Richard P Martin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5627772 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard P Martin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard P |
| FAMILY NAME | Martin |
| SIGNATURE | MARTIN R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8917-2567 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Self-fragmenting artefacts and comic pragmatics
Our view of fragments as pieces on a page, torn from one or another whole, arises from the biological organicism of philosophers, especially Plato and Aristotle. This article turns instead to modern analogues (e.g. Marcel Duchamp's ‘readymades’) for new ways of conceptualizing the fragment. The investigation centres on a cognitive device that has not garnered sufficient attention: ‘pre-quotation’, a conscious shaping of their talk by the original…
What Song the Kômos Sang
Mythologizing Performance
Building on numerous original close readings of works by Homer, Hesiod, and other ancient Greek poets, Richard P. Martin articulates a broad and precise poetics of archaic Greek verse. The ancient Greek hexameter poetry of such works as the Iliad and the Odyssey differ from most modern verbal art because it was composed for live, face-to-face performance, often in a competitive setting, before an audience well versed in mythological and ritual lo…
Synchronic Aspects of Homeric Performance: The Evidence of the Hymn to Apollo
Until It Ends: Varieties of Iliadic Anticipation
Hesiod and the Didactic Double
Un rasgo inusual de la estrategia didáctica de Hesíodo en Trabajos y Días es la inclusión de su hermano Perses, como destinatario. Si existe o no una base histórica para la disputa financiera entre hermanos, tal como aparece representada en el poema, resulta menos interesante que la posición que tal situación (posiblemente ficcional) transmite. Por la figura del consejero, Hesíodo sostiene, naturalmente, una actitud diferente hacia un hermano, qu…
Wrapping Homer Up: Cohesion, Discourse, and Deviation in the Iliad
Stesichorus and the Name Game
The naming of poetic predecessors within one’s own composition, often associated with a so-called Hellenistic aesthetic, has a less explored heritage going back to the sixth century BCE. This chapter traces the strategy in its earliest phases, especially as we find it within lyric poetry, from the reported statement by Stesichorus [fr. 168 Finglass] that the Shield of Heracles was indeed composed by Hesiod, to the Simonidean allusion to Homer as …
Calling Philosophers Names: On the Origin of a Discipline, written by Christopher Moore
Seven Sages
Greek tradition celebrated a group of seven men known for ethical and practical wisdom, who gained fame as advisers to the powerful, or as political figures in their own right, as well as composers of poetry, laws, instructions, and pithy sayings. The exact make‐up of the group varied according to different authorities, and grew to include mystic and mythical figures from diverse eras throughout Greece. The proclamation of the group membership, t…
Festivals, Symposia, and the Performance of Greek Poetry
The Epic Cycle: A Commentary on the Lost Troy Epics by Martin West
394 PHOENIX rejects that of the crooked basileis in the Works and Days, when he overrides popular epainos for Homer and awards victory to Hesiod. An afterword turns briefly to the Odyssey, which deploys two of the Iliad’s five response formulas, the silence of failure and the epainos of success, in complementary ways. The thesis that the Iliad’s conflict-ridden communities in fact reinforce communitarian values is persuasive, the identification o…
Read on arrival
The international community of vagrants calling themselves Classicists can well appreciate at least one problem faced by the poets whom they study. Wittingly or not, modern scholars have replicated the complicated itineraries, competitive atmosphere, quest for patronage and desire for publicity that were all known to ancient Greek performers. They may not get mugged like Ibycus or have to jump ship like Arion but, eventually, as did the ancients,…
Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture: Travel, Locality and Pan-Hellenism
Although recent scholarship has focused on the city-state as the context for the production of Greek poetry, for poets and performers travel was more the norm than the exception. This book traces this central aspect of ancient culture from its roots in the near Eastern societies which preceded the Greeks, through the way in which early semi-mythical figures such as Orpheus were imagined, the poets who travelled to the brilliant courts of archaic …
Words Alone are Certain Good(s): Philology and Greek Material Culture
The relation between philology and the study of material culture within Classics has been long and complex. Where does it now stand? At the request of the editor of TAPA , in conjunction with the journal’s recent focus on material culture, the author attempts to sum up some major trends. After an overview of historical developments, this article investigates the current practices and positions of those who are trying to bridge the divide between …
Ancient theatre and performance culture
Definitions and methods Aristotle's definition of tragedy may seem odd to modern viewers for whom psychological drama is the norm: 'Tragedy is a representation ( mimêsis ), not of people, but of an action ( praxis )... They do not act so as to represent character ( êthê ) but they include character on account of the actions' ( Poetics 1450a20-23) Yet the formulation deserves renewed attention in light of the advances made by critics and theorists…
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre
This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part …
The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions
The Catalogue of Women, ascribed to Hesiod, one of the greatest figures of early hexameter poetry, maps the Greek world, its evolution and its heroic myths through the mortal women who bore children to the gods. In this collection a team of international scholars offers an attempt to explore the poem's meaning, significance and reception. Individual chapters examine the organization and structure of the poem, its social and political context, its…
Epic as Genre
The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions
The Catalogue of Women, ascribed to Hesiod, one of the greatest figures of early hexameter poetry, maps the Greek world, its evolution and its heroic myths through the mortal women who bore children to the gods. In this collection a team of international scholars offers an attempt to explore the poem's meaning, significance and reception. Individual chapters examine the organization and structure of the poem, its social and political context, its…
Home is the Hero: Deixis and Semantics in Pindar Pythian 8
Pythian 8, probably the last epinikion Pindar composed, is unusual in the way it points elsewhere: of all the odes for Aiginetan victors, only this one fails to employ a myth related to the family of Aiakos. Instead, through its central narration of an Argive tale and through a complex network of pathways, the poem ties the victor’s home island to a number of other landscapes. Even more ambitiously, through several elaborate figural systems, Pind…
Rhapsodizing Orpheus
Orpheus -we know him as a poet, a musician, and a myth. Yet we must recall that aIl three of these media -poetry, musie, and myth -arise, at some point, out of an act of performance. The last-mentioned, muthas, can in fact be described from Homer on as the very paradigm for performance in archaic Greece: a public utterance that seeks through persuasive means to negotiate authority before a critieal audience. 1 In this connection, it should be wor…
The Seven Sages as Performers of Wisdom
NATURE, culture, gender, myth, East, West, truth - the degree to which these concepts are not transcendent universals but are socially constructed has finally hit us. Cultural anthropology will mold the shape of classical studies for this generation. This is an exciting but also difficult situation: to be fully and honestly philologists, we must now learn our Geertz along with Greek, absorb Lienhardt as well as Latin, undertake ethnography after …
Der unbekannte Odysseus: Eine Interpretation der Odyssee
The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad
Hesiod's Metanastic Poetics
The received wisdom about Hesiod's poetics is simple: he is no Homer. His poetry is supposedly rough, awkward, unsophisticated, repetitive, disjointed, a second-best versifier's striving after effect. Too often the rhetoric even of those who respect Hesiodic poetry damns it with faint praise. Readers of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics —to take just one easily available reference that students might consult—learn that Hesiod's ‘di…
The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions
The Catalogue of Women, ascribed to Hesiod, one of the greatest figures of early hexameter poetry, maps the Greek world, its evolution and its heroic myths through the mortal women who bore children to the gods. In this collection a team of international scholars offers an attempt to explore the poem's meaning, significance and reception. Individual chapters examine the organization and structure of the poem, its social and political context, its…
Rhapsodizing Orpheus
Orpheus -we know him as a poet, a musician, and a myth. Yet we must recall that aIl three of these media -poetry, musie, and myth -arise, at some point, out of an act of performance. The last-mentioned, muthas, can in fact be described from Homer on as the very paradigm for performance in archaic Greece: a public utterance that seeks through persuasive means to negotiate authority before a critieal audience. 1 In this connection, it should be wor…
Theory and History of Folklore
Buku ini membahas tentang asal muasal folklore, prinsip klasifikasi folklore, dan sejarah folklore
Home is the Hero: Deixis and Semantics in Pindar Pythian 8
Pythian 8, probably the last epinikion Pindar composed, is unusual in the way it points elsewhere: of all the odes for Aiginetan victors, only this one fails to employ a myth related to the family of Aiakos. Instead, through its central narration of an Argive tale and through a complex network of pathways, the poem ties the victor’s home island to a number of other landscapes. Even more ambitiously, through several elaborate figural systems, Pind…
Theory and History of Folklore
Oral-Formulaic Theory and Research: An Introduction and Annotated Bibliography
Theory and History of Folklore
Buku ini membahas tentang asal muasal folklore, prinsip klasifikasi folklore, dan sejarah folklore
Theory and History of Folklore
Barbarians in Greek Comedy
The language of heroes: Speech and performance in the Iliad
Drawing on recent studies in ethnography and sociolinguistics, Richard Martin here sets forth a poetics of Homeric speeches, which he sees not merely as poetic creations but as the representation of an actual form of speaking in a traditional culture
The Language of Heroes: "Speech and Performance in the "Iliad
The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad
Der unbekannte Odysseus: Eine Interpretation der Odyssee
The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad
Hesiod's Metanastic Poetics
The received wisdom about Hesiod's poetics is simple: he is no Homer. His poetry is supposedly rough, awkward, unsophisticated, repetitive, disjointed, a second-best versifier's striving after effect. Too often the rhetoric even of those who respect Hesiodic poetry damns it with faint praise. Readers of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics —to take just one easily available reference that students might consult—learn that Hesiod's ‘di…
Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past
Nagy challenges the widely held view that the development of lyric poetry in Greece represents the rise of individual innovation over collective tradition. Arguing that Greek lyric represents a tradition in its own right, Nagy shows how the form of Greek epic is in fact a differentiation of forms found in Greek lyric. (Criticism)
The Seven Sages as Performers of Wisdom
NATURE, culture, gender, myth, East, West, truth - the degree to which these concepts are not transcendent universals but are socially constructed has finally hit us. Cultural anthropology will mold the shape of classical studies for this generation. This is an exciting but also difficult situation: to be fully and honestly philologists, we must now learn our Geertz along with Greek, absorb Lienhardt as well as Latin, undertake ethnography after …
Rhapsodizing Orpheus
Orpheus -we know him as a poet, a musician, and a myth. Yet we must recall that aIl three of these media -poetry, musie, and myth -arise, at some point, out of an act of performance. The last-mentioned, muthas, can in fact be described from Homer on as the very paradigm for performance in archaic Greece: a public utterance that seeks through persuasive means to negotiate authority before a critieal audience. 1 In this connection, it should be wor…
Home is the Hero: Deixis and Semantics in Pindar Pythian 8
Pythian 8, probably the last epinikion Pindar composed, is unusual in the way it points elsewhere: of all the odes for Aiginetan victors, only this one fails to employ a myth related to the family of Aiakos. Instead, through its central narration of an Argive tale and through a complex network of pathways, the poem ties the victor’s home island to a number of other landscapes. Even more ambitiously, through several elaborate figural systems, Pind…
The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions
The Catalogue of Women, ascribed to Hesiod, one of the greatest figures of early hexameter poetry, maps the Greek world, its evolution and its heroic myths through the mortal women who bore children to the gods. In this collection a team of international scholars offers an attempt to explore the poem's meaning, significance and reception. Individual chapters examine the organization and structure of the poem, its social and political context, its…
Epic as Genre
The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions
The Catalogue of Women, ascribed to Hesiod, one of the greatest figures of early hexameter poetry, maps the Greek world, its evolution and its heroic myths through the mortal women who bore children to the gods. In this collection a team of international scholars offers an attempt to explore the poem's meaning, significance and reception. Individual chapters examine the organization and structure of the poem, its social and political context, its…
Ancient theatre and performance culture
Definitions and methods Aristotle's definition of tragedy may seem odd to modern viewers for whom psychological drama is the norm: 'Tragedy is a representation ( mimêsis ), not of people, but of an action ( praxis )... They do not act so as to represent character ( êthê ) but they include character on account of the actions' ( Poetics 1450a20-23) Yet the formulation deserves renewed attention in light of the advances made by critics and theorists…
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre
This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part …
Words Alone are Certain Good(s): Philology and Greek Material Culture
The relation between philology and the study of material culture within Classics has been long and complex. Where does it now stand? At the request of the editor of TAPA , in conjunction with the journal’s recent focus on material culture, the author attempts to sum up some major trends. After an overview of historical developments, this article investigates the current practices and positions of those who are trying to bridge the divide between …
Read on arrival
The international community of vagrants calling themselves Classicists can well appreciate at least one problem faced by the poets whom they study. Wittingly or not, modern scholars have replicated the complicated itineraries, competitive atmosphere, quest for patronage and desire for publicity that were all known to ancient Greek performers. They may not get mugged like Ibycus or have to jump ship like Arion but, eventually, as did the ancients,…
Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture: Travel, Locality and Pan-Hellenism
Although recent scholarship has focused on the city-state as the context for the production of Greek poetry, for poets and performers travel was more the norm than the exception. This book traces this central aspect of ancient culture from its roots in the near Eastern societies which preceded the Greeks, through the way in which early semi-mythical figures such as Orpheus were imagined, the poets who travelled to the brilliant courts of archaic …
The Epic Cycle: A Commentary on the Lost Troy Epics by Martin West
394 PHOENIX rejects that of the crooked basileis in the Works and Days, when he overrides popular epainos for Homer and awards victory to Hesiod. An afterword turns briefly to the Odyssey, which deploys two of the Iliad’s five response formulas, the silence of failure and the epainos of success, in complementary ways. The thesis that the Iliad’s conflict-ridden communities in fact reinforce communitarian values is persuasive, the identification o…
Festivals, Symposia, and the Performance of Greek Poetry
Seven Sages
Greek tradition celebrated a group of seven men known for ethical and practical wisdom, who gained fame as advisers to the powerful, or as political figures in their own right, as well as composers of poetry, laws, instructions, and pithy sayings. The exact make‐up of the group varied according to different authorities, and grew to include mystic and mythical figures from diverse eras throughout Greece. The proclamation of the group membership, t…
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