C B R Pelling
Biographic Data
| ID | 5659818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C B R Pelling |
| GIVEN NAMES | C B R |
| FAMILY NAME | Pelling |
| SIGNATURE | PELLING C B R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College, Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Plutarch Caesar
"Plutarch's Life of Caesar deals with the best known Roman of them all, Julius Caesar, and his vivid narrative covers most of the major events of the last generation of the Republic, as well as painting an insightful picture of this man who sacrificed everything for power. Pelling's volume gives a new translation of the Life together with a full introduction and running commentary on the events it describes. Culminating in the crossing of the Rub…
Ancient Historiography and its Contexts
This volume collects essays written by colleagues and friends as a tribute to Tony Woodman, Gildersleeve Professor of Latin at the University of Virginia. These essays, like Woodman's own work, cover topics in Latin poetry, oratory, and Greek and Roman historiography. Recurrent themes are the importance of rhetoric and rhetorical training, the skilful use of language and recurrent motifs in narrative, the use and adaptation of topoi, the importan…
Characterization and Individuality in Greek Literature
The Greeks discovered the individual, it is said, but in what sense is this true? Characters in Greek literature may often seem strangely different from their modern counterparts: less idiosyncratic, less real, and with less psychological depth or interest. Personality traits seems to cluster more predictably in the characters of Greek authors than of those today. Despite the wide-ranging scope of this aspect of Greek literature, most previous di…
Plutarch and Thucydides
It is time for me to appeal to the reader for indulgence, as I treat the events that Thucydides has already handled incomparably: in this part of his narrative he was indeed at his most emotional, vivid, and varied. But do not assume that I am as vain as Timaeus, who thought that he would outdo Thucydides in brilliance and show Philistus to be totally vulgar and amateurish...Of course, it is not possible to omit the events treated by Thucydides a…
Greek tragedy and the historian
The tragic theatre was no mere diversion for a fifth-century Athenian: it was a focal part of the experience of being a citizen. Tragedy explores fundamental issues of religion, of ethics, of civic ideology, and we should expect it to be a central source for the reconstruction and analysis of the Athenian thought-world. Yet it is also a peculiarly delicate source to use, and the combination of tragic with other material often poses particular pro…
Ethics and Rhetoric
Donald Russell, Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature at the University of Oxford, has been a leading figure in several fields of classical scholarship over the last few decades. The present volume collects essays written in his honour by scholars who have all worked closely with him. They fall into three sections, corresponding to Donald Russell's main work: Latin literature, Greek imperial literature, and ancient literary criticism. They a…
Thucydides‘ Archidamus and Herodotus’ Artabanus
Journal Article THUCYDIDES‘ ARCHIDAMUS AND HERODOTUS’ ARTABANUS Get access C. B. R. PELLING C. B. R. PELLING University College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 37, Issue Supplement_58, January 1991, Pages 120–142, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1991.tb02208.x Published: 22 February 2011
Plutarch
Puppes Sinistrorsum Citae
Nisbet and Kraggerud make good cases for taking the ninth Epode as a dramatic recreation of the Actium campaign. Horace begins in fearful anticipation; then the crisis comes, first on land and then on sea; Antony turns to flight; and — even though some danger remains, and there is metus as well as joy at the end of the poem — the celebrations can finally begin. On this reading there remains the familiar problem of vv. 17–20: at huc frementes uert…
Plutarch, Alexander and Caesar
Niebuhr saw that several paragraphs had been lost from the beginning of the Caesar ; Ziegler suggested that the lacuna extended to the end of the Alexander . Both hypotheses are confirmed, if the identification of two new fragments is admitted. At 10. 11 p. 368, Zonaras is epitomizing the text of Caes .; he recounts the Story of Caes . 60. 3 , and continues: Editors leave the provenance of the passage unspecified: ‘addita sunt pauca de nomine Cae…
Ancient Historiography and its Contexts
This volume collects essays written by colleagues and friends as a tribute to Tony Woodman, Gildersleeve Professor of Latin at the University of Virginia. These essays, like Woodman's own work, cover topics in Latin poetry, oratory, and Greek and Roman historiography. Recurrent themes are the importance of rhetoric and rhetorical training, the skilful use of language and recurrent motifs in narrative, the use and adaptation of topoi, the importan…
Thucydides‘ Archidamus and Herodotus’ Artabanus
Journal Article THUCYDIDES‘ ARCHIDAMUS AND HERODOTUS’ ARTABANUS Get access C. B. R. PELLING C. B. R. PELLING University College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 37, Issue Supplement_58, January 1991, Pages 120–142, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1991.tb02208.x Published: 22 February 2011
Puppes Sinistrorsum Citae
Nisbet and Kraggerud make good cases for taking the ninth Epode as a dramatic recreation of the Actium campaign. Horace begins in fearful anticipation; then the crisis comes, first on land and then on sea; Antony turns to flight; and — even though some danger remains, and there is metus as well as joy at the end of the poem — the celebrations can finally begin. On this reading there remains the familiar problem of vv. 17–20: at huc frementes uert…
Plutarch, Alexander and Caesar
Niebuhr saw that several paragraphs had been lost from the beginning of the Caesar ; Ziegler suggested that the lacuna extended to the end of the Alexander . Both hypotheses are confirmed, if the identification of two new fragments is admitted. At 10. 11 p. 368, Zonaras is epitomizing the text of Caes .; he recounts the Story of Caes . 60. 3 , and continues: Editors leave the provenance of the passage unspecified: ‘addita sunt pauca de nomine Cae…
Plutarch, Alexander and Caesar
Niebuhr saw that several paragraphs had been lost from the beginning of the Caesar ; Ziegler suggested that the lacuna extended to the end of the Alexander . Both hypotheses are confirmed, if the identification of two new fragments is admitted. At 10. 11 p. 368, Zonaras is epitomizing the text of Caes .; he recounts the Story of Caes . 60. 3 , and continues: Editors leave the provenance of the passage unspecified: ‘addita sunt pauca de nomine Cae…
Puppes Sinistrorsum Citae
Nisbet and Kraggerud make good cases for taking the ninth Epode as a dramatic recreation of the Actium campaign. Horace begins in fearful anticipation; then the crisis comes, first on land and then on sea; Antony turns to flight; and — even though some danger remains, and there is metus as well as joy at the end of the poem — the celebrations can finally begin. On this reading there remains the familiar problem of vv. 17–20: at huc frementes uert…
Plutarch
Thucydides‘ Archidamus and Herodotus’ Artabanus
Journal Article THUCYDIDES‘ ARCHIDAMUS AND HERODOTUS’ ARTABANUS Get access C. B. R. PELLING C. B. R. PELLING University College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 37, Issue Supplement_58, January 1991, Pages 120–142, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1991.tb02208.x Published: 22 February 2011
Ethics and Rhetoric
Donald Russell, Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature at the University of Oxford, has been a leading figure in several fields of classical scholarship over the last few decades. The present volume collects essays written in his honour by scholars who have all worked closely with him. They fall into three sections, corresponding to Donald Russell's main work: Latin literature, Greek imperial literature, and ancient literary criticism. They a…
Greek tragedy and the historian
The tragic theatre was no mere diversion for a fifth-century Athenian: it was a focal part of the experience of being a citizen. Tragedy explores fundamental issues of religion, of ethics, of civic ideology, and we should expect it to be a central source for the reconstruction and analysis of the Athenian thought-world. Yet it is also a peculiarly delicate source to use, and the combination of tragic with other material often poses particular pro…
Plutarch and Thucydides
It is time for me to appeal to the reader for indulgence, as I treat the events that Thucydides has already handled incomparably: in this part of his narrative he was indeed at his most emotional, vivid, and varied. But do not assume that I am as vain as Timaeus, who thought that he would outdo Thucydides in brilliance and show Philistus to be totally vulgar and amateurish...Of course, it is not possible to omit the events treated by Thucydides a…
Characterization and Individuality in Greek Literature
The Greeks discovered the individual, it is said, but in what sense is this true? Characters in Greek literature may often seem strangely different from their modern counterparts: less idiosyncratic, less real, and with less psychological depth or interest. Personality traits seems to cluster more predictably in the characters of Greek authors than of those today. Despite the wide-ranging scope of this aspect of Greek literature, most previous di…
Ancient Historiography and its Contexts
This volume collects essays written by colleagues and friends as a tribute to Tony Woodman, Gildersleeve Professor of Latin at the University of Virginia. These essays, like Woodman's own work, cover topics in Latin poetry, oratory, and Greek and Roman historiography. Recurrent themes are the importance of rhetoric and rhetorical training, the skilful use of language and recurrent motifs in narrative, the use and adaptation of topoi, the importan…
Plutarch Caesar
"Plutarch's Life of Caesar deals with the best known Roman of them all, Julius Caesar, and his vivid narrative covers most of the major events of the last generation of the Republic, as well as painting an insightful picture of this man who sacrificed everything for power. Pelling's volume gives a new translation of the Life together with a full introduction and running commentary on the events it describes. Culminating in the crossing of the Rub…
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