Bronwen L Wickkiser
Biographic Data
| ID | 5657428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bronwen L Wickkiser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bronwen L |
| FAMILY NAME | Wickkiser |
| SIGNATURE | WICKKISER B L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wabash College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Laomedon, Hesione, and the Sea-Monster
A generation before the famous Trojan War, a sea-monster threatened Troy. King Laomedon, father of Priam, exposed his daughter Hesione to the creature in order to avert destruction. Heracles, who happened to be sailing by, made a deal with the king: he’d save the daughter in return for the king’s immortal horses. Heracles valiantly fought the monster and saved Hesione, but Laomedon reneged on the agreement, so Heracles stormed and conquered Troy.…
Cupid’s Arrows: Lead, Gold, Magic and Medicine in Ovid, Met. 1.452-567
Ovid’s narrative of Apollo and Daphne introduces elements not apparent in earlier extant versions of the myth, such as the involvement of Cupid and his deployment of two distinct arrows, one golden that sets Apollo’s passions aflame, and the other lead that makes Daphne averse to all male advances. The passion-averting arrow in particular is a curious addition to Cupid’s arsenal. This paper will argue that the lead arrow can be better understood …
Asklepios, Medicine, and the Politics of Healing in Fifth-Century Greece: Between Craft and Cult
Delving deeply into ancient medical history, Bronwen L. Wickkiser explores the early development and later spread of the cult of Asklepios, one of the most popular healing gods in the ancient Mediterranean. Though Asklepios had been known as a healer since the time of Homer, evidence suggests that large numbers of people began to flock to the cult during the fifth century BCE, just as practitioners of Hippocratic medicine were gaining dominance. …
The Iamatika of the Milan Posidippus
The ἰαματικά, a collection of seven short epigrams about healing grouped together and so labelled in the Milan papyrus attributed to Posidippus, present another useful source of information about the cult and cures of Asclepius (AB 95–101; P Mil. Vogl . VIII 309, XIV.30–XV.22). Brief though the epigrams are (all are four lines in length except the first, which is eight lines), they accord well with the picture of the cult presented by material, e…
Chapter Three. Asklepios In Greek And Roman Corinth
A modern visitor to Corinth might notice a prominent base standing in the southeastern sector of the lower Forum. This chapter examines Roman municipal monument-making via the commissions of the Augustales, self-identifying municipal groups found during the first three centuries CE. While Augustales are considered a 'typically Roman' feature of Corinth, the base they commissioned was anything but typical. Its idiosyncrasies emerge clearly when it…
Asklepios In Greek And Roman Corinth
This volume is the product of an interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Texas at Austin. Specialists in the study of inscriptions, architecture, sculpture, coins, tombs, pottery, and texts collaborate to produce new portraits of religion and society in the ancient city of Corinth. The studies focus on groups like the early Roman colonists, the Augustales (priests of Augustus), or the Pauline house churches; on specific cults such …
Missing Stones Speak: The New Acropolis Museum and the Mysterious Case of Vanished Athenian Imperialism
Missing Stones Speak: The New Acropolis Museum and the Mysterious Case ofVanished Athenian Imperialism BRONWEN L.WICKKISER I visited the new Acropolis Museum for the first time in January 2010, just after returning to Athens to spend part of a sabbatical inGreece. Iwas not disappointed: themuseum is an exciting and dynamic space. The soaring ceilings, rooms flooded with sunlight, and thewide, central stairways and escalators suggest the experienc…
Communicating with the Gods in Ancient Greece: The Design and Functions of the ‘Thymele’ at Epidauros
Hesiod and the Fabricated Woman: Poetry and Visual Art in the Theogony
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Asklepios, Medicine, and the Politics of Healing in Fifth-Century Greece
Chronicles of Chronic Cases and Tools of the Trade at Asklepieia
Asklepios, Medicine, and the Politics of Healing in Fifth-Century Greece: Between Craft and Cult
Delving deeply into ancient medical history, Bronwen L. Wickkiser explores the early development and later spread of the cult of Asklepios, one of the most popular healing gods in the ancient Mediterranean. Though Asklepios had been known as a healer since the time of Homer, evidence suggests that large numbers of people began to flock to the cult during the fifth century BCE, just as practitioners of Hippocratic medicine were gaining dominance. …
The Iamatika of the Milan Posidippus
The ἰαματικά, a collection of seven short epigrams about healing grouped together and so labelled in the Milan papyrus attributed to Posidippus, present another useful source of information about the cult and cures of Asclepius (AB 95–101; P Mil. Vogl . VIII 309, XIV.30–XV.22). Brief though the epigrams are (all are four lines in length except the first, which is eight lines), they accord well with the picture of the cult presented by material, e…
Missing Stones Speak: The New Acropolis Museum and the Mysterious Case of Vanished Athenian Imperialism
Missing Stones Speak: The New Acropolis Museum and the Mysterious Case ofVanished Athenian Imperialism BRONWEN L.WICKKISER I visited the new Acropolis Museum for the first time in January 2010, just after returning to Athens to spend part of a sabbatical inGreece. Iwas not disappointed: themuseum is an exciting and dynamic space. The soaring ceilings, rooms flooded with sunlight, and thewide, central stairways and escalators suggest the experienc…
Communicating with the Gods in Ancient Greece: The Design and Functions of the ‘Thymele’ at Epidauros
Hesiod and the Fabricated Woman: Poetry and Visual Art in the Theogony
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Chronicles of Chronic Cases and Tools of the Trade at Asklepieia
Asklepios, Medicine, and the Politics of Healing in Fifth-Century Greece
Asklepios In Greek And Roman Corinth
This volume is the product of an interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Texas at Austin. Specialists in the study of inscriptions, architecture, sculpture, coins, tombs, pottery, and texts collaborate to produce new portraits of religion and society in the ancient city of Corinth. The studies focus on groups like the early Roman colonists, the Augustales (priests of Augustus), or the Pauline house churches; on specific cults such …
Missing Stones Speak: The New Acropolis Museum and the Mysterious Case of Vanished Athenian Imperialism
Missing Stones Speak: The New Acropolis Museum and the Mysterious Case ofVanished Athenian Imperialism BRONWEN L.WICKKISER I visited the new Acropolis Museum for the first time in January 2010, just after returning to Athens to spend part of a sabbatical inGreece. Iwas not disappointed: themuseum is an exciting and dynamic space. The soaring ceilings, rooms flooded with sunlight, and thewide, central stairways and escalators suggest the experienc…
Communicating with the Gods in Ancient Greece: The Design and Functions of the ‘Thymele’ at Epidauros
Hesiod and the Fabricated Woman: Poetry and Visual Art in the Theogony
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Chapter Three. Asklepios In Greek And Roman Corinth
A modern visitor to Corinth might notice a prominent base standing in the southeastern sector of the lower Forum. This chapter examines Roman municipal monument-making via the commissions of the Augustales, self-identifying municipal groups found during the first three centuries CE. While Augustales are considered a 'typically Roman' feature of Corinth, the base they commissioned was anything but typical. Its idiosyncrasies emerge clearly when it…
The Iamatika of the Milan Posidippus
The ἰαματικά, a collection of seven short epigrams about healing grouped together and so labelled in the Milan papyrus attributed to Posidippus, present another useful source of information about the cult and cures of Asclepius (AB 95–101; P Mil. Vogl . VIII 309, XIV.30–XV.22). Brief though the epigrams are (all are four lines in length except the first, which is eight lines), they accord well with the picture of the cult presented by material, e…
Asklepios, Medicine, and the Politics of Healing in Fifth-Century Greece: Between Craft and Cult
Delving deeply into ancient medical history, Bronwen L. Wickkiser explores the early development and later spread of the cult of Asklepios, one of the most popular healing gods in the ancient Mediterranean. Though Asklepios had been known as a healer since the time of Homer, evidence suggests that large numbers of people began to flock to the cult during the fifth century BCE, just as practitioners of Hippocratic medicine were gaining dominance. …
Cupid’s Arrows: Lead, Gold, Magic and Medicine in Ovid, Met. 1.452-567
Ovid’s narrative of Apollo and Daphne introduces elements not apparent in earlier extant versions of the myth, such as the involvement of Cupid and his deployment of two distinct arrows, one golden that sets Apollo’s passions aflame, and the other lead that makes Daphne averse to all male advances. The passion-averting arrow in particular is a curious addition to Cupid’s arsenal. This paper will argue that the lead arrow can be better understood …
Laomedon, Hesione, and the Sea-Monster
A generation before the famous Trojan War, a sea-monster threatened Troy. King Laomedon, father of Priam, exposed his daughter Hesione to the creature in order to avert destruction. Heracles, who happened to be sailing by, made a deal with the king: he’d save the daughter in return for the king’s immortal horses. Heracles valiantly fought the monster and saved Hesione, but Laomedon reneged on the agreement, so Heracles stormed and conquered Troy.…
Classical Antiquity Studies (10 works) · History (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Law (3 works)