Ingo Gildenhard
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3094987 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ingo Gildenhard |
| PRENOMES | Ingo |
| SOBRENOME | Gildenhard |
| ASSINATURA | GILDENHARD I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 76 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 6 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Cicero’s Extremist Ethics
Scholarship on De Officiis tends to place the emphasis on those aspects of the treatise that outline the building blocks of a functioning commonwealth. What tends to receive rather less attention is Cicero’s theorizing of what to do in situations of communal breakdown. But in De Officiis he is as interested in injustice as he is in justice, in the ability of humans to inflict massive damage on each other, in the insufficiency of legislation to en…
Cicero's ‘De Officiis'
Cicero's De Officiis, perhaps his most influential philosophical work, ranges over a wide variety of themes, from the role of the family in society to the question of whether our duties can conflict with one another, and from the moral significance of offence to the question of whether it is right to kill a dictator. This Critical Guide, the first collection of essays devoted to the work, is helpfully organised in thematic sections and aims to il…
Frugalitas , or
The chapter begins by looking into the absence of the noun frugalitas in authors before the first century BCE and traces the reasons for its rise to prominence as a virtue-label in Cicero. This involves consideration of the adjective frugi: primarily used of slaves and freedmen, it was adopted as an agnomen by Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi (cos. 133 BCE) in an act of onomastic creativity. Piso’s integration of frugi into his nomenclature ennobled …
‘Somatic Economies’
Augustus and the destruction of history
Virgil vs. Ennius, Or
Roman Frugality
Roman Frugality offers the first-ever systematic analysis of the variants of individual and collective self-restraint that shaped ancient Rome throughout its history and had significant repercussions in post-classical times. In particular, it tries to do the complexity of a phenomenon justice that is situated at the interface of ethics and economics, self and society, the real and the imaginary, and touches upon thrift and sobriety in the materia…
Augustus and the Destruction of History
'Augustus and the Destruction of History' explores how Romans of the late Republic and early imperial period reconfigured their understanding of history and time in response to novel realities, such as civil bloodshed and the Augustan principate
Cicero, Philippic 2, 44–50, 78–92, 100–119
Conceived as Cicero’s response to a verbal attack from Antony in the Senate, Philippic 2 is a rhetorical firework that ranges from abusive references to Antony’s supposedly sordid sex life to a sustained critique of what Cicero saw as Antony’s tyrannical ambitions. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, vocabulary aids, study questions, and an extensive commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Ingo Gildenhard’…
A Republic in Letters
The corpus of letters from and to Cicero that survives from the five-year period after Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon in 49 BCE and his assassination on the Ides of March 44 BCE demands attention as a special medium of political commentary, intervention, and reflection—as well as community-building. The chapter shows how in a commonwealth shattered by civil war and in the process of being transformed in an autocratic key through Caesar’s victor…
Letters and Communities
The writing of letters often evokes associations of a single author and a single addressee, who share in the exchange of intimate thoughts across distances of space and time. This model underwrites such iconic notions as the letter representing an ‘image of the soul of the author’ or constituting ‘one half of a dialogue’. However justified this conception of letter-writing may be in particular instances, it tends to marginalize a range of issues …
Greek Auxiliaries
Letters, Diplomacy, and the Roman Conquest of Greece
The chapter explores the ways in which the generic expectations of the letter differ from those of the decree, insofar as letters tend to contain discursive explanations of, or background to, the requests or decisions that they convey: the sender of a letter will not simply send instructions but will attempt to enable the recipient to understand why those instructions are being given, or at least to put them into a broader context. More specifica…
Cicero, Philippic 2, 44–50, 78–92, 100–119
Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar. In the tumultuous aftermath of Caesar’s death, Cicero and Mark Antony found themselves on opposing sides of an increasingly bitter and dangerous battle for control. Philippic 2 was a weapon in that war. Conceived as Cicero’s response to a verbal attack from Antony in the Senate, Philippic 2 is a rhetorical firework that …
Transformative Change in Western Thought
The Transformations of Ovid’s Medea (Metamorphoses vii. 1–424)
Few figures in ancient myth have provoked such abiding fascination as Medea, the Colchian princess and sorceress who betrayed family and nation out of love for the Greek hero Jason, and then exacted horrific vengeance years later when Jason abandoned her for another woman. The tale of the Argonauts, the Greek heroes who sailed to Colchis in quest of the golden fleece, was among the most widely treated myths in ancient literature. A more technical…
General Introduction
In the Western cultural tradition, prejudices against marvellous transformation run deep, and metamorphosis has routinely functioned as the alien other of various norms and systems of belief. Efforts in definition and taxonomy such as those of Kuon and Zgoll, then, are heuristically valuable insofar as they force people to think about what 'the essence' of the term might be—and to situate it within a set of related ideas. Before leaving the realm…
Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733
This course book offers a wide-ranging introduction, the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and an extensive commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Gildenhard and Zissos's incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at AS and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Ovid's poetry and discussion of the most recent scholarly th…
Jackie Elliott
The Classical Tradition
Of Cicero's Plato
Cicero’s Dialogues
Tacitus, Annals, 15.20-23, 33-45
The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome’s most infamous villains, and Tacitus’ Annals have played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical understanding of this flamboyant autocrat. This book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and a commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, the incisive commentary will be of particular interest to both high…
The Classical Tradition
The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought presents an authoritative, coherent and wide-ranging guide to the afterlife of Greco-Roman antiquity in later Western cultures and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of large aspects of Western culture as a whole from a classical perspective. Features a unique combination of chronological range, cultural scope, coherent argument, and unified analysis Written in a lively, engaging, and elegant mann…
Out of Arcadia
For centuries the glories of ancient Greece were upheld as the embodiment of cultural and political greatness although by the later 19th century 'cultural pessimism and elitism' had begun to infest classical research with investigations into the darker sides of the ancients. These revised papers from a conference held in Princeton in 1999 examine the transformations that took place in German classical scholarship during the 18th and 19th centurie…
Creative Eloquence
Introduction: Cicero's philosophical oratory I. ANTHROPOLOGY Introduction: Ethopoiea and anthropopoiesis 1. Being human 2. Human beings 3. The good, the bad, and the in-between 4. Mental states II. SOCIOLOGY Introduction: Imagining community 5. Definition and the politics of truth 6. Laws and justice 7. Civilization and its discontents 8. Coping with Caesar III. THEOLOGY Introduction: Rome's civic religion 9. Ontological elevation and divine favo…
Ovid's ‘Hecale’
Scholars have long recognized a cultural tension inherent in the scheme of Ovid's Metamorphoses: while most of the materia of the epic is Greek, Rome is its triumphant narrative telos. The epic's Hellenic underpinnings have received abundant critical attention; rather less well documented and discussed is the subtle undercurrent of Romanitas that sustains Ovid's overarching cultural teleology throughout the poem. This Roman ‘cultural vector’ regi…
Ovid's Narcissus ( Met. 3.339-510)
Ovid's Narcissus (Met. 3.339-510):Echoes of Oedipus Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos Narcissistic Thebes? Ovid's tales of Echo and Narcissus, while mutually enhancing in their magnificently suggestive symmetries,1 have long been considered an oddity in their larger narrative context.2 Otis, for instance, is not alone in feeling that they are quite "extraneous" to the Theban milieu which dominates this particular stretch of the Metamorphoses, sin…
Jackie Elliott
Barbarian variations
This article offers a detailed examination of Ovid's Tereus, Procne and Philomela épisode (Met. 6.412-674). Our focus on the tale's literary and thematic profile, within its history of reception (from Seneca's Thyestes through Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus to Ransmayr's The Last World). We consider four interrelated features of Ovid's narrative that have attracted the attention of subsequent artists, but have yet to find full acknowledge-ment an…
Ovid's Narcissus ( Met. 3.339-510)
Ovid's Narcissus (Met. 3.339-510):Echoes of Oedipus Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos Narcissistic Thebes? Ovid's tales of Echo and Narcissus, while mutually enhancing in their magnificently suggestive symmetries,1 have long been considered an oddity in their larger narrative context.2 Otis, for instance, is not alone in feeling that they are quite "extraneous" to the Theban milieu which dominates this particular stretch of the Metamorphoses, sin…
Philologia Perennis? Classical Scholarship and Functional Differentiation
PHILOLOGIA PERENNIS? CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP AND FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENTIATION Get access Ingo Gildenhard Ingo Gildenhard King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 46, Issue Supplement_79, February 2003, Pages 161–203, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2003.tb01714.x Published: 22 February 2011
Ovid's ‘Hecale’
Scholars have long recognized a cultural tension inherent in the scheme of Ovid's Metamorphoses: while most of the materia of the epic is Greek, Rome is its triumphant narrative telos. The epic's Hellenic underpinnings have received abundant critical attention; rather less well documented and discussed is the subtle undercurrent of Romanitas that sustains Ovid's overarching cultural teleology throughout the poem. This Roman ‘cultural vector’ regi…
Reckoning with tyranny
Paideia Romana
Paideia Romana: Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations takes a new look at an unloved text of the western canon to reveal it as a punchy and profoundly original work, arguably Cicero’s most ingenious literary response to the tyranny of Caesar. The book shows how the Tusculans’ much lambasted literary design, critically isolated prefaces, and overlooked didactic plot start to cohere once we read the dialogue for what it is: not a Latin treatise in Greek p…
Barbarian variations
This article offers a detailed examination of Ovid's Tereus, Procne and Philomela épisode (Met. 6.412-674). Our focus on the tale's literary and thematic profile, within its history of reception (from Seneca's Thyestes through Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus to Ransmayr's The Last World). We consider four interrelated features of Ovid's narrative that have attracted the attention of subsequent artists, but have yet to find full acknowledge-ment an…
Cicero on the attack
Joan Booth (Leiden), Introduction: Man and Matter J.G.F.Powell (Royal Holloway, London), Invective and the Orator: Ciceronian Theory and Practice Robin Seager (Liverpool), Ciceronian Invective: Themes and Variations Javier UrYa (Zaragoza), Semantics and Pragmatics of Ciceronian Invective Keith Hopwood (Lampeter), Smear and Spin: Ciceronian Tactics in De Lege Agraria II Catherine Steel (Glasgow), Name and Shame? Invective against Clodius and Other…
Beyond the Fifth Century
Beyond the Fifth Century brings together 13 scholars from various disciplines (Classics, Ancient History, Mediaeval Studies) to explore interactions with Greek tragedy from the 4th century BCE up to the Middle Ages. The volume breaks new ground in several ways. Its chronological scope encompasses periods that are not usually part of research on tragedy reception, especially the Hellenistic period, late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The volume al…
Cicero's Theodicy
This chapter explores Cicero's religious warfare with Clodius in three orations he delivered after his return from exile: the de Domo sua, the de Haruspicum Responso, and the pro Milone. All three speeches are deeply imbued with the axioms and the ideology of Rome's civic religion; at the same time, Cicero also brings into play ideas derived from Greek philosophy and tragedy, in particular to assert a theodicy, tightly linked to a civic ethics. A…
Tyranny and the Divine
This chapter explores how Cicero configured the supernatural sphere in the light of his experiences with the tyrannies of Sulla and Caesar. After a look at a passage from the pro Sexto Roscio, in which Cicero turned from the protocols of Rome's civic religion to figures of thought derived from philosophical theology, the discussion focuses on his speeches before Caesar, especially the pro Marcello: it shows how the traditional gods, after imposin…
Being Human
This chapter discusses figures of thought in Cicero's speeches to do with being human and the human condition. Special attention is given to the notions that human beings are inherently fallible and that human life unfolds in an unpredictable environment (personified in Fortune, goddess of happenstance and caprice) and is thus subject to random, i.e. amoral disasters. Both notions found articulation in new comic scripts, before appearing in other…
Human Beings
This chapter focuses on how Cicero constructs specific human beings and human ‘types’, to which individuals are assigned. It first discusses the factors that underwrote the constitution and reproduction of Rome's ruling elite, with particular emphasis on how Cicero combated what he stigmatizes as the ‘class racism’ of the nobility. Further sections consider how the category ‘nature’ was used in late republican rhetorical thought, as foil for an e…
The Good, the Bad, and the In‐Between
This chapter explores how Cicero construes, respectively, ‘the good’ (especially his theory of the vir bonus) and ‘the bad’ (especially his notion of immanes naturae and naturally born tyrants)—as well as those who fall in between, i.e. are neither naturally depraved nor endowed with impeccable goodness. For despite his penchant for portraying the world in black and white, Cicero also acknowledged (or was forced to acknowledge) shades of grey in …
Mental States
This chapter explores how Cicero figures ‘mental states’, with a special emphasis on the notion of conscientia (‘conscience’), which he employs throughout his career as orator, as well as in his philosophical writings, not least to validate his belief in a just universe. Related aspects that receive discussion are his rhetoric of madness (furor), which functions as both diagnosis and punishment of the wicked; his assertion of the self‐sufficiency…
Civilization and its Discontents
This chapter explores the sociological equivalent of Cicero's anthropological distinction between ‘good men’ and ‘the naturally wicked’, i.e. his conceptions of Roman society and, more generally, human civilization, as the larger spheres of action in which the struggles between the good and the bad play themselves out. Special attention is given to his idiosyncratic reconfiguration of Roman geo‐politics and his rhetoric of crisis as an enabling c…
Beyond the fifth century
Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.53–86
Looting, despoiling temples, attempted rape and judicial murder: these are just some of the themes of this classic piece of writing by one of the world’s greatest orators. Providing a portion of the original text of Cicero’s speech in Latin, a detailed commentary, study aids and a translation, this book will be of particular interest to students at both high-school and undergraduate level. It will also be a valuable resource for Latin teachers an…
Creative Eloquence
Introduction: Cicero's philosophical oratory I. ANTHROPOLOGY Introduction: Ethopoiea and anthropopoiesis 1. Being human 2. Human beings 3. The good, the bad, and the in-between 4. Mental states II. SOCIOLOGY Introduction: Imagining community 5. Definition and the politics of truth 6. Laws and justice 7. Civilization and its discontents 8. Coping with Caesar III. THEOLOGY Introduction: Rome's civic religion 9. Ontological elevation and divine favo…
Virgil, Aeneid, 4.1–299
Love and tragedy dominate book four of Virgil’s most powerful work, building on the violent emotions invoked by the storms, battles, warring gods, and monster-plagued wanderings of the epic’s opening. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study questions, a commentary and interpretative essays. Extending beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Virgil’s poetry and discussion of the most rec…
Transformative Change in Western Thought
The Classical Tradition
Of Cicero's Plato
Cicero’s Dialogues
Tacitus, Annals, 15.20-23, 33-45
The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome’s most infamous villains, and Tacitus’ Annals have played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical understanding of this flamboyant autocrat. This book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and a commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, the incisive commentary will be of particular interest to both high…
The Classical Tradition
The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought presents an authoritative, coherent and wide-ranging guide to the afterlife of Greco-Roman antiquity in later Western cultures and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of large aspects of Western culture as a whole from a classical perspective. Features a unique combination of chronological range, cultural scope, coherent argument, and unified analysis Written in a lively, engaging, and elegant mann…
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