Don Fowler
Biographic Data
| ID | 125711 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Don Fowler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Don |
| FAMILY NAME | Fowler |
| SIGNATURE | FOWLER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jesus University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 111 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Virgil Commentary of Servius
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Virgilian Narrative: Storytelling
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Prehistory, Personality, and Place: Emil W. Haury and the Mogollon Controversy . Jefferson Reid , Stephanie Whittlesey
Oxford World's Classics: Lucretius: On the Nature of the Universe
This work combines a scientific & philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. Based on the atomic theory of Epicurus, Lucretius' poem explores sensation, sex, cosmology, meteorology & geology through acute observation of the beauties of the natural world & with moving sympathy for man's place in it
Laocoon’s Point of View: Walking the Roman Way
This chapter begins with some very general remarks about epistemology. It sets up an opposition between two ways of talking about what someone may be said to ‘know’. The first approach, dubbed ‘Platonic’, takes as its central concern the need to distinguish real knowledge from other forms of belief. This is contrasted with an approach that abandons the attempt to single out a group of our attitudes and beliefs as special. Propositional belief cea…
Lucretius on Atomic Motion: A Commentary on Lucretius: De Rerum Natura Book Two, Lines 1–332: A Commentary on Lucretius: De Rerum Natura Book Two, Lines 1–332
This is the first commentary on Lucretius' theory of atomic motion, one of the most difficult and technical parts of De Rerum Natura
Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology . Terry A. Barnhart
Lucretius on atomic motion: A commentary on De rerum natura, book two, lines 1-332
xv, 513 p. ; 23 cm
Cultivating the muse: Struggles for Power and Inspiration in Classical Literature
Resource Development: Recognizing Women's Anthropology at the 1904 World's Fair
Resource Development: How to Fund the AAA's Next Century
Title Pages
The Ruin of Time: Monuments and Survival at Rome
IN one of his epigrams, the fourth-century-CE French poet Ausonius describes an inscription which has lost some of its letters: Lucius una quidem, geminis sed dissita punctis littera: praenomen sic nota sola facit. post M incisum est: puto sic non tota videtur; dissiluit saxi fragmine laesus apex. nee quisquam, Marius, seu Marcius, anne Metellus hie iaceat, certis noverit indiciis. truncatis convulsa iacent elementa figuris, omnia confusis interi…
Second Thoughts on Closure
The populace cheered and danced for joy where they stood, and there was no discordant voice as young and old, rich and poor, united in jubilation, for though they had understood very little of what was said, they were able to surmise the facts of the matter from what had already transpired concerning Charikleia; or else perhaps they had been brought to a realization of the truth by the same divine force that had staged this whole drama and that n…
Opening the Gates of War: Aeneid 7. 601-640
‘VERGIL and the monuments’ has become as popular a rubric for contemporary Vergilian scholarship as ‘Homer and the monuments’ was for an earlier generation of Homerists. Art historians are as varied as literary scholars, as can be seen from the very different ways that a monument like the Ara Pacis has been handled by Jaś Elsner and Karl Galinsky.
Pyramus, Thisbe, King Kong: Ovid and the Presence of Poetry
The story of Pyramus and This be as told by the Minyeides in book 4 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (4. 55-166) is one of his most famous tales, above all perhaps because of its performance by the rustics in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. Shakespeare produced a more tragic version of the underlying story in Romeo and Juliet, and its reception in European literature, art, and music has inspired more than one book-length study.
Even Better than the Real Thing: A Tale of Two Cities
Words and images seem inevitably to become implicated in a ‘war of signs’ (what Leonardo called a paragone) in which the stakes are things like nature, truth, reality, and the human spirit. Each art, each type of sign or medium, lays claim to certain things that it is best equipped to mediate, and each grounds its claim in a certain characterisation of its ‘self’, its own proper essence.
First Thoughts on Closure: Problems and Prospects
Literary cnt1cs have begun very much to look to their ends. ‘Closure’ has become a central critical concern, as a glance at the items listed under that heading in the MLA International Bibliography since 1981 soon makes clear, and recent years have seen the devotion to the subject of the 1978 issue of Nineteenth Century Fiction and the 1984 issue of Yale French Studies.This interest is not entirely new.
Narrate and Describe: The Problem of Ekphrasis
The subject of ekphrasis, and in particular of the ekphrasis of works of art, has recently begun to receive a great deal of attention from classical scholars. As will become clear, I believe that the reason for this is that many of the theoretical issues that are most pressing in classical studies-and indeed in cultural studies in general-are raised by the study of ekphrasis.
Postmodernism, Romantic Irony, and Classical Closure
‘CLOSURE’ in all its senses has often been seen as a distinguishing characteristic of classicism. The classic work is a rounded organic whole, simplex et unum: it ends in resolution, ‘all passion spent’. Antiquity is a closed system, providing a canon of texts whose perfection is beyond time: criticism of those texts is an eternal return, the rediscovery of the timeless verities that they contain. The Classical Tradition is a golden chain which e…
Deviant Focalization in Vergil’s Aeneid
MY subject is point of view in the Aeneid. I want to make some theoretical points about that concept, and to discuss some examples. In writing this paper, however, I have come to realize that underneath there lies an attempt to come to terms with the work on Vergil of two of my elders, betters, and friends, Oliver Lyne and Gian Biagio Conte, to whom this piece is offered with affection.
Dedication
On the Shoulders of Giants: Intertextuality and Classical Studies
The tones of David West’s jeremiad will be familiar, at least to British classicists, but as always he articulates what many people undoubtedly feel. ‘Intertextuality’ is a term much used today, both within classics and more widely, but it is indeed not always clear what it brings with it that is novel in comparison with competing terms such as ‘allusion’, and how the reading practices associated with it differ from those traditional within class…
God the Father (Himself) in Vergil
I should not dare to compare anything with god as though it were on a par with him, nor compare with the lord a sign that is his slave: but the father himself willed that men infer his greatness from what is small, since they cannot see the things on high. PRUDENTIUS
Philosophy and Literature in Lucretian Intertextuality
The celebrated opposition between philosophy and poetry in the De rerum natura can to an extent be rephrased in terms of an opposition between the differing reading practices of two interpretative communities. The features that we find in the work are determined not by its supposed intrinsic nature, but by what we look for in it. The frontier between the ‘philosophical’ and ‘literary’ traditions is not itself, of course, timeless, and how close o…
Roman Constructions: Readings in Postmodern Latin
Roman Constructions collects together twelve published and unpublished papers on Latin literature and literary theory from the decade 1989 to 1999. The papers share a common 'postmodern' emphasis on the role of the modern scholar and critic in the construction, rather than recreation, of meaning, and attempt to show how this approach works in detailed readings of a number of Latin authors, above all Vergil. The papers deal with such topics as poi…
Martial and the Book
Alongside Catullus and Ovid, Martial is the Latin writer who tells us most about the ancient book, and he receives detailed treatment in most histories of ancient book production: he has a chapter to himself, for instance, in Roberts and Skeats' The Birth of the Codex . Books and reading are a central concern of his poetry from his very first publications: around 10-15% of the epigrams deal with this theme. The topic has received, however, much l…
An Acrostic in Vergil ( Aeneid 7. 601–4)
In any competition for monuments of wasted labour the collection of accidental acrostics in Latin poets published by I. Hilberg would stand a good chance of a prize. But amongst his examples of ‘neckische Spiele des Zufalls’ (269) is one I am gullible enough to believe may be more significant. In Aeneid 7. 601–15 Vergil describes the custom of opening the gates of war in a long anacoluthic sentence, the first four lines of which run: Mos erat Hes…
Narrate and Describe: The Problem of Ekphrasis
The subject of ekphrasis, and in particular of the ekphrasis of works of art, has recently begun to receive a great deal of attention from classical scholars. As will become clear, I believe that the reason for this is that many of the theoretical issues that are most pressing in classical studies — and indeed in cultural studies in general — are raised by the study of ekphrasis. The purpose of this note on the other hand is modest: I want to say…
Taplin on Cocks
In PCPhS 213 (NS 33, 1987), 92–104 at 93–6, Oliver Taplin suggests that the Getty vase published by J. R. Green in 1985 represents not Aristophanes' Birds but the first version of Clouds . The purpose of this note is to offer some support for this, while perhaps raising further problems
D. J. Furley and others, Lucrèce (Fondation Hardt. Entretiens sur l'antiquité classique XXIV). Vandoeuvres-Geneva: Fondation Hardt, 1977. Pp. iv + 339
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An Acrostic in Vergil ( Aeneid 7. 601–4)
In any competition for monuments of wasted labour the collection of accidental acrostics in Latin poets published by I. Hilberg would stand a good chance of a prize. But amongst his examples of ‘neckische Spiele des Zufalls’ (269) is one I am gullible enough to believe may be more significant. In Aeneid 7. 601–15 Vergil describes the custom of opening the gates of war in a long anacoluthic sentence, the first four lines of which run: Mos erat Hes…
La Scienza Ellenistica: Atti delle tre giornate di studio tenutesi a Pavia dal 14 al 16 Aprile 1982
Notes on Pighius and Valerius Maximus
(1) Horace, Janus, and Pighius' Acta In PBSR 54 (1986), 213–28 Andrew Lintott dusts down the fragments of the Acta Urbana published by S. V. Pighius in 1615 and universally supposed today to be a forgery. Lintott himself, after a most learned discussion, concurs, but one senses a wistful longing for the fragments to be genuine. The purpose of this note is to offer another reason why sadly this is unlikely
Taplin on Cocks
In PCPhS 213 (NS 33, 1987), 92–104 at 93–6, Oliver Taplin suggests that the Getty vase published by J. R. Green in 1985 represents not Aristophanes' Birds but the first version of Clouds . The purpose of this note is to offer some support for this, while perhaps raising further problems
Horace, Epistles 2.2.89
At Epistles 2.2.87–9 Horace introduces an argument against writing poetry based on the unpleasant mutual admiration required in poetic society with an anecdote about an orator and a jurisconsult: †frater erat Romae† consulti rhetor, ut alter alterius sermone meros audiret honores, Gracchus ut hic illi, foret huic ut Mucius ille
Narrate and Describe: The Problem of Ekphrasis
The subject of ekphrasis, and in particular of the ekphrasis of works of art, has recently begun to receive a great deal of attention from classical scholars. As will become clear, I believe that the reason for this is that many of the theoretical issues that are most pressing in classical studies — and indeed in cultural studies in general — are raised by the study of ekphrasis. The purpose of this note on the other hand is modest: I want to say…
From Epos to Cosmos: Lucretius, Ovid, and the Poetics of Segmentation
Again, what after all is the power which explores what is hidden, which is called discovery and research? Do you think it was compounded from this earthy, mortal, and transitory nature, for example, the man who first gave names to things, a feat which Pythagoras thought required outstanding wisdom, or who first gathered together mankind, hitherto dispersed, and called it to a communal way of life, or who brought within the limits of only a few wr…
Horace and the Aesthetics of Politics
THE attitude of Horace to the Augustan regime ‘Horaz und Augustus’ —is one of the perennial themes of Horatian criticism. As E. Doblhofer commented in his book Dil’ AugLJstuspancgyrik des Horta in formalhistorischer Sicht, critics have often divided on national lines: Der deutsche Untertan mit seinem Respekt vor der Obrigkeit und der Staatsmacht, der individualistische, angelsachsische Demokrat und der Italiener der neuen Republik, der es Augustu…
Martial and the Book
Alongside Catullus and Ovid, Martial is the Latin writer who tells us most about the ancient book, and he receives detailed treatment in most histories of ancient book production: he has a chapter to himself, for instance, in Roberts and Skeats' The Birth of the Codex . Books and reading are a central concern of his poetry from his very first publications: around 10-15% of the epigrams deal with this theme. The topic has received, however, much l…
Neither Wolf nor Dog: American Indians, Environment, and Agrarian Change
The Virgil commentary of Servius
Servius (called Marius or Maurus Servius Honoratus in MSS from the ninth century onwards) was a grammarian of the fourth century AD, the author of a celebrated commentary on Virgil. This is generally held to be based on a commentary (now lost) by an earlier fourth-century AD commentator, Aelius Donatus (the teacher of St Jerome), and exists in two forms: the longer, known as Servius Auctus, Servius Danielis, DServius, or DS, was first published i…
Epicurean anger
The passion of anger is beset by ambivalence. One aspect of this was noted already by Aristotle, in his famous remark at the beginning of De anima that the physicist and the dialectician would define anger differently: the latter would call it something like the desire for retribution, the former a boiling of the blood and heat around the heart
Lucretius and Politics
The original title of this paper was ‘Lucretius and the language of politics’, and I formerly devoted more space to illustrating the concordances between Lucretius’ language and that of contemporary political discourse, as seen in the writings largely of Cicero and Sallust and as analysed in the well-known study of Hellegouarc’h. As I now spend more time talking of propositions than of words, I have abandoned the fashionable linguistic tum. Never…
The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectiv…
A plurality of pasts
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Title Pages
The Ruin of Time: Monuments and Survival at Rome
IN one of his epigrams, the fourth-century-CE French poet Ausonius describes an inscription which has lost some of its letters: Lucius una quidem, geminis sed dissita punctis littera: praenomen sic nota sola facit. post M incisum est: puto sic non tota videtur; dissiluit saxi fragmine laesus apex. nee quisquam, Marius, seu Marcius, anne Metellus hie iaceat, certis noverit indiciis. truncatis convulsa iacent elementa figuris, omnia confusis interi…
Second Thoughts on Closure
The populace cheered and danced for joy where they stood, and there was no discordant voice as young and old, rich and poor, united in jubilation, for though they had understood very little of what was said, they were able to surmise the facts of the matter from what had already transpired concerning Charikleia; or else perhaps they had been brought to a realization of the truth by the same divine force that had staged this whole drama and that n…
Opening the Gates of War: Aeneid 7. 601-640
‘VERGIL and the monuments’ has become as popular a rubric for contemporary Vergilian scholarship as ‘Homer and the monuments’ was for an earlier generation of Homerists. Art historians are as varied as literary scholars, as can be seen from the very different ways that a monument like the Ara Pacis has been handled by Jaś Elsner and Karl Galinsky.
Pyramus, Thisbe, King Kong: Ovid and the Presence of Poetry
The story of Pyramus and This be as told by the Minyeides in book 4 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (4. 55-166) is one of his most famous tales, above all perhaps because of its performance by the rustics in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. Shakespeare produced a more tragic version of the underlying story in Romeo and Juliet, and its reception in European literature, art, and music has inspired more than one book-length study.
Even Better than the Real Thing: A Tale of Two Cities
Words and images seem inevitably to become implicated in a ‘war of signs’ (what Leonardo called a paragone) in which the stakes are things like nature, truth, reality, and the human spirit. Each art, each type of sign or medium, lays claim to certain things that it is best equipped to mediate, and each grounds its claim in a certain characterisation of its ‘self’, its own proper essence.
First Thoughts on Closure: Problems and Prospects
Literary cnt1cs have begun very much to look to their ends. ‘Closure’ has become a central critical concern, as a glance at the items listed under that heading in the MLA International Bibliography since 1981 soon makes clear, and recent years have seen the devotion to the subject of the 1978 issue of Nineteenth Century Fiction and the 1984 issue of Yale French Studies.This interest is not entirely new.
Narrate and Describe: The Problem of Ekphrasis
The subject of ekphrasis, and in particular of the ekphrasis of works of art, has recently begun to receive a great deal of attention from classical scholars. As will become clear, I believe that the reason for this is that many of the theoretical issues that are most pressing in classical studies-and indeed in cultural studies in general-are raised by the study of ekphrasis.
Postmodernism, Romantic Irony, and Classical Closure
‘CLOSURE’ in all its senses has often been seen as a distinguishing characteristic of classicism. The classic work is a rounded organic whole, simplex et unum: it ends in resolution, ‘all passion spent’. Antiquity is a closed system, providing a canon of texts whose perfection is beyond time: criticism of those texts is an eternal return, the rediscovery of the timeless verities that they contain. The Classical Tradition is a golden chain which e…
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