Alastair Blanshard
Biographic Data
| ID | 5628357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alastair Blanshard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alastair |
| FAMILY NAME | Blanshard |
| SIGNATURE | BLANSHARD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Classical Greece
Wilde’s relationship with ancient Greece was among the most important intellectual relationships in his life. His exemplary training in classical languages and culture gave him access to a range of cultural resources which he could deploy as he wrestled with some of his most pressing personal issues. We can trace the influence of Greek models of thought in his attitudes towards faith, politics, and sexuality. The sexually liberated, democratic, p…
Some Queer Entanglements in Lucian’s Erotes
This chapter examines Lucian’s Erotes to explore qustions of authorship and agency. It explores how questions about authorship operate differently for erotic and non-erotic works and the ways in which erotic discourse is more amenable to anonymous or masked authors. The chapter shows how according Lucianic authorship to this text enriches our understanding of other texts by Lucian. It examines how the Erotes functions to critique normative sexual…
Authorship and Ideology in Lysias’ Funeral Oration
Lysias’s funeral speech is a paradoxical work. In theory a funeral speech by a foreign speech-writer should not exist. At first glance, this oration seems to point to a failure of process. What does it say about Athenian democracy that it had carefully selected a man to deliver a speech who needed to employ a speech-writer because, presumably, he was not up to the task of writing the speech himself? Moreover, how could it be that the best person …
Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture
What is it about ancient monsters that popular culture still finds so enthralling? Why do the monsters of antiquity continue to stride across the modern world? In this book, the first in-depth study of how post-classical societies use the creatures from ancient myth, Liz Gloyn reveals the trends behind how we have used monsters since the 1950s to the present day, and considers why they have remained such a powerful presence in our shared cultural…
Jurors and Serial Killers
In this chapter, Blanshard examines one of the peculiarities of deliberative practice in the Athenian democratic governmental system, namely the tendency for decision-making to occur within the supportive presence of a network of peers. No major life decision, whether it related to the marriage of children, the sale of property, or the arrangements of funerals, was taken without wide consultation among friends and family. This means that when ind…
Hercules
This chapter and the next two focus on the most recent manifestations of Hercules on screen. It puts the recent output of Hercules-themed films into dialogue with earlier cinematic and television projects to demonstrate how these most recent versions both embody a tradition and represent a new critical departure. It shows a turn, starting from Disney’s Hercules (1997), in which the hero became a more flexible figure. The new flexibility of the He…
High Art and Low Art Expectations
This chapter examines the films depicting ancient Greece and their associated para-phenomena. The important element to note is that “popular culture” inevitably must be a capacious category. It includes everything from high cultural products that “go viral” (e.g., the Three Tenors singing “Nessun dorma”) to mass market commercial products that deliberately oppose themselves to elitist offerings. The film's popularity and reputation ensured that i…
The Permeable Spaces of the Athenian Law-Court
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Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
This book brings together a collection of original essays that engage with cultural geography and landscape studies to produce new ways of understanding place, space, and landscape in Greek literature from the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. The authors draw on an eclectic collection of contemporary approaches to bring the study of ancient Greek literature into dialogue with the burgeoning discussion of spatial theory in the humanities. The essay…
Herakles (Hercules)
Herakles (Latin Hercules) was a Greek hero, the son of Alkmene and Zeus, who after his death received divine honors.
Obelisk
Obelisk: A history, by Brian A. Curran, Anthony Grafton, Pamela O. Long, and Benjamin Weiss, Cambridge, MIT Press, 2009, 384 pp., $27.95, ISBN 978-0-26251270-1 One needs to be wary of people attrac
Chapter Eight. Trapped between Athens and Chios
Articles proclaiming the mimetic power of literature have proliferated in recent decades. It is an approach that can unite even those who might otherwise disagree violently on methodology. This chapter shows how such an approach might be useful for thinking about the work of Ion of Chios. It examines the methods by which Ion is able to establish a way of being. Ion exists at the beginning of history in two senses. First, he belongs to the generat…
Thomas Wilson’s demosthenes and the politics of tudor translation
What Counts as the demos? Some Notes on the Relationship between the Jury and "The People" in Classical Athens
What Counts as the demos? Some Notes on the Relationship between the Jury and "The People" in Classical Athens
Thomas Wilson’s demosthenes and the politics of tudor translation
Chapter Eight. Trapped between Athens and Chios
Articles proclaiming the mimetic power of literature have proliferated in recent decades. It is an approach that can unite even those who might otherwise disagree violently on methodology. This chapter shows how such an approach might be useful for thinking about the work of Ion of Chios. It examines the methods by which Ion is able to establish a way of being. Ion exists at the beginning of history in two senses. First, he belongs to the generat…
Obelisk
Obelisk: A history, by Brian A. Curran, Anthony Grafton, Pamela O. Long, and Benjamin Weiss, Cambridge, MIT Press, 2009, 384 pp., $27.95, ISBN 978-0-26251270-1 One needs to be wary of people attrac
Herakles (Hercules)
Herakles (Latin Hercules) was a Greek hero, the son of Alkmene and Zeus, who after his death received divine honors.
The Permeable Spaces of the Athenian Law-Court
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.
Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
This book brings together a collection of original essays that engage with cultural geography and landscape studies to produce new ways of understanding place, space, and landscape in Greek literature from the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. The authors draw on an eclectic collection of contemporary approaches to bring the study of ancient Greek literature into dialogue with the burgeoning discussion of spatial theory in the humanities. The essay…
High Art and Low Art Expectations
This chapter examines the films depicting ancient Greece and their associated para-phenomena. The important element to note is that “popular culture” inevitably must be a capacious category. It includes everything from high cultural products that “go viral” (e.g., the Three Tenors singing “Nessun dorma”) to mass market commercial products that deliberately oppose themselves to elitist offerings. The film's popularity and reputation ensured that i…
Jurors and Serial Killers
In this chapter, Blanshard examines one of the peculiarities of deliberative practice in the Athenian democratic governmental system, namely the tendency for decision-making to occur within the supportive presence of a network of peers. No major life decision, whether it related to the marriage of children, the sale of property, or the arrangements of funerals, was taken without wide consultation among friends and family. This means that when ind…
Hercules
This chapter and the next two focus on the most recent manifestations of Hercules on screen. It puts the recent output of Hercules-themed films into dialogue with earlier cinematic and television projects to demonstrate how these most recent versions both embody a tradition and represent a new critical departure. It shows a turn, starting from Disney’s Hercules (1997), in which the hero became a more flexible figure. The new flexibility of the He…
Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture
What is it about ancient monsters that popular culture still finds so enthralling? Why do the monsters of antiquity continue to stride across the modern world? In this book, the first in-depth study of how post-classical societies use the creatures from ancient myth, Liz Gloyn reveals the trends behind how we have used monsters since the 1950s to the present day, and considers why they have remained such a powerful presence in our shared cultural…
Some Queer Entanglements in Lucian’s Erotes
This chapter examines Lucian’s Erotes to explore qustions of authorship and agency. It explores how questions about authorship operate differently for erotic and non-erotic works and the ways in which erotic discourse is more amenable to anonymous or masked authors. The chapter shows how according Lucianic authorship to this text enriches our understanding of other texts by Lucian. It examines how the Erotes functions to critique normative sexual…
Authorship and Ideology in Lysias’ Funeral Oration
Lysias’s funeral speech is a paradoxical work. In theory a funeral speech by a foreign speech-writer should not exist. At first glance, this oration seems to point to a failure of process. What does it say about Athenian democracy that it had carefully selected a man to deliver a speech who needed to employ a speech-writer because, presumably, he was not up to the task of writing the speech himself? Moreover, how could it be that the best person …
Classical Greece
Wilde’s relationship with ancient Greece was among the most important intellectual relationships in his life. His exemplary training in classical languages and culture gave him access to a range of cultural resources which he could deploy as he wrestled with some of his most pressing personal issues. We can trace the influence of Greek models of thought in his attitudes towards faith, politics, and sexuality. The sexually liberated, democratic, p…
Art (9 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · History (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Politics (4 works)