T Phillips
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 16768 |
|---|---|
| NOME | T Phillips |
| PRENOMES | T |
| SOBRENOME | Phillips |
| ASSINATURA | PHILLIPS T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1732-4514 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Cambridge Companion to Pindar
Pindar was the single most important, canonical and influential lyric poet in the ancient Greek world, and he remains one of the most demanding and rewarding poets whose work has come down to us from antiquity. This volume represents the most comprehensive introduction to the poet and his reception yet published. Eighteen leading contemporary scholars contribute individual chapters that together help to provide a holistic understanding of Pindar'…
Ancient Poetry
This chapter considers Percy Shelley’s concern with ancient Greek literature through a close reading of ‘With a Guitar. To Jane’. The second half of the poem unfolds a description of the guitar modelled on the representation of the lyre in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes. In the course of this account, Shelley presents an instrument which is akin to its ancient counterpart in its bewitching power, but which derives qualities from its environment in a …
Implicated Leaves
Taking its methodological bearings both from contemporary ecocritical debate and ancient literary critical conceptions of the poet’s auditory subjectivity, this article considers the tree-felling episode in the sixth book of Virgil’s Aeneid as an instance of authorial listening embodied in poetic form, in which a range of stances towards the non-human world can be detected. It then traces a strand of imagery in Virgil’s account of the punishment …
Beyond the Fens
The discovery of Middle Bronze Age field systems at Fengate, to the east of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire (Pryor 1980), in the 1970s, was hugely significant for Bronze Age studies in eastern England. Since then, gravel quarry excavations along the western edge of the East Anglian Fens – several of which have become vast, long-running landscape projects – have shaped our understanding of the region’s prehistory. This paper will examine new evidence…
Bloomsday in America
The Pauline Prophecy
A Poet’s Lives
Scholars ancient and modern have subjected Theocritus to various types of biographical readings, and this chapter argues that such attention is symptomatic of a crucial aspect of his poetry. Following an account of the ancient biographical tradition, passages from Idylls 1, 3, and 7 are interpreted as intratextual configurations of life that model readers’ sense of their own agency, their potential for experience, and their conduct in the world
Past Encounters
Examining episodes such as the Argonauts’ catching sight of the eagle that tortures Prometheus, the description of the shepherd Dipsacus, the rituals in which the Argonauts participate, the argument and reconciliation between Jason and Telamon, and the Argonauts’ meeting with the Hesperides, Chapter 3 argues that the Argonautica brings about shifts in the understanding of reading as an ethical act that are closely connected to readers’ temporal s…
Affecting Time
The first part of Chapter 1 examines the Argonautica ’s intertextual relationships, especially but not exclusively with Homer, as a means of affording and shaping access to an imagined world, before considering the figure of Heracles as an articulation of the poem’s concern with temporal change. The rest of the chapter focuses on Apollonius’ ‘philological’ poetics. Building on previous studies, it argues that Apollonius’ use of unusual words shou…
Conclusion
The Conclusion situates the significance of the Argonautica ’s handling of time in relation to a strand of the philosophical tradition, represented by Gorgias, in which humanity’s temporal implication is a source of cognitive frailty. While the Argonautica presents its readers with a world that resists being grasped in simple conceptualizations and repeatedly highlights the limits of forethought, it also offers readers the possibility of an enhan…
Untimely Performances
Chapter 2 focuses on three performances, the Argonauts’ paean to Apollo on Thynias, the Heliades’ lament, and Orpheus drowning out the song of the Sirens. Albeit in very different ways, each episode promotes various understandings of historical difference or distance, and an enhanced sense that relating to performances is always a temporally situated activity. Each invites readers to consider fundamental questions about poetry’s purposes and effe…
Exemplarity, Ethics, Narrative
Apollonius’ contribution to ancient discourses of exemplarity is the subject of Chapter 4. The first part of the chapter discusses the ecphrasis of Jason’s cloak, the second Jason’s conversation with Medea at the temple of Hecate. The former invites readers to measure paradigmatic frameworks against subsequent events, and encourages attention to the relationship between frameworks of understanding and the sensuous realities through which they are…
Writing in Absentia
Between 1975 and his assassination in 1978, the Bulgarian journalist Georgi Markov wrote more than 130 radio reports about life in Bulgaria. These, however, are not news reports in the conventional sense. They are a form of autobiographical reportage and, as such, don’t focus so much on contemporary events in Bulgaria, as on Markov’s own experiences and encounters in the homeland he eventually found it necessary to leave in 1969. Thanks to the ne…
Anachronism and Antiquity
This book is a study both of anachronism in antiquity and of anachronism as a vehicle for understanding antiquity. It explores the post-classical origins and changing meanings of the term ‘anachronism’ as well as the presence of anachronism in all its forms in classical literature, criticism and material objects. Contrary to the position taken by many modern philosophers of history, this book argues that classical antiquity had a rich and varied …
Untimely Epic
Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica is a voyage across time as well as space. The Argonauts encounter monsters, nymphs, shepherds, and kings who represent earlier stages of the cosmos or human society; they are given glimpses into the future, and themselves effect changes in the world through which they travel. Readers undergo a still more complex form of temporal transport, enabled not just to imagine themselves into the deep past, but to examine th…
Significant insignificances
The construction of counter-narratives which reclaim and rename history by challenging hegemonic discourse cannot simply be a question of replacing one metanarrative with another. Genuine counter-narratives also challenge the category of “the historical” itself, blurring its parameters and making value-claims for what is often regarded as historically insignificant or marginal. In this chapter, I examine works by three authors – George Orwell, Ch…
“Angry False‐Teeth‐Chattering Mayhem”
Numerous reflections on the “golden age” of British wrestling are punctuated by mention of “grannies” wielding handbags or “swearing like troopers” in order to attack wrestlers. The frequent mention of this subgroup demonstrates how particular fans and their practices become specifically associated with a cultural form; over time this discourse has framed British wrestling as inextricably linked with the actions of this more vociferous group of m…
Hesiod and Pindar
This chapter examines Hesiodic elements in Pindar’s “First Hymn” and Pythian 1 and appropriations of Hesiod’s “path to virtue” in the epinicians. Differences between Pindar’s treatment of Zeus’s marriage and cosmic dispensations in the “First Hymn” and Hesiod’s account articulate a greater emphasis on cosmic order and create an identification between the audience’s response to the poem and that of the gods to the newly created cosmos. In Pythian …
What Do Musicians Talk About When They Talk About Copyright
Based primarily on interviews with musicians who sit on the margins of the music industry and for whom music is not their main source of income, this article reports on how these artists and performers think and talk about copyright. If, as many suppose, the business of making music is more and more about the distribution of rights, how are these rights understood and valued in the practices of these musicians? What are these rights seen to prote…
Conclusion
The Conclusion draws together the book’s main considerations by examining some sympotic citations of Pindar in Athenaeus, as well as Leonidas of Tarentum’s epigram on Pindar. These passages exemplify the way Pindar’s texts are put to new uses by later authors, and the effects that such engagements would have had on how readers approached the Pindaric corpus.
Pythians 11 and 12
Don't clone my indie game, bro”
In the contemporary games sector, independent developers feel there is an inadequate level of protection for their intellectual property, particularly with regards to game clones. There is also a sense that neither players nor policy-makers completely understand the specificities of how IP may be creatively, if not legally infringed. As a result, there has increasingly been a shift towards the construction of a culture of self-regulation for indi…
Copyright and musicians at the digital margins
While there is research into consumer attitudes to copyright and downloading, and the music industry has made clear its own views in evidence to the Hargreaves Review and other forums, relatively little is known about musicians’ attitudes to copyright. This article reports on those musicians who are negotiating the new terrain created by digitization and its accompanying business models. Are their attitudes to copyright simply determined by their…
Iliad 13.754
At Iliad 13.751-3, Hector heeds Polydamas' advice to rally the Trojans by gathering their best fighters together and debating their next move (13.736-47). The speech is followed by a simile that has puzzled some commentators, in which Hector is compared to a snowy mountain as he moves through the Trojan ranks. The passage runs as follows: ‘Πουλυδάμα σὺ μὲν αὐτοῦ ἐρύκακε πάντας ἀρίστους, αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ κεῖσ’ εἶμι καὶ ἀντιόω πολέμοιο· αἶψα δ’ ἐλεύσομαι …
Pindar's Library
The main focus of this book is on how readers during the Hellenistic period encountered these poems in book form. To this end, it analyses the role played by Pindar’s literary, cultic, and scholarly reception in affecting readers’ engagement with his poetry. But because consideration of the poems as material documents is connected to their roles as performance pieces, the book also examines the poet’s encomiastic techniques, mythical narratives, …
Africa
This volume provides a global vision of the art of through a host of colourful images of the finest known objects from the continent's cultural heritage. It examines African art geographically in a grand tour that divides the continent into seven areas. Beginning with ancient Egypt and Nubia, it moves down the eastern coast through Ethiopia and the Sudan - including the island of Madagascar - to Southern Africa, then up through the Congo and Cent…
Epinician Variations
The importance of music for epinician, as for all other types of choral performance in Archaic and Classical Greece, has long been recognized, but the exiguousness of the evidence for the compositional principles behind such music, and for what these poems actually sounded like in performance, has limited scholarly enquiries. Examination of Pindar's texts themselves for evidence of his musical practices was for a long time dominated by extensive …
Anachronism and Antiquity
This book is a study both of anachronism in antiquity and of anachronism as a vehicle for understanding antiquity. It explores the post-classical origins and changing meanings of the term ‘anachronism’ as well as the presence of anachronism in all its forms in classical literature, criticism and material objects. Contrary to the position taken by many modern philosophers of history, this book argues that classical antiquity had a rich and varied …
Wrestling with grief
In 2007, professional wrestler Chris Benoit murdered his wife and young son before killing himself. The shocking incident was made even more significant due to Benoit’s then employment with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), the world’s predominant professional wrestling organisation. As a result, WWE ordered a complete censorship of Benoit across its media output, guiding fans to forget him with prejudice. This article presents an examination …
What Do Musicians Talk About When They Talk About Copyright
Based primarily on interviews with musicians who sit on the margins of the music industry and for whom music is not their main source of income, this article reports on how these artists and performers think and talk about copyright. If, as many suppose, the business of making music is more and more about the distribution of rights, how are these rights understood and valued in the practices of these musicians? What are these rights seen to prote…
Untimely Epic
Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica is a voyage across time as well as space. The Argonauts encounter monsters, nymphs, shepherds, and kings who represent earlier stages of the cosmos or human society; they are given glimpses into the future, and themselves effect changes in the world through which they travel. Readers undergo a still more complex form of temporal transport, enabled not just to imagine themselves into the deep past, but to examine th…
Don't clone my indie game, bro”
In the contemporary games sector, independent developers feel there is an inadequate level of protection for their intellectual property, particularly with regards to game clones. There is also a sense that neither players nor policy-makers completely understand the specificities of how IP may be creatively, if not legally infringed. As a result, there has increasingly been a shift towards the construction of a culture of self-regulation for indi…
Copyright and musicians at the digital margins
While there is research into consumer attitudes to copyright and downloading, and the music industry has made clear its own views in evidence to the Hargreaves Review and other forums, relatively little is known about musicians’ attitudes to copyright. This article reports on those musicians who are negotiating the new terrain created by digitization and its accompanying business models. Are their attitudes to copyright simply determined by their…
A bad case of Brisbane
Torday at the Museum of Mankind
Symposium
Journal Article Book Notes Get access Symposium. Translated By Tom Griffith, Introduced By Anthony Quinton, Illustrated By Tom Phillips. (London: The Folio Society, 1991. Pp. xxi + 67. Price £24.50. Available from The Folio Society, 202 Great Suffolk Street, London, SE1 1PR.) J.J. H J.J. H Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 173, October 1993, Pages 579–580, https:…
New Lamps for Old
Tom Phillips, R.A., is a composer, poet, filmmaker, librettist, set designer, curator, and bibliophile of dizzying and gently displayed intelligence. He is best known as a painter whose one-man exhibitions number in the hundreds and span the globe. His books include an illustrated Dante's Inferno (the generatrix of a collaboration with Peter Greenaway for the BBC, A TV Dante) and A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel
Poems
Poem
Africa
This volume provides a global vision of the art of through a host of colourful images of the finest known objects from the continent's cultural heritage. It examines African art geographically in a grand tour that divides the continent into seven areas. Beginning with ancient Egypt and Nubia, it moves down the eastern coast through Ethiopia and the Sudan - including the island of Madagascar - to Southern Africa, then up through the Congo and Cent…
Epinician Variations
The importance of music for epinician, as for all other types of choral performance in Archaic and Classical Greece, has long been recognized, but the exiguousness of the evidence for the compositional principles behind such music, and for what these poems actually sounded like in performance, has limited scholarly enquiries. Examination of Pindar's texts themselves for evidence of his musical practices was for a long time dominated by extensive …
A New Sapphic Intertext in Horace
This article argues for a connection between Sappho’s ‘Charaxus Poem’ and Horace C.1.9.9-12. Horace’s lines rework the third stanza of Sappho’s poem, with consequences both for how Horace presents himself in this poem, and for his wider relation to the Lesbian poets
Between Pindar and Sappho
Conclusion
The Conclusion draws together the book’s main considerations by examining some sympotic citations of Pindar in Athenaeus, as well as Leonidas of Tarentum’s epigram on Pindar. These passages exemplify the way Pindar’s texts are put to new uses by later authors, and the effects that such engagements would have had on how readers approached the Pindaric corpus.
Pythians 11 and 12
Don't clone my indie game, bro”
In the contemporary games sector, independent developers feel there is an inadequate level of protection for their intellectual property, particularly with regards to game clones. There is also a sense that neither players nor policy-makers completely understand the specificities of how IP may be creatively, if not legally infringed. As a result, there has increasingly been a shift towards the construction of a culture of self-regulation for indi…
Copyright and musicians at the digital margins
While there is research into consumer attitudes to copyright and downloading, and the music industry has made clear its own views in evidence to the Hargreaves Review and other forums, relatively little is known about musicians’ attitudes to copyright. This article reports on those musicians who are negotiating the new terrain created by digitization and its accompanying business models. Are their attitudes to copyright simply determined by their…
Iliad 13.754
At Iliad 13.751-3, Hector heeds Polydamas' advice to rally the Trojans by gathering their best fighters together and debating their next move (13.736-47). The speech is followed by a simile that has puzzled some commentators, in which Hector is compared to a snowy mountain as he moves through the Trojan ranks. The passage runs as follows: ‘Πουλυδάμα σὺ μὲν αὐτοῦ ἐρύκακε πάντας ἀρίστους, αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ κεῖσ’ εἶμι καὶ ἀντιόω πολέμοιο· αἶψα δ’ ἐλεύσομαι …
Pindar's Library
The main focus of this book is on how readers during the Hellenistic period encountered these poems in book form. To this end, it analyses the role played by Pindar’s literary, cultic, and scholarly reception in affecting readers’ engagement with his poetry. But because consideration of the poems as material documents is connected to their roles as performance pieces, the book also examines the poet’s encomiastic techniques, mythical narratives, …
Wrestling with grief
In 2007, professional wrestler Chris Benoit murdered his wife and young son before killing himself. The shocking incident was made even more significant due to Benoit’s then employment with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), the world’s predominant professional wrestling organisation. As a result, WWE ordered a complete censorship of Benoit across its media output, guiding fans to forget him with prejudice. This article presents an examination …
What Do Musicians Talk About When They Talk About Copyright
Based primarily on interviews with musicians who sit on the margins of the music industry and for whom music is not their main source of income, this article reports on how these artists and performers think and talk about copyright. If, as many suppose, the business of making music is more and more about the distribution of rights, how are these rights understood and valued in the practices of these musicians? What are these rights seen to prote…
“Angry False‐Teeth‐Chattering Mayhem”
Numerous reflections on the “golden age” of British wrestling are punctuated by mention of “grannies” wielding handbags or “swearing like troopers” in order to attack wrestlers. The frequent mention of this subgroup demonstrates how particular fans and their practices become specifically associated with a cultural form; over time this discourse has framed British wrestling as inextricably linked with the actions of this more vociferous group of m…
Hesiod and Pindar
This chapter examines Hesiodic elements in Pindar’s “First Hymn” and Pythian 1 and appropriations of Hesiod’s “path to virtue” in the epinicians. Differences between Pindar’s treatment of Zeus’s marriage and cosmic dispensations in the “First Hymn” and Hesiod’s account articulate a greater emphasis on cosmic order and create an identification between the audience’s response to the poem and that of the gods to the newly created cosmos. In Pythian …
Significant insignificances
The construction of counter-narratives which reclaim and rename history by challenging hegemonic discourse cannot simply be a question of replacing one metanarrative with another. Genuine counter-narratives also challenge the category of “the historical” itself, blurring its parameters and making value-claims for what is often regarded as historically insignificant or marginal. In this chapter, I examine works by three authors – George Orwell, Ch…
Past Encounters
Examining episodes such as the Argonauts’ catching sight of the eagle that tortures Prometheus, the description of the shepherd Dipsacus, the rituals in which the Argonauts participate, the argument and reconciliation between Jason and Telamon, and the Argonauts’ meeting with the Hesperides, Chapter 3 argues that the Argonautica brings about shifts in the understanding of reading as an ethical act that are closely connected to readers’ temporal s…
Affecting Time
The first part of Chapter 1 examines the Argonautica ’s intertextual relationships, especially but not exclusively with Homer, as a means of affording and shaping access to an imagined world, before considering the figure of Heracles as an articulation of the poem’s concern with temporal change. The rest of the chapter focuses on Apollonius’ ‘philological’ poetics. Building on previous studies, it argues that Apollonius’ use of unusual words shou…
Conclusion
The Conclusion situates the significance of the Argonautica ’s handling of time in relation to a strand of the philosophical tradition, represented by Gorgias, in which humanity’s temporal implication is a source of cognitive frailty. While the Argonautica presents its readers with a world that resists being grasped in simple conceptualizations and repeatedly highlights the limits of forethought, it also offers readers the possibility of an enhan…
Untimely Performances
Chapter 2 focuses on three performances, the Argonauts’ paean to Apollo on Thynias, the Heliades’ lament, and Orpheus drowning out the song of the Sirens. Albeit in very different ways, each episode promotes various understandings of historical difference or distance, and an enhanced sense that relating to performances is always a temporally situated activity. Each invites readers to consider fundamental questions about poetry’s purposes and effe…
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