Ben Gregson
Biographic Data
| ID | 6824922 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Gregson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Gregson |
| SIGNATURE | BEN GREGSON |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-6101-7397 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Brave New Scriptworld: Transliteration, Medium, and Renaissance in Late Babylonian Culture
This article offers a new story of the Graeco-Babyloniaca, a corpus of clay tablets which feature cuneiform Sumerian and Akkadian texts on one side, transliterated into the Greek alphabet on the other. Stories traditionally told about the Graeco-Babyloniaca are invested in the pathos of ruin, focusing on defeat, decline, and obsolescence. This essay celebrates survival, finding in these texts indications of defiance, desire, and cultural renaissa…
Claude McKay’s vagabond classicisms: Empire, uplift, and antiquity
This article examines the classicisms of the influential Jamaican writer, Claude McKay. Taking as paradigmatic an allusion to the myth of Laocoön in Banjo, it analyses McKay’s troubling of the classical notion of translatio imperii et studii throughout his work. Consistently rejecting imperium, McKay nevertheless embraced classical studium as a potential source of racial uplift and new creative expression. He resists both hegemonic Euro-American …
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Claude McKay’s vagabond classicisms: Empire, uplift, and antiquity
This article examines the classicisms of the influential Jamaican writer, Claude McKay. Taking as paradigmatic an allusion to the myth of Laocoön in Banjo, it analyses McKay’s troubling of the classical notion of translatio imperii et studii throughout his work. Consistently rejecting imperium, McKay nevertheless embraced classical studium as a potential source of racial uplift and new creative expression. He resists both hegemonic Euro-American …
Brave New Scriptworld: Transliteration, Medium, and Renaissance in Late Babylonian Culture
This article offers a new story of the Graeco-Babyloniaca, a corpus of clay tablets which feature cuneiform Sumerian and Akkadian texts on one side, transliterated into the Greek alphabet on the other. Stories traditionally told about the Graeco-Babyloniaca are invested in the pathos of ruin, focusing on defeat, decline, and obsolescence. This essay celebrates survival, finding in these texts indications of defiance, desire, and cultural renaissa…
Akkadian (1 works) · Allusion (1 works) · Alphabet (1 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Ancient Near East History (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (1 works) · Classics (1 works) · Cuneiform (1 works)