Richard Rawles
Biographic Data
| ID | 5626663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Rawles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Rawles |
| SIGNATURE | RAWLES R |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCL Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cassius Dio
This volume offers an introduction to the life and work of the 3rd-century-AD Greco-Roman senator and historian Cassius Dio, whose work, although imperfectly preserved in 80 books, is of fundamental importance to our understanding of Roman history. It is said that Dio is not one of the best ancient historians and his Roman history, due to its sheer size, is often imprecise and superficial in its analysis. It has also been assumed that there was n…
Xenophon
This book offers a concise introduction to Xenophon, the Athenian historian, political thinker, moral philosopher and literary innovator who was also a pupil of Socrates, a military general on campaign in Persia, and an exile in residence in the Peloponnese during the late fifth and fourth centuries BC. Alive during one of the most turbulent periods in Greek history, Xenophon wrote extensively about the past and present. In doing so he not only i…
Callimachus
Callimachus was one of the most important Greek poets, and can also be one of the most rewarding to read. He was a pivotal figure in the history of ancient literature and an influential presence in later ancient poetry, including Catullus and Vergil. Yet his work is not read and enjoyed as much as it could be. This new volume in the popular Ancients in Action series seeks to bring Callimachus to a wide audience, addressing the problems with curre…
Simonides the Poet
Simonides on Tombs, and the ‘Tomb of Simonides’
This chapter begins with the observation that inscribed texts were memorized and orally transmitted. This insight provides the key for a reading of Callimachus’ ‘Tomb of Simonides’—itself a reading of Simonides’ own response to the poetics of inscribed epigram (and of his role as the inventor of memory techniques). The chapter argues that Callimachus presents Simonides’ tomb not as an epitaph, but as a ‘meta-epitaph’—an elegy which is not itself …
Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres
Recent scholarship has acknowledged that the intertextual discourse of ancient comedy with previous and contemporary literary traditions is not limited to tragedy. This book is a timely response to the more sophisticated and theory-grounded way of viewing comedy's interactions with its cultural and intellectual context. It shows that in the process of its self-definition, comedy emerges as voracious and multifarious with a wide spectrum of litera…
Archilochos
Archilochos ( fl .mid seventh century bce ) was a poet from the island of Paros, famous in antiquity for his vigorous invective sprinkled with obscenity.
Early epinician
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Reading the Victory Ode
The victory ode was a short-lived poetic genre in the fifth century BC, but its impact has been substantial. Pindar, Bacchylides and others are now among the most widely read Greek authors precisely because of their significance for the literary development of poetry between Homer and tragedy and their historical involvement in promoting Greek rulers. Their influence was so great that it ultimately helped to define the European notion of lyric fr…
Eros and praise in early Greek lyric
Homeric Beginnings in the ‘Tattoo Elegy
The text given here is based on the edition of Huys (see below), updated in the light \nof more recent scholarship.1 I have standardized spelling in one respect, which is that \nI have not followed the papyrus’ doubling of initial consonants which lengthen \nthe previous open syllable (thus I have given úπò λαπά[ρ]ην for the papyrus’ uπολλαπαρ[η]ν). Supplements to the Sorbonne fragment rendered redundant by the \nBrussels papyrus have been omitte…
Young People's Ignorance about the Topic of Taxation
Two hundred and forty university applicants for a premier British university (mean age 18.83 years) completed an anonymous 14-item, open-response questionnaire concerning knowledge of, and attitudes to, taxation. Responses suggested considerable ignorance of facts (such as different types of taxation and the amount paid on fixed incomes) but general acceptance of taxation systems. Most knew about the government's role in taxation and what taxatio…
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Young People's Ignorance about the Topic of Taxation
Two hundred and forty university applicants for a premier British university (mean age 18.83 years) completed an anonymous 14-item, open-response questionnaire concerning knowledge of, and attitudes to, taxation. Responses suggested considerable ignorance of facts (such as different types of taxation and the amount paid on fixed incomes) but general acceptance of taxation systems. Most knew about the government's role in taxation and what taxatio…
Homeric Beginnings in the ‘Tattoo Elegy
The text given here is based on the edition of Huys (see below), updated in the light \nof more recent scholarship.1 I have standardized spelling in one respect, which is that \nI have not followed the papyrus’ doubling of initial consonants which lengthen \nthe previous open syllable (thus I have given úπò λαπά[ρ]ην for the papyrus’ uπολλαπαρ[η]ν). Supplements to the Sorbonne fragment rendered redundant by the \nBrussels papyrus have been omitte…
Eros and praise in early Greek lyric
Archilochos
Archilochos ( fl .mid seventh century bce ) was a poet from the island of Paros, famous in antiquity for his vigorous invective sprinkled with obscenity.
Early epinician
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Reading the Victory Ode
The victory ode was a short-lived poetic genre in the fifth century BC, but its impact has been substantial. Pindar, Bacchylides and others are now among the most widely read Greek authors precisely because of their significance for the literary development of poetry between Homer and tragedy and their historical involvement in promoting Greek rulers. Their influence was so great that it ultimately helped to define the European notion of lyric fr…
Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres
Recent scholarship has acknowledged that the intertextual discourse of ancient comedy with previous and contemporary literary traditions is not limited to tragedy. This book is a timely response to the more sophisticated and theory-grounded way of viewing comedy's interactions with its cultural and intellectual context. It shows that in the process of its self-definition, comedy emerges as voracious and multifarious with a wide spectrum of litera…
Simonides the Poet
Simonides on Tombs, and the ‘Tomb of Simonides’
This chapter begins with the observation that inscribed texts were memorized and orally transmitted. This insight provides the key for a reading of Callimachus’ ‘Tomb of Simonides’—itself a reading of Simonides’ own response to the poetics of inscribed epigram (and of his role as the inventor of memory techniques). The chapter argues that Callimachus presents Simonides’ tomb not as an epitaph, but as a ‘meta-epitaph’—an elegy which is not itself …
Callimachus
Callimachus was one of the most important Greek poets, and can also be one of the most rewarding to read. He was a pivotal figure in the history of ancient literature and an influential presence in later ancient poetry, including Catullus and Vergil. Yet his work is not read and enjoyed as much as it could be. This new volume in the popular Ancients in Action series seeks to bring Callimachus to a wide audience, addressing the problems with curre…
Cassius Dio
This volume offers an introduction to the life and work of the 3rd-century-AD Greco-Roman senator and historian Cassius Dio, whose work, although imperfectly preserved in 80 books, is of fundamental importance to our understanding of Roman history. It is said that Dio is not one of the best ancient historians and his Roman history, due to its sheer size, is often imprecise and superficial in its analysis. It has also been assumed that there was n…
Xenophon
This book offers a concise introduction to Xenophon, the Athenian historian, political thinker, moral philosopher and literary innovator who was also a pupil of Socrates, a military general on campaign in Persia, and an exile in residence in the Peloponnese during the late fifth and fourth centuries BC. Alive during one of the most turbulent periods in Greek history, Xenophon wrote extensively about the past and present. In doing so he not only i…
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