Pramit Chaudhuri
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 731982 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Pramit Chaudhuri |
| PRENOMES | Pramit |
| SOBRENOME | Chaudhuri |
| ASSINATURA | CHAUDHURI P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2643-0829 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1969 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Belief in Greek and Roman Religion
For the Greeks and Romans, the world was full of gods, but this fundamental aspect of their experience poses major challenges to modern understanding. The concept of belief has been central to meeting those challenges but has itself been hotly debated, and has at times even been rejected as a supposedly Christianising anachronism. Others, meanwhile, have argued that a culture-neutral model of belief is both possible and essential, while the adven…
More Latian Anagrams ( Aen. 8.314–36)
This note offers a new reading of Evander’s speech at Aeneid 8.314–36. The passage contains a celebrated anagrammatic wordplay centering on the word Latium, to which we add several newly identified anagrams. We argue that these wordplays represent in microcosm the composition, disintegration, and recomposition of states leading up to and including Rome itself. In doing so, the anagrams convey an underlying evolutionary process in which elements—w…
Reply to
Against Moloch
Moloch is the simplest of fiends": C.S. Lewis's assessment of Milton's bellicose fallen angel remains largely representative. This essay argues, by contrast, that intertextual features of Moloch's portrayal work both to support and resist standard critical judgements. The theomachic genealogy underlying Moloch casts him as a symbol of a poetics and philosophy ostensibly rejected by Milton, but the same tradition also challenges the intellectual a…
Large-scale quantitative profiling of the Old English verse tradition
Strings, Triangles, and Go-betweens
This article examines a case study in Silius Italicus’ Punica using two distinct but complementary approaches to Flavian epic intertextuality: a methodological move to expand and further incorporate computational tools within philology, and a literary theoretical move to combine intertextuality and thematic interpretation. The case study focuses on the debates in the Carthaginian senate described in Punica 2 and 11, both of which Silius adapts fr…
The War of the Worlds
In the Punica, Silus Italicus combines the stereotypical impiety of Hannibal in the historiographical tradition with the literary figure of the theomach that had become especially prominent in imperial epic. The chapter shows how Silius presents the hero’s two most theomachic moments - the crossing of the Alps and the assault on the Capitol - as underlining the power and supremacy of Jupiter in the world of the Punica. In each episode, Silius use…
Theomachy as Test in Ovid's Metamorphoses
This chapter examines the role of religious belief in the theomachic episodes of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. It offers a series of close readings of different types of challenge to the gods brought by the poem’s sceptical and violent characters. From these narratives emerges a frequent and distinctive interest in testing the empirical criteria of divinity - the observable features or actions that signify divine power and justify belief. Tellingly, the …
Theomachy in Greek Epic and Tragedy
This chapter introduces the salient features of Greek representations of theomachy through readings of Homer’s Iliad and key works of Attic tragedy. The discussion of the Iliad focuses on Diomedes, Patroclus, and Achilles, the heroes at the centre of the epic’s three main theomachic episodes. The section shows how the idea of theomachy provides a conceptual space for thinking about human capacities in relation to the ultimate paradigm of power - …
Deification and Theomachy in Seneca's Hercules Furens
The twinning of the themes of deification and theomachy is fundamental to Seneca’s tragedy Hercules Furens: Juno almost stakes her divinity on stopping Hercules from becoming a god, Hercules hallucinates that the gods bar him from heaven before imagining himself launching a theomachy, and numerous other passages in the work discuss either the criteria of divinity or acts of theomachy. The chapter draws on a variety of prose and poetic texts - inc…
Classical Quotation in Titus Andronicus
This paper relates the four Latin quotations in Shakespeare and Peele’s Titus Andronicus to the play’s broader themes of communication and comprehension. In all four cases the characters’ superficial understanding of the meaning of the quotation contrasts with the striking implications of the original Latin context. The resulting irony is augmented by Peele’s changes to Seneca’s Latin, which add layers of meaning by rearranging and conflating mul…
The War with God
This book is the first large-scale study of conflict between humans and gods ('theomachy') in Latin epic and tragic poetry. Theomachy informs some of the most influential works in the European literary tradition from Homer and Euripides to Marlowe and Milton. Nowhere is the theme more frequently and powerfully represented, however, than in the Latin poetry of early imperial Rome, from Ovid at the beginning of the first century AD to Statius at it…
Naming Nefas
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Reception and the Classics
This collection brings together leading experts in a number of fields of the humanities to offer a new perspective on the classical tradition. Drawing on reception studies, philology and early modern studies, the essays explore the interaction between literary criticism and the multiple cultural contexts in which texts were produced, discovered, appropriated and translated. The intersection of Realpolitik and textual criticism, poetic and musical…
Reception and the Classics
The Hindu Equilibrium
Journal Article The Hindu Equilibrium: Volume I: Cultural Stability and Economic Stagnation-India c. 1500 BC-AD 1980 Get access The Hindu Equilibrium: Volume I: Cultural Stability and Economic Stagnation - India c. 1500 BC-AD ig8o. By DEEPAK LAL. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. xxvi + 345. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 0 19 828498 5).The Hindu Equilibrium: Volume II: Aspects of Indian Labour. By DEEPAK LAL. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. xii+197…
Development Planning
Journal Article Development Planning: The Indian Experience Get access Development Planning: The Indian Experience. By SUKHAMOY CHAKRAVARTY. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Pp. viii+137. £17.50 hardback.)Essays in Economic Policy and Economic Growth. By I. G. PATEL. (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1986. Pp. xii+261. £29.50 hardback.) Pramit Chaudhuri Pramit Chaudhuri University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Aid and Poverty
The volume of aid received by the less developed countries, with some exceptions, is small in relation to the existing scale of poverty in those countries. Aid makes a significant but incremental contribution to available national resources. What aid can or cannot do for the poor has to be viewed and assessed within the context of overall national policies and priorities towards poverty elimination. In that context, it can be said that aid has ma…
The Cambridge Economic History of India. Vol. 2
The Theory and Experience of Economic Development
Journal Article The Theory and Experience of Economic Development Get access The Theory and Experience of Economic Development. Edited by Mark Gersovitz, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro, et al. (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1982. Pp. ix + 403. £25.00.) Pramit Chaudhuri Pramit Chaudhuri University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 93, Issue 371, 1 September 1983, Pages 642–643…
The Indian Economy
The Indian Economy. Poverty and Development
Journal Article The Indian Economy. Poverty and Development Get access The Indian Economy. Poverty and Development. By PRAMIT CHAUDHURI. (London: Crosby Lockwood Staples, 1978. Pp. ix + 279. £10.00.) Richard Mullett Richard Mullett The Indian Economy. Poverty and Development Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 89, Issue 355, 1 September 1979, Pages 726–727, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
Poverty, Unemployment and Development Policy
East European aid to India
The Traditional Trade of Asia
The Theory and Experience of Economic Development
Journal Article The Theory and Experience of Economic Development Get access The Theory and Experience of Economic Development. Edited by Mark Gersovitz, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro, et al. (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1982. Pp. ix + 403. £25.00.) Pramit Chaudhuri Pramit Chaudhuri University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 93, Issue 371, 1 September 1983, Pages 642–643…
The War with God
This book is the first large-scale study of conflict between humans and gods ('theomachy') in Latin epic and tragic poetry. Theomachy informs some of the most influential works in the European literary tradition from Homer and Euripides to Marlowe and Milton. Nowhere is the theme more frequently and powerfully represented, however, than in the Latin poetry of early imperial Rome, from Ovid at the beginning of the first century AD to Statius at it…
Development Planning
Journal Article Development Planning: The Indian Experience Get access Development Planning: The Indian Experience. By SUKHAMOY CHAKRAVARTY. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Pp. viii+137. £17.50 hardback.)Essays in Economic Policy and Economic Growth. By I. G. PATEL. (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1986. Pp. xii+261. £29.50 hardback.) Pramit Chaudhuri Pramit Chaudhuri University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Large-scale quantitative profiling of the Old English verse tradition
Poverty, Unemployment and Development Policy
The Hindu Equilibrium
Journal Article The Hindu Equilibrium: Volume I: Cultural Stability and Economic Stagnation-India c. 1500 BC-AD 1980 Get access The Hindu Equilibrium: Volume I: Cultural Stability and Economic Stagnation - India c. 1500 BC-AD ig8o. By DEEPAK LAL. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. xxvi + 345. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 0 19 828498 5).The Hindu Equilibrium: Volume II: Aspects of Indian Labour. By DEEPAK LAL. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. xii+197…
The Cambridge Economic History of India. Vol. 2
The Traditional Trade of Asia
East European aid to India
Poverty, Unemployment and Development Policy
The Indian Economy. Poverty and Development
Journal Article The Indian Economy. Poverty and Development Get access The Indian Economy. Poverty and Development. By PRAMIT CHAUDHURI. (London: Crosby Lockwood Staples, 1978. Pp. ix + 279. £10.00.) Richard Mullett Richard Mullett The Indian Economy. Poverty and Development Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 89, Issue 355, 1 September 1979, Pages 726–727, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
The Indian Economy
The Theory and Experience of Economic Development
Journal Article The Theory and Experience of Economic Development Get access The Theory and Experience of Economic Development. Edited by Mark Gersovitz, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro, et al. (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1982. Pp. ix + 403. £25.00.) Pramit Chaudhuri Pramit Chaudhuri University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 93, Issue 371, 1 September 1983, Pages 642–643…
The Cambridge Economic History of India. Vol. 2
Aid and Poverty
The volume of aid received by the less developed countries, with some exceptions, is small in relation to the existing scale of poverty in those countries. Aid makes a significant but incremental contribution to available national resources. What aid can or cannot do for the poor has to be viewed and assessed within the context of overall national policies and priorities towards poverty elimination. In that context, it can be said that aid has ma…
Development Planning
Journal Article Development Planning: The Indian Experience Get access Development Planning: The Indian Experience. By SUKHAMOY CHAKRAVARTY. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Pp. viii+137. £17.50 hardback.)Essays in Economic Policy and Economic Growth. By I. G. PATEL. (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1986. Pp. xii+261. £29.50 hardback.) Pramit Chaudhuri Pramit Chaudhuri University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
The Hindu Equilibrium
Journal Article The Hindu Equilibrium: Volume I: Cultural Stability and Economic Stagnation-India c. 1500 BC-AD 1980 Get access The Hindu Equilibrium: Volume I: Cultural Stability and Economic Stagnation - India c. 1500 BC-AD ig8o. By DEEPAK LAL. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. xxvi + 345. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 0 19 828498 5).The Hindu Equilibrium: Volume II: Aspects of Indian Labour. By DEEPAK LAL. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. xii+197…
Reception and the Classics
This collection brings together leading experts in a number of fields of the humanities to offer a new perspective on the classical tradition. Drawing on reception studies, philology and early modern studies, the essays explore the interaction between literary criticism and the multiple cultural contexts in which texts were produced, discovered, appropriated and translated. The intersection of Realpolitik and textual criticism, poetic and musical…
Reception and the Classics
Naming Nefas
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The War of the Worlds
In the Punica, Silus Italicus combines the stereotypical impiety of Hannibal in the historiographical tradition with the literary figure of the theomach that had become especially prominent in imperial epic. The chapter shows how Silius presents the hero’s two most theomachic moments - the crossing of the Alps and the assault on the Capitol - as underlining the power and supremacy of Jupiter in the world of the Punica. In each episode, Silius use…
Theomachy as Test in Ovid's Metamorphoses
This chapter examines the role of religious belief in the theomachic episodes of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. It offers a series of close readings of different types of challenge to the gods brought by the poem’s sceptical and violent characters. From these narratives emerges a frequent and distinctive interest in testing the empirical criteria of divinity - the observable features or actions that signify divine power and justify belief. Tellingly, the …
Theomachy in Greek Epic and Tragedy
This chapter introduces the salient features of Greek representations of theomachy through readings of Homer’s Iliad and key works of Attic tragedy. The discussion of the Iliad focuses on Diomedes, Patroclus, and Achilles, the heroes at the centre of the epic’s three main theomachic episodes. The section shows how the idea of theomachy provides a conceptual space for thinking about human capacities in relation to the ultimate paradigm of power - …
Deification and Theomachy in Seneca's Hercules Furens
The twinning of the themes of deification and theomachy is fundamental to Seneca’s tragedy Hercules Furens: Juno almost stakes her divinity on stopping Hercules from becoming a god, Hercules hallucinates that the gods bar him from heaven before imagining himself launching a theomachy, and numerous other passages in the work discuss either the criteria of divinity or acts of theomachy. The chapter draws on a variety of prose and poetic texts - inc…
Classical Quotation in Titus Andronicus
This paper relates the four Latin quotations in Shakespeare and Peele’s Titus Andronicus to the play’s broader themes of communication and comprehension. In all four cases the characters’ superficial understanding of the meaning of the quotation contrasts with the striking implications of the original Latin context. The resulting irony is augmented by Peele’s changes to Seneca’s Latin, which add layers of meaning by rearranging and conflating mul…
The War with God
This book is the first large-scale study of conflict between humans and gods ('theomachy') in Latin epic and tragic poetry. Theomachy informs some of the most influential works in the European literary tradition from Homer and Euripides to Marlowe and Milton. Nowhere is the theme more frequently and powerfully represented, however, than in the Latin poetry of early imperial Rome, from Ovid at the beginning of the first century AD to Statius at it…
Strings, Triangles, and Go-betweens
This article examines a case study in Silius Italicus’ Punica using two distinct but complementary approaches to Flavian epic intertextuality: a methodological move to expand and further incorporate computational tools within philology, and a literary theoretical move to combine intertextuality and thematic interpretation. The case study focuses on the debates in the Carthaginian senate described in Punica 2 and 11, both of which Silius adapts fr…
Large-scale quantitative profiling of the Old English verse tradition
Against Moloch
Moloch is the simplest of fiends": C.S. Lewis's assessment of Milton's bellicose fallen angel remains largely representative. This essay argues, by contrast, that intertextual features of Moloch's portrayal work both to support and resist standard critical judgements. The theomachic genealogy underlying Moloch casts him as a symbol of a poetics and philosophy ostensibly rejected by Milton, but the same tradition also challenges the intellectual a…
Reply to
More Latian Anagrams ( Aen. 8.314–36)
This note offers a new reading of Evander’s speech at Aeneid 8.314–36. The passage contains a celebrated anagrammatic wordplay centering on the word Latium, to which we add several newly identified anagrams. We argue that these wordplays represent in microcosm the composition, disintegration, and recomposition of states leading up to and including Rome itself. In doing so, the anagrams convey an underlying evolutionary process in which elements—w…
Belief in Greek and Roman Religion
For the Greeks and Romans, the world was full of gods, but this fundamental aspect of their experience poses major challenges to modern understanding. The concept of belief has been central to meeting those challenges but has itself been hotly debated, and has at times even been rejected as a supposedly Christianising anachronism. Others, meanwhile, have argued that a culture-neutral model of belief is both possible and essential, while the adven…
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