R Scott Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3952102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Scott Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | R Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Hampshire |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9158-6569 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Topography and Geography in Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 4
Since the setting for Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 4 has been misinterpreted by commentators and historians, a review of the evidence for the toponym Dryopis is warranted. The narrative logic of the account demands that it be set in Ambracia, but most have interpreted Dryopis as the area near Mt Oeta. A close review of the first lines show that Antoninus’ account is indeed set in Ambracia, which was also called Dryopis
Mythography and Education
Tracing the role of myth and mythography throughout the main periods of a student’s career, this chapter articulates the way that educational practices reflect and reinforce a mythographical mindset, one that organizes and employs mythical data in a variety of ways. From the very beginning students were asked to learn mythical names and combine like with like, then (under a grammaticus) copy and create their own mythical narratives (systematic my…
Mythography in Latin
This chapter provides a survey of the various ways that Greek mythographical information was transmitted in Latin. The first section offers an overview of the surviving collections devoted almost entirely to mythographical material, the Fabulae and the second book of De Astronomia, both attributed to someone named Hyginus, as well as the collection of mostly star myths embedded in the so-called Germanicus scholia. The second half of the chapter p…
Hellenistic Mythography
The main aim of this chapter is to survey and problematize our current state of knowledge of mythographical scholarship during the Hellenistic period. This era is widely considered crucial in the formation of mythography, but aside from the surviving work of Palaephatus, all the other evidence is scattered, fragmentary, and difficult to interpret. The chapter presents three case studies considering the work of Asclepiades of Tragilus, Lysimachus …
The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography
This volume brings together 40 chapters penned by specialists that treat various aspects of Greek and Roman mythographical writings—works that organize or interpret myths—and their relationship to other aspects of ancient intellectual and cultural development. An introduction by the editors provides a survey of mythography in Greece and Rome, an overview of the contents of the book, and a discussion of existing and emerging trends in interpretati…
Virtue Ethics and Moral Knowledge: Philosophy of language after MacIntyre and Hauerwas
Contents: Introduction: the problem of the loss of moral knowledge A possible solution: linguistic virtue ethics: From Aristotle to Wittgenstein: tracing the history of the loss of moral knowledge Philosophical, linguistic virtue ethics: MacIntyre's solution Theological, linguistic virtue ethics: Hauerwas's answer The failure of this answer: a critique of linguistic virtue ethics: The presupposition of epistemic access The issues with behavior Th…
Mythographical and Literary Notes on the Catalogs of Argive and Theban Allies in Statius’ Thebaid
This article argues, in a series of discrete but interconnected notes, that Statius engages consistently and consciously with mythographical works—prose collections and exegesis on myth as myth—in the creation of his two major catalogs in the Thebaid , the catalog of Argive allies at 4.1-344 and that of Theban allies at 7.243-373. Both are patently based on Homer’s ‘Catalog of Ships’, but Statius reshapes his model by engaging ingeniously with my…
The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca’s by Gareth D. Williams (review)
Reviewed by: The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca’s by Gareth D. Williams R. Scott Smith Gareth D. Williams. The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca’s Natural Questions. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xiv, 393. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-19-973158-9.1 Seneca’s Natural Questions is a rather enigmatic work. On the surface, it is an attempt to explain the (often frightening) meteorological and terrestrial phenomena that occur in everyday hu…
Bundling Myth, Bungling Myth: The Flood Myth in Ancient and Modern Handbooks of Myth
This essay analyzes the narrative accounts of Deucalion’s flood within the broader context of human creation in two ancient mythographical works of myth (Ovid, Apollodorus) and three modern handbooks. In each case the mythographer has been forced to reshape the episodic-one might say disparate and conflicting -nature of her or his sources and invent new connective tissue to organize early mythic time. The authorial voice and narrative aims of all…
Inhospitalis Taurus at Seneca Phaedra 168
The Case of a City Where 1 in 6 Residents is a Refugee: Ecological Factors and Host Community Adaptation in Successful Resettlement
The notable success of an upstate New York community in resettling refugees raises the question of whether multiple waves of resettlement over a 15-year period have resulted in greater accommodation to refugees. Structured interviews based on transactional models of acculturation were used along with archival data to explore ecological factors supporting a host community's behavioral flexibility and perseverance in response to the influx of refug…
Men in Their Books. Studies in the Modern History of Classical Scholarship
In memoriam
The Case of a City Where 1 in 6 Residents is a Refugee: Ecological Factors and Host Community Adaptation in Successful Resettlement
The notable success of an upstate New York community in resettling refugees raises the question of whether multiple waves of resettlement over a 15-year period have resulted in greater accommodation to refugees. Structured interviews based on transactional models of acculturation were used along with archival data to explore ecological factors supporting a host community's behavioral flexibility and perseverance in response to the influx of refug…
The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography
This volume brings together 40 chapters penned by specialists that treat various aspects of Greek and Roman mythographical writings—works that organize or interpret myths—and their relationship to other aspects of ancient intellectual and cultural development. An introduction by the editors provides a survey of mythography in Greece and Rome, an overview of the contents of the book, and a discussion of existing and emerging trends in interpretati…
In memoriam
Men in Their Books. Studies in the Modern History of Classical Scholarship
The Case of a City Where 1 in 6 Residents is a Refugee: Ecological Factors and Host Community Adaptation in Successful Resettlement
The notable success of an upstate New York community in resettling refugees raises the question of whether multiple waves of resettlement over a 15-year period have resulted in greater accommodation to refugees. Structured interviews based on transactional models of acculturation were used along with archival data to explore ecological factors supporting a host community's behavioral flexibility and perseverance in response to the influx of refug…
Inhospitalis Taurus at Seneca Phaedra 168
The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca’s by Gareth D. Williams (review)
Reviewed by: The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca’s by Gareth D. Williams R. Scott Smith Gareth D. Williams. The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca’s Natural Questions. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xiv, 393. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-19-973158-9.1 Seneca’s Natural Questions is a rather enigmatic work. On the surface, it is an attempt to explain the (often frightening) meteorological and terrestrial phenomena that occur in everyday hu…
Bundling Myth, Bungling Myth: The Flood Myth in Ancient and Modern Handbooks of Myth
This essay analyzes the narrative accounts of Deucalion’s flood within the broader context of human creation in two ancient mythographical works of myth (Ovid, Apollodorus) and three modern handbooks. In each case the mythographer has been forced to reshape the episodic-one might say disparate and conflicting -nature of her or his sources and invent new connective tissue to organize early mythic time. The authorial voice and narrative aims of all…
Mythographical and Literary Notes on the Catalogs of Argive and Theban Allies in Statius’ Thebaid
This article argues, in a series of discrete but interconnected notes, that Statius engages consistently and consciously with mythographical works—prose collections and exegesis on myth as myth—in the creation of his two major catalogs in the Thebaid , the catalog of Argive allies at 4.1-344 and that of Theban allies at 7.243-373. Both are patently based on Homer’s ‘Catalog of Ships’, but Statius reshapes his model by engaging ingeniously with my…
Virtue Ethics and Moral Knowledge: Philosophy of language after MacIntyre and Hauerwas
Contents: Introduction: the problem of the loss of moral knowledge A possible solution: linguistic virtue ethics: From Aristotle to Wittgenstein: tracing the history of the loss of moral knowledge Philosophical, linguistic virtue ethics: MacIntyre's solution Theological, linguistic virtue ethics: Hauerwas's answer The failure of this answer: a critique of linguistic virtue ethics: The presupposition of epistemic access The issues with behavior Th…
Mythography and Education
Tracing the role of myth and mythography throughout the main periods of a student’s career, this chapter articulates the way that educational practices reflect and reinforce a mythographical mindset, one that organizes and employs mythical data in a variety of ways. From the very beginning students were asked to learn mythical names and combine like with like, then (under a grammaticus) copy and create their own mythical narratives (systematic my…
Mythography in Latin
This chapter provides a survey of the various ways that Greek mythographical information was transmitted in Latin. The first section offers an overview of the surviving collections devoted almost entirely to mythographical material, the Fabulae and the second book of De Astronomia, both attributed to someone named Hyginus, as well as the collection of mostly star myths embedded in the so-called Germanicus scholia. The second half of the chapter p…
Hellenistic Mythography
The main aim of this chapter is to survey and problematize our current state of knowledge of mythographical scholarship during the Hellenistic period. This era is widely considered crucial in the formation of mythography, but aside from the surviving work of Palaephatus, all the other evidence is scattered, fragmentary, and difficult to interpret. The chapter presents three case studies considering the work of Asclepiades of Tragilus, Lysimachus …
The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography
This volume brings together 40 chapters penned by specialists that treat various aspects of Greek and Roman mythographical writings—works that organize or interpret myths—and their relationship to other aspects of ancient intellectual and cultural development. An introduction by the editors provides a survey of mythography in Greece and Rome, an overview of the contents of the book, and a discussion of existing and emerging trends in interpretati…
Topography and Geography in Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 4
Since the setting for Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 4 has been misinterpreted by commentators and historians, a review of the evidence for the toponym Dryopis is warranted. The narrative logic of the account demands that it be set in Ambracia, but most have interpreted Dryopis as the area near Mt Oeta. A close review of the first lines show that Antoninus’ account is indeed set in Ambracia, which was also called Dryopis
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