Gordon Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3756613 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordon Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordon |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 236 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1936 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Public Policies, Private Affairs, and Strategies of Address in the Poetry of Horace
Poet and Audience in Senecan Tragedy: Phaedra 358–430
Plautus (like his Greek predecessors) occasionally breaks the dramatic illusion and addresses the spectators directly in a gesture of comic inappropriateness. That is theatrical farce, and only has its place in a theatre – Plautus clearly did not envision his plays as being read. It is quite different with Seneca, and I want to use this auspicious occasion to examine his relationship with an audience. In much of the poetry that was composed from …
Theft by Company Controllers—A New Zealand View
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Tradition and originality in Roman poetry.
Technique and Ideas in the Aeneid
Technique and Ideas in the Aeneid
The genesis of poetry in Rome
For centuries the Romans had achieved considerable political sophistication, and that involved public debates with carefully composed speeches. This chapter discusses the genesis of poetry in Rome. The word carmen was adopted by Augustan poets as the generic term for their own compositions. This meaning of poem and poetry was a specialization imposed on a word whose meaning was originally much wider. The most extensive surviving carmen is a praye…
Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome
Later Greek Literature
Under the Roman Empire Greek literature experienced a renaissance. This flowering of interest in the Classics was in part a revival of the traditional culture associated with the glorious past and in part a development of new forms such as the novel, the classical lecture and the erotic letter. This literature has traditionally been considerably underrated and the essays in this 1982 volume of Yale Classical Studies were collected in an attempt t…
Figures of Thought in Roman Poetry
It has long been that the language of Roman poetry was constructed under the dictates of elaborately defined rules of rhetoric, and its content determined according the system of comparable classifications called invention. This belief has persisted in spite of the difficulty of fitting the works of Catullus, Horace, Virgil, Propertius, and Tibullus into such a rigid scheme. In this book Gordon Williams demonstrates that, although Ovid and his su…
Change and Decline. Roman Literature in the Early Empire
Change and Decline: Roman Literature in the Early Empire
Change and Decline: Roman Literature in the Early Empire
The Third Book of Horace's Odes
Poetry in the Moral Climate of Augustan Rome
My object in this paper is to examine the implications of a contradiction in Augustan poetry which seems clearest in the Odes of Horace. He exhorts his emperor to curb the present extravagances of vice and restore marriage to its ancient dignity, and praises him for having done so. But this high moral tone ill fits his claims to be an erotic poet: content to love marriage as a bachelor, he addresses many odes to girls not burdened, nor likely to …
Some Uses of Gratus and Gratia in Plautus: Evidence for Indo-European
The form of this paper, which has more than one purpose, needs a word of explanation and perhaps of excuse. I had had it in mind to bring together and discuss a number of passages of Plautus in which gratus or gratia occurred. Then I came across an interesting paper by Professor L. R. Palmer in Hommages à Max Miedermann (Collection Latomus vol. xxiii), Bruxelles, 1956, pp. 258–69, entitled ‘The Concept of Social Obligation in Indo-European: A Stu…
B. A. Taladoire, Essai sur le Comique de Plaute. (Thèse de Doctorat soutenue devant la Faculté des Lettres de Paris). Monaco, 1956: Imprimerie nationale. Pp. 351. No price stated
B. A. Taladoire, Essai sur le Comique de Plaute. (Thèse de Doctorat soutenue devant la Faculté des Lettres de Paris). Monaco, 1956: Imprimerie nationale. Pp. 351. No price stated. - Volume 48 Issue 1-2
Some Aspects of Roman Marriage Ceremonies and Ideals
In the first part of this paper, I have tried, by an examination of certain words, the ways in which they are used, their tone, and the contexts in which they occur, to infer some unknown details of earlier Roman marriage ceremonies. In the second part, I have tried to suggest solutions to two unsolved problems in Latin literature, making use of ideas from the first part and tracing further the history of certain Roman ideals of marriage, which s…
Der 'Amphitruo' des Plautus und Sein Griechisches Original
K. Büchner, Der Aufbau von Sallusts Bellum Jugurthinum (Hermes Einzelschr.; Heft 9). Wiesbaden: F. Steiner, 1953. Pp. 104. DM. 9
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The Geomorphology of Stewart Island, New Zealand
Tradition and originality in Roman poetry.
Poetry in the Moral Climate of Augustan Rome
My object in this paper is to examine the implications of a contradiction in Augustan poetry which seems clearest in the Odes of Horace. He exhorts his emperor to curb the present extravagances of vice and restore marriage to its ancient dignity, and praises him for having done so. But this high moral tone ill fits his claims to be an erotic poet: content to love marriage as a bachelor, he addresses many odes to girls not burdened, nor likely to …
The Third Book of Horace's Odes
Change and Decline: Roman Literature in the Early Empire
Change and Decline: Roman Literature in the Early Empire
Technique and Ideas in the Aeneid
Change and Decline. Roman Literature in the Early Empire
Some Aspects of Roman Marriage Ceremonies and Ideals
In the first part of this paper, I have tried, by an examination of certain words, the ways in which they are used, their tone, and the contexts in which they occur, to infer some unknown details of earlier Roman marriage ceremonies. In the second part, I have tried to suggest solutions to two unsolved problems in Latin literature, making use of ideas from the first part and tracing further the history of certain Roman ideals of marriage, which s…
The Geomorphology of Stewart Island, New Zealand
K. Büchner, Der Aufbau von Sallusts Bellum Jugurthinum (Hermes Einzelschr.; Heft 9). Wiesbaden: F. Steiner, 1953. Pp. 104. DM. 9
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B. A. Taladoire, Essai sur le Comique de Plaute. (Thèse de Doctorat soutenue devant la Faculté des Lettres de Paris). Monaco, 1956: Imprimerie nationale. Pp. 351. No price stated
B. A. Taladoire, Essai sur le Comique de Plaute. (Thèse de Doctorat soutenue devant la Faculté des Lettres de Paris). Monaco, 1956: Imprimerie nationale. Pp. 351. No price stated. - Volume 48 Issue 1-2
Some Aspects of Roman Marriage Ceremonies and Ideals
In the first part of this paper, I have tried, by an examination of certain words, the ways in which they are used, their tone, and the contexts in which they occur, to infer some unknown details of earlier Roman marriage ceremonies. In the second part, I have tried to suggest solutions to two unsolved problems in Latin literature, making use of ideas from the first part and tracing further the history of certain Roman ideals of marriage, which s…
Der 'Amphitruo' des Plautus und Sein Griechisches Original
Some Uses of Gratus and Gratia in Plautus: Evidence for Indo-European
The form of this paper, which has more than one purpose, needs a word of explanation and perhaps of excuse. I had had it in mind to bring together and discuss a number of passages of Plautus in which gratus or gratia occurred. Then I came across an interesting paper by Professor L. R. Palmer in Hommages à Max Miedermann (Collection Latomus vol. xxiii), Bruxelles, 1956, pp. 258–69, entitled ‘The Concept of Social Obligation in Indo-European: A Stu…
Poetry in the Moral Climate of Augustan Rome
My object in this paper is to examine the implications of a contradiction in Augustan poetry which seems clearest in the Odes of Horace. He exhorts his emperor to curb the present extravagances of vice and restore marriage to its ancient dignity, and praises him for having done so. But this high moral tone ill fits his claims to be an erotic poet: content to love marriage as a bachelor, he addresses many odes to girls not burdened, nor likely to …
The Third Book of Horace's Odes
Change and Decline: Roman Literature in the Early Empire
Change and Decline. Roman Literature in the Early Empire
Change and Decline: Roman Literature in the Early Empire
The genesis of poetry in Rome
For centuries the Romans had achieved considerable political sophistication, and that involved public debates with carefully composed speeches. This chapter discusses the genesis of poetry in Rome. The word carmen was adopted by Augustan poets as the generic term for their own compositions. This meaning of poem and poetry was a specialization imposed on a word whose meaning was originally much wider. The most extensive surviving carmen is a praye…
Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome
Later Greek Literature
Under the Roman Empire Greek literature experienced a renaissance. This flowering of interest in the Classics was in part a revival of the traditional culture associated with the glorious past and in part a development of new forms such as the novel, the classical lecture and the erotic letter. This literature has traditionally been considerably underrated and the essays in this 1982 volume of Yale Classical Studies were collected in an attempt t…
Figures of Thought in Roman Poetry
It has long been that the language of Roman poetry was constructed under the dictates of elaborately defined rules of rhetoric, and its content determined according the system of comparable classifications called invention. This belief has persisted in spite of the difficulty of fitting the works of Catullus, Horace, Virgil, Propertius, and Tibullus into such a rigid scheme. In this book Gordon Williams demonstrates that, although Ovid and his su…
Technique and Ideas in the Aeneid
Technique and Ideas in the Aeneid
Tradition and originality in Roman poetry.
Theft by Company Controllers—A New Zealand View
An abstract 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
Poet and Audience in Senecan Tragedy: Phaedra 358–430
Plautus (like his Greek predecessors) occasionally breaks the dramatic illusion and addresses the spectators directly in a gesture of comic inappropriateness. That is theatrical farce, and only has its place in a theatre – Plautus clearly did not envision his plays as being read. It is quite different with Seneca, and I want to use this auspicious occasion to examine his relationship with an audience. In much of the poetry that was composed from …
Public Policies, Private Affairs, and Strategies of Address in the Poetry of Horace
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