Tom Hawkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3799585 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Hawkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Hawkins |
| SIGNATURE | HAWKINS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
"Theresa, a Haytien Tale" (1828)
This article analyzes the role of the Roman hero Aeneas and the patriarch Lot from the Hebrew Bible in "Theresa, a Haytien Tale" (1828), which describes a fictionalized episode in the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) and is the first known work of fiction composed by a Black author in the United States. I argue that the story presents a radically feminist re-gendering of Aeneas and Lot. This analysis engages contemporary scholarship on "Theresa" in…
The Veil, the Cave and the Fire-Bringer
Eloquent Alogia
Classical Greek literature presents a variety of speaking animals. These are not, of course, the actual voices of animals but human projections. In a culture that aligns verbal mastery with social standing, verbal animals present a conundrum that speaks to an anxiety about human communication. I argue that the earliest examples of speaking animals, in Homer, Hesiod and Archilochus, show a fundamental connection with Golden Age tales. Later author…
Bupalus in Scheria
Hipponax frequently evokes Odyssean mythology in a lowered poetic register, at times conflating Homeric and contemporary contexts. This chapter analyses Hipponax’s engagement with this mythology by drawing upon modern theories of parody to show that Hipponax urged his audiences towards an evaluative process of decoding his parodies that differs from what we find elsewhere in archaic poetry. When Hipponax tells the story of Odysseus among the Phae…
Iambic Poetics in the Roman Empire
This is the first book to study the impact of invective poetics associated with early Greek iambic poetry on Roman imperial authors and audiences. It demonstrates how authors as varied as Ovid and Gregory Nazianzen wove recognizable elements of the iambic tradition (e.g. meter, motifs, or poetic biographies) into other literary forms (e.g. elegy, oratorical prose, anthologies of fables), and it shows that the humorous, scurrilous, efficacious agg…
Jester for a Day, Master for a Year
Jester for a Day, Master for a Year
Iambic Poetics in the Roman Empire
This is the first book to study the impact of invective poetics associated with early Greek iambic poetry on Roman imperial authors and audiences. It demonstrates how authors as varied as Ovid and Gregory Nazianzen wove recognizable elements of the iambic tradition (e.g. meter, motifs, or poetic biographies) into other literary forms (e.g. elegy, oratorical prose, anthologies of fables), and it shows that the humorous, scurrilous, efficacious agg…
Bupalus in Scheria
Hipponax frequently evokes Odyssean mythology in a lowered poetic register, at times conflating Homeric and contemporary contexts. This chapter analyses Hipponax’s engagement with this mythology by drawing upon modern theories of parody to show that Hipponax urged his audiences towards an evaluative process of decoding his parodies that differs from what we find elsewhere in archaic poetry. When Hipponax tells the story of Odysseus among the Phae…
Eloquent Alogia
Classical Greek literature presents a variety of speaking animals. These are not, of course, the actual voices of animals but human projections. In a culture that aligns verbal mastery with social standing, verbal animals present a conundrum that speaks to an anxiety about human communication. I argue that the earliest examples of speaking animals, in Homer, Hesiod and Archilochus, show a fundamental connection with Golden Age tales. Later author…
The Veil, the Cave and the Fire-Bringer
"Theresa, a Haytien Tale" (1828)
This article analyzes the role of the Roman hero Aeneas and the patriarch Lot from the Hebrew Bible in "Theresa, a Haytien Tale" (1828), which describes a fictionalized episode in the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) and is the first known work of fiction composed by a Black author in the United States. I argue that the story presents a radically feminist re-gendering of Aeneas and Lot. This analysis engages contemporary scholarship on "Theresa" in…
Art (6 works) · Literature (4 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Poetry (3 works) · Ancient Greek (2 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Aeronautics (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work)