Stephen E Kidd
Biographic Data
| ID | 5638412 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen E Kidd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen E |
| FAMILY NAME | Kidd |
| SIGNATURE | KIDD S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-8294-3152 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Platons tanzende Stadt
Play and Aesthetics in Ancient Greece
What is art's relationship to play? Those interested in this question tend to look to modern philosophy for answers, but, as this book shows, the question was already debated in antiquity by luminaries like Plato and Aristotle. Over the course of eight chapters, this book contextualizes those debates, and demonstrates their significance for theoretical problems today. Topics include the ancient child psychology at the root of the ancient Greek wo…
How to Gamble in Greek
Kubeia and its congeners are often translated as ‘playing dice’ or ‘dicing’ because kuboi are ‘dice’. But sometimes kubeia has nothing to do with ‘dice’ ( kuboi ) at all, and so ought often to be translated simply as ‘gambling’. Pollux explains the nature of the word clearly in book 7, and his position is supported by earlier authors such as Theopompus, Diphilus, Isocrates, Xenophon and Aeschines. Not only is it possible to ‘gamble’ ( kubeuein ) …
Nonsense’ in Comic Scholia
In 1968 E.K. Borthwick, with a brilliant conjecture, cleared up a passage from Aristophanes’ Peace that had been considered ‘nonsense’ since antiquity. ‘Bell goldfinch’ (κώδων ἀκαλανθίς) the line seemed to be saying: a jumbled idea at best, gibberish at worst (1078). The scholium reads ad loc.: ταῦτα δὲ πάντα ἐπίτηδες ἀδιανοήτως ἔφρασεν, ‘all this is said as deliberate nonsense’, and later scholars generally follow suit (W.W. Merry, for example, …
Epitasis and Anesis in Aristotle, De caelo 2.6
De caelo 2.6 describes irregular motion differently from the discussion at Physics 5.4. The desire to make the one discussion congrue with the other has strained interpretation of the De caelo passage. Aristotle provides a theory of irregular motion that is tripartite and the passage ought to be interpreted in such a way as to explain this tripartite motion. Akmē is not a ‘top speed’ as it is generally translated, but a point in an object’s motio…
The Comedian as Critic
Reviewed by: The Comedian as Critic: Greek Old Comedy and Poetics by Matthew Wright Stephen Kidd Matthew Wright. The Comedian as Critic: Greek Old Comedy and Poetics. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2012. Pp. xi, 238. $120.00. ISBN 978–1–7809–3029–9. This book argues that old comedy engaged in literary criticism. This fairly reasonable assertion (Frogs, after all, tends to be standard reading for ancient literary theory courses) is supported by …
Greek Laughter. A Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity
Laughter Interjections in Greek Comedy
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Greek Laughter. A Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity
Laughter Interjections in Greek Comedy
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The Comedian as Critic
Reviewed by: The Comedian as Critic: Greek Old Comedy and Poetics by Matthew Wright Stephen Kidd Matthew Wright. The Comedian as Critic: Greek Old Comedy and Poetics. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2012. Pp. xi, 238. $120.00. ISBN 978–1–7809–3029–9. This book argues that old comedy engaged in literary criticism. This fairly reasonable assertion (Frogs, after all, tends to be standard reading for ancient literary theory courses) is supported by …
Epitasis and Anesis in Aristotle, De caelo 2.6
De caelo 2.6 describes irregular motion differently from the discussion at Physics 5.4. The desire to make the one discussion congrue with the other has strained interpretation of the De caelo passage. Aristotle provides a theory of irregular motion that is tripartite and the passage ought to be interpreted in such a way as to explain this tripartite motion. Akmē is not a ‘top speed’ as it is generally translated, but a point in an object’s motio…
How to Gamble in Greek
Kubeia and its congeners are often translated as ‘playing dice’ or ‘dicing’ because kuboi are ‘dice’. But sometimes kubeia has nothing to do with ‘dice’ ( kuboi ) at all, and so ought often to be translated simply as ‘gambling’. Pollux explains the nature of the word clearly in book 7, and his position is supported by earlier authors such as Theopompus, Diphilus, Isocrates, Xenophon and Aeschines. Not only is it possible to ‘gamble’ ( kubeuein ) …
Nonsense’ in Comic Scholia
In 1968 E.K. Borthwick, with a brilliant conjecture, cleared up a passage from Aristophanes’ Peace that had been considered ‘nonsense’ since antiquity. ‘Bell goldfinch’ (κώδων ἀκαλανθίς) the line seemed to be saying: a jumbled idea at best, gibberish at worst (1078). The scholium reads ad loc.: ταῦτα δὲ πάντα ἐπίτηδες ἀδιανοήτως ἔφρασεν, ‘all this is said as deliberate nonsense’, and later scholars generally follow suit (W.W. Merry, for example, …
Play and Aesthetics in Ancient Greece
What is art's relationship to play? Those interested in this question tend to look to modern philosophy for answers, but, as this book shows, the question was already debated in antiquity by luminaries like Plato and Aristotle. Over the course of eight chapters, this book contextualizes those debates, and demonstrates their significance for theoretical problems today. Topics include the ancient child psychology at the root of the ancient Greek wo…
Platons tanzende Stadt
Art (6 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (3 works) · History (3 works) · Laughter (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works)