Glenn W Most
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 374839 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Glenn W Most |
| PRENOMES | Glenn W |
| SOBRENOME | Most |
| ASSINATURA | MOST G W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Scuola Normale Superiore |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 63 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 100 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 6 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Signs and Signification in a Global Comparative Perspective
Afterword to the Special Issue
Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship
Was plurilingualism the exception or the norm in traditional Eurasian scholarship? This volume presents a selection of primary sources—in many cases translated into English for the first time—with introductions that provide fascinating historical materials for challenging notions of the ways in which traditional Eurasian scholars dealt with plurilingualism and monolingualism. Comparative in approach, global in scope, and historical in orientation…
Sophocles Trachiniae 1021–22
Lines 1021–22 of Sophocles’ Trachiniae, which come right after a notorious and probably insoluble textual crux, have received much less attention but are in fact extremely problematic as well. Though these lines can be construed, they cannot be understood adequately. The scholia propose two implausible ancient interpretations; modern scholars have suggested either no less implausible interpretations of the transmitted text or unsatisfactory emend…
Karl Lachmann (1793–1851)
The Concept of Presocratic Philosophy
The Concept of Presocratic Philosophy
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 …
Historicization reconsidered
What is historicization? Let us begin by distinguishing this concept from two other ones with which it might run the risk of being confused: historicity and historicism.
Allegoresis and etymology
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Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices
In this collection of richly documented case studies, experts in many textual traditions examine the ways in which important texts were preserved, explicated, corrected, and used for a variety of purposes. The authors describe the multiple ways in which scholars in different cultures have addressed some of the same tasks, revealing both radical differences and striking similarities in textual practices across space, time and linguistic borders. T…
History of Science and History of Philologies
While both the sciences and the humanities, as currently defined, may be too heterogeneous to be encompassed within a unified historical framework, there is good reason to believe that the history of science and the history of philologies both have much to gain by joining forces. This collaboration has already yielded striking results in the case of the history of science and humanist learning in early modern Europe. This essay argues that first,…
The Madness of Tragedy
This chapter presents a scene in Menander’s Aspis , revealing how great a fascination the madness of tragedy could still exert upon Athenian audiences, about a century after the deaths of Euripides and Sophocles. Greek tragedy contains many scenes of terrible suffering, what Aristotle indicated with the general term πάθος. Among all the kinds of psychological suffering to be found in Greek tragedy, madness is the most extreme. The paradigmatic ex…
Greek Tragedies 1
Aeschylus II
Aeschylus I
Sophocles I
Afterword
This concluding chapter reconsiders some of the main claims of the volume by emphasizing the importance of the ancient Romans for German and British Romanticism. It then surveys some of the reasons why subsequent scholarship and literature has tended to focus so much more on Romantic images of ancient Greece than on those of ancient Rome. From there, it illustrates the fascinating complicities, but also the tensions, between Rome and Romanticism …
Plato’s Exoteric Myths
Already at the very beginning of Greek literature, Homer takes pains to transform the transmitted muthos, the traditional body of legends concerning men and gods. In every generation of Greek culture, poets, philosophers, and ordinary listeners struggled to find some kind of mediation between the given, generally accepted, and yet sometimes simply intolerable muthos on the one hand and the inquisitive, ambitious, and never fully satisfied logos o…
Reading the Victory Ode
The victory ode was a short-lived poetic genre in the fifth century BC, but its impact has been substantial. Pindar, Bacchylides and others are now among the most widely read Greek authors precisely because of their significance for the literary development of poetry between Homer and tragedy and their historical involvement in promoting Greek rulers. Their influence was so great that it ultimately helped to define the European notion of lyric fr…
Heraclitus Fragment B 52 Dk (On of 242)
Laocoons
This chapter contains sections titled: Vergil's Laocoon Laocoon before Vergil Laocoon on the Esquiline Laocoon's Renaissance Further Reading
Hellenistic allegory and early imperial rhetoric
In their explicit doctrines, Plato and Aristotle express distrust and disdain for allegorical interpretation; but they do not manage to slam the door upon it altogether. Plato explicitly repudiates the allegories ( hyponoiai ) with which traditional tales of divine violence and immorality might be rescued for children ( Republic 2.378D) and makes fun of attempts to make sense of myths by rationalizing them ( Phaedrus 229C-30A). And yet the same P…
Que Antiga Querela Entre Poesia E Filosofia
In a celebrated passage of Plato’s Republic, Socrates speaks of “an ancientquarrel between poetry and philosophy” (Rep. X, 607b-c). But did such a quarrel everreally exist in pre-Socratic Greek culture? Examination of the evidence of Greek poetryand philosophy from the centuries preceding Socrates reveals, with a single exception,little or no trace of any such quarrel in either direction, philosophers attacking poets orpoets attacking philosopher…
The classical tradition
How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus' sirens to an ambulance's? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science. Arranged alpha…
Love without Elegy
At a prominent point in the middle of the Remedia amoris, Ovid momentarily interrupts his series of therapeutic lessons to make room for a statement of poetics. Such statements are customary in the register of literary polemics; some evil-minded people had criticized Ovid for his daring teachings in the Ars amatoria, and the polemic tradition (of Callimachean origin) requires that the poet, in justifying the literary techniques he has chosen, als…
History of Science and History of Philologies
While both the sciences and the humanities, as currently defined, may be too heterogeneous to be encompassed within a unified historical framework, there is good reason to believe that the history of science and the history of philologies both have much to gain by joining forces. This collaboration has already yielded striking results in the case of the history of science and humanist learning in early modern Europe. This essay argues that first,…
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 …
Hesiod's Myth of the five (or three or four) races
Few passages in Greek literature are as familiar, and as perplexing, as the story of the various races of men in Hesiod's Works and Days . On the one hand, this myth seems perfectly to fulfill Italo Calvino's definition of a classic: somehow we seem always already to know it even when we come upon it for the very first time. For the conception of a golden age, when life was easier and men were better than now, has become so basic a motif of weste…
The Measures of Praise
On the Arrangement of Catullus’ Carmina Maiora
A Cock for Asclepius’
In any list of famous last words, Socrates' are likely to figure near the top. Details of the final moments of celebrities tend anyway to exert a peculiar fascination upon the rest of us: life's very contingency provokes a need to see lives nevertheless as meaningful organic wholes, defined as such precisely by their final closure; so that even the most trivial aspects of their ending can come to seem bearers of profound significance, soliciting …
Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship
Was plurilingualism the exception or the norm in traditional Eurasian scholarship? This volume presents a selection of primary sources—in many cases translated into English for the first time—with introductions that provide fascinating historical materials for challenging notions of the ways in which traditional Eurasian scholars dealt with plurilingualism and monolingualism. Comparative in approach, global in scope, and historical in orientation…
Karl Lachmann (1793–1851)
Aeschylus II
Sophocles I
Reflecting Sappho
REFLECTING SAPPHO Get access GLENN W. MOST GLENN W. MOST Ruprecht‐Karls‐Universität Heidelberg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, December 1995, Pages 15–38, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1995.tb00462.x Published: 12 March 2010
Freud's Writing on Writing
Principled Reading
On the Arrangement of Catullus’ Carmina Maiora
Hays Discussion
Marilyn Gaddis Rose, Michael Hays, William Spanos, Manfred Frank, Christian Hart Nibbrig, Patrice Pavis, Glenn Most, , Jean Bollack, Hays Discussion, boundary 2, Vol. 11, No. 3, The Criticism of Peter Szondi (Spring, 1983), pp. 83-91
Discussion of Frank and Nagele Papers
Manfred Frank, Jean Bollack, Avital Ronnel, Rainer Nagele, Bernhard Boschenstein, Glenn Most, Louis Marin, Kimberley Nemec, Discussion of Frank and Nägele Papers, boundary 2, Vol. 11, No. 3, The Criticism of Peter Szondi (Spring, 1983), pp. 43-51
Rhetorik und Hermeneutik
Prolegomena to Homer 1795
Pindar, O . 2.83–90
According to the traditional interpretation of these celebrated lines, Pindar is saying here that while the wise can understand his poetry by themselves, the mass of his listeners need interpreters if they are to do so; he then goes on to contrast inferior poets, who can sing only ineffectually and only what they have learned, with the poet of natural genius, who surpasses them as the eagle surpasses the crows; and finally he returns to the subje…
Hölderlin and the Poetry of History
F. A. Wolf
Zur Archäologie der Archaik
Love without Elegy
At a prominent point in the middle of the Remedia amoris, Ovid momentarily interrupts his series of therapeutic lessons to make room for a statement of poetics. Such statements are customary in the register of literary polemics; some evil-minded people had criticized Ovid for his daring teachings in the Ars amatoria, and the polemic tradition (of Callimachean origin) requires that the poet, in justifying the literary techniques he has chosen, als…
The Measures of Praise
Ansichten über einen Hund. Zu einigen Strukturen der Homerrezeption zwischen Antike und Neuzeit
A Cock for Asclepius’
In any list of famous last words, Socrates' are likely to figure near the top. Details of the final moments of celebrities tend anyway to exert a peculiar fascination upon the rest of us: life's very contingency provokes a need to see lives nevertheless as meaningful organic wholes, defined as such precisely by their final closure; so that even the most trivial aspects of their ending can come to seem bearers of profound significance, soliciting …
The Languages of Poetry
Apres avoir analyse les positions radicalement opposees d'Aristote et Wordsworth sur la specificite du langage poetique, l'auteur aborde la question de sa fonction en suggerant qu'un tel langage parait repondre a des besoins psychologiques et sociaux
Reflecting Sappho
REFLECTING SAPPHO Get access GLENN W. MOST GLENN W. MOST Ruprecht‐Karls‐Universität Heidelberg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, December 1995, Pages 15–38, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1995.tb00462.x Published: 12 March 2010
Reading Raphael
Studies on the Derveni Papyrus
The Derveni papyrus is the oldest literary papyrus ever found, and one of the very few from Greece itself, which makes it one of the most interesting new texts from the ancient Greek world to have been discovered this century. The eschatological doctrines and an allegorical commentary on an Orphic theogony in terms of Presocratic physics which it contains make it a uniquely important document for the history of ancient Greek religion, philosophy,…
Studies on the Derveni papyrus
The Derveni Papyrus is one of the most interesting new texts from the ancient Greek world to have been discovered in this century. It is the oldest literary papyrus ever found, and one of the very few from Greece itself. The eschatological doctrines and an allegorical commentary on an Orphic theogony in terms of Presocratic physics which it contains make it a uniquely important document for the history of ancient Greek religion, philosophy, and l…
Reflecting Sappho
Hesiod's Myth of the five (or three or four) races
Few passages in Greek literature are as familiar, and as perplexing, as the story of the various races of men in Hesiod's Works and Days . On the one hand, this myth seems perfectly to fulfill Italo Calvino's definition of a classic: somehow we seem always already to know it even when we come upon it for the very first time. For the conception of a golden age, when life was easier and men were better than now, has become so basic a motif of weste…
The poetics of early Greek philosophy
For some readers, the very title of this chapter will seem a paradox or a provocation. After all, while the term “Presocratics” is modern, the concept has ancient roots; and from the very beginning it has been used to distinguish philosophers who, for the most part, wrote in prose, from poets who composed in verse. Such a distinction, which establishes the largely nonphilosophical character of the early Greek poets and the largely nonpoetical cha…
The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy
The Western tradition of philosophy began in Greece with a cluster of thinkers often called the Presocratics, whose influence has been incalculable. They include the early Ionian cosmologists, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, the Eleatics (Parmenides, Melissus, and Zeno), Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the atomists and the sophists. All these thinkers are discussed in this 1999 volume both as individuals and collectively in chapters on rational theology, epistem…
From Logos to Mythos
Some readers, perhaps, will be startled by my title. And under-standably: after all, they will long have been familiar with the idea that the development of mankind as a whole has tended to follow a trajectory leading from Mythos to Logos, and will have learned that a development of this sort not only took place in ancient Greece but has also been one of the most important parts of the legacy of the Classical world to Western civilization. Such a…
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