Renaud Gagné
Biographic Data
| ID | 980034 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Renaud Gagné |
| GIVEN NAMES | Renaud |
| FAMILY NAME | Gagné |
| SIGNATURE | GAGNÉ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Magali Année, L’État de langue sonore en Grèce ancienne. Pour une philologie anthropologique
Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece: A Philology of Worlds
Cosmography is defined here as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of composing worlds. The mirage of Hyperborea, which played a substantial role in Greek religion and culture throughout Antiquity, offers a remarkable window into the practice of composing and reading worlds. This book follows Hyperborea across genres and centuries, both as an exploration of the extraordinary record of Greek thought on that further North and as a case study of anci…
Whose Handmaiden? ‘Hellenisation’ between Philology and Theology
This chapter focuses on the central question: what is the role of Greek thinking in the development of Christianity? This question is shaped by a judgment about how profoundly the revolutionary Greek texts of incipient Christianity were influenced by the Greek language and culture in which they were produced. The chapter explores three key moments in the history of Catholic engagement with the philology of Hellenization. The first is Guillaume Bu…
Hyperborée. Fragments de cosmographie grecque
Programme des conférences : 1. Cosmographie et philologie anthropologique : les limites de l'imaginaire boréal. - 2. Hyperborée entre cultes et chants : théologies de l'espace à Didymes, Delphes et Délos. - 3. Hyperborée : épos et cosmographie. - 4. Hyperborée et les connaissances de l'eschatia
Cosmic Choruses: Metaphor and Performance
In this chapter, Renaud Gagné pursues a chronologically wide-ranging study of how the motion of the heavenly bodies was thought about through the idea of choral dance. This chapter compares various unrelated, self-reflexive usages of the astral chorus metaphor in three genres of poetry and briefly considers how each illuminates the others. Instead of a teleological narrative, a dialogue of commonalities and contrasts is sought in the juxtapositio…
Regimes of Comparatism: Frameworks of Comparison in History, Religion and Anthropology
Historically, all societies have used comparison to analyze cultural difference through the interaction of religion, power, and translation. When comparison is a self-reflective practice, it can be seen as a form of comparatism. Many scholars are concerned in one way or another with the practice and methods of comparison, and the need for a cognitively robust relativism is an integral part of a mature historical self-placement. This volume looks …
Les dieux d’Homère II – Anthropomorphismes
L’anthropomorphisme des dieux d’Homère n’a cessé d’être interrogé, dès l’antiquité, que ce soit pour l’exalter ou le critiquer. La représentation humaine des dieux a été tout aussi intensément discutée dans les études modernes sur la religion grecque, jusqu’à être vue parfois comme un obstacle à la compréhension même de cette religion. Le pari de ce volume est de prendre au sérieux la grille de lecture humaine des dieux pour en saisir les contour…
Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion
Studied for many years by scholars with Christianising assumptions, Greek religion has often been said to be quite unlike Christianity: a matter of particular actions (orthopraxy), rather than particular beliefs (orthodoxies). This volume dares to think that, both in and through religious practices and in and through religious thought and literature, the ancient Greeks engaged in a sustained conversation about the nature of the gods and how to re…
Sacrifices humains: Perspectives croisées et représentations
Le thème du sacrifice humain ne peut laisser indifférent et continue de susciter bien des interrogations, entre fascination et dégoût. Historiens et anthropologues se divisent sur l’historicité supposée du phénomène. Pour sortir de l’impasse, cet ouvrage se penche sur la manière dont les cultures se représentent le sacrifice humain, le leur ou celui des autres, fût-il réel ou symbolique. Comment une société fait-elle face à ce qui est - ou ce qu’…
Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece
Ancestral fault is a core idea of Greek literature. 'The guiltless will pay for the deeds later: either the man's children, or his descendants thereafter', said Solon in the sixth century BC, a statement echoed throughout the rest of antiquity. This notion lies at the heart of ancient Greek thinking on theodicy, inheritance and privilege, the meaning of suffering, the links between wealth and morality, individual responsibility, the bonds that un…
Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy
This volume explores how the choruses of Greek tragedy creatively combined media and discourses to generate their own specific forms of meaning. The contributors analyse choruses as fictional, religious and civic performers; as combinations of text, song and dance; and as objects of reflection in themselves, in relation and contrast to the choruses of comedy and melic poetry. Drawing on earlier analyses of the social context of Greek drama, the n…
Aristotle as Poet: The Song for Hermias and Its Contexts by Andrew Ford (review)
Reviewed by: Aristotle as Poet: The Song for Hermias and Its Contexts by Andrew Ford Renaud Gagné Andrew Ford. Aristotle as Poet: The Song for Hermias and Its Contexts. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xvii, 243. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-19-973329-3. That Aristotle was himself a poet is a fact that many classicists ignore. That enough of his poetry survives to allow for close reading and detailed study would come as even more of a surprise …
Poétiques de la chrèsmodie: L’oracle de Glaukos (Hérodote, VI, 86)
Par l’analyse de l’oracle de Glaukos tel qu’il apparaît au chapitre 86 du 6e livre d’Hérodote, cet article se propose d’illustrer la richesse du matériau oraculaire des périodes archaïque et classique, et l’intérêt de redonner au chrèsmos hexamétrique sa place dans le grand paysage des traditions poétiques de la Grèce archaïque et classique
Seers, G reece
Mantis (plural, manteis ) is the standard Greek term for “seer” or “diviner,” one of the reasons why there is some overlap in our sources between mantis and other, more marked terms such as chresmologos , prophetes , chresmoidos , or theopropos .
Chresmologos
The chresmologos is a type of diviner in archaic and classical Greece. What distinguishes the chresmologos from the more inclusive term mantis , “seer,” is not always clear in our sources, although the two terms are usually presented as distinct from each other.
The Poetics of exôleia in Homer
The notion of delayed generational punishment, or ancestral fault, has a long history in Greek literature. The identification of its earliest attestations in the Archaic period is contested, especially its presence in Homeric poetry. This paper aims to show that delayed generational punishment does indeed appear in Homer, where it is, however, confined to one context: the great oath of exôleia of Iliad 3.298-301 and 4.155-65. The institutional an…
Themis at Eleusis: Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus 2.22.5
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Works and nights: Marcus Argentarius (AP 9.161)
In a long and colourful passage from Book 3 of his elegiac poem Leontion , a veritable manifesto of Hellenistic erotics, Hermesianax of Colophon (early third century BC) presents us with an amusing list of poets and their loves (fr. 7 Powell = Athen. XIII 597B). This catalogue features, inter alia, an enamoured Hesiod inspired by a woman. The notion of surly old Hesiod in love with a girl may come as a bit of a surprise to most students of classi…
The Sins of the Fathers: C.A. Lobeck and K.O. Müller
The notion of “inherited guilt,” or ancestral fault, has played a prominent role in scholarship on ancient Greek religion and literature. Although it corresponds to no clearly circumscribed ancient concept, it has acquired something of a self-evident value in philological research. Shaped by centuries of ideological involvement with the Greek material, and by the apparently equivalent Judeo-Christian notions of corporate responsibility and origin…
Works and nights: Marcus Argentarius (AP 9.161)
In a long and colourful passage from Book 3 of his elegiac poem Leontion , a veritable manifesto of Hellenistic erotics, Hermesianax of Colophon (early third century BC) presents us with an amusing list of poets and their loves (fr. 7 Powell = Athen. XIII 597B). This catalogue features, inter alia, an enamoured Hesiod inspired by a woman. The notion of surly old Hesiod in love with a girl may come as a bit of a surprise to most students of classi…
The Sins of the Fathers: C.A. Lobeck and K.O. Müller
The notion of “inherited guilt,” or ancestral fault, has played a prominent role in scholarship on ancient Greek religion and literature. Although it corresponds to no clearly circumscribed ancient concept, it has acquired something of a self-evident value in philological research. Shaped by centuries of ideological involvement with the Greek material, and by the apparently equivalent Judeo-Christian notions of corporate responsibility and origin…
Themis at Eleusis: Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus 2.22.5
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Works and nights: Marcus Argentarius (AP 9.161)
In a long and colourful passage from Book 3 of his elegiac poem Leontion , a veritable manifesto of Hellenistic erotics, Hermesianax of Colophon (early third century BC) presents us with an amusing list of poets and their loves (fr. 7 Powell = Athen. XIII 597B). This catalogue features, inter alia, an enamoured Hesiod inspired by a woman. The notion of surly old Hesiod in love with a girl may come as a bit of a surprise to most students of classi…
The Poetics of exôleia in Homer
The notion of delayed generational punishment, or ancestral fault, has a long history in Greek literature. The identification of its earliest attestations in the Archaic period is contested, especially its presence in Homeric poetry. This paper aims to show that delayed generational punishment does indeed appear in Homer, where it is, however, confined to one context: the great oath of exôleia of Iliad 3.298-301 and 4.155-65. The institutional an…
Seers, G reece
Mantis (plural, manteis ) is the standard Greek term for “seer” or “diviner,” one of the reasons why there is some overlap in our sources between mantis and other, more marked terms such as chresmologos , prophetes , chresmoidos , or theopropos .
Chresmologos
The chresmologos is a type of diviner in archaic and classical Greece. What distinguishes the chresmologos from the more inclusive term mantis , “seer,” is not always clear in our sources, although the two terms are usually presented as distinct from each other.
Sacrifices humains: Perspectives croisées et représentations
Le thème du sacrifice humain ne peut laisser indifférent et continue de susciter bien des interrogations, entre fascination et dégoût. Historiens et anthropologues se divisent sur l’historicité supposée du phénomène. Pour sortir de l’impasse, cet ouvrage se penche sur la manière dont les cultures se représentent le sacrifice humain, le leur ou celui des autres, fût-il réel ou symbolique. Comment une société fait-elle face à ce qui est - ou ce qu’…
Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece
Ancestral fault is a core idea of Greek literature. 'The guiltless will pay for the deeds later: either the man's children, or his descendants thereafter', said Solon in the sixth century BC, a statement echoed throughout the rest of antiquity. This notion lies at the heart of ancient Greek thinking on theodicy, inheritance and privilege, the meaning of suffering, the links between wealth and morality, individual responsibility, the bonds that un…
Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy
This volume explores how the choruses of Greek tragedy creatively combined media and discourses to generate their own specific forms of meaning. The contributors analyse choruses as fictional, religious and civic performers; as combinations of text, song and dance; and as objects of reflection in themselves, in relation and contrast to the choruses of comedy and melic poetry. Drawing on earlier analyses of the social context of Greek drama, the n…
Aristotle as Poet: The Song for Hermias and Its Contexts by Andrew Ford (review)
Reviewed by: Aristotle as Poet: The Song for Hermias and Its Contexts by Andrew Ford Renaud Gagné Andrew Ford. Aristotle as Poet: The Song for Hermias and Its Contexts. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xvii, 243. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-19-973329-3. That Aristotle was himself a poet is a fact that many classicists ignore. That enough of his poetry survives to allow for close reading and detailed study would come as even more of a surprise …
Poétiques de la chrèsmodie: L’oracle de Glaukos (Hérodote, VI, 86)
Par l’analyse de l’oracle de Glaukos tel qu’il apparaît au chapitre 86 du 6e livre d’Hérodote, cet article se propose d’illustrer la richesse du matériau oraculaire des périodes archaïque et classique, et l’intérêt de redonner au chrèsmos hexamétrique sa place dans le grand paysage des traditions poétiques de la Grèce archaïque et classique
Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion
Studied for many years by scholars with Christianising assumptions, Greek religion has often been said to be quite unlike Christianity: a matter of particular actions (orthopraxy), rather than particular beliefs (orthodoxies). This volume dares to think that, both in and through religious practices and in and through religious thought and literature, the ancient Greeks engaged in a sustained conversation about the nature of the gods and how to re…
Cosmic Choruses: Metaphor and Performance
In this chapter, Renaud Gagné pursues a chronologically wide-ranging study of how the motion of the heavenly bodies was thought about through the idea of choral dance. This chapter compares various unrelated, self-reflexive usages of the astral chorus metaphor in three genres of poetry and briefly considers how each illuminates the others. Instead of a teleological narrative, a dialogue of commonalities and contrasts is sought in the juxtapositio…
Regimes of Comparatism: Frameworks of Comparison in History, Religion and Anthropology
Historically, all societies have used comparison to analyze cultural difference through the interaction of religion, power, and translation. When comparison is a self-reflective practice, it can be seen as a form of comparatism. Many scholars are concerned in one way or another with the practice and methods of comparison, and the need for a cognitively robust relativism is an integral part of a mature historical self-placement. This volume looks …
Les dieux d’Homère II – Anthropomorphismes
L’anthropomorphisme des dieux d’Homère n’a cessé d’être interrogé, dès l’antiquité, que ce soit pour l’exalter ou le critiquer. La représentation humaine des dieux a été tout aussi intensément discutée dans les études modernes sur la religion grecque, jusqu’à être vue parfois comme un obstacle à la compréhension même de cette religion. Le pari de ce volume est de prendre au sérieux la grille de lecture humaine des dieux pour en saisir les contour…
Whose Handmaiden? ‘Hellenisation’ between Philology and Theology
This chapter focuses on the central question: what is the role of Greek thinking in the development of Christianity? This question is shaped by a judgment about how profoundly the revolutionary Greek texts of incipient Christianity were influenced by the Greek language and culture in which they were produced. The chapter explores three key moments in the history of Catholic engagement with the philology of Hellenization. The first is Guillaume Bu…
Hyperborée. Fragments de cosmographie grecque
Programme des conférences : 1. Cosmographie et philologie anthropologique : les limites de l'imaginaire boréal. - 2. Hyperborée entre cultes et chants : théologies de l'espace à Didymes, Delphes et Délos. - 3. Hyperborée : épos et cosmographie. - 4. Hyperborée et les connaissances de l'eschatia
Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece: A Philology of Worlds
Cosmography is defined here as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of composing worlds. The mirage of Hyperborea, which played a substantial role in Greek religion and culture throughout Antiquity, offers a remarkable window into the practice of composing and reading worlds. This book follows Hyperborea across genres and centuries, both as an exploration of the extraordinary record of Greek thought on that further North and as a case study of anci…
Magali Année, L’État de langue sonore en Grèce ancienne. Pour une philologie anthropologique
Classical Antiquity Studies (15 works) · Art (13 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Literature (9 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (6 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Political science (5 works)