Rebekah M Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 5143471 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebekah M Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebekah M |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Meredith College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Chance Encounters and Textual Instabilities
Throughout decades of creative practice, the Russian poet and publisher Ry Nikonova (1942–2014) produced thousands of artworks, poems, books, songs, performances, letters, and more. In addition to publishing the samizdat journals Nomer and Transponans with Serge Segay, Nikonova painted, wrote, and made hundreds of artists’ books. She was prolific in both her work and documentation of her creative activities. When studying Nikonova, the first thin…
"Aeneid" 10.515
Deception and Sacrifice in Aeneid 2.1-249
Deception and Sacrifice in Aeneid 2.1–249 Rebekah M. Smith It is striking how often in Book 2 death seems to have sacrificial overtones. Not only does Laocoon die at an altar in the act of sacrificing, but even the simile introduced to illustrate his cries keeps within the same framework of reference . . . and before all this the motif of human sacrifice forms the ominous basis of Sinon’s lying tale. —E. L. Harrison (1990) Sacrifice as a theme in…
Two fragments of ‘Longinus’ in Photius
My subject is two fragments of rhetorical commentary that appear both in an anonymous manuscript collection of quotations ‘From Longinus’ and (without attribution) in Photius' Bibliotheca . My purpose is to clarify some observations that have been made on them by modern scholars and thus offer a correction or two. The collection of separate quotations labelled κ τν Λογγνου in Laurentianus 24, Plut. 58, was given its title by a later hand differen…
Deception and Sacrifice in Aeneid 2.1-249
Deception and Sacrifice in Aeneid 2.1–249 Rebekah M. Smith It is striking how often in Book 2 death seems to have sacrificial overtones. Not only does Laocoon die at an altar in the act of sacrificing, but even the simile introduced to illustrate his cries keeps within the same framework of reference . . . and before all this the motif of human sacrifice forms the ominous basis of Sinon’s lying tale. —E. L. Harrison (1990) Sacrifice as a theme in…
Two fragments of ‘Longinus’ in Photius
My subject is two fragments of rhetorical commentary that appear both in an anonymous manuscript collection of quotations ‘From Longinus’ and (without attribution) in Photius' Bibliotheca . My purpose is to clarify some observations that have been made on them by modern scholars and thus offer a correction or two. The collection of separate quotations labelled κ τν Λογγνου in Laurentianus 24, Plut. 58, was given its title by a later hand differen…
Two fragments of ‘Longinus’ in Photius
My subject is two fragments of rhetorical commentary that appear both in an anonymous manuscript collection of quotations ‘From Longinus’ and (without attribution) in Photius' Bibliotheca . My purpose is to clarify some observations that have been made on them by modern scholars and thus offer a correction or two. The collection of separate quotations labelled κ τν Λογγνου in Laurentianus 24, Plut. 58, was given its title by a later hand differen…
Deception and Sacrifice in Aeneid 2.1-249
Deception and Sacrifice in Aeneid 2.1–249 Rebekah M. Smith It is striking how often in Book 2 death seems to have sacrificial overtones. Not only does Laocoon die at an altar in the act of sacrificing, but even the simile introduced to illustrate his cries keeps within the same framework of reference . . . and before all this the motif of human sacrifice forms the ominous basis of Sinon’s lying tale. —E. L. Harrison (1990) Sacrifice as a theme in…
"Aeneid" 10.515
Chance Encounters and Textual Instabilities
Throughout decades of creative practice, the Russian poet and publisher Ry Nikonova (1942–2014) produced thousands of artworks, poems, books, songs, performances, letters, and more. In addition to publishing the samizdat journals Nomer and Transponans with Serge Segay, Nikonova painted, wrote, and made hundreds of artists’ books. She was prolific in both her work and documentation of her creative activities. When studying Nikonova, the first thin…
Art (4 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Altar (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work)