Deborah Boedeker
Biographic Data
| ID | 971781 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Boedeker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | Boedeker |
| SIGNATURE | BOEDEKER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Hipponax the Poet: Poetic Mischief in Archaic Greece
'Hipponax the poet' is an elusive figure. Stories about him abounded already in antiquity, at least in part extrapolated from the stories about himself that abounded in his poems. But what distinguishes him from other Greek lyric poets is the manner in which his corpus suggests a strategy of mischievousness around self-presentation: a deliberate confounding of expectations, the projecting of a pointedly strange and untrustworthy authorial persona…
Through Barbarian Eyes: Non-Greeks on Greeks in Herodotus
Recognized as ‘father of ethnography’ as well as history, Herodotus is famous for his keen attention to human cultures and their diverse ways of life; accordingly, discussion of cultural differences has a long history in Herodotean studies. 1 In his translation of the Histories , for example, George Rawlinson shares his impression of the Persians in that work (more recent scholars, needless to say, have discussed Herodotean ethnography from quite…
Simonides Lyricus: Essays on the "Other" Classical Lyric Poet ed. by Peter Agócs and Lucia Prauscello
Reviewed by: Simonides Lyricus: Essays on the "Other" Classical Lyric Poet ed. by Peter Agócs and Lucia Prauscello Deborah Boedeker Simonides Lyricus: Essays on the "Other" Classical Lyric Poet. Edited by Peter Agócs and Lucia Prauscello. Cambridge, U.K.: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Suppl. 42. 2020. Pp. xi, 285. The past three decades have been generous to Simonides. Substantive elegiac fragments from Oxyrhynchus, known as t…
Becoming Medea: Assimilation in Euripides
Coarse Poetics: Listening to Hipponax
Hipponax has traditionally been categorized as a coarse and vitriolic author. Some recent interpreters, however, argue plausibly that the speaker in the poems, who is sometimes explicitly identified as 'Hipponax', should be seen as a deliberately constructed character quite separate from the poet. Beginning with that insight, this chapter examines some basic aural and verbal techniques that are used to characterize the speaker. These include 'clu…
Hera and the Return of Charaxos
The longest of the new Sappho fragments, the 'Brothers Poem' or, as I prefer to call it, the 'Charaxos Poem' , engages its twenty-first century audience with a number of questions, to which contributors to this volume propose a variety of solutions.1 Who is the speaker's silent interlocutor?Are Charaxos and Larichos historical brothers of Sappho, or 'types' in a Lesbian poetic or ritual tradition?How does the first-person speaker relate to each o…
Vergangenheit in Mündlicher Überlieferung
Simonides
Simonides of Keos (ca. 556 (or 532)?–467 BCE ), son of Leoprepes and uncle of the poet Bacchylides, was arguably the most successful poet in the Panhellenic world of the late sixth/early fifth century.
Sappho
Sappho of Lesbos (late seventh/early sixth century BCE ) was the most famous woman poet of antiquity. We have almost no reliable data about her life, except that she may have had a daughter named Kleis (fr. 132) and a brother (fr. 5), called Charaxos by Herodotus ( Histories 2.135).
Helen and ‘I’ in Early Greek Lyric
Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography: The ‘Plupast' from Herodotus to Appian
Historians often refer to past events which took place prior to their narrative's proper past - that is, they refer to a 'plupast'. This past embedded in the past can be evoked by characters as well as by the historian in his own voice. It can bring into play other texts, but can also draw on lieux de mémoire or on material objects. The articles assembled in this volume explore the manifold forms of the plupast in Greek and Roman historians from …
Early Greek Poetry as/and History
This chapter examines early Greek historical poetry and its complex relationships with the prose histories of Herodotus and Thucydides. It begins with an overview of archaic and early classical Greek poetic texts as historical literature in their own right, focusing on the wide range of genres (or performance types) with their many ways of using the past. It then reviews how Herodotus and Thucydides evaluate poetic accounts of the past. Finally, …
Bernard Macgregor Walker Knox (1914-2010)
Bernard Macgregor Walker Knox (1914-2010) Deborah Boedeker For more than half a century, Bernard Knox was a powerful voice in and for classical studies. Well known as founding Director of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., he was also a heroic warrior against fascism, and a raconteur, lecturer, and essayist blessed by the Muses. He died of heart failure on July 22, 2010, in Bethesda, Maryland. Born on November 24, 1914 in …
The View from Eleusis Demeter in the Persian Wars
This chapter explores another tradition in which Eleusinian Demeter played a particularly important role, especially at Plataea, where a fragmentary dedicatory inscription has been found in situ, but also at Mycale, Salamis, and Marathon. It argues that Demeter's role can be illuminated by her association throughout the Greek world not only with intransigent anger, but also with the defence of territory, and sovereignty. Moreover, her panhellenic…
Athenian Religion in the Age of Pericles
Aristophanes' hero Strepsiades brings the Clouds to a boisterous finale by burning down the Thinkery, whose leader Socrates has been subverting the minds and morals of young Athenians. Strepsiades himself was a short-term convert to the comic philosopher's slick sophistry and outlandish new gods - which include Cosmic Spin ( Dinos ), Aether, and especially the Clouds - but events in the play cause him to recognize his error and repent. With his p…
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles
Mid-fifth-century Athens saw the development of the Athenian empire, the radicalization of Athenian democracy through the empowerment of poorer citizens, the adornment of the city through a massive and expensive building program, the classical age of Athenian tragedy, the assembly of intellectuals offering novel approaches to philosophical and scientific issues, and the end of the Spartan-Athenian alliance against Persia and the beginning of open…
Pedestrian Fatalities: The Prosaics of Death in Herodotus
Many warriors die in both Herodotus' Histories and the Iliad, but their deaths are treated very differently, even when the mode of death is the same (as with Ilioneus in Il. 14.489-502 and Masistios in Hist. 9.22, both killed by a spear to the eye). Homeric epic typically highlights the pathetic and subjective experience of an individual's death, and thus the fragility of human life, whereas Herodotus' narrative is more interested in the strategy…
Divinity and History: The Religion of Herodotus
1. Introduction: Divinity and History 2. Solon and Human Fortune 3. Miracles and the Miraculous 4. Divine Retribution 5. Oracles and Divination 6. The Unity and Multiplicity of the Divine 7. The Limits of Knowledge and Inquiry 8. Foreign Gods and Foreign Religion 9. Fate and Human Responsibility 10. Epilogue
Epic Heritage and Mythical Patterns in Herodotus
The Histories is a work of monumental originality, and one that springs from monumental traditions. Herodotus occasionally refers to epic characters and deeds; moreover, story-patterns familiar from myths emerge from time to time in the Histories . This chapter considers how epic and mythical traditions interact with his work, both by shaping the narrative of events and by influencing the scope and style of the work as a whole. Aristotle, writing…
The new Simonides: Contexts of Praise and Desire
Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens
Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens
Athens in the 5th century BC offers a striking picture of the first democracy in history; the first empire created and ruled by a Greek; and a flourishing of learning, philosophical thought, and visual and performing arts. To what extent were these developments interrelated? This text answers this question. The authors bring to this analysis their individual areas of expertise - in the visual arts, poetry and drama, philosophy, archaeology, relig…
Becoming Medea: Assimilation in Euripides
Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art
Heroic Historiography: Simonides and Herodotus on Plataea
Arethusa - Volume 29, Number 2, Spring 1996
Divinity and History: The Religion of Herodotus
1. Introduction: Divinity and History 2. Solon and Human Fortune 3. Miracles and the Miraculous 4. Divine Retribution 5. Oracles and Divination 6. The Unity and Multiplicity of the Divine 7. The Limits of Knowledge and Inquiry 8. Foreign Gods and Foreign Religion 9. Fate and Human Responsibility 10. Epilogue
Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art
Aphrodite's Entry into Greek Epic
Descent from Heaven: Images of Dew in Greek Poetry and Religion
Aphrodite's Entry into Greek Epic
Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens
Athens in the 5th century BC offers a striking picture of the first democracy in history; the first empire created and ruled by a Greek; and a flourishing of learning, philosophical thought, and visual and performing arts. To what extent were these developments interrelated? This text answers this question. The authors bring to this analysis their individual areas of expertise - in the visual arts, poetry and drama, philosophy, archaeology, relig…
Aphrodite and the χορός
Aphrodite’s Origin in an Indo-European Tradition
Χῶρος and Χορός
The Names and Epithets of Aphrodite
Aphrodite and Her Mortal Lover
Aphrodite's Entry into Greek Epic
Aphrodite's Entry into Greek Epic
The Gardens of Adonis. Spices in Greek Mythology
Descent from Heaven: Images of Dew in Greek Poetry and Religion
Six New Studies on Herodotus
Heroic Historiography: Simonides and Herodotus on Plataea
Arethusa - Volume 29, Number 2, Spring 1996
Becoming Medea: Assimilation in Euripides
Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art
Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens
Athens in the 5th century BC offers a striking picture of the first democracy in history; the first empire created and ruled by a Greek; and a flourishing of learning, philosophical thought, and visual and performing arts. To what extent were these developments interrelated? This text answers this question. The authors bring to this analysis their individual areas of expertise - in the visual arts, poetry and drama, philosophy, archaeology, relig…
Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens
The new Simonides: Contexts of Praise and Desire
Epic Heritage and Mythical Patterns in Herodotus
The Histories is a work of monumental originality, and one that springs from monumental traditions. Herodotus occasionally refers to epic characters and deeds; moreover, story-patterns familiar from myths emerge from time to time in the Histories . This chapter considers how epic and mythical traditions interact with his work, both by shaping the narrative of events and by influencing the scope and style of the work as a whole. Aristotle, writing…
Pedestrian Fatalities: The Prosaics of Death in Herodotus
Many warriors die in both Herodotus' Histories and the Iliad, but their deaths are treated very differently, even when the mode of death is the same (as with Ilioneus in Il. 14.489-502 and Masistios in Hist. 9.22, both killed by a spear to the eye). Homeric epic typically highlights the pathetic and subjective experience of an individual's death, and thus the fragility of human life, whereas Herodotus' narrative is more interested in the strategy…
Divinity and History: The Religion of Herodotus
1. Introduction: Divinity and History 2. Solon and Human Fortune 3. Miracles and the Miraculous 4. Divine Retribution 5. Oracles and Divination 6. The Unity and Multiplicity of the Divine 7. The Limits of Knowledge and Inquiry 8. Foreign Gods and Foreign Religion 9. Fate and Human Responsibility 10. Epilogue
The View from Eleusis Demeter in the Persian Wars
This chapter explores another tradition in which Eleusinian Demeter played a particularly important role, especially at Plataea, where a fragmentary dedicatory inscription has been found in situ, but also at Mycale, Salamis, and Marathon. It argues that Demeter's role can be illuminated by her association throughout the Greek world not only with intransigent anger, but also with the defence of territory, and sovereignty. Moreover, her panhellenic…
Athenian Religion in the Age of Pericles
Aristophanes' hero Strepsiades brings the Clouds to a boisterous finale by burning down the Thinkery, whose leader Socrates has been subverting the minds and morals of young Athenians. Strepsiades himself was a short-term convert to the comic philosopher's slick sophistry and outlandish new gods - which include Cosmic Spin ( Dinos ), Aether, and especially the Clouds - but events in the play cause him to recognize his error and repent. With his p…
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles
Mid-fifth-century Athens saw the development of the Athenian empire, the radicalization of Athenian democracy through the empowerment of poorer citizens, the adornment of the city through a massive and expensive building program, the classical age of Athenian tragedy, the assembly of intellectuals offering novel approaches to philosophical and scientific issues, and the end of the Spartan-Athenian alliance against Persia and the beginning of open…
Early Greek Poetry as/and History
This chapter examines early Greek historical poetry and its complex relationships with the prose histories of Herodotus and Thucydides. It begins with an overview of archaic and early classical Greek poetic texts as historical literature in their own right, focusing on the wide range of genres (or performance types) with their many ways of using the past. It then reviews how Herodotus and Thucydides evaluate poetic accounts of the past. Finally, …
Bernard Macgregor Walker Knox (1914-2010)
Bernard Macgregor Walker Knox (1914-2010) Deborah Boedeker For more than half a century, Bernard Knox was a powerful voice in and for classical studies. Well known as founding Director of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., he was also a heroic warrior against fascism, and a raconteur, lecturer, and essayist blessed by the Muses. He died of heart failure on July 22, 2010, in Bethesda, Maryland. Born on November 24, 1914 in …
Simonides
Simonides of Keos (ca. 556 (or 532)?–467 BCE ), son of Leoprepes and uncle of the poet Bacchylides, was arguably the most successful poet in the Panhellenic world of the late sixth/early fifth century.
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