The study of ancient Greek and Roman in their presence and influence on post-classical times and places, not least in the West.
Stephe Harrop deposited Unfixing Epic: Homeric Orality and Contemporary Performance in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoThis chapter examines the impact of a putative oral Homer upon the work of recent performance-makers. The influence of oral-poetic theories is (as yet) an under-explored area of study, neglected by scholars whose literary expertise leads them to focus on dramatic texts and production histories, with each revisionary text or production regarded as…[Read more]
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Democracy and the Vernacular Imagination in Vico’s Plebian Philology in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 7 months, 1 week agoThis essay examines Giambattista Vico’s philology as a contribution to democratic legitimacy. I outline three steps in Vico’s account of the historical and political development of philological knowledge: first, his merger of philosophy and philology, and the effects of that merger on the relative claims of reason and authority; second, his use…[Read more]
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “The Poetics from Athens to al-Andalus: Ibn Rushd’s Grounds for Comparison,” Modern Philology 112 (2014): 1-24. in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 11 months, 3 weeks agoThe Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Poetics by the Andalusian philosopher Ibn Rushd (d. 1198) has been treated by commentators as wide-ranging as Borges, Renan, and Kilito as an exemplary case of the failure of translation. Critics who presume Ibn Rushd’s failure often concentrate on his rendering of Aristotle’s tragedy and comedy by praise…[Read more]
Adam Rasmussen deposited “A Vessel Divinely Molded”: Basil of Caesarea on the Human Body in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 1 year agoThis paper has two parts. First, I examine Basil of Caesarea’s theological anthropology and show how he understands the human being as a body-soul unity. The body is the good instrument of the soul. It is marvelous because it has been molded by God’s own hands. In the second part, I examine what I call Basil’s theological physiology, which flows…[Read more]
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Adam Rasmussen deposited Basil of Caesarea’s Uses of Origen in His Polemic against Astrology in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 1 year agoBasil of Caesarea, in his polemic against astrology (Homiliae in hexaemeron 6,5−7), makes direct, creative uses of Origen’s anti-astrological treatise (Philocalia 23). My argument is based on an identical context, namely the interpretation of Gen 1:14b, and five close similarities in content, some verbatim, between Basil’s sermon and Orige…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop deposited The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey and The Factory, The Odyssey in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months agoThis extended review highlights an increasingly important aspect of the contemporary performance reception of the Odyssey in the UK, with growing numbers of practitioners and companies moving away from the straightforward dramatisation (or revisionist dramatic contestation) of Homer’s epic tale, and towards a deepening engagement with epic s…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop deposited Physical Performance and the Languages of Translation in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months agoOur lack of reliable information concerning the physical and choreographic aspects of ancient tragic performance permits modern writers to construct their own imaginative re-creations of the ancient text/body relationship in a wide variety of modes. The range of ways in which texts translated or adapted from ancient tragedy are capable of…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop deposited Poetic Language and Corporeality in Translations of Greek Tragedy in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months agoThe translation of ancient tragedy is often considered at a linguistic level, as if the drama consisted simply of words being written, spoken and heard. This article contends that translation for the stage is a process in which literary decisions have physical, as well as verbal, outcomes. It traces existing formulations concerning the links…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop deposited Speech, Silence and Epic Performance: Alice Oswald’s Memorial in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months agoAlice Oswald’s recitation of her 2011 poem Memorial is an intensely modest, self-effacing performance. Yet it is also one which invites us to consider key questions about the ancient practice, and modern re-performance, of epic poetry. Oswald explicitly cites the antiphonal lament of Homeric funerary ritual as an influence upon her r…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop deposited ‘Ercles’ Vein’: Heracles as Bottom in Ted Hughes’ Alcestis in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months agoTed Hughes’ version of Euripides’ Alcestis (1999) is a play which diverges significantly from its ancient source-text, most notably in an interpolated sequence during which the drunken Heracles re-enacts his own labours, before experiencing traumatic visions. This article identifies this un-Euripidean interlude as a characteristic instance of int…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop deposited Grounded, Heracles and the Gorgon’s Gaze in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months agoThis review-essay discusses George Brant’s play Grounded (2013) in the context of its production at the Gate Theatre (London). It begins with a critical examination of my own “mis-seeing” of the play’s protagonist as a version of the tragic Heracles. The analysis which follows compares key aspects of The Pilot’s narrative with Euripides’ Heracles…[Read more]
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