James Morwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 1123736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Morwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Morwood |
| SIGNATURE | MORWOOD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 11 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cassius Dio
This volume offers an introduction to the life and work of the 3rd-century-AD Greco-Roman senator and historian Cassius Dio, whose work, although imperfectly preserved in 80 books, is of fundamental importance to our understanding of Roman history. It is said that Dio is not one of the best ancient historians and his Roman history, due to its sheer size, is often imprecise and superficial in its analysis. It has also been assumed that there was n…
Xenophon
This book offers a concise introduction to Xenophon, the Athenian historian, political thinker, moral philosopher and literary innovator who was also a pupil of Socrates, a military general on campaign in Persia, and an exile in residence in the Peloponnese during the late fifth and fourth centuries BC. Alive during one of the most turbulent periods in Greek history, Xenophon wrote extensively about the past and present. In doing so he not only i…
A Commentary on Vergil, Aeneid 3
The Aeneid, generally considered the greatest poem of Roman literature, is a story of migration, and Book 3 is at the heart of this story-the arrestingly dramatic account that Aeneas gives to the Carthaginian Queen Dido of his people's journey from the sacked city of Troy. This journey sees them encounter a series of brilliantly characterized individuals and visit some of the most extraordinary places in the central Mediterranean, both real and i…
Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis
Iphigenia at Aulis dramatises the myth of Iphigenia, the young virgin sacrificed by her father Agamemnon at the start of the expedition against Troy. The ongoing debates around Iphigenia's voluntary sacrifice, the corruption of the play's moral universe, and the corruption of its text make Iphigenia at Aulis one of Euripides' most intriguing and challenging plays. This Companion provides a summary of the plot, discusses the characters and main th…
The Plays of Euripides
No book in English covering all the plays of has been published since 1967. In the meantime there has been something of a revolution in the way we view classical drama generally and in particular. The Plays of Euripides reflects that revolution and aims to show how was continually reinventing himself. A truly Protean figure, he seems to set out on a new journey in each of his surviving nineteen plays. Between general introduction and final summar…
Euripides’ Suppliant Women, Theseus and Athenocentrism
In Euripides’ Suppliant Women , Theseus at first rejects Adrastos’ supplication to recover the bodies of the Argive dead. Later he changes his mind. This article discusses the initial failure of the supplication, both examining the failings in Adrastos’ appeal and suggesting that a strong case can be made for Theseus’ rejection: neither he nor Athens would have suffered from gods or from men had he stood by it. Why then did he have the change of …
A Commentary on Propertius, Book 3
Euripides and the Demagogues
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Oxford World's Classics: Euripides: Ion, Orestes, Phoenician Women, Suppliant Women
Oxford World's Classics: Euripides: Hecuba; The Trojan Women; Andromache
Orestes
"Orestes" published on by null.
The Phoenician Women
"The Phoenician Women" published on by null.
A Note on the Euripus in Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis
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Apuleius: Rhetorical Works
"These rhetorical texts by Apuleius, second-century Latin writer and author of the famous novel Metamorphoses or Golden Ass, have not been translated in English since 1909. They are some of the very few Latin speeches surviving from their period, and constitute important evidence for Latin and Roman North African social and intellectual culture in the second century A.D. They are the work of a talented writer who is being increasingly viewed as t…
Oxford World's Classics: Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians; Bacchae; Iphigenia at Aulis; Rhesus
Endangered Species
Oxford World's Classics: Euripides: Medea; Hippolytus; Electra; Helen
Electra
Medea
"Medea" published on by null.
The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary
Now in paperback, The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary is a thoroughly revised edition of the classic Routledge Latin Dictionary (1913) The work has been extensively updated by James Morwood, Head of Classics at Harrow School and one of the authors of the extremely successful Oxford Latin Course . More comprehensive than any of its rivals the dictionary it offers: * Over 60,000 entries * Indications of differences in meaning, style, and context * D…
A note on Juvenal, Satires 10.147
These famous words are generally taken to refer to the weighing of the dead Carthaginian's ashes, and I have no quarrel with that. However, I should like to bring i into the debate the commonly used Roman steelyard balance, the statera . This J bronze balance has an eccentric fulcrum. The scale pan is suspended from the shorter arm and the counterweight hangs from a loop which is free to move along a r graduated scale on the longer arm of the ful…
The Double Time Scheme in Antigone
In three articles published in Blackwood's Magazine (November 1849, April and May 1850), one Wilson, under the nom de guerre of Christopher North, propounded the view that Shakespeare's Othello operates on a double time scheme. The represented time in Cyprus (Acts II to V) is some thirty-three hours, lasting from about 4 p.m. on Saturday till the early hours of Monday morning. If we take this time scheme at face value, there has been no opportuni…
Our Greek and Latin Roots
Latin and Greek are often called 'dead' languages. Our Greek and Latin Roots gives the lie to the myth by taking its readers on a journey of exploration through their own language. It charts the historical spread of the classical languages throughout the English-speaking world and encourages students to take an active role in uncovering just how central a part they play in giving English the shape it has today. Full of fascinating information and…
The Life and Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Goldsmith the Gentle Master
Apuleius: Rhetorical Works
"These rhetorical texts by Apuleius, second-century Latin writer and author of the famous novel Metamorphoses or Golden Ass, have not been translated in English since 1909. They are some of the very few Latin speeches surviving from their period, and constitute important evidence for Latin and Roman North African social and intellectual culture in the second century A.D. They are the work of a talented writer who is being increasingly viewed as t…
Euripides and the Demagogues
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A Note on the Euripus in Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis
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Aeneas and Mount Atlas
In the fourth book of the Aeneid Mercury flies to Carthage on the orders of Jupiter to bid Aeneas be mindful of his destiny and sail away. First he binds his winged sandals on his feet; then he takes up his mystical wand, which he uses to make his way through the sky. Next, before he comes to Carthage and sees the glittering figure of Aeneas, he observes and touches down on Mount Atlas, which is arrestingly personified as an old man: iamque volan…
Cupid and Psyche. An Adaptation from the Golden Ass of Apuleius
Aeneas and Mount Atlas
In the fourth book of the Aeneid Mercury flies to Carthage on the orders of Jupiter to bid Aeneas be mindful of his destiny and sail away. First he binds his winged sandals on his feet; then he takes up his mystical wand, which he uses to make his way through the sky. Next, before he comes to Carthage and sees the glittering figure of Aeneas, he observes and touches down on Mount Atlas, which is arrestingly personified as an old man: iamque volan…
The Life and Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Goldsmith the Gentle Master
Our Greek and Latin Roots
Latin and Greek are often called 'dead' languages. Our Greek and Latin Roots gives the lie to the myth by taking its readers on a journey of exploration through their own language. It charts the historical spread of the classical languages throughout the English-speaking world and encourages students to take an active role in uncovering just how central a part they play in giving English the shape it has today. Full of fascinating information and…
The Double Time Scheme in Antigone
In three articles published in Blackwood's Magazine (November 1849, April and May 1850), one Wilson, under the nom de guerre of Christopher North, propounded the view that Shakespeare's Othello operates on a double time scheme. The represented time in Cyprus (Acts II to V) is some thirty-three hours, lasting from about 4 p.m. on Saturday till the early hours of Monday morning. If we take this time scheme at face value, there has been no opportuni…
The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary
Now in paperback, The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary is a thoroughly revised edition of the classic Routledge Latin Dictionary (1913) The work has been extensively updated by James Morwood, Head of Classics at Harrow School and one of the authors of the extremely successful Oxford Latin Course . More comprehensive than any of its rivals the dictionary it offers: * Over 60,000 entries * Indications of differences in meaning, style, and context * D…
A note on Juvenal, Satires 10.147
These famous words are generally taken to refer to the weighing of the dead Carthaginian's ashes, and I have no quarrel with that. However, I should like to bring i into the debate the commonly used Roman steelyard balance, the statera . This J bronze balance has an eccentric fulcrum. The scale pan is suspended from the shorter arm and the counterweight hangs from a loop which is free to move along a r graduated scale on the longer arm of the ful…
Oxford World's Classics: Euripides: Medea; Hippolytus; Electra; Helen
Electra
Medea
"Medea" published on by null.
Endangered Species
Oxford World's Classics: Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians; Bacchae; Iphigenia at Aulis; Rhesus
Oxford World's Classics: Euripides: Ion, Orestes, Phoenician Women, Suppliant Women
Oxford World's Classics: Euripides: Hecuba; The Trojan Women; Andromache
Orestes
"Orestes" published on by null.
The Phoenician Women
"The Phoenician Women" published on by null.
A Note on the Euripus in Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis
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Apuleius: Rhetorical Works
"These rhetorical texts by Apuleius, second-century Latin writer and author of the famous novel Metamorphoses or Golden Ass, have not been translated in English since 1909. They are some of the very few Latin speeches surviving from their period, and constitute important evidence for Latin and Roman North African social and intellectual culture in the second century A.D. They are the work of a talented writer who is being increasingly viewed as t…
Euripides and the Demagogues
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A Commentary on Propertius, Book 3
Euripides’ Suppliant Women, Theseus and Athenocentrism
In Euripides’ Suppliant Women , Theseus at first rejects Adrastos’ supplication to recover the bodies of the Argive dead. Later he changes his mind. This article discusses the initial failure of the supplication, both examining the failings in Adrastos’ appeal and suggesting that a strong case can be made for Theseus’ rejection: neither he nor Athens would have suffered from gods or from men had he stood by it. Why then did he have the change of …
The Plays of Euripides
No book in English covering all the plays of has been published since 1967. In the meantime there has been something of a revolution in the way we view classical drama generally and in particular. The Plays of Euripides reflects that revolution and aims to show how was continually reinventing himself. A truly Protean figure, he seems to set out on a new journey in each of his surviving nineteen plays. Between general introduction and final summar…
A Commentary on Vergil, Aeneid 3
The Aeneid, generally considered the greatest poem of Roman literature, is a story of migration, and Book 3 is at the heart of this story-the arrestingly dramatic account that Aeneas gives to the Carthaginian Queen Dido of his people's journey from the sacked city of Troy. This journey sees them encounter a series of brilliantly characterized individuals and visit some of the most extraordinary places in the central Mediterranean, both real and i…
Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis
Iphigenia at Aulis dramatises the myth of Iphigenia, the young virgin sacrificed by her father Agamemnon at the start of the expedition against Troy. The ongoing debates around Iphigenia's voluntary sacrifice, the corruption of the play's moral universe, and the corruption of its text make Iphigenia at Aulis one of Euripides' most intriguing and challenging plays. This Companion provides a summary of the plot, discusses the characters and main th…
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