have often included the selection of the upper and lower 27% groups for performing item discriminations. Such procedures are based upon assumptions of (a) normality, (b) score independence in the tails, and (c) equality of standard deviations in the tails of the criterion distribution. However, these characteristics may not apply to the distributions of typical classroom examination…
Collected Writings
Gerhart Hauptmann and Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
Polos of Akragas
The testimonia of the pupil of Gorgias and eminent Sophist Polos of Akragas have never been fully collected. He is omitted from Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, and Ludwig Radermacher's collection, which had a special focus, is not complete1). In the course of preparing an edition of the early mythographers, one of whom according to the doubtful test, la was Polos, I have had occasion to put these testimonia together; but as they all pertain to h…
Genealogical thinking, Hesiod's Catalogue , and the creation of the Hellenes
Genealogy was important in early Greece. One thinks readily of aristocratic lineages proudly recited by Homeric heroes, and the family lore carefully recorded by epinician poets; but passing remarks are even more revealing. In the seventh book of the Iliad Nestor tells of an embassy he once led north to Phthia, where he hoped to enlist the aid of Peleus' mighty son in the coming campaign. Welcoming his Argive guests, Peleus asks eagerly about the…
The Authors Named Pherecydes
Fifty years ago Felix Jacoby published The First Athenian Prose Writer1)^ in which he decisively refuted Wilamowitz' thesis2) that works of Ionic mythography were ascribed generally to 'Pherecydes' in the same manner as medical treatises were ascribed to Hippocrates or laws to Solon. The only historical person behind the tradition was Pherecydes of Syrus; the work assigned to Pherecydes the Athenian by Eratosthenes, though indeed a separate book,…
Early Greek mythography
PREFACE INTRODUCTION PART A: MYTHOLOGICAL COMMENTARY PART B: PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY CORRIGENDA TO VOLUME 1 ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY INDICES
Early Historie and Literacy
THE question whether local or great history came first is ultimately unanswerable for want of evidence. Had we, above, all, the texts themselves, and more information about dates of composition, we could more confidently assess the position of Herodotus in the history of historiography. In the absence of such data, one ought to develop methods of investigation that do not presuppose the priority of one or the other form of history. In an earlier …
Early Greek Mythography, Vol. 1
Early Greek Mythography. Vol. 1
The Cambridge Companion to Homer
The Cambridge Companion to Homer is a guide to the essential aspects of Homeric criticism and scholarship, including the reception of the poems in ancient and modern times. Written by an international team of scholars, it is intended to be the first port of call for students at all levels, with introductions to important subjects and suggestions for further exploration. Alongside traditional topics like the Homeric Question, the divine apparatus …
Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions
As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, a total of 17,804 participants from 62 cultural regions completedthe RelationshipQuestionnaire(RQ), a self-reportmeasure of adult romanticattachment. Correlational analyses within each culture suggested that the Model of Self and the Model of Other scales of the RQ were psychometrically valid within most cultures. Contrary to expectations, the Model of Self and Model of Other dimensions …
Herodotus and his prose predecessors
Herodotus being so miraculous, and the Herodotean urge to seek origins still being so strong with us, the desire to historicise him remains irresistible. Knowing what lay around and behind him could make clearer what was unique about him; it could, assuming an agreed definition of history, tell us whether he really was its Father. It happens that we do have a certain amount of information - desperately fragmentary, permitting only the smallest nu…
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