STEPHEN A NIMIS
Biographic Data
| ID | 5532652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | STEPHEN A NIMIS |
| GIVEN NAMES | STEPHEN A |
| FAMILY NAME | NIMIS |
| SIGNATURE | NIMIS S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University in Cairo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Narrative Semiotics in the Epic Tradition
In this innovative study, Stephen Nimis applies the insights of semiotics to the analysis of the epic simile in works by Homer, Apollonius of Rhodes, Vergil, Dante, and Milton. Through close structural readings of the similes in these works, Nimis explores the ways texts relate to their narrative traditions and shows how changing cultural contexts produce different ways of conceiving and constructing meaning. He traces these transformations in th…
The Lost World of Byzantium
The Lost World of Byzantium is a historical survey of the Byzantine Empire from the time of Constantine to the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by the Ottomans. The narrative is organized into chapters focused around particular representative figures or key events, including the transition from paganism to Christianity (“Twilight of the Gods”); the campaign of Justinian (526–65) to restore the historical Roman Empire (“Outpost of Empire”); the …
Theban Autochthony and Athenian Ideology in the Phoenissae of Euripides
Recent scenes of Syrian refugees arriving in Europe and the nationalist reflections they have engendered recall the discourses of foreign and native in antiquity, a theme addressed frequently in Attic tragedy. Euripides' Phoenician Maidens is a meditation on the theme of autochthony, a key ideological and mythological nexus of ideas about identity and community. The ideal of a homogeneous community symbolized by Athenians' autochthonous heritage …
The Novel
The novel flourished at a time when Greek identity was above all a matter of cultural affiliation. This article argues that the characters in the novels are fundamentally concerned with issues of gender, ethnicity, culture, and identity – and that their readers must have been too. However, the relationship between the world depicted in the novels and that in which they were written and read remains difficult to characterize: it is remarkable, for…
Autochthony, Misogyny, and Harmony
This paper focuses on the central choral ode of Euripides' Medea in order to argue that the utopian image of Athens presented there is simultaneously a distillation of the central conflicts of the drama and an attempt to produce an aesthetically satisfying resolution to those very issues. The ode celebrates the homogeneous male citizenry through the discourse of autochthony, while simultaneously making provision for the positive aspects of hetero…
In Mediis Rebus
Cycles and Sequence in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe
The Sense of Open-Endedness in the Ancient Novel
Of the many fictions academics foist upon unsuspecting students, the most transparent is surely the principle that the first step in producing a written composition is to prepare an outline. The assumption behind this advice is that one should somehow have finished the entire composition before actually beginning to articulate it in writing, so that it can be brought forth whole, with all the parts organically connected to each other. But anyone …
Memory and Description in the Ancient Novel
Memory and Description in the Ancient Novel Steve Nimis In the introduction to his translation of The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon, a Greek novel of the second century C.E., Jack Winkler gives the following advice to its readers: The unanswerable enigma of its contradictory style should be enjoyed directly as a lascivious surface and nothing more, making us conscious that the quest for depth, for meaning, and for unity is a fraud of the a…
Narrative Semiotics in the Epic Tradition
Andreas Cesalpini, Quaestionum peripateticarum , libri V, liber V, quaestio IV
MARK EDWARD CLARK, STEPHEN A. NIMIS, GEORGE R. ROCHEFORT; Andreas Cesalpini, Quaestionum peripateticarum, libri V, liber V, quaestio IV, Journal of the His
The Sense of Open-Endedness in the Ancient Novel
Of the many fictions academics foist upon unsuspecting students, the most transparent is surely the principle that the first step in producing a written composition is to prepare an outline. The assumption behind this advice is that one should somehow have finished the entire composition before actually beginning to articulate it in writing, so that it can be brought forth whole, with all the parts organically connected to each other. But anyone …
Autochthony, Misogyny, and Harmony
This paper focuses on the central choral ode of Euripides' Medea in order to argue that the utopian image of Athens presented there is simultaneously a distillation of the central conflicts of the drama and an attempt to produce an aesthetically satisfying resolution to those very issues. The ode celebrates the homogeneous male citizenry through the discourse of autochthony, while simultaneously making provision for the positive aspects of hetero…
Memory and Description in the Ancient Novel
Memory and Description in the Ancient Novel Steve Nimis In the introduction to his translation of The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon, a Greek novel of the second century C.E., Jack Winkler gives the following advice to its readers: The unanswerable enigma of its contradictory style should be enjoyed directly as a lascivious surface and nothing more, making us conscious that the quest for depth, for meaning, and for unity is a fraud of the a…
Andreas Cesalpini, Quaestionum peripateticarum , libri V, liber V, quaestio IV
MARK EDWARD CLARK, STEPHEN A. NIMIS, GEORGE R. ROCHEFORT; Andreas Cesalpini, Quaestionum peripateticarum, libri V, liber V, quaestio IV, Journal of the His
Narrative Semiotics in the Epic Tradition
Memory and Description in the Ancient Novel
Memory and Description in the Ancient Novel Steve Nimis In the introduction to his translation of The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon, a Greek novel of the second century C.E., Jack Winkler gives the following advice to its readers: The unanswerable enigma of its contradictory style should be enjoyed directly as a lascivious surface and nothing more, making us conscious that the quest for depth, for meaning, and for unity is a fraud of the a…
The Sense of Open-Endedness in the Ancient Novel
Of the many fictions academics foist upon unsuspecting students, the most transparent is surely the principle that the first step in producing a written composition is to prepare an outline. The assumption behind this advice is that one should somehow have finished the entire composition before actually beginning to articulate it in writing, so that it can be brought forth whole, with all the parts organically connected to each other. But anyone …
Cycles and Sequence in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe
In Mediis Rebus
Autochthony, Misogyny, and Harmony
This paper focuses on the central choral ode of Euripides' Medea in order to argue that the utopian image of Athens presented there is simultaneously a distillation of the central conflicts of the drama and an attempt to produce an aesthetically satisfying resolution to those very issues. The ode celebrates the homogeneous male citizenry through the discourse of autochthony, while simultaneously making provision for the positive aspects of hetero…
The Novel
The novel flourished at a time when Greek identity was above all a matter of cultural affiliation. This article argues that the characters in the novels are fundamentally concerned with issues of gender, ethnicity, culture, and identity – and that their readers must have been too. However, the relationship between the world depicted in the novels and that in which they were written and read remains difficult to characterize: it is remarkable, for…
Theban Autochthony and Athenian Ideology in the Phoenissae of Euripides
Recent scenes of Syrian refugees arriving in Europe and the nationalist reflections they have engendered recall the discourses of foreign and native in antiquity, a theme addressed frequently in Attic tragedy. Euripides' Phoenician Maidens is a meditation on the theme of autochthony, a key ideological and mythological nexus of ideas about identity and community. The ideal of a homogeneous community symbolized by Athenians' autochthonous heritage …
The Lost World of Byzantium
The Lost World of Byzantium is a historical survey of the Byzantine Empire from the time of Constantine to the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by the Ottomans. The narrative is organized into chapters focused around particular representative figures or key events, including the transition from paganism to Christianity (“Twilight of the Gods”); the campaign of Justinian (526–65) to restore the historical Roman Empire (“Outpost of Empire”); the …
Narrative Semiotics in the Epic Tradition
In this innovative study, Stephen Nimis applies the insights of semiotics to the analysis of the epic simile in works by Homer, Apollonius of Rhodes, Vergil, Dante, and Milton. Through close structural readings of the similes in these works, Nimis explores the ways texts relate to their narrative traditions and shows how changing cultural contexts produce different ways of conceiving and constructing meaning. He traces these transformations in th…
Art (9 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works)