R Drew Griffith

Biographic Data

ID1428359
NAMER Drew Griffith
GIVEN NAMESR Drew
FAMILY NAMEGriffith
SIGNATUREGRIFFITH R D
AFFILIATIONSQueen's University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS19
AUTHOR COUNT27
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX3

  • Sophocles, Antigone 4–8

    R Drew GriffithARTICLEIllinois Classical Studies2024

    This note suggests that the well-known crux οὔτ ̓ ἄτης ἄτɛρ in Sophocles's Antigone 4 is best resolved by reading οὔτ ̓ ἀτɛρπὲς ἦν, demonstrates that such a locution is perfectly Sophoclean, and offers a discussion of how such an error might have occurred

  • Theocritus, Idyll 11.13–18: Galatea as Thetis Manquée

    R Drew GriffithARTICLEMouseion Journal of the Classical…2022

    The figure of Polyphemus’ mother in Theocritus, Idyll 11 calls to mind the wooing of another reluctant sea-nymph, Thetis, by Peleus. While in that story ἔρις is cast down from heaven to earth, in Polyphemus’ affair with Galatea he sublimates the ἔρως he cannot consummate from procreation into creating art. Echoes of Pindar and Empedocles help to connect these two stories

  • Aristophanes, Clouds 327: Groats Get in Your Eyes

    Open AccessR Drew GriffithARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2022References: 4

    In Aristophanes’ Clouds , Socrates vents his frustration at his new pupil Strepsiades’ inability to see the eponymous chorus with the line ‘You would see them unless you have drops of rheum in your eyes as big as gourds ( κολοκύνταις ).’ This line is problematic, because gourds relate to eyesight in no obvious way. However, Aristophanes might have ended the verse by referring to Socrates’ initiation of Strepsiades sixty-five lines earlier by a li…

  • Prairie Oysters and Perjured Roisterers: Demosthenes 54.39

    R Drew GriffithARTICLEMnemosyne2021References: 4

  • Socrates' Dying Words (Plato Phaedo 118a) as an Aesopic Fable

    R Drew Griffith, R Drew Griffith R Drew GriffithARTICLEPhoenix2017

    John Burnet once interpreted the dying Socrates’ claim that he owes a rooster to Asclepius as meaning that he hopes to wake from death like one healed by incubation in the Asklepeion at Epidaurus. This article endorses Burnet's reading, and argues that Socrates’ words constitute an Aesopic fable

  • The Aristophanic Slapstick ( Nub. 537-44)

    Open AccessR Drew GriffithARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2015References: 2

    Revising Clouds for publication some five years after its third-place showing in the City Dionysia of 423 b.c ., Aristophanes retooled the first parabasis (lines 510–626) to praise the play's propriety, omitting as it did distasteful matter and gratuitous buffoonery, which—along with the judges’ crassness—accounted, he says, for its failure

  • The Bird that Became a Cleonymus-Tree: Pindar’s Olympian 12.13-6 and Aristophanes’ Birds 1473-81

    R Drew GriffithARTICLEMnemosyne2012References: 9

  • An Offer You Can't Retract: Xerxes' Nod and Masistes' Wife (Herodotus 9.111.1)

    Open AccessR Drew GriffithARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2011

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  • A Fool by Any Other Name: Greek 'Aazn and Akkadian Aluzinnu

    R Drew Griffith, Robert B MarksARTICLEPhoenix2011Cited by: 1

    Greek άλαζών may be an adaptation of Akkadian aluzinnu, “foolish boaster.” The lack of another convincing etymology for the Greek word, the similarity of the figures described by both words, and the possible contact between Babylonia/Assyria and Greece all support this conclusion

  • Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour by Alexandre G. Mitchell

    R Drew GriffithARTICLEPhoenix2011

    426 PHOENIX Thevolume caters to thenon-specialist in thatallGreek andLatinis translated (although theinclusion oftheoriginal Greek text is inconsistent) andtechnical terms areexplained, butitwillserve more than justthenon-specialist. Reference is made throughout torelevant scholarly literature ina variety oflanguages other than English, which will beofusetoadvanced students andclassicists looking tofamiliarize themselves with thecurrent state ofs…

  • Dogs, Vines, and the Invention of Wine (Hecataeus 1 F 15 FGrHist )

    R Drew GriffithARTICLEMouseion Journal of the Classical…2010References: 14

    Dogs, Vines, and the Invention of Wine (Hecataeus 1 F 15 FGrHist) R. Drew Griffith Of Deucalion’s son, Orestheus of Aetolia, Hecataeus of Miletus (born ca. 550 bc) writes, “his dog gave birth to a stick (literally, the crown of a root), and he ordered it to be buried” (κύων αὐτοῦ στέλεχος ἔτεκε• καὶ ὃς ἐκέλευσεν αὐτὸ κατορυχθῆναι, Athen. 2.35a-b = 1 F 15 FGrHist, cf. Paus. 10.38.1).1 Happily, once the portent was under ground, “there sprouted fro…

  • Notes and Discussions: TPEΦEIN ΓAΛA ( Odyssey 9.246 )

    R Drew GriffithARTICLEClassical Philology2010

  • Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia

    Alberto Bernabé, Frederick Brenk et al.BOOKMystic Cults in Magna Graecia2009

  • Alph, the Sacred River, Ran: Geographical Subterfuge in Pindar Olympian 1.20

    R Drew GriffithARTICLEMouseion Journal of the Classical…2008Cited by: 1References: 15

    Pindare, dans Olympique 1, ode écrite en l'honneur de Hiéron de Syracuse, raconte le mythe de Pélops. Le poète lie le héros et le tyran en mentionnant à deux reprises que l'Alphée, rivière coulant à Olympie, emprunte une voie souterraine pour s'unir à la source syracusaine d'Aréthuse. Pindare ou le choeur auraient-ils chanté l'ode devant Aréthuse? Sinon pourquoi commencer le poème avec les mots ἄριςτον μὲν ὕδωρ

  • Heralds and the Beginning of the Peloponnesian War (THUC. 2.1)

    R Drew GriffithARTICLEClassical Philology2008Cited by: 4References: 5

  • Gods’ Blue Hair in Homer and in Eighteenth-Dynasty Egypt

    Open AccessR Drew GriffithARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2005Cited by: 3

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  • Sailing to Elysium: Menelaus' Afterlife ("Odyssey" 4.561-569) and Egyptian Religion

    R Drew GriffithARTICLEPhoenix2001

  • The Theatre of Apollo: Divine Justice and Sophocles' Oedipus the King

    Justina Gregory, R Drew GriffithARTICLEPhoenix1999Cited by: 2

    Poem as fact: The historical method in literary criticism Stage directions for Sophocles' the King Oedipus Pharmakos? Alleged scapegoating in the play Asserting eternal providence: The question of guilt The authority of prophecy: Theodicy in the play Reading the name of Oedipus and other riddles The humiliation of Oedipus

  • Corporality in the Ancient Greek Theatre

    R Drew GriffithARTICLEPhoenix1998

    EACH PERSON MURDERED in the Oresteia, with the exception of Aegisthus, removes a piece of clothing before entering the scene-building to his or her death (Griffith 1988).1 Most notably, in the Choephori, having argued for her life in vain, as a last desperate attempt, Clytaemnestra says to Orestes, T6v6 6' a'(6caat ... [aTo6v, pity this breast (896-897). Her words apparently allude to Hecuba's supplication of Hector to reenter the walls of Troy i…

  • Theatre of Apollo: Divine Justice and Sophocles’ Oedipus the King

    R Drew Griffith, Drew GriffithBOOKTheatre of Apollo1996Cited by: 2

    By imaginatively recreating the play's original staging and debunking the interpretations of various critics, including Aristotle, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, E.R. Dodds, Frederick Ahl, and John Peradotto, Griffith shows that Apollo is a constant, powerful presence throughout the play. He contends that although we can sympathize with Oedipus because of his sufferings, he is still morally responsible for murdering his father and sleeping w…

  • In the Dark Backward: Time in Pindaric Narrative

    R Drew GriffithARTICLEPoetics Today1993

    This paper considers the temporal relationship between account and in the passages of Pindar's odes. Highly selective, each covers vast extent of story-time, creating rapidly juxtaposed tableaux. The account typically begins near the end of the story, proceeding backwards by stages until it reaches the beginning. Thence it returns through all, some, or none of the intermediary stages until it reached its starting point, beyond which it may then c…

  • "Oedipus Pharmakos? Alleged Scapegoating in Sophocles' "Oedipus the King

    R Drew GriffithARTICLEPhoenix1993Cited by: 3

    IN HIS RECENT BOOK, Sophocles' Oedipus: Evidence and Self-Conviction,' Frederick Ahl argues that the text of Oedipus the King offers no proof for the conclusion, drawn by the protagonist himself, that he has killed his father and slept with his mother. Oedipus' self-conviction, he argues, owes more to the clash of self-interested, half-true statements and false assumptions of Sophocles' characters, that is to their rhetoric,2 than to any logic th…

  • The Poet's Voice: Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature

    R Drew Griffith, Simon GoldhillARTICLEPhoenix1993

  • Nonum ... Prematur in Annum (Hor. Ap 388)

    R Drew GriffithARTICLEMnemosyne1992

  • The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. 1: Classical Criticism

    R Drew Griffith, Rosanna Griffith et al.ARTICLEPhoenix1992