V J Jennings
Biographic Data
| ID | 6425534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | V J Jennings |
| GIVEN NAMES | V J |
| FAMILY NAME | Jennings |
| SIGNATURE | JENNINGS V J |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5822-7097 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Divination and Popular Culture
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Borrowed Plumes
Phaedrus writes in a period when speaking out, even briefly, could prove catastrophic. He suggests that his own choices sparked a prosecution by Sejanus but, despite this calamity, he will run the same risks. With first-hand access as Augusti libertus , it is not difficult to construct a Phaedrus who criticizes high level inequalities and injustices. Phaedrus' re-clothing of Aesop's Greek prose fables in Latin verse is a master stroke. Fable is t…
Chapter One. Introduction
Chapter Seventeen. Ion’s hymn to Kairos
Ion of Chios wrote a hymn to Kairos. Nothing survives but this 'title', attested six hundred years on by the periegete Pausanias. The antiquarian-oriented poet Antimachus named one of Adrastus' horses a fragment suggests that Menander made kairos a god. Kairos is commonly translated as opportunity. This is a later sense; indeed, kairos eventually becomes synonymous with chronos or time, and, as such, it is understandable why it is often associate…
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Chapter One. Introduction
Chapter Seventeen. Ion’s hymn to Kairos
Ion of Chios wrote a hymn to Kairos. Nothing survives but this 'title', attested six hundred years on by the periegete Pausanias. The antiquarian-oriented poet Antimachus named one of Adrastus' horses a fragment suggests that Menander made kairos a god. Kairos is commonly translated as opportunity. This is a later sense; indeed, kairos eventually becomes synonymous with chronos or time, and, as such, it is understandable why it is often associate…
Borrowed Plumes
Phaedrus writes in a period when speaking out, even briefly, could prove catastrophic. He suggests that his own choices sparked a prosecution by Sejanus but, despite this calamity, he will run the same risks. With first-hand access as Augusti libertus , it is not difficult to construct a Phaedrus who criticizes high level inequalities and injustices. Phaedrus' re-clothing of Aesop's Greek prose fables in Latin verse is a master stroke. Fable is t…
Divination and Popular Culture
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