Marcus Folch
Biographic Data
| ID | 5633529 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcus Folch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcus |
| FAMILY NAME | Folch |
| SIGNATURE | FOLCH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Political Prisoners in Democratic Athens, 490–318 BCE Part I
Scholars traditionally classify the uses of imprisonment in Athens as custodial, coercive, and punitive: detention of litigants prior to prosecution and convicts awaiting punishment, debtors interned until payment of fines, and convicts sentenced to bondage as a penalty, respectively. Ancient authors, by contrast, portray imprisonment as political, part of the agonistic dimensions of Athenian democracy. This study identifies all known inmates in …
Is Red Figure the New Black? The Imprisonment of Women in Classical Athens
Were women imprisoned in classical Athens? To search for an answer to this question in the secondary literature is to be met with deafening silence. Few scholars have examined evidence for the incarceration of women in the ancient Mediterranean, and the little work that has been done remains focused in such marginal (from the vantage of traditional classics departments) areas as Late Antique studies and early Christianity. When classicists speak …
Political Prisoners in Democratic Athens, 490–318 BCE Part II
Part I of this study, a survey of inmates in the Athenian prison, traces the emergence of imprisonment as a political weapon in periods of partisan tension, civil discord, and breakdown in intra-elite cooperation in classical Athens. Part II complements the aggregative and quantitative analysis of Part I with close readings of Athenian accounts of incarceration from the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. Athenian narratives of imprisonment reveal pr…
Plato’s Hesiods
This chapter surveys Hesiodic reception in fourth-century bce prose, with emphasis on Plato and especially the Laws. Passages of the Laws are read in context and used to illuminate the status of Hesiodic poetry in the fourth century. Topics discussed include rhapsodic performance, Hesiod’s relationship to Homer, study of Hesiodic poetry in schools, the fourth-century manuscript tradition, citation of Hesiod’s poems in conversation and Athenian co…
The City and the Stage
What role did the performance of poetry, music, song, and dance play in the political life of the ancient city? How has philosophy positioned itself and articulated its own ambitions in relation to the poet tradition? This book poses such questions through a reading of Plato's last, longest, and unfinished work, the Laws
The City and the Stage
What role did the performance of poetry, music, song, and dance play in the political life of the ancient city? How has philosophy positioned itself and articulated its own ambitions in relation to the poet tradition? This book poses such questions through a reading of Plato's last, longest, and unfinished work, the Laws
The City and the Stage
What role did the performance of poetry, music, song, and dance play in the political life of the ancient city? How has philosophy positioned itself and articulated its own ambitions in relation to the poet tradition? This book poses such questions through a reading of Plato's last, longest, and unfinished work, the Laws
Plato’s Hesiods
This chapter surveys Hesiodic reception in fourth-century bce prose, with emphasis on Plato and especially the Laws. Passages of the Laws are read in context and used to illuminate the status of Hesiodic poetry in the fourth century. Topics discussed include rhapsodic performance, Hesiod’s relationship to Homer, study of Hesiodic poetry in schools, the fourth-century manuscript tradition, citation of Hesiod’s poems in conversation and Athenian co…
Political Prisoners in Democratic Athens, 490–318 BCE Part I
Scholars traditionally classify the uses of imprisonment in Athens as custodial, coercive, and punitive: detention of litigants prior to prosecution and convicts awaiting punishment, debtors interned until payment of fines, and convicts sentenced to bondage as a penalty, respectively. Ancient authors, by contrast, portray imprisonment as political, part of the agonistic dimensions of Athenian democracy. This study identifies all known inmates in …
Is Red Figure the New Black? The Imprisonment of Women in Classical Athens
Were women imprisoned in classical Athens? To search for an answer to this question in the secondary literature is to be met with deafening silence. Few scholars have examined evidence for the incarceration of women in the ancient Mediterranean, and the little work that has been done remains focused in such marginal (from the vantage of traditional classics departments) areas as Late Antique studies and early Christianity. When classicists speak …
Political Prisoners in Democratic Athens, 490–318 BCE Part II
Part I of this study, a survey of inmates in the Athenian prison, traces the emergence of imprisonment as a political weapon in periods of partisan tension, civil discord, and breakdown in intra-elite cooperation in classical Athens. Part II complements the aggregative and quantitative analysis of Part I with close readings of Athenian accounts of incarceration from the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. Athenian narratives of imprisonment reveal pr…
Classical Antiquity Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Imprisonment (3 works)