Derek Collins

Biographic Data

ID3951970
NAMEDerek Collins
GIVEN NAMESDerek
FAMILY NAMECollins
SIGNATURECOLLINS D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Michigan
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS39
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX3

  • Magic

    Derek Collins, Barbara Graziosi et al.CHAPTERThe Oxford handbook of Hellenic…2009

    This article points out the problems of identifying ancient magic and outlines connections between medical, magical, and religious practices. The central problem for any student of Greek magic is that the term mageia , from which people ultimately derive ‘magic’, only emerges in the latter half of the fifth century BCE, whereas the evidence for practices and substances that were understood to be magical, as well as for individuals who were though…

  • The Magic of Homeric Verses

    Derek CollinsARTICLEClassical Philology2008References: 11

  • Magic in the Ancient Greek World

    Open AccessDerek CollinsBOOKMagic in the Ancient Greek World2007Cited by: 13References: 5

  • Corinna and Mythological Innovation

    Open AccessDerek CollinsARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2006

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  • Birth of the Symbol

    Derek CollinsARTICLEThe Classical World2005

    Reviewed by: Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts Derek Collins Peter T. Struck . Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 316. $39.50. ISBN 0-691-11697-0. This book offers a remarkably comprehensive study of ancient symbolic interpretation from the Pre-Socratics to the later Neoplatonists and beyond. Struck's main argument is that over the…

  • Birth of the Symbol

    Derek CollinsREVIEWThe Classical World2005

  • Theoris of Lemnos and the Criminalization of Magic in Fourth-Century Athens

    Open AccessDerek CollinsARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2001Cited by: 12

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  • The Trial of Theoris of Lemnos

    Derek CollinsARTICLEWestern Folklore2000References: 3

    While belief in witchcraft and magic abounds in Greece during the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E.,' actual trials for witchcraft are extremely rare, though not nonexistent during this period.2 The exception that proves the rule is the case of Theoris, an alleged witch (pharmakis) from the island of Lemnos, who was prosecuted in Athens before 3383 allegedly for casting incantations (epoidai) and using harmful drugs (pharmaka).4 The evidence of h…

  • Hesiod and the Divine Voice of the Muses

    Derek CollinsARTICLEArethusa1999Cited by: 13References: 6

    Hesiod and the Divine Voice of the Muses Derek Collins The Muses atop Mount Helikon (line 10) and atop Olympos (lines 43, 65, 67) are said in the Theogony to sing, emitting a beautiful (ossa) "voice."1 In 1915, T. L. Agar proposed that the term ossa used to describe the Muses' voice in Hesiod was "an innovation and importation of later times" because its usage was inconsistent with that of the Homeric poems. In particular, Agar noted that ossa in…

  • Immortal Armor

    Derek CollinsBOOKImmortal armor1998

    Although military concepts in Homeric poetry have been studied since Alexandrian times, there has not been until now an extended study of the concept of alke, 'defensive strength,' as it unfolds intertextually within the Iliad and the Odyssey and archaic Greek poetry in general. Derek Collins uses evidence from Homeric poetry to reveal that alke, unlike other concepts of strength in archaic Greek, plays a central role in defining a warrior at the…

  • The Myth and Ritual of Ezili Freda in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Derek CollinsARTICLEWestern Folklore1996Cited by: 1