D O'Brien

Biographic Data

ID4561615
NAMED O'Brien
GIVEN NAMESD
FAMILY NAMEO'Brien
SIGNATUREBRIEN D O
AFFILIATIONSCanisius College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1967
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX1

  • Classical Masculinity and the Spectacular Body on Film

    D O'BrienBOOKClassical Masculinity and the…2014

  • Antonio Canova's Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker and the Limits of Imperial Portraiture

    Dai O’brien, D O'BrienARTICLEFrench History2004

    Through an examination Antonio Canova's Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker (1806), this essay explores the contradictions in Napoleon's ambitions for art as well as the conflicts between leading aesthetic doctrines and the requirements of Napoleonic propaganda. While Canova's prestige as an artist attracted the attention of Napoleon and his artistic advisers, his autonomy as an artist and the refined nature of his work made him unsuitable as a propa…

  • Le Cynisme ancien et ses prolongements

    D T Runia, M-O Goulet-Caze et al.ARTICLEVigiliae Christianae1994

  • Porphyre

    John M Rist, John Μ Rist et al.ARTICLEPhoenix1985

  • A Metaphor in Plato

    Open AccessDai O’brien, D O'BrienARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1977Cited by: 1

    In an earlier article I sought to analyse the metaphor of withdrawal in the last argument of Plato's Phaedo for the immortality of the soul. 1 The key to the metaphor lies, I believe, in recognizing the paradox that in terms of Plato's metaphor something stays as it is, for example continues to be fire and to be hot, or to be cold and to be snow, by running away . Plato's argument is that fire will either ‘run away’, i.e. it will escape the onsla…

  • American Catholicism and American Religion

    Dan O’brien, D O'BrienARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1972

    Journal Article American Catholicism and American Religion Get access David O'Brien David O'Brien Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XL, Issue 1, June 1972, Pages 36–53, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XL.1.36 Published: 01 March 1972

  • The Effect of A Simile

    Open AccessDai O’brien, D O'BrienARTICLEThe Journal of Hellenic Studies1970

    A curious irony hangs over the two similes of the lantern and the clepsydra which Empedocles used to describe his theories of seeing and breathing ( frr. 84 and 100). Similes were a feature of Empedocles' style, and it is clear that on these two in particular he has lavished considerable care. They have been preserved in their entirety, as almost the longest continuous quotations which Aristotle makes from any author. Despite such auspicious begi…

  • Empedocles' Cosmic Cycle

    Rosamond Kent Sprague, D O'BrienARTICLEThe Classical World1969

  • The Relation of Anaxagoras and Empedocles

    Open AccessDai O’brien, D O'BrienARTICLEThe Journal of Hellenic Studies1968

    In the earlier years of the nineteenth century a few scholars questioned whether there was any direct relation between Anaxagoras and Empedocles. Since then these doubts have been voiced but rarely. Instead, opinion has been divided principally on which thinker was dependent on the other. Most scholars, following Zeller and Burnet, have thought that Anaxagoras was dependent on Empedocles. A minority, including Tannery, has held the opposite view.…

  • Derived Light and Eclipses in the Fifth Century

    Open AccessDai O’brien, D O'BrienARTICLEThe Journal of Hellenic Studies1968

    In a study earlier in this volume, ‘The Relation of Anaxagoras and Empedocles’, pp. 93–113, I listed the ancient evidence to the effect that Anaxagoras first gave the correct explanation of an eclipse, and that he was followed in this by Empedocles. A more extensive examination of the evidence raises certain difficulties. For what are, or might appear to be, Anaxagoras' theories are attributed elsewhere to earlier thinkers. There are two principa…

  • The Last Argument of Plato's Phaedo. II

    Open AccessDai O’brien, D O'BrienARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1968References: 1

    At the end of the last section we anticipated the concluding page of the argument, where Plato makes the soul imperishable, as well as not-dead, and where he describes finally the soul's withdrawal at the approach of death. For the conclusion that the soul never admits death, and is in that sense was probably in Plato's eyes the heart of the argument. The final page, we shall argue, will have seemed to Plato in some ways less important, and even …

  • Anaximander's Measurements

    Open AccessD O'BrienARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1967Cited by: 1References: 1

    Anaximander explained the sun as an ejection of light or fire from an opening in the hollow rim of a kind of wheel which revolved around the earth. We are told that this wheel or circle of the sun is 27 times the size of the earth, and again that it is 28 times the size of the earth. These numbers have been thought to represent respectively the inner and the outer diameters of the sun wheel. This has been questioned by Kirk. Kirk assumes that the…

  • The Last Argument of Plato's Phaedo . I

    Open AccessDai O’brien, D O'BrienARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1967Cited by: 3References: 3

    This study offers a new analysis of the last argument of Plato's Phaedo for the immortality of the soul. Interpretations of this argument and especially of the last section have differed considerably. Judgements on its value have usually been adverse. One scholar speaks of the ‘screen of unreal argument’ which concludes the proof, and writes that ‘from the standpoint of logic the argument has petered out into futility’. Another describes the fina…