Ken Dowden
Biographic Data
| ID | 1112724 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ken Dowden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ken |
| FAMILY NAME | Dowden |
| SIGNATURE | DOWDEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5831-6900 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Antihomerica
What is the point of Dictys’s Diary of the Trojan War or of Dares’s little book? They are not novels (despite their embrace by cognoscenti of the Ancient Novel), and they are not history (despite their embrace by Byzantine chroniclers). Their whole point is that Homer Was Wrong. And readers could enjoy bravura reconstruction of What Really Happened as though it were Thucydides in the archaeologia. Others played this game too (e.g., Dio Chrysostom…
A Companion to Greek Mythology
xxvii, 643 p. : 26 cm
The Gods in the Greek Novel
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…
Zeus
The first book to capture a complete picture of the most important of Greek gods in one reliable volume for almost seventy years, this masterly and comprehensive study brings a new-millennium examination of the fascinating god Zeus. Broad in scope, the book looks at myth, art, cult, philosophy, drama, theology and European painting amongst much more, and allows us to take seriously what it was to worship and respect the greatest of Greek gods, an…
The epic tradition in Greece
The later twentieth century saw a trend in the study of classical authors from a historical ('diachronic') approach to one that focused more on the author’s own times (a 'synchronic' approach) and on the text itself. Nowhere is this more true than in the case of Homer, where the identification of Homer as an oral poet turned critics inward on his text and its special character. This Homer newly created, or 're-created', each instance of epic for …
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 …
The Uses of Greek Mythology
In an innovative sequence of topics, Ken Dowden explores the uses Greeks made of myth and the uses to which we can put myth in recovering the richness of their culture. Most aspects of Greek life and history - including war, religion and sexuality - which are discernable through myth, as well as most modern approaches, are given a context in a book which is designed to be useful, accessible and stimulating
West on the East
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Heliodoros
What merit should we find in Heliodoros' novel? Towards its end Hydaspes, agonizing over whether to save Charikleia from human sacrifice, sees before him an internal audience stirred by π⋯θη (emotions, feelings) equal to his and ‘weeping through pleasure and pity at Fortune's stage-management’ (10.16.3). This is a popular audience, a demos , evincing a popular reaction, but one which Heliodoros anticipated and doubtless welcomed. Their reaction i…
The Uses of Greek Mythology
Death and the Maiden
Many Greek myths concern the plight of virgins; here, Dowden sets these myths in their Greek geographical, historical and cultural context. This book should be of interest to advanced students of classics, ancient history, mythology and religious studies
Death and the Maiden
Myth
Apuleius and the Art of Narration
Anyone who wants to understand the very considerable art which Apuleius displays in narrating the stories of the Metamorphoses must naturally first describe the various modes of narration which he employs. Such description can scarcely be photographic: it requires its own language of categories and concepts – a language which Apuleius might, or might not, have understood. A valuable modern addition to the vocabulary has been the concept of ‘Point…
Eleven Notes on the Text of Apuleius' Metamorphoses
These notes, which are conservative more often than they are revolutionary, have originated from some reviews which I have recently written of books on Apuleius. I have found that the only way to preserve any consistency in the format is to open each note by citing the text I should prefer and then following that with a Latin apparatus criticus. The aim of the notes is generally only to shed light on the individual passages, to offer conversion o…
Grades in the Eleusinian Mysteries
Quels degrés comportaient les mystères d'Eleusis ? Il convient de distinguer - ce qu'on ne faisait pas autrefois - , d'une part entre « petits mystères » et « grands mystères », d'autre part entre « mystes » et « époptes ». La critique moderne est toujours peu disposée à séparer l'initiation ("múēsis") de la cérémonie ("teletē") du premier degré, malgré les précisions fournies par Pringsheim (1905). En effet, ni l'initiation n'est « préalable », …
Noctes Statianae
These lines, which I cite according to Hill's forthcoming edition, have caused scholars some difficulty of interpretation. Trabibus has generally been taken to refer to battering-rams and thus, for instance, we find in the Delphin edition as an interpretation of trabibusque ... loco the words ‘et strepenti ariete loco extrudunt lapides firme constrictos’’. Certainly, if they drive stones from their place with a ram, it is the ram that is the best…
Death and the Maiden
Many Greek myths concern the plight of virgins; here, Dowden sets these myths in their Greek geographical, historical and cultural context. This book should be of interest to advanced students of classics, ancient history, mythology and religious studies
Heliodoros
What merit should we find in Heliodoros' novel? Towards its end Hydaspes, agonizing over whether to save Charikleia from human sacrifice, sees before him an internal audience stirred by π⋯θη (emotions, feelings) equal to his and ‘weeping through pleasure and pity at Fortune's stage-management’ (10.16.3). This is a popular audience, a demos , evincing a popular reaction, but one which Heliodoros anticipated and doubtless welcomed. Their reaction i…
Grades in the Eleusinian Mysteries
Quels degrés comportaient les mystères d'Eleusis ? Il convient de distinguer - ce qu'on ne faisait pas autrefois - , d'une part entre « petits mystères » et « grands mystères », d'autre part entre « mystes » et « époptes ». La critique moderne est toujours peu disposée à séparer l'initiation ("múēsis") de la cérémonie ("teletē") du premier degré, malgré les précisions fournies par Pringsheim (1905). En effet, ni l'initiation n'est « préalable », …
Zeus
The first book to capture a complete picture of the most important of Greek gods in one reliable volume for almost seventy years, this masterly and comprehensive study brings a new-millennium examination of the fascinating god Zeus. Broad in scope, the book looks at myth, art, cult, philosophy, drama, theology and European painting amongst much more, and allows us to take seriously what it was to worship and respect the greatest of Greek gods, an…
Apuleius and the Art of Narration
Anyone who wants to understand the very considerable art which Apuleius displays in narrating the stories of the Metamorphoses must naturally first describe the various modes of narration which he employs. Such description can scarcely be photographic: it requires its own language of categories and concepts – a language which Apuleius might, or might not, have understood. A valuable modern addition to the vocabulary has been the concept of ‘Point…
Noctes Statianae
These lines, which I cite according to Hill's forthcoming edition, have caused scholars some difficulty of interpretation. Trabibus has generally been taken to refer to battering-rams and thus, for instance, we find in the Delphin edition as an interpretation of trabibusque ... loco the words ‘et strepenti ariete loco extrudunt lapides firme constrictos’’. Certainly, if they drive stones from their place with a ram, it is the ram that is the best…
Eleven Notes on the Text of Apuleius' Metamorphoses
These notes, which are conservative more often than they are revolutionary, have originated from some reviews which I have recently written of books on Apuleius. I have found that the only way to preserve any consistency in the format is to open each note by citing the text I should prefer and then following that with a Latin apparatus criticus. The aim of the notes is generally only to shed light on the individual passages, to offer conversion o…
Grades in the Eleusinian Mysteries
Quels degrés comportaient les mystères d'Eleusis ? Il convient de distinguer - ce qu'on ne faisait pas autrefois - , d'une part entre « petits mystères » et « grands mystères », d'autre part entre « mystes » et « époptes ». La critique moderne est toujours peu disposée à séparer l'initiation ("múēsis") de la cérémonie ("teletē") du premier degré, malgré les précisions fournies par Pringsheim (1905). En effet, ni l'initiation n'est « préalable », …
Apuleius and the Art of Narration
Anyone who wants to understand the very considerable art which Apuleius displays in narrating the stories of the Metamorphoses must naturally first describe the various modes of narration which he employs. Such description can scarcely be photographic: it requires its own language of categories and concepts – a language which Apuleius might, or might not, have understood. A valuable modern addition to the vocabulary has been the concept of ‘Point…
Myth
Death and the Maiden
Death and the Maiden
Many Greek myths concern the plight of virgins; here, Dowden sets these myths in their Greek geographical, historical and cultural context. This book should be of interest to advanced students of classics, ancient history, mythology and religious studies
The Uses of Greek Mythology
Heliodoros
What merit should we find in Heliodoros' novel? Towards its end Hydaspes, agonizing over whether to save Charikleia from human sacrifice, sees before him an internal audience stirred by π⋯θη (emotions, feelings) equal to his and ‘weeping through pleasure and pity at Fortune's stage-management’ (10.16.3). This is a popular audience, a demos , evincing a popular reaction, but one which Heliodoros anticipated and doubtless welcomed. Their reaction i…
West on the East
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Uses of Greek Mythology
In an innovative sequence of topics, Ken Dowden explores the uses Greeks made of myth and the uses to which we can put myth in recovering the richness of their culture. Most aspects of Greek life and history - including war, religion and sexuality - which are discernable through myth, as well as most modern approaches, are given a context in a book which is designed to be useful, accessible and stimulating
The epic tradition in Greece
The later twentieth century saw a trend in the study of classical authors from a historical ('diachronic') approach to one that focused more on the author’s own times (a 'synchronic' approach) and on the text itself. Nowhere is this more true than in the case of Homer, where the identification of Homer as an oral poet turned critics inward on his text and its special character. This Homer newly created, or 're-created', each instance of epic for …
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 …
Zeus
The first book to capture a complete picture of the most important of Greek gods in one reliable volume for almost seventy years, this masterly and comprehensive study brings a new-millennium examination of the fascinating god Zeus. Broad in scope, the book looks at myth, art, cult, philosophy, drama, theology and European painting amongst much more, and allows us to take seriously what it was to worship and respect the greatest of Greek gods, an…
The Gods in the Greek Novel
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…
A Companion to Greek Mythology
xxvii, 643 p. : 26 cm
Antihomerica
What is the point of Dictys’s Diary of the Trojan War or of Dares’s little book? They are not novels (despite their embrace by cognoscenti of the Ancient Novel), and they are not history (despite their embrace by Byzantine chroniclers). Their whole point is that Homer Was Wrong. And readers could enjoy bravura reconstruction of What Really Happened as though it were Thucydides in the archaeologia. Others played this game too (e.g., Dio Chrysostom…
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