William J Dominik
Biographic Data
| ID | 1126155 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William J Dominik |
| GIVEN NAMES | William J |
| FAMILY NAME | Dominik |
| SIGNATURE | DOMINIK W J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0283-117X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Elementos das tragédias de Sêneca nas Púnicas de Sílio Itálico
The Punica of Silius Italicus, often regarded as being disconnected from the tragedies of Seneca (and pseudo-Seneca), reveals a remarkable intertextual relationship with these works through its use of Senecan themes, images and lexis. The Punica incorporates elements such as intense psychological conflict, fatalistic determinism, and the destructive power of emotions, particularly ira (“anger”) anger and furor (“fury”), which shape both the actio…
The Classical ‘Traception’: Reconceptualizing Classics in Africa (With an Analysis of Fugard, Kani and Ntshona’s The Island)
Classics has been used for various social, cultural and political purposes on the African sub-continent. Part I highlights some theoretical considerations regarding the traditional models of the classical tradition and the classical reception in Africa. The idea of the classical ‘traception’ embraces the classical tradition through its suggestion of linear descendent and the classical reception through its ‘receptive’ and reconfigurative associat…
Achilles as an Ambivalent Hero in Late Antique Latin Poetry
An analysis of the role of Achilles in late antique Latin poetry illustrates that he is viewed both as a positive role model and as a negative exemplum or an inferior foil. Both the positive and unfavorable aspects of Achilles' characterization are linked to the aspirations of the Roman elite and the values emphasized by both pagan and Christian Latin poets. L'analyse du rôle d'Achille dans la poésie latine de l'Antiquité tardive montre qu'il est…
Modern Assessments of Quintilian
The recent history of scholarship on Quintilian makes for intriguing and sometimes contradictory reading. While some modern assessments of Quintilian are ambivalent about his abilities as a rhetorician as revealed in the Institutio Oratoria, there has been a marked shift during the last part of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century towards a more positive appraisal of his achievements. One reflection of this changed …
Epigram and Occasional Poetry: Social Life and Values in Martial's Epigrams and Statius’ Silvae
This chapter undertakes a more broadly conceived comparison of Martial's and Statius’ representations of Roman social life, values, and attitudes. Martial's Epigrams and Statius’ Silvae divulge much about the social life and climate of the Flavian age, especially during the reign of Domitian. Statius features real individuals and events in his Silvae, but in contrast to Martial he avoids the shadowy side of life in Rome and Naples and instead foc…
Brill's Companion to Statius
Brill’s Companion to Statius is the first companion volume to be published on arguably the most important Roman poet of the Flavian period. Thirty-four newly commissioned chapters from international experts provide a comprehensive overview of recent approaches to Statius, discuss the fundamental issues and themes of his poetry, and suggest new fruitful areas for research. All of his works are considered: the Thebaid, his longest extant epic; the …
Brill's companion to Statius
Declamationes
Declamationes were oratoric exercises on imaginary themes that were designed to train aspiring Roman politicians and lawyers in public debate and judiciary cases.
The Reception of Silius Italicus in Modern Scholarship
The reception of Silius Italicus' Punica in modern scholarship is a phenomenon worthy of critical discussion since it reflects the changing nature of critical attitudes toward imperial literature generally through the twentieth century. For much of the twentieth century, post-Virgilian epic was generally consigned to an inferior status, as reflected in its descriptive label silver, and Silius Italicus came toward the end of the line of critical r…
Deuses, Homens E Livre Arbítrio Em a Tebaida De Estácio
Este estudo examina os deuses, os homens e o livre arbítrio de humanidade no Tebaida de Estácio. Os papéis dos deuses principais e secundários são discutidos, sobretudo os papéis de Júpiter, Plutão e das Fúrias. Ao contrário dos pontos de vista da maioria dos críticos, o principal estímulo da ação humana do poema revela-se provir da motivação interna e das ações dos deuses, em vez da disposição inata e do impulso dos humanos individuais. A conseq…
Vergil’S Geopolitics
Writing Imperial Politics: The Context
Writing Politics in Imperial Rome
Roman literature is inherently political in the varied contexts of its production and the abiding concerns of its subject matter. This collection examines the strategies and techniques of political writing at Rome in a broad range of literature spanning almost two centuries, differing political systems, climates, and contexts. It applies a definition of politics that is more in keeping with modern critical approaches than has often been the case …
Confronting Roman Rhetoric
Tacitus and Pliny on Oratory
This chapter contains section titled: Tacitu's Politics and Oratory Matters of Style The Case of Pliny Epilogue
Hannibal at the Gates: Programmatising Rome and Romanitas In Silius Italicus’ Punica 1 and 2
Scholars have devoted much discussion to the prefaces and introductory scenes of imperial epic, especially their programmatic aspects, but this treatment has not extended to the same degree to the Flavian epicists, except in the case of Statius. The episode is itself an epic within an epic, a self-contained narrative that connects with other scenes in the Punica . This recognition is crucial to understanding the programmatic function of the Sagun…
Flavian Rome: Culture, image, text
The politics, literature and culture of ancient Rome during the Flavian principate (69-96 ce) have recently been the subject of intense investigation. In this volume of new, specially commissioned studies, twenty-five scholars from five countries have combined to produce a critical survey of the period, which underscores and re-evaluates its foundational importance
Agrippina: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire
Roman Literary Culture: From Cicero to Apuleius. Ancient Society and History
Roman Eloquence: Rhetoric in Society and Literature
The Mythic Voice of Statius: "Power and Politics in the "Thebaid
This is the first thematic study of Statius' Thebaid to be published in monograph form in English in the past twenty years. It examines in detail the thematic design and intent of the Thebaid and considers the question of its contemporary relevance. The book focuses on the central theme of power - how it is exercised on the supernatural and human levels and the consequences of its pursuit and abuse in terms of the human condition. An ensuing disc…
"Speech and Rhetoric in Statius' "Thebaid
Monarchal Power and Imperial Politics in Statius' Thebaid
Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer, it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, no man good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power. Charles Colton, Lacon Thebaid is about power. On this cardinal theme Thebaid reflects, its focus emphatic, its mes…
Writing Politics in Imperial Rome
Roman literature is inherently political in the varied contexts of its production and the abiding concerns of its subject matter. This collection examines the strategies and techniques of political writing at Rome in a broad range of literature spanning almost two centuries, differing political systems, climates, and contexts. It applies a definition of politics that is more in keeping with modern critical approaches than has often been the case …
Flavian Rome: Culture, image, text
The politics, literature and culture of ancient Rome during the Flavian principate (69-96 ce) have recently been the subject of intense investigation. In this volume of new, specially commissioned studies, twenty-five scholars from five countries have combined to produce a critical survey of the period, which underscores and re-evaluates its foundational importance
Monarchal Power and Imperial Politics in Statius' Thebaid
Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer, it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, no man good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power. Charles Colton, Lacon Thebaid is about power. On this cardinal theme Thebaid reflects, its focus emphatic, its mes…
Monarchal Power and Imperial Politics in Statius' Thebaid
Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer, it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, no man good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power. Charles Colton, Lacon Thebaid is about power. On this cardinal theme Thebaid reflects, its focus emphatic, its mes…
"Speech and Rhetoric in Statius' "Thebaid
Roman Eloquence: Rhetoric in Society and Literature
The Mythic Voice of Statius: "Power and Politics in the "Thebaid
This is the first thematic study of Statius' Thebaid to be published in monograph form in English in the past twenty years. It examines in detail the thematic design and intent of the Thebaid and considers the question of its contemporary relevance. The book focuses on the central theme of power - how it is exercised on the supernatural and human levels and the consequences of its pursuit and abuse in terms of the human condition. An ensuing disc…
Roman Literary Culture: From Cicero to Apuleius. Ancient Society and History
Agrippina: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire
Hannibal at the Gates: Programmatising Rome and Romanitas In Silius Italicus’ Punica 1 and 2
Scholars have devoted much discussion to the prefaces and introductory scenes of imperial epic, especially their programmatic aspects, but this treatment has not extended to the same degree to the Flavian epicists, except in the case of Statius. The episode is itself an epic within an epic, a self-contained narrative that connects with other scenes in the Punica . This recognition is crucial to understanding the programmatic function of the Sagun…
Flavian Rome: Culture, image, text
The politics, literature and culture of ancient Rome during the Flavian principate (69-96 ce) have recently been the subject of intense investigation. In this volume of new, specially commissioned studies, twenty-five scholars from five countries have combined to produce a critical survey of the period, which underscores and re-evaluates its foundational importance
Confronting Roman Rhetoric
Tacitus and Pliny on Oratory
This chapter contains section titled: Tacitu's Politics and Oratory Matters of Style The Case of Pliny Epilogue
Vergil’S Geopolitics
Writing Imperial Politics: The Context
Writing Politics in Imperial Rome
Roman literature is inherently political in the varied contexts of its production and the abiding concerns of its subject matter. This collection examines the strategies and techniques of political writing at Rome in a broad range of literature spanning almost two centuries, differing political systems, climates, and contexts. It applies a definition of politics that is more in keeping with modern critical approaches than has often been the case …
The Reception of Silius Italicus in Modern Scholarship
The reception of Silius Italicus' Punica in modern scholarship is a phenomenon worthy of critical discussion since it reflects the changing nature of critical attitudes toward imperial literature generally through the twentieth century. For much of the twentieth century, post-Virgilian epic was generally consigned to an inferior status, as reflected in its descriptive label silver, and Silius Italicus came toward the end of the line of critical r…
Deuses, Homens E Livre Arbítrio Em a Tebaida De Estácio
Este estudo examina os deuses, os homens e o livre arbítrio de humanidade no Tebaida de Estácio. Os papéis dos deuses principais e secundários são discutidos, sobretudo os papéis de Júpiter, Plutão e das Fúrias. Ao contrário dos pontos de vista da maioria dos críticos, o principal estímulo da ação humana do poema revela-se provir da motivação interna e das ações dos deuses, em vez da disposição inata e do impulso dos humanos individuais. A conseq…
Declamationes
Declamationes were oratoric exercises on imaginary themes that were designed to train aspiring Roman politicians and lawyers in public debate and judiciary cases.
Brill's Companion to Statius
Brill’s Companion to Statius is the first companion volume to be published on arguably the most important Roman poet of the Flavian period. Thirty-four newly commissioned chapters from international experts provide a comprehensive overview of recent approaches to Statius, discuss the fundamental issues and themes of his poetry, and suggest new fruitful areas for research. All of his works are considered: the Thebaid, his longest extant epic; the …
Brill's companion to Statius
Epigram and Occasional Poetry: Social Life and Values in Martial's Epigrams and Statius’ Silvae
This chapter undertakes a more broadly conceived comparison of Martial's and Statius’ representations of Roman social life, values, and attitudes. Martial's Epigrams and Statius’ Silvae divulge much about the social life and climate of the Flavian age, especially during the reign of Domitian. Statius features real individuals and events in his Silvae, but in contrast to Martial he avoids the shadowy side of life in Rome and Naples and instead foc…
Modern Assessments of Quintilian
The recent history of scholarship on Quintilian makes for intriguing and sometimes contradictory reading. While some modern assessments of Quintilian are ambivalent about his abilities as a rhetorician as revealed in the Institutio Oratoria, there has been a marked shift during the last part of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century towards a more positive appraisal of his achievements. One reflection of this changed …
The Classical ‘Traception’: Reconceptualizing Classics in Africa (With an Analysis of Fugard, Kani and Ntshona’s The Island)
Classics has been used for various social, cultural and political purposes on the African sub-continent. Part I highlights some theoretical considerations regarding the traditional models of the classical tradition and the classical reception in Africa. The idea of the classical ‘traception’ embraces the classical tradition through its suggestion of linear descendent and the classical reception through its ‘receptive’ and reconfigurative associat…
Achilles as an Ambivalent Hero in Late Antique Latin Poetry
An analysis of the role of Achilles in late antique Latin poetry illustrates that he is viewed both as a positive role model and as a negative exemplum or an inferior foil. Both the positive and unfavorable aspects of Achilles' characterization are linked to the aspirations of the Roman elite and the values emphasized by both pagan and Christian Latin poets. L'analyse du rôle d'Achille dans la poésie latine de l'Antiquité tardive montre qu'il est…
Elementos das tragédias de Sêneca nas Púnicas de Sílio Itálico
The Punica of Silius Italicus, often regarded as being disconnected from the tragedies of Seneca (and pseudo-Seneca), reveals a remarkable intertextual relationship with these works through its use of Senecan themes, images and lexis. The Punica incorporates elements such as intense psychological conflict, fatalistic determinism, and the destructive power of emotions, particularly ira (“anger”) anger and furor (“fury”), which shape both the actio…
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