Peter Toohey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1311052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Toohey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Toohey |
| SIGNATURE | TOOHEY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Inventing Ancient Culture: Historicism, Periodization and the Ancient World
A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World
Though many of the sexual practices of the Ancient Greeks and Romans are known and accepted today, the meanings the Ancients associated with these acts were often utterly different from our own. Both idea and practice also varied within antiquity, shaped by locale, history, social class, age, legal status, and gender. Focusing on the cultures of the Mediterranean from 800 BCE to 350 CE, A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World cover…
Roman epic
What isn't epic? Very little it seems. This claim can be made confidently from a cursory contemplation of the range of the literature that is normally termed as epic and that is surviving from antiquity. Epic could vary in length from approximately 408 lines (Catullus's sixty-fourth poem) to approximately 9,894 lines (Virgil's Aeneid ). Its themes could range from the comic or parodic (there is a whole subgenre in Greek devoted to this theme: the…
On Melancholy
Rufus von Ephesus: Über die Melancholie.
The Cultural Logic of Historical Periodization
Reading Epic: An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives
Readers new to ancient epic are hampered in two ways: they do not know the ancient languages, and they are unfamiliar with the ancient world. This survey addresses the needs of these readers by offering guidance through the major classical writers of epic: it begins with Homer and concludes with an overview of the development of late ancient epic and of the interface between the epic and the novel
Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome
This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behaviour and gender differences in ancient Greece and Rome including four chapters newly translated from German and French. For centuries discussions of sexuality and gender in the ancient world, if they took place at all, focussed on how the roles and spheres of the sexes were divided. While men occupied the public sphere of the community, ranged through the Greek and Roman …
Poets and Critics Read Vergil
Vergil has exerted a stronger grasp on the poetic imagination and critical scholarship than almost any other poet. This absorbing book, a collection of essays and conversations by such leading poets and classicists as Joseph Brodsky, Christine Perkell, Michael C. J. Putnam, and Mark Strand, explores the ways in which Vergil's work has inspired readers of today. The book takes a broad look at questions of historicism: how we read a work written 2,…
Why Vergil? A Collection of Interpretations
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives
The Gods in Epic: Poets and Critics of the Classical Tradition
An Early Group of Poems in Prudentius' Liber Cathemerinon
Sophocles, Antigone 567
On Melancholy: Rufus of Ephesus
Rufus of Ephesus' (fl. ca. AD 100) On Melancholy deals with a medical condition oscillating between madness, depression, and bouts of great creativity. This collection of the Greek, Latin, and Arabic fragments makes this text easily available for the first time.
Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome
This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behaviour and gender differences in ancient Greece and Rome including four chapters newly translated from German and French. For centuries discussions of sexuality and gender in the ancient world, if they took place at all, focussed on how the roles and spheres of the sexes were divided. While men occupied the public sphere of the community, ranged through the Greek and Roman …
Sophocles, Antigone 567
An Early Group of Poems in Prudentius' Liber Cathemerinon
The Gods in Epic: Poets and Critics of the Classical Tradition
An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Why Vergil? A Collection of Interpretations
The Cultural Logic of Historical Periodization
Reading Epic: An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives
Readers new to ancient epic are hampered in two ways: they do not know the ancient languages, and they are unfamiliar with the ancient world. This survey addresses the needs of these readers by offering guidance through the major classical writers of epic: it begins with Homer and concludes with an overview of the development of late ancient epic and of the interface between the epic and the novel
Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome
This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behaviour and gender differences in ancient Greece and Rome including four chapters newly translated from German and French. For centuries discussions of sexuality and gender in the ancient world, if they took place at all, focussed on how the roles and spheres of the sexes were divided. While men occupied the public sphere of the community, ranged through the Greek and Roman …
Poets and Critics Read Vergil
Vergil has exerted a stronger grasp on the poetic imagination and critical scholarship than almost any other poet. This absorbing book, a collection of essays and conversations by such leading poets and classicists as Joseph Brodsky, Christine Perkell, Michael C. J. Putnam, and Mark Strand, explores the ways in which Vergil's work has inspired readers of today. The book takes a broad look at questions of historicism: how we read a work written 2,…
On Melancholy
Rufus von Ephesus: Über die Melancholie.
Roman epic
What isn't epic? Very little it seems. This claim can be made confidently from a cursory contemplation of the range of the literature that is normally termed as epic and that is surviving from antiquity. Epic could vary in length from approximately 408 lines (Catullus's sixty-fourth poem) to approximately 9,894 lines (Virgil's Aeneid ). Its themes could range from the comic or parodic (there is a whole subgenre in Greek devoted to this theme: the…
A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World
Though many of the sexual practices of the Ancient Greeks and Romans are known and accepted today, the meanings the Ancients associated with these acts were often utterly different from our own. Both idea and practice also varied within antiquity, shaped by locale, history, social class, age, legal status, and gender. Focusing on the cultures of the Mediterranean from 800 BCE to 350 CE, A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World cover…
Inventing Ancient Culture: Historicism, Periodization and the Ancient World
On Melancholy: Rufus of Ephesus
Rufus of Ephesus' (fl. ca. AD 100) On Melancholy deals with a medical condition oscillating between madness, depression, and bouts of great creativity. This collection of the Greek, Latin, and Arabic fragments makes this text easily available for the first time.
Classical Antiquity Studies (9 works) · History (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Literature (7 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · EPIC (3 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (3 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (3 works) · History (3 works)