Victor Castellani
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858633 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor Castellani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor |
| FAMILY NAME | Castellani |
| SIGNATURE | CASTELLANI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
WORDS, WORDS, SDROW-and alas, WORDS: The Fate of Words and Language in Turbulent Times
Everyone, even when asserting unchallengeable authority from God or Science, thinks in language, in words and phrases, in expressions of moral, social and political impact, fighting words and words with and over which we fight. However, debates among the educated can be irrelevant elsewhere, ineffective against the highly motivated whose dogma instructs and guides them, their voting and their arming. The degeneration of “democracy” to “tyranny” s…
Misogyny New and Old: The Darkest Corners of the Web… and Euripides
Flint and obsidian blades, bronze and steel ones later, like projectiles from throwing weapons and bow-shot arrows to musket balls and high speed bullets, have been a starkly mixed blessing to Homo
Ancient Rome’s Institutional Religions as European Backstory
All persons professionally interested in or merely curious about Rome’s history, from shadowy beginnings in legend to the well-documented first centuries of Empire, should welcome this synthesis of
The Land Where the Sun Rises
This hefty volume amounts to a chronological encyclopedia on the history and culture of a region that draws its other name “Anatolia” from a European perspective, “Land of the Sunrise.” It ranges f
Plato Meets Marx at Chicago
This book will challenge and provoke or edify different readers, but also possibly the same ones. Count me among the grateful latter. As a Classicist-Humanist I admire Plato for his imagination, fo
"What and Who Was "Homer
Developed from two of Professor Gregory Nagy’s 2002 Sather Classical Lectures, this book treats the who and the what as well as—especially interesting—the when and where of “Homer” as the Greeks in
Balkanization at Its Worst
The Emperor Nero: A Guide to the Ancient Sources
The name “Nero” provokes strong adverse judgments by even lightly educated persons world-wide, though perhaps not quite the same horror as “Caligula,” Nero’s deranged maternal uncle. The latter you
From Battleground of Empires to Battleground of Ideals
This worthy contribution to the Palgrave Essential Histories series is as readable as it is informative, and fully deserved this second edition. (Its well-received first edition came out in 2006)
OttomanandGhâzȋ: The Birth of a Dynasty
Community and Tragedy: One and the Same
Rightly and proudly offered in Routledge’s Innovations in Political Theory series, this ambitious and largely successful book postulates an essentially irreconcilable contradiction between pragmati
Foot polydactyly and bipartite medial cuneiform: A case of co-occurrence in a Celtic skeleton from Verona (Italy)
The Roman Market Economy
Roman Barbarians: The Royal Court and Culture in the Early Medieval West
The Celtic Revolution: How Europe Was Turned Upside Down from the Early Romans to King Arthur
This engaging book can be recommended to almost every reader, regardless of specific period or thematic interest and whether or not particularly interested in the geopolitical and cultural history
The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times
This is a timely reissue of a book whose full impact is still to be felt in remoter, inertial corners of classical philology. For example, its argument and its findings are absent from expositions
Socrates: Master and Martyr, Maverick and Mystery
A heroic, seminal “lover of wisdom” who denied that he possessed the divine knowledge required for perfect virtue, Socrates of Athens needs no basic introduction and has needed none for centuries i
Entangling Encounters: Colonies and Empires, Old World and New
Notes1. By postmodern thinking (which one would hope a scientist like Dietler would resist, though he sometimes leans that way), this relationship, too, can only be thus, reciprocal, inasmuch as the past can have no objective existence, but only what anyone at a later time “constructs”!2. One would not know from Dietler’s map of Italy on page 103 that there were Gauls between Liguria and Etruria. Lots of them!3. Europeans adopted Arabic numerals …
Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew Poems
Bernard Lewis, an eminent albeit controversial historian of Western Asia, turned his admiration for the literary production of peoples in regions he had studied for decades into this attractive and
The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000–2500 BC
Edited by David W. Anthony, with Jennifer Y. Chi (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010), 254 pp. $49.95/£34.95 cloth. “Lost World” in the title of this handsome publication was apt to dr
The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature: The Hellenistic Period
Lives behind the Laws: The World of the Codex Hermogenianus
Riot in Alexandria: Tradition and Group Dynamics in Late Antique Pagan and Christian Communities
By Edward J. Watts (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010), xvi + 290 pp. $55.00/£37.95 cloth. This well-researched, carefully argued book, by an associate professor of History at Indi
Cattle, the Catalyst of Culture
The Cattle of the Sun: Cows and Culture in the World of the Ancient Greeks. By Jeremy McInerney (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010), xvii + 340 pp. $29.95/£20.95 cloth; $29.95 ebook
Tracking the Dynamics of State Power
The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000–2500 BC
Edited by David W. Anthony, with Jennifer Y. Chi (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010), 254 pp. $49.95/£34.95 cloth. “Lost World” in the title of this handsome publication was apt to dr
The Emperor Nero: A Guide to the Ancient Sources
The name “Nero” provokes strong adverse judgments by even lightly educated persons world-wide, though perhaps not quite the same horror as “Caligula,” Nero’s deranged maternal uncle. The latter you
The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times
This is a timely reissue of a book whose full impact is still to be felt in remoter, inertial corners of classical philology. For example, its argument and its findings are absent from expositions
The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment
Captive Captor Freed: The National Theater of Ancient Rome
“Hey, there,” says an unknown character in the only remaining fragment of Plautus’ comedy Madam Usurer (Faeneratrix), “I’m telling you what in a barbarian country [in barbaria] they say the freedman told his former mistress: ‘Hello, Freedom! Papiria, go and be flogged!’”1 This little bit of an otherwise lost play neatly demonstrates several features of the world’s first true national theater, the theater of Rome in the late third and early second…
The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment
Europa, Euripides, and the differentiation of “Europe”
After stormy seas calm once more I see”: Reconciliation and remoralization in euripides
(1997). “After stormy seas calm once more I see”: Reconciliation and remoralization in euripides. The European Legacy: Vol. 2, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, pp. 28-33
Beginnings of ancient Greek history and historiography
Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography. By John Marincola (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1997), xvi + 361 pp. £45.00, $64.95 cloth. Warriors into Traders: The Power of the Market in Early Greece. By David W. Tandy (Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xv + 296 pp. $45.00 cloth
Insignes Pietate? The Ancient Romans and their Religious Life
(2000). Insignes Pietate? The Ancient Romans and their Religious Life. The European Legacy: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 101-106
Pedagogy and Power
Holding a wolf by the ears: Roman Masters Enslaved
Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination. By William Fitzgerald (Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 129 pp. £12.95/$18.95 cloth; £35.00/$49.95 paper. The End of the Past: Ancient Rome and the Modern West. By Aldo Schiavone. Translated by Margery J. Schneider (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2000), viii +278 pp. £30.95/$45.00 cloth
The North of Europe and the center: Two comparative approaches
Aura borealis: Images, perceptions, and realities of the european north
Encountering the North. Cultural Geography, International Relations and Northern Landscapes. Edited by Frank Möller and Samu Pehkonen (Hampshire, UK: Ashgate, 2003), xiii + 294 pp. $89.95/50.00 cloth. The Nordic Peace. Edited by Clive Archer and Pertti Joenniemi (Hampshire, UK: Ashgate, 2003), x + 217 pp. $79.95/46.50 cloth. Sweden and the “Third Way”: A Macroeconomic Evaluation. By Philip Whyman (Hampshire, UK: Ashgate, 2003), xi + 251 pp. $94.9…
Alexander in Afghanistan-At His Greatest
A European Sweden, or an Almost-Swedish Europe
Poisonous Past, Poisoned Places
"Europeans as Evolved "Post-Romans
What Price Peace
As the Romans Did
Ritual or Playful? On the Foundations of European Drama
Not Hitler's Papabile
Virgil's Poem of Rome's Destiny
(Re)Centering Old World Civilization
Tracking the Dynamics of State Power
Philosophy Practical and Compassionate
Cattle, the Catalyst of Culture
The Cattle of the Sun: Cows and Culture in the World of the Ancient Greeks. By Jeremy McInerney (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010), xvii + 340 pp. $29.95/£20.95 cloth; $29.95 ebook
The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000–2500 BC
Edited by David W. Anthony, with Jennifer Y. Chi (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010), 254 pp. $49.95/£34.95 cloth. “Lost World” in the title of this handsome publication was apt to dr
The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature: The Hellenistic Period
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