Simon Perris
Biographic Data
| ID | 5635488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Perris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Perris |
| SIGNATURE | PERRIS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington Wellington New Zealand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Truth in the Late Foucault: Antiquity, Sexuality, and Psychoanalysis
The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his work on the ancient world and the early church. Each essay features a deep examination as to how the topics of truth and sexuality intersect with and focus on Foucault’s engagement with ancient philosophy and thought. Truth in the Late Foucault offers readings on Plato, Artemidorus, Cicero, Sophocles and the Stoics, and pays close atte…
Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World
Why did ancient autocrats patronise theatre? How could ancient theatre – rightly supposed to be an artform that developed and flourished under democracy – serve their needs? Plato claimed that poets of tragic drama "drag states into tyranny and democracy". The word order is very deliberate: he goes on to say that tragic poets are honoured "especially by the tyrants, and secondly by the democracies" ( Republic 568c). For more than forty years scho…
The Classics in Modernist Translation
This volume sheds new light on a wealth of early 20th-century engagement with literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity that significantly shaped the work of anglophone literary modernism. The essays spotlight ‘translation’, a concept the modernists themselves used to reckon with the Classics and to denote a range of different kinds of reception – from more literal to more liberal translation work, as well as forms of what contemporary reception studi…
Antipodean Antiquities: Classical Reception Down Under
"Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on…
What does Hine-nui-te-pō look like? A case study of oral tradition, myth and literature in Aotearoa New Zealand
This essay concerns Māui's famous, canonical encounter, known only from Aotearoa (New Zealand), with one of Māori myth's most important deities: Hine-nui-(i)-te-pō, 'Great lady of the night', queen of the underworld and, some would say, goddess of death. In particular, this essay traces Hine-nui-te-pō's literary afterlife, focusing on formulaic descriptions oft her physiognomy from Te Rangikāheke's "Tama a Rangi" (an 1849 manuscript) through to K…
Is There a Polis in Euripides’ Medea
The polis is a dominant force in scholarship on Greek tragedy, including Euripides’ Medea . This paper addresses the question of whether there is, in fact, a polis (i.e. a Greek-style city-state) in the play. The polis proper does not often feature in tragedy. Euripides’ Corinth, like many urban centres in tragedy, is a generic palatial settlement ruled by a king. It is not a community of citizens. Creon is a non-constitutional absolute hereditar…
Perspectives on Violence in Euripides’ Bacchae
This paper examines the treatment of violence in Euripides’ Bacchae , particularly in spoken narrative. Bacchae is essentially a drama about violence, and the messenger-speeches establish a dialectic between spectacle and suffering as different conceptions of, and reactions to, violence. The ironic deployment of imagery and allusion, particularly concerning Pentheus’ body and head, presents violence as ambiguous. The exodos then provides a model …
Antipodean Antiquities: Classical Reception Down Under
"Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on…
What does Hine-nui-te-pō look like? A case study of oral tradition, myth and literature in Aotearoa New Zealand
This essay concerns Māui's famous, canonical encounter, known only from Aotearoa (New Zealand), with one of Māori myth's most important deities: Hine-nui-(i)-te-pō, 'Great lady of the night', queen of the underworld and, some would say, goddess of death. In particular, this essay traces Hine-nui-te-pō's literary afterlife, focusing on formulaic descriptions oft her physiognomy from Te Rangikāheke's "Tama a Rangi" (an 1849 manuscript) through to K…
Is There a Polis in Euripides’ Medea
The polis is a dominant force in scholarship on Greek tragedy, including Euripides’ Medea . This paper addresses the question of whether there is, in fact, a polis (i.e. a Greek-style city-state) in the play. The polis proper does not often feature in tragedy. Euripides’ Corinth, like many urban centres in tragedy, is a generic palatial settlement ruled by a king. It is not a community of citizens. Creon is a non-constitutional absolute hereditar…
Perspectives on Violence in Euripides’ Bacchae
This paper examines the treatment of violence in Euripides’ Bacchae , particularly in spoken narrative. Bacchae is essentially a drama about violence, and the messenger-speeches establish a dialectic between spectacle and suffering as different conceptions of, and reactions to, violence. The ironic deployment of imagery and allusion, particularly concerning Pentheus’ body and head, presents violence as ambiguous. The exodos then provides a model …
Perspectives on Violence in Euripides’ Bacchae
This paper examines the treatment of violence in Euripides’ Bacchae , particularly in spoken narrative. Bacchae is essentially a drama about violence, and the messenger-speeches establish a dialectic between spectacle and suffering as different conceptions of, and reactions to, violence. The ironic deployment of imagery and allusion, particularly concerning Pentheus’ body and head, presents violence as ambiguous. The exodos then provides a model …
Is There a Polis in Euripides’ Medea
The polis is a dominant force in scholarship on Greek tragedy, including Euripides’ Medea . This paper addresses the question of whether there is, in fact, a polis (i.e. a Greek-style city-state) in the play. The polis proper does not often feature in tragedy. Euripides’ Corinth, like many urban centres in tragedy, is a generic palatial settlement ruled by a king. It is not a community of citizens. Creon is a non-constitutional absolute hereditar…
What does Hine-nui-te-pō look like? A case study of oral tradition, myth and literature in Aotearoa New Zealand
This essay concerns Māui's famous, canonical encounter, known only from Aotearoa (New Zealand), with one of Māori myth's most important deities: Hine-nui-(i)-te-pō, 'Great lady of the night', queen of the underworld and, some would say, goddess of death. In particular, this essay traces Hine-nui-te-pō's literary afterlife, focusing on formulaic descriptions oft her physiognomy from Te Rangikāheke's "Tama a Rangi" (an 1849 manuscript) through to K…
The Classics in Modernist Translation
This volume sheds new light on a wealth of early 20th-century engagement with literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity that significantly shaped the work of anglophone literary modernism. The essays spotlight ‘translation’, a concept the modernists themselves used to reckon with the Classics and to denote a range of different kinds of reception – from more literal to more liberal translation work, as well as forms of what contemporary reception studi…
Antipodean Antiquities: Classical Reception Down Under
"Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on…
Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World
Why did ancient autocrats patronise theatre? How could ancient theatre – rightly supposed to be an artform that developed and flourished under democracy – serve their needs? Plato claimed that poets of tragic drama "drag states into tyranny and democracy". The word order is very deliberate: he goes on to say that tragic poets are honoured "especially by the tyrants, and secondly by the democracies" ( Republic 568c). For more than forty years scho…
Truth in the Late Foucault: Antiquity, Sexuality, and Psychoanalysis
The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his work on the ancient world and the early church. Each essay features a deep examination as to how the topics of truth and sexuality intersect with and focus on Foucault’s engagement with ancient philosophy and thought. Truth in the Late Foucault offers readings on Plato, Artemidorus, Cicero, Sophocles and the Stoics, and pays close atte…
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