R D Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R D Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | R D |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1934 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Incidence of physical non-communicable disease in people who have experienced imprisonment compared with the general population in high-income countries
Several NCDs, including multiple cancers, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and liver disease, are substantially more common in people who have experienced imprisonment compared with the general population, highlighting a need for primary prevention and NCD management
The Sadness of the King
“Betrayed or avenged, sadness is the condition of the King.”1 This typically lapidary formulation is Gillian Rose's attempt to sum up why philosophy is risky, unavoidable, and comic; and in this brief reflection on her work, I hope to draw out why all these adjectives might be argued to belong to the labor of philosophy. Rose is writing about the apparently tragic tension at the heart of the Arthurian legend. The King has established law for the …
The Aeneid
The Aeneid of Virgil
Virgil
Virgil, Aen. 6. 304
In his note on Hesiod, WD 705 M. L. West tentatively suggests adeo for deo , saying rightly that ‘Charon is not a god in the literary tradition generally or in Virgil's scheme’ (see now Austin ad loc.). Palaeographically nothing could be more attractive than this emendation. But for all Virgil's fondness for adeo (see my note on Aen. 3. 203, Fordyce on 7. 427) he (like other authors) does not use it in this intensifying sense with adjectives othe…
The Eclogues & Georgics
The Eclogues, ten short pastoral poems, were composed between approximately 42 and 39 BC, during the time of the 'Second' Triumvirate of Lepidus, Anthony, and Octavian. In them Virgil subtly blended an idealized Arcadia with contemporary history. To his Greek model - the Idylls of Theocritus - he added a strong element of Italian realism: places and people, real or disguised, and contemporary events are introduced. The Eclogues display all Virgil…
The Aeneid of Virgil. Books 7-12
The Aeneid of Virgil, Books 1-6
The Technological Society and British Politics
IN THEIR ANALYSES OF TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY AND THE TECHNOlogical state contemporary Western writers reveal a wide spectrum of opinions, and this article must evidently consider some at least of these, though unfortunately none at great length. First, the anguish of Arendt:The question therefore is not so much whether we are the masters or the slaves of our machines, but whether machines still serve the world and its things, or if, on the contrary…
The Aeneid
We know that Virgil, like Milton, spent many preliminary years in planning an epic poem, turning over the possibilities, practising his skill and techniques on other genres before undertaking the most ambitious of all the literary types. He tells us himself at the beginning of the sixth eclogue that when he wished to sing of kings and battles, Apollo warned him to keep to pastoral poetry; and in the proem to Geo. iii he promises to make a temple …
"Virgil and the "Odyssey
THE SUETONIUS-DONATUS LIFE of Virgil refers to the Aeneid as quasi amborum Homeri carminum instar, sort of equivalent of both Homer's poems, and the relationship of the second half of the Aeneid to the Iliad and of the first half to the Odyssey has often been pointed out and discussed. The object of this paper is to define the nature and extent of Virgil's use of the Odyssey and to try to account for it. I shall be concerned with details and indi…
The Function and Structure of Virgil's Catalogue in Aeneid 7
The list of Italian forces1 with which Virgil concluded Aeneid 7 was a piece of the ‘machinery’ of epic, that is to say an expected part of the content of an epic poem, established by Homer ( Il. 2. 484 f., the catalogue of Greek ships followed by the list of Trojan forces) and expected of his successors; cf. Apollonius 1. 20–228, Silius 3. 222 f., Statius, Th. 4. 32 f., Milton, P.L. 1. 376 f. The straightforward enumeration of Homer ( divina ili…
The Pictures on Dido's Temple
Shortly after his arrival at Carthage, while he is waiting for Dido to meet him, Aeneas finds that the walls of her temple are adorned with pictures of the Trojan War. Sunt hie etiam sua praemia laudi , he cries to Achates, sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt . The description of the pictures which follows is a remarkable example of Virgil's ability to use a traditional device in such a way as to strengthen and illuminate the main them…
De Novis Libris Iudicia
DE NOVIS LIBRIS IUDICIA Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the Univer- sity of London, no. I (I954). Id., Supplementary Papers no. I (I955): R. BROWNING, The Linear B Texts from Knossos, transliterated and edited. Id., Supple- mentary Papers no. 2 (I956): E. L. BENNETT, J. CHAD- WICK, M. VENTRIS, The Knossos Tablets. A revised trans- literation of all the texts in Mycenaean Greek recoverable from Evans' excavations of I900-I904 bas…
A Complex Problem
The Function and Structure of Virgil's Catalogue in Aeneid 7
The list of Italian forces1 with which Virgil concluded Aeneid 7 was a piece of the ‘machinery’ of epic, that is to say an expected part of the content of an epic poem, established by Homer ( Il. 2. 484 f., the catalogue of Greek ships followed by the list of Trojan forces) and expected of his successors; cf. Apollonius 1. 20–228, Silius 3. 222 f., Statius, Th. 4. 32 f., Milton, P.L. 1. 376 f. The straightforward enumeration of Homer ( divina ili…
The Aeneid of Virgil, Books 1-6
The Pictures on Dido's Temple
Shortly after his arrival at Carthage, while he is waiting for Dido to meet him, Aeneas finds that the walls of her temple are adorned with pictures of the Trojan War. Sunt hie etiam sua praemia laudi , he cries to Achates, sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt . The description of the pictures which follows is a remarkable example of Virgil's ability to use a traditional device in such a way as to strengthen and illuminate the main them…
The Aeneid of Virgil. Books 7-12
The Sadness of the King
“Betrayed or avenged, sadness is the condition of the King.”1 This typically lapidary formulation is Gillian Rose's attempt to sum up why philosophy is risky, unavoidable, and comic; and in this brief reflection on her work, I hope to draw out why all these adjectives might be argued to belong to the labor of philosophy. Rose is writing about the apparently tragic tension at the heart of the Arthurian legend. The King has established law for the …
The Aeneid
We know that Virgil, like Milton, spent many preliminary years in planning an epic poem, turning over the possibilities, practising his skill and techniques on other genres before undertaking the most ambitious of all the literary types. He tells us himself at the beginning of the sixth eclogue that when he wished to sing of kings and battles, Apollo warned him to keep to pastoral poetry; and in the proem to Geo. iii he promises to make a temple …
A Complex Problem
De Novis Libris Iudicia
DE NOVIS LIBRIS IUDICIA Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the Univer- sity of London, no. I (I954). Id., Supplementary Papers no. I (I955): R. BROWNING, The Linear B Texts from Knossos, transliterated and edited. Id., Supple- mentary Papers no. 2 (I956): E. L. BENNETT, J. CHAD- WICK, M. VENTRIS, The Knossos Tablets. A revised trans- literation of all the texts in Mycenaean Greek recoverable from Evans' excavations of I900-I904 bas…
The Pictures on Dido's Temple
Shortly after his arrival at Carthage, while he is waiting for Dido to meet him, Aeneas finds that the walls of her temple are adorned with pictures of the Trojan War. Sunt hie etiam sua praemia laudi , he cries to Achates, sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt . The description of the pictures which follows is a remarkable example of Virgil's ability to use a traditional device in such a way as to strengthen and illuminate the main them…
The Function and Structure of Virgil's Catalogue in Aeneid 7
The list of Italian forces1 with which Virgil concluded Aeneid 7 was a piece of the ‘machinery’ of epic, that is to say an expected part of the content of an epic poem, established by Homer ( Il. 2. 484 f., the catalogue of Greek ships followed by the list of Trojan forces) and expected of his successors; cf. Apollonius 1. 20–228, Silius 3. 222 f., Statius, Th. 4. 32 f., Milton, P.L. 1. 376 f. The straightforward enumeration of Homer ( divina ili…
"Virgil and the "Odyssey
THE SUETONIUS-DONATUS LIFE of Virgil refers to the Aeneid as quasi amborum Homeri carminum instar, sort of equivalent of both Homer's poems, and the relationship of the second half of the Aeneid to the Iliad and of the first half to the Odyssey has often been pointed out and discussed. The object of this paper is to define the nature and extent of Virgil's use of the Odyssey and to try to account for it. I shall be concerned with details and indi…
The Aeneid
We know that Virgil, like Milton, spent many preliminary years in planning an epic poem, turning over the possibilities, practising his skill and techniques on other genres before undertaking the most ambitious of all the literary types. He tells us himself at the beginning of the sixth eclogue that when he wished to sing of kings and battles, Apollo warned him to keep to pastoral poetry; and in the proem to Geo. iii he promises to make a temple …
The Technological Society and British Politics
IN THEIR ANALYSES OF TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY AND THE TECHNOlogical state contemporary Western writers reveal a wide spectrum of opinions, and this article must evidently consider some at least of these, though unfortunately none at great length. First, the anguish of Arendt:The question therefore is not so much whether we are the masters or the slaves of our machines, but whether machines still serve the world and its things, or if, on the contrary…
The Aeneid of Virgil, Books 1-6
The Aeneid of Virgil. Books 7-12
The Eclogues & Georgics
The Eclogues, ten short pastoral poems, were composed between approximately 42 and 39 BC, during the time of the 'Second' Triumvirate of Lepidus, Anthony, and Octavian. In them Virgil subtly blended an idealized Arcadia with contemporary history. To his Greek model - the Idylls of Theocritus - he added a strong element of Italian realism: places and people, real or disguised, and contemporary events are introduced. The Eclogues display all Virgil…
Virgil, Aen. 6. 304
In his note on Hesiod, WD 705 M. L. West tentatively suggests adeo for deo , saying rightly that ‘Charon is not a god in the literary tradition generally or in Virgil's scheme’ (see now Austin ad loc.). Palaeographically nothing could be more attractive than this emendation. But for all Virgil's fondness for adeo (see my note on Aen. 3. 203, Fordyce on 7. 427) he (like other authors) does not use it in this intensifying sense with adjectives othe…
Virgil
The Aeneid of Virgil
The Aeneid
The Sadness of the King
“Betrayed or avenged, sadness is the condition of the King.”1 This typically lapidary formulation is Gillian Rose's attempt to sum up why philosophy is risky, unavoidable, and comic; and in this brief reflection on her work, I hope to draw out why all these adjectives might be argued to belong to the labor of philosophy. Rose is writing about the apparently tragic tension at the heart of the Arthurian legend. The King has established law for the …
Incidence of physical non-communicable disease in people who have experienced imprisonment compared with the general population in high-income countries
Several NCDs, including multiple cancers, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and liver disease, are substantially more common in people who have experienced imprisonment compared with the general population, highlighting a need for primary prevention and NCD management
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