Maurice Pope
Biographic Data
| ID | 3644803 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maurice Pope |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maurice |
| FAMILY NAME | Pope |
| SIGNATURE | POPE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Science Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Upon the country - juries and the principle of random selection
"Vergil, Hosidius Geta, and "Quid si non
Epicureanism and the atomic swerve
Before Marx the atomic swerve was little regarded by champions of Epicureanism: since Guyau it has been central, though attempts to explain the mechanism of free will by it have failed. This is because they assume the occurrence of swerves inside the soul. But the swerve is only attested for the downward‐falling atoms ‐and as an instantaneous side‐step not as a change of direction. Swerves are the pluralist counterpart to Aristotle's unmoved move…
Athenian Festival Judges–Seven, Five, or However Many
No ancient authority has left us a clear account of how the judges at the Athenian dramatic festivals operated. We can therefore never know for certain what happened. But it may be possible to improve the reconstruction normally given, which does not look as if it could ever have yielded acceptable results. One thing that is very clear (from Isocrates 17.33–4) is that the choice of judges was taken seriously. Not only did it involve the Council, …
A nonce–word in the Iliad
‘My own father’, Achilles says to Priam in the last book of the Iliad , ‘was a rich man and a powerful one. He was king of the Myrmidons, and he had a divine wife. But even so the gods gave him evils too. He had no family, only one son, and that son a παναώριος one. I do not look after him in his old age, but am far away, sitting here in Troy, inflicting misery on you and your children.’ The problem I propose to discuss is the meaning of παναώριο…
Quid si Non
THERE ARE EIGHT PASSAGES in classical Latin literature introduced by quid si non . . ., and the primary purpose of this article is to collect them. This has not been done before. Considered individually the passages have caused doubt, difficulty, even deletion: but once assembled they illuminate each other and reveal an idiom in the sense of an expression having a significance other than its grammatical or logical one.' Not that it is altogether …
The Story of Archaeological Decipherment
The Story of Archaeological Decipherment, from Egyptian Hieroglyphs to Linear B
The Origins of Writing in the Near East
On the periphery of the cuneiform using area there was in use in the 3rd and 2nd millennia B.C. a number of non-cuneiform scripts of apparently independent character and purely regional use (see map, FIG. I). My purpose in this article is to speculate on the possibility of their common origin. I shall not apologize for this as I believe hypothesis-making to be a useful occupation, but I must in fairness warn the reader that not only am I myself a…
The Minoan Goddess Asasara - An Obituary
THE MINOAN GODDESS ASASARA ‐ AN OBITUARY M. Pope M. Pope University of Cape Town Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 8, Issue 1, December 1961, Pages 29–31, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1961.tb00644.x Published: 12 March 2010
The cretulae and the Linear A accounting system
Cretulae is the name given in this article to the small clay nodules, stamped with one or more seal impressions, that have been found in quantity at most Bronze Age sites in the Near East. The Minoan examples are generally smaller than those found at other sites, and the great majority of them have a hole through which string once passed. That is to say, they are lumps of clay squeezed round string and then sealed. At most of the sites in Crete w…
The Linear A Question
Dr gordon has, in my opinion, not begun to prove his case and it is difficult to know where to begin its refutation. In at least one major respect the two articles he has written in ANTIQUITY disagree with each other. In the first article (ANTIQUITY XXXI, 124) the frequent sign L 98 was taken (on the basis of the similarity of the Linear B sign) to represent ku or gu. With the help of this value three words have been recognized as Semitic. But in…
Cretan Axe-Heads with Linear A Inscriptions
I discuss four Linear A axe-head inscriptions. Two of them have not previously been published, one is discussed (though without a photograph) in AE 1953–4 (ii), 64 by N. K. Boufides, and one, though published by Evans in his first article on Cretan script before his excavations at Knossos ( JHS xiv (1894), 280), is referred to neither in S.M. i nor by Carratelli. Its attribution to Linear A is probable but not certain
Athenian Festival Judges–Seven, Five, or However Many
No ancient authority has left us a clear account of how the judges at the Athenian dramatic festivals operated. We can therefore never know for certain what happened. But it may be possible to improve the reconstruction normally given, which does not look as if it could ever have yielded acceptable results. One thing that is very clear (from Isocrates 17.33–4) is that the choice of judges was taken seriously. Not only did it involve the Council, …
The Origins of Writing in the Near East
On the periphery of the cuneiform using area there was in use in the 3rd and 2nd millennia B.C. a number of non-cuneiform scripts of apparently independent character and purely regional use (see map, FIG. I). My purpose in this article is to speculate on the possibility of their common origin. I shall not apologize for this as I believe hypothesis-making to be a useful occupation, but I must in fairness warn the reader that not only am I myself a…
Cretan Axe-Heads with Linear A Inscriptions
I discuss four Linear A axe-head inscriptions. Two of them have not previously been published, one is discussed (though without a photograph) in AE 1953–4 (ii), 64 by N. K. Boufides, and one, though published by Evans in his first article on Cretan script before his excavations at Knossos ( JHS xiv (1894), 280), is referred to neither in S.M. i nor by Carratelli. Its attribution to Linear A is probable but not certain
Cretan Axe-Heads with Linear A Inscriptions
I discuss four Linear A axe-head inscriptions. Two of them have not previously been published, one is discussed (though without a photograph) in AE 1953–4 (ii), 64 by N. K. Boufides, and one, though published by Evans in his first article on Cretan script before his excavations at Knossos ( JHS xiv (1894), 280), is referred to neither in S.M. i nor by Carratelli. Its attribution to Linear A is probable but not certain
The Linear A Question
Dr gordon has, in my opinion, not begun to prove his case and it is difficult to know where to begin its refutation. In at least one major respect the two articles he has written in ANTIQUITY disagree with each other. In the first article (ANTIQUITY XXXI, 124) the frequent sign L 98 was taken (on the basis of the similarity of the Linear B sign) to represent ku or gu. With the help of this value three words have been recognized as Semitic. But in…
The cretulae and the Linear A accounting system
Cretulae is the name given in this article to the small clay nodules, stamped with one or more seal impressions, that have been found in quantity at most Bronze Age sites in the Near East. The Minoan examples are generally smaller than those found at other sites, and the great majority of them have a hole through which string once passed. That is to say, they are lumps of clay squeezed round string and then sealed. At most of the sites in Crete w…
The Minoan Goddess Asasara - An Obituary
THE MINOAN GODDESS ASASARA ‐ AN OBITUARY M. Pope M. Pope University of Cape Town Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 8, Issue 1, December 1961, Pages 29–31, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1961.tb00644.x Published: 12 March 2010
The Origins of Writing in the Near East
On the periphery of the cuneiform using area there was in use in the 3rd and 2nd millennia B.C. a number of non-cuneiform scripts of apparently independent character and purely regional use (see map, FIG. I). My purpose in this article is to speculate on the possibility of their common origin. I shall not apologize for this as I believe hypothesis-making to be a useful occupation, but I must in fairness warn the reader that not only am I myself a…
The Story of Archaeological Decipherment
The Story of Archaeological Decipherment, from Egyptian Hieroglyphs to Linear B
Quid si Non
THERE ARE EIGHT PASSAGES in classical Latin literature introduced by quid si non . . ., and the primary purpose of this article is to collect them. This has not been done before. Considered individually the passages have caused doubt, difficulty, even deletion: but once assembled they illuminate each other and reveal an idiom in the sense of an expression having a significance other than its grammatical or logical one.' Not that it is altogether …
A nonce–word in the Iliad
‘My own father’, Achilles says to Priam in the last book of the Iliad , ‘was a rich man and a powerful one. He was king of the Myrmidons, and he had a divine wife. But even so the gods gave him evils too. He had no family, only one son, and that son a παναώριος one. I do not look after him in his old age, but am far away, sitting here in Troy, inflicting misery on you and your children.’ The problem I propose to discuss is the meaning of παναώριο…
Epicureanism and the atomic swerve
Before Marx the atomic swerve was little regarded by champions of Epicureanism: since Guyau it has been central, though attempts to explain the mechanism of free will by it have failed. This is because they assume the occurrence of swerves inside the soul. But the swerve is only attested for the downward‐falling atoms ‐and as an instantaneous side‐step not as a change of direction. Swerves are the pluralist counterpart to Aristotle's unmoved move…
Athenian Festival Judges–Seven, Five, or However Many
No ancient authority has left us a clear account of how the judges at the Athenian dramatic festivals operated. We can therefore never know for certain what happened. But it may be possible to improve the reconstruction normally given, which does not look as if it could ever have yielded acceptable results. One thing that is very clear (from Isocrates 17.33–4) is that the choice of judges was taken seriously. Not only did it involve the Council, …
"Vergil, Hosidius Geta, and "Quid si non
Upon the country - juries and the principle of random selection
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