A bit of a backlog this a.m. ...
Ben Smith has the latest installment in his series on the Eusebian Canon ...
Joel Morrison's class is studying Archimedes (by the way, that image which graces the banner of rogueclassicism is Archimedes pondering his books when the Romans come a-killing ... a question I'm often asked) ...
Dorothy King is soliciting questions for an Ask Dorothy feature ...
Ginny Lindzey just loves Latin ...
Glaukopis has a sort of gift list for Classicists ...
Adrian Murdoch has found an excellent bibliography of children in the ancient world ...
Laura Gibbs' roundup ...
Nathan Bauman has some thoughts on Odyssey 13 and 14 ...
If you're itching for some more coverage of that Spanish ship find and can't wait for Explorator, check out Ioannis Georganas , Glaukopis, and/or PhDiva (all different sources) ...
Semi-tangential to the purview of this blog, the Stoa links to some teaching strategies using Google Earth ...
Latest papers put up at the Princeton Stanford Working Papers in Classics page:
Die Katharsis im sokratischen Platonismus (Katharsis in Socratic Platonism)
Christian Wildberg, Princeton University
Abstract - In this paper, written in German, I am exploring the concept of purification (katharsis) in early Platonic dialogues. The evidence suggests that this variant of katharsis, which possesses a marked cognitive dimension, might well have Socratic roots. More importantly, however, its serves as a useful backdrop for an understanding of Aristotle's enigmatic conception of dramatic katharsis as broached in the Poetics. Modern discussions of the latter have so far largely ignored the Socratic-Platonic precursor, with which Aristotle was undoubtedly familiar.
Performance, Text, and the History of Criticism
Andrew Ford, Princeton University
Abstract: I argue that the study of ancient criticism is unduly narrow unless it combines an awareness of the materiality of culture—of the forms in which literary texts were produced, circulated, stored up, and accessed—with an appreciation for how strongly performance traditions could shape the reception and valuation of such texts. To illustrate, I analyze the 25th chapter of Aristotle’s Poetics to show that the theory behind “Problems and Solutions” was less significant culturally than the many-formed game of using poets in ethical debate. Also included is a brief overview of work since Vol. 1 of the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (edited by George Kennedy in 1989) that fruitfully confronts the idea of the work of art as text with the reality of the work of art as performance.
Ben Smith has the latest installment in his series on the Eusebian Canon ...
Joel Morrison's class is studying Archimedes (by the way, that image which graces the banner of rogueclassicism is Archimedes pondering his books when the Romans come a-killing ... a question I'm often asked) ...
Dorothy King is soliciting questions for an Ask Dorothy feature ...
Ginny Lindzey just loves Latin ...
Glaukopis has a sort of gift list for Classicists ...
Adrian Murdoch has found an excellent bibliography of children in the ancient world ...
Laura Gibbs' roundup ...
Nathan Bauman has some thoughts on Odyssey 13 and 14 ...
If you're itching for some more coverage of that Spanish ship find and can't wait for Explorator, check out Ioannis Georganas , Glaukopis, and/or PhDiva (all different sources) ...
Semi-tangential to the purview of this blog, the Stoa links to some teaching strategies using Google Earth ...
Latest papers put up at the Princeton Stanford Working Papers in Classics page:
Die Katharsis im sokratischen Platonismus (Katharsis in Socratic Platonism)
Christian Wildberg, Princeton University
Abstract - In this paper, written in German, I am exploring the concept of purification (katharsis) in early Platonic dialogues. The evidence suggests that this variant of katharsis, which possesses a marked cognitive dimension, might well have Socratic roots. More importantly, however, its serves as a useful backdrop for an understanding of Aristotle's enigmatic conception of dramatic katharsis as broached in the Poetics. Modern discussions of the latter have so far largely ignored the Socratic-Platonic precursor, with which Aristotle was undoubtedly familiar.
Performance, Text, and the History of Criticism
Andrew Ford, Princeton University
Abstract: I argue that the study of ancient criticism is unduly narrow unless it combines an awareness of the materiality of culture—of the forms in which literary texts were produced, circulated, stored up, and accessed—with an appreciation for how strongly performance traditions could shape the reception and valuation of such texts. To illustrate, I analyze the 25th chapter of Aristotle’s Poetics to show that the theory behind “Problems and Solutions” was less significant culturally than the many-formed game of using poets in ethical debate. Also included is a brief overview of work since Vol. 1 of the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (edited by George Kennedy in 1989) that fruitfully confronts the idea of the work of art as text with the reality of the work of art as performance.