Janek Kucharski
Biographic Data
| ID | 1429400 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janek Kucharski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janek |
| FAMILY NAME | Kucharski |
| SIGNATURE | KUCHARSKI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Silesia in Katowice |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3608-9548 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Voices of the Dying
This paper discusses the convention of off-stage cries deployed in Greek tragedy and satyr play chiefly to represent violent events. Unlike other studies dedicated to this topic, it is primarily focused on the cries themselves and to a lesser extent on their context, both dramatic and theatrical. Using the familiar distinction between word and action, it begins with a simple question: how exactly does an off-stage cry represent a violent event ta…
Discourses of Identity in the Ancient World
What does fashion have in common with citizenship and punishment?More than meets the eye, as the five contributors to this issue of Polis show.1 All three may be seen as diverse manifestations of the same phenomenon: a person's or a group's identity.This phenomenon, approached from a variety of angles, is the main theme linking our contributions.While their focus is primarily on the literary sources of ancient Greece, the contributors also ventur…
Punishment, Stigma and Social Identities in Classical Athens
Taking its cue from modern debates on the expressive function of punishment, this paper discusses the stigmatizing effect of penalties in classical Athens. It focuses on corporal punishment, which was discursively associated in the Athenian public discourse (chiefly comedy and oratory) with slaves and other fringe groups of the citizen community, despite the fact that in reality, with only certain restrictions (e.g. whipping), it was meted out to…
Mocking the Wasps or the Meaning of Homeric kertomia Again
The aim of this paper is to provide a new theoretical framework for the understanding of an otherwise controversial Homeric notion: kertomia . So far, all systematic treatments of this term have been based on the model of classical definition, and sought to find a set of essential criteria which would account for all its instances in Homer. Given its very wide application, to phenomena so diverse as gentle, off-record mockery in Il. 24.649-658, a…
The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory
The Greeks in a Changing World
Most of the contributions presented in this Special Issue originated in the workshop “What’s Not New in the New Europe: Ancient Answers to Modern Questions,” at ISSEI’s 15th International Conferenc
I Was Following Orders
This article discusses Lysias’ Against Eratosthenes as an ancient Athenian instance of the superior orders plea, a line of defence made notorious during the Nuremberg trials, which in turn became the cornerstone of modern war crime legislation. Whereas the pre-Nuremberg jurisdiction largely embraced the principle of superior responsibility, whereby a subordinate executing criminal orders was not to be held liable for them, the trials of the Nazi …
The beard and its philosopher
The following paper analyses Theodore Prodromos’ satire, Against the old man with a long beard . It argues that the text which is heavily based on the ancient tradition of ridiculing philosophers is in fact directed against the twelfth-century fellow teachers of Prodromos
Social Memory in Athenian Public Discourse
170 PHOENIX ultimately self-referential, aiming at increasing prestige for the sophist and for rhetoric. In speaking for Helen Gorgias replaces her voice with his own. Isocrates is the subject of Blondell’s Chapter Eleven. She works from the premise that his approach to rhetoric was more serious than that of his teacher Gorgias, and that he employed it as a tool for education and training for politics. In his encomium Helen provided Isocrates wit…
Tyrannoi and Tyrants on the Tragic Stage
The paper analyses the terms tyrannos and basileus in both Greek politics and Greek drama, taking under special scrutiny various connotations and associations of the terms tyrannos and tyrannis in the language of Attic tragedy
Discourses of Identity in the Ancient World
What does fashion have in common with citizenship and punishment?More than meets the eye, as the five contributors to this issue of Polis show.1 All three may be seen as diverse manifestations of the same phenomenon: a person's or a group's identity.This phenomenon, approached from a variety of angles, is the main theme linking our contributions.While their focus is primarily on the literary sources of ancient Greece, the contributors also ventur…
Punishment, Stigma and Social Identities in Classical Athens
Taking its cue from modern debates on the expressive function of punishment, this paper discusses the stigmatizing effect of penalties in classical Athens. It focuses on corporal punishment, which was discursively associated in the Athenian public discourse (chiefly comedy and oratory) with slaves and other fringe groups of the citizen community, despite the fact that in reality, with only certain restrictions (e.g. whipping), it was meted out to…
The Greeks in a Changing World
Most of the contributions presented in this Special Issue originated in the workshop “What’s Not New in the New Europe: Ancient Answers to Modern Questions,” at ISSEI’s 15th International Conferenc
Tyrannoi and Tyrants on the Tragic Stage
The paper analyses the terms tyrannos and basileus in both Greek politics and Greek drama, taking under special scrutiny various connotations and associations of the terms tyrannos and tyrannis in the language of Attic tragedy
Social Memory in Athenian Public Discourse
170 PHOENIX ultimately self-referential, aiming at increasing prestige for the sophist and for rhetoric. In speaking for Helen Gorgias replaces her voice with his own. Isocrates is the subject of Blondell’s Chapter Eleven. She works from the premise that his approach to rhetoric was more serious than that of his teacher Gorgias, and that he employed it as a tool for education and training for politics. In his encomium Helen provided Isocrates wit…
The beard and its philosopher
The following paper analyses Theodore Prodromos’ satire, Against the old man with a long beard . It argues that the text which is heavily based on the ancient tradition of ridiculing philosophers is in fact directed against the twelfth-century fellow teachers of Prodromos
The Greeks in a Changing World
Most of the contributions presented in this Special Issue originated in the workshop “What’s Not New in the New Europe: Ancient Answers to Modern Questions,” at ISSEI’s 15th International Conferenc
I Was Following Orders
This article discusses Lysias’ Against Eratosthenes as an ancient Athenian instance of the superior orders plea, a line of defence made notorious during the Nuremberg trials, which in turn became the cornerstone of modern war crime legislation. Whereas the pre-Nuremberg jurisdiction largely embraced the principle of superior responsibility, whereby a subordinate executing criminal orders was not to be held liable for them, the trials of the Nazi …
The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory
Mocking the Wasps or the Meaning of Homeric kertomia Again
The aim of this paper is to provide a new theoretical framework for the understanding of an otherwise controversial Homeric notion: kertomia . So far, all systematic treatments of this term have been based on the model of classical definition, and sought to find a set of essential criteria which would account for all its instances in Homer. Given its very wide application, to phenomena so diverse as gentle, off-record mockery in Il. 24.649-658, a…
Discourses of Identity in the Ancient World
What does fashion have in common with citizenship and punishment?More than meets the eye, as the five contributors to this issue of Polis show.1 All three may be seen as diverse manifestations of the same phenomenon: a person's or a group's identity.This phenomenon, approached from a variety of angles, is the main theme linking our contributions.While their focus is primarily on the literary sources of ancient Greece, the contributors also ventur…
Punishment, Stigma and Social Identities in Classical Athens
Taking its cue from modern debates on the expressive function of punishment, this paper discusses the stigmatizing effect of penalties in classical Athens. It focuses on corporal punishment, which was discursively associated in the Athenian public discourse (chiefly comedy and oratory) with slaves and other fringe groups of the citizen community, despite the fact that in reality, with only certain restrictions (e.g. whipping), it was meted out to…
Voices of the Dying
This paper discusses the convention of off-stage cries deployed in Greek tragedy and satyr play chiefly to represent violent events. Unlike other studies dedicated to this topic, it is primarily focused on the cries themselves and to a lesser extent on their context, both dramatic and theatrical. Using the familiar distinction between word and action, it begins with a simple question: how exactly does an off-stage cry represent a violent event ta…
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