P J FINGLASS
Biographic Data
| ID | 5716762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P J FINGLASS |
| GIVEN NAMES | P J |
| FAMILY NAME | FINGLASS |
| SIGNATURE | FINGLASS P J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of ClassicsUniversity of NottinghamUniversity Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RDEngland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Which Was Sappho’s Best-Known Poem in Antiquity
This article considers the propositions, recently advanced in this journal, that Sappho fr. 1 was “the most widely quoted poem by the Lesbian poets in antiquity, and by far Sappho’s best-known work”. Arguing that the evidence tells against both these claims, the article compares fr. 1 with two other well attested works by Sappho. It builds a nuanced picture of their relative popularity, drawing on all the available evidence, before by way of conc…
Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese
The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
No ancient poet has a wider following today than Sappho; her status as the most famous woman poet from Greco-Roman antiquity, and as one of the most prominent lesbian voices in history, has ensured a continuing fascination with her work down the centuries. The Cambridge Companion to Sappho provides an up-to-date survey of this remarkable, inspiring, and mysterious Greek writer, whose poetic corpus has been significantly expanded in recent years t…
Cambridge Companion to Sappho
Labor X
This chapter examines the sources for Heracles’ tenth Labor, the killing of the three-headed Geryon and the stealing of his cattle. Beginning with Hesiod, it analyzes Stesichorus’ take on the myth with its surprisingly sympathetic portrayal of Geryon, whose home Stesichorus placed in southern Spain; the striking depictions of the clash in archaic Greek art; the accounts offered by the mythographers; and the assertions of settlements such as Sagun…
Brill's Companion to Euripides (2 vols)
The City Dionysia at Athens saw ninety new tragedies, plus thirty new satyr plays, every decade. Still more tragedies were performed at the Lenaea, also a city festival, and at the Rural Dionysia in the demes. Venues for tragedy outside Attica featured already in the fifth century, and with increasing importance in the fourth and beyond. The total number of tragedies and satyr plays composed for performance at Greek festivals in antiquity is like…
Suffering in Silence
This chapter focuses on women who have themselves been the object of violence and who are linked by the theme of silence. The episode in Trachiniae in which Deianira is struck by the appearance of Iole has long been compared to the scene between Clytemnestra and Cassandra in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: in both cases, a silent woman, a target of male sexual lust, arrives at the home of her new master and is met by his wife. The chapter highlights the re…
Phaedra between Homer and Sophocles
This chapter gathers all the evidence for Phaedra from between the Odyssey and Sophocles, evidence largely neglected in modern scholarship. It goes on to investigate the consequences of some of that neglected evidence (namely Stesichorus) for the idea that the references to Athenian myth in the Odyssey imply an Athenian context for the early transmission, or even composition, of that poem, and argues that Athenian myth was becoming part of panhel…
Female Characters in Fragmentary Greek Tragedy
How were women represented in Greek tragedy? This question lies at the heart of much modern scholarship on ancient drama, yet it has typically been approached using evidence drawn only from the thirty-two tragedies that survive complete - neglecting tragic fragments, especially those recently discovered and often very substantial fragmentary papyri from plays that had been thought lost. Drawing on the latest research on both gender in tragedy and…
Gazing at Helen with Stesichorus
Sophocles
For centuries the myth of Oedipus, the man who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother, has exerted a powerful hold on the human imagination; but no retelling of that myth has ever come close, in passion, drama, and menace to the one that we find in Sophocles' Oedipus the King. This new full-scale edition of that classic play - the first in any language since 1883 - offers a freshly constituted text based on consultation of manuscrip…
Electra
The start of Sophocles' Electra sees the return of Orestes to his native Mycenae, accompanied by his faithful slave, the Paedagogus.Years before, Orestes' mother, Clytemnestra, together with her lover, Aegisthus, had killed his father, Agamemnon, on his return from the Trojan War; the young Orestes was spirited away to friends in Phocis by his elder sister, Electra.Now he has returned, ordered by Apollo to avenge by stealth his father's murder.He…
Stesichorus, master of narrative
Stesichorus’ long mythological narratives offered great scope to the poet to develop plots, characters, and themes beyond what would have been possible in shorter works. These lengthy lyrics also required considerable planning and organisation on the part of the poet, in order to prevent them from becoming diff use or meandering. They thus offer us a particular opportunity to assess and appreciate Stesichorus’ poetic technique. In a discussion of…
Stesichorus in Context
The sixth-century BC Greek poet Stesichorus was highly esteemed in antiquity; but by about AD 400 his works had been almost completely lost. Over recent decades, however, the recovery of substantial portions of his poetry has enabled a reassessment of his significance. These essays by leading scholars analyse different aspects of his oeuvre: the relationship between Stesichorus and epic, particularly his response to the Homeric poems; his narrati…
Sophocles Philoctetes 671-673
Sophocles
Sophocles' Ajax describes the fall of a mighty warrior denied the honour which he believed was his due. This edition of the play presents a text and critical apparatus which take full advantage of advances in our understanding of Sophoclean manuscripts and scholarship. The introduction and commentary scrutinise all important aspects of the drama - from detailed analysis of style, language, and metre to consideration of wider issues such as ethics…
Sophocles’ Theseus
SOPHOCLES' THESEUSDid Greek tragedy show 'increased responsiveness to the pressing social and political issues of the day to the benefit of the polis' in the final stages of the Peloponnesian War, after the Athenian defeat in Sicily in 413 B.C.? That is one of the questions which the organisers of this conference invite us to consider.One aspect of the topic which they highlight is whether 'by regularly promoting examples of public-spirited and c…
Greek Tragedy and Political Philosophy. Rationalism and Religion in Sophocles’ Theban Plays
Interpolation and Responsion in Sophocles' Ajax
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Laurentianus 31.10 and the Text of Sophocles
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Pindar
Pindar's Pythian Eleven is a miniature masterpiece: a poem praising a young athlete which presents a vivid and important account of the Agamemnon legend. Yet it contains so many difficulties (of text, metre, dating and interpretation) that even Wilamowitz regarded it as one of Pindar's most obscure poems. This 2007 edition (the first full-scale treatment that the poem had ever received) provides answers to the problems that have prevented proper …
Νυν and νυν in Pindar
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
Unpublished Emendations by Peter Elmsley on Euripides and Aristophanes
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Hesperos
Martin West is widely recognized as one of the most significant classicists of all time. Over nearly half a century his publications have transformed our understanding of Greek poetry. This book celebrates his achievement with twenty-five chapters on different areas of the subject which he has illuminated, written by distinguished scholars from four continents. It also includes West's Balzan Prize acceptance speech, ‘Forward into the Past’, in wh…
Autocastration or Regicide? Lucian, De Dea Syria 20
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Hesperos
Martin West is widely recognized as one of the most significant classicists of all time. Over nearly half a century his publications have transformed our understanding of Greek poetry. This book celebrates his achievement with twenty-five chapters on different areas of the subject which he has illuminated, written by distinguished scholars from four continents. It also includes West's Balzan Prize acceptance speech, ‘Forward into the Past’, in wh…
Sophocles Philoctetes 671-673
Laurentianus 31.10 and the Text of Sophocles
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Autocastration or Regicide? Lucian, De Dea Syria 20
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Pindar
Pindar's Pythian Eleven is a miniature masterpiece: a poem praising a young athlete which presents a vivid and important account of the Agamemnon legend. Yet it contains so many difficulties (of text, metre, dating and interpretation) that even Wilamowitz regarded it as one of Pindar's most obscure poems. This 2007 edition (the first full-scale treatment that the poem had ever received) provides answers to the problems that have prevented proper …
Νυν and νυν in Pindar
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
Unpublished Emendations by Peter Elmsley on Euripides and Aristophanes
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Hesperos
Martin West is widely recognized as one of the most significant classicists of all time. Over nearly half a century his publications have transformed our understanding of Greek poetry. This book celebrates his achievement with twenty-five chapters on different areas of the subject which he has illuminated, written by distinguished scholars from four continents. It also includes West's Balzan Prize acceptance speech, ‘Forward into the Past’, in wh…
Laurentianus 31.10 and the Text of Sophocles
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Interpolation and Responsion in Sophocles' Ajax
965
Sophocles
Sophocles' Ajax describes the fall of a mighty warrior denied the honour which he believed was his due. This edition of the play presents a text and critical apparatus which take full advantage of advances in our understanding of Sophoclean manuscripts and scholarship. The introduction and commentary scrutinise all important aspects of the drama - from detailed analysis of style, language, and metre to consideration of wider issues such as ethics…
Sophocles’ Theseus
SOPHOCLES' THESEUSDid Greek tragedy show 'increased responsiveness to the pressing social and political issues of the day to the benefit of the polis' in the final stages of the Peloponnesian War, after the Athenian defeat in Sicily in 413 B.C.? That is one of the questions which the organisers of this conference invite us to consider.One aspect of the topic which they highlight is whether 'by regularly promoting examples of public-spirited and c…
Greek Tragedy and Political Philosophy. Rationalism and Religion in Sophocles’ Theban Plays
Sophocles Philoctetes 671-673
Stesichorus, master of narrative
Stesichorus’ long mythological narratives offered great scope to the poet to develop plots, characters, and themes beyond what would have been possible in shorter works. These lengthy lyrics also required considerable planning and organisation on the part of the poet, in order to prevent them from becoming diff use or meandering. They thus offer us a particular opportunity to assess and appreciate Stesichorus’ poetic technique. In a discussion of…
Stesichorus in Context
The sixth-century BC Greek poet Stesichorus was highly esteemed in antiquity; but by about AD 400 his works had been almost completely lost. Over recent decades, however, the recovery of substantial portions of his poetry has enabled a reassessment of his significance. These essays by leading scholars analyse different aspects of his oeuvre: the relationship between Stesichorus and epic, particularly his response to the Homeric poems; his narrati…
Electra
The start of Sophocles' Electra sees the return of Orestes to his native Mycenae, accompanied by his faithful slave, the Paedagogus.Years before, Orestes' mother, Clytemnestra, together with her lover, Aegisthus, had killed his father, Agamemnon, on his return from the Trojan War; the young Orestes was spirited away to friends in Phocis by his elder sister, Electra.Now he has returned, ordered by Apollo to avenge by stealth his father's murder.He…
Gazing at Helen with Stesichorus
Sophocles
For centuries the myth of Oedipus, the man who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother, has exerted a powerful hold on the human imagination; but no retelling of that myth has ever come close, in passion, drama, and menace to the one that we find in Sophocles' Oedipus the King. This new full-scale edition of that classic play - the first in any language since 1883 - offers a freshly constituted text based on consultation of manuscrip…
Brill's Companion to Euripides (2 vols)
The City Dionysia at Athens saw ninety new tragedies, plus thirty new satyr plays, every decade. Still more tragedies were performed at the Lenaea, also a city festival, and at the Rural Dionysia in the demes. Venues for tragedy outside Attica featured already in the fifth century, and with increasing importance in the fourth and beyond. The total number of tragedies and satyr plays composed for performance at Greek festivals in antiquity is like…
Suffering in Silence
This chapter focuses on women who have themselves been the object of violence and who are linked by the theme of silence. The episode in Trachiniae in which Deianira is struck by the appearance of Iole has long been compared to the scene between Clytemnestra and Cassandra in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: in both cases, a silent woman, a target of male sexual lust, arrives at the home of her new master and is met by his wife. The chapter highlights the re…
Phaedra between Homer and Sophocles
This chapter gathers all the evidence for Phaedra from between the Odyssey and Sophocles, evidence largely neglected in modern scholarship. It goes on to investigate the consequences of some of that neglected evidence (namely Stesichorus) for the idea that the references to Athenian myth in the Odyssey imply an Athenian context for the early transmission, or even composition, of that poem, and argues that Athenian myth was becoming part of panhel…
Female Characters in Fragmentary Greek Tragedy
How were women represented in Greek tragedy? This question lies at the heart of much modern scholarship on ancient drama, yet it has typically been approached using evidence drawn only from the thirty-two tragedies that survive complete - neglecting tragic fragments, especially those recently discovered and often very substantial fragmentary papyri from plays that had been thought lost. Drawing on the latest research on both gender in tragedy and…
The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
No ancient poet has a wider following today than Sappho; her status as the most famous woman poet from Greco-Roman antiquity, and as one of the most prominent lesbian voices in history, has ensured a continuing fascination with her work down the centuries. The Cambridge Companion to Sappho provides an up-to-date survey of this remarkable, inspiring, and mysterious Greek writer, whose poetic corpus has been significantly expanded in recent years t…
Cambridge Companion to Sappho
Labor X
This chapter examines the sources for Heracles’ tenth Labor, the killing of the three-headed Geryon and the stealing of his cattle. Beginning with Hesiod, it analyzes Stesichorus’ take on the myth with its surprisingly sympathetic portrayal of Geryon, whose home Stesichorus placed in southern Spain; the striking depictions of the clash in archaic Greek art; the accounts offered by the mythographers; and the assertions of settlements such as Sagun…
Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese
Which Was Sappho’s Best-Known Poem in Antiquity
This article considers the propositions, recently advanced in this journal, that Sappho fr. 1 was “the most widely quoted poem by the Lesbian poets in antiquity, and by far Sappho’s best-known work”. Arguing that the evidence tells against both these claims, the article compares fr. 1 with two other well attested works by Sappho. It builds a nuanced picture of their relative popularity, drawing on all the available evidence, before by way of conc…
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