Donald Lateiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 995390 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald Lateiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald |
| FAMILY NAME | Lateiner |
| SIGNATURE | LATEINER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio Wesleyan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 80 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 169 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 78 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Lucian and His Alexander, a.k.a. Fake Prophet: Fake News and Invective Mirrored
Lucian the sophist wrote an epistolary essay that condemns the spiritualist Alexander of Abonuteichos for criminal fraud, social and sexual self-aggrandizement, and sexual mischief, first among his native Paphlagonians and then far beyond in second-century Roman Anatolia. Both men prospered by their verbal agility and daring performances. Both succeeded remarkably in the imperial oikoumene. They competed for attention with contrasting worldviews.…
Silence and Stillness in Heliodoros’ Aithiopika
Heliodoros’ protagonists, Charikleia and Theagenes, become silent or still when facing superior legal or illegal force and/or institutional power (patriarchy, imprisonments, different religious traditions). Women and slaves are disempowered always, and men quickly lose rights and status previously enjoyed. Major and minor characters confront crises in which they are cornered and helpless, but stealthy tactics twisting expected social roles enable…
Connotation and ‘Com-motion’: Putting the Kinesis into the Roman Cinaedus
Our discussion builds on earlier efforts to explore and explain the specific sexual connotations of the Greek-derived Latin noun cinaedus: by considering how cinaedi are said to employ their bodies, particularly their buttocks and mouths, and thereby distinguishing the connotations of cinaedus from that of pathicus, another Greek-derived Latin noun with which it sometimes appears.
What Kind of History is ‘Intentional’ History? (on H.-J. Gehrke, The Greeks and Their Histories: (Myth, History, and Society, translated by R. Geuss)
ans-Joachim Gehrke invented the term 'intentional history ' [intentionale Geschichte] to denominate a notion and a form of comprehending the past that views its agents not as 'our' modern predecessors do, in methods and purposes, but as creators of a new, communal and self-conscious medium of local and regional but Hellenic memory.Its broader net encompassed oral traditions, all three genres of oratory, historical elegies, rituals, inscriptions, …
Bad News” in Herodotos and Thoukydides: Misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda
Herodotos and Thoukydides report on many occasions that kings, polis leaders, and other politicians speak and behave in ways that unintentionally announce or analyze situations incorrectly ( mis information). Elsewhere, they represent as facts knowingly false constructs or “fake news” ( dis information), or they slant data in ways that advance a cause personal or public (propaganda , true or false). Historians attempt to or claim to acquaint audi…
Insults in Classical Athens by Deborah Kamen
148 PHOENIX bolster her case for wide-spread literacy, including prose, which went well beyond the book on salt Hadjimichael mentions. There was also a readership for Polyclitus’ Canon, Hippodamus’ political works, Sophocles’ Chorus, Agatharchus’ Scene Painting, and the architect Ictinus’ work on the Parthenon. These were not how-to books, but if there was an audience for just these few known titles, this would attest to an Athenian appetite for …
Ch. 2. Insults and Humiliations in Fifth-Century Historiography and Comedy
Herodotos, Thoukydides, and Xenophon, in that descending order, include anecdotal descriptions of systematic humiliation through verbal and nonverbal digs and insults. Examples include Hippokleides’ symposiastic behaviour at Agariste’s wedding competition, Peisistratid insult to the sexual purity of Harmodios’ sister, Athenian mockery of a Spartan POW held in Athens after capture on Sphakteria, and Theramenes’ witty toast of his executioner Kriti…
The Ancient Emotion of Disgust
The study of emotions and emotional displays has achieved a deserved prominence in recent classical scholarship. The emotions of the classical world can be plumbed to provide a valuable heuristic tool. Emotions can help us understand key issues of ancient ethics, ideological assumptions, and normative behaviors, but, more frequently than not, classical scholars have turned their attention to "social emotions" requiring practical decisions and eth…
Ancient Emotion of Disgust
"Disgust is an essential human emotion, relatively neglected even in recent scholarship taking the "emotional turn." Fifteen essays by historians and literary scholars examine disgust in theory and practice. Topics range from medicine, drama, oratory, historiography, fiction, biography, to the status of witches, eunuch priests, and theatrical professionals."
Horography
Horographies, local histories of Hellenic poleis , put each Hellenic polis , a historical collective, at the center of a sequential story, as ethnogra phies put a particular foreign community at their center.
History, contemporary
One may, logically, write a sensible narrative only of events past, since the present lacks visible shape or point for one to view it from, and no mortal knows the future by observation and rational consideration. Historiography, before the word existed, faced the issue of what a human can know of any period of the past and of the extent to which a Greek can know it.
Erga
Like its English cognate, “works,” erga refers to any sort of human achievement, any deed or task – often the physical object.
Historia
Like the English word “history” itself, historia carries multiple meanings: past events, inquiries pursued by various means into oral and written sources, information, and accounts of those events (Plut. Cons. Apoll . 119d).
Oaths: Theory and Practice in the Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides
Weighing Thucydides' implicit (therefore, at best, only alleged) criticisms of — and homage to — his predecessor Herodotus demands comparison and examination of ‘normal’ institutions. Included oaths, for example, deserve examination as well as accounts of speeches, battle-challenges, and diplomatic threats. Oath furnishes one noteworthy index of sophisticated social and legal analysis embedded in ancient historical narrations. The historians' use…
Thucydides and Herodotus
Thucydides and Herodotus' is an edited collection which looks at two of the most important ancient Greek historians living in the 5th century BCE. It examines the relevant relationship between them which is considered, especially nowadays, by historians and philologists to be more significant than previously realized
Body Language
Trees
Prayer
Laughter
Youth
Feasting
Olive
Ivory
Omens
Utensils and Tools
The Athenian Republic: Democracy or the Rule of Law
Thucydides and Herodotus
Thucydides and Herodotus' is an edited collection which looks at two of the most important ancient Greek historians living in the 5th century BCE. It examines the relevant relationship between them which is considered, especially nowadays, by historians and philologists to be more significant than previously realized
The Swineherd and the Bow: "Representations of Class in the "Odyssey
Odyssey, William G. Thalmann asserts, does not describe an actual historical society at any period, but gives a selected, idiosyncratic and contradictory picture to serve ideological ends, representing rather than reproducing social reality. The Swineherd and the Bow is an ambitious attempt to apply literary and social science theory in order to reveal Homeric epic as a form of class discourse within the context of early Greek social and politica…
Mimetic Syntax: Metaphor from Word Order, Especially in Ovid
From Sappho to De Sade: Moments in the History of Sexuality
Why was a homosexual relationship between two adults unacceptable in ancient Greece? Why did the prohibition of incest extend to the limits of kinship in the Middle Ages? Why was the nineteenth century terrified of masturbation? Why have the brothels with their madams virtually disappeared-in-western Europe? Psychiatrists like Freud and biologists like Kinsey would have been taken aback by these kinds of intriguing questions. Surely, people do 'i…
Heralds and Corpses in Thucydides
Gestures and Acclamations in Ancient Rome
Life in Rome was relentlessly public and oratory was at its heart. In this in-depth study of oratorical gestures and crowd acclamations as methods of communication at public spectacles, the author seeks to recapture the original context of these interactive, dramatic and contentious public performances. At the most basic level, the book is a study of communication - how Roman speakers communicated with their audiences and how audiences in turn we…
Mythic and Non-Mythic Artists in Ovid's Metamorphoses
The interpretation of Ovid's epic that is argued here has three related parts that have not been drawn together before: I. Ovid's panoramic presentation of myth, the Metamorphoses , presents provocative reflections in dramatic guise concerning human psychology, society, and art. Ovid is an engaged poet as well as an amusing one. II. The Metamorphoses include, under the mantle of myth, pointed criticisms of the Emperor Augustus and his program of …
"Seduction and Repetition in Ovid's "Ars Amatoria II
Thelxis: Magic and Imagination in Greek Myth and Poetry
Obscenity in Catullus
For the artist, obscenity is an aesthetic, not a legal, problem. I wish to analyze the uses to which Catullus puts obscenity and comment on the nature of obscenity in poetry. Catullus comments on his obscene subject matter in three poems. These furnish a starting point for an anatomy of the obscenity of Catullus. Poem 50 describes an afternoon of light verse composition ( versiculi ) with a friend. ‘We played around a lot, each toying in verse’ (…
A Note on ΔΙΚΑΣ ΔΙΔΟΝΑΙ in Herodotus
Herodotus' extension of tisis from a merely ethical principle to an encompassing law of nature is now widely recognized. The unjust expulsion of Demaratus from the Spartan kingship obtains its clear revenge from both Leotychidas and Cleomenes (6.72.1, 84.3). Hipparchus' vision of a giant prophet who announces the universal penalty for human injustice (5.56.1) embodies a statement of the ethical law which Herodotus sees operating in the realm of a…
Proxemic and Chronemic in Homeric Epic: Time and Space in Heroic Social Interaction
Household Interests: Property, Marriage Strategies, and Family Dynamics in Ancient Athens
List of Figures and Tables Ch. 2 Town and Country Marriage and Death Ch. 3 Harmony and Conflict within the Household Ch. 4 Sibling Relationships Ch. 5 What Was an Oikos? Ch. 6 The Nonkinsman, the Oikos, and the Household Conclusions App The Political Families References Index
S. Hornblower, A Commentary on Thucydides Volume II: Books IV-V.24
Reading Thucydides offers] "the agreeable feeling as of turning a lock with a key: a gradual, reluctant giving way, but always functional, always achieving its end," said Friedrich Nietzsche in Wir Philologen, (, transl.Arrowsmith : ).One needs not only the right key for this complex lock, but several keys to open it, and sometimes the lock, or the key, or both seem rusty.Exegetes from antiquity have struggled with this occasionally maddening, of…
The Man Who Does Not Meddle in Politics: A Topos in Lysias
Obscenity in Catullus
For the artist, obscenity is an aesthetic, not a legal, problem. I wish to analyze the uses to which Catullus puts obscenity and comment on the nature of obscenity in poetry. Catullus comments on his obscene subject matter in three poems. These furnish a starting point for an anatomy of the obscenity of Catullus. Poem 50 describes an afternoon of light verse composition ( versiculi ) with a friend. ‘We played around a lot, each toying in verse’ (…
Heralds and Corpses in Thucydides
Wilamowitz's Second Century
A Note on ΔΙΚΑΣ ΔΙΔΟΝΑΙ in Herodotus
Herodotus' extension of tisis from a merely ethical principle to an encompassing law of nature is now widely recognized. The unjust expulsion of Demaratus from the Spartan kingship obtains its clear revenge from both Leotychidas and Cleomenes (6.72.1, 84.3). Hipparchus' vision of a giant prophet who announces the universal penalty for human injustice (5.56.1) embodies a statement of the ethical law which Herodotus sees operating in the realm of a…
The Man Who Does Not Meddle in Politics: A Topos in Lysias
The Stylistic Evaluation of Aeschines in Antiquity
Mythic and Non-Mythic Artists in Ovid's Metamorphoses
The interpretation of Ovid's epic that is argued here has three related parts that have not been drawn together before: I. Ovid's panoramic presentation of myth, the Metamorphoses , presents provocative reflections in dramatic guise concerning human psychology, society, and art. Ovid is an engaged poet as well as an amusing one. II. The Metamorphoses include, under the mantle of myth, pointed criticisms of the Emperor Augustus and his program of …
Nicias' Inadequate Encouragement (Thucydides 7. 69. 2)
The Empirical Element in the Methods of Early Greek Medical Writers and Herodotus: A Shared Epistemological Response
Today one expects a truth or the truth to be characterized by objectivity, communicability, and unity. It should be testable, precisely expressed, consistent, and logical. To be all this, the truth must conform to the world of observation, and it must be based on data that can verify or falsify it. A truth may be general or particular, and research in different disciplines, of course, will pursue information and truths by different methods. Some …
Herodotean Narrative and Discourse
The Historical Method of Herodotus
The Historical Method of Herodotus illuminates the idiosyncrasies and ambitious nature of a major text in classics and the Western tradition and touches on aspects of historiography, ancient history, rhetoric, and the history of ideas
The Athenian Republic: Democracy or the Rule of Law
Mimetic Syntax: Metaphor from Word Order, Especially in Ovid
Herodotus and His 'Sources: Citation, Invention and Narrative Art
Professor Fehling's important study of source-citations in Herodotus first appeared in German in 1971 ( Die Quellenangaben bei Herodot ). It proved controversial at the time, setting its face as it did against the general trend of Herodotean studies over the preceding few decades. Herodotus and his 'Sources' re-opens the question of the veracity of Herodotus' source-citations, raised in the last century in Britain by A. H. Sayce and in Germany by…
Apuleius: Metamorphoses
Death and the Maiden: Girls' Initiation Rites in Greek Mythology
The Historical Method of Herodotus
Among the Gods: An Archaeological Exploration of Ancient Greek Religion
The Historical Method of Herodotus
Affect Displays in the Epic Poetry of Homer, Vergil, and Ovid
Myth, Rhetoric, and Fiction. A Reading of Longus's Daphnis and Chloe
From Sappho to De Sade: Moments in the History of Sexuality
Why was a homosexual relationship between two adults unacceptable in ancient Greece? Why did the prohibition of incest extend to the limits of kinship in the Middle Ages? Why was the nineteenth century terrified of masturbation? Why have the brothels with their madams virtually disappeared-in-western Europe? Psychiatrists like Freud and biologists like Kinsey would have been taken aback by these kinds of intriguing questions. Surely, people do 'i…
Give and Take in Herodotus
Thelxis: Magic and Imagination in Greek Myth and Poetry
From Plataea to Potidaea: Studies in the History and Historiography of the Pentacontaetia
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