Ivana Petrovic
Biographic Data
| ID | 3875139 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivana Petrovic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivana |
| FAMILY NAME | Petrovic |
| SIGNATURE | PETROVIĆ I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5149-5611 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 31 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Social support and help-seeking worldwide
Hesiod’s Religious Norms in Context
We analyze the section from Hesiod’s Works and Days (724–760) that equips the farmer with the expertise necessary to facilitate the household’s harmonious relationship with the gods. We propose that this section with its tabular ordinances represents the earliest collection of Greek religious norms, and we contextualize it both within the structure of the W&D and within the wider framework of Greek religion. The section is carefully developed and…
Religion in Ancient Greece
Ancient Greek religion was a polytheistic religion without a book, church, creed, or a professional priestly class. Due to the extraordinarily rich regional varieties in cult, fragmentary evidence and conjectural interpretations of it, conflicting mythological accounts, and the span of time treated, not a single absolute statement can be made about any aspect of Greek religion and exceptions exist for every general rule stated here. Since Ancient…
The Materiality of Text – Placement, Perception, and Presence of Inscribed Texts in Classical Antiquity
Written by an international cast of experts, The Materiality of Text showcases a wide range of innovative methodologies from ancient history, literary studies, epigraphy, and art history and provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on the physicality of writing in antiquity. The contributions focus on epigraphic texts in order to gauge questions of their placement, presence, and perception: starting with an analysis of the forms of writing and i…
The materiality of text
Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era
This volume sheds new light on the evolution of Greek epigram from the Hellenistic up to the early Byzantine era. It is concerned not with the work of individual authors but with the complexities of epigram as a genre; with the dynamics of poetic imitation and competition, as reflected in the work of epigrammatists who belong to the same or different anthologies and in the editorial activities of the poets who edited and created those anthologies…
A Companion to Ancient Epigram by Christer Henriksén
198 PHOENIX that involve giants, and the author combines his preferred methods and interpretative interests (intertextuality, narratology, geopoetics, metapoetics, etc.) with great aplomb. Amongst other things, he argues that in the PH comparisons and similes involving giants are confined to the characterization of heroes and heroines of the older generation, and that they often highlight narrative turning points. An example of this phenomenon is…
Divine Bondage and Katabaseis in Hesiod’s Theogony
A Companion to Ancient Epigram
This chapter surveys the interaction of the epigrammatic with the epic and the dramatic genres using examples from inscriptions, Homer, Vergil, Lucan, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Epigrammatic material has found its way into both epic and Greek tragedy and at the same time epic and tragedy have provided inspiration for the epigrams. The first part of this chapter will look at epi(c)gram, that is epigrams embedded or evoked in the epic cor…
Očuvanje hrvatskog jezika u Kanadi
Osnovni cilj ovog rada jest utvrditi opće kretanje ukupnog broja stanovnika hrvatskog podrijetla i broja govornika hrvatskog jezika u Kanadi kako bi se dobila što cjelovitija slika o demografskim značajkama hrvatske iseljeničke zajednice u toj prekooceanskoj zemlji. Specifični cilj ovog rada jest ispitati očuvanost hrvatskoga kao manjinskoga ili nasljednog jezika te utvrditi obrasce njegove upotrebe kod različitih generacija govornika. U radu se …
Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion
This book takes a radically new look at the ancient Greek notions of purity and pollution. Its main concern is the inner state of individual worshippers as they approach the gods and interact with the divine realm in a ritual context. It is a book about Greek worshippers’ inner attitudes towards the gods and rituals, and about what kind of inner attitude the Greek gods were envisaged to expect from their worshippers. In the wider sense, it is a b…
On Finding Homer
Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion
Aeschylus on Mental Pollution
Chapter 8 discusses issues of mental pollution in the Oresteia and the Suppliants. Aeschylus’ Oresteia trilogy depicts a chain of retributive kin-killings, resulting in pollution of the body and the mind of homicides. The chapter first discusses Agamemnon’s sacrifice of Iphigenia, focusing on Aeschylus’ characterization of Agamemnon’s mind as a polluted, sacrilegious, and unholy ritual agent (Ag. 219–21). Agamemnon’s fatal misinterpretation of di…
Posidippus and Achaemenid royal propaganda
Ktesibios of Alexandria
Ktesibios of Alexandria was a third‐century BCE innovator and founder of pneumatics, a study of the use of pressurized gas to affect motion. Since Ktesibios' work Hypomnemata mechanika is lost, we must rely on the writings of those to whom it was still available (Vitruvius) and on the report of Philo of Byzantium, who saw Ktesibios present his inventions, such as the air valve ( Belopoiika 77f.).
Bendis
Bendis was a Thracian goddess who was equated with Greek Artemis, Hekate, or Persephone.
Zenodotos of Ephesos
Zenodotos of Ephesos (ca. 325–260 BCE ) was the first head of the Alexandrian library.
Orthia
Orthia was a Greek goddess who was identified with Artemis.
Callimachus
Callimachus of Cyrene, son of Battos (flourished under Ptolemy II Philadelphos 285–246 BCE ), was a scholar, a poet, and the leading intellectual of his age.
Laws, sacred (Greece)
The term “sacred law” was derived from the Greek term hieros nomos by nineteenth‐century students of Greek religion, whereupon it was applied to a much broader group of texts and regulations.
Herodas
Herodas was active in the first half of the third century BCE . Apart from what we can gather from his poetry, nothing is known about his life. His entire extant opus — seven complete poems ranging in length from 85 to 129 lines and fragments of two more — was preserved on a papyrus published in 1891. Like other Hellenistic poets, Herodas experimented with traditional genres and combined mime and iambos, thus creating a new genre called mimiambus…
Aristophanes of Byzantium
Aristophanes of Byzantium (ca. 265–190 or 257–180 BCE ) was Eratosthenes' successor as the head of the (Alexandrian library)and one of the most prominent and influential philologists of the ancient world. Born in Byzantium, he moved to Alexandria, where he was taught by the leading scholars. Some sources list Dionysios Iambos, Euphronios, and Machon as his teachers; others list Zenodotos of Ephesos, Callimachus, and Eratosthenes. His own student,…
Artemis
Artemis was one of the most important Greek goddesses, with a widespread cult and numerous sanctuaries all over the Greek world.
Theocritus
Theocritus of Syracuse was active in the third century bce . Apart from an epigram from the Palatine Anthology (9.434) and what we can gather from his poetry, nothing is known about his life. He may have spent some time at Kos and Alexandria.
A Companion to Ancient Epigram
This chapter surveys the interaction of the epigrammatic with the epic and the dramatic genres using examples from inscriptions, Homer, Vergil, Lucan, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Epigrammatic material has found its way into both epic and Greek tragedy and at the same time epic and tragedy have provided inspiration for the epigrams. The first part of this chapter will look at epi(c)gram, that is epigrams embedded or evoked in the epic cor…
Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era
This volume sheds new light on the evolution of Greek epigram from the Hellenistic up to the early Byzantine era. It is concerned not with the work of individual authors but with the complexities of epigram as a genre; with the dynamics of poetic imitation and competition, as reflected in the work of epigrammatists who belong to the same or different anthologies and in the editorial activities of the poets who edited and created those anthologies…
Delusions of Grandeur
Article Delusions of Grandeur: Homer, Zeus and the Telchines in Callimachus′ Reply (Aitia Fr. 1) and Iambus 6 was published on December 18, 2006 in the journal Antike und Abendland (volume 52, issue 1)
Die Bedeutung des verses 523 in der Antigone des Sophokles Ουτοι συνεχθειν, αλλα συμφιλειν εφυν Ein neuer deutungsversuch
This paper suggests a new interpretation for verse 523 in Sophocles' Antigone . The prefix συν- in the verbs συνέχθειν and συμφιλεῖν has generally been translated as meaning "with" or "together". The author attempts to prove that the meaning of the prefix in this verse is the completion of an action and suggests the following translation: "I was not born to hate completely, but to love fully." This translation fits nicely into the contexts of Ant…
Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World
The analysis of the dynamic nature of rituals has become a heuristic tool for the investigation not only of religious behaviour and beliefs, but also for the study of social practice and communication in ancient and modern societies. From public assembly gatherings and funerals to celebration of cult feasts or the honouring of individuals, rituals mark socially important occasions, define beginnings and endings, and aid social transitions. Thus, …
Delusions of Grandeur
Article Delusions of Grandeur: Homer, Zeus and the Telchines in Callimachus′ Reply (Aitia Fr. 1) and Iambus 6 was published on December 18, 2006 in the journal Antike und Abendland (volume 52, issue 1)
The Life Story of a Cult Statue as an Allegory
Transforming Artemis
Callimachus and Contemporary Religion
This paper aims to illustrate the significance of contemporary religious practices for Callimachus’ poetry, by focusing on his Hymn to Apollo and reading it in the context of metrical and prose sacred regulations such as programmata, oracular responses, the Cyrenaean purity regulation, and the inscriptional hymns of Isyllus and Philodamos from Scarpheia. Each of these classes of text resonates in Callimachus’ poetry and contributes to its rich ta…
From Artemis to Diana
Ktesibios of Alexandria
Ktesibios of Alexandria was a third‐century BCE innovator and founder of pneumatics, a study of the use of pressurized gas to affect motion. Since Ktesibios' work Hypomnemata mechanika is lost, we must rely on the writings of those to whom it was still available (Vitruvius) and on the report of Philo of Byzantium, who saw Ktesibios present his inventions, such as the air valve ( Belopoiika 77f.).
Bendis
Bendis was a Thracian goddess who was equated with Greek Artemis, Hekate, or Persephone.
Zenodotos of Ephesos
Zenodotos of Ephesos (ca. 325–260 BCE ) was the first head of the Alexandrian library.
Orthia
Orthia was a Greek goddess who was identified with Artemis.
Callimachus
Callimachus of Cyrene, son of Battos (flourished under Ptolemy II Philadelphos 285–246 BCE ), was a scholar, a poet, and the leading intellectual of his age.
Laws, sacred (Greece)
The term “sacred law” was derived from the Greek term hieros nomos by nineteenth‐century students of Greek religion, whereupon it was applied to a much broader group of texts and regulations.
Herodas
Herodas was active in the first half of the third century BCE . Apart from what we can gather from his poetry, nothing is known about his life. His entire extant opus — seven complete poems ranging in length from 85 to 129 lines and fragments of two more — was preserved on a papyrus published in 1891. Like other Hellenistic poets, Herodas experimented with traditional genres and combined mime and iambos, thus creating a new genre called mimiambus…
Aristophanes of Byzantium
Aristophanes of Byzantium (ca. 265–190 or 257–180 BCE ) was Eratosthenes' successor as the head of the (Alexandrian library)and one of the most prominent and influential philologists of the ancient world. Born in Byzantium, he moved to Alexandria, where he was taught by the leading scholars. Some sources list Dionysios Iambos, Euphronios, and Machon as his teachers; others list Zenodotos of Ephesos, Callimachus, and Eratosthenes. His own student,…
Artemis
Artemis was one of the most important Greek goddesses, with a widespread cult and numerous sanctuaries all over the Greek world.
Theocritus
Theocritus of Syracuse was active in the third century bce . Apart from an epigram from the Palatine Anthology (9.434) and what we can gather from his poetry, nothing is known about his life. He may have spent some time at Kos and Alexandria.
Posidippus and Achaemenid royal propaganda
Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion
This book takes a radically new look at the ancient Greek notions of purity and pollution. Its main concern is the inner state of individual worshippers as they approach the gods and interact with the divine realm in a ritual context. It is a book about Greek worshippers’ inner attitudes towards the gods and rituals, and about what kind of inner attitude the Greek gods were envisaged to expect from their worshippers. In the wider sense, it is a b…
On Finding Homer
Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion
Aeschylus on Mental Pollution
Chapter 8 discusses issues of mental pollution in the Oresteia and the Suppliants. Aeschylus’ Oresteia trilogy depicts a chain of retributive kin-killings, resulting in pollution of the body and the mind of homicides. The chapter first discusses Agamemnon’s sacrifice of Iphigenia, focusing on Aeschylus’ characterization of Agamemnon’s mind as a polluted, sacrilegious, and unholy ritual agent (Ag. 219–21). Agamemnon’s fatal misinterpretation of di…
Očuvanje hrvatskog jezika u Kanadi
Osnovni cilj ovog rada jest utvrditi opće kretanje ukupnog broja stanovnika hrvatskog podrijetla i broja govornika hrvatskog jezika u Kanadi kako bi se dobila što cjelovitija slika o demografskim značajkama hrvatske iseljeničke zajednice u toj prekooceanskoj zemlji. Specifični cilj ovog rada jest ispitati očuvanost hrvatskoga kao manjinskoga ili nasljednog jezika te utvrditi obrasce njegove upotrebe kod različitih generacija govornika. U radu se …
Divine Bondage and Katabaseis in Hesiod’s Theogony
A Companion to Ancient Epigram
This chapter surveys the interaction of the epigrammatic with the epic and the dramatic genres using examples from inscriptions, Homer, Vergil, Lucan, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Epigrammatic material has found its way into both epic and Greek tragedy and at the same time epic and tragedy have provided inspiration for the epigrams. The first part of this chapter will look at epi(c)gram, that is epigrams embedded or evoked in the epic cor…
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