Holt N Parker
Biographic Data
| ID | 1227216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Holt N Parker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Holt N |
| FAMILY NAME | Parker |
| SIGNATURE | PARKER H N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cincinnati |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Roman Sexualities
Censorinus
Censorinus
Author of De Die Natali , perhaps a descendant of L. Marcius Censorinus (cens. 149 BCE , DDN 17.11). Priscian (fifth–sixth century) called him “most learned in the art of grammar” (Priscian, Institutiones 1.16=13.9 ed. H. Keil) and quotes from his book On accents (cf. Cassiodorus, Institutiones 2.1.1, 2.5.1 and 10, 2.6.1); Sidonius Apollinaris ( Carmina 14 praef . 3) called it a “famous book” ( volumen illustre ).
Galen and the Girls
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The Corrupted Boy and the Crowned Poet
This chapter explores the nature of the symbolic status and function of the bookroll. It focuses on the tension between the fragile physical book and the ways in which the text can escape fragility. For Florence Dupont, the literary book during Alexandrian times is in concept no more than a container, a copy of something composed in the past. Unlike Dupont, Catullus and the Augustan poets used the fragility of the book to their advantage, as they…
Books and Reading Latin Poetry
This chapter analyzes how the Romans enjoyed literature in four ways: in recitations, as entertainments at convivia, through professional lectors, and by private reading. It evaluates the intellectual foundations of the idea that poets wrote primarily for performance and looks at the considerable evidence that exists for private reading as the unmarked norm for how Romans experienced texts. The chapter concludes with an examination of the various…
Ancient Literacies
Recent advances in cognitive psychology, socio-linguistics, and socio-anthropology are revolutionizing our understanding of literacy. However, this research has made only minimal inroads among classicists. In turn, historians of literacy continue to rely on outdated work by classicists (mostly from the 1960s and 1970s) and have little access to the current reexamination of the ancient evidence. This timely volume seeks to formulate interesting ne…
Toward a Definition of Popular Culture
The most common definitions of popular culture suffer from a presentist bias and cannot be applied to pre-industrial and pre-capitalist societies. A survey reveals serious conceptual difficulties as well. We may, however, gain insight in two ways. 1) By moving from a Marxist model (economic/class/production) to a more Weberian approach (societal/status/consumption). 2) By looking to Bourdieu's "cultural capital" and Danto's and Dickie's "Institut…
The Linguistic Case for the Aiolian Migration Reconsidered
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 77, Number 3, July-September 2008
"Catullus and the "Amicus Catulli
Catullus and the Amicus Catulli
Catullus and the Amicus Catulli: The Text of a Learned Talk Holt N. Parker University of Cincinnati [email protected] [What follows is a thought experiment. Its purpose is to test the validity of certain types of arguments, statements, and readings commonly applied to Sulpicia, by seeing if they would hold water if applied to any other poet, say, Catullus. My article is written in the spirit of Douglas Young's famous 1959 spoof, which used Denys…
Loyal slaves and loyal wives
I want to look at a striking series of stories about loyalty and betrayal on the parts of slaves and wives that Roman men told each other. These stories form their own subgenre in Roman literature and show a consistent set of narrative patterns, characteristics, and tropes for both slaves and wives. These “Tales of Loyalty” provide us with powerful testimony to the ambiguous position shared by slaves and wives in Roman society, the Roman family, …
An epigram of Nossis (8 GP = AP 6.353)
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The Myth of the Heterosexual
The Myth of the Heterosexual:Anthropology and Sexuality for Classicists Holt N. Parker Chamberlain: We belong to a sort of secret society, the Order of Chaeronea, like the Sacred Band of Thebes. Actually it's more like a discussion group. We discuss what we should call ourselves. "Homosexuals" has been suggested. AEH: Homosexuals? Chamberlain: We aren't anything till there's a word for it. AEH: Homosexuals? Who is responsible for this barbarity? …
Flaccus
The idea that ‘Horace repeatedly puns on his name’ has recently sprung up again. Flaccus we are told means ‘limp’ and Horace uses his name to make various jokes about impotence. This is a load of cobblers
Horace Epodes 11.15-18
HORACE RECALLS how in his cups he cried on the shoulder of his friend Pettius about the affair he was having with Inachia: quod si meis inaestuet praecordiis libera bilis, ut haec ingrata ventis dividat fomenta volnus nil malum levantia, desinet imparibus certare Ýsummotus pudorÝ. 1 If my bile ever boils up free in my heart, so as to scatter to the winds these useless poultices which do nothing to alleviate the pain of my evil wound, shame remove…
Greek embryological calendars and a fragment from the lost work of Damastes, On the Care of Pregnant Women and of Infants
An eleventh-century manuscript in the Biblioteca Laurenziana in Florence preserves a short excerpt of a calendar outlining stages in the development of the foetus. It is headed Δαμναστού έκ τού Περί κυουσών καί βρεΦών θεραπείας , ‘Damnastes, from On the Care of Pregnant Women and of Infants’. Though its existence has long been noted, it has not been previously edited or published
Plautus vs. Terence
Plautus vs. Terence: Audience and Popularity Re-Examined Holt N. Parker Ich seh', die Philologen, sie haben dich, so wie sich selbst betrogen. —Goethe, Faust II, 7426–27 The cliché that Plautus was boffo at the box office while Terence was an aesthetic snob kept alive only through a series of NEA grants seems ineradicable. Since the most recent book on Plautus once again bases much of its argument on this old chestnut, it seems necessary to corre…
A Curiously Persistent Error
Innocent On the Face of It
Ancient Literacies
Recent advances in cognitive psychology, socio-linguistics, and socio-anthropology are revolutionizing our understanding of literacy. However, this research has made only minimal inroads among classicists. In turn, historians of literacy continue to rely on outdated work by classicists (mostly from the 1960s and 1970s) and have little access to the current reexamination of the ancient evidence. This timely volume seeks to formulate interesting ne…
Catullus and the Amicus Catulli
Catullus and the Amicus Catulli: The Text of a Learned Talk Holt N. Parker University of Cincinnati [email protected] [What follows is a thought experiment. Its purpose is to test the validity of certain types of arguments, statements, and readings commonly applied to Sulpicia, by seeing if they would hold water if applied to any other poet, say, Catullus. My article is written in the spirit of Douglas Young's famous 1959 spoof, which used Denys…
Toward a Definition of Popular Culture
The most common definitions of popular culture suffer from a presentist bias and cannot be applied to pre-industrial and pre-capitalist societies. A survey reveals serious conceptual difficulties as well. We may, however, gain insight in two ways. 1) By moving from a Marxist model (economic/class/production) to a more Weberian approach (societal/status/consumption). 2) By looking to Bourdieu's "cultural capital" and Danto's and Dickie's "Institut…
Plautus vs. Terence
Plautus vs. Terence: Audience and Popularity Re-Examined Holt N. Parker Ich seh', die Philologen, sie haben dich, so wie sich selbst betrogen. —Goethe, Faust II, 7426–27 The cliché that Plautus was boffo at the box office while Terence was an aesthetic snob kept alive only through a series of NEA grants seems ineradicable. Since the most recent book on Plautus once again bases much of its argument on this old chestnut, it seems necessary to corre…
The Myth of the Heterosexual
The Myth of the Heterosexual:Anthropology and Sexuality for Classicists Holt N. Parker Chamberlain: We belong to a sort of secret society, the Order of Chaeronea, like the Sacred Band of Thebes. Actually it's more like a discussion group. We discuss what we should call ourselves. "Homosexuals" has been suggested. AEH: Homosexuals? Chamberlain: We aren't anything till there's a word for it. AEH: Homosexuals? Who is responsible for this barbarity? …
The Linguistic Case for the Aiolian Migration Reconsidered
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 77, Number 3, July-September 2008
Horace Epodes 11.15-18
HORACE RECALLS how in his cups he cried on the shoulder of his friend Pettius about the affair he was having with Inachia: quod si meis inaestuet praecordiis libera bilis, ut haec ingrata ventis dividat fomenta volnus nil malum levantia, desinet imparibus certare Ýsummotus pudorÝ. 1 If my bile ever boils up free in my heart, so as to scatter to the winds these useless poultices which do nothing to alleviate the pain of my evil wound, shame remove…
Censorinus
Galen and the Girls
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
An epigram of Nossis (8 GP = AP 6.353)
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
A Curiously Persistent Error
Innocent On the Face of It
A Curiously Persistent Error
Innocent On the Face of It
Plautus vs. Terence
Plautus vs. Terence: Audience and Popularity Re-Examined Holt N. Parker Ich seh', die Philologen, sie haben dich, so wie sich selbst betrogen. —Goethe, Faust II, 7426–27 The cliché that Plautus was boffo at the box office while Terence was an aesthetic snob kept alive only through a series of NEA grants seems ineradicable. Since the most recent book on Plautus once again bases much of its argument on this old chestnut, it seems necessary to corre…
Greek embryological calendars and a fragment from the lost work of Damastes, On the Care of Pregnant Women and of Infants
An eleventh-century manuscript in the Biblioteca Laurenziana in Florence preserves a short excerpt of a calendar outlining stages in the development of the foetus. It is headed Δαμναστού έκ τού Περί κυουσών καί βρεΦών θεραπείας , ‘Damnastes, from On the Care of Pregnant Women and of Infants’. Though its existence has long been noted, it has not been previously edited or published
Flaccus
The idea that ‘Horace repeatedly puns on his name’ has recently sprung up again. Flaccus we are told means ‘limp’ and Horace uses his name to make various jokes about impotence. This is a load of cobblers
Horace Epodes 11.15-18
HORACE RECALLS how in his cups he cried on the shoulder of his friend Pettius about the affair he was having with Inachia: quod si meis inaestuet praecordiis libera bilis, ut haec ingrata ventis dividat fomenta volnus nil malum levantia, desinet imparibus certare Ýsummotus pudorÝ. 1 If my bile ever boils up free in my heart, so as to scatter to the winds these useless poultices which do nothing to alleviate the pain of my evil wound, shame remove…
The Myth of the Heterosexual
The Myth of the Heterosexual:Anthropology and Sexuality for Classicists Holt N. Parker Chamberlain: We belong to a sort of secret society, the Order of Chaeronea, like the Sacred Band of Thebes. Actually it's more like a discussion group. We discuss what we should call ourselves. "Homosexuals" has been suggested. AEH: Homosexuals? Chamberlain: We aren't anything till there's a word for it. AEH: Homosexuals? Who is responsible for this barbarity? …
An epigram of Nossis (8 GP = AP 6.353)
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
Loyal slaves and loyal wives
I want to look at a striking series of stories about loyalty and betrayal on the parts of slaves and wives that Roman men told each other. These stories form their own subgenre in Roman literature and show a consistent set of narrative patterns, characteristics, and tropes for both slaves and wives. These “Tales of Loyalty” provide us with powerful testimony to the ambiguous position shared by slaves and wives in Roman society, the Roman family, …
"Catullus and the "Amicus Catulli
Catullus and the Amicus Catulli
Catullus and the Amicus Catulli: The Text of a Learned Talk Holt N. Parker University of Cincinnati [email protected] [What follows is a thought experiment. Its purpose is to test the validity of certain types of arguments, statements, and readings commonly applied to Sulpicia, by seeing if they would hold water if applied to any other poet, say, Catullus. My article is written in the spirit of Douglas Young's famous 1959 spoof, which used Denys…
The Linguistic Case for the Aiolian Migration Reconsidered
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 77, Number 3, July-September 2008
The Corrupted Boy and the Crowned Poet
This chapter explores the nature of the symbolic status and function of the bookroll. It focuses on the tension between the fragile physical book and the ways in which the text can escape fragility. For Florence Dupont, the literary book during Alexandrian times is in concept no more than a container, a copy of something composed in the past. Unlike Dupont, Catullus and the Augustan poets used the fragility of the book to their advantage, as they…
Books and Reading Latin Poetry
This chapter analyzes how the Romans enjoyed literature in four ways: in recitations, as entertainments at convivia, through professional lectors, and by private reading. It evaluates the intellectual foundations of the idea that poets wrote primarily for performance and looks at the considerable evidence that exists for private reading as the unmarked norm for how Romans experienced texts. The chapter concludes with an examination of the various…
Ancient Literacies
Recent advances in cognitive psychology, socio-linguistics, and socio-anthropology are revolutionizing our understanding of literacy. However, this research has made only minimal inroads among classicists. In turn, historians of literacy continue to rely on outdated work by classicists (mostly from the 1960s and 1970s) and have little access to the current reexamination of the ancient evidence. This timely volume seeks to formulate interesting ne…
Toward a Definition of Popular Culture
The most common definitions of popular culture suffer from a presentist bias and cannot be applied to pre-industrial and pre-capitalist societies. A survey reveals serious conceptual difficulties as well. We may, however, gain insight in two ways. 1) By moving from a Marxist model (economic/class/production) to a more Weberian approach (societal/status/consumption). 2) By looking to Bourdieu's "cultural capital" and Danto's and Dickie's "Institut…
Censorinus
Author of De Die Natali , perhaps a descendant of L. Marcius Censorinus (cens. 149 BCE , DDN 17.11). Priscian (fifth–sixth century) called him “most learned in the art of grammar” (Priscian, Institutiones 1.16=13.9 ed. H. Keil) and quotes from his book On accents (cf. Cassiodorus, Institutiones 2.1.1, 2.5.1 and 10, 2.6.1); Sidonius Apollinaris ( Carmina 14 praef . 3) called it a “famous book” ( volumen illustre ).
Galen and the Girls
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
Censorinus
Roman Sexualities
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