Thomas Habinek
Biographic Data
| ID | 986118 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Habinek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Habinek |
| SIGNATURE | HABINEK T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 214 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Classical Mimesis as Embodied Imitation
Distributed Cognition and its Discontents: A Dialogue across History and Artistic Genre
Writing a history of distributed cognition requires equal attention to cognition and history. Theories of cognition are diverse and contested, in antiquity as today; so are theories and practices of history. Loosely speaking, we might differentiate between history as teleological narrative of actions and events from past to present, and history as retrospective identification and analysis of salient aspects of earlier human experience. If we adop…
Poetry, Patronage, and Roman Politics
This chapter provides an overview of the contexts for the production and circulation of poetry in Classical Rome and their impact on the aesthetic choices of writers and readers alike. Special attention is given to social relations of patronage, friendship, deference, and control and to the development and persistence of a classicizing aesthetic. Material covered ranges from the earliest archaeological evidence (eighth century BC) through the end…
Imago suae vitae: Seneca’s Life and Career
Reconstructing the Roman Republic: An Ancient Political Culture and Modern Research
By Karl-J. Holkeskamp. Translated by Henry Heitmann-Gordon (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010), xiv + 189 pp. $35.00/£24.95 cloth.It is unclear what prompted Princeton University Pres
Dossier: Serments et paroles efficaces
Dossier : Comment agit-on par la parole dans un cadre ritualisé ? Les pratiques des mondes anciens étudiées sont l'occasion de repenser notre monde contemporain. À travers des processus de ritualisation, de « solennisation » et de formalisation, ce volume étudie la manière dont des actes de langage particuliers ont acquis la capacité de lier des personnes dans des unions durables (le mariage, l’alliance, l’adoption ou le contrat) ; de transmettre…
Situating Literacy at Rome
This chapter emphasizes the relation of “oral” and “literate” and talks about writing as the predominant oral culture in Rome. It sketches an account of the early use of writing for assertion of status and Roman identity and describes the social risk in the mastery of literate practices. The chapter concludes with an examination of the “embodied” character of writing, by which writing is not seen as a representation of speech but as something mat…
Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History. (Sather Classical Lectures 65) by Denis Feeney
202 PHOENIX seek out further evidence beyond what this book can offer. This is just what Rives's volume does best: to show us where we stand in a thought-provoking manner that invites further questions about "religion" in the Roman empire. Boston University ZSUZSANNA VÂRHELYI Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History. Denis Feeney. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press (Sather Classical Lectures 65)…
Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire
The Romans commanded the largest and most complex empire the world had ever seen, or would see until modern times. The challenges, however, were not just political, economic and military: Rome was also the hub of a vast information network, drawing in worldwide expertise and refashioning it for its own purposes. This fascinating collection of essays considers the dialogue between technical literature and imperial society, drawing on, developing a…
Satire as aristocratic play
Roman satire describes itself as play more often than it describes itself as satire. Its playfulness consists in part of its relationship to other, ostensibly more serious, literary genres (e.g. epic, oratory, history). But in several instances Roman authors link satire with play of a non-literary sort. Thus we may regard the ancient representation of satire as play as an invitation to consider satire as a social practice as well as a literary ge…
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire
Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from the perspective of a 'real Roman'. In this Cambridge Companion an international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduction to Roman satire's core practitioners and practices, plac…
Ancient Rhetoric and Oratory
Preface.Chronological Chart.I Rhetoric and the State.II The Figure of The Orator.III The Craft of Rhetoric.IV Rhetoric as Acculturation.V The Afterlife of Rhetoric.A Brief Outline of Ancient Rhetoric.Notes.Further Reading.Annotated Index
Ovid and empire
Born in 43 BC, Ovid enjoyed the benefits of the Augustan principate without witnessing the struggles that brought it into being. As a result, the political and social concerns that find their way into his poetry differ from those that preoccupy his predecessors, such as Virgil, Horace, and Propertius. This generational difference, while routinely acknowledged by Ovidian criticism, is not always given the weight that it deserves, inasmuch as it is…
The Cambridge Companion to Ovid
Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture. In this Cambridge Companion, chapters by leading authorities from Europe and North America discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid, the individual works, and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information is combined with exciting critical approaches. This…
Unterhaltung beim griechischen Symposion: Darbietungen, Spiele und Wettkämpfe von homerischer bis in spätklassische Zeit . By Alfred Schäfer
The Roman Cultural Revolution
Introduction Part I. The Transformation of Cultural Systems: 1. Mutatio morum: the idea of a cultural revolution Andrew Wallace-Hadrill 2. The invention of sexuality in the world-city of Rome Thomas Habinek 3. Recitatio and the reorganization of the space of public discourse Florence Dupont Part II. Texts and Contexts: 4. The boundaries of knowledge in Virgil's Georgics Alessandro Schiesaro 5. Ut arte emendaturus fortunam, Horace, Nasidienus and …
The Politics of Latin Literature: Writing, Identity, and Empire in Ancient Rome
This is the first book to describe the intimate relationship between Latin literature and the politics of ancient Rome. Until now, most scholars have viewed classical Latin literature as a product of aesthetic concerns. Thomas Habinek shows, however, that literature was also a cultural practice that emerged from and intervened in the political and social struggles at the heart of the Roman world. Habinek considers major works by such authors as C…
Classical and Modern Interactions: Post-Modern Architecture, Multiculturalism, Decline, and Other Issues . By Karl Galinsky
Ideology for an Empire in the Prefaces to Cicero's Dialogues
Ideology is a process as well as a product. To extract a set of political principles or mystificatory arguments from a text and call them ‘ideology’ is to overlook the fact that a text is ideological only insofar as it seeks to affect an audience. As J.B. Thompson has written, in a passage cited with approval by Terry Eagleton, ‘to study ideology...is to study the ways in which meaning (or signification) serves to sustain relations of domination.…
Sympotica: A Symposium on the Symposion . By Oswyn Murray. Dining in a Classical Context . By William J. Slater. The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet: Images of Wine and Ritual . By François Lissarragu…
An aristocracy of virtue: Seneca on the beginnings of wisdom
In the matter of birth, as in other matters, Roman society of the early Principate exhibits a tension between ideology and practice. Implicit in the Roman notion of an ordo senatorius , into which members are inscribed at birth, or in the distinctions between slave and free, Romanus and municeps , is a premium on beginnings, of self, family, and nation. At the same time, the relative frequency of movement across what might appear to be rigid boun…
The Hellenistic Stoa: Political Thought and Action
Greeks and Romans in Book 12 of Quintilian
It is a common observation that Latin literature of the imperial period is highly rhetorical. Usually this claim is made with reference to the elaborate and overwrought nature of the language (a function of elocutio ) or to the recurrence of certain conventional themes, images, and topoi (a subdivision of inventio ). But to the Romans, rhetoric was something larger and deeper. It involved an approach to any situation, not just the composition of …
The Marriageability of Maximus: Horace, Ode 4.1.13-20
The Politics of Latin Literature: Writing, Identity, and Empire in Ancient Rome
This is the first book to describe the intimate relationship between Latin literature and the politics of ancient Rome. Until now, most scholars have viewed classical Latin literature as a product of aesthetic concerns. Thomas Habinek shows, however, that literature was also a cultural practice that emerged from and intervened in the political and social struggles at the heart of the Roman world. Habinek considers major works by such authors as C…
Ancient Rhetoric and Oratory
Preface.Chronological Chart.I Rhetoric and the State.II The Figure of The Orator.III The Craft of Rhetoric.IV Rhetoric as Acculturation.V The Afterlife of Rhetoric.A Brief Outline of Ancient Rhetoric.Notes.Further Reading.Annotated Index
Ideology for an Empire in the Prefaces to Cicero's Dialogues
Ideology is a process as well as a product. To extract a set of political principles or mystificatory arguments from a text and call them ‘ideology’ is to overlook the fact that a text is ideological only insofar as it seeks to affect an audience. As J.B. Thompson has written, in a passage cited with approval by Terry Eagleton, ‘to study ideology...is to study the ways in which meaning (or signification) serves to sustain relations of domination.…
Unterhaltung beim griechischen Symposion: Darbietungen, Spiele und Wettkämpfe von homerischer bis in spätklassische Zeit . By Alfred Schäfer
The Hellenistic Stoa: Political Thought and Action
Greeks and Romans in Book 12 of Quintilian
It is a common observation that Latin literature of the imperial period is highly rhetorical. Usually this claim is made with reference to the elaborate and overwrought nature of the language (a function of elocutio ) or to the recurrence of certain conventional themes, images, and topoi (a subdivision of inventio ). But to the Romans, rhetoric was something larger and deeper. It involved an approach to any situation, not just the composition of …
The Marriageability of Maximus: Horace, Ode 4.1.13-20
Greeks and Romans in Book 12 of Quintilian
It is a common observation that Latin literature of the imperial period is highly rhetorical. Usually this claim is made with reference to the elaborate and overwrought nature of the language (a function of elocutio ) or to the recurrence of certain conventional themes, images, and topoi (a subdivision of inventio ). But to the Romans, rhetoric was something larger and deeper. It involved an approach to any situation, not just the composition of …
An aristocracy of virtue: Seneca on the beginnings of wisdom
In the matter of birth, as in other matters, Roman society of the early Principate exhibits a tension between ideology and practice. Implicit in the Roman notion of an ordo senatorius , into which members are inscribed at birth, or in the distinctions between slave and free, Romanus and municeps , is a premium on beginnings, of self, family, and nation. At the same time, the relative frequency of movement across what might appear to be rigid boun…
The Hellenistic Stoa: Political Thought and Action
Sympotica: A Symposium on the Symposion . By Oswyn Murray. Dining in a Classical Context . By William J. Slater. The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet: Images of Wine and Ritual . By François Lissarragu…
Classical and Modern Interactions: Post-Modern Architecture, Multiculturalism, Decline, and Other Issues . By Karl Galinsky
Ideology for an Empire in the Prefaces to Cicero's Dialogues
Ideology is a process as well as a product. To extract a set of political principles or mystificatory arguments from a text and call them ‘ideology’ is to overlook the fact that a text is ideological only insofar as it seeks to affect an audience. As J.B. Thompson has written, in a passage cited with approval by Terry Eagleton, ‘to study ideology...is to study the ways in which meaning (or signification) serves to sustain relations of domination.…
The Politics of Latin Literature: Writing, Identity, and Empire in Ancient Rome
This is the first book to describe the intimate relationship between Latin literature and the politics of ancient Rome. Until now, most scholars have viewed classical Latin literature as a product of aesthetic concerns. Thomas Habinek shows, however, that literature was also a cultural practice that emerged from and intervened in the political and social struggles at the heart of the Roman world. Habinek considers major works by such authors as C…
Unterhaltung beim griechischen Symposion: Darbietungen, Spiele und Wettkämpfe von homerischer bis in spätklassische Zeit . By Alfred Schäfer
The Roman Cultural Revolution
Introduction Part I. The Transformation of Cultural Systems: 1. Mutatio morum: the idea of a cultural revolution Andrew Wallace-Hadrill 2. The invention of sexuality in the world-city of Rome Thomas Habinek 3. Recitatio and the reorganization of the space of public discourse Florence Dupont Part II. Texts and Contexts: 4. The boundaries of knowledge in Virgil's Georgics Alessandro Schiesaro 5. Ut arte emendaturus fortunam, Horace, Nasidienus and …
Ovid and empire
Born in 43 BC, Ovid enjoyed the benefits of the Augustan principate without witnessing the struggles that brought it into being. As a result, the political and social concerns that find their way into his poetry differ from those that preoccupy his predecessors, such as Virgil, Horace, and Propertius. This generational difference, while routinely acknowledged by Ovidian criticism, is not always given the weight that it deserves, inasmuch as it is…
The Cambridge Companion to Ovid
Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture. In this Cambridge Companion, chapters by leading authorities from Europe and North America discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid, the individual works, and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information is combined with exciting critical approaches. This…
Satire as aristocratic play
Roman satire describes itself as play more often than it describes itself as satire. Its playfulness consists in part of its relationship to other, ostensibly more serious, literary genres (e.g. epic, oratory, history). But in several instances Roman authors link satire with play of a non-literary sort. Thus we may regard the ancient representation of satire as play as an invitation to consider satire as a social practice as well as a literary ge…
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire
Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from the perspective of a 'real Roman'. In this Cambridge Companion an international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduction to Roman satire's core practitioners and practices, plac…
Ancient Rhetoric and Oratory
Preface.Chronological Chart.I Rhetoric and the State.II The Figure of The Orator.III The Craft of Rhetoric.IV Rhetoric as Acculturation.V The Afterlife of Rhetoric.A Brief Outline of Ancient Rhetoric.Notes.Further Reading.Annotated Index
Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire
The Romans commanded the largest and most complex empire the world had ever seen, or would see until modern times. The challenges, however, were not just political, economic and military: Rome was also the hub of a vast information network, drawing in worldwide expertise and refashioning it for its own purposes. This fascinating collection of essays considers the dialogue between technical literature and imperial society, drawing on, developing a…
Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History. (Sather Classical Lectures 65) by Denis Feeney
202 PHOENIX seek out further evidence beyond what this book can offer. This is just what Rives's volume does best: to show us where we stand in a thought-provoking manner that invites further questions about "religion" in the Roman empire. Boston University ZSUZSANNA VÂRHELYI Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History. Denis Feeney. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press (Sather Classical Lectures 65)…
Situating Literacy at Rome
This chapter emphasizes the relation of “oral” and “literate” and talks about writing as the predominant oral culture in Rome. It sketches an account of the early use of writing for assertion of status and Roman identity and describes the social risk in the mastery of literate practices. The chapter concludes with an examination of the “embodied” character of writing, by which writing is not seen as a representation of speech but as something mat…
Dossier: Serments et paroles efficaces
Dossier : Comment agit-on par la parole dans un cadre ritualisé ? Les pratiques des mondes anciens étudiées sont l'occasion de repenser notre monde contemporain. À travers des processus de ritualisation, de « solennisation » et de formalisation, ce volume étudie la manière dont des actes de langage particuliers ont acquis la capacité de lier des personnes dans des unions durables (le mariage, l’alliance, l’adoption ou le contrat) ; de transmettre…
Reconstructing the Roman Republic: An Ancient Political Culture and Modern Research
By Karl-J. Holkeskamp. Translated by Henry Heitmann-Gordon (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010), xiv + 189 pp. $35.00/£24.95 cloth.It is unclear what prompted Princeton University Pres
Imago suae vitae: Seneca’s Life and Career
Poetry, Patronage, and Roman Politics
This chapter provides an overview of the contexts for the production and circulation of poetry in Classical Rome and their impact on the aesthetic choices of writers and readers alike. Special attention is given to social relations of patronage, friendship, deference, and control and to the development and persistence of a classicizing aesthetic. Material covered ranges from the earliest archaeological evidence (eighth century BC) through the end…
Distributed Cognition and its Discontents: A Dialogue across History and Artistic Genre
Writing a history of distributed cognition requires equal attention to cognition and history. Theories of cognition are diverse and contested, in antiquity as today; so are theories and practices of history. Loosely speaking, we might differentiate between history as teleological narrative of actions and events from past to present, and history as retrospective identification and analysis of salient aspects of earlier human experience. If we adop…
Classical Mimesis as Embodied Imitation
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