Marek Węcowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 5629457 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marek Węcowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marek |
| FAMILY NAME | Węcowski |
| SIGNATURE | WĘCOWSKI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warsaw |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0298-0957 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Politeia and Koinōnia
Early Greek Poetry, Social Mobility, and Solon’s Reforms
This paper offers a brief overview of detectable references to vertical social mobility in Homer, Hesiod, and Solon. It concludes that although the ideological contrast between the agathoi and the kakoi must have been a crucial socio-political factor in the archaic period, it was constantly undermined by upward and downward social mobility. More specifically it is argued that one endemic social problem of the archaic Greek cities seems to have be…
Athenian Ostracism and its Original Purpose
Athenian Ostracism and its Original Purpose. A Prisoner’s Dilemma is the first book in English about Athenian ostracism, by far the most emblematic institution of Athenian democracy, in many decades. It offers a reassessment of ostraka (or potsherds, on which the names of the ‘candidates’ for exile were inscribed by citizens) from several Greek cities outside Athens, a reconstruction of the history and of the procedure of ostracism in Athens, and…
So-Called “Buleutic Ostracism” and the Ekphyllophoria
In 1894, Leon Sternbach (1864-1940) published the editio princeps of the concluding part of the fifteenth-century Byzantine manuscript known as Vaticanus Graecus 1144 (ff. 215v-225v), which contains an interesting collection of excerpts. Excerptum 213 reached the wider scholarly world only after being reprinted and interpreted in 1972 by John J. Keaney and Antony E. Raubitschek. Ever since the Vaticanus has occupied a very special place in schola…
Change, Continuity, and Connectivity
When Did the Symposion Die? On the Decline of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet
Wine and the Early History of the Greek Alphabet
As far as the early epigraphic material is concerned, the thrill of the Methone excavations is that they brought to light so much new material but at the same time they seem to confirm many earlier scholarly insights and interpretations. Among other things, as the editors of the Methone volume rightly observe, the new finds confirm the importance of convivial inscriptions at the earliest attested stage of the Greek alphabetization. It is time, th…
Herodotus in Thucydides
Selecting core-hole localization or delocalization in CS2 by photofragmentation dynamics
Electronic core levels in molecules are highly localized around one atomic site. However, in single-photon ionization of symmetric molecules, the question of core-hole localization versus delocalization over two equivalent atoms has long been debated as the answer lies at the heart of quantum mechanics. Here, using a joint experimental and theoretical study of core-ionized carbon disulfide (CS2), we demonstrate that it is possible to experimental…
Early Greek Aristocracy and the Symposion
This chapter is a detailed reconstruction of the ceremonial of the archaic and classical symposion and of its varied types of entertainment, including drinking games, contests of agility and the predominant intellectual pastimes which mark off the symposion as a very peculiar convivial occasion. Still, a necessary prerequisite for any historical study of the symposion, and thus a real challenge in treating the matters treated in this chapter, is …
Homer, the ‘Heroic Feast’, and the Symposion
In this chapter it is argued that the best method of interpreting the Homeric poems historically is not to look for an overall picture of the ‘heroic world’ as conceived by the poet(s), but to identify several striking and telling details that have nothing to do with the way heroes normally feast in Homer. One of them is a nocturnal wine drinking occasion gathering a small group of egalitarian feasters; the other concerns cultural and competitive…
The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet
PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LIST OF MAPS ABBRIEVIATIONS INTRODUCTION PART ONE: DEFINING THE SYMPOSION PART TWO: THE SYMPOSION AND HISTORY CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
In the Shadow of Pericles
Can Zeus be deceived? The Mekone Episode (Hes. theog. 535–561) between Theodicy and Power-Politics
The goal of this paper is to offer a new interpretation of a crucial passage of Hesiod’s “Theogony”, the episode of the mischievous division of the carcass of an ox by Prometheus in Mekone. There is a striking incongruity in the scene featuring Zeus deceived by, and enraged at, Prometheus’ trick but at the same time fully aware beforehand of the Titan’s deceit. In the eyes of Hesiod’s contemporaries, the confrontation between the two divinities o…
Ironie et histoire
The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet
PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LIST OF MAPS ABBRIEVIATIONS INTRODUCTION PART ONE: DEFINING THE SYMPOSION PART TWO: THE SYMPOSION AND HISTORY CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
Can Zeus be deceived? The Mekone Episode (Hes. theog. 535–561) between Theodicy and Power-Politics
The goal of this paper is to offer a new interpretation of a crucial passage of Hesiod’s “Theogony”, the episode of the mischievous division of the carcass of an ox by Prometheus in Mekone. There is a striking incongruity in the scene featuring Zeus deceived by, and enraged at, Prometheus’ trick but at the same time fully aware beforehand of the Titan’s deceit. In the eyes of Hesiod’s contemporaries, the confrontation between the two divinities o…
Ironie et histoire
Can Zeus be deceived? The Mekone Episode (Hes. theog. 535–561) between Theodicy and Power-Politics
The goal of this paper is to offer a new interpretation of a crucial passage of Hesiod’s “Theogony”, the episode of the mischievous division of the carcass of an ox by Prometheus in Mekone. There is a striking incongruity in the scene featuring Zeus deceived by, and enraged at, Prometheus’ trick but at the same time fully aware beforehand of the Titan’s deceit. In the eyes of Hesiod’s contemporaries, the confrontation between the two divinities o…
In the Shadow of Pericles
Early Greek Aristocracy and the Symposion
This chapter is a detailed reconstruction of the ceremonial of the archaic and classical symposion and of its varied types of entertainment, including drinking games, contests of agility and the predominant intellectual pastimes which mark off the symposion as a very peculiar convivial occasion. Still, a necessary prerequisite for any historical study of the symposion, and thus a real challenge in treating the matters treated in this chapter, is …
Homer, the ‘Heroic Feast’, and the Symposion
In this chapter it is argued that the best method of interpreting the Homeric poems historically is not to look for an overall picture of the ‘heroic world’ as conceived by the poet(s), but to identify several striking and telling details that have nothing to do with the way heroes normally feast in Homer. One of them is a nocturnal wine drinking occasion gathering a small group of egalitarian feasters; the other concerns cultural and competitive…
The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet
PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LIST OF MAPS ABBRIEVIATIONS INTRODUCTION PART ONE: DEFINING THE SYMPOSION PART TWO: THE SYMPOSION AND HISTORY CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
Selecting core-hole localization or delocalization in CS2 by photofragmentation dynamics
Electronic core levels in molecules are highly localized around one atomic site. However, in single-photon ionization of symmetric molecules, the question of core-hole localization versus delocalization over two equivalent atoms has long been debated as the answer lies at the heart of quantum mechanics. Here, using a joint experimental and theoretical study of core-ionized carbon disulfide (CS2), we demonstrate that it is possible to experimental…
Herodotus in Thucydides
Wine and the Early History of the Greek Alphabet
As far as the early epigraphic material is concerned, the thrill of the Methone excavations is that they brought to light so much new material but at the same time they seem to confirm many earlier scholarly insights and interpretations. Among other things, as the editors of the Methone volume rightly observe, the new finds confirm the importance of convivial inscriptions at the earliest attested stage of the Greek alphabetization. It is time, th…
Change, Continuity, and Connectivity
When Did the Symposion Die? On the Decline of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet
So-Called “Buleutic Ostracism” and the Ekphyllophoria
In 1894, Leon Sternbach (1864-1940) published the editio princeps of the concluding part of the fifteenth-century Byzantine manuscript known as Vaticanus Graecus 1144 (ff. 215v-225v), which contains an interesting collection of excerpts. Excerptum 213 reached the wider scholarly world only after being reprinted and interpreted in 1972 by John J. Keaney and Antony E. Raubitschek. Ever since the Vaticanus has occupied a very special place in schola…
Athenian Ostracism and its Original Purpose
Athenian Ostracism and its Original Purpose. A Prisoner’s Dilemma is the first book in English about Athenian ostracism, by far the most emblematic institution of Athenian democracy, in many decades. It offers a reassessment of ostraka (or potsherds, on which the names of the ‘candidates’ for exile were inscribed by citizens) from several Greek cities outside Athens, a reconstruction of the history and of the procedure of ostracism in Athens, and…
Politeia and Koinōnia
Early Greek Poetry, Social Mobility, and Solon’s Reforms
This paper offers a brief overview of detectable references to vertical social mobility in Homer, Hesiod, and Solon. It concludes that although the ideological contrast between the agathoi and the kakoi must have been a crucial socio-political factor in the archaic period, it was constantly undermined by upward and downward social mobility. More specifically it is argued that one endemic social problem of the archaic Greek cities seems to have be…
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