David Konstan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 296812 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Konstan |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Konstan |
| ASSINATURA | KONSTAN D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7264-8952 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 166 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 373 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 157 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 9 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1972 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Xenophon’s Virtues
While Plato’s and Aristotle’s theories of virtue have received extensive scholarly attention, less work has been done on Xenophon’s portraits of virtue and on his attitude towards the theoretical issues connected with it. And yet, Xenophon offers one of the best sources we have for thinking about virtue in ancient Greece, because he combines the analytical interests of a Socratic with a historian’s interest in real life. Until recently, scholars …
Helping Friends and Harming Enemies
Sophocles is often considered the least philosophical of the three great Greek tragedians. However, Ruby Blondell offers a vital examination of the ethical content of the plays by focusing on the pervasive Greek popular moral code of 'helping friends and harming enemies'. Five of the extant plays are discussed in detail from both a dramatic and an ethical standpoint, and the author concludes that ethical themes are not only integral to each drama…
The Limits of Reconciliation
This paper examines the tension between Cyrus and Cyaxares in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia , and the ways in which Cyrus succeeds in mollifying the Median king (and his maternal uncle), who is angry because Cyrus has usurped his authority. It argues that, although Cyrus has been charged with deceit in his effort to conciliate Cyaxares, in fact such dissembling is ineliminable where there is a genuine offense to another’s honor. It suggests further that …
Mito griego en un contexto cristiano. El Hilas de Draconcio
Draconcio, que escribió en el norte de África hacia finales del siglo V y principios del VI, compuso carmina christiana y carmina profana. Entre estos últimos hay tres poemas breves en hexámetros, que cuentan la historia de Medea, el rapto de Helena y el destino de Hilas, el compañero de Hércules. La historia de Hilas fue muy popular y de ella se han conservado varias versiones. Draconcio cambia muchos detalles y sobre todo introduce un largo pró…
Philosophers and Roman Friendship
This chapter focuses on Cicero’s essay De amicitia (On Friendship), as the major Roman contribution to the topic. Cicero, through his mouthpiece, Laelius (the friend of Scipio), distinguishes between the view that friendship is desired on account of weakness and poverty, and an older and finer theory that holds that love (amor), etymologically related to friendship (amicitia), is the primary cause of goodwill. Laelius’s lecture is an attempt to a…
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy
Several decades of scholarship by now have demonstrated that Roman thinkers have developed in new and stimulating directions the systems of thought they inherited from the Greeks, and that, taken together, they offer a range of perspectives that are of philosophical interest in their own right. This collection of essays pursues a maximally inclusive approach, covering not only authors such as Augustine but also poets or historians. It pays attent…
Xenophon's Virtues
Heraclitus the Allegorist, Homeric Problems
A certain Heraclitus (otherwise unknown) composed, probably around the year 100 ce, an allegorical interpretation of major scenes in the Iliad and Odyssey, bearing the title (in one manuscript), Homeric Problems: On What Homer Expressed Allegorically concerning the Gods. The ostensible purpose is to rescue Homer from the charge of blasphemy for his crude representation of the gods, for which he had been criticized by some philosophers (Heraclitus…
Emotions across Cultures
It is now recognized that emotions have a history. In this book, eleven scholars examine a variety of emotions in ancient China and classical Greece, in their historical and social context. A general introduction presents the major issues in the analysis of emotions across cultures and over time in a given tradition. Subsequent chapters consider how specific emotions evolve and change. For example, whereas for early Chinese thinkers, worry was a …
Abject Joy
Les concepts en sciences de l’Antiquité
Being Moved
Efforts to identify in the expression “being moved” a new emotion have found a hospitable environment in the recent turn to the body in emotion and cognitive studies, exemplified herein affect theory, with a particular focus on the effects of music. Although classical Greek and Latin had comparable expressions, however, they did not single out a specific emotion. Given that music played an important role in ancient educational theories, and was i…
Post-Utopia
The present article is divided into three parts. The first discusses the nature of utopias and their hypothetical anti-type, dystopias, and also disaster scenarios that are sometimes assimilated to dystopias, with reference also to the idea of post-utopia. An argument is made for the continuity of the utopian impulse, even in an age when brutal wars and forms of oppression have caused many to lose faith in any form of collectivity. Representation…
Eros and the Pastoral
Theocritus not only created a new type of Greek poetry but also gave a new and profound expression to the experience of being in love. To make humble herdsmen the subjects of eros was to treat the lover as a potential object of derision, which corresponds to the diminished sense of self that afflicts all who are under the sway of erotic passion, as they idealize the beloved and project onto her or him the qualities they feel they lack. Theocritus…
The rise of affectivism
Greeks on Greekness
An Anthropology of Euripides’ Kyklōps
La paz
Autor: Ronald Forero Álvarez Formato: Impreso ISBN: 9789581205516 Editorial: Universidad de La Sabana Fecha de edición: 01/08/2020 Descripción: Este libro pretende buscar luces en los clásicos para iluminar nuestro presente, un presente inestable y conflictivo, un presente en el que la muerte y la desolación se propagan como una plaga, un presente en el que la paz es un anhelo para millones de personas inmersas en numerosos conflictos alrededor d…
Health and Hedonism in Plato and Epicurus by Kelly Arenson
Reviewed by: Health and Hedonism in Plato and Epicurus by Kelly Arenson David Konstan Kelly Arenson. Health and Hedonism in Plato and Epicurus. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Pp. x + 217. Cloth, £85.00. Epicurus had a distinctive position on pleasure: the greatest possible pleasure consists in the absence of pain. The pain in question may be physical or psychological. Not to be hungry, cold, or otherwise distressed is the greates…
Lucretius and the Conscience of an Epicurean
In the Orbit of Love
This book is about love in the classical world – not erotic passion but the kind of love that binds together intimate members of a family and very close friends, but which may also be extended to include a wider range of individuals for whom we care deeply. The book includes chapters on friendship, especially the idea that a friend is another self; loyalty, and why loyalty was not a prominent virtue in classical thought; generosity and gratitude;…
Love and the State
Love was commonly understood in classical antiquity to obtain among a small circle of family and friends. Could such affection be extended more widely so as to include an entire community and be the basis of civic solidarity? Various thinkers in classical Greece supposed that it could, taking the place, in part, of loyalty to the state as it is conceived today. In Rome, on the contrary, where patronage was a semiformal relationship between the po…
A Life Worthy of the Gods
Epicurus, and his Roman disciple Lucretius, held that the primary cause of human unhappiness was an irrational fear of death. What is more, they believed that a clear understanding of the nature of the world would help to eliminate this fear; for if we recognise that the universe and everything in it is made up of atoms and empty space, we will see that the soul cannot possibly survive the extinction of the body -- and no harm to us can occur aft…
On Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics 8 and 9"
Simplicius on Aristotle's Physics 6
Ancient History
Greek comedy and ideology
Comedy, with its happy endings, attempts to resolve conflicts that arise in the real world. These conflicts, however, leave their mark on the texts in the form of gaps in plot and inconsistencies in characterization. Greek Comedy and Ideology, exploits a new and distinct critical method - ideological criticism - to analyze how ancient Greek comedy betrays and responds to cultural tensions in the society of the classical city-state. Konstan begins…
Reproducing Athens
Thinking Men
The Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography
Here, at last, are the long-awaited Sather Classical Lectures of the great historian Arnaldo Momigliano. In a masterly survey of the origins of ancient historiography, Momigliano captures those features of an ancient historian's work that not only gave it importance in its own day but also encouraged imitation and exploitation in later centuries. He reveals the extent to which Greek, Persian, and Jewish historians influenced the Western historiog…
Greek Comedy and Ideology
The happy endings of comedy resolve conflicts that have their sources in the real world. These conflicts, in turn, leave their mark upon the texts in the form of gaps in the plot and inconsistencies of characterization. Greek Comedy and Ideology analyses how the structure of ancient Greek comedy betrays and responds to cultural tensions in the society of the classical city-state. Individual chapters treat Aristophanic and Menandrean comedies, wit…
War in Human Civilization
Love in Terence's Eunuch
Marginality, Canonicity, Passion
In recent years the discipline of classics has been experiencing a profound transformation, which affects not only methodologies and hermeneutic practices (i.e. how classicists read and interpret ancient literature) but also, and more importantly, the objects of study themselves (i.e. what they read and interpret). One of the most important factors has been the establishment of reception studies. The reception of classical literature and culture …
Between Courtesan and Wife
The Ideology of Aristophanes' Wealth
Patrons and Friends
The rise of affectivism
Barbarian Play
In this volume William S. Anderson sets Plautus, who wrote Rome's earliest surviving poetry, in his rightful place among the Greek and Roman writers of what we know as New Comedy (fourth to second centuries). Anderson begins by defining major innovations that Plautus made on inherited Greek New Comedy (Menander, Philemon, and Diphilus), transforming it from romantic domestic drama to a celebration of rollicking family anarchy. He shows how Plautu…
Envy, Spite and Jealousy
Classical Greece was permeated by a spirit of rivalry. Games and sports, theatrical performances, courtroom trials, recitation of poetry, canvassing for public office, war itself -- all aspects of life were informed by a competitive ethos. This pioneering book considers how the Greeks viewed, explained, exploited and controlled the emotions that entered into such rivalrous activities, and looks at what the private and public effects were of such …
Defining Ancient Greek Ethnicity
Diaspora 6:1 1997 g Ancient Greek Ethnicity David Konstan Brown University Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity. Jonathan M. Hall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. As the first full-length modern study of ethnicity in the culture that gave us the word, Jonathan Hall's book is an event in classical scholarship. Hall has brought to the task a profound knowledge of the ancient Greek world: he is equally conversant with the literary and arc…
Shame in Ancient Greece
inhame has had a bad press for the past century or so. As Thomas Sc eff remarks (1997: 205): Over the last 200 years in the history of modern societies, shame virtually disappear d. The denial of sha e has been institutionalized in Western societies.1 Shame's t tus as a moral emotion has bee impug ed by critics, ong them theologians and anthropologists, who consider i a pri itive pr cursor to guilt: shame, the argument goes, responds to the judgm…
Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel
The protagonists of the ancient novels wandered or were carried off to distant lands, from Italy in the west to Persia in the east and Ethiopia in the south; the authors themselves came, or pretended to come, from remote places such as Aphrodisia and Phoenicia; and the novelistic form had antecedents in a host of classical genres. These intersections are explored in this volume. Papers in the first section discuss mapping the world in the The sec…
Heraclitus Homeric Problems
Women, Boys, and the Paradigm of Athenian Pederasty
david konstan is the John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. Among his recent books are Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres (Princeton University Press, 1994), Greek Comedy and Ideology (Oxford University Press, 1995), Friendship in the Classical World (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and Pity Transformed(Duckworth, 2001). He is currently worki…
Contextualizing Classics
Part 1 Ideology Chapter 2 Theorizing Athenian Imperialism and the Athenian State Chapter 3 Women and Democracy in Ancient Greece Chapter 4 Utopia and Myth in Aristophanes' Ecclesiazousae Chapter 5 Body / Politics: Is There a History of Reading? Part 6 Performance Chapter 7 Homer and Plato at the Panathenaia: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives Chapter 8 Sicilian Folktales, Cognitive Psychology, and Oral Theory Chapter 9 Madness Visible: Tragic…
Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri
Les concepts en sciences de l’Antiquité
Comedy and the Athenian Ideal
New Comedy was a Panhellenic phenomenon. It may be that a performance in Athens was still the acme of a comic playwright’s career, but Athens was no longer the exclusive venue of the genre. Yet Athens, or an idealized version of Athens, remained the setting or backdrop for New Comedy, whatever its provenance or intended audience. New Comedy was thus an important vehicle for the dissemination of the Athenian polis model throughout the Hellenistic …
Understanding Grief in Greece and Rome
Understanding Grief in Greece and Rome David Konstan "The emotions aroused by death are not ... culturally specific. The fear of death and the grief of bereavement, however they are displayed, are universal experiences." So writes Gail Holst-Warhaft, in her sensitive and moving study, The Cue for Passion: Grief and Its Political Uses.1 There is certainly an elemental truth to this view, and yet recent studies of emotions indicate that our beliefs…
Epicurus on "Up" and "Down" (Letter to Herodotus § 60)1
Plautus' Captivi and the Ideology of the Ancient City-State
Plautus' Captivi is a play of discovery rather than of action. Its plot is not so much a story as a situation, which is misperceived at first but gradually revealed to the characters in the drama. The chief complications of the plot are all given as part of the initial conditions, which are described in the prologue as having occurred prior to the time of the dramatic action. There had been a war between two Greek communities, Elis and Aetolia. T…
Marx, Engels und die Sklaverei. Zur ökonomischen Problematik der Unfreiheit
"The Ocean Episode in the "Prometheus Bound
A Note on Theocritus Idyll 18
The Myth of Invariance
Problems in Epicurean Physics
This article treats several problems in Epicurean atomic theory, including how atoms rebound (the answer is that they must keep moving at a uniform speed and simply move in another direction when impeded), the role of minima in defining the boundaries of an atom and accounting for its impenetrability and why adjacent atoms do not merge, and the explanation of atomic weight as a tendency of atoms emerging from collisions to move in a preferred dir…
Aporie etiche in Epicuro
The Ideology of Aristophanes' Wealth
Epicurus’ Scientific Method
Slavery and Class Analysis in the Ancient World. A Review Article
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Roman Comedy
Poésie, politique et rituel dans les Grenouilles d'Aristophane
Politique et rituel dans les Grenouilles (pp. 291-308) Les Grenouilles d'Aristophane sont composées de trois mouvements, ou tableaux : la descente chez Hadès, la scène aux portes de l'Hadès, et la joute poétique à l'intérieur du royaume d'Hadès. Chaque tableau est en rapport avec le thème de la résurrection : celle d'Héraclès, qui s'accomplit, sur le mode héroïque, par la violence individuelle; celle du chœur des initiés, sur le mode religieux, p…
Love in Terence's Eunuch
Between Courtesan and Wife
The Premises of Comedy
Der Aristotelismus bei den Griechen, II
The New Comedy of Greece and Rome
In Brief
Ancient History
Dionysius I of Syracuse and Greek Tyranny
Preface to Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society
Research Article| April 01 1990 Preface to Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society David Konstan; David Konstan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Martha Nussbaum Martha Nussbaum Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google differences (1990) 2 (1): iii–v. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2-1-iii Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David Konstan, Mart…
Marx on Classical Antiquity. Problems of Historical Methodology
Love in the Greek Novel
Research Article| April 01 1990 Love in the Greek Novel David Konstan David Konstan David Konstan teaches classics and comparative literature at Brown University. He has published Roman Comedy (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1983). and is now preparing a book on love in the ancient novel. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google differences (1990) 2 (1): 186–205. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2-1-186 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twit…
Before Post-Marxism
Ellen Meiksins Wood is a subtle and original Marxist historian of antiquity and critic of classical ideology, coauthor, with Neal Wood (1978), of Class Ideology and Ancient Political Theory, and author of Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy, published in 1988. She is also a prominent polemicist for Marxist theory, well known for her critiques of certain post-Marxist theories, for example, Emesto Laclau and Chantal Mou…
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