Alexei V Zadorojnyi
Biographic Data
| ID | 5634339 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexei V Zadorojnyi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexei V |
| FAMILY NAME | Zadorojnyi |
| SIGNATURE | ZADOROJNYI A V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5069-4739 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Horses for courses
The Onomasticon by Julius Pollux is more than just a word-hoard: Pollux’s work actively mediates, through lexicographic appraisal, the cultural assets and anxieties of the Second Sophistic. In the light of the ongoing debate among the Imperial intellectuals and specifically Platonists about the value of style and diction as ingredients of the Platonic text, the numerous references to Plato’s vocabulary from across the Onomasticon bespeak an essen…
The Aesthetics and Politics of Inscriptions in Imperial Greek Literature
The aim of the paper is to examine socio-cultural assumptions behind the perception of epigraphic writing among the pepaideumenoi of the empire in the second century CE, and, relatedly, to outline the ideologies of Greek epigraphic writtenness through close readings of select key passages from authors of the Second Sophistic. In the first section, the paper investigates attitudes to epigraphic writing in Pollux’ Onomasticon (especially 5.149-50) …
Librariesandpaideiain the Second Sophistic
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Shuffling Surfaces
This chapter addresses the antinomy underlying the deployment of epigraphic textuality in the Imperial Greco-Roman narratives. On the one hand, inscriptions on ‘hard’, monumentally permanent, surfaces are viewed as statements of authority and identity. At the same time the power of epigraphy is often problematized, restrained, or qualified by the host-texts. Thus, inscriptions serve to invoke but equally to hijack discoursal traditions; political…
Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography
Historians often refer to past events which took place prior to their narrative's proper past - that is, they refer to a 'plupast'. This past embedded in the past can be evoked by characters as well as by the historian in his own voice. It can bring into play other texts, but can also draw on lieux de mémoire or on material objects. The articles assembled in this volume explore the manifold forms of the plupast in Greek and Roman historians from …
Plutarch and Homer
Cato's Suicide in Plutarch
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King of his castle
The introductory chapters of the Plutarchan Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero are much relied on for personal information about the author. It is here that Plutarch tells us that he wrote the Parallel Lives while residing in his home town of Chaeronea, and that he had been to Italy; his knowledge of Latin was, however, limited. As a matter of course, numerous scholars have paid attention to these statements, often with far-reaching interpretive imp…
Thucydides’ Nicias and Homer's Agamemnon
The scholiast is clearly busy glossing a rare word. Here, as elsewhere in the scholia, Homer is cited for just that purpose. There is also an effective tendency to build judgements on a writer's style around the label ‘ O μηρικ⋯ς. Curiously, in our case the scholiast seems to have hit upon the right reading of the passage. The detail about decaying timbers in the context of Nicias' letter could not help striking educated Greek readers, who, like …
Cato's Suicide in Plutarch
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Thucydides’ Nicias and Homer's Agamemnon
The scholiast is clearly busy glossing a rare word. Here, as elsewhere in the scholia, Homer is cited for just that purpose. There is also an effective tendency to build judgements on a writer's style around the label ‘ O μηρικ⋯ς. Curiously, in our case the scholiast seems to have hit upon the right reading of the passage. The detail about decaying timbers in the context of Nicias' letter could not help striking educated Greek readers, who, like …
King of his castle
The introductory chapters of the Plutarchan Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero are much relied on for personal information about the author. It is here that Plutarch tells us that he wrote the Parallel Lives while residing in his home town of Chaeronea, and that he had been to Italy; his knowledge of Latin was, however, limited. As a matter of course, numerous scholars have paid attention to these statements, often with far-reaching interpretive imp…
Thucydides’ Nicias and Homer's Agamemnon
The scholiast is clearly busy glossing a rare word. Here, as elsewhere in the scholia, Homer is cited for just that purpose. There is also an effective tendency to build judgements on a writer's style around the label ‘ O μηρικ⋯ς. Curiously, in our case the scholiast seems to have hit upon the right reading of the passage. The detail about decaying timbers in the context of Nicias' letter could not help striking educated Greek readers, who, like …
King of his castle
The introductory chapters of the Plutarchan Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero are much relied on for personal information about the author. It is here that Plutarch tells us that he wrote the Parallel Lives while residing in his home town of Chaeronea, and that he had been to Italy; his knowledge of Latin was, however, limited. As a matter of course, numerous scholars have paid attention to these statements, often with far-reaching interpretive imp…
Cato's Suicide in Plutarch
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
Plutarch and Homer
Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography
Historians often refer to past events which took place prior to their narrative's proper past - that is, they refer to a 'plupast'. This past embedded in the past can be evoked by characters as well as by the historian in his own voice. It can bring into play other texts, but can also draw on lieux de mémoire or on material objects. The articles assembled in this volume explore the manifold forms of the plupast in Greek and Roman historians from …
Librariesandpaideiain the Second Sophistic
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.
Shuffling Surfaces
This chapter addresses the antinomy underlying the deployment of epigraphic textuality in the Imperial Greco-Roman narratives. On the one hand, inscriptions on ‘hard’, monumentally permanent, surfaces are viewed as statements of authority and identity. At the same time the power of epigraphy is often problematized, restrained, or qualified by the host-texts. Thus, inscriptions serve to invoke but equally to hijack discoursal traditions; political…
The Aesthetics and Politics of Inscriptions in Imperial Greek Literature
The aim of the paper is to examine socio-cultural assumptions behind the perception of epigraphic writing among the pepaideumenoi of the empire in the second century CE, and, relatedly, to outline the ideologies of Greek epigraphic writtenness through close readings of select key passages from authors of the Second Sophistic. In the first section, the paper investigates attitudes to epigraphic writing in Pollux’ Onomasticon (especially 5.149-50) …
Horses for courses
The Onomasticon by Julius Pollux is more than just a word-hoard: Pollux’s work actively mediates, through lexicographic appraisal, the cultural assets and anxieties of the Second Sophistic. In the light of the ongoing debate among the Imperial intellectuals and specifically Platonists about the value of style and diction as ingredients of the Platonic text, the numerous references to Plato’s vocabulary from across the Onomasticon bespeak an essen…
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