Oliver Thomas
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5632895 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Oliver Thomas |
| PRENOMES | Oliver |
| SOBRENOME | Thomas |
| ASSINATURA | THOMAS O |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8162-9633 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Texts and Intertexts in Archaic and Classical Greece
Encompassing the period from the earliest archaic epics down through classical Athenian drama, this is the first concerted, step-by-step examination of the development of allusive poetics in the early Greek world. Recent decades have seen a marked rise in intertextual approaches to early Greek literature; as scholars increasingly agree on the need to read these texts in a comparative way, this only makes all the more urgent the question of how be…
Three Passages of Ancient Prolegomena to Aratus
An eighth-century Latin version of a Greek edition of Aratus preserves valuable ancient scholarship on the Phaenomena , including material not preserved in Greek. Examination of over thirteen thousand Latin–Greek correspondences enables one to interpret passages of the Latin that have so far resisted analysis, including information about an ancient edition equipped with critical signs and commentary, ancient discussion of the primary narratee in …
Homeric scholarship in the pulpit
Many classicists are familiar with Eustathius (c.1115–95) through his huge Homeric commentaries or Parekbolai. He is thought to have composed these, along with studies of Pindar, Aristophanes, and Dionysius the Periegete, while working as a teacher in Constantinople, and he continued to revise them later in life while Archbishop of Thessalonike.1 Quite different parts of Eustathius’ output, however, have attracted attention from Byzantinists, par…
The Homeric Hymn to Hermes
The Homeric Hymn to Hermes is the longest surviving hymn from early Greece, our fullest source for the god Hermes, and an entertaining narrative of theft, invention, cheekiness, and learning to get along. This study contains a new text of the poem, based on advances in our understanding of its transmission, and a commentary which brings together a range of methodologies to address points of linguistic difficulty, poetic technique, and cultural ba…
Tippling but Not Toppling
The epitome of Athenaeus does not retain all the details of how these comic fragments were embedded in the conversation which Athenaeus originally presented, though the extract's first sentence shows that one purpose was to exemplify the application of βρέχω to drinking. Editors of both Athenaeus and Eubulus have left the connection of the latter's fragment to its conversational context at that. I submit that what follows in the epitome, as well …
Representation and Novelty in Aeschylus’ Theoroi
This article argues in favour of the view that in Theoroi (a.k.a. Isthmiastai) the satyrs had absconded from Dionysus’ choral training, and dedicate a set of votive masks on Poseidon’s Isthmian temple. I propose that at the end of fr. 78c Dionysus offers them javelins and suggests that they dance a pyrrhikhe. This plot rests on a blurring of the distinctions between satyr, human character, and human performer. I interpret how Aeschylus managed pl…
Hermetically Unsealed
The Hymn to Hermes offers a late archaic or early classical viewpoint on genre in lyric poetry. It compares hymns and theogonies to bantering songs at symposia, apparently in a paradox grounded in Hermes’ ability to control transfers across firm boundaries. However, the comparisons have a latent logic: the Hymn to Hermes is itself bantering intertextually with the Homeric Hymn to Apollo ; it alludes to the fact that a komos can involve both prais…
Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World
Sacrifice and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes 112–41
Examines the methodology by which one can connect this passage to historical sacrificial practices. In particular, I critique the previous approaches of Kahn, Clay and Burkert, and argue that the passage can be taken as aetiological with special reference to the site at Olympia.
Engineering sustainable mHealth
Homeric and/or Hymns
This article considers the reception of the Homeric Hymns in fifteenth-century Italy. Most of the extant manuscripts date from this century, and constitute fundamental evidence for the Hymns’ reception, but they have not previously been studied in this light. The article examines in particular how manuscripts promote different reading strategies by framing the Homeric Hymns with other Homerica or with other hymns, and how their marginalia suggest…
A Further Manuscript Source for Proclus' Hymns
In November 2014 I had the pleasure of examining Bruxellensis 11377–80. This paper manuscript was owned by Pierre Pantin at his death in 1611; it occupies no. 30 in his catalogue, where the first text, on fols 1–4, was misidentified as ‘Hymni Homeri’. The next owner, André Schott, repeated the error; Omont (and following him the Pinakes database) uses a page-numeration that completely excludes the current fols 1–4
Relapse prevention in drug addiction
Manuscript Readings in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter 389-479
Evidence for the text of this passage based on a re-examination of the damaged page in Leidensis BPG 33H
Sophocles, Seduction and Shrivelling
Sophocles, fr. 316 comprises matching entries in Photius, Lex. p. 489 Porson and the Suda ρ166, which are thought to derive from Pausanias the Atticist's dictionary. Erbse presents the following text (ρ5): ῥικνοῦσθαι: τὸ διέλκεσθαι καὶ παντοδαπῶς διαστρέφεσθαι κατ' εἶδος. λέγεται δὲ καὶ τὸ καμπύλον γίγνεσθαι ἀσχημόνως καὶ κατὰ συνουσίαν καὶ ὄρχησιν, κάμπτοντα τὴν ὀσφῦν. Σοφοκλῆς Ἰχνευταῖς
Nine Passages of Aeschylus, Agamemnon
The Watchman's bed is not ‘supervised’ (13 ἐπισκοπουμένην) by dreams; instead, fear ‘stands in attendance’ (14 παραστατεῖ). The images are medical. He is ill; dream-filled sleep would be a good doctor, but the bad doctor fear is already on the job, preventing him from sleeping well
Prayer, Greek
Prayer is the verbalized, most articulate aspect of communication between humans and deities.
The Homeric Hymn to Pan
This chapter offers a systematic reading of the nineteenth Homeric Hymn to Pan and considers its relationship to the long Hymn to Hermes. A detailed analysis treats the poetics of the Hymn's narrative structures and Pan's representation in relation to other gods. It is argued that the inset musical performances of the nymphs serve to reflect upon the contents and performative roles of hymns in Greece. The chapter also considers carefully the poem…
Agamemnon
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus
The Homeric Hymn to Pan
This chapter offers a systematic reading of the nineteenth Homeric Hymn to Pan and considers its relationship to the long Hymn to Hermes. A detailed analysis treats the poetics of the Hymn's narrative structures and Pan's representation in relation to other gods. It is argued that the inset musical performances of the nymphs serve to reflect upon the contents and performative roles of hymns in Greece. The chapter also considers carefully the poem…
Agamemnon
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus
Prayer, Greek
Prayer is the verbalized, most articulate aspect of communication between humans and deities.
Nine Passages of Aeschylus, Agamemnon
The Watchman's bed is not ‘supervised’ (13 ἐπισκοπουμένην) by dreams; instead, fear ‘stands in attendance’ (14 παραστατεῖ). The images are medical. He is ill; dream-filled sleep would be a good doctor, but the bad doctor fear is already on the job, preventing him from sleeping well
Relapse prevention in drug addiction
Manuscript Readings in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter 389-479
Evidence for the text of this passage based on a re-examination of the damaged page in Leidensis BPG 33H
Sophocles, Seduction and Shrivelling
Sophocles, fr. 316 comprises matching entries in Photius, Lex. p. 489 Porson and the Suda ρ166, which are thought to derive from Pausanias the Atticist's dictionary. Erbse presents the following text (ρ5): ῥικνοῦσθαι: τὸ διέλκεσθαι καὶ παντοδαπῶς διαστρέφεσθαι κατ' εἶδος. λέγεται δὲ καὶ τὸ καμπύλον γίγνεσθαι ἀσχημόνως καὶ κατὰ συνουσίαν καὶ ὄρχησιν, κάμπτοντα τὴν ὀσφῦν. Σοφοκλῆς Ἰχνευταῖς
Homeric and/or Hymns
This article considers the reception of the Homeric Hymns in fifteenth-century Italy. Most of the extant manuscripts date from this century, and constitute fundamental evidence for the Hymns’ reception, but they have not previously been studied in this light. The article examines in particular how manuscripts promote different reading strategies by framing the Homeric Hymns with other Homerica or with other hymns, and how their marginalia suggest…
A Further Manuscript Source for Proclus' Hymns
In November 2014 I had the pleasure of examining Bruxellensis 11377–80. This paper manuscript was owned by Pierre Pantin at his death in 1611; it occupies no. 30 in his catalogue, where the first text, on fols 1–4, was misidentified as ‘Hymni Homeri’. The next owner, André Schott, repeated the error; Omont (and following him the Pinakes database) uses a page-numeration that completely excludes the current fols 1–4
Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World
Sacrifice and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes 112–41
Examines the methodology by which one can connect this passage to historical sacrificial practices. In particular, I critique the previous approaches of Kahn, Clay and Burkert, and argue that the passage can be taken as aetiological with special reference to the site at Olympia.
Engineering sustainable mHealth
Hermetically Unsealed
The Hymn to Hermes offers a late archaic or early classical viewpoint on genre in lyric poetry. It compares hymns and theogonies to bantering songs at symposia, apparently in a paradox grounded in Hermes’ ability to control transfers across firm boundaries. However, the comparisons have a latent logic: the Hymn to Hermes is itself bantering intertextually with the Homeric Hymn to Apollo ; it alludes to the fact that a komos can involve both prais…
Tippling but Not Toppling
The epitome of Athenaeus does not retain all the details of how these comic fragments were embedded in the conversation which Athenaeus originally presented, though the extract's first sentence shows that one purpose was to exemplify the application of βρέχω to drinking. Editors of both Athenaeus and Eubulus have left the connection of the latter's fragment to its conversational context at that. I submit that what follows in the epitome, as well …
Representation and Novelty in Aeschylus’ Theoroi
This article argues in favour of the view that in Theoroi (a.k.a. Isthmiastai) the satyrs had absconded from Dionysus’ choral training, and dedicate a set of votive masks on Poseidon’s Isthmian temple. I propose that at the end of fr. 78c Dionysus offers them javelins and suggests that they dance a pyrrhikhe. This plot rests on a blurring of the distinctions between satyr, human character, and human performer. I interpret how Aeschylus managed pl…
The Homeric Hymn to Hermes
The Homeric Hymn to Hermes is the longest surviving hymn from early Greece, our fullest source for the god Hermes, and an entertaining narrative of theft, invention, cheekiness, and learning to get along. This study contains a new text of the poem, based on advances in our understanding of its transmission, and a commentary which brings together a range of methodologies to address points of linguistic difficulty, poetic technique, and cultural ba…
Homeric scholarship in the pulpit
Many classicists are familiar with Eustathius (c.1115–95) through his huge Homeric commentaries or Parekbolai. He is thought to have composed these, along with studies of Pindar, Aristophanes, and Dionysius the Periegete, while working as a teacher in Constantinople, and he continued to revise them later in life while Archbishop of Thessalonike.1 Quite different parts of Eustathius’ output, however, have attracted attention from Byzantinists, par…
Three Passages of Ancient Prolegomena to Aratus
An eighth-century Latin version of a Greek edition of Aratus preserves valuable ancient scholarship on the Phaenomena , including material not preserved in Greek. Examination of over thirteen thousand Latin–Greek correspondences enables one to interpret passages of the Latin that have so far resisted analysis, including information about an ancient edition equipped with critical signs and commentary, ancient discussion of the primary narratee in …
Texts and Intertexts in Archaic and Classical Greece
Encompassing the period from the earliest archaic epics down through classical Athenian drama, this is the first concerted, step-by-step examination of the development of allusive poetics in the early Greek world. Recent decades have seen a marked rise in intertextual approaches to early Greek literature; as scholars increasingly agree on the need to read these texts in a comparative way, this only makes all the more urgent the question of how be…
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