Geoffrey Bakewell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4124960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey Bakewell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Bakewell |
| SIGNATURE | BAKEWELL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Creighton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5594-7424 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mining Plato’s Cave
The Allegory of the Cave (Pl. Resp. 514a1–520e2) is often analyzed in terms of metaphysical, epistemological, political, and psychic hierarchies that are clarified and reinforced by philosophical education. But the Allegory also contains an important historical allusion to the silver mining that took place in classical Attica. Examining the Cave in light of the enslaved miners around Lavrio leads us to reconsider the philosophical ‘liberation’ (λ…
Seven Against Thebes, city laments, and Athenian history
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Aeschylus’s Suppliant Women
This book offers a provocative interpretation of a relatively neglected tragedy, Aeschylus's Suppliant Women. Although the play's subject is a venerable myth, it frames the flight of the daughters of Danaus from Egypt to Greece starkly contemporary terms, emphasizing the encounter between newcomers and natives. Some scholars read Suppliant Women modeling successful social integration, but Geoffrey W. Bakewell argues that the play demonstrates, ab…
Tragedy as Democratic Education
Tragedy was an essential part of the public administration of ancient Athens. This article provides a short overview of three basic topics: how the city administered its public affairs, how it paid for its system of government, and what classical scholars mean when they talk about Greek tragedy. It then offers a brief reading of Aeschylus' play Suppliant Women as a specific example of how tragedy could engage the city's attention on an important …
Aeschylus' Supplices 11–12
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Forbidding Marriage
Chapter Seven. Trierarchs’ Records And The Athenian Naval Catalogue (Ig I3 1032)
The inscription IG i 3 1032, known as the Athenian Naval Catalogue, consists of eleven fragments of Pentelic marble dating from the late fifth or early fourth century BC. One of the most striking facts to emerge from the inscription's demographic information is that non-citizens comprised approximately 60-70% of the crew of each of the four ships. A process-oriented analysis suggests that the Naval Catalogue is more honorific than administrative,…
Written lists of military personnel in classical Athens
Athens’ use of written lists in connection with its military personnel needs to be situated with regard to two of its most salient features: democracy and empire. These military lists resulted from the decentralized, non-uniform practices of private individuals serving as generals. The generals in classical Athens maintained at least four types of lists of military personnel: those eligible for service; those called up; those serving; and those w…
Eumenides 267–75
Having withered you while you live I will lead you down so that you may give recompense for the miseries of your slaughtered mother. And if anyone else of mortals has done wrong, committing impiety against god or any stranger or his own parents, you will see him getting his just deserts. For Hades is a great euthunos of mortals below the ground, he oversees all things with his tablet-writing mind
Tragedy as Democratic Education
Tragedy was an essential part of the public administration of ancient Athens. This article provides a short overview of three basic topics: how the city administered its public affairs, how it paid for its system of government, and what classical scholars mean when they talk about Greek tragedy. It then offers a brief reading of Aeschylus' play Suppliant Women as a specific example of how tragedy could engage the city's attention on an important …
Aeschylus' Supplices 11–12
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Forbidding Marriage
Eumenides 267–75
Having withered you while you live I will lead you down so that you may give recompense for the miseries of your slaughtered mother. And if anyone else of mortals has done wrong, committing impiety against god or any stranger or his own parents, you will see him getting his just deserts. For Hades is a great euthunos of mortals below the ground, he oversees all things with his tablet-writing mind
Chapter Seven. Trierarchs’ Records And The Athenian Naval Catalogue (Ig I3 1032)
The inscription IG i 3 1032, known as the Athenian Naval Catalogue, consists of eleven fragments of Pentelic marble dating from the late fifth or early fourth century BC. One of the most striking facts to emerge from the inscription's demographic information is that non-citizens comprised approximately 60-70% of the crew of each of the four ships. A process-oriented analysis suggests that the Naval Catalogue is more honorific than administrative,…
Written lists of military personnel in classical Athens
Athens’ use of written lists in connection with its military personnel needs to be situated with regard to two of its most salient features: democracy and empire. These military lists resulted from the decentralized, non-uniform practices of private individuals serving as generals. The generals in classical Athens maintained at least four types of lists of military personnel: those eligible for service; those called up; those serving; and those w…
Aeschylus' Supplices 11–12
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Forbidding Marriage
Tragedy as Democratic Education
Tragedy was an essential part of the public administration of ancient Athens. This article provides a short overview of three basic topics: how the city administered its public affairs, how it paid for its system of government, and what classical scholars mean when they talk about Greek tragedy. It then offers a brief reading of Aeschylus' play Suppliant Women as a specific example of how tragedy could engage the city's attention on an important …
Aeschylus’s Suppliant Women
This book offers a provocative interpretation of a relatively neglected tragedy, Aeschylus's Suppliant Women. Although the play's subject is a venerable myth, it frames the flight of the daughters of Danaus from Egypt to Greece starkly contemporary terms, emphasizing the encounter between newcomers and natives. Some scholars read Suppliant Women modeling successful social integration, but Geoffrey W. Bakewell argues that the play demonstrates, ab…
Seven Against Thebes, city laments, and Athenian history
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Mining Plato’s Cave
The Allegory of the Cave (Pl. Resp. 514a1–520e2) is often analyzed in terms of metaphysical, epistemological, political, and psychic hierarchies that are clarified and reinforced by philosophical education. But the Allegory also contains an important historical allusion to the silver mining that took place in classical Attica. Examining the Cave in light of the enslaved miners around Lavrio leads us to reconsider the philosophical ‘liberation’ (λ…
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