Costas Panayotakis
Biographic Data
| ID | 258069 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Costas Panayotakis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Costas |
| FAMILY NAME | Panayotakis |
| SIGNATURE | PANAYOTAKIS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1869-2861 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
P.Hamb. II 167 Recto: Drama (in Prose?)
The recto of Hamburg papyrus II 167, dated to the late first century CE, presents an intriguing case study of a text that has so far resisted generic classification. Rhetorical declamation and theatre ( fabula togata /mime) are the two literary categories for which scholars have argued most strongly in their attempt to explain the papyrus and understand the story it presents – a conversation between characters with historically attested names inv…
Latin Texts on Papyrus and the Study of Classics
This volume gathers 25 chapters focused on Latin texts on papyrus, exploring them from multi- and cross-disciplinary perspectives. It serves as a companion to the texts published in The Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus (Cambridge, forthcoming). The chapters provide in-depth analyses of the chosen texts from literary, philological, linguistic, and historical perspectives, or offer methodological reflections on Latin texts on papyrus, promoting inn…
Hugh Last Fellowship: Trimalchio and the monuments: material culture, self-fashioning, and social aesthetics in Petronius’ Satyricon
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Atellane farce
Despite its significant presence in Roman culture from at least the third century bce , the origins, development, and characteristics of the type of drama which, since the first century bce , has been conventionally known as Atellane comedy ( fabula Atellana ) are unclear. This article gives an overview of the evidence of the sources (and of their problems) arranged chronologically to cover the various stages in the history of Atellane farce from…
The Covid-19 Crisis: A Case of Capitalism’s Dialectic of Failure
Acknowledging the multiple ways capitalism fails humanity and the planet, regularly triggering anticapitalist resistance, this essay employs the term “dialectic of failure” to examine how capitalist failures often boost profits and facilitate capitalism’s reproduction. This tendency for capitalism’s failures to create opportunities as well as risks for itself is analyzed with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic. After first analyzing the pandemic as…
Scarcity or economic insecurity Two yardsticks for measuring capitalism's performance
This article argues that capitalism's relationship to economic insecurity is as important for the evaluation of that system as its relationship to scarcity. Critically analysing the neoclassical and Marxist focus on capitalism's relationship to scarcity, the article describes how capitalism's relationship to economic insecurity offers a more cogent elaboration of these traditions' shared belief that the economic system should serve people. In par…
Beyond the Capitalist Workplace: How the Production of Surplus across the Economy Keeps Producers Divided
This article analyzes the public and household sectors of the economy as sites of surplus production within contemporary capitalist societies. It also shows how the coexistence of structurally distinct spheres of surplus production creates divisions among workers in the private, public, and household sectors of the economy, thus amplifying the racial, gender, and other divisions that have often in the past kept working people divided. Fueling the…
The capitalist mode of destruction: Austerity, ecological crisis and the hollowing out of democracy
The book analyzes capitalism's growing destructiveness and the cost–benefit contradiction it generates. Its new conception of the surplus, which recognizes not just capitalist businesses but also households and the public sector as sites of surplus production, links capitalism's destructiveness to that system's use of the surplus. Capital's use of the surplus turns scientific knowledge and technique into forces of destruction, and the book illust…
Capitalist Mode of Destruction: Austerity, Ecological Crisis and the Hollowing Out of Democracy
Economic Insecurity and Social Stability: An Exploration of One of Capitalism's Vicious Cycles
This article analyzes how capitalism's connection to economic insecurity can, rather than fomenting social unrest, facilitate its reproduction. Also responding to contrasts in the literature between rising insecurity in recent decades and the containment of insecurity in capitalism's post-war 'golden age,' this article explains why growing insecurity is more consistent with capitalism's normal operation. Underlining the difficulty of replicating …
Neoliberalism, the Left and the Rise of the Far Right
After analyzing the tension between capitalism and liberal democracy, this article explores two ways that the political left has tried to navigate this tension. Both these strategies prevent parties of the left and the center-left from exposing capitalism’s undemocratic implications, while also helping to discredit political democracy. Unable to unify working people and ordinary citizens against the suffering that capitalism inflicts on them, the…
The Case for Economic Democracy
Capitalism, Meritocracy, and Social Stratification: A Radical Reformulation of the Davis-Moore Thesis
This article advances a reconceptualization of the Davis-Moore thesis, which adresses the weaknesses of Davis and Moore's original formulation and can function not as a causal explanation of inequality but as a normative yardstick, against which the efficiency of capitalist society's use of human talents can be measured. I argue that the nonmeritocratic nature of capitalist society prevents it from using human talents efficiently and that this fa…
Making Sense of Ancient Performance
Performance criticism of Roman drama, both comic and tragic, is a recent development in classical scholarship. This chapter considers the subsequent chapters in Performance in Greek and Roman Theatre to appreciate their contribution to the understanding of ancient performance and its ramifications. The book opens with a section entitled “Opsis, Props, Scene”, which includes papers by Grigoris Sifakis and David Konstan. Comic opsis is an extremely…
Hellenistic Mime and its Reception in Rome
This chapter focuses on the evidence for performances of mime drama in the Hellenistic period, both scripted and unscripted, and on its reception in Latin literature. It explores possible routes through which Hellenistic mime, both in its literary variety (Theocritus and Herodas) and in its sensationalized version (the rhythmical
Atellane farce
The adjective Atellanus “Atellane” is already linked with theater in the early first century BCE (Varro Menippeae 189), and its feminine form ( Atellana ) is first attested as a technical term in Cicero's time (Ad familiares 9.16.7, written in 46 BCE ) with reference to the noun fabula “play”; it seems to indicate a category of native Italian comic drama named after the town Atella, an Oscan town of Campania in west central Italy.
David T. Schwartz: Consuming Choices: Ethics in a Global Consumer Age
Balsdon Fellowships: Roman drama in fragments: Atellane comedy and the sententiae attributed to Publilius
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Theorizing Scarcity: Neoclassical Economics and its Critics
This article critically examines the neoclassical approach to scarcity as well as critiques of neoclassical economics that focus either on the formation of people's wants (the demand side of scarcity) or on the production and distribution of the goods needed to satisfy these wants (the supply side). I argue that critiques of the neoclassical approach are right to emphasize the relationship between the determinants of scarcity and the economic sys…
Climate Reality
The Struggle in (and over) Greece
Remaking Scarcity: From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy
Foreword by Joel Kovel Preface 1. Capitalism, Scarcity and Economic Democracy 2. The Neoclassical Approach to Scarcity 3. Scarcity and Capital Accumulation 4. Scarcity, Capitalist Exploitation, and Consumption 5. Economic Democracy and the Multiplicity of Social Inequalities and Struggles 6. Capitalism, Scarcity and Global Inequalities 7. Scarcity and the Deepening Ecological Crisis 8. Imagining Economic Democracy: Two Models 9. The Way Forward: …
Women and the Comic Plot in Menander
My Second Life as an Austerity Nut
In unusual times one has to do unusual things. Thus it is that my stolid existence as an Associate Professor of Sociology at one of the colleges in the City University of New York system has recent
Decimus Laberius: The Fragments
This is a newly revised, critical text of the fragments attributed to the Roman knight and mimographer Decimus Laberius, a witty and crudely satirical contemporary of Cicero and Caesar. Laberius is perhaps the most celebrated comic playwright of the late Republic, and the fragments of plays attributed to him comprise the overwhelming majority of the extant evidence for what we conventionally call 'the literary Roman mime'. The volume also include…
Theorizing Scarcity: Neoclassical Economics and its Critics
This article critically examines the neoclassical approach to scarcity as well as critiques of neoclassical economics that focus either on the formation of people's wants (the demand side of scarcity) or on the production and distribution of the goods needed to satisfy these wants (the supply side). I argue that critiques of the neoclassical approach are right to emphasize the relationship between the determinants of scarcity and the economic sys…
Theatrum Arbitri: Theatrical Elements in the "Satyrica" of Petronius
The title of this thesis is 'Theatrical elements in the Satyrica of Petronius". It is a literary study which deals with the possible influence that Roman comic drama (comedies of Plautus and Terence, theatre of the Greek and Roman mimes, (the fabula palliata, fabula togata, fabula Atellana) might have exerted on the surviving extant fragments of Petronius' novel. In the preface I summarise briefly the generally accepted view about the identity of…
Capitalism, Meritocracy, and Social Stratification: A Radical Reformulation of the Davis-Moore Thesis
This article advances a reconceptualization of the Davis-Moore thesis, which adresses the weaknesses of Davis and Moore's original formulation and can function not as a causal explanation of inequality but as a normative yardstick, against which the efficiency of capitalist society's use of human talents can be measured. I argue that the nonmeritocratic nature of capitalist society prevents it from using human talents efficiently and that this fa…
Reflections on the Greek Uprising
Capitalism's "Dialectic of Scarcity" and the Emancipatory Project
Economic Insecurity and Social Stability: An Exploration of One of Capitalism's Vicious Cycles
This article analyzes how capitalism's connection to economic insecurity can, rather than fomenting social unrest, facilitate its reproduction. Also responding to contrasts in the literature between rising insecurity in recent decades and the containment of insecurity in capitalism's post-war 'golden age,' this article explains why growing insecurity is more consistent with capitalism's normal operation. Underlining the difficulty of replicating …
Neoliberalism, the Left and the Rise of the Far Right
After analyzing the tension between capitalism and liberal democracy, this article explores two ways that the political left has tried to navigate this tension. Both these strategies prevent parties of the left and the center-left from exposing capitalism’s undemocratic implications, while also helping to discredit political democracy. Unable to unify working people and ordinary citizens against the suffering that capitalism inflicts on them, the…
The Struggle in (and over) Greece
Capitalism, Socialism, and Economic Democracy: Reflections on Today's Crisis and Tomorrow's Possibilities
In December 2008, after the current economic crisis erupted, Walden Bello speculated that capitalist elites might respond with a new political project: global social democracy.1 By injecting into g
Vision and Light in Apuleius’ Tale of Psyche and her Mysterious Husband
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Baptism and Crucifixion on the Mimic Stage
L'A. s'interesse a l'aspect theatral des drames mis en scene par Porphyre, Gelasinus et Genes au temps de leur conversion: le mime du bapteme chretien. La representation satirique des sacrements chretiens s'inscrit dans la tradition du ridicule et de nouvelles tendances dans la vie sociale et politique de l'empire romain. Un autre type de mime apparait sur la scene theâtrale: celui de la crucifixion. Le mime des sacrements chretiens est humoristi…
On Scarcity and Abundance
On the Self-Understanding of the "Anti-Globalization" Movement: A View from Genoa
A sacred ceremony in honour of the buttocks: Petronius, Satyrica 140.1–11
The episode at Croton is the last series of events we possess from the surviving Satyrica , though not necessarily the last part of the novel in its original form. The action takes place in a town which no longer existed at the suggested time of the novel's composition. The plot is focused, mainly, on two themes: legacy-hunting and Encolpius' impotence. His unsuccessful relationship with the nymphomaniac Circe (126.1–130.8) and his painful experi…
Theatrical Elements in the Episode On Board Lichas' Ship (Petronius, Satyrica 99.5-115)
A sacred ceremony in honour of the buttocks: Petronius, Satyrica 140.1–11
The episode at Croton is the last series of events we possess from the surviving Satyrica , though not necessarily the last part of the novel in its original form. The action takes place in a town which no longer existed at the suggested time of the novel's composition. The plot is focused, mainly, on two themes: legacy-hunting and Encolpius' impotence. His unsuccessful relationship with the nymphomaniac Circe (126.1–130.8) and his painful experi…
An adultery-mime
General Index
The adventures at the school of rhetoric and at the brothel
Spectaculum Trimalchionis
Index of Passages
Conclusion
The Adventures on Board Lichas’ ship and on the way to Croton
Unfaithful lovers and manic poetasters
Preliminary Material
The Adventures at Croton
The adventure of the stolen tunic and Quartilia’s orgy
Baptism and Crucifixion on the Mimic Stage
L'A. s'interesse a l'aspect theatral des drames mis en scene par Porphyre, Gelasinus et Genes au temps de leur conversion: le mime du bapteme chretien. La representation satirique des sacrements chretiens s'inscrit dans la tradition du ridicule et de nouvelles tendances dans la vie sociale et politique de l'empire romain. Un autre type de mime apparait sur la scene theâtrale: celui de la crucifixion. Le mime des sacrements chretiens est humoristi…
Theatrum Arbitri: Theatrical Elements in the "Satyrica" of Petronius
The title of this thesis is 'Theatrical elements in the Satyrica of Petronius". It is a literary study which deals with the possible influence that Roman comic drama (comedies of Plautus and Terence, theatre of the Greek and Roman mimes, (the fabula palliata, fabula togata, fabula Atellana) might have exerted on the surviving extant fragments of Petronius' novel. In the preface I summarise briefly the generally accepted view about the identity of…
Communications: The Transnational Ruling Class Formation Thesis: A Symposium
Vision and Light in Apuleius’ Tale of Psyche and her Mysterious Husband
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Nature, Dialectics and Emancipatory Politics
2001). Nature, Dialectics and Emancipatory Politics. Capitalism Nature Socialism: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 63-73
On the Self-Understanding of the "Anti-Globalization" Movement: A View from Genoa
Capitalism's "Dialectic of Scarcity" and the Emancipatory Project
A Marxist Critique of Marx's Theory of History: Beyond the Dichotomy between Scientific and Critical Marxism
This article argues that an application of Marxism to itself can help us transcend Gouldner's (1980) dichotomy between scientific and critical Marxism. After demonstrating that the paradigmatic document of scientific marxism, Marx's Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, turns the structural logic of capitalist economy into the basis for a transhistorical theory of social-economic development, this article explores the li…
Environmental Ethics and Capitalism’s Dialetic of Scarcity
Virgil on the Popular Stage
This chapter looks at the sources that assert that three sequences from the Aeneid were performed in pantomime—those dealing with Dido, Turnus, and the katabasis to the Underworld (tales dealing with love, death, violence, and vivid spectacle): Macrobius, for example, says that the love story of Dido and Aeneas is kept alive by the incessant gestures and songs of the actors; whilst Augustine suggests that the majority of his readers would be fami…
Sin Patrón: Stories from Argentina's Worker-Run Factories , by The Lavaca Collective. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2007
Sin Patrón provides an overview of the reclaimed factories movement in Argentina. In particular, the book contains the stories of ten of these companies as told by their workers, while also providing information about the socioeconomic context in which the movement arose in the first place. At a time of capitalist crisis, when the affirmation that another world is possible is more relevant than ever, it is imperative that people start once again …
Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature
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