David Christenson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1429511 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Christenson |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Christenson |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTENSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-6867-1235 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Art of Communicative Grammar
This review article of the Oxford Latin Syntax (Vols. I-II, 2015 and 2021) demonstrates how the communicative approach of Harm Pinkster’s monumental grammar complements recent revivals of oral, aural, and active Latin pedagogical methods. I conclude with examples of how Pinkster’s analysis of discourse may be applied to select passages (from Plautus’ Rudens, as a productive means of explicating dramaturgical and narratological matters there) in o…
Plautus
This new volume in the Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions series is perfect for students coming to one of Plautus’ most whimsical, provocative, and influential plays for the first time, and a useful first point of reference for scholars less familiar with Roman comedy. Menaechmi is a tale of identical twin brothers who are separated as young children and reconnect as adults following a series of misadventures due to mistaken identity. A glutton…
Plautus
Plautus’ Mostellaria is one of ancient Rome’s most breezy and amusing comedies. The plot is ridiculously simple: when a father returns home after three years abroad, a clever slave named Tranio devises deceptions to conceal that the son has squandered a fortune partying with pals and purchasing his prized prostitute’s freedom. Tranio convinces the gullible father that his house is haunted, that his son has purchased the neighbor’s house, and that…
Plautus
This is the first book-length study of Plautus’ shortest surviving comedy, Curculio, a play in which the tricksy brown-nosed title character (“The Weevil”) bamboozles a shady banker and a pious pimp to secure the freedom of the enslaved girl his patron has fallen for while keeping her out of the clutches of a megalomaniacal soldier. It all takes place in the Greek city Epidaurus, the most important site for the worship of the healing god Aesculap…
Titvs Maccivs Plavtvs, Psevdolvs. Edidit Caesar Questa curis adiectis Alexidis Torino
As a critical journal for all classical studies, the GNOMON fosters the links between the distinct classical disciplines. It has thus an exceptional position among the classical review journals and allows familiarization with research and publications in neighbouring disciplines. The reviews address an international readership from all fields in classical studies. The GNOMON publishes reviews in German, English, French, Italian and Latin
Concocting Justice
Discussion of costume in Acharnians has focused on Dicaeopolis’s appropriation of Telephus’s rags and violent un-costuming of Lamachus. No less metacomically significant is Dicaeopolis’s persona as a mageiros, made explicit by props rather than a costume-change when he eventually cooks onstage. The chiton- and phallus-wearing protagonist in fact throughout Acharnians assumes the persona of a cook-comedian, whose ultimate triumph is marked by his …
Terence
Though Andria launched Terence’s career as a dramatist at Rome, it has attracted comparatively little attention from modern critics. The play nevertheless presents students of Roman comedy with all the features that came to characterize Terence’s particular version of traditional comedy, and it raises all the interpretive questions that have dogged the study of Terence for generations. The first two, comparatively brief chapters of this study ske…
Plautus
This volume provides an introduction to Plautus’s Casina, a sophisticated sex farce that premiered ca. 185 BCE. This companion study of Plautus’s comedy analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Latin but will also be of interest to scholars. It launches a new series of books, each treating a comedy that survives from the ancient world. The introductory chapter provides pertinent background about Plautus’s career transl…
Aristophanes
This is the first volume dedicated to Aristophanes’ comedy Peace that analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Greek. It launches a much-needed new series of books each discussing a comedy that survives from the ancient world. Six chapters highlight the play’s context, themes, staging and legacy including its response to contemporary wartime politics and the possible staging options for flying. It is ideal for students…
Metatheatre
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Mimetic Contagion
384 PHOENIX omission from epistles of details that were presumably conveyed by word of mouth as well as, ironically, epistolary reports of an active rumour mill amongst early Christians. And yet I am unconvinced. Oral networks are a given in every society at all periods, and their existence does not detract from the import or impact of the epistolary medium, which remains a distinct and distinctly employed form of communication. We learn no more …
Reading Roman Comedy
430 PHOENIX towards him.Priapus, unlike Silvanus orFaunus, orTiberinus, caneasily become an object ofmockery. Thefinal chapter examines "GodsinStatian Settings," documenting first intheSihaethepoet's population ofhis"villa poems" andothers with godsofthe landscape. Thesegods, nowdomesticated andbrought under human control, relish and thrive intheimproved version ofItaly built byStatius' patrons. In narrative sections of theSihae(suchas Pan'spursu…
Callinus and militia amoris in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Cleitophon
Right so far as Homer is concerned, and Paulus, a poet of Justinian's court best known for his epic poem (modelled after Homer) composed on the occasion of the rededication of the Church of St Sophia, clearly evokes Callinus. But the commentators have overlooked the pointed use of μχρι(ς) τυος + the present indicative in Achilles Tatius’ τᾰ κατᾰ Λευκππην κα κλειοøντα. Examination of the examples there suggests that Achilles Tatius could make grea…
Callinus and militia amoris in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Cleitophon
Right so far as Homer is concerned, and Paulus, a poet of Justinian's court best known for his epic poem (modelled after Homer) composed on the occasion of the rededication of the Church of St Sophia, clearly evokes Callinus. But the commentators have overlooked the pointed use of μχρι(ς) τυος + the present indicative in Achilles Tatius’ τᾰ κατᾰ Λευκππην κα κλειοøντα. Examination of the examples there suggests that Achilles Tatius could make grea…
Callinus and militia amoris in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Cleitophon
Right so far as Homer is concerned, and Paulus, a poet of Justinian's court best known for his epic poem (modelled after Homer) composed on the occasion of the rededication of the Church of St Sophia, clearly evokes Callinus. But the commentators have overlooked the pointed use of μχρι(ς) τυος + the present indicative in Achilles Tatius’ τᾰ κατᾰ Λευκππην κα κλειοøντα. Examination of the examples there suggests that Achilles Tatius could make grea…
Reading Roman Comedy
430 PHOENIX towards him.Priapus, unlike Silvanus orFaunus, orTiberinus, caneasily become an object ofmockery. Thefinal chapter examines "GodsinStatian Settings," documenting first intheSihaethepoet's population ofhis"villa poems" andothers with godsofthe landscape. Thesegods, nowdomesticated andbrought under human control, relish and thrive intheimproved version ofItaly built byStatius' patrons. In narrative sections of theSihae(suchas Pan'spursu…
Mimetic Contagion
384 PHOENIX omission from epistles of details that were presumably conveyed by word of mouth as well as, ironically, epistolary reports of an active rumour mill amongst early Christians. And yet I am unconvinced. Oral networks are a given in every society at all periods, and their existence does not detract from the import or impact of the epistolary medium, which remains a distinct and distinctly employed form of communication. We learn no more …
Terence
Though Andria launched Terence’s career as a dramatist at Rome, it has attracted comparatively little attention from modern critics. The play nevertheless presents students of Roman comedy with all the features that came to characterize Terence’s particular version of traditional comedy, and it raises all the interpretive questions that have dogged the study of Terence for generations. The first two, comparatively brief chapters of this study ske…
Plautus
This volume provides an introduction to Plautus’s Casina, a sophisticated sex farce that premiered ca. 185 BCE. This companion study of Plautus’s comedy analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Latin but will also be of interest to scholars. It launches a new series of books, each treating a comedy that survives from the ancient world. The introductory chapter provides pertinent background about Plautus’s career transl…
Aristophanes
This is the first volume dedicated to Aristophanes’ comedy Peace that analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Greek. It launches a much-needed new series of books each discussing a comedy that survives from the ancient world. Six chapters highlight the play’s context, themes, staging and legacy including its response to contemporary wartime politics and the possible staging options for flying. It is ideal for students…
Metatheatre
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.
Concocting Justice
Discussion of costume in Acharnians has focused on Dicaeopolis’s appropriation of Telephus’s rags and violent un-costuming of Lamachus. No less metacomically significant is Dicaeopolis’s persona as a mageiros, made explicit by props rather than a costume-change when he eventually cooks onstage. The chiton- and phallus-wearing protagonist in fact throughout Acharnians assumes the persona of a cook-comedian, whose ultimate triumph is marked by his …
Plautus
This is the first book-length study of Plautus’ shortest surviving comedy, Curculio, a play in which the tricksy brown-nosed title character (“The Weevil”) bamboozles a shady banker and a pious pimp to secure the freedom of the enslaved girl his patron has fallen for while keeping her out of the clutches of a megalomaniacal soldier. It all takes place in the Greek city Epidaurus, the most important site for the worship of the healing god Aesculap…
Titvs Maccivs Plavtvs, Psevdolvs. Edidit Caesar Questa curis adiectis Alexidis Torino
As a critical journal for all classical studies, the GNOMON fosters the links between the distinct classical disciplines. It has thus an exceptional position among the classical review journals and allows familiarization with research and publications in neighbouring disciplines. The reviews address an international readership from all fields in classical studies. The GNOMON publishes reviews in German, English, French, Italian and Latin
Plautus
This new volume in the Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions series is perfect for students coming to one of Plautus’ most whimsical, provocative, and influential plays for the first time, and a useful first point of reference for scholars less familiar with Roman comedy. Menaechmi is a tale of identical twin brothers who are separated as young children and reconnect as adults following a series of misadventures due to mistaken identity. A glutton…
Plautus
Plautus’ Mostellaria is one of ancient Rome’s most breezy and amusing comedies. The plot is ridiculously simple: when a father returns home after three years abroad, a clever slave named Tranio devises deceptions to conceal that the son has squandered a fortune partying with pals and purchasing his prized prostitute’s freedom. Tranio convinces the gullible father that his house is haunted, that his son has purchased the neighbor’s house, and that…
The Art of Communicative Grammar
This review article of the Oxford Latin Syntax (Vols. I-II, 2015 and 2021) demonstrates how the communicative approach of Harm Pinkster’s monumental grammar complements recent revivals of oral, aural, and active Latin pedagogical methods. I conclude with examples of how Pinkster’s analysis of discourse may be applied to select passages (from Plautus’ Rudens, as a productive means of explicating dramaturgical and narratological matters there) in o…
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