William J Slater
Biographic Data
| ID | 1428679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William J Slater |
| GIVEN NAMES | William J |
| FAMILY NAME | Slater |
| SIGNATURE | SLATER W J |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Theatres for Hire
The Piraeus were certainly leased out to private individuals in classical antiquity. It has been suggested that this was common and was true even for the Theatre of Dionysus in Athens, and that this model was true for impermanent wooden theatres. This article argues a contrary position: that there is only one certain example of a leased theatre, which may for all we know have been unique. The other alleged parallel, the deme theatre in Acharnae, …
Leukippe as Tragedy
This article deals with a mosaic from ancient Zeugma on the Euphrates found in 2002 and recently published with interpretive commentary. Its subject is the story of Theonoe and Leukippe preserved only in Hyginus and nowhere in Greek. Despite this, the authors argue that the myth, in its unique form, can for over one thousand years be connected with romance, mime, pantomime, tragedy and derives ultimately from early Cretan rituals of transvestism.…
Mime Problems
Pindar, Nemean 7.102—Past and Present
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Handouts at Dinner
The listeners who follow them are like performers, hired and bought. They huddle together with a middleman; in the middle of a basilica sportulae are handed out as openly as in a triclinium. They run from one court to another for the same wage. Hence these people are called not without humour Sophocleses from sophos and kaleisthai; in Latin the name given them is laudiceni. Sherwin-White in his commentary on this passage deals only with the expla…
Hooking in harbours
Klaus Alpers has recently recovered from the obscurity of Byzantine lexica the fragments of what appears to be a novel dating from c. A.D. 100, and notable to us, as it was for the Byzantine excerptor, for the elegant verbal borrowings from ancient comedy, always a favourite source of good Attic Greek for the atticists of imperial times. One of these glosses gives occasion to look again at fishing metaphors for erotic business, a subject discusse…
Roman Theater and Society
L'hègemôn dans les fêtes hellénistiques
Le terme « hègemôn » apparaît à la fois dans la documentation littéraire et épigraphique pour décrire une personne qui dirige un chœur, mais les études récentes ne se sont guère intéressées à sa signification exacte. On trouvera, dans cette communication, des exemples de l'imprécision des chercheurs d'aujourd'hui dans l'utilisation de ces termes, employés généralement de manière très technique dans les inscriptions relatives à des fêtes. On préte…
The Context of Ancient Drama
La Cite au banquet
Three Problems in the History of Drama
THE LONG INSCRIPTION describing the festival of the Sarapieia at Tanagra has been described by Sifakis with justice as our most interesting case.1 Sifakis was using the original edition of the full text published by Christou2 in 1956, after its missing portion had been found. Almost immediately corrections were offered.3 The second sand third) version of the standard work on the dramatic festivals of Athens disappointingly says only that: Some of…
Dining in a Classical Context
Grammarians and Handwashing
IN MODERN COMMENTARIES one will find little about the rituals of handwashing; the best recent discussion is a footnote in the work of an archaeologist and fifty years prior to that a brief comment by van Leeuwen.' But it was different in antiquity where philology concerned itself intensely with such problems. In what follows I propose to trace the ancient and modern discussions. They provide a good example of the vicissitudes to which learning is…
The Epiphany of Demosthenes
observation. In particular it seems to me that the repetition of ,4i finally the real stage hero Aeschines is denounced for his incompetent performance on the real stage of life. The soteriology of the dramatic self-presentation is contrasted with Aeschines' efforts at heroic appearance on the stage; the stage of life is contrasted with the theatre; the allegedly comic Demosthenes triumphs over the ineptly heroic Aeschines. Throughout runs the mo…
Aristophanes Of Byzantium And Problem-Solving In The Museum
When Festus said to Paul: ‘Much learning doth make thee mad’, Paul's answer was the instinctive defence of a scholar under attack: ‘I am not mad, most noble Festus, but speak forth the words of truth and soberness’. Whether poets were mad or sober has been a question for critics ever since Gorgias pointed out the incompatibility; it is less frequently debated why scholars unlike poets should need to affirm their sobriety. I should like to concent…
Artemon and Anacreon
WE KNOW VERY LITTLE about the circumstances surrounding the actual performance and composition of Greek lyric poetry of the classical period. In antiquity too the same could be true, so that we cannot be sure that those ancients who attempt to supply what is now lost and what for them was also lost, are worthy of the credit they seem to deserve. They were especially liable to be deceived by dramatic poetry, since they themselves were scholars of …
Scholia Vetera in Aristophanis Nubes
High Flying at Paestum
High Flying at Paestum
The Maculate Muse
Aristophanes of Byzantium on the Pinakes of Callimachus
Sur les methodes de travail, les difficultes, les contestations des grammairiens alexandrins (l'emploi de, la doctrine atticiste, la position d'A., etc.)
Pueri, Turba Minuta
Journal Article PUERI, TURBA MINUTA Get access W. J. Slater W. J. Slater McMaster University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 21, Issue 1, December 1974, Pages 133–140, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1974.tb00148.x Published: 12 March 2010
Lexicon to Pindar
Futures in Pindar
J. Wackernagel and E. Löfstedt have both drawn attention to Pindar's ‘Neigung, das Futurum zu setzen bei Verben, die eine jetzt vorhandene, aber auf zukünftiges Tun abzielende Willensrichtung ausdrücken’. But they regarded this as a purely grammatical phenomenon, and did not note that the Pindaric use is practically limited to statements of the type, ‘I shall sing, glorify, testify, etc.’. It was E. Bundy who first drew attention to the conventio…
A Bibliography of Pindar, 1513-1966
Three Problems in the History of Drama
THE LONG INSCRIPTION describing the festival of the Sarapieia at Tanagra has been described by Sifakis with justice as our most interesting case.1 Sifakis was using the original edition of the full text published by Christou2 in 1956, after its missing portion had been found. Almost immediately corrections were offered.3 The second sand third) version of the standard work on the dramatic festivals of Athens disappointingly says only that: Some of…
La Cite au banquet
Roman Theater and Society
The Epiphany of Demosthenes
observation. In particular it seems to me that the repetition of ,4i finally the real stage hero Aeschines is denounced for his incompetent performance on the real stage of life. The soteriology of the dramatic self-presentation is contrasted with Aeschines' efforts at heroic appearance on the stage; the stage of life is contrasted with the theatre; the allegedly comic Demosthenes triumphs over the ineptly heroic Aeschines. Throughout runs the mo…
Futures in Pindar
J. Wackernagel and E. Löfstedt have both drawn attention to Pindar's ‘Neigung, das Futurum zu setzen bei Verben, die eine jetzt vorhandene, aber auf zukünftiges Tun abzielende Willensrichtung ausdrücken’. But they regarded this as a purely grammatical phenomenon, and did not note that the Pindaric use is practically limited to statements of the type, ‘I shall sing, glorify, testify, etc.’. It was E. Bundy who first drew attention to the conventio…
Aristophanes Of Byzantium And Problem-Solving In The Museum
When Festus said to Paul: ‘Much learning doth make thee mad’, Paul's answer was the instinctive defence of a scholar under attack: ‘I am not mad, most noble Festus, but speak forth the words of truth and soberness’. Whether poets were mad or sober has been a question for critics ever since Gorgias pointed out the incompatibility; it is less frequently debated why scholars unlike poets should need to affirm their sobriety. I should like to concent…
High Flying at Paestum
Leukippe as Tragedy
This article deals with a mosaic from ancient Zeugma on the Euphrates found in 2002 and recently published with interpretive commentary. Its subject is the story of Theonoe and Leukippe preserved only in Hyginus and nowhere in Greek. Despite this, the authors argue that the myth, in its unique form, can for over one thousand years be connected with romance, mime, pantomime, tragedy and derives ultimately from early Cretan rituals of transvestism.…
Artemon and Anacreon
WE KNOW VERY LITTLE about the circumstances surrounding the actual performance and composition of Greek lyric poetry of the classical period. In antiquity too the same could be true, so that we cannot be sure that those ancients who attempt to supply what is now lost and what for them was also lost, are worthy of the credit they seem to deserve. They were especially liable to be deceived by dramatic poetry, since they themselves were scholars of …
Theatres for Hire
The Piraeus were certainly leased out to private individuals in classical antiquity. It has been suggested that this was common and was true even for the Theatre of Dionysus in Athens, and that this model was true for impermanent wooden theatres. This article argues a contrary position: that there is only one certain example of a leased theatre, which may for all we know have been unique. The other alleged parallel, the deme theatre in Acharnae, …
Handouts at Dinner
The listeners who follow them are like performers, hired and bought. They huddle together with a middleman; in the middle of a basilica sportulae are handed out as openly as in a triclinium. They run from one court to another for the same wage. Hence these people are called not without humour Sophocleses from sophos and kaleisthai; in Latin the name given them is laudiceni. Sherwin-White in his commentary on this passage deals only with the expla…
Hooking in harbours
Klaus Alpers has recently recovered from the obscurity of Byzantine lexica the fragments of what appears to be a novel dating from c. A.D. 100, and notable to us, as it was for the Byzantine excerptor, for the elegant verbal borrowings from ancient comedy, always a favourite source of good Attic Greek for the atticists of imperial times. One of these glosses gives occasion to look again at fishing metaphors for erotic business, a subject discusse…
Aristophanes of Byzantium on the Pinakes of Callimachus
Sur les methodes de travail, les difficultes, les contestations des grammairiens alexandrins (l'emploi de, la doctrine atticiste, la position d'A., etc.)
Futures in Pindar
J. Wackernagel and E. Löfstedt have both drawn attention to Pindar's ‘Neigung, das Futurum zu setzen bei Verben, die eine jetzt vorhandene, aber auf zukünftiges Tun abzielende Willensrichtung ausdrücken’. But they regarded this as a purely grammatical phenomenon, and did not note that the Pindaric use is practically limited to statements of the type, ‘I shall sing, glorify, testify, etc.’. It was E. Bundy who first drew attention to the conventio…
A Bibliography of Pindar, 1513-1966
Lexicon to Pindar
Pueri, Turba Minuta
Journal Article PUERI, TURBA MINUTA Get access W. J. Slater W. J. Slater McMaster University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 21, Issue 1, December 1974, Pages 133–140, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1974.tb00148.x Published: 12 March 2010
High Flying at Paestum
The Maculate Muse
Aristophanes of Byzantium on the Pinakes of Callimachus
Sur les methodes de travail, les difficultes, les contestations des grammairiens alexandrins (l'emploi de, la doctrine atticiste, la position d'A., etc.)
High Flying at Paestum
Artemon and Anacreon
WE KNOW VERY LITTLE about the circumstances surrounding the actual performance and composition of Greek lyric poetry of the classical period. In antiquity too the same could be true, so that we cannot be sure that those ancients who attempt to supply what is now lost and what for them was also lost, are worthy of the credit they seem to deserve. They were especially liable to be deceived by dramatic poetry, since they themselves were scholars of …
Scholia Vetera in Aristophanis Nubes
Aristophanes Of Byzantium And Problem-Solving In The Museum
When Festus said to Paul: ‘Much learning doth make thee mad’, Paul's answer was the instinctive defence of a scholar under attack: ‘I am not mad, most noble Festus, but speak forth the words of truth and soberness’. Whether poets were mad or sober has been a question for critics ever since Gorgias pointed out the incompatibility; it is less frequently debated why scholars unlike poets should need to affirm their sobriety. I should like to concent…
The Epiphany of Demosthenes
observation. In particular it seems to me that the repetition of ,4i finally the real stage hero Aeschines is denounced for his incompetent performance on the real stage of life. The soteriology of the dramatic self-presentation is contrasted with Aeschines' efforts at heroic appearance on the stage; the stage of life is contrasted with the theatre; the allegedly comic Demosthenes triumphs over the ineptly heroic Aeschines. Throughout runs the mo…
Grammarians and Handwashing
IN MODERN COMMENTARIES one will find little about the rituals of handwashing; the best recent discussion is a footnote in the work of an archaeologist and fifty years prior to that a brief comment by van Leeuwen.' But it was different in antiquity where philology concerned itself intensely with such problems. In what follows I propose to trace the ancient and modern discussions. They provide a good example of the vicissitudes to which learning is…
Dining in a Classical Context
Three Problems in the History of Drama
THE LONG INSCRIPTION describing the festival of the Sarapieia at Tanagra has been described by Sifakis with justice as our most interesting case.1 Sifakis was using the original edition of the full text published by Christou2 in 1956, after its missing portion had been found. Almost immediately corrections were offered.3 The second sand third) version of the standard work on the dramatic festivals of Athens disappointingly says only that: Some of…
La Cite au banquet
The Context of Ancient Drama
L'hègemôn dans les fêtes hellénistiques
Le terme « hègemôn » apparaît à la fois dans la documentation littéraire et épigraphique pour décrire une personne qui dirige un chœur, mais les études récentes ne se sont guère intéressées à sa signification exacte. On trouvera, dans cette communication, des exemples de l'imprécision des chercheurs d'aujourd'hui dans l'utilisation de ces termes, employés généralement de manière très technique dans les inscriptions relatives à des fêtes. On préte…
Hooking in harbours
Klaus Alpers has recently recovered from the obscurity of Byzantine lexica the fragments of what appears to be a novel dating from c. A.D. 100, and notable to us, as it was for the Byzantine excerptor, for the elegant verbal borrowings from ancient comedy, always a favourite source of good Attic Greek for the atticists of imperial times. One of these glosses gives occasion to look again at fishing metaphors for erotic business, a subject discusse…
Roman Theater and Society
Handouts at Dinner
The listeners who follow them are like performers, hired and bought. They huddle together with a middleman; in the middle of a basilica sportulae are handed out as openly as in a triclinium. They run from one court to another for the same wage. Hence these people are called not without humour Sophocleses from sophos and kaleisthai; in Latin the name given them is laudiceni. Sherwin-White in his commentary on this passage deals only with the expla…
Pindar, Nemean 7.102—Past and Present
An abstract 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
Mime Problems
Leukippe as Tragedy
This article deals with a mosaic from ancient Zeugma on the Euphrates found in 2002 and recently published with interpretive commentary. Its subject is the story of Theonoe and Leukippe preserved only in Hyginus and nowhere in Greek. Despite this, the authors argue that the myth, in its unique form, can for over one thousand years be connected with romance, mime, pantomime, tragedy and derives ultimately from early Cretan rituals of transvestism.…
Theatres for Hire
The Piraeus were certainly leased out to private individuals in classical antiquity. It has been suggested that this was common and was true even for the Theatre of Dionysus in Athens, and that this model was true for impermanent wooden theatres. This article argues a contrary position: that there is only one certain example of a leased theatre, which may for all we know have been unique. The other alleged parallel, the deme theatre in Acharnae, …
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