Tyler Flatt
Biographic Data
| ID | 2212276 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tyler Flatt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tyler |
| FAMILY NAME | Flatt |
| SIGNATURE | FLATT T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard UniversityUSA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Anēr Poluplanēs
Polybius’ allusions to Odysseus have often been dismissively attributed to “romantic imagination” in studies of the historian’s purpose and method. This tendency to analyze Polybius’ “Homeric” passages in emotional terms, minimizing their historiographical significance, has obscured a key facet of the historian’s self-characterization. The Odyssean theme in the Histories suggestively connects the worldly statesman to the spirit and accomplishment…
Narrative Desire and the Limits of Lament in Homer
This article demonstrates how a particular type of narrative formula in Homer—the pivotal counterfactual—creates in contexts of lamentation a suggestive correspondence between the desire to mourn and the desire to hear (and relate) more narrative. The various other structural functions of such formulae are best understood in relation to this more fundamental effect. Pivotal counterfactuals that express a longing for extended mourning occur in the…
Vitalia Verba
Juvencus' epic portrayal of Christ establishes a new kind of Christian heroism, a concept refined through intertextual engagement with the Old Latin Bible, the Aeneid, and imperial Latin epic. Christ-as-verbum, The Word, wields verbal power against the furor of the enemies of salvation. His virtus, transcending and redefining the martial valor of the Vergilian tradition, is derived not from human achievement but from the vertical economy of grace…
Narrative Desire and the Limits of Lament in Homer
This article demonstrates how a particular type of narrative formula in Homer—the pivotal counterfactual—creates in contexts of lamentation a suggestive correspondence between the desire to mourn and the desire to hear (and relate) more narrative. The various other structural functions of such formulae are best understood in relation to this more fundamental effect. Pivotal counterfactuals that express a longing for extended mourning occur in the…
Narrative Desire and the Limits of Lament in Homer
This article demonstrates how a particular type of narrative formula in Homer—the pivotal counterfactual—creates in contexts of lamentation a suggestive correspondence between the desire to mourn and the desire to hear (and relate) more narrative. The various other structural functions of such formulae are best understood in relation to this more fundamental effect. Pivotal counterfactuals that express a longing for extended mourning occur in the…
Vitalia Verba
Juvencus' epic portrayal of Christ establishes a new kind of Christian heroism, a concept refined through intertextual engagement with the Old Latin Bible, the Aeneid, and imperial Latin epic. Christ-as-verbum, The Word, wields verbal power against the furor of the enemies of salvation. His virtus, transcending and redefining the martial valor of the Vergilian tradition, is derived not from human achievement but from the vertical economy of grace…
Anēr Poluplanēs
Polybius’ allusions to Odysseus have often been dismissively attributed to “romantic imagination” in studies of the historian’s purpose and method. This tendency to analyze Polybius’ “Homeric” passages in emotional terms, minimizing their historiographical significance, has obscured a key facet of the historian’s self-characterization. The Odyssean theme in the Histories suggestively connects the worldly statesman to the spirit and accomplishment…
Art (3 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Classical Literature (1 work) · Classics (1 work)