Gottfried Mader
Biographic Data
| ID | 1217754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gottfried Mader |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gottfried |
| FAMILY NAME | Mader |
| SIGNATURE | MADER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Personality, Probability, Persuasion
This article analyzes the interplay of ethos and eikos in Demosthenes’ construction of Philip. Like a lawyer, Demosthenes figures Philip in a quasi-dikastic manner that privileges character and infers future actions from arguments of probability: fixed personal attributes entail consistent and predictable patterns of behavior. When Demosthenes observes Philip observing the Greeks (6.6–12, 16–19) and making strategic projections on the basis of pa…
Demagogic Style and Historical Method
Truth-construction and -mediation are theorized both by Thucydides xyngrapheus and by the internal rhetores in his History, with tensions between these perspectives highlighting rhetorically significant moments of political communication. The historian posits the (negative) configuration “contest - pleasure - hearing - untruth - useless” as contrastive foil to his own model of “rigorous enquiry - pleasure disavowed - seeing - truth - useful.” Cle…
Demagogic Style and Historical Method
Truth-construction and -mediation are theorized both by Thucydides xyngrapheus and by the internal rhetores in his History, with tensions between these perspectives highlighting rhetorically significant moments of political communication. The historian posits the (negative) configuration “contest – pleasure – hearing – untruth – useless” as contrastive foil to his own model of “rigorous enquiry – pleasure disavowed – seeing – truth – useful.” Cle…
Hercvlevs Labor – Labor Limae
A distinctive feature of Aeneid 8 is the constant interplay and fluctuation of registers, with high epic and the genus grande alternating with the lighter strains or learned allusions associated with the genus tenue . As one commentator has remarked, ‘Man darf das Buch allein schon wegen seines Reichtums an Aitien als das ‘kallimacheischste’ der Aeneis bezeichnen.’ Beyond the emphasis on aetiology—the Cacus myth in particular is presented as aiti…
The Final Simile in the Aeneid
Turnus’ ballistic effort in the poem’s finale is answered by a contrapuntal simile describing Aeneas’ spear-throw as a salvo from a siege-engine: Turnus’ abortive feat, emulating an archaic epic gesture, now marks the anarcho-primitivist, while the ballista image—a conspicuous, forward-looking anachronism—pointedly plays off ‘modern’ technological rationality against a model of outdated heroics. As symbol and metonymy, this tension recapitulates …
Hoc quod uolo / me nolle
Akrasia and involuntary action are conspicuous in several Senecan tragedies, where pivotal moments are minutely dramatized as crises of will, and where protagonists under massive duress (internal or external) act self-consciously against their better judgment (Herc. F., Phoen., Pha., Med., Thy.). These counter-volitional psychodramas, a species of the Senecan Affektszene, play out according to a typical pattern that includes the following element…
The Be(a)st of the Achaeans
Ovid's Centauromachy is a sustained engagement with epic poetics: Nestor, figured as a Homeric narrator in a Homeric setting, entertains an internal audience of banqueters with a tale of another banquet that degenerated into a spectacular brawl. His representation there of epic masculinity ironically critiques the traditional epic uirtus model of his audience: it is argued that transgressive violence, loss of integrity, and the signature rhetoric…
Re-presenting Piso
The anonymous author of Laus Pisonis seeks simultaneously to promote Piso’s political image by investing him with impressive virtutes (to which he had no claim) and to secure the great man’s patronage. In this give-and-take transaction, he argues, both parties emerge as winners: Piso by securing a promising praeco virtutis at a crucial moment in his political career (around A.D. 65), the poet from the “job security” as Piso’s client. Downplaying …
Fear, Faction, Fractious Rhetoric
The Syracusan antilogy (6.33–40), although a political non-event, has extensive meta-rhetorical implications: as a model of political communication it comments indirectly on the earlier debate at Athens (6.9–23), replays the celebrated typology of styles (2.65.8–10), and resonates with key themes from the Corcyrean excursus (3.82). Athenagoras in particular is figured as the paradigmatic demagogue
Atreus Artifex (Seneca, Thyestes 906–7)
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Foresight, Hindsight, and the Rhetoric of Self-Fashioning in Demosthenes' Philippic Cycle
This paper analyses Demosthene' self-fashioning in the Philippic cycle as rhetorical process, focussing crucially on the role of foresight as constituent of symbouleutic authority and justification for his uncompromising political line. To legitimate his role as adviser, Demosthenes needed continually to proclaim his own competence. In the early days and before Philip was a major issue, Demosthenes constructs his foresight through “entechnic” arg…
Fighting Philip with Decrees
Demosthenes' Philippic cycle conveys a satirical picture of Athenians trapped in a spiral of symbolic activity: to a demos nostalgic for great-power status but loath to energetic intervention, high-sounding resolutions substitute for low-level responses and by their character as official enactments create the illusion of meaningful engagement. This "syndrome" is a rhetorical scare-image subserving a political agenda. At a time when his influence …
Thyestes’ belch (Seneca, Thy . 911–12)
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That St(r)ain Again
That St(r)ain Again:Blood, Water, and Generic Allusion in Horace's Bandusia Ode Gottfried Mader Abstract Horace's vivid picture of the blood sacrifice to the spring of Bandusia has left many readers feeling somewhat uneasy, for while animal sacrifices appear elsewhere in the Odes,1 none matches this for its pathos or detail: O fons Bandusiae, splendidior vitro,dulci digne mero non sine floribus, cras donaberis haedo, cui frons turgida cornibus pr…
Blocked Eyes and Ears
Quis queat digne eloqui? Speech, Gesture and the Grammar of the mundus inversus in Seneca's Thyestes
Article Quis queat digne eloqui? Speech, Gesture and the Grammar of the mundus inversus in Seneca's Thyestes was published on December 31, 2000 in the journal Antike und Abendland (volume 46, issue 1)
(Note On Soph El 489-91*)
Amphion and Orpheus in Propertius, I, 9
Fighting Philip with Decrees
Demosthenes' Philippic cycle conveys a satirical picture of Athenians trapped in a spiral of symbolic activity: to a demos nostalgic for great-power status but loath to energetic intervention, high-sounding resolutions substitute for low-level responses and by their character as official enactments create the illusion of meaningful engagement. This "syndrome" is a rhetorical scare-image subserving a political agenda. At a time when his influence …
Thyestes’ belch (Seneca, Thy . 911–12)
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
Demagogic Style and Historical Method
Truth-construction and -mediation are theorized both by Thucydides xyngrapheus and by the internal rhetores in his History, with tensions between these perspectives highlighting rhetorically significant moments of political communication. The historian posits the (negative) configuration “contest – pleasure – hearing – untruth – useless” as contrastive foil to his own model of “rigorous enquiry – pleasure disavowed – seeing – truth – useful.” Cle…
The Final Simile in the Aeneid
Turnus’ ballistic effort in the poem’s finale is answered by a contrapuntal simile describing Aeneas’ spear-throw as a salvo from a siege-engine: Turnus’ abortive feat, emulating an archaic epic gesture, now marks the anarcho-primitivist, while the ballista image—a conspicuous, forward-looking anachronism—pointedly plays off ‘modern’ technological rationality against a model of outdated heroics. As symbol and metonymy, this tension recapitulates …
Atreus Artifex (Seneca, Thyestes 906–7)
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
Amphion and Orpheus in Propertius, I, 9
(Note On Soph El 489-91*)
Blocked Eyes and Ears
Quis queat digne eloqui? Speech, Gesture and the Grammar of the mundus inversus in Seneca's Thyestes
Article Quis queat digne eloqui? Speech, Gesture and the Grammar of the mundus inversus in Seneca's Thyestes was published on December 31, 2000 in the journal Antike und Abendland (volume 46, issue 1)
That St(r)ain Again
That St(r)ain Again:Blood, Water, and Generic Allusion in Horace's Bandusia Ode Gottfried Mader Abstract Horace's vivid picture of the blood sacrifice to the spring of Bandusia has left many readers feeling somewhat uneasy, for while animal sacrifices appear elsewhere in the Odes,1 none matches this for its pathos or detail: O fons Bandusiae, splendidior vitro,dulci digne mero non sine floribus, cras donaberis haedo, cui frons turgida cornibus pr…
Thyestes’ belch (Seneca, Thy . 911–12)
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
Fighting Philip with Decrees
Demosthenes' Philippic cycle conveys a satirical picture of Athenians trapped in a spiral of symbolic activity: to a demos nostalgic for great-power status but loath to energetic intervention, high-sounding resolutions substitute for low-level responses and by their character as official enactments create the illusion of meaningful engagement. This "syndrome" is a rhetorical scare-image subserving a political agenda. At a time when his influence …
Foresight, Hindsight, and the Rhetoric of Self-Fashioning in Demosthenes' Philippic Cycle
This paper analyses Demosthene' self-fashioning in the Philippic cycle as rhetorical process, focussing crucially on the role of foresight as constituent of symbouleutic authority and justification for his uncompromising political line. To legitimate his role as adviser, Demosthenes needed continually to proclaim his own competence. In the early days and before Philip was a major issue, Demosthenes constructs his foresight through “entechnic” arg…
Atreus Artifex (Seneca, Thyestes 906–7)
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 Be(a)st of the Achaeans
Ovid's Centauromachy is a sustained engagement with epic poetics: Nestor, figured as a Homeric narrator in a Homeric setting, entertains an internal audience of banqueters with a tale of another banquet that degenerated into a spectacular brawl. His representation there of epic masculinity ironically critiques the traditional epic uirtus model of his audience: it is argued that transgressive violence, loss of integrity, and the signature rhetoric…
Re-presenting Piso
The anonymous author of Laus Pisonis seeks simultaneously to promote Piso’s political image by investing him with impressive virtutes (to which he had no claim) and to secure the great man’s patronage. In this give-and-take transaction, he argues, both parties emerge as winners: Piso by securing a promising praeco virtutis at a crucial moment in his political career (around A.D. 65), the poet from the “job security” as Piso’s client. Downplaying …
Fear, Faction, Fractious Rhetoric
The Syracusan antilogy (6.33–40), although a political non-event, has extensive meta-rhetorical implications: as a model of political communication it comments indirectly on the earlier debate at Athens (6.9–23), replays the celebrated typology of styles (2.65.8–10), and resonates with key themes from the Corcyrean excursus (3.82). Athenagoras in particular is figured as the paradigmatic demagogue
Hoc quod uolo / me nolle
Akrasia and involuntary action are conspicuous in several Senecan tragedies, where pivotal moments are minutely dramatized as crises of will, and where protagonists under massive duress (internal or external) act self-consciously against their better judgment (Herc. F., Phoen., Pha., Med., Thy.). These counter-volitional psychodramas, a species of the Senecan Affektszene, play out according to a typical pattern that includes the following element…
The Final Simile in the Aeneid
Turnus’ ballistic effort in the poem’s finale is answered by a contrapuntal simile describing Aeneas’ spear-throw as a salvo from a siege-engine: Turnus’ abortive feat, emulating an archaic epic gesture, now marks the anarcho-primitivist, while the ballista image—a conspicuous, forward-looking anachronism—pointedly plays off ‘modern’ technological rationality against a model of outdated heroics. As symbol and metonymy, this tension recapitulates …
Hercvlevs Labor – Labor Limae
A distinctive feature of Aeneid 8 is the constant interplay and fluctuation of registers, with high epic and the genus grande alternating with the lighter strains or learned allusions associated with the genus tenue . As one commentator has remarked, ‘Man darf das Buch allein schon wegen seines Reichtums an Aitien als das ‘kallimacheischste’ der Aeneis bezeichnen.’ Beyond the emphasis on aetiology—the Cacus myth in particular is presented as aiti…
Demagogic Style and Historical Method
Truth-construction and -mediation are theorized both by Thucydides xyngrapheus and by the internal rhetores in his History, with tensions between these perspectives highlighting rhetorically significant moments of political communication. The historian posits the (negative) configuration “contest - pleasure - hearing - untruth - useless” as contrastive foil to his own model of “rigorous enquiry - pleasure disavowed - seeing - truth - useful.” Cle…
Demagogic Style and Historical Method
Truth-construction and -mediation are theorized both by Thucydides xyngrapheus and by the internal rhetores in his History, with tensions between these perspectives highlighting rhetorically significant moments of political communication. The historian posits the (negative) configuration “contest – pleasure – hearing – untruth – useless” as contrastive foil to his own model of “rigorous enquiry – pleasure disavowed – seeing – truth – useful.” Cle…
Personality, Probability, Persuasion
This article analyzes the interplay of ethos and eikos in Demosthenes’ construction of Philip. Like a lawyer, Demosthenes figures Philip in a quasi-dikastic manner that privileges character and infers future actions from arguments of probability: fixed personal attributes entail consistent and predictable patterns of behavior. When Demosthenes observes Philip observing the Greeks (6.6–12, 16–19) and making strategic projections on the basis of pa…
Classical Antiquity Studies (17 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Art (13 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Literature (10 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works)