Ian Rutherford
Biographic Data
| ID | 1421701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Rutherford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Rutherford |
| SIGNATURE | RUTHERFORD I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2103-0711 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Names of the Gods in Ancient Mediterranean Religions
From Greece to Palmyra, Tyre or Babylon, the names of the gods, like 'Thundering Zeus', 'Three-faced Moon', 'Baal of the Force' or the enigmatic YHWH, reveal their history, family ties, fields of competence and capacity for action. Shared or specific, these names bring to light networks of gods: the Saviour gods, the Ancestral gods, the gods of a city or a family. Names tell stories about the relationship between men and gods, gods and places, pl…
Names of the Gods in Ancient Mediterranean Religions
The experience of pilgrimage in the Roman Empire: Communitas, paideiā, and piety-signaling
Pilgrimage of various types is well attested in the pre-Christian religions of the Roman Empire, but there is comparatively little evidence for the personal experiences of pilgrims. Some recent studies have argued that typical pilgrims of this period were members of the intellectual elite highly versed in literary culture (paideia) who saw sacred places as museums of Greek culture. In this paper, I try to reconstruct what we can about the experie…
The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization, and Paratext
The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext
In The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext, a team of international scholars consider the afterlife of early Greek lyric poetry (iambic, elegiac, and melic) up to the 12th century CE, from a variety of intersecting perspectives: reperformance, textualization, the direct and indirect tradition, anthologies, poets’ Lives, and the disquisitions of philosophers and scholars. Particular attenti…
The Nightingale's Refrain: P. Oxy. 2625 = Slg 460
This chapter suggests that an allusion to bird-song lurks unnoticed in the refrain of a fragment of Greek lyric poetry. The sounds of birds are a common source for refrains in poetry and song. Refrains based on bird-song are found in Medieval troubadour lyric and in German Minnesang. English poets of the Elizabethan period also used bird-song refrains, for example in a lyric from Thomas Nashe's Summer's Last Will and Testament, which dates from 1…
Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World
Twelve Gods
The term “twelve gods” (δώδεkα θεoί) refers to a set of the twelve most important Greek deities, especially in so far as they were worshiped together; the earliest attested cults of the twelve gods are in Athens in the late sixth century bce and at Olympia in the fifth. Groups of twelve gods are well attested in Late Bronze Age Anatolia, and it is possible that the Greeks derived the notion of Twelve Gods from there.
The Earliest Cross-Cultural Reception of Homer?
This chapter examines the cycle of Demotic heroic narratives concerning Inaros of Athribis who fought against Assyria in the early 7th century bce. In particular it explores the relation between the Inaros Cycle and Greek literature. In the light of a recent argument that the Inaros Cycle may have already been in existence in the mid-5th century bce when Inaros ‘the Libyan’ led an Egyptian rebellion against Persia, backed by Athenian forces, it s…
Greco-Egyptian Interactions: Literature, Translation, and Culture, 500 BC–AD 300
This volume examines interactions between Greek and Egyptian literature, religion, and culture as revealed in Greek and Egyptian texts, covering a period from the 5th century bce till the Roman Empire. Genres of texts covered include heroic narrative, fiction, history, hymn, philosophy, esoteric religious literature, and magic. Some chapters discuss cases of Egyptian influence on Greece, and of the Greek reception of Egyptian ideas or literary fo…
Pindar's Cycle
Overlaps between Pindar and Cyclic Epic Most choral songs of the sort composed by Pindar included a narrative based on the established themes of Greek mythology (usually a unique one for each song), or at least brief mythological references. The subjects were most often ones belonging to Panhellenic or common-Greek traditions; ones of purely local interest and disconnected from Panhellenic tradition are rarer. Since the Trojan and Theban Cycle ar…
Stesichorus the romantic
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Greek fiction and Egyptian fiction: Are they related and, if so, how?
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Network Theory and Theoric Networks
This chapter discusses Social Network Analysis (SNA), a form of network theory that goes back to the 1950s. In SNA social networks are represented either in mathematical form, as a matrix, or in the form of a graph, with 'ties' or 'nodes' connected by 'links' or 'vertices'. Theoria and theoric networks are closely related to at least two other types of interstate religious activity: first, amphictionies, which are generally smaller and more tight…
State Pilgrims and Sacred Observers in Ancient Greece: A Study of Theōriā and Theōroi
For at least a thousand years Greek cities took part in religious activities outside their territory by sending sacred delegates to represent them. The delegates are usually called theōroi, literally 'observers', and a delegation made up of theōroi, or the action of taking part in one, is called theōriā. This is the first comprehensive study of theōroi and theōriā. It examines a number of key functions of theōroi and explains who served in this r…
Religion, Minoan and Mycenaean
Before the decipherment of Linear B, the religions of Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece were seen as a continuum (Nilsson 1950). Today, the two are usually seen as distinct, although there seems to have been influence between them both before and after the presumed Mycenaean invasion of Crete at the start of Late Minoan III (1470?).
Pilgrimage
Defined at its broadest, a pilgrimage is a journey of unusual length to a sacred place for a religious reason, a phenomenon found in almost all societies, past and present.
Theoria
The Greek word theoria means “watching,” and has two special senses in Greek culture: first, a religious delegation sent by a Greek city, to consult an oracle or take part in a festival at a sanctuary outside its territory, and second, philosophical contemplation. Theoria in the first sense is attested from the sixth century BCE until the Roman Empire, but the sources are particularly rich in the Hellenistic period. Sacred delegates were called t…
Hieroglyphic Luwian: An Introduction with Original Texts (review)
Reviewed by: Hieroglyphic Luwian: An Introduction with Original Texts Ian Rutherford Annick Payne. Hieroglyphic Luwian: An Introduction with Original Texts. 2nd revised ed. Subsidia et Instrumenta Linguarum Orientis, 2. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010. Pp. xiv, 215. €29.80 (pb.). ISBN 978-3-447-06109-4. What is “Hieroglyphic Luwian,” and why does a book about it deserve the attention of classicists? If a Greek had visited Anatolia in the second mil…
On the Impossibility of Centaurs: The Reception of Pindar in the Roman Empire
Journal Article ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF CENTAURS: THE RECEPTION OF PINDAR IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE Get access Ian Rutherford Ian Rutherford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 55, Issue Supplement_112, June 2012, Pages 92–104, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2012.tb00075.x Published: 24 March 2015
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The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions
The Catalogue of Women, ascribed to Hesiod, one of the greatest figures of early hexameter poetry, maps the Greek world, its evolution and its heroic myths through the mortal women who bore children to the gods. In this collection a team of international scholars offers an attempt to explore the poem's meaning, significance and reception. Individual chapters examine the organization and structure of the poem, its social and political context, its…
TheoriaandDarśan: Pilgrimage and vision in Greece and India
THEORIA IN GREEK RELIGION What was the Greek for pilgrim? If there is no simple answer, the explanation is the great diversity of ancient pilgrimages and pilgrimage-related phenomena. People went to sanctuaries for all sorts of reasons: consulting oracles, attending festivals, making sacrifices, watching the Panhellenic games, or seeking a cure for illness; there were variations in the participants (individuals or state-delegations, small groups …
Pindar on the Birth of Apollo
Pindar must have narrated the myth of the birth of Apollo in many poems. We know of at least three, perhaps four versions: his only extant account of the birth itself is in Pa. XII; the latter of the two surviving sections of Pa. VIIb describes the flight of Asteria from Zeus, her transformation into an island and (probably) Zeus' desire to have Apollo and Artemis born there; the birth also seems to have been mentioned in the Hymn to Zeus immedia…
Canons of Style in the Antonine Age: Idea -Theory in its Literary Context
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between literature and stylistic theory in the Antonine Age. The literature is the prose literature of the Second Sophistic and the stylistic theory is the so-called idea-theory set out in the Peri Ideon of Hermogenes of Tarsus, as well as two anonymous works: the Peri Politikou Logou and the Peri Aphelous Logou. The author discusses the relationship between idea-theory and sophistic declam…
Paeanic Ambiguity: A Study of the Representation of the παιάν in Greek Literature
Network Theory and Theoric Networks
The term 'theoric network' can be understood either as a network made up of all the cities that send festival delegates (theoroi) to one particular festival, together with the city that organizes the festival itself, or as the overall 'hyper-network', comprising the sum of all such theoric networks. The paper explores the issue of whether contemporary 'social network theory' provides a valid working model for understanding theoric networks (or th…
The New Simonides: Towards a Commentary
The New Simonides:Towards a Commentary Ian Rutherford The Text The main sources are two papyri from Oxyrhynchus, both probably to be dated to the second century A.D. These are POxy 2327 and POxy 3965, which overlap with each other in two places. Simonidean authorship is established by two coincidences with passages of poetry otherwise attributed to Simonides by Plutarch and Stobaeus. The scribe of POxy 2327 is the same as that of POxy 2430, a col…
Pindar on the Birth of Apollo
Pindar must have narrated the myth of the birth of Apollo in many poems. We know of at least three, perhaps four versions: his only extant account of the birth itself is in Pa. XII; the latter of the two surviving sections of Pa. VIIb describes the flight of Asteria from Zeus, her transformation into an island and (probably) Zeus' desire to have Apollo and Artemis born there; the birth also seems to have been mentioned in the Hymn to Zeus immedia…
Inverting the Canon: Hermogenes on Literature
ON Ideas attributed to Hermogenes of Tarsus is the most extensive document of literary criticism to survive from the period of the Second Sophistic. It presents a formidable theoretical construction, consisting of a large and complex system of some eighteen stylistic qualities (i5iat) and the linguistic features that generate them. Where possible these are illustrated from the speeches of Demosthenes, whom Hermogenes regards as the supreme master…
Paeanic Ambiguity: A Study of the Representation of the παιάν in Greek Literature
Apollo's Other Genre: Proclus on Nomoσ and His Source
The New Simonides: Towards a Commentary
The New Simonides:Towards a Commentary Ian Rutherford The Text The main sources are two papyri from Oxyrhynchus, both probably to be dated to the second century A.D. These are POxy 2327 and POxy 3965, which overlap with each other in two places. Simonidean authorship is established by two coincidences with passages of poetry otherwise attributed to Simonides by Plutarch and Stobaeus. The scribe of POxy 2327 is the same as that of POxy 2430, a col…
Canons of Style in the Antonine Age: Idea -Theory in its Literary Context
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between literature and stylistic theory in the Antonine Age. The literature is the prose literature of the Second Sophistic and the stylistic theory is the so-called idea-theory set out in the Peri Ideon of Hermogenes of Tarsus, as well as two anonymous works: the Peri Politikou Logou and the Peri Aphelous Logou. The author discusses the relationship between idea-theory and sophistic declam…
Canons of Style in the Antonine Age: Idea-Theory and Its Literary Context
TheoriaandDarśan: Pilgrimage and vision in Greece and India
THEORIA IN GREEK RELIGION What was the Greek for pilgrim? If there is no simple answer, the explanation is the great diversity of ancient pilgrimages and pilgrimage-related phenomena. People went to sanctuaries for all sorts of reasons: consulting oracles, attending festivals, making sacrifices, watching the Panhellenic games, or seeking a cure for illness; there were variations in the participants (individuals or state-delegations, small groups …
Pindar's Paeans: A Reading of the Fragments with a Survey of the Genre
The paean, or sacred hymn to Apollo, had a central place in the song-dance culture of classical Greece. The most celebrated examples of the genre in antiquity were Pindar's paeans, which became known to scholars in this century thanks to the discovery of papyrus fragments, some published as recently as 1989. Long overdue, this book offers the first comprehensive re-evaluation of the poems. It includes a text and translation of all the paeans of P…
La pirrica nell' antichità greco-romana: Studi sulla danza armata
(Xen. Mem . 3.3.12): Song-Dance and State-Pilgrimage at Athens
This chapter is concerned with song-dance in the context of Athenian state-pilgrimage or theoria. It offers a reconstruction of the various possible types of theoric chorus before considering the kinds of choral performance that might have accompanied Athenian sacred delegations to Delphi and Delos. It argues that the extant part of Pindar's Paian 5 is a typical example of theoric song, such as would have been performed at Delos. The chapter conc…
The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions
The Catalogue of Women, ascribed to Hesiod, one of the greatest figures of early hexameter poetry, maps the Greek world, its evolution and its heroic myths through the mortal women who bore children to the gods. In this collection a team of international scholars offers an attempt to explore the poem's meaning, significance and reception. Individual chapters examine the organization and structure of the poem, its social and political context, its…
Mestra at Athens: Hesiod fr. 43 and the poetics of panhellenism
INTRODUCTION: PANHELLENIC POETICS The genealogical poetry, of which the Catalogue is one example, must have evolved over many centuries, and it seems likely that it is at least as old, if not older than, epic narrative poetry. Or perhaps we should think of two parallel traditions: narrative poetry, focusing on the deeds of men, the κλέα ἀνδρῶν, and genealogical poetry, presented as a register of women, who generate the genealogies by giving birth…
The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions
The Catalogue of Women, ascribed to Hesiod, one of the greatest figures of early hexameter poetry, maps the Greek world, its evolution and its heroic myths through the mortal women who bore children to the gods. In this collection a team of international scholars offers an attempt to explore the poem's meaning, significance and reception. Individual chapters examine the organization and structure of the poem, its social and political context, its…
Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity
This book is an innovative collection of seventeen essays by leading scholars of ancient religion on aspects of pilgrimage in Greek and Roman and Early Christian Antiquity. The period covered is roughly from 500BC till 400AD, and the types of pilgrimage studied is very broad, ranging from state delegations that are more or less politically motivated to the journeys of individuals interested in intellectually or spiritual enlightenment. Essays are…
Network Theory and Theoric Networks
The term 'theoric network' can be understood either as a network made up of all the cities that send festival delegates (theoroi) to one particular festival, together with the city that organizes the festival itself, or as the overall 'hyper-network', comprising the sum of all such theoric networks. The paper explores the issue of whether contemporary 'social network theory' provides a valid working model for understanding theoric networks (or th…
Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods
Encountering the sacred the debate on christian pilgrimage in late antiquity Bitton-Ashkelony, Brouria
"Encountering the sacred the debate on christian pilgrimage in late antiquity Bitton-Ashkelony, Brouria." Material Religion, 4(1), pp. 106–107
Aristodama and the Aetolians: An itinerant poetess and her agenda
THE ARISTODAMA DECREES The poetess Aristodama, daughter of Amyntas, was most likely born in the third quarter of the third century BCE in Smyrna on the west coast of Asia Minor. Many Greeks believed that Homer had been born in Smyrna, and even if Aristodama's Smyrna was a recreated city – Homer's Smyrna was destroyed in the early sixth century BCE and it was not refounded until about 300 BCE – still it must have had a strong sense of its literary…
Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture: Travel, Locality and Pan-Hellenism
Although recent scholarship has focused on the city-state as the context for the production of Greek poetry, for poets and performers travel was more the norm than the exception. This book traces this central aspect of ancient culture from its roots in the near Eastern societies which preceded the Greeks, through the way in which early semi-mythical figures such as Orpheus were imagined, the poets who travelled to the brilliant courts of archaic …
Chapter 23 Ecosystem Response Modelling in the Goulburn River: How Much Water is Too Much?
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‘The Theārion of the Pythian One’: The Aeginetan Theāroi in Context
The ‘Theārion of the Pythian one’ referred to in Pindar's Nemean 3 has emerged in recent scholarship as a central focus of debate in Aeginetan studies. There is general agreement that this must have been the meeting place for Aeginetan theāroi, one of whose principal functions was liaising with Delphi. This chapter discusses the significance of this building and its officials for the religious and political life of the polis, through an assessmen…
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