Silvio Bär
Biographic Data
| ID | 3874754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silvio Bär |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silvio |
| FAMILY NAME | Bär |
| SIGNATURE | BAR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0627-7994 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction
This introduction maps the field of transtextual characters: what are such characters, how have they been approached in scholarship, especially narrative theory and media studies, and why can a perspective on premodern material in particular give new impulses to their analysis? We discuss, first, the relevance of distinguishing between text and work. In premodern contexts, texts are often unstable and transmitted in various witnesses, versions, a…
Zur Konzeptualisierung des Transtextualitätsbegriffs
The concept and notion of transtextuality – understood in relation to (fictional, semi-fictional and historical) characters who travel from text to text or from one fictional world to another – have not yet been firmly established in Classical Philology. This article examines how the theory of transtextuality can be historicized and how the study of characters from ancient literature can contribute to a more nuanced and historically sensitive con…
The Study of Transtextual Characters in Homeric Sequels. A Methodological Manifesto
The Silence of the Stones
In 479 BCE , the Athenian citizen Lycides and his family were lapidated after Lycides had spoken in the Council in favour of accepting a Persian peace offering. Herodotus reports on this incident in a seemingly succinct and neutral-sounding manner (Hdt. 9.5). In this article, the stoning of Lycides and his family is compared to other acts of lapidation as narrated and/or alluded to in the Histories and in other texts from the archaic and classica…
Truth in the Late Foucault
The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his work on the ancient world and the early church. Each essay features a deep examination as to how the topics of truth and sexuality intersect with and focus on Foucault’s engagement with ancient philosophy and thought. Truth in the Late Foucault offers readings on Plato, Artemidorus, Cicero, Sophocles and the Stoics, and pays close atte…
Introduction
Later Greek Epic and the Latin Literary Tradition
The volume offers an innovative and systematic exploration of the diverse ways in which Later Greek Epic interacts with the Latin literary tradition. Taking as a starting point the premise that it is probable for the Greek epic poets of the Late Antiquity to have been familiar with leading works of Latin poetry, either in the original or in translation, the contributions in this book pursue a new form of intertextuality, in which the leading epic…
Quintus of Smyrna’s 'Posthomerica
This collection offers a new collaborative reading of Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica: one of the most important Greek epics written at the height of the Roman Empire. Building on the surge of interest in imperial Greek poetry seen in the past decades, this book applies new approaches - literary, theoretical and historical - to ask new questions about this mysterious, challenging poet and to re-evaluate his role in the cultural history of his tim…
Rezension zu
Jan Kwapisz
The Thucydidean Turn
The emergence of Thucydides as an influential political thinker in the first half of the twentieth century has been astonishingly neglected by modern scholars. This volume examines how, why, and when the Athenian historical came to occupy such a prominent position in political discourse in the US and Europe today. It argues that in the years before, during, and after the Great War Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War was mined for the ins…
The Classics in Modernist Translation
This volume sheds new light on a wealth of early 20th-century engagement with literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity that significantly shaped the work of anglophone literary modernism. The essays spotlight ‘translation’, a concept the modernists themselves used to reckon with the Classics and to denote a range of different kinds of reception – from more literal to more liberal translation work, as well as forms of what contemporary reception studi…
Antipodean Antiquities
"Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on…
Titanen, Giganten und Riesen im antiken Epos
196 PHOENIX and reasoning provided in support of her interpretations, many of which readers are likely to find insightful. Brook’s unremitting determination, however, to apply the approach of “ritual poetics” to the study of Sophocles sometimes also leads to results that may be less convincing. Her interpretations occasionally lack differentiation and nuance, perhaps due to an eagerness to spot as many instances of ritual action as possible. As a…
Herakles im griechischen Epos
Wie keine andere mythische Figur der Antike vereint Herakles diverse Charaktereigenschaften in sich, die oft in eklatantem Widerspruch zueinander stehen. Silvio Bär untersucht, wie Herakles als literarische Figur in der altgriechischen Epik von Homer bis Nonnos verwendet wird und wie seine inhärente Widersprüchlichkeit funktionalisiert wird. Obwohl Herakles im altgriechischen Epos nie als Protagonist auftritt, ist er dennoch von herausragender Be…
Quintus Smyrnaeus, Greek epic poet, 2nd/3rd century CE
Quintus Smyrnaeus was a poet of the late 2nd or 3rd century ce , the author of the epic poem the Posthomerica (14 books, 8,786 lines), which covers the narrative lacuna between Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey and thus treats stories that were originally covered by the Epic Cycle. The narrative technique is more episodic and linear than that of the Homeric epics, but it does not lack plot coherence and an overarching design. The language and style i…
Come, Second Best of Painters
The speaker of Carmina Anacreontea 16 and 17 describes his beloved whom an artist is to depict. Both poems create an atmosphere of irony and ambiguity which encourages the reader to participate in a discourse about the polyphonic voices in the collection. This polyphony ties in with the Hellenistic trend to view poetry and the visual arts as competitive
The Epic Cycle and imperial Greek epic
The Greek world from the third to the sixth century AD enjoyed a rich and continuous production of hexameter poetry, ranging from the didactic poems Halieutica and Cynegetica (second century AD) by the two Oppians, Quintus of Smyrna's large-scale Posthomerica and Triphiodorus' small-scale Capture of Troy (third century AD), to Nonnus of Panopolis' gargantuan Dionysiaca (fifth century AD), as well as those poets who are indebted to Nonnus and are …
Triphiodorus, The Sack of Troy
Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion and Its Reception
In classical scholarship of the past two centuries, the term “epyllion” was used to label short hexametric texts mainly ascribable to the Hellenistic period (Greek) or the Neoterics (Latin). Apart from their brevity, characteristics such as a predilection for episodic narration or female characters were regarded as typically “epyllic” features. However, in Antiquity itself, the texts we call “epyllia” were not considered a coherent genre, which s…
Brill's companion to Greek and Latin 'epyllion' and its reception
“Museum of Words”
Quintus Smyrnaeus
The "Events after Homer", described by Quintus Smyrnaeus in the third century AD in his Greek epic Posthomerica, are an attempt to bridge the gap between the Iliad and the Odyssey , and to combine the various scattered reports of the battle for Troy into a single tale: the fate of Achilles, Ajax, Paris and the Amazon Penthesileia, the intervention of Neoptolemos and the story from the Trojan horse to the destruction of the city. The volume presen…
Quintus Smyrnaeus »Posthomerica« 1
Die Arbeit stellt die erstmalige Teilkommentierung (Verse 1–219) des ersten Buches der Posthomerica des Quintus Smyrnaeus dar, welches in Fortsetzung der Ilias das Geschick der Amazonenkonigin Penthesileia vor Troja berichtet. Auf essayhafte Einleitungen zu den einzelnen inhaltlichen Einheiten folgt der jeweilige Lemmakommentar. Vorangestellt sind der Arbeit eine Einleitung zum Gesamtwerk sowie zu Posthomerica 1. Diese setzt sich u.a. vertieft mi…
An Introduction to Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica
Quintus Smyrnaeus
The "Events after Homer", described by Quintus Smyrnaeus in the third century AD in his Greek epic Posthomerica, are an attempt to bridge the gap between the Iliad and the Odyssey , and to combine the various scattered reports of the battle for Troy into a single tale: the fate of Achilles, Ajax, Paris and the Amazon Penthesileia, the intervention of Neoptolemos and the story from the Trojan horse to the destruction of the city. The volume presen…
Antipodean Antiquities
"Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on…
An Introduction to Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica
Quintus Smyrnaeus »Posthomerica« 1
Die Arbeit stellt die erstmalige Teilkommentierung (Verse 1–219) des ersten Buches der Posthomerica des Quintus Smyrnaeus dar, welches in Fortsetzung der Ilias das Geschick der Amazonenkonigin Penthesileia vor Troja berichtet. Auf essayhafte Einleitungen zu den einzelnen inhaltlichen Einheiten folgt der jeweilige Lemmakommentar. Vorangestellt sind der Arbeit eine Einleitung zum Gesamtwerk sowie zu Posthomerica 1. Diese setzt sich u.a. vertieft mi…
Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion and Its Reception
In classical scholarship of the past two centuries, the term “epyllion” was used to label short hexametric texts mainly ascribable to the Hellenistic period (Greek) or the Neoterics (Latin). Apart from their brevity, characteristics such as a predilection for episodic narration or female characters were regarded as typically “epyllic” features. However, in Antiquity itself, the texts we call “epyllia” were not considered a coherent genre, which s…
Brill's companion to Greek and Latin 'epyllion' and its reception
“Museum of Words”
Quintus Smyrnaeus
The "Events after Homer", described by Quintus Smyrnaeus in the third century AD in his Greek epic Posthomerica, are an attempt to bridge the gap between the Iliad and the Odyssey , and to combine the various scattered reports of the battle for Troy into a single tale: the fate of Achilles, Ajax, Paris and the Amazon Penthesileia, the intervention of Neoptolemos and the story from the Trojan horse to the destruction of the city. The volume presen…
The Epic Cycle and imperial Greek epic
The Greek world from the third to the sixth century AD enjoyed a rich and continuous production of hexameter poetry, ranging from the didactic poems Halieutica and Cynegetica (second century AD) by the two Oppians, Quintus of Smyrna's large-scale Posthomerica and Triphiodorus' small-scale Capture of Troy (third century AD), to Nonnus of Panopolis' gargantuan Dionysiaca (fifth century AD), as well as those poets who are indebted to Nonnus and are …
Triphiodorus, The Sack of Troy
Quintus Smyrnaeus, Greek epic poet, 2nd/3rd century CE
Quintus Smyrnaeus was a poet of the late 2nd or 3rd century ce , the author of the epic poem the Posthomerica (14 books, 8,786 lines), which covers the narrative lacuna between Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey and thus treats stories that were originally covered by the Epic Cycle. The narrative technique is more episodic and linear than that of the Homeric epics, but it does not lack plot coherence and an overarching design. The language and style i…
Come, Second Best of Painters
The speaker of Carmina Anacreontea 16 and 17 describes his beloved whom an artist is to depict. Both poems create an atmosphere of irony and ambiguity which encourages the reader to participate in a discourse about the polyphonic voices in the collection. This polyphony ties in with the Hellenistic trend to view poetry and the visual arts as competitive
Herakles im griechischen Epos
Wie keine andere mythische Figur der Antike vereint Herakles diverse Charaktereigenschaften in sich, die oft in eklatantem Widerspruch zueinander stehen. Silvio Bär untersucht, wie Herakles als literarische Figur in der altgriechischen Epik von Homer bis Nonnos verwendet wird und wie seine inhärente Widersprüchlichkeit funktionalisiert wird. Obwohl Herakles im altgriechischen Epos nie als Protagonist auftritt, ist er dennoch von herausragender Be…
The Classics in Modernist Translation
This volume sheds new light on a wealth of early 20th-century engagement with literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity that significantly shaped the work of anglophone literary modernism. The essays spotlight ‘translation’, a concept the modernists themselves used to reckon with the Classics and to denote a range of different kinds of reception – from more literal to more liberal translation work, as well as forms of what contemporary reception studi…
Antipodean Antiquities
"Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on…
Titanen, Giganten und Riesen im antiken Epos
196 PHOENIX and reasoning provided in support of her interpretations, many of which readers are likely to find insightful. Brook’s unremitting determination, however, to apply the approach of “ritual poetics” to the study of Sophocles sometimes also leads to results that may be less convincing. Her interpretations occasionally lack differentiation and nuance, perhaps due to an eagerness to spot as many instances of ritual action as possible. As a…
The Thucydidean Turn
The emergence of Thucydides as an influential political thinker in the first half of the twentieth century has been astonishingly neglected by modern scholars. This volume examines how, why, and when the Athenian historical came to occupy such a prominent position in political discourse in the US and Europe today. It argues that in the years before, during, and after the Great War Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War was mined for the ins…
Rezension zu
Jan Kwapisz
Introduction
Later Greek Epic and the Latin Literary Tradition
The volume offers an innovative and systematic exploration of the diverse ways in which Later Greek Epic interacts with the Latin literary tradition. Taking as a starting point the premise that it is probable for the Greek epic poets of the Late Antiquity to have been familiar with leading works of Latin poetry, either in the original or in translation, the contributions in this book pursue a new form of intertextuality, in which the leading epic…
Quintus of Smyrna’s 'Posthomerica
This collection offers a new collaborative reading of Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica: one of the most important Greek epics written at the height of the Roman Empire. Building on the surge of interest in imperial Greek poetry seen in the past decades, this book applies new approaches - literary, theoretical and historical - to ask new questions about this mysterious, challenging poet and to re-evaluate his role in the cultural history of his tim…
Truth in the Late Foucault
The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his work on the ancient world and the early church. Each essay features a deep examination as to how the topics of truth and sexuality intersect with and focus on Foucault’s engagement with ancient philosophy and thought. Truth in the Late Foucault offers readings on Plato, Artemidorus, Cicero, Sophocles and the Stoics, and pays close atte…
Introduction
This introduction maps the field of transtextual characters: what are such characters, how have they been approached in scholarship, especially narrative theory and media studies, and why can a perspective on premodern material in particular give new impulses to their analysis? We discuss, first, the relevance of distinguishing between text and work. In premodern contexts, texts are often unstable and transmitted in various witnesses, versions, a…
Zur Konzeptualisierung des Transtextualitätsbegriffs
The concept and notion of transtextuality – understood in relation to (fictional, semi-fictional and historical) characters who travel from text to text or from one fictional world to another – have not yet been firmly established in Classical Philology. This article examines how the theory of transtextuality can be historicized and how the study of characters from ancient literature can contribute to a more nuanced and historically sensitive con…
The Study of Transtextual Characters in Homeric Sequels. A Methodological Manifesto
The Silence of the Stones
In 479 BCE , the Athenian citizen Lycides and his family were lapidated after Lycides had spoken in the Council in favour of accepting a Persian peace offering. Herodotus reports on this incident in a seemingly succinct and neutral-sounding manner (Hdt. 9.5). In this article, the stoning of Lycides and his family is compared to other acts of lapidation as narrated and/or alluded to in the Histories and in other texts from the archaic and classica…
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