Leah Whittington
Biographic Data
| ID | 5959041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leah Whittington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leah |
| FAMILY NAME | Whittington |
| SIGNATURE | WHITTINGTON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Antiquity Made Whole
Qui Succederet Operi
Supplicatory Dynamics
The first chapter lays out a framework for thinking about supplicatory interactions as precarious moments in which weakness acquires an unexpected aspect of strength. It begins with a scene from Montaigne’s Essais in which self-abasement is a contested strategy of appeasement, and uses this example to illuminate the problems and paradoxes of supplication as a social and literary event. Examining suppliant rituals from the viewpoints of anthropolo…
“Spare this life”
This chapter locates scenes of supplication in Vergil’s Aeneid in relation to Greek literary traditions and contemporary Roman practice. Homeric supplicatory paradigms overlap in the Aeneid with ethical and political issues of asking for pardon in the early years of Augustus’ principate, making unexpected demands on readers of Vergil’s epic. If Homer imagines supplication as a ceremonial interaction whose formalized gestures bestow dignity on the…
Renaissance Suppliants
Renaissance Suppliants studies supplication as a social and literary event in the long European Renaissance, arguing that scenes of supplication are defining episodes in a literary tradition stretching back to Greco-Roman antiquity, A ritual form of communication in moments of extreme helplessness and need, supplication speaks to the ways that people negotiate conflict, manage situations in which relationships threaten to unravel, and live togeth…
Shakespeare and the Greeks
The search for points of contact between Shakespeare and Greek tragedy has intensified in the last fifteen years, as several scholars (Mossman, Pelling, Burrow) have argued with increasing confidence for Plutarch’s Lives as a mediating conduit between classical Athenian tragedy and early modern English theatre. Plutarch’s prominence in Shakespeare’s library has never been doubted, and his Lives reflect deep engagement with the Greek tragic corpus…
Supplicatory Dynamics
The first chapter lays out a framework for thinking about supplicatory interactions as precarious moments in which weakness acquires an unexpected aspect of strength. It begins with a scene from Montaigne’s Essais in which self-abasement is a contested strategy of appeasement, and uses this example to illuminate the problems and paradoxes of supplication as a social and literary event. Examining suppliant rituals from the viewpoints of anthropolo…
“Spare this life”
This chapter locates scenes of supplication in Vergil’s Aeneid in relation to Greek literary traditions and contemporary Roman practice. Homeric supplicatory paradigms overlap in the Aeneid with ethical and political issues of asking for pardon in the early years of Augustus’ principate, making unexpected demands on readers of Vergil’s epic. If Homer imagines supplication as a ceremonial interaction whose formalized gestures bestow dignity on the…
Renaissance Suppliants
Renaissance Suppliants studies supplication as a social and literary event in the long European Renaissance, arguing that scenes of supplication are defining episodes in a literary tradition stretching back to Greco-Roman antiquity, A ritual form of communication in moments of extreme helplessness and need, supplication speaks to the ways that people negotiate conflict, manage situations in which relationships threaten to unravel, and live togeth…
Shakespeare and the Greeks
The search for points of contact between Shakespeare and Greek tragedy has intensified in the last fifteen years, as several scholars (Mossman, Pelling, Burrow) have argued with increasing confidence for Plutarch’s Lives as a mediating conduit between classical Athenian tragedy and early modern English theatre. Plutarch’s prominence in Shakespeare’s library has never been doubted, and his Lives reflect deep engagement with the Greek tragic corpus…
Qui Succederet Operi
Antiquity Made Whole
Art (4 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Drama (2 works) · Humiliation (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)