David Gribble
Biographic Data
| ID | 5628535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Gribble |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Gribble |
| SIGNATURE | GRIBBLE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Science Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lyric Location and Performance Circumstances in Sappho and Alcaeus
A striking feature of the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus is their constant use of ‘deictic’ signals (‘I’, ‘you’, ‘this’, ‘here’, ‘now’) to establish a setting in a specific location in time and space. This article examines the created worlds of Sappho and Alcaeus, drawing on cognitive methodologies, in particular Text World Theory. It argues for the importance of a methodological distinction between the circumstances of performance of the songs, and…
Alcibiades at the Olympics
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Individuals in Thucydides
Thucydides' treatment of individuals must have been one of aspects of his work that most struck his contemporaries. Three things define Thucydidean treatment of individuals: avoidance of personal or private detail, failure to develop full story of individuals, and last absence of moralizing in depiction of individuals is surely another symptom of Thucydides' refusal to develop individual in his own right. One of reasons for difference between Her…
Plato and the Socratics
As tyrant or democratic hero, saviour of the city or its greatest enemy, Alcibiades is depicted in most of the texts examined so far in a way which discourages moral or psychological analysis. The depiction of Alcibiades as a moral agent, shaped by choices made especially in his youth, which was to distinguish the later Alcibiades tradition from that of other fifth-century figures, derives above all from the Socratics. Nevertheless, their portray…
Rhetorical Works
Of the rhetorical works composed in the classical period on the subject of Alcibiades, four survive: Isocrates, 16 Lysias, 14 and I 5; and [Andocides] 4. [And.] 4, an invective against Alcibiades set in the context of the last ostracism held in Athens, has long been suspected of being a later rhetorirnl exercise, and I believe that this view of the speech is correct, for the reasons set out in Appendix 2 to this chapter. The speech displays a r…
Conclusion
There are already sensitive studies of Plutarch’s allusive and interpretative deployment of sources in the Life of Alcibiades: 1 it is enough here to concentrate on how the Life reflects and transforms the themes I have traced in this book, and, in turn, how the studies of the previous chapters can help us understand the Life.
Thucydides
Discussing the generalizing and philosophical quality of poetry, Aristotle writes: It is clear ... that the task of the poet is not to say what happened, but the sort of thing that might happen ... that is why poetry [poiesis] is more philosophical and serious 1 than history, for poetry deals more [] with the universal, history the particular. The universal is the sort of things a certain sort of person will say or do either probably or necessari…
Dedication
Abbreviations
Étite Individual and Democratic City
The subject of this chapter is not the story of Alcibiades’ life, the details of which can be found in one of the many biographies of Alcibiades, but the way he lived his life (his bios, as it is often put in Greek) — or at least the way this lifestyle is presented in the surviving texts. This distinction is vital: the relationship between the discourses of rhetoric, comedy — even historiography — and lived reality is evidently exceedingly comple…
Title Pages
Alcibiades and Athens
It is not the aim of this book to add to the extensive literature on Alcibiades' life and career. Instead the author focuses on the explosive mix of fear and fascination excited by Alcibiades in his contemporaries and in particular in key literary texts: Thucydides, the mysterious pseudo-Andocides 4, the encomium of Isocrates 16, the final scene of Plato's Symposium. The book is about the acute tension between the classical city and the individua…
Rhetoric and history in [Andocides] 4, Against Alcibiades
The work transmitted to us as the fourth speech in the manuscripts of Andocides is an invective against Alcibiades on the occasion of the last ostracism to occur in Athens, the ostracism of Hyper bolus. Despite a challenging article by Raubitschek1 pointing to certain authentic-looking details in the speech, most scholars would probably now agree that [And.] 4 is neither by Andocides, nor a genuine speech delivered on the occasion of the last ost…
Alcibiades and Athens
It is not the aim of this book to add to the extensive literature on Alcibiades' life and career. Instead the author focuses on the explosive mix of fear and fascination excited by Alcibiades in his contemporaries and in particular in key literary texts: Thucydides, the mysterious pseudo-Andocides 4, the encomium of Isocrates 16, the final scene of Plato's Symposium. The book is about the acute tension between the classical city and the individua…
Rhetoric and history in [Andocides] 4, Against Alcibiades
The work transmitted to us as the fourth speech in the manuscripts of Andocides is an invective against Alcibiades on the occasion of the last ostracism to occur in Athens, the ostracism of Hyper bolus. Despite a challenging article by Raubitschek1 pointing to certain authentic-looking details in the speech, most scholars would probably now agree that [And.] 4 is neither by Andocides, nor a genuine speech delivered on the occasion of the last ost…
Rhetoric and history in [Andocides] 4, Against Alcibiades
The work transmitted to us as the fourth speech in the manuscripts of Andocides is an invective against Alcibiades on the occasion of the last ostracism to occur in Athens, the ostracism of Hyper bolus. Despite a challenging article by Raubitschek1 pointing to certain authentic-looking details in the speech, most scholars would probably now agree that [And.] 4 is neither by Andocides, nor a genuine speech delivered on the occasion of the last ost…
Plato and the Socratics
As tyrant or democratic hero, saviour of the city or its greatest enemy, Alcibiades is depicted in most of the texts examined so far in a way which discourages moral or psychological analysis. The depiction of Alcibiades as a moral agent, shaped by choices made especially in his youth, which was to distinguish the later Alcibiades tradition from that of other fifth-century figures, derives above all from the Socratics. Nevertheless, their portray…
Rhetorical Works
Of the rhetorical works composed in the classical period on the subject of Alcibiades, four survive: Isocrates, 16 Lysias, 14 and I 5; and [Andocides] 4. [And.] 4, an invective against Alcibiades set in the context of the last ostracism held in Athens, has long been suspected of being a later rhetorirnl exercise, and I believe that this view of the speech is correct, for the reasons set out in Appendix 2 to this chapter. The speech displays a r…
Conclusion
There are already sensitive studies of Plutarch’s allusive and interpretative deployment of sources in the Life of Alcibiades: 1 it is enough here to concentrate on how the Life reflects and transforms the themes I have traced in this book, and, in turn, how the studies of the previous chapters can help us understand the Life.
Thucydides
Discussing the generalizing and philosophical quality of poetry, Aristotle writes: It is clear ... that the task of the poet is not to say what happened, but the sort of thing that might happen ... that is why poetry [poiesis] is more philosophical and serious 1 than history, for poetry deals more [] with the universal, history the particular. The universal is the sort of things a certain sort of person will say or do either probably or necessari…
Dedication
Abbreviations
Étite Individual and Democratic City
The subject of this chapter is not the story of Alcibiades’ life, the details of which can be found in one of the many biographies of Alcibiades, but the way he lived his life (his bios, as it is often put in Greek) — or at least the way this lifestyle is presented in the surviving texts. This distinction is vital: the relationship between the discourses of rhetoric, comedy — even historiography — and lived reality is evidently exceedingly comple…
Title Pages
Alcibiades and Athens
It is not the aim of this book to add to the extensive literature on Alcibiades' life and career. Instead the author focuses on the explosive mix of fear and fascination excited by Alcibiades in his contemporaries and in particular in key literary texts: Thucydides, the mysterious pseudo-Andocides 4, the encomium of Isocrates 16, the final scene of Plato's Symposium. The book is about the acute tension between the classical city and the individua…
Individuals in Thucydides
Thucydides' treatment of individuals must have been one of aspects of his work that most struck his contemporaries. Three things define Thucydidean treatment of individuals: avoidance of personal or private detail, failure to develop full story of individuals, and last absence of moralizing in depiction of individuals is surely another symptom of Thucydides' refusal to develop individual in his own right. One of reasons for difference between Her…
Alcibiades at the Olympics
An abstract 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
Lyric Location and Performance Circumstances in Sappho and Alcaeus
A striking feature of the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus is their constant use of ‘deictic’ signals (‘I’, ‘you’, ‘this’, ‘here’, ‘now’) to establish a setting in a specific location in time and space. This article examines the created worlds of Sappho and Alcaeus, drawing on cognitive methodologies, in particular Text World Theory. It argues for the importance of a methodological distinction between the circumstances of performance of the songs, and…
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