Bill Beck
Biographic Data
| ID | 5644254 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bill Beck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bill |
| FAMILY NAME | Beck |
| SIGNATURE | BECK B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4071-1520 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
On the Attribution and Interpretation of the AbT-scholion to Iliad 2.87
The AbT-scholion to Il. 2.87 addresses the transfusion of metaphor that occurs in the first extended simile of the Iliad , when the narrator compares the ‘tribes’ ( ἔθνεα ) of Achaians to ‘tribes’ ( ἔθνεα ) of bees, thereby describing the vehicle in language more appropriate for the tenor. In his edition of the scholia vetera to the Iliad , Hartmut Erbse attributes the first sentence of this scholion to Aristonicus. This article challenges Erbse’…
How Did Homer's Troilus Die
This article examines ancient depictions of the death of Troilus in art and literature and challenges the widespread belief that the Iliad implies an alternative version of the myth in which Troilus dies in battle. In particular, it argues that the death-in-battle interpretation is both insufficiently supported by the internal evidence and incompatible with the external evidence. Given the evident popularity of the story of Achilles’ ambush of Tr…
The Ethics of Revenge and the Meanings of the “Odyssey.” By Alexander C. Loney. Oxford and New York
Doorways and Diegesis
This article argues that the difficulties that characters in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses experience at doorways symbolize, and often coincide with, the difficulties that readers experience in their attempts to negotiate the novel’s diegetic boundaries. Part 1 argues that the extensive overlap between the novel’s characters—in particular, Lucius, Aristomenes, Socrates, and Thelyphron, the sources of the novel’s first four extended narratives—complicat…
Reading for Achilles in the bT-Scholia to the Iliad
In a comment on the first line of the Iliad, the late antique1 redactor of the bT-scholia (hereinafter ‘the bT-critic’ or simply ‘the critic’2 records a zētēma: why did Homer not name his epic after its most prominent hero? πάλιν ζητεῖται, διὰ τί Ἀχιλλέως ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πλεῖστον ἀριστεύοντος οὐκ Ἀχίλλειαν ὡς Ὀδύσσειαν ἐπέγραψε τὸ σωμάτιον. φαμὲν δ’ ὅτι ἐκεῖ μέν, ἅτε μόνως ἐφ’ ἑνὸς ἥρωος τοῦ λόγου πλακέντος, καλῶς καὶ τοὔνομα τέθειται, ἐνταῦθα δέ, εἰ κ…
Reassessing the Scholiastic Evidence for the Cretan Odyssey Theory
This article discusses a pair of textual variants, preserved by the scholia to the Odyssey and attributed to Zenodotus of Ephesus, that constitute the most significant pieces of evidence for the Cretan Odyssey theory. While the communis opinio holds that these variants cannot be explained as conjectures, and must therefore have been based on manuscript evidence, this article proposes a new interpretation of the evidence, and argues that Aristonic…
Lost in the Middle
A perceived lack of causal continuity has long been a problem for readers of the Iliad. Events that must, for the sake of plot, be understood as causally linked are often separated by thousands of lines that obscure the relationship between them. I argue that the narrator manipulates the representation of time in such a way as to emphasize the disjunction, rather than the continuity, between cause and effect in plot-significant events, thereby hi…
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Lost in the Middle
A perceived lack of causal continuity has long been a problem for readers of the Iliad. Events that must, for the sake of plot, be understood as causally linked are often separated by thousands of lines that obscure the relationship between them. I argue that the narrator manipulates the representation of time in such a way as to emphasize the disjunction, rather than the continuity, between cause and effect in plot-significant events, thereby hi…
Reassessing the Scholiastic Evidence for the Cretan Odyssey Theory
This article discusses a pair of textual variants, preserved by the scholia to the Odyssey and attributed to Zenodotus of Ephesus, that constitute the most significant pieces of evidence for the Cretan Odyssey theory. While the communis opinio holds that these variants cannot be explained as conjectures, and must therefore have been based on manuscript evidence, this article proposes a new interpretation of the evidence, and argues that Aristonic…
Reading for Achilles in the bT-Scholia to the Iliad
In a comment on the first line of the Iliad, the late antique1 redactor of the bT-scholia (hereinafter ‘the bT-critic’ or simply ‘the critic’2 records a zētēma: why did Homer not name his epic after its most prominent hero? πάλιν ζητεῖται, διὰ τί Ἀχιλλέως ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πλεῖστον ἀριστεύοντος οὐκ Ἀχίλλειαν ὡς Ὀδύσσειαν ἐπέγραψε τὸ σωμάτιον. φαμὲν δ’ ὅτι ἐκεῖ μέν, ἅτε μόνως ἐφ’ ἑνὸς ἥρωος τοῦ λόγου πλακέντος, καλῶς καὶ τοὔνομα τέθειται, ἐνταῦθα δέ, εἰ κ…
The Ethics of Revenge and the Meanings of the “Odyssey.” By Alexander C. Loney. Oxford and New York
Doorways and Diegesis
This article argues that the difficulties that characters in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses experience at doorways symbolize, and often coincide with, the difficulties that readers experience in their attempts to negotiate the novel’s diegetic boundaries. Part 1 argues that the extensive overlap between the novel’s characters—in particular, Lucius, Aristomenes, Socrates, and Thelyphron, the sources of the novel’s first four extended narratives—complicat…
How Did Homer's Troilus Die
This article examines ancient depictions of the death of Troilus in art and literature and challenges the widespread belief that the Iliad implies an alternative version of the myth in which Troilus dies in battle. In particular, it argues that the death-in-battle interpretation is both insufficiently supported by the internal evidence and incompatible with the external evidence. Given the evident popularity of the story of Achilles’ ambush of Tr…
On the Attribution and Interpretation of the AbT-scholion to Iliad 2.87
The AbT-scholion to Il. 2.87 addresses the transfusion of metaphor that occurs in the first extended simile of the Iliad , when the narrator compares the ‘tribes’ ( ἔθνεα ) of Achaians to ‘tribes’ ( ἔθνεα ) of bees, thereby describing the vehicle in language more appropriate for the tenor. In his edition of the scholia vetera to the Iliad , Hartmut Erbse attributes the first sentence of this scholion to Aristonicus. This article challenges Erbse’…
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