Bret Mulligan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5665607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bret Mulligan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bret |
| FAMILY NAME | Mulligan |
| SIGNATURE | MULLIGAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Haverford College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7593-6917 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Robert Germany
Robert Germany Bret Mulligan and Deborah Roberts Robert Germany, Associate Professor of Classics at Haverford College, died suddenly on March 7, 2017, a devastating loss to his family, friends, colleagues, and students. Robert was born on November 8, 1974 in Corpus Christi, Texas. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Texas at Austin, graduating with highest honors, with a major in classics and minors in German and mathematics. He th…
Gout, Beasts, and Other Metaphorical Punishments in ap 11.226-231
The reference to retributive gout in 11.229 serves as a semiotic hinge between two sets of interdependent poems in what may be a coherent Ammianic sequence ( ap 11.226-231). Ammianos’ approval of gout as a just punishment in 11.229 establishes themes of retribution and somatic torment that are elaborated in 11.230-231, riddling epigrams that express the hope that their target will endure repeated execution on the cross (11.230) and then in the ar…
Infusing Theory into the Undergraduate Classics Curriculum: Examples from Haverford College’s Senior Seminar, Translation and Transformation, and History of Literary Theory
This article describes three courses at Haverford College in which theory is the object of attention: Translation and Transformation: Theory and Practice; History of Literary Theory: Plato to Shelley; and Senior Seminar. In the last of these, students survey a range of theoretical approaches in relation to classical literature and are thus encouraged to develop senior theses that are more sophisticated in their awareness and use of method. The th…
Bad Scorpion: Cacemphaton and Poetics in Martial's Ligurinus-Cycle
A bilingual cacemphaton in Martial 3.44 allows the author to blur the categories of chaste and obscene language, furnishing a moment of ribald humor in a section of book 3 that Martial claims is free from Latin obscenity. The cacemphaton recasts an unusual reference to a scorpion as a more familiar socio-sexual threat: the σκῶρ-πέος of a pedicator . It risks charging the epigram's mundane activities with erotic significance and contributes to a n…
Ερς Argus: Bilingual Wordplay in Statius Silvae 5.4.11-13
Αρα Introducing Direct Speech in Herodotus
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
The Poet from Egypt? Reconsidering Claudian's Eastern Origin
In a recent article, P.G. Christiansen (1997) has strenuously questioned the communis opinio that Claudian was an immigrant from the Greek-speaking eastern Empire. Although Christiansen injects a healthy skepticism into the debate about Claudian's biography, his arguments in favor of Claudian being a native Latin speaker are flawed or unpersuasive. The only relevant external evidence indicates that in the centuries after Claudian's death he was c…
An Allusion to Ovid in Claudian’s Carmina Minora 22.56
The Poet from Egypt? Reconsidering Claudian's Eastern Origin
In a recent article, P.G. Christiansen (1997) has strenuously questioned the communis opinio that Claudian was an immigrant from the Greek-speaking eastern Empire. Although Christiansen injects a healthy skepticism into the debate about Claudian's biography, his arguments in favor of Claudian being a native Latin speaker are flawed or unpersuasive. The only relevant external evidence indicates that in the centuries after Claudian's death he was c…
An Allusion to Ovid in Claudian’s Carmina Minora 22.56
Αρα Introducing Direct Speech in Herodotus
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
The Poet from Egypt? Reconsidering Claudian's Eastern Origin
In a recent article, P.G. Christiansen (1997) has strenuously questioned the communis opinio that Claudian was an immigrant from the Greek-speaking eastern Empire. Although Christiansen injects a healthy skepticism into the debate about Claudian's biography, his arguments in favor of Claudian being a native Latin speaker are flawed or unpersuasive. The only relevant external evidence indicates that in the centuries after Claudian's death he was c…
Ερς Argus: Bilingual Wordplay in Statius Silvae 5.4.11-13
Bad Scorpion: Cacemphaton and Poetics in Martial's Ligurinus-Cycle
A bilingual cacemphaton in Martial 3.44 allows the author to blur the categories of chaste and obscene language, furnishing a moment of ribald humor in a section of book 3 that Martial claims is free from Latin obscenity. The cacemphaton recasts an unusual reference to a scorpion as a more familiar socio-sexual threat: the σκῶρ-πέος of a pedicator . It risks charging the epigram's mundane activities with erotic significance and contributes to a n…
Gout, Beasts, and Other Metaphorical Punishments in ap 11.226-231
The reference to retributive gout in 11.229 serves as a semiotic hinge between two sets of interdependent poems in what may be a coherent Ammianic sequence ( ap 11.226-231). Ammianos’ approval of gout as a just punishment in 11.229 establishes themes of retribution and somatic torment that are elaborated in 11.230-231, riddling epigrams that express the hope that their target will endure repeated execution on the cross (11.230) and then in the ar…
Infusing Theory into the Undergraduate Classics Curriculum: Examples from Haverford College’s Senior Seminar, Translation and Transformation, and History of Literary Theory
This article describes three courses at Haverford College in which theory is the object of attention: Translation and Transformation: Theory and Practice; History of Literary Theory: Plato to Shelley; and Senior Seminar. In the last of these, students survey a range of theoretical approaches in relation to classical literature and are thus encouraged to develop senior theses that are more sophisticated in their awareness and use of method. The th…
Robert Germany
Robert Germany Bret Mulligan and Deborah Roberts Robert Germany, Associate Professor of Classics at Haverford College, died suddenly on March 7, 2017, a devastating loss to his family, friends, colleagues, and students. Robert was born on November 8, 1974 in Corpus Christi, Texas. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Texas at Austin, graduating with highest honors, with a major in classics and minors in German and mathematics. He th…
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