E L Bowie
Biographic Data
| ID | 4246374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E L Bowie |
| GIVEN NAMES | E L |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowie |
| SIGNATURE | BOWIE E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Corpus Christi College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Theocritus' Seventh Idyll, Philetas And Longus
Few years pass without an attempt to interpret Theocritus, Idyll 7. The poem's narrative and descriptive skill, dramatic subtlety and felicity of language are mercifully more than adequate to survive these scholarly onslaughts. Lycidas' song in Idyll 7 celebrates his love for Ageanax and prays for a safe voyage for Ageanax to Mytilene. If the explanation of Lycidas' role in Idyll 7 is correct, then some light is shed on one or two shadowy problem…
Time and Place, Narrative and Speech in Philicus, Philodamus and Limenius
Ancient Greek Literature
This historical survey of Greek literature from 700 BC to 550 AD concentrates on the principal authors and quotes many passages from their work in translation, to allow the reader to form his own impression of its quality, including Homer, Plato, Aristophanes, and Euripides. Attention is drawn both to the elements in Greek literature and attitudes to life which are unfamiliar to us, and to the elements which appeal most powerfully to succeeding g…
The Romance of the Novel
Students of the ancient world are falling for the ancient Greek and Latin novels in increasing numbers, a state of affairs of which there were few intimations a generation ago. To be sure, the Satyrica of Petronius and the Metamorphoses of Apuleius were given standing-room on the edge of the classical canon, though few scholars and fewer students made the acquaintance of the complete texts. Encounters were usually restricted to the Cena Trimalchi…
Poetry and Poets in Asia and Achaia
Journal Article POETRY AND POETS IN ASIA AND ACHAIA Get access E. L. BOWIE E. L. BOWIE Corpus Christi College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 36, Issue Supplement_55, January 1989, Pages 198–205, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1989.tb02071.x Published: 22 February 2011
Who is Dicaeopolis?
The name given by Aristophanes to the leading character in his Acharnians has given rise to much discussion, and I take the opportunity of the appearance in this Journal of another well-documented assessment to put forward briefly, and without a full and independent armoury of footnotes, a solution that contests the communis opinio that Dicaeopolis in some sense speaks for and as Aristophanes.
Herbert Grassl, Sozialökonomische Vorstellungen in der kaiserzeitlichen griechischen Literatur (1.–3. JH. N. CHR.) (Historia, Einzelschriften XLI). Wiesbaden
Herbert Grassl, Sozialökonomische Vorstellungen in der kaiserzeitlichen griechischen Literatur (1.–3. JH. N. CHR.) (Historia, Einzelschriften XLI). Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1982. Pp. vii + 231. ISBN 3-515-03667-9. - Volume 76
Early Greek elegy, symposium and public festival
This paper is chiefly concerned with the circumstances in which early Greek elegy was performed. Section II argues that for our extant shorter poems only performance at symposia is securely attested. Section III examines the related questions of the meaning of elegos and the performance of elegies at funerals. Finally (IV) I try to establish the existence of longer elegiac poems intended for performance at public festivals
The literature of the Empire
THE EARLY EMPIRE: GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, LITERARY CRITICISM Strabo After the defeat of Antony at Actium in 31 B.C. and the fall of Alexandria in the next year, the eastern and western parts of the Roman empire quickly recovered from the divisiveness of Rome's civil war; and with the encouragement of the heir of Caesar, soon to be named Augustus, the Graeco-Roman culture of the Mediterranean world renewed itself. Several of the major Greek writers of…
Theocritus' seventh Idyll , Philetas and Longus
Few years pass without an attempt to interpret Theocritus, Idyll 7. The poem's narrative and descriptive skill, dramatic subtlety and felicity of language are mercifully more than adequate to survive these scholarly onslaughts, so I have less hesitation in offering my own interpretation. The poem's chief problems seem to me to arise from uncertainty as to: (a) Who is the narrator, and why are we kept waiting until line 21 before we are told that …
The importance of sophists
Studies of the Second Sophistic are necessarily founded upon the Lives of Philostratus, our source for the term itself: and it is now a decade since Glen Bowersock's Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire added depth and breadth to Philostratus' picture in an illuminating presentation of their cultural, social and political roles which has rightly become a standard work. Both Philostratus and Bowersock seem to present sophists as men who acquire poli…
Greeks and Their Past in the Second Sophistic
GREEKS AND THEIR PAST IN THE SECOND SOPHISTIC* E. L. Bowie E. L. Bowie Corpus Christi CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar *An earlier draft of this paper was read to the Oxford Philological Society on 1 December 1967. I am very grateful to its members and to the editorial board of this journal for their helpful criticism. Author Notes Past & Present, Volume 46, Issue 1, February 1970, Pages 3–41,…
Theocritus' seventh Idyll , Philetas and Longus
Few years pass without an attempt to interpret Theocritus, Idyll 7. The poem's narrative and descriptive skill, dramatic subtlety and felicity of language are mercifully more than adequate to survive these scholarly onslaughts, so I have less hesitation in offering my own interpretation. The poem's chief problems seem to me to arise from uncertainty as to: (a) Who is the narrator, and why are we kept waiting until line 21 before we are told that …
Greeks and Their Past in the Second Sophistic
GREEKS AND THEIR PAST IN THE SECOND SOPHISTIC* E. L. Bowie E. L. Bowie Corpus Christi CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar *An earlier draft of this paper was read to the Oxford Philological Society on 1 December 1967. I am very grateful to its members and to the editorial board of this journal for their helpful criticism. Author Notes Past & Present, Volume 46, Issue 1, February 1970, Pages 3–41,…
Greeks and Their Past in the Second Sophistic
GREEKS AND THEIR PAST IN THE SECOND SOPHISTIC* E. L. Bowie E. L. Bowie Corpus Christi CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar *An earlier draft of this paper was read to the Oxford Philological Society on 1 December 1967. I am very grateful to its members and to the editorial board of this journal for their helpful criticism. Author Notes Past & Present, Volume 46, Issue 1, February 1970, Pages 3–41,…
The importance of sophists
Studies of the Second Sophistic are necessarily founded upon the Lives of Philostratus, our source for the term itself: and it is now a decade since Glen Bowersock's Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire added depth and breadth to Philostratus' picture in an illuminating presentation of their cultural, social and political roles which has rightly become a standard work. Both Philostratus and Bowersock seem to present sophists as men who acquire poli…
The literature of the Empire
THE EARLY EMPIRE: GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, LITERARY CRITICISM Strabo After the defeat of Antony at Actium in 31 B.C. and the fall of Alexandria in the next year, the eastern and western parts of the Roman empire quickly recovered from the divisiveness of Rome's civil war; and with the encouragement of the heir of Caesar, soon to be named Augustus, the Graeco-Roman culture of the Mediterranean world renewed itself. Several of the major Greek writers of…
Theocritus' seventh Idyll , Philetas and Longus
Few years pass without an attempt to interpret Theocritus, Idyll 7. The poem's narrative and descriptive skill, dramatic subtlety and felicity of language are mercifully more than adequate to survive these scholarly onslaughts, so I have less hesitation in offering my own interpretation. The poem's chief problems seem to me to arise from uncertainty as to: (a) Who is the narrator, and why are we kept waiting until line 21 before we are told that …
Herbert Grassl, Sozialökonomische Vorstellungen in der kaiserzeitlichen griechischen Literatur (1.–3. JH. N. CHR.) (Historia, Einzelschriften XLI). Wiesbaden
Herbert Grassl, Sozialökonomische Vorstellungen in der kaiserzeitlichen griechischen Literatur (1.–3. JH. N. CHR.) (Historia, Einzelschriften XLI). Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1982. Pp. vii + 231. ISBN 3-515-03667-9. - Volume 76
Early Greek elegy, symposium and public festival
This paper is chiefly concerned with the circumstances in which early Greek elegy was performed. Section II argues that for our extant shorter poems only performance at symposia is securely attested. Section III examines the related questions of the meaning of elegos and the performance of elegies at funerals. Finally (IV) I try to establish the existence of longer elegiac poems intended for performance at public festivals
Who is Dicaeopolis?
The name given by Aristophanes to the leading character in his Acharnians has given rise to much discussion, and I take the opportunity of the appearance in this Journal of another well-documented assessment to put forward briefly, and without a full and independent armoury of footnotes, a solution that contests the communis opinio that Dicaeopolis in some sense speaks for and as Aristophanes.
Poetry and Poets in Asia and Achaia
Journal Article POETRY AND POETS IN ASIA AND ACHAIA Get access E. L. BOWIE E. L. BOWIE Corpus Christi College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 36, Issue Supplement_55, January 1989, Pages 198–205, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1989.tb02071.x Published: 22 February 2011
The Romance of the Novel
Students of the ancient world are falling for the ancient Greek and Latin novels in increasing numbers, a state of affairs of which there were few intimations a generation ago. To be sure, the Satyrica of Petronius and the Metamorphoses of Apuleius were given standing-room on the edge of the classical canon, though few scholars and fewer students made the acquaintance of the complete texts. Encounters were usually restricted to the Cena Trimalchi…
Ancient Greek Literature
This historical survey of Greek literature from 700 BC to 550 AD concentrates on the principal authors and quotes many passages from their work in translation, to allow the reader to form his own impression of its quality, including Homer, Plato, Aristophanes, and Euripides. Attention is drawn both to the elements in Greek literature and attitudes to life which are unfamiliar to us, and to the elements which appeal most powerfully to succeeding g…
Time and Place, Narrative and Speech in Philicus, Philodamus and Limenius
Theocritus' Seventh Idyll, Philetas And Longus
Few years pass without an attempt to interpret Theocritus, Idyll 7. The poem's narrative and descriptive skill, dramatic subtlety and felicity of language are mercifully more than adequate to survive these scholarly onslaughts. Lycidas' song in Idyll 7 celebrates his love for Ageanax and prays for a safe voyage for Ageanax to Mytilene. If the explanation of Lycidas' role in Idyll 7 is correct, then some light is shed on one or two shadowy problem…
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