Greece & Rome articles from October 1993

Greece & Rome archives from October 1993

'Strange meeting': Diomedes and Glaucus in 'Iliad' 6.
October 1, 1993... Two men meet on a battlefield; it is getting late, towards the close of a long day's fighting, the first since Achilles deserted the Greeks. The catalogue of this day's deadly confrontations, which has filled much of Books 4 and 5, looks as...

Philomel and Pericles: silence in the Funeral Speech. (Thucydides and the history of ancient Athens)
October 1, 1993... ~Great will be your glory in not falling short of your natural character; and greatest will be hers who is least talked of among the men whether for good or for bad.' -- Pericles in Thucydides 2.45(1) This comment occurs in the closing...

Like a worm i' the bud? A heterology of Classical Greek slavery.
October 1, 1993... History explained as something to be proud of to me means vanity (Derek Walcott) I ~Classical' Greece? The very term exudes stability, permanence, confidence, authority, excellence, perfection (in a teleological...

Images and image: a re-examination of Tetrarchic iconography. (284-311 Tetrarchic period of the Roman Empire)
October 1, 1993... Consideration of Tetrarchic portraiture has usually focused on the extant porphyry sculptures (plates 2, 6, 7, 9, and 10). This was perhaps inevitable, since the arresting eyes of the Cairo bust or the stubby legs of the Vatican groups are...

Reading Greek like a man of the world: Macaulay and the classical languages. (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
October 1, 1993... In his journal for December 31st, 1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay recorded an encounter with Thomas Love Peacock: ~I met Peacock; a clever fellow and a good scholar. I am glad to have an opportunity of being better acquainted with him. We had...

Death Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity.
October 1, 1993... These two books herald the arrival of a new series from Cambridge -- ~Key Themes in Ancient History'. As the blurb has it, the series ~aims to provide readable, informed and original studies in various basic topics'. It might seem at first...

Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece.
October 1, 1993... These two books herald the arrival of a new series from Cambridge -- ~Key Themes in Ancient History'. As the blurb has it, the series ~aims to provide readable, informed and original studies in various basic topics'. It might seem at first...

Apollodoros, Against Neaira (Demosthenes) 59.
October 1, 1993... Apollodoros, the son of Pasion, of all classical Athenians, seems suitable for a detailed psychological investigation: son of the most successful ex-slave known to us from ancient Greece, the banker Pasion, he sought desperately to be...