Walter Donlan

Biographic Data

ID985037
NAMEWalter Donlan
GIVEN NAMESWalter
FAMILY NAMEDonlan
SIGNATUREDONLAN W
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS181
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
H-INDEX7

  • The Relations of Power in the Pre-State and Early State Polities

    Walter DonlanCHAPTERDevelopment of the Polis in…2010

  • Kin-Groups in the Homeric Epics

    Walter DonlanARTICLEThe Classical World2007

    Nineteenth-century theories about the progression of primitive societies (including the Greeks) from a "social organization" made up of small kinship units (clans) and tribes to the "political organization" of the city-state were fundamentally disproved by the demonstration, in the 1970s, that the historical subdivisions of the polis were not derived from clans, phratries, and tribes, as anthropologists defined them, but were new groups that serv…

  • The Relations of Power in the Pre-State and Early State Polities

    Walter DonlanCHAPTERDevelopment of the Polis in…2003

    I This chapter discusses the nature and distribution of power and authority in the pre-state period (roughly the ninth century) and in the formational and early developmental stages of the city-states (roughly the eighth and seventh centuries respectively). There are sharp differences of opinion about these things. My reconstruction of social development in postMycenaean Greece is briefly as follows

  • Achilles the Ally

    Walter DonlanARTICLEArethusa2002Cited by: 1

    Achilles the Ally1 Walter Donlan Returning from the Trojan War, Odysseus suffers one final blow from the gods when, in sight of the land of the Phaeacians, Poseidon sends a storm that swamps his raft. Odysseus laments that he had not died along with the Danaans who perished in Troy, , "doing a favor for the sons of Atreus" (Od. 5.307). With that phrase, Odysseus defines the nature of the Danaans' relationship with Agamemnon and Menelaus. They are…

  • The Homeric Economy

    Walter DonlanCHAPTERA New Companion to Homer1997

    Ever since the original publication of M. I. Finley's The World of Odysseus in 1954, scholars have become accustomed to think of the Homeric economy as submerged or embedded in non-economic social relations. This chapter assumes that Homeric society, the social background for the dramatic action, reflects Greek society around 800 B.C. Most of the free population in Homer makes their livings as farmers, herders, or craftsmen. The isolation of the …

  • Archaic Greek Poetry: An Anthology

    Walter Donlan, Barbara Hughes FowlerARTICLEThe Classical World1996

    With this anthology, Barbara Hughes Fowler presents a comprehensive selection of Greek poetry of the 7th and 6th centuries BC. Fowler's translations provide access to six Homeric hymns, eight selections from Bakchylides, 11 odes of Pindar, selections from the iambicists and elegists, virtually all of Archilochos and of the lyricists, including Sappho, and a number of anonymous poems about work, play and politics. poets delighted in all that was r…

  • Heat and Lust: Hesiod's Midsummer Festival Scene Revisited

    Walter Donlan, J C B PetropoulosARTICLEThe Classical World1996Cited by: 8

    Chapter 1 Foreword by Gregory Nagy Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 The Problem Stated: A Look at Hesiod's Feast and Beyond Chapter 4 The Harvest Chapter 5 The Threshing Chapter 6 The Village of Avdemi: A Case Study in Wanton Women? Chapter 7 Enter the Cicada Chapter 8 Hesiod's Festival Reconsidered Chapter 9 Towards a Conclusion: The Farmer and His Wife. Appendices: Commentary on WD 582-596 Chapter 10 On Zephyros (WD 594) Chapter 11 On kr D=enD=e, Se…

  • Apollo the Wolf-God

    Walter Donlan, Daniel E GershensonARTICLEThe Classical World1994

  • Adelskultur und Polis-gesellschaft: Studien zum griechischen Adel in archaischer und klassischer Zeit

    Walter Donlan, Elke Stein‐Hölkeskamp et al.ARTICLEThe American Journal of Philology1992

  • Women in Greek Tragedy: An Anthropological Approach

    Walter Donlan, Synnve des BouvrieARTICLEThe Classical World1992Cited by: 5

  • Greek Mythology and Poetics

    Walter Donlan, Gregory NagyARTICLEThe Classical World1991Cited by: 8

  • Homer's the Odyssey

    Walter Donlan, Homer Homer et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1990

    second of the two great epic poems attributed to Homer, The Odyssey takes place after the Trojan War and tells the story of Odysseus' voyage home to Ithaca and his wife, Penelope. Odysseus' journey is a perilous one, for he encounters a wide array of heart-pounding adventures and precarious mythical creatures on his way. Supported by numerous full-length essays, this updated volume offers various critical approaches to exploring this enrapturing …

  • Myth and Mind

    Walter Donlan, Harvey BirenbaumARTICLEThe Classical World1989

  • The Unequal Exchange between Glaucus and Diomedes in Light of the Homeric Gift-Economy

    Walter DonlanARTICLEPhoenix1989Cited by: 36

    This ending has always struck critics as odd; many have thought it intentionally humorous.' Conventionally, epic heroes are crafty and cunning, no more so than when they are protecting their wealth and their honor. Glaucus especially, as a direct descendant of Sisyphus, would be expected to have his wits about him in any transaction involving these.2 Therefore, the idea that the Lycian chief would so miscalculate his giving is inherently incongru…

  • Individual and Community: The Rise of the Polis 800-500 B.C

    Walter Donlan, Chester G StarrARTICLEThe Classical World1987Cited by: 18

    During the three centuries from 800 to 500 B.C., the Greek world evolved from a primitive society--both culturally and economically--to one whose artistic products dominated all Mediterranean markets, supported by a wide overseas trade. In the following two centuries came the literary, philosophical, and artistic masterpieces of the classic area. Vital to this advance was the development of the polis, a collective institution in which citizens ha…

  • Conventions of Form and Thought in Early Greek Epic Poetry

    Walter Donlan, William G ThalmannARTICLEThe Classical World1986

  • The Social Groups of Dark Age Greece

    Walter DonlanARTICLEClassical Philology1985Cited by: 53

  • Poesia e pubblico nella Grecia antica. Da Omero al V secolo

    Walter Donlan, Bruno GentiliARTICLEThe Classical World1985Cited by: 10

  • The Poems of Hesiod

    Walter Donlan, Hesiod Hesiod et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1984

  • Basileus: The Evidence for Kingship in Geometric Greece

    Walter Donlan, Robert Drews et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1984

  • Reciprocities in Homer

    Walter DonlanARTICLEThe Classical World1982Cited by: 34

  • "A Brief History of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States and "The Classical World: 1907-1980

    Walter DonlanARTICLEThe Classical World1981

    Walter Donlan, A Brief History of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States and "The Classical World": 1907-1980, The Classical World, Vol. 75, No. 1, Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Issue (Sep. - Oct., 1981), pp. 3-25

  • The Classical World Bibliography of Greek and Roman History

    Alvin H Bernstein, Walter DonlanARTICLEThe Classical World1979

  • The Classical World Bibliography of Vergil

    W R Johnson, Walter DonlanARTICLEThe Classical World1979

  • The Charge at Marathon Again

    Walter Donlan, James ThompsonARTICLEThe Classical World1979