Elizabeth Pender
Biographic Data
| ID | 5803106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Pender |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Pender |
| SIGNATURE | PENDER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exemplarity and quotation
Introduction
The introduction to this Special Issue explains how it contributes to the Centenary commemorations by re-evaluating the place of Classics and classicists in World War One. It argues that in the cultures of the War classical receptions functioned as an important filter for experience and means of expression. The lives of WWI classicists illustrate how an international community of scholars was affected and how the War shaped the discipline itself.…
Heraclides of Pontus
Heraclides of Pontus
Chaos corrected
This chapter explores in detail how Plato's creation narrative in the Timaeus is presented as a ‘scientific’ reworking of the Theogony, taking up and transforming the primal figures from that work, and central polarities embodied by them (especially male/female).
Plato on Metaphors and Models
‘Metaphor’ in Platonic vocabulary is included in the term for ‘image’ (eikôn), and structurally related to ‘models’ (paradeigmata) in identifying the similarities and differences between two subjects. As the Politicus makes clear, ‘models’ differ in providing a more developed and systematic exploration of these similarities and differences, and can be used to aid understanding of difficult or unfamiliar subjects. Although Plato to this extent for…
Spiritual Pregnancy in Plato's Symposium
Although Plato's notion of spiritual pregnancy has received a great deal of critical attention in recent years, the development of the metaphor in the Symposium has not been fully analysed. Close attention to the details of the image reveals two important points which have so far been overlooked: (1) There are two quite different types of spiritual pregnancy in the Symposium : a ‘male’ type, which is analogous to the build-up to physical ejaculat…
Spiritual Pregnancy in Plato's Symposium
Although Plato's notion of spiritual pregnancy has received a great deal of critical attention in recent years, the development of the metaphor in the Symposium has not been fully analysed. Close attention to the details of the image reveals two important points which have so far been overlooked: (1) There are two quite different types of spiritual pregnancy in the Symposium : a ‘male’ type, which is analogous to the build-up to physical ejaculat…
Introduction
The introduction to this Special Issue explains how it contributes to the Centenary commemorations by re-evaluating the place of Classics and classicists in World War One. It argues that in the cultures of the War classical receptions functioned as an important filter for experience and means of expression. The lives of WWI classicists illustrate how an international community of scholars was affected and how the War shaped the discipline itself.…
Spiritual Pregnancy in Plato's Symposium
Although Plato's notion of spiritual pregnancy has received a great deal of critical attention in recent years, the development of the metaphor in the Symposium has not been fully analysed. Close attention to the details of the image reveals two important points which have so far been overlooked: (1) There are two quite different types of spiritual pregnancy in the Symposium : a ‘male’ type, which is analogous to the build-up to physical ejaculat…
Plato on Metaphors and Models
‘Metaphor’ in Platonic vocabulary is included in the term for ‘image’ (eikôn), and structurally related to ‘models’ (paradeigmata) in identifying the similarities and differences between two subjects. As the Politicus makes clear, ‘models’ differ in providing a more developed and systematic exploration of these similarities and differences, and can be used to aid understanding of difficult or unfamiliar subjects. Although Plato to this extent for…
Chaos corrected
This chapter explores in detail how Plato's creation narrative in the Timaeus is presented as a ‘scientific’ reworking of the Theogony, taking up and transforming the primal figures from that work, and central polarities embodied by them (especially male/female).
Heraclides of Pontus
Heraclides of Pontus
Introduction
The introduction to this Special Issue explains how it contributes to the Centenary commemorations by re-evaluating the place of Classics and classicists in World War One. It argues that in the cultures of the War classical receptions functioned as an important filter for experience and means of expression. The lives of WWI classicists illustrate how an international community of scholars was affected and how the War shaped the discipline itself.…
Exemplarity and quotation
Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (2 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Metaphor (2 works) · Political science (2 works)