Richard Fernando Buxton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1428518 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Fernando Buxton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard Fernando |
| FAMILY NAME | Buxton |
| SIGNATURE | BUXTON R F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Greece, written by Carol Atack
Hoplites and Oligarchy: A Marked Association in Classical Greece
Elite hoplites narrowly dominated their sub-elite peers, resulting in "hoplites" frequently operating as a marked term designating only this elite element, one closely identified with oligarchy. But sub-elite hoplites could, when provoked, contest power, explaining the ubiquity of stasis and a competing association of "hoplites" with mixed and democratic constitutions
Forging Unity, Exporting Unrest: Xenophon and Isocrates on Stasis
Modeling Hegemony through Stasis: Xenophon on Sparta at Thebes and Phlius
Xenophon’s programmatic preface to his narrative of the revolution at Thebes (Hellenica 5.4.1) in 378 B.C.E. suggests that the author positions the stasis there as an interpretive model for the larger contemporary wars over mainland hegemony, similar to Thucydides with Corcyra. Accordingly, the abuses of the Spartan-backed government at Thebes and the resentment that these provoke provide a blueprint for understanding the broader disintegration o…
Xenophon on Leadership: Commanders as Friends
Ch. 5. Novel Leaders for Novel Armies: Xenophon's Focus on Willing Obedience in Context
Although the universalising bent of Xenophon’s leadership theory shows Socratic influence, its prioritisation of the general and the author’s fame for leading the Cyreans suggests an equal foundation in his battlefield experiences. In particular, the theory’s focus on securing willing obedience can be understood as a response to the novel fourth-century challenge of uniting ethnically disparate forces of free-agent mercenaries as an army, an issu…
Movement and Stillness: Versions of Medea
This chapter begins with the portrayal of Medea by Apollonios of Rhodes, concentrating on Medea's oscillations between movement and stillness. In particular, it is when exercising control through magic that she is motionless, whereas her domestically-generated anguish drives her into motion. The argument then widens out to consider, firstly, the stillness/movement polarity in other versions of the Medea myth both in art and in literature, and, se…
Athenian Drama
With its masked actors and its location in the theatre of Dionysos, god of reversals, Attic drama may be said to have at its very core a set of ‘metamorphic’ features, at least in an applied sense of the term. More specifically, however, the plots of some plays turn upon a change of shape by one or more of the characters. By analysing how this motif is contrastingly handled in tragedy and comedy, we can illuminate fundamental differences between …
Shapes of the Gods
We have already noticed many individual cases of the transformation of Greek divinities: gods who change into birds in Homeric epic; multiform Dionysos in tragedy and in Nonnos; contrasting evocations of the transformed Zeus in visual art and in Moschos; self-changing nymphs in Apollonios. In the first half of the present chapter I comment on three more aspects of the relationship between metamorphosis and Greek notions of divinity: namely, the g…
Ch. 5. Novel Leaders for Novel Armies: Xenophon's Focus on Willing Obedience in Context
Although the universalising bent of Xenophon’s leadership theory shows Socratic influence, its prioritisation of the general and the author’s fame for leading the Cyreans suggests an equal foundation in his battlefield experiences. In particular, the theory’s focus on securing willing obedience can be understood as a response to the novel fourth-century challenge of uniting ethnically disparate forces of free-agent mercenaries as an army, an issu…
Modeling Hegemony through Stasis: Xenophon on Sparta at Thebes and Phlius
Xenophon’s programmatic preface to his narrative of the revolution at Thebes (Hellenica 5.4.1) in 378 B.C.E. suggests that the author positions the stasis there as an interpretive model for the larger contemporary wars over mainland hegemony, similar to Thucydides with Corcyra. Accordingly, the abuses of the Spartan-backed government at Thebes and the resentment that these provoke provide a blueprint for understanding the broader disintegration o…
Athenian Drama
With its masked actors and its location in the theatre of Dionysos, god of reversals, Attic drama may be said to have at its very core a set of ‘metamorphic’ features, at least in an applied sense of the term. More specifically, however, the plots of some plays turn upon a change of shape by one or more of the characters. By analysing how this motif is contrastingly handled in tragedy and comedy, we can illuminate fundamental differences between …
Shapes of the Gods
We have already noticed many individual cases of the transformation of Greek divinities: gods who change into birds in Homeric epic; multiform Dionysos in tragedy and in Nonnos; contrasting evocations of the transformed Zeus in visual art and in Moschos; self-changing nymphs in Apollonios. In the first half of the present chapter I comment on three more aspects of the relationship between metamorphosis and Greek notions of divinity: namely, the g…
Movement and Stillness: Versions of Medea
This chapter begins with the portrayal of Medea by Apollonios of Rhodes, concentrating on Medea's oscillations between movement and stillness. In particular, it is when exercising control through magic that she is motionless, whereas her domestically-generated anguish drives her into motion. The argument then widens out to consider, firstly, the stillness/movement polarity in other versions of the Medea myth both in art and in literature, and, se…
Xenophon on Leadership: Commanders as Friends
Ch. 5. Novel Leaders for Novel Armies: Xenophon's Focus on Willing Obedience in Context
Although the universalising bent of Xenophon’s leadership theory shows Socratic influence, its prioritisation of the general and the author’s fame for leading the Cyreans suggests an equal foundation in his battlefield experiences. In particular, the theory’s focus on securing willing obedience can be understood as a response to the novel fourth-century challenge of uniting ethnically disparate forces of free-agent mercenaries as an army, an issu…
Modeling Hegemony through Stasis: Xenophon on Sparta at Thebes and Phlius
Xenophon’s programmatic preface to his narrative of the revolution at Thebes (Hellenica 5.4.1) in 378 B.C.E. suggests that the author positions the stasis there as an interpretive model for the larger contemporary wars over mainland hegemony, similar to Thucydides with Corcyra. Accordingly, the abuses of the Spartan-backed government at Thebes and the resentment that these provoke provide a blueprint for understanding the broader disintegration o…
Forging Unity, Exporting Unrest: Xenophon and Isocrates on Stasis
The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Greece, written by Carol Atack
Hoplites and Oligarchy: A Marked Association in Classical Greece
Elite hoplites narrowly dominated their sub-elite peers, resulting in "hoplites" frequently operating as a marked term designating only this elite element, one closely identified with oligarchy. But sub-elite hoplites could, when provoked, contest power, explaining the ubiquity of stasis and a competing association of "hoplites" with mixed and democratic constitutions
Classical Antiquity Studies (9 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works)