Roger D Woodard
Biographic Data
| ID | 1110179 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger D Woodard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger D |
| FAMILY NAME | Woodard |
| SIGNATURE | WOODARD R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aeolic and Aeolians
Aeolic and Aeolians explores the origin of an ancient Greek language and the beginnings and evolution of the community of its speakers – the Aeolians. Roger Woodard argues that the starting point for both is situated in Asia Minor during the period of the Late Bronze Age, and that the ancestral Aeolic speech community can be identified with the Mycenaean peoples of Anatolia called the Ahhiyawans in Hittite records. These Bronze-Age Asian Greeks w…
Afterword
The papers in this volume offer a variety of perspectives on divinatory phenomena attested among ancient Greeks and do so across an appreciable span of time – from earliest Greek oracular notions evolved from pre-Greek sacrificial cult concepts to Greek narratives emanating from Roman imperial times. At the later end of the temporal continuum, Lucian is made especially conspicuous by Fields’ treatment of the satirist in her concluding chapter, bu…
Divination and Prophecy in the Ancient Greek World
Alphabet and Phonology at Methone
This study is divided into two parts. Part one is an examination of the several letters of the Greek alphabet that appear in the Methone inscriptions and of their variant forms. Each of these is compared with similar letter forms attested in various local Greek alphabets that are otherwise known. This examination marks the beginning of developing a typology for the Methone alphabet. Part two of the study addresses the graffito of ΜΘ 2248 (Methone…
Hesiod’s Theogony
Reviewed by: Hesiod’s Theogony: From Near Eastern Creation Myths to Paradise Lost by Stephen Scully Roger D. Woodard Stephen Scully. Hesiod’s Theogony: From Near Eastern Creation Myths to Paradise Lost. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xiv, 268. $85.00. ISBN 978–0-19–025396–7. Following a short introduction in which the recent reception of Hesiod’s creation account is contextualized, chiefly within the frame of Freud’s view of myth, Scu…
Writing Systems
The Textualization of the Greek Alphabet
In this book, Roger D. Woodard argues that when the Greeks first began to use the alphabet, they viewed themselves as participants in a performance phenomenon conceptually modeled on the performances of the oral poets. Since a time older than Greek antiquity, the oral poets of Indo-European tradition had been called 'weavers of words' - their extemporaneous performance of poetry was 'word weaving'. With the arrival of the new technology of the al…
Textualization of the Greek Alphabet
Myth, Ritual, and the Warrior in Roman and Indo-European Antiquity
This book examines the figure of the returning warrior as depicted in the myths of several ancient and medieval Indo-European cultures. In these cultures, the returning warrior was often portrayed as a figure rendered dysfunctionally destructive or isolationist by the horrors of combat. This mythic portrayal of the returned warrior is consistent with modern studies of similar behavior among soldiers returning from war. Roger Woodard's research id…
Salii
The Salii constitute a body (sodality) of ancient Roman priests with martial affiliations. They are perhaps best known for their ritual performances extending throughout March, the month of the war god Mars.
Juventas
Juventas is the Roman goddess of the iuvenes , men of military age.
Mater Larum
Nominally the Mater Larum is the “Mother of the Lares,” that set of divine beings, perhaps chthonic in origin, which are affiliated with protection of Roman domestic and civic space.
Bona Dea
Bona Dea (the “Good Goddess”), a deity of ancient Italy, was especially associated with women.
Acca Larentia
By the name Acca Larentia, the Romans denoted two separate figures of mythic tradition.
Fetiales
The Fetiales constituted a college of priests in ancient Rome. The principal function of these priests was the declaration of war and the making of treaties.
Floralia
The Floralia are the ancient Roman celebrations observed annually in honor of Flora, an Italian goddess of flowering crops and plants.
Ancient Languages of Asia and the Americas
Ancient Languages of Europe
Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia
Attic Greek
HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS Though in this introductory section, and at certain other points as well, attention is given to the ancient Greek language as a whole, the central topic of this chapter will be that dialect called Attic, the spoken dialect of the region of Attica and the principal written dialect of Classical Greek literature. The many other dialects of Greek attested in antiquity will properly be the focus of Chapter 3. Greek is …
The Ancient Languages of Europe
This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Europe, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, m…
The Ancient Languages of Asia and the Americas
This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Asia and the Americas, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s…
The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia
This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing sys…
The Ancient Languages of Asia Minor
This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Asia Minor, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonolog…
Introduction
But as a rule the ancient myths [ palaious muthous [ are not found to yield a simple and consistent story, so that nobody need wonder if details of my recension cannot be reconciled with those given by every poet and historian. The editor trusts that he will be forgiven the presumptuousness (or audacity, as the case may be) of beginning with Robert Graves’s translation of Diodorus Siculus 4.44.5-6 - the lines that Graves prefixed to the preface o…
The Disruption of Time in Myth and Epic
The Disruption of Time in Myth and Epic Roger D. Woodard An examination of Roman, Indo-Aryan, and Celtic traditions reveals evidence of previously unrecognized mythic and religious figures and motifs of common Indo-European origin: succinctly, a male figure of fertility associated with boundaries and a female figure of prosperity associated with warriors. These two figures, male and female, are, moreover, intimately linked with one another, thoug…
The Edict of Tudhaliya IV
A revised translation of this text reveals it to be not a law code that includes reforms but a royal edict that deals with the traditional subjects of such decrees: debt-release and administrative reforms. The content of those sections that can be interpreted is: (I 1ff.) introduction relating the circumstances of the reform; (II 1ff.) debt-release provisions; (III 1-11) provisions concerning access to royal granaries and the local authorities' r…
Preference Laws for Syllable Structure and the Explanation of Sound Change
The Edict of Tudhaliya IV
A revised translation of this text reveals it to be not a law code that includes reforms but a royal edict that deals with the traditional subjects of such decrees: debt-release and administrative reforms. The content of those sections that can be interpreted is: (I 1ff.) introduction relating the circumstances of the reform; (II 1ff.) debt-release provisions; (III 1-11) provisions concerning access to royal granaries and the local authorities' r…
A Linguistic Happening in Memory of Ben Schwartz
The Hittite Mediopassive Endings in -ri
Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer
This text examines the origin of the Greek alphabet and treats the advent of the alphabet script as a point which lies along an unbroken continuum of Greek literacy. Woodard argues that those persons responsible for adapting the Phoenician consonantal script for Greek use were scribes accustomed to writing Greek with the syllabic script of Cyprus. This may be of value to scholars and students of classics, near Eastern studies, and history of writ…
The Disruption of Time in Myth and Epic
The Disruption of Time in Myth and Epic Roger D. Woodard An examination of Roman, Indo-Aryan, and Celtic traditions reveals evidence of previously unrecognized mythic and religious figures and motifs of common Indo-European origin: succinctly, a male figure of fertility associated with boundaries and a female figure of prosperity associated with warriors. These two figures, male and female, are, moreover, intimately linked with one another, thoug…
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages
Introduction
But as a rule the ancient myths [ palaious muthous [ are not found to yield a simple and consistent story, so that nobody need wonder if details of my recension cannot be reconciled with those given by every poet and historian. The editor trusts that he will be forgiven the presumptuousness (or audacity, as the case may be) of beginning with Robert Graves’s translation of Diodorus Siculus 4.44.5-6 - the lines that Graves prefixed to the preface o…
Hesiod and Greek Myth
For the goats of Nahunta’s hill , My sometime Muses unawares . Introduction Writing in the second century BC, the Roman playwright Lucius Accius advanced the case - as reported, though disapprovingly, by Aulus Gellius in his Attic Nights 3.11.3-5 - that Hesiod’s work had preceded that of Homer. Accius based his argument on what he deemed to be certain Homeric assumptions predicated upon Hesiodic revelation. Modern scholarship, while commonly assi…
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…
Attic Greek
HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS Though in this introductory section, and at certain other points as well, attention is given to the ancient Greek language as a whole, the central topic of this chapter will be that dialect called Attic, the spoken dialect of the region of Attica and the principal written dialect of Classical Greek literature. The many other dialects of Greek attested in antiquity will properly be the focus of Chapter 3. Greek is …
The Ancient Languages of Europe
This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Europe, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, m…
The Ancient Languages of Asia and the Americas
This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Asia and the Americas, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s…
The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia
This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing sys…
The Ancient Languages of Asia Minor
This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Asia Minor, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonolog…
Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia
Ancient Languages of Asia and the Americas
Ancient Languages of Europe
Salii
The Salii constitute a body (sodality) of ancient Roman priests with martial affiliations. They are perhaps best known for their ritual performances extending throughout March, the month of the war god Mars.
Juventas
Juventas is the Roman goddess of the iuvenes , men of military age.
Mater Larum
Nominally the Mater Larum is the “Mother of the Lares,” that set of divine beings, perhaps chthonic in origin, which are affiliated with protection of Roman domestic and civic space.
Bona Dea
Bona Dea (the “Good Goddess”), a deity of ancient Italy, was especially associated with women.
Acca Larentia
By the name Acca Larentia, the Romans denoted two separate figures of mythic tradition.
Fetiales
The Fetiales constituted a college of priests in ancient Rome. The principal function of these priests was the declaration of war and the making of treaties.
Floralia
The Floralia are the ancient Roman celebrations observed annually in honor of Flora, an Italian goddess of flowering crops and plants.
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