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UC Berkeley Cabinet of the Muses: Rosenmeyer Festschrift Title Biography and Bibliography of T. G. Rosenmeyer (1920-2007) Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/04h0308g Publication Date 2007-04-05 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California TOM ROSENMEYER IN MEMORIAM Saturday, April 7, 2007, 1 p.m. Heyns Room The Faculty Club University of California, Berkeley PROGRAM MUSICAL SELECTIONS OPENING REMARKS: Tony Long REMEMBRANCES Robert Alter Erich Gruen John Prausnitz Michelle Zerba Kathy Fabunan MUSICAL INTERLUDE REMEMBRANCES Patricia Rosenmeyer Benjamin Acosta-Hughes Donald Mastronarde Mark Griffith CLOSING REMARKS: Tony Long RECEPTION THOMAS GUSTAV ROSENMEYER APRIL 3, 1920–FEBRUARY 6, 2007 Tom Rosenmeyer, Professor Emeritus of Greek and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, died at his home in Oakland on Tuesday, February 6, 2007. He was 86. Born in Hamburg, Germany, on April 3, 1920, and educated at the humanistic Johanneum Gymnasium in that city from 1930 to 1938, Tom fled to England in 1939 to avoid Nazi per- secution. He enrolled at the London School of Oriental Studies, intending to learn Sanskrit, but in 1940 the British, expecting a German invasion, interned all “enemy” aliens. He was sent on to an internment camp in Canada, where the residents formed their own impromptu “university,” studying Hebrew, Sanskrit, and Arabic as well as the classical languages together behind barbed wire. Among his colleagues in the camp were future classicist Martin Ostwald and Emil Fackenheim, who taught Tom Arabic and later became a prominent philosopher of the Shoah. Released from internment in 1942, Tom completed an undergraduate degree in Classics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1944 and took an MA in Classics at the University of Toronto in 1945 before proceeding to Harvard for his doctoral studies. -
Anaximander and the Relation Between Myth and Philosophy In
Anaximander and the Relation Between Myth and Philosophy in the Sixth Century B.C. A thesis submitted to the faculty of the Institute for Christian Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Philosophy by William V. Rowe Toronto, Ontario 1979 Table of Contents Page Preface......................................................... 1 Part One: Prolegomena.............. ..... ....................... 2 A. Current Status of the Anaximander Question............... 2 B. A Basic Polarity in Views Concerning the Genesis of Philosophy................................. 4 C. Four Basic Lines in Pre-Socratic Research................ 11 D. Summary Remarks......................................... 45 Footnotes........................................ ............... 47 Part Two: Four Interpretations of Anaximander.................... 59 (1) Olof Gigon.......................................... 60 (2) Uvo Holscher........................................ 76 (3) Charles H. Kahn..................................... 93 (4) Jean-Pierre Vernant................................. 114 Summary Comparisons and Transitional Remarks................. 132 Footnotes....................................................... 136 Part Three: Myth and Philosophy in Anaximander................... 146 A. Underlying Hermeneutical Assumptions..................... 146 (1) What is Philosophy?............... ................. 146 (2) What is Myth?...................................... 150 (3) What is Their Relation?............................. 156 B. Anaximander............................................ -
Tom Rosenmeyer in Memoriam
TOM ROSENMEYER IN MEMORIAM Saturday, April 7, 2007, 1 p.m. Heyns Room The Faculty Club University of California, Berkeley PROGRAM MUSICAL SELECTIONS OPENING REMARKS: Tony Long REMEMBRANCES Robert Alter Erich Gruen John Prausnitz Michelle Zerba Kathy Fabunan MUSICAL INTERLUDE REMEMBRANCES Patricia Rosenmeyer Benjamin Acosta-Hughes Donald Mastronarde Mark Griffith CLOSING REMARKS: Tony Long RECEPTION THOMAS GUSTAV ROSENMEYER APRIL 3, 1920–FEBRUARY 6, 2007 Tom Rosenmeyer, Professor Emeritus of Greek and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, died at his home in Oakland on Tuesday, February 6, 2007. He was 86. Born in Hamburg, Germany, on April 3, 1920, and educated at the humanistic Johanneum Gymnasium in that city from 1930 to 1938, Tom fled to England in 1939 to avoid Nazi per- secution. He enrolled at the London School of Oriental Studies, intending to learn Sanskrit, but in 1940 the British, expecting a German invasion, interned all “enemy” aliens. He was sent on to an internment camp in Canada, where the residents formed their own impromptu “university,” studying Hebrew, Sanskrit, and Arabic as well as the classical languages together behind barbed wire. Among his colleagues in the camp were future classicist Martin Ostwald and Emil Fackenheim, who taught Tom Arabic and later became a prominent philosopher of the Shoah. Released from internment in 1942, Tom completed an undergraduate degree in Classics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1944 and took an MA in Classics at the University of Toronto in 1945 before proceeding to Harvard for his doctoral studies. He took up his first teaching job in 1947 at the University of Iowa, where he worked on completing his dissertation and began translating Bruno Snell’s Die Entdeckung des Geistes, which appeared in 1948. -
20 Vom Gliedergefüge Zum Handelnden Menschen Snells Entwicklungsgeschichtliche Homerdeutung Und Ein Mögliches Homerbild Heute.Pdf
Vom Gliedergefüge zum handelnden Menschen. Snells entwicklungsgeschichtliche Homerdeutung und ein mögliches Homerbild heute ARBOGAST SCHMITT I 1) Snells Anliegen: Rückgewinnung des Europäischen in Europa durch Homer Snells Plan, ein Lexikon zu Homer in Angriff zu nehmen, hatte neben dem philologisch lexikalischen Interesse zwei weitere, für ihn sehr wichtige Grün- de:1 Die Situation nach 1945 schien ihm eine Rückbesinnung auf die kulturel- len Grundlagen Europas notwendig zu machen, wenn denn nach der Barbarei der vorausgegangenen Jahre Europa wieder zu sich selbst finden können sollte. Diese Rückbesinnung aber konnte für ihn nicht irgendwo einsetzen, sondern musste bis auf Homer zurückgehen. Denn bei ihm fand er die Anfänge derje- nigen Entwicklung, die die Besonderheit der europäischen Kultur überhaupt erst hervorgebracht hatte. Ohne diese Besonderheit zu kennen und dadurch lebendig zu halten, konnte Europa nicht seinen Platz unter den Kulturnationen der Welt wiederfinden und sich unter ihnen behaupten. Das Anliegen, das das Lexikon für Snell erfüllen sollte, war deshalb zuerst die Erschließung der Sem- antik des homerischen Wortschatzes. Geprägt von der Überzeugung Wilhelm von Humboldts, dass die Sprache Ausdruck der Weltanschauung einer Gesell- schaft ist, sollte das Lexikon genau diesen Dienst leisten: Es sollte dem heutigen Menschen die Welt Homers erschließen. Die außergewöhnliche Eignung der homerischen Sprache für diesen Dienst gründete für Snell darin, dass die Ent- wicklung einer natürlichen Sprache zu einer Sprache, die zu wissenschaftlicher Begriffsbildung fähig ist, überhaupt nur an Homer studiert werden konnte. Nur aus dieser – homerischen – Sprache hat sich das moderne ‚theoretische 1 Beck, William u. Dieter Irmer, Fünfzig Jahre Thesaurus. 1944–1994, v.a. 31–58. s. -
The Greek Concept of Justice
The Greek Concept of Justice From Its Shadow in Homer to Its Substance in Plato ta Eric A. Havelock Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England 1978 Copyright © 1978 by Eric A. Havelock All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Publication of this book has been aided by a grant from the Loeb Publication Fund of the Department of the Classics, Harvard University. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Havelock, Eric Alfred. The Greek concept of justice. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Justice. I. Title. JC75.J8H38 179 78-6064 ISBN 0-674-36220-9 MU. Jag! ell. 1979 K Ing 14- MATRIS IN PIAM MEMORIAM Foreword 04,1 Scholars of my generation will recognize in my text and notes many evidences of the guidance they have given me, even where the direction of my own journey may seem to have been solitary. It would have been even more so but for the welcome extended to my investigations by Bruno Gentili, a welcome inspired by the force of certain conceptions which have been pursued in parallel to my own. More remotely, but still powerfully, the reader may perceive at work the influences of Bruno Snell and E. R. Dodds. I would also acknowledge the company and criticism that have been afforded me by some scholars of a younger generation who have had the patience in recent years to listen, to comment, and to correct many things that I have said and written and which in their amended form are implicit in this book. To Tom Cole, David Claus, Kevin Robb, Christopher Gill, Michael Gagarin, Jack- son Hershbell, Bennett Simon, Joseph Russo, and Alexander Mourelatos I am specially indebted for assistance rendered in this manner, through personal communication and by their published writings. -
The Intellectual Context
chapter one The Intellectual Context he beginning of the fourth century b.c. coincided with an era of T change in many aspects of the Greek world. The generation-long Peloponnesian War ended with the fall of Athens, but so weakened its belligerents that no single Greek city-state was able thereafter to claim hegemony for long. Autocrats seeking power beyond the borders of their home city-states began to play an increasing role in Greek politics, a fact that was naturally reflected in contemporary prose works. The rise of the sophists and the development of professional rhetoric by the end of the fifth century had a substantial effect upon the writing of prose but also led to various responses from Athenian intellectuals. Two of these were Socra- tes and Isocrates, whose reactions to the intellectual climate of their time consisted of the development and propagation of moral virtues in very different ways. As I shall argue, their influence in turn contributed to the use of the past to illustrate moral exempla in certain fourth-century prose works. Finally, the birth and flowering of historical writing during the fifth century made it a logical instrument, by the beginning of the fourth cen- tury, for the dissemination of the moral virtues considered important to its intended audience, the literate elite. Nevertheless, the infusion of a moral agenda into historical writing during the fourth century was not entirely without precedent in the fifth. 5 6 lessons from the past There are certainly some signs of moralizing in the two great fifth-century historians, Herodotus and Thucydides, although the moral paradigm was not the main focus of their histories. -
Drama and Society According to Aristophanes' (Clouds And) Frogs
OLE THOMSEN Drama and Society According to Aristophanes’ (Clouds and) Frogs To the outstanding author of Aristotle on the Function of Tragic Poetry, a presentation of Aristophanes’ ideas on the same topic I Clouds and Frogs compared The Wisdom and Intelligence of Educators Theatre and Society Mirroring Each Other he point of departure of this study may be described as follows: TToday the average classical scholar will be better informed on matters related to ancient poetics, rhetoric, and criticism than was the case fifty years ago with even such great scholars as Bruno Snell, Max Pohlenz, and E. R. Dodds. So perhaps it is time to try to redress the balance as far as the topic of this paper is concerned. It is not treated here for the first time, and progress is only to be hoped for within this study of poetological ideas if we are willing to re-consider each and ev- ery passage of the texts involved, not regarding die kritisch-exegetische Methode as outworn and not allowing the old editions and commentar- ies to collect dust on the upper shelves of the libraries. Their authors _Meineke, Fritzsche, van Leeuwen, Neil, Wilamowitz, Coulon & alii_ 270 OLE THOMSEN knew Greek better, even much better, than most of us do, so let us make use of them. A summary of the points presented in this paper will be found near its end. Unfortunately, it was not possible to include a comparison between the ideas of the ancients on poetry and goodness and the so-called ethical turn to be observed in the works of some contemporary crit- ics, among whom James Wood should be singled out.