Paula Debnar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1428673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paula Debnar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paula |
| FAMILY NAME | Debnar |
| SIGNATURE | DEBNAR P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Holyoke College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Turn, Turn, Turn
After creating a set of terms linked to the "swerve," Lucretius repeats them when discussing seemingly unrelated topics, such as earthquakes and music. These allusions remind readers of the universal importance of the "swerve" and, therefore, of their freedom to turn to a life of real pleasure and the least pain
Blurring the Boundaries of Speech
The Sexual Status of Aeschylus’ Cassandra
Sparta and the Spartans in Thucydides
This chapter begins by discussing the objectivity question as far as it affects Thucydides' attitudes to and presentation of Sparta and Spartans. Is his treatment of the Spartans balanced? Is it too balanced, too neatly cast in terms of a familiar Greek mode of thinking, namely binary polarization? Next, it discusses what kinds of things Thucydides tells us about the Spartans, commenting briefly on his terminology. Following Thucydides' own metho…
Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides
The Unpersuasive Thebans (Thucydides 3.61-67)
THUCYDIDES 3.52-68 concludes the story of Plataea begun in Book2. Weakened by two years of siege, the Plataeans surrender to the Lacedaemonians with the understanding that the guilty will be punished, but no one icapa ixrtiv (3.52.2).1 When the Spartan judges arrive, however, they do not conduct a conventional trial, but simply ask their prisoners whether they have done the Lacedaemonians and their allies any good in the current war.2 The Plataea…
Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides
The Sexual Status of Aeschylus’ Cassandra
The Unpersuasive Thebans (Thucydides 3.61-67)
THUCYDIDES 3.52-68 concludes the story of Plataea begun in Book2. Weakened by two years of siege, the Plataeans surrender to the Lacedaemonians with the understanding that the guilty will be punished, but no one icapa ixrtiv (3.52.2).1 When the Spartan judges arrive, however, they do not conduct a conventional trial, but simply ask their prisoners whether they have done the Lacedaemonians and their allies any good in the current war.2 The Plataea…
The Unpersuasive Thebans (Thucydides 3.61-67)
THUCYDIDES 3.52-68 concludes the story of Plataea begun in Book2. Weakened by two years of siege, the Plataeans surrender to the Lacedaemonians with the understanding that the guilty will be punished, but no one icapa ixrtiv (3.52.2).1 When the Spartan judges arrive, however, they do not conduct a conventional trial, but simply ask their prisoners whether they have done the Lacedaemonians and their allies any good in the current war.2 The Plataea…
Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides
Sparta and the Spartans in Thucydides
This chapter begins by discussing the objectivity question as far as it affects Thucydides' attitudes to and presentation of Sparta and Spartans. Is his treatment of the Spartans balanced? Is it too balanced, too neatly cast in terms of a familiar Greek mode of thinking, namely binary polarization? Next, it discusses what kinds of things Thucydides tells us about the Spartans, commenting briefly on his terminology. Following Thucydides' own metho…
The Sexual Status of Aeschylus’ Cassandra
Blurring the Boundaries of Speech
Turn, Turn, Turn
After creating a set of terms linked to the "swerve," Lucretius repeats them when discussing seemingly unrelated topics, such as earthquakes and music. These allusions remind readers of the universal importance of the "swerve" and, therefore, of their freedom to turn to a life of real pleasure and the least pain
Classical Antiquity Studies (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · History (3 works) · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)