David H Sick
Biographic Data
| ID | 1142856 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David H Sick |
| GIVEN NAMES | David H |
| FAMILY NAME | Sick |
| SIGNATURE | SICK D H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Greek & Roman Studies, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Elephant forests of the Classical Mediterranean
During the Hellenistic period technical and practical knowledge concerning elephants and their behaviour was transferred from an Indian context to a Mediterranean one. Scholars generally agree on that description of events, but the overarching thesis must now be bolstered with specific examples. This essay argues that the administration of elephant forests by governments of northwest India, evinced in the Mauryan inscriptions and the political tr…
Alabamian Argonautica
W. E. B. Du Bois’s novel The Quest of the Silver Fleece offers both a discussion of the value of classical education and an example of it. Du Bois organized the novel around the myth of Jason and Medea but transformed the main characters into newly educated African-Americans in the post-Reconstruction South. The African-American heroine of the novel, Zora, who performs the role of Medea within the literary context of Ethiopianism, benefits from h…
Oedipal Complexes Freud and Artemidorus
Sigmund Freud and the second-century CE dream interpreter Artemidorus of Daldis displayed a certain degree of respect for their patients or clients. This shared attitude was supported by a similar commitment to empiricism. Their similar methods in dealing with patients draw attention to their basic differences in understanding dreams in general and in interpreting incestuous dreams specifically. Freud and Artemidorus stand at variance in their in…
When Socrates met the Buddha
If with all these openings there had been no exchange whatever between East and West in their literary productions, it would have been strange, to say no more; and though, as I repeat, we have no tangible evidence of anything like translations, whether oriental or occidental, at that time ... Those words come from one of Max Müller's last essays ‘Coincidences’, in which he listed the many points of contact between East and West in the period afte…
Mit(h)ra(s) and the Myths of the Sun
The extent of the connection between Indo-Iranian Mitra/Mithra and Roman Mithras has been vehemently debated for the last thirty years. One of the several problems in outlining the history of Mit(h)ra(s) has been the definition of the Iranian Mithra. In particular, the process by which he becomes a solar deity in the postAvestan period needs clarification. This study considers the history of Mithra with regard to solar mythology; it describes a s…
Mit(h)ra(s) and the Myths of the Sun
The extent of the connection between Indo-Iranian Mitra/Mithra and Roman Mithras has been vehemently debated for the last thirty years. One of the several problems in outlining the history of Mit(h)ra(s) has been the definition of the Iranian Mithra. In particular, the process by which he becomes a solar deity in the postAvestan period needs clarification. This study considers the history of Mithra with regard to solar mythology; it describes a s…
Elephant forests of the Classical Mediterranean
During the Hellenistic period technical and practical knowledge concerning elephants and their behaviour was transferred from an Indian context to a Mediterranean one. Scholars generally agree on that description of events, but the overarching thesis must now be bolstered with specific examples. This essay argues that the administration of elephant forests by governments of northwest India, evinced in the Mauryan inscriptions and the political tr…
Alabamian Argonautica
W. E. B. Du Bois’s novel The Quest of the Silver Fleece offers both a discussion of the value of classical education and an example of it. Du Bois organized the novel around the myth of Jason and Medea but transformed the main characters into newly educated African-Americans in the post-Reconstruction South. The African-American heroine of the novel, Zora, who performs the role of Medea within the literary context of Ethiopianism, benefits from h…
When Socrates met the Buddha
If with all these openings there had been no exchange whatever between East and West in their literary productions, it would have been strange, to say no more; and though, as I repeat, we have no tangible evidence of anything like translations, whether oriental or occidental, at that time ... Those words come from one of Max Müller's last essays ‘Coincidences’, in which he listed the many points of contact between East and West in the period afte…
Mit(h)ra(s) and the Myths of the Sun
The extent of the connection between Indo-Iranian Mitra/Mithra and Roman Mithras has been vehemently debated for the last thirty years. One of the several problems in outlining the history of Mit(h)ra(s) has been the definition of the Iranian Mithra. In particular, the process by which he becomes a solar deity in the postAvestan period needs clarification. This study considers the history of Mithra with regard to solar mythology; it describes a s…
When Socrates met the Buddha
If with all these openings there had been no exchange whatever between East and West in their literary productions, it would have been strange, to say no more; and though, as I repeat, we have no tangible evidence of anything like translations, whether oriental or occidental, at that time ... Those words come from one of Max Müller's last essays ‘Coincidences’, in which he listed the many points of contact between East and West in the period afte…
Oedipal Complexes Freud and Artemidorus
Sigmund Freud and the second-century CE dream interpreter Artemidorus of Daldis displayed a certain degree of respect for their patients or clients. This shared attitude was supported by a similar commitment to empiricism. Their similar methods in dealing with patients draw attention to their basic differences in understanding dreams in general and in interpreting incestuous dreams specifically. Freud and Artemidorus stand at variance in their in…
Alabamian Argonautica
W. E. B. Du Bois’s novel The Quest of the Silver Fleece offers both a discussion of the value of classical education and an example of it. Du Bois organized the novel around the myth of Jason and Medea but transformed the main characters into newly educated African-Americans in the post-Reconstruction South. The African-American heroine of the novel, Zora, who performs the role of Medea within the literary context of Ethiopianism, benefits from h…
Elephant forests of the Classical Mediterranean
During the Hellenistic period technical and practical knowledge concerning elephants and their behaviour was transferred from an Indian context to a Mediterranean one. Scholars generally agree on that description of events, but the overarching thesis must now be bolstered with specific examples. This essay argues that the administration of elephant forests by governments of northwest India, evinced in the Mauryan inscriptions and the political tr…
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