Martin Devecka
Biographic Data
| ID | 1428531 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Devecka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Devecka |
| SIGNATURE | DEVECKA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Technical Automation in Classical Antiquity by Maria Gerolemou (review)
The Palestinian and Jewish Working Class and Its Organizations, 1918-1939
The Humed Serpent: Lucian, miracles, enlightenment, and empire
In his essay ‘Of Miracles’, published separately and as the final chapter of his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume enlists Lucian’s Alexander, or the False Prophet as evidence for his claim that miracle narratives first take root among gullible rural populations before spreading to cultured city-dwelling elites. This essay reads Lucian’s Alexander and On the Death of Peregrinus against the Humean grain to suggest that miracle sto…
On n'échappe pas aux ruines, « c'est que l'homme s'assied où la cendre de l'homme repose1: Un débat entre Martin Devecka, Rémi Hadad, Andrew Hui, Paul Landauer et Susan Stewart, mené par Jean-Paul Dem…
Jamais, depuis le XVIII e siècle, les ruines n'ont été l'objet d'une curiosité aussi intense que celle des premières décennies du XXI e siècle.Comme le tremblement de terre de Lisbonne en 1755, l'accident de la centrale de Tchernobyl en 1986, l'assaut contre les tours jumelles de New York le 11 septembre 2001, le raz de marée de Fukushima en 2011, ont profondément marqué les rapports des hommes avec les édifices qu'ils ont érigés, et imposé un no…
From Rome to the Moon: Rutilius Namatianus and the Late Antique Game of Knowledge
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The Epic Journey in Greek and Roman Literature
This volume explores journeys across time and space in Greek and Latin literature, taking as its starting point the paradigm of travel offered by the epic genre. The epic journey is central to the dynamics of classical literature, offering a powerful lens through which characters, authors, and readers experience their real and imaginary worlds. The journey informs questions of identity formation, narrative development, historical emplotment, and …
Literacy
The Roman world was characterized by a diversity of literacies. These were stratified by class and partitioned by language. In this chapter, I give a conspectus of the many social functions that these various literacies exercised in everyday life, as well as a sense of the technical and educational apparatus through which individuals acquired and exercised literacy. I discuss the important and ambiguous role of the scribe as professionally litera…
The Traffic in Glands
The story that beavers self-castrate when cornered by hunters appears in a range of Roman sources, both poetry and prose, from the end of the Republic onward. This myth is a product of the rôle that ‘beaver testicles’ played in Roman luxury trade and medicine. At the same time, it serves as a literary figure for the fraught relations between Rome and the provinces from which these, and other, luxury goods were imported
On n'échappe pas aux ruines, « c'est que l'homme s'assied où la cendre de l'homme repose1: Un débat entre Martin Devecka, Rémi Hadad, Andrew Hui, Paul Landauer et Susan Stewart, mené par Jean-Paul Dem…
Jamais, depuis le XVIII e siècle, les ruines n'ont été l'objet d'une curiosité aussi intense que celle des premières décennies du XXI e siècle.Comme le tremblement de terre de Lisbonne en 1755, l'accident de la centrale de Tchernobyl en 1986, l'assaut contre les tours jumelles de New York le 11 septembre 2001, le raz de marée de Fukushima en 2011, ont profondément marqué les rapports des hommes avec les édifices qu'ils ont érigés, et imposé un no…
The Traffic in Glands
The story that beavers self-castrate when cornered by hunters appears in a range of Roman sources, both poetry and prose, from the end of the Republic onward. This myth is a product of the rôle that ‘beaver testicles’ played in Roman luxury trade and medicine. At the same time, it serves as a literary figure for the fraught relations between Rome and the provinces from which these, and other, luxury goods were imported
The Traffic in Glands
The story that beavers self-castrate when cornered by hunters appears in a range of Roman sources, both poetry and prose, from the end of the Republic onward. This myth is a product of the rôle that ‘beaver testicles’ played in Roman luxury trade and medicine. At the same time, it serves as a literary figure for the fraught relations between Rome and the provinces from which these, and other, luxury goods were imported
Literacy
The Roman world was characterized by a diversity of literacies. These were stratified by class and partitioned by language. In this chapter, I give a conspectus of the many social functions that these various literacies exercised in everyday life, as well as a sense of the technical and educational apparatus through which individuals acquired and exercised literacy. I discuss the important and ambiguous role of the scribe as professionally litera…
From Rome to the Moon: Rutilius Namatianus and the Late Antique Game of Knowledge
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Epic Journey in Greek and Roman Literature
This volume explores journeys across time and space in Greek and Latin literature, taking as its starting point the paradigm of travel offered by the epic genre. The epic journey is central to the dynamics of classical literature, offering a powerful lens through which characters, authors, and readers experience their real and imaginary worlds. The journey informs questions of identity formation, narrative development, historical emplotment, and …
On n'échappe pas aux ruines, « c'est que l'homme s'assied où la cendre de l'homme repose1: Un débat entre Martin Devecka, Rémi Hadad, Andrew Hui, Paul Landauer et Susan Stewart, mené par Jean-Paul Dem…
Jamais, depuis le XVIII e siècle, les ruines n'ont été l'objet d'une curiosité aussi intense que celle des premières décennies du XXI e siècle.Comme le tremblement de terre de Lisbonne en 1755, l'accident de la centrale de Tchernobyl en 1986, l'assaut contre les tours jumelles de New York le 11 septembre 2001, le raz de marée de Fukushima en 2011, ont profondément marqué les rapports des hommes avec les édifices qu'ils ont érigés, et imposé un no…
The Humed Serpent: Lucian, miracles, enlightenment, and empire
In his essay ‘Of Miracles’, published separately and as the final chapter of his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume enlists Lucian’s Alexander, or the False Prophet as evidence for his claim that miracle narratives first take root among gullible rural populations before spreading to cultured city-dwelling elites. This essay reads Lucian’s Alexander and On the Death of Peregrinus against the Humean grain to suggest that miracle sto…
The Palestinian and Jewish Working Class and Its Organizations, 1918-1939
Technical Automation in Classical Antiquity by Maria Gerolemou (review)
Art (5 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Classics (2 works) · EPIC (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)