Alex Hardie
Biographic Data
| ID | 3875148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Hardie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Hardie |
| SIGNATURE | HARDIE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway, and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sempill, Japan, and Pearl Harbor
Lord Sempill (1893–1965) was the subject of extended investigation by the British Security Service (MI5) between World War I and II. A distinguished aviator, he was suspected of disclosing classified information to the Japanese over the years 1923 to 1925 and 1939 to 1941. MI5’s investigation was inconclusive. But with the progressive release of agency materials from the late 1990s, Sempill attracted high-profile interest from historians and medi…
Pindar, Hesiod, and the Charites of Orchomenos ( Olympian 14)
This essay offers a new reading of Olympian 14 as a civic or sacral commission for choral staging at the shrine of the Charites in Orchomenos. It is analyzed as a movement from prayerful hymn, indirectly seeking the Charites’ festive acceptance and blessings (1–12), through the accompanying komos’s overtly epinician presentation of the victor Asopichos to the goddesses (13–20), to a concluding apostrophe mandating Echo to replicate the Olympic vi…
A Dithyramb for Augustus
Odes 4.2 ostensibly looks forward to two public events lying at some indeterminate point in the future, Augustus' return from campaign in Gaul, and a triumph over the Sygambri. The celebrations anticipated for these occasions frame the second half of the ode; but they do not supply its dramatic setting or timing, and the latter is evidently associated with the period following Augustus' departure for Gaul in summer 16 b.c ., or at any rate with a…
Empedocles and the Muse of the Agathos Logos
This article offers a new reading of the Muse in Empedocles’ Physica . I aim to show that she is integrated into the poet’s physiological conception of the cosmos and that she also plays a central role in the furtherance of his eschatological purposes. Empedocles, it will be suggested, first put the Muse at the service of the philosophical logos , and in taking that step, he embraced and transcended the conventions of Muse-invocation not only in …
Juno, Hercules, and the Muses at Rome
The Aedes Herculis Musarum (AHM), embodying musical harmony, was a symbolic focal point for political concordia at Rome. The treatment of its cult honorands in high poetry also embraces Juno Regina, whose contemporary temple was adjacent to the AHM. Juno (as Moneta) and the Muses are further associated in the function of "memory," and Juno, when offended, is susceptible to musical propitiation. The AHM is prominently identified with concord and J…
The Aloades on Helicon
Muses and Mysteries
This chapter examines the role of music in mystery cults. Looking at relationships between the Muses, Orpheus, Dionysus, and initiation rites such as those at Eleusis, it argues that choreia was an essential component in bringing about that contact with the divine which initiands sought. Also significant is the fact that Mnemosyne, mother of the Muses, plays an important part in the eschatology of mystery religions, thus establishing a link betwe…
Poetry and Politics at the Games of Domitian
Domitian founded two festivals, the quinquennial Capitolia at Rome and an annual event in honour of Minerva on his Alban estate. Domitian certainly gave his new foundation a well-defined monumental context, in the form of a Stadium and Odeum in the Campus Martius, but the visible remains are modest. This chapter aims to relate the games to their respective settings in Rome and the Alban hills. Domitian presided at the Capitolia , on display not s…
The Georgics , the Mysteries and the Muses at Rome
In a paper published nearly fifty years ago, Piero Scazzoso traced what he took to be a pattern of mystery allusions in the Georgics . Reflections of telestic initiation and allied concepts of resurrection and salvation were then identified in the Orpheus and Aristaeus episodes in Book 4. Later studies in this area focused variously on the first proem, on Eleusinian references in the ‘farmer's arma ’ (1.162–8), on the role of Proserpina, and on t…
The Ancient „etymology“ of Αοιδος
Pindar's ‘Theban’ Cosmogony (The First Hymn)
Journal Article PINDAR'S 'THEBAN' COSMOGONY (THE FIRST HYMN) Get access ALEX HARDIE ALEX HARDIE Royal Holloway, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 44, Issue 1, December 2000, Pages 19–40, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2000.tb00597.x Published: 12 March 2010
Juvenal, the Phaedrus , and the truth about Rome
In Juvenal's third satire the main speaker, Umbricius, delivers a speech of farewell (a syntacticon ) as he prepares to leave Rome. In it, he mounts a sustained attack on life in the capital. By contrast, he praises Italian country towns, a combination of laudatio and vituperatio which is foreshadowed in the prefatory praise of provincial Cumae (2–5) and denigration of Rome (5–9)
Juvenal, Domitian, and the Accession of Hadrian (Satire 4)
JUVENAL, DOMITIAN, AND THE ACCESSION OF HADRIAN (SATIRE 4) Get access ALEX HARDIE ALEX HARDIE Royal Holloway, and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 42, Issue 1, December 1998, Pages 117–144, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1998.tb00726.x Published: 12 March 2010
Statius and the Silvae
Although writing in Latin, Statius (first-century AD) was, by origin and training, a Greek poet, and his collection of occasional poems, the Silvae, are a Roman extension of contemporary trends in Greek display poetry. No reading of the Silvae can be accurate without an understanding of this Graeco-Roman poetic milieu. This book therefore begins with a reconstruction of the professional background to the Silvae - the festival circuit, the conditi…
Statius and the Silvae
Although writing in Latin, Statius (first-century AD) was, by origin and training, a Greek poet, and his collection of occasional poems, the Silvae, are a Roman extension of contemporary trends in Greek display poetry. No reading of the Silvae can be accurate without an understanding of this Graeco-Roman poetic milieu. This book therefore begins with a reconstruction of the professional background to the Silvae - the festival circuit, the conditi…
Juno, Hercules, and the Muses at Rome
The Aedes Herculis Musarum (AHM), embodying musical harmony, was a symbolic focal point for political concordia at Rome. The treatment of its cult honorands in high poetry also embraces Juno Regina, whose contemporary temple was adjacent to the AHM. Juno (as Moneta) and the Muses are further associated in the function of "memory," and Juno, when offended, is susceptible to musical propitiation. The AHM is prominently identified with concord and J…
Empedocles and the Muse of the Agathos Logos
This article offers a new reading of the Muse in Empedocles’ Physica . I aim to show that she is integrated into the poet’s physiological conception of the cosmos and that she also plays a central role in the furtherance of his eschatological purposes. Empedocles, it will be suggested, first put the Muse at the service of the philosophical logos , and in taking that step, he embraced and transcended the conventions of Muse-invocation not only in …
Juvenal, Domitian, and the Accession of Hadrian (Satire 4)
JUVENAL, DOMITIAN, AND THE ACCESSION OF HADRIAN (SATIRE 4) Get access ALEX HARDIE ALEX HARDIE Royal Holloway, and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 42, Issue 1, December 1998, Pages 117–144, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1998.tb00726.x Published: 12 March 2010
The Georgics , the Mysteries and the Muses at Rome
In a paper published nearly fifty years ago, Piero Scazzoso traced what he took to be a pattern of mystery allusions in the Georgics . Reflections of telestic initiation and allied concepts of resurrection and salvation were then identified in the Orpheus and Aristaeus episodes in Book 4. Later studies in this area focused variously on the first proem, on Eleusinian references in the ‘farmer's arma ’ (1.162–8), on the role of Proserpina, and on t…
Juvenal, the Phaedrus , and the truth about Rome
In Juvenal's third satire the main speaker, Umbricius, delivers a speech of farewell (a syntacticon ) as he prepares to leave Rome. In it, he mounts a sustained attack on life in the capital. By contrast, he praises Italian country towns, a combination of laudatio and vituperatio which is foreshadowed in the prefatory praise of provincial Cumae (2–5) and denigration of Rome (5–9)
Statius and the Silvae
Although writing in Latin, Statius (first-century AD) was, by origin and training, a Greek poet, and his collection of occasional poems, the Silvae, are a Roman extension of contemporary trends in Greek display poetry. No reading of the Silvae can be accurate without an understanding of this Graeco-Roman poetic milieu. This book therefore begins with a reconstruction of the professional background to the Silvae - the festival circuit, the conditi…
Juvenal, the Phaedrus , and the truth about Rome
In Juvenal's third satire the main speaker, Umbricius, delivers a speech of farewell (a syntacticon ) as he prepares to leave Rome. In it, he mounts a sustained attack on life in the capital. By contrast, he praises Italian country towns, a combination of laudatio and vituperatio which is foreshadowed in the prefatory praise of provincial Cumae (2–5) and denigration of Rome (5–9)
Juvenal, Domitian, and the Accession of Hadrian (Satire 4)
JUVENAL, DOMITIAN, AND THE ACCESSION OF HADRIAN (SATIRE 4) Get access ALEX HARDIE ALEX HARDIE Royal Holloway, and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 42, Issue 1, December 1998, Pages 117–144, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1998.tb00726.x Published: 12 March 2010
The Ancient „etymology“ of Αοιδος
Pindar's ‘Theban’ Cosmogony (The First Hymn)
Journal Article PINDAR'S 'THEBAN' COSMOGONY (THE FIRST HYMN) Get access ALEX HARDIE ALEX HARDIE Royal Holloway, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 44, Issue 1, December 2000, Pages 19–40, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2000.tb00597.x Published: 12 March 2010
The Georgics , the Mysteries and the Muses at Rome
In a paper published nearly fifty years ago, Piero Scazzoso traced what he took to be a pattern of mystery allusions in the Georgics . Reflections of telestic initiation and allied concepts of resurrection and salvation were then identified in the Orpheus and Aristaeus episodes in Book 4. Later studies in this area focused variously on the first proem, on Eleusinian references in the ‘farmer's arma ’ (1.162–8), on the role of Proserpina, and on t…
Poetry and Politics at the Games of Domitian
Domitian founded two festivals, the quinquennial Capitolia at Rome and an annual event in honour of Minerva on his Alban estate. Domitian certainly gave his new foundation a well-defined monumental context, in the form of a Stadium and Odeum in the Campus Martius, but the visible remains are modest. This chapter aims to relate the games to their respective settings in Rome and the Alban hills. Domitian presided at the Capitolia , on display not s…
Muses and Mysteries
This chapter examines the role of music in mystery cults. Looking at relationships between the Muses, Orpheus, Dionysus, and initiation rites such as those at Eleusis, it argues that choreia was an essential component in bringing about that contact with the divine which initiands sought. Also significant is the fact that Mnemosyne, mother of the Muses, plays an important part in the eschatology of mystery religions, thus establishing a link betwe…
The Aloades on Helicon
Juno, Hercules, and the Muses at Rome
The Aedes Herculis Musarum (AHM), embodying musical harmony, was a symbolic focal point for political concordia at Rome. The treatment of its cult honorands in high poetry also embraces Juno Regina, whose contemporary temple was adjacent to the AHM. Juno (as Moneta) and the Muses are further associated in the function of "memory," and Juno, when offended, is susceptible to musical propitiation. The AHM is prominently identified with concord and J…
Empedocles and the Muse of the Agathos Logos
This article offers a new reading of the Muse in Empedocles’ Physica . I aim to show that she is integrated into the poet’s physiological conception of the cosmos and that she also plays a central role in the furtherance of his eschatological purposes. Empedocles, it will be suggested, first put the Muse at the service of the philosophical logos , and in taking that step, he embraced and transcended the conventions of Muse-invocation not only in …
A Dithyramb for Augustus
Odes 4.2 ostensibly looks forward to two public events lying at some indeterminate point in the future, Augustus' return from campaign in Gaul, and a triumph over the Sygambri. The celebrations anticipated for these occasions frame the second half of the ode; but they do not supply its dramatic setting or timing, and the latter is evidently associated with the period following Augustus' departure for Gaul in summer 16 b.c ., or at any rate with a…
Pindar, Hesiod, and the Charites of Orchomenos ( Olympian 14)
This essay offers a new reading of Olympian 14 as a civic or sacral commission for choral staging at the shrine of the Charites in Orchomenos. It is analyzed as a movement from prayerful hymn, indirectly seeking the Charites’ festive acceptance and blessings (1–12), through the accompanying komos’s overtly epinician presentation of the victor Asopichos to the goddesses (13–20), to a concluding apostrophe mandating Echo to replicate the Olympic vi…
Sempill, Japan, and Pearl Harbor
Lord Sempill (1893–1965) was the subject of extended investigation by the British Security Service (MI5) between World War I and II. A distinguished aviator, he was suspected of disclosing classified information to the Japanese over the years 1923 to 1925 and 1939 to 1941. MI5’s investigation was inconclusive. But with the progressive release of agency materials from the late 1990s, Sempill attracted high-profile interest from historians and medi…
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