Alexander Forte
Biographic Data
| ID | 9495707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Forte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Forte |
| SIGNATURE | FORTE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Culture, Concepts, and Care
This essay explores the word and concept of “culture” through three temporally and geographically distinct case studies: the formation of academic anthropology in the nineteenth century, a ritual text from Bronze Age Anatolia, and an inscription from an ancient Greek religious site from the second century CE. My argument is that there is a genuine humanistic boon to be gained from collective, careful, and reflective use of concepts and that by re…
Speech from Tree and Rock
Interpreters of archaic Greek epic poetry have long labored to explain the meaning of the semantically ambiguous phrase involving “tree (δρῦς) and/or rock (πέτρη).” The idiom appears three times in archaic epic: in the proem of Hesiod’s Theogony , during Hector’s deliberation about negotiating a truce in Iliad 22, and in Penelope’s speech to a disguised Odysseus in Odyssey 19. A tantalizingly similar, and equally unsolved idiom, rgm ‘ṣ w lḫšt ’ab…
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Speech from Tree and Rock
Interpreters of archaic Greek epic poetry have long labored to explain the meaning of the semantically ambiguous phrase involving “tree (δρῦς) and/or rock (πέτρη).” The idiom appears three times in archaic epic: in the proem of Hesiod’s Theogony , during Hector’s deliberation about negotiating a truce in Iliad 22, and in Penelope’s speech to a disguised Odysseus in Odyssey 19. A tantalizingly similar, and equally unsolved idiom, rgm ‘ṣ w lḫšt ’ab…
Culture, Concepts, and Care
This essay explores the word and concept of “culture” through three temporally and geographically distinct case studies: the formation of academic anthropology in the nineteenth century, a ritual text from Bronze Age Anatolia, and an inscription from an ancient Greek religious site from the second century CE. My argument is that there is a genuine humanistic boon to be gained from collective, careful, and reflective use of concepts and that by re…
History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Ancient Near East History (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Bronze (1 work) · Bronze Age (1 work) · Byzantine Studies and History (1 work) · Geology (1 work)