Delila Jordan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4498159 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Delila Jordan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Delila |
| FAMILY NAME | Jordan |
| SIGNATURE | JORDAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Neulateinische Studien , Langer Weg 11 , Innsbruck Austria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Kleine Geschichte der Orks
Scribal Identities, Renaissances, and Dead Languages
This article is an investigation of the role of the knowledge of dead languages, namely Latin and Sumerian, for scribal or scholarly identities. While at first glance there is no obvious reason why a “dead language” should be part of the curriculum of people who were about to become the foremost administrators of their time, knowledge of one or more dead languages seems to be a pillar of scholarly self-consciousness in many periods. The three gro…
Pater Vulkan
The paper presented here treats a hitherto unnoticed intertextual allusion in Mart. 5,7,7 to Verg. Aen . 8,394. Both lines contain two jokes at the expense of the smith-god Vulcan, by recalling the affairs of his wife Venus. First, the epic/epigrammatic speaker points to the well-known passage in Hom. Od . 8,266–363 in which Demodocus recounts the unpleasant – and for the other gods highly amusing – situation when Hephaestus caught his wife Aphro…
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Pater Vulkan
The paper presented here treats a hitherto unnoticed intertextual allusion in Mart. 5,7,7 to Verg. Aen . 8,394. Both lines contain two jokes at the expense of the smith-god Vulcan, by recalling the affairs of his wife Venus. First, the epic/epigrammatic speaker points to the well-known passage in Hom. Od . 8,266–363 in which Demodocus recounts the unpleasant – and for the other gods highly amusing – situation when Hephaestus caught his wife Aphro…
Scribal Identities, Renaissances, and Dead Languages
This article is an investigation of the role of the knowledge of dead languages, namely Latin and Sumerian, for scribal or scholarly identities. While at first glance there is no obvious reason why a “dead language” should be part of the curriculum of people who were about to become the foremost administrators of their time, knowledge of one or more dead languages seems to be a pillar of scholarly self-consciousness in many periods. The three gro…
Kleine Geschichte der Orks
Art (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Theology (2 works) · Adultery (1 work) · Allusion (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Classical Antiquity Studies (1 work) · Classics (1 work) · Comedy (1 work)