Justina Gregory
Biographic Data
| ID | 3874685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justina Gregory |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justina |
| FAMILY NAME | Gregory |
| SIGNATURE | GREGORY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smith College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8078-747X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Classical allusions and narrative guidance in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped
Kidnapped is the most Scottish novel Robert Louis Stevenson ever wrote. Set in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden, it integrates historical with fictional events and features detailed Highland topography, along with a gallery of Scottish character types. Yet despite its regional ambiance Kidnapped is imbued with classical references that broaden its focus, illuminating issues of class and education within the story and of genre and narrative…
Non Secus in Iugis: Horace Reads Euripides' Bacchae
In Odes 3.25 Horace draws on Euripides' Bacchae as an intertext to strengthen the poem's associative links. Through intertextuality, Horace implicitly contrasts the resistance of Euripides' Pentheus to Dionysus' divinity with his own celebration of Augustus' apotheosis, while salient details bring the poem's representation of the god into sharper focus. Réesumé: Dans Odes 3.25, Horace s'inspire des Bacchantes d'Euripide afin de renforcer les dive…
The Extreme Wish in Greek Literature
In a topos found in a range of Greek texts spanning the archaic period to the sixth century AD , a speaker links the attainment of a cherished goal to a declared desire for death. This sequence of ideas is often dismissed as formulaic or rhetorical; I argue that the topos is more varied and meaningful than such characterizations suggest. Its rationale, grounded in the archaic concept of alternation of fortune, is spelled out for a modern audience…
Iliad, Part 1
The Iliad concerns not only heroic war but also heroic education. This chapter begins by considering the poem’s treatment of the relationship between natural aptitudes and acquired skills and discusses the lengthy scene of instruction ( Iliad 23) in which Nestor coaches his son Antilochus on winning a chariot race. It describes the normative heroic curriculum, which includes training in public speaking, warfare, and the value system underpinning …
Cheiron the Centaur
The first teacher attested in the Greek literary tradition is Cheiron the centaur, who from his cave on Mount Pelion in Thessaly dispensed an elite, one-on-one education to some of mythology’s greatest heroes. Because the centaur has left few traces in epic and tragedy, it is necessary to assemble his pedagogic persona from disparate sources. After defining Cheiron as an anti-centaur who differs from his fellows in lineage as well as character, t…
Hippolytus
Hippolytus’ fundamental mistake ( hamartia ) has been variously described as devotion to chastity (symbolized by his worship of Artemis), as life-denying puritanism or excessive arrogance (symbolized by his hostility to Aphrodite), and as a failure to progress to maturity via the normative rites of passage. This chapter explains Hippolytus’ failure in educational rather than initiatory terms. The play’s repeated references to Hippolytus’ youthful…
Iliad, Part 2
While restricting its main narrative to the tenth year of the siege of Troy, the Iliad broadens its temporal horizon by alluding to themes more at home either earlier or later in the war. Similarly, Achilles is portrayed simultaneously as a youthful hero and as an experienced warrior. Achilles’ childhood instructors included both Cheiron the centaur, whose role is downplayed in the poem, and his father’s retainer Phoenix, who serves to normalize …
Philoctetes
Although Neoptolemus’ trajectory in Philoctetes is often described as a rite of passage, this chapter argues that it is better understood in terms of a different topos , the Biou Hairesis , or Choice of Life. Having received a conventional heroic upbringing, Neoptolemus comes under the influence of two additional instructors, Odysseus and Philoctetes. Odysseus urges the young man to join him in duping and victimizing Philoctetes, while Philoctete…
Odyssey
In the Odyssey the educational theme (whose prominence was already recognized in antiquity) takes a distinctive turn, probably because Odysseus’ son Telemachus has grown up without a father’s guidance and advice. The chapter begins by considering the childhood and youth of Odysseus, which share elements with the normative heroic education adumbrated in the Iliad . It then turns to Telemachus who, raised by his mother, Penelope, in his father’s ab…
Iphigenia in Aulis
Because Homer’s Nausicaa sheds light on Euripides’ Iphigenia, this chapter begins by discussing her representation in the Odyssey . Both young women have been raised to regard marriage as the culminating event of female existence, an attitude that Agamemnon exploits to lure his daughter to Aulis for a fictitious marriage with Achilles. After reviewing the internal and external chronology of Iphigenia in Aulis and the state of its text, this chapt…
Ajax
As critics both ancient and modern have recognized, Sophocles’ Ajax is profoundly indebted to Homer. This chapter argues that the protagonist tracks the Iliadic Achilles’ developmental path in significant respects, but that Sophocles provides his own explanation of Ajax’s character: he anchors the hero’s so-called megalomania in the harsh upbringing Ajax has received from his father, Telamon, and passes on to his own son, Eurysaces. Defeated by O…
Cheiron's Way: Youthful Education in Homer and Tragedy
This book studies the social and ethical formation of selected characters in ancient Greek epic and tragedy. Its point of departure is the claim made by Achilles’ tutor Phoenix, who reminds his former pupil, “I made you the man you are” (Homer, Iliad 9.485) as he pleads with him to let go of his anger. Following an introduction that sketches the conceptual background for literary representations of teaching and learning, Chapter 1 considers the p…
Sophocles’ Ajax and his Homeric Prototypes
Education, in Homer
Cheiron
Becoming Female. The Male Body in Greek Tragedy
Genre and Intertextuality: Sophocles' Antigone and Euripides' Alcestis
GENRE AND INTERTEXTUALITY: SOPHOCLES' ANTIGONE AND EURIPIDES' ALCESTIS Get access JUSTINA GREGORY JUSTINA GREGORY Smith College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 49, Issue Supplement_87, January 2006, Pages 113–127, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2006.tb02334.x Published: 27 July 2011
A Companion to Greek Tragedy
The Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy provides readers with a fundamental grounding in Greek tragedy, and also introduces them to the various methodologies and the lively critical dialogue that characterize the study of Greek tragedy today. Comprises 31 original essays by an international cast of contributors, including up-and-coming as well as distinguished senior scholars Pays attention to socio-political, textual, and performance aspects of…
Sophocles: Antigone
The Theatre of Apollo: Divine Justice and Sophocles' Oedipus the King
Poem as fact: The historical method in literary criticism Stage directions for Sophocles' the King Oedipus Pharmakos? Alleged scapegoating in the play Asserting eternal providence: The question of guilt The authority of prophecy: Theodicy in the play Reading the name of Oedipus and other riddles The humiliation of Oedipus
ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΑ ἍΦΘΟΝΟΣ (Plato, Symposium 210d)
Near the climax of the ascent passage of the Symposium , Plato describes how the lover turns to gaze at the great sea of the beautiful and has been variously interpreted by commentators and translators, none has regarded it as particularly significant. In what follows we examine the contribution that the immediate context makes to the meaning of the phrase and take note of the link between the adjective ἄφθονος and two subsequent uses of φθον⋯ω, …
Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians
Euripides "Hecuba" 54
Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians
Political by its very nature, Greek tragedy reflects on how life should be lived in the polis , and especially the polis that was democratic Athens. Instructional as well, drama frequently concerns itself with the audience's moral education. Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians draws on these political and didactic functions of tragedy for a close analysis of five plays: Alcestis, Hippolytus, Hecuba, Heracles , and Trojan Women . Clearl…
Greek Tragedy and Its Legacy: Essays Presented to D. J. Conacher
Greek Tragedy and Its Legacy: Essays Presented to D. J. Conacher
The Lost Sophocles
The Theatre of Apollo: Divine Justice and Sophocles' Oedipus the King
Poem as fact: The historical method in literary criticism Stage directions for Sophocles' the King Oedipus Pharmakos? Alleged scapegoating in the play Asserting eternal providence: The question of guilt The authority of prophecy: Theodicy in the play Reading the name of Oedipus and other riddles The humiliation of Oedipus
Cheiron's Way: Youthful Education in Homer and Tragedy
This book studies the social and ethical formation of selected characters in ancient Greek epic and tragedy. Its point of departure is the claim made by Achilles’ tutor Phoenix, who reminds his former pupil, “I made you the man you are” (Homer, Iliad 9.485) as he pleads with him to let go of his anger. Following an introduction that sketches the conceptual background for literary representations of teaching and learning, Chapter 1 considers the p…
The Lost Sophocles
Greek Tragedy and Its Legacy: Essays Presented to D. J. Conacher
Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians
Political by its very nature, Greek tragedy reflects on how life should be lived in the polis , and especially the polis that was democratic Athens. Instructional as well, drama frequently concerns itself with the audience's moral education. Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians draws on these political and didactic functions of tragedy for a close analysis of five plays: Alcestis, Hippolytus, Hecuba, Heracles , and Trojan Women . Clearl…
Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians
Euripides "Hecuba" 54
ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΑ ἍΦΘΟΝΟΣ (Plato, Symposium 210d)
Near the climax of the ascent passage of the Symposium , Plato describes how the lover turns to gaze at the great sea of the beautiful and has been variously interpreted by commentators and translators, none has regarded it as particularly significant. In what follows we examine the contribution that the immediate context makes to the meaning of the phrase and take note of the link between the adjective ἄφθονος and two subsequent uses of φθον⋯ω, …
The Theatre of Apollo: Divine Justice and Sophocles' Oedipus the King
Poem as fact: The historical method in literary criticism Stage directions for Sophocles' the King Oedipus Pharmakos? Alleged scapegoating in the play Asserting eternal providence: The question of guilt The authority of prophecy: Theodicy in the play Reading the name of Oedipus and other riddles The humiliation of Oedipus
Sophocles: Antigone
A Companion to Greek Tragedy
The Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy provides readers with a fundamental grounding in Greek tragedy, and also introduces them to the various methodologies and the lively critical dialogue that characterize the study of Greek tragedy today. Comprises 31 original essays by an international cast of contributors, including up-and-coming as well as distinguished senior scholars Pays attention to socio-political, textual, and performance aspects of…
Genre and Intertextuality: Sophocles' Antigone and Euripides' Alcestis
GENRE AND INTERTEXTUALITY: SOPHOCLES' ANTIGONE AND EURIPIDES' ALCESTIS Get access JUSTINA GREGORY JUSTINA GREGORY Smith College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 49, Issue Supplement_87, January 2006, Pages 113–127, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2006.tb02334.x Published: 27 July 2011
Education, in Homer
Cheiron
Becoming Female. The Male Body in Greek Tragedy
Sophocles’ Ajax and his Homeric Prototypes
Iliad, Part 1
The Iliad concerns not only heroic war but also heroic education. This chapter begins by considering the poem’s treatment of the relationship between natural aptitudes and acquired skills and discusses the lengthy scene of instruction ( Iliad 23) in which Nestor coaches his son Antilochus on winning a chariot race. It describes the normative heroic curriculum, which includes training in public speaking, warfare, and the value system underpinning …
Cheiron the Centaur
The first teacher attested in the Greek literary tradition is Cheiron the centaur, who from his cave on Mount Pelion in Thessaly dispensed an elite, one-on-one education to some of mythology’s greatest heroes. Because the centaur has left few traces in epic and tragedy, it is necessary to assemble his pedagogic persona from disparate sources. After defining Cheiron as an anti-centaur who differs from his fellows in lineage as well as character, t…
Hippolytus
Hippolytus’ fundamental mistake ( hamartia ) has been variously described as devotion to chastity (symbolized by his worship of Artemis), as life-denying puritanism or excessive arrogance (symbolized by his hostility to Aphrodite), and as a failure to progress to maturity via the normative rites of passage. This chapter explains Hippolytus’ failure in educational rather than initiatory terms. The play’s repeated references to Hippolytus’ youthful…
Iliad, Part 2
While restricting its main narrative to the tenth year of the siege of Troy, the Iliad broadens its temporal horizon by alluding to themes more at home either earlier or later in the war. Similarly, Achilles is portrayed simultaneously as a youthful hero and as an experienced warrior. Achilles’ childhood instructors included both Cheiron the centaur, whose role is downplayed in the poem, and his father’s retainer Phoenix, who serves to normalize …
Philoctetes
Although Neoptolemus’ trajectory in Philoctetes is often described as a rite of passage, this chapter argues that it is better understood in terms of a different topos , the Biou Hairesis , or Choice of Life. Having received a conventional heroic upbringing, Neoptolemus comes under the influence of two additional instructors, Odysseus and Philoctetes. Odysseus urges the young man to join him in duping and victimizing Philoctetes, while Philoctete…
Odyssey
In the Odyssey the educational theme (whose prominence was already recognized in antiquity) takes a distinctive turn, probably because Odysseus’ son Telemachus has grown up without a father’s guidance and advice. The chapter begins by considering the childhood and youth of Odysseus, which share elements with the normative heroic education adumbrated in the Iliad . It then turns to Telemachus who, raised by his mother, Penelope, in his father’s ab…
Iphigenia in Aulis
Because Homer’s Nausicaa sheds light on Euripides’ Iphigenia, this chapter begins by discussing her representation in the Odyssey . Both young women have been raised to regard marriage as the culminating event of female existence, an attitude that Agamemnon exploits to lure his daughter to Aulis for a fictitious marriage with Achilles. After reviewing the internal and external chronology of Iphigenia in Aulis and the state of its text, this chapt…
Ajax
As critics both ancient and modern have recognized, Sophocles’ Ajax is profoundly indebted to Homer. This chapter argues that the protagonist tracks the Iliadic Achilles’ developmental path in significant respects, but that Sophocles provides his own explanation of Ajax’s character: he anchors the hero’s so-called megalomania in the harsh upbringing Ajax has received from his father, Telamon, and passes on to his own son, Eurysaces. Defeated by O…
Cheiron's Way: Youthful Education in Homer and Tragedy
This book studies the social and ethical formation of selected characters in ancient Greek epic and tragedy. Its point of departure is the claim made by Achilles’ tutor Phoenix, who reminds his former pupil, “I made you the man you are” (Homer, Iliad 9.485) as he pleads with him to let go of his anger. Following an introduction that sketches the conceptual background for literary representations of teaching and learning, Chapter 1 considers the p…
The Extreme Wish in Greek Literature
In a topos found in a range of Greek texts spanning the archaic period to the sixth century AD , a speaker links the attainment of a cherished goal to a declared desire for death. This sequence of ideas is often dismissed as formulaic or rhetorical; I argue that the topos is more varied and meaningful than such characterizations suggest. Its rationale, grounded in the archaic concept of alternation of fortune, is spelled out for a modern audience…
Non Secus in Iugis: Horace Reads Euripides' Bacchae
In Odes 3.25 Horace draws on Euripides' Bacchae as an intertext to strengthen the poem's associative links. Through intertextuality, Horace implicitly contrasts the resistance of Euripides' Pentheus to Dionysus' divinity with his own celebration of Augustus' apotheosis, while salient details bring the poem's representation of the god into sharper focus. Réesumé: Dans Odes 3.25, Horace s'inspire des Bacchantes d'Euripide afin de renforcer les dive…
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