Robin Mitchell-Boyask
Biographic Data
| ID | 1087498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Mitchell-Boyask |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitchell-Boyask |
| SIGNATURE | MITCHELL-BOYASK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Odysseus Laertiades
This article examines Odysseus' vexed treatment of Laertes in the contexts of Odysseus' shifting relationship to trees as he moves from Troy to Ithaka and his contested paternity: figural son of Autolykos or true son of Laertes. Homeric epic implies a broader narrative biography for Odysseus in which Autolykos' usurpation of paternity—first through his unusual naming of Odysseus and second when Odysseus comes of age—changes Odysseus and his relat…
Aeschylus’s Oresteia
The Oresteia, the pinnacle, and likely the final production, of Aeschylus’s long career in Athens, was produced at the City Dionysia of 458 bce, where it won the first prize. The Oresteian tetralogy consisted of four plays—Agamemnon, Libation Bearers (Choephori), Eumenides, and the satyr-play, Proteus, which was lost—with the first three plays forming the only trilogy to survive antiquity. Since Aeschylus died in Sicily two years later and there …
Another Tribute and Transition
Another Tribute and Transition Robin Mitchell-Boyask In these pages, five years ago, my co-editor Lee Pearcy and I paid tribute to the long, distinguished work of Matthew Santirocco in making Classical World what it had become by then and what–I hope–it still is. Lee has now retired from Classical World, and this issue is my first attempt at handling editorial matters as a solo flight. If Lee has been my Daedalus, I hope that I have been a better…
Breadth, Synthesis, and Talking Beyond Our Specializations
Breadth, Synthesis, and Talking Beyond Our Specializations:A New Department of Classical World Lee T. Pearcy and Robin Mitchell-Boyask With this issue Classical World introduces a new department, Special Essays. These essays will, we hope, treat important topics broadly and synthetically; that is, they will offer an overview of a topic that extends over several subdisciplines of classical studies, and they will gather threads of disputed points w…
Plague and the Athenian Imagination
The great plague of Athens that began in 430 BCE had an enormous effect on the imagination of its literary artists and on the social imagination of the city as a whole. In this 2007 book, Professor Mitchell-Boyask studies the impact of the plague on Athenian tragedy early in the 420s and argues for a significant relationship between drama and the development of the cult of the healing god Asclepius in the next decade, during a period of war and i…
Aeschylus’s Oresteia
The Oresteia, the pinnacle, and likely the final production, of Aeschylus’s long career in Athens, was produced at the City Dionysia of 458 bce, where it won the first prize. The Oresteian tetralogy consisted of four plays—Agamemnon, Libation Bearers (Choephori), Eumenides, and the satyr-play, Proteus, which was lost—with the first three plays forming the only trilogy to survive antiquity. Since Aeschylus died in Sicily two years later and there …
Plague and the Athenian Imagination
The great plague of Athens that began in 430 BCE had an enormous effect on the imagination of its literary artists and on the social imagination of the city as a whole. In this 2007 book, Professor Mitchell-Boyask studies the impact of the plague on Athenian tragedy early in the 420s and argues for a significant relationship between drama and the development of the cult of the healing god Asclepius in the next decade, during a period of war and i…
Breadth, Synthesis, and Talking Beyond Our Specializations
Breadth, Synthesis, and Talking Beyond Our Specializations:A New Department of Classical World Lee T. Pearcy and Robin Mitchell-Boyask With this issue Classical World introduces a new department, Special Essays. These essays will, we hope, treat important topics broadly and synthetically; that is, they will offer an overview of a topic that extends over several subdisciplines of classical studies, and they will gather threads of disputed points w…
Aeschylus’s Oresteia
The Oresteia, the pinnacle, and likely the final production, of Aeschylus’s long career in Athens, was produced at the City Dionysia of 458 bce, where it won the first prize. The Oresteian tetralogy consisted of four plays—Agamemnon, Libation Bearers (Choephori), Eumenides, and the satyr-play, Proteus, which was lost—with the first three plays forming the only trilogy to survive antiquity. Since Aeschylus died in Sicily two years later and there …
Another Tribute and Transition
Another Tribute and Transition Robin Mitchell-Boyask In these pages, five years ago, my co-editor Lee Pearcy and I paid tribute to the long, distinguished work of Matthew Santirocco in making Classical World what it had become by then and what–I hope–it still is. Lee has now retired from Classical World, and this issue is my first attempt at handling editorial matters as a solo flight. If Lee has been my Daedalus, I hope that I have been a better…
Odysseus Laertiades
This article examines Odysseus' vexed treatment of Laertes in the contexts of Odysseus' shifting relationship to trees as he moves from Troy to Ithaka and his contested paternity: figural son of Autolykos or true son of Laertes. Homeric epic implies a broader narrative biography for Odysseus in which Autolykos' usurpation of paternity—first through his unusual naming of Odysseus and second when Odysseus comes of age—changes Odysseus and his relat…
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