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Handout 2008 for Dialogue 20
Dialogue 20 The hero as mirror of men’s and women’s experiences. Key word: telos ‘coming full circle, rounding out, fulfillment, completion, ending, end; successfully passing through an ordeal; ritual, rite’. To be linked with another key word, athlos (aethlos) ‘contest, ordeal; competition’; derivative word: athlētēs ‘athlete’; related concepts are agōn ‘contest, ordeal; competition’ and ponos ‘pain’ [sharp, shooting pain] and kamatos ‘pain’ [dull, aching pain]. Note the beginning of the Hippolytus. At line 32, there is a reference to a sacred space in Athens where Aphroditē epi hippolutōi ‘Our Lady of Horses Unbridled’ is worshipped; this name contains the imagery of chariot-driving. Experiences that are ingredients for coming of age, initiation, rite of passage men’s experiences: song and dance, marriage; athletics; hunting, war women’s experiences: song and dance, marriage; athletics [mostly running]; menstruation, childbirth The underlinings indicate asymmetry from a modern point of view but symmetry from an ancient point of view. A) Euripides Hippolytus 73-87: For you, goddess, I bring this woven garland, culled from a virgin meadow, where it is not fit for the shepherd to pasture his flocks, nor has iron yet come there, but unspoiled still in springtime the bees fly through this meadow. Aidōs tends it with pure river water, and those who by their nature always use moderation [sōphrosunē] in all things, instead of having learned it, they can pick flowers, but it is not lawful [themis] for the kakos. Philē mistress, for your golden locks accept this headband from my reverent hand. I alone among mortals have this privilege: I keep company with you and make conversation, hearing your voice although not seeing your face. -
© in This Web Service Cambridge University
Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-52929-7 - The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece Edited by H. A. Shapiro Index More information Index S Abdera, 43 agora, 46–48, 147, 204, 212, 213 Abydos, 208 Agylla/Caere, 226 Achaeans/Achaians, 48, 50, 51, 52, 57, Aiakos, 234 74, 112, 113, 118, 120, 123, 202, 207 Aigai, 51 Achaia, 49, 51, 56, 57 Aigeira, 51 Achilles, 103, 111, 112, 113, 114, 118, 119, Aigialeis, 56 120, 121, 122, 126, 268–269, 278 Aigila, 79 Acropolis. See Athens Aigimios. See Dorians Adrastus, 153 Aigina, 77 Aeaces I, tyrant of Samos, 34 Aineias Taktikos, 70 Aeaces II, son of Syloson, 34 Aischines, 50 Aeacids, 32, 34 Aisymnetes, 34 Aeantides, son of Hippocles, 30 Aitnissai. See Aeschylus Aelian, 166 Aitolia, 49, 50, 52 Aeneas, 66 Aitolians, 49, 50, 51 Aeolians, 23 Ajax, 120, 123, 268–269, 278 Aeolic dialect, 113 Akarnania, 49, 50 Aeolus, 216 Akragas, 207, 218, 220 Aeschines/Aiskhines, tyrant of Sicyon, Akrai, 207, 216 24, 243, 244 Al Mina, 203 Aeschylus, 242 Alcaeus/Alkaios of Mytilene, 16–17, 32, Aitnissai, 220 47, 67, 141, 142, 143, 147, 149–150 , Eumenides, 132 152 , 158 , 159 , 160, 162 Aethiopis. See Epic Cycle Alcidamas, poet. See Aetnans, 237 Alcinous, 113, 127 Africa, 207, 210, 211 Alcman of Sparta, 6, 94–95, 147 agalmata, 241 Alcmeonids/Alkmaionids, 29, 30, 31 , 33, Agamemnon, 48, 114, 119, 122–123, 247–251 125–126, 242 Alcock, Susan E., 77 Agariste, daughter of Cleisthenes, 22 Alexander the Great, 3, 6, 222 Agasicles of Halicarnassus, 232, 242, 248 Alexandros. See Paris Agasicles, tyrant of Halicarnassus, 232 Alkmaion, 233 agathoi, 48 Alkmaionides, 233–235, 237, 239, 247 agelai, 90–92, 97 Amaltheia, 236 agoge, 90 Amasis, pharaoh, 247 agonal warfare, 76–77 Ampheia, 77, 78 287 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-52929-7 - The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece Edited by H. -
On April 20Th, Dr. Anja Slaw
“How fast does a city recover from destruction? A new view of the creation of the Severe Style” On April 20th, Dr. Anja Slawisch, a research fellow at University of Cambridge, presented her careful reconsideration of the transition from Archaic period to Classical period in art, especially in sculpture. I will first give some historical background and conventional understanding of this transition, and then elaborate on her argument. Conventionally, the sack of Athens during the Persian War in 480 BCE spurred the artistic development from austere Archaic style (see statues of Kleobis and Biton below1) to the Severe Style (see Harmodius and Aristogeiton, the tyrannicides2), and hence marks the transition from Archaic period into Classical period in art. The most important feature that sets severe style apart from the Archaic is a more naturalistic depiction of the human anatomy. For statues of the tyrannicides, the human bodies were made as an organic system - their pelves shift according to their stances, as opposed to the awkward posture of Kleobis and Biton. In this widely-accepted narrative, the destruction of Athens, heavily influencing the psyche of Athenians, stimulated these stark changes and inventions in artistic style. As a consequence, 480 BCE became a reference point for archaeologists in dating these statues according to their features. Statues of Kleobis and Biton Harmodius and Aristogeiton 1 Statues of Kleobis and Biton (identified by inscriptions on the base) dedicated to Delphi by the city of Argos, signed by [Poly?]medes of Argos. Marble, ca. 580 BC. H. 1.97 m (6 ft. 5 ½ in.), after restoration. -
The Origins of the Kouros
THE ORIGINS OF THE KOUROS By REBECCA ANN DUNHAM A THESIS PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 2005 Copyright 2005 by Rebecca Ann Dunham This document is dedicated to my mom. TABLE OF CONTENTS page LIST OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................... vi ABSTRACT.........................................................................................................................x CHAPTER 1 DEFINITION OF THE KOUROS TYPE ....................................................................1 Pose...............................................................................................................................2 Size and material...........................................................................................................2 Nudity ...........................................................................................................................3 Body Shape and Treatment of Musculature .................................................................3 Execution ......................................................................................................................4 Function ........................................................................................................................5 Provenances ..................................................................................................................7 -
Epigraphic Bulletin for Greek Religion 2009 (EBGR 2009)
Kernos Revue internationale et pluridisciplinaire de religion grecque antique 25 | 2012 Varia Epigraphic Bulletin for Greek Religion 2009 (EBGR 2009) Angelos Chaniotis Electronic version URL: http://journals.openedition.org/kernos/2117 DOI: 10.4000/kernos.2117 ISSN: 2034-7871 Publisher Centre international d'étude de la religion grecque antique Printed version Date of publication: 26 October 2012 Number of pages: 185-232 ISSN: 0776-3824 Electronic reference Angelos Chaniotis, « Epigraphic Bulletin for Greek Religion 2009 », Kernos [Online], 25 | 2012, Online since 20 November 2014, connection on 15 September 2020. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/ kernos/2117 Kernos Kernos 25(2012),p.185-232. Epigraphic Bulletin for Greek Religion 2009 (EBGR 2009) The 22nd issue of the Epigraphic Bulletin for Greek Religion presents a selection of the epigraphicpublicationsof2009andsomeadditionstoearlierissues.Followingthepractice ofthemostrecentissues,emphasiswasplacedonthepresentationofnew corporaand editions of new texts, rather than on summarizing books or articles that use epigraphic material.Duetodemandingresearchandadministrativeduties,thisyearIhavebeenunable tocompletethesurveyofjournalsontime.Inordertoavoiddelaysinthepublicationof Kernos , I could only present part of 2009’s publications. This issue contains several very interestingnewepigraphicfinds.Iwouldliketohighlightthenewfragmentsthathavebeen addedtothephilosophicalinscriptionofDiogenesofOinoanda( 65 ).Theymakepossible thereconstructionofalargepassage,inwhichtheEpicureanphilosopherrejectstheidea -
Jména Řecké a Římské Mythologie V Nomenklatuře Netopýrů, S Poznámkou Ke Jménu Myotis Alcathoe
Vespertilio 12: 107–128, 2008 ISSN 1213-6123 Jména řecké a římské mythologie v nomenklatuře netopýrů, s poznámkou ke jménu Myotis alcathoe Petr be n d a zoologické oddělení PM, Národní museum, Václavské nám. 68, CZ–115 79 Praha 1, Česko & katedra zoologie, PřF University Karlovy, Viničná 7, CZ–128 44 Praha 2, Česko; [email protected] Names from Greek and Roman mythology in bat nomenclature, with a note on the name Myotis alcathoe. In bat nomenclature, at least sixty names used in 115 taxa which correspond with the names from ancient mythology or history were created by 50 authors. Most of these names were created in the first quarter of the 20th century (44), in the era of Oldfield Thomas (author of 24 of these names), Knud Andersen (12) and Gerrit Smith Miller (6). Until now 62 of the bat names taken from antiquity remain valid as genus or species names. Most recently, a name of this type was created by Otto von Helversen and Klaus-Gerhard Heller in 2001 for Myotis alcathoe. According to the authors of description, Alcathoe (also Alcithoe or Alcythoe) – from Greek Άλκαθόη and Άλκιθόη – was a nymph and the vernacular name ‘nymph bat’ was suggested for this species. However, this name was found to be related to a name of mythical princess, a daughter of the king Minyas of Orchomenos in Greece. None of the old traditions showed her to be a nymph. Because the princess refused, along with her sisters, to honour the god Dionysos (Bakchus) and she did her usual housework, the god turned her into a bat and her sisters also into bats or, according to other ancient traditions, into birds (owl, eagle owl, crow). -
Focus on Greek Sculpture
Focus on Greek Sculpture Notes for teachers Greek sculpture at the Ashmolean • The classical world was full of large high quality statues of bronze and marble that honoured gods, heroes, rulers, military leaders and ordinary people. The Ashmolean’s cast collection, one of the best- preserved collections of casts of Greek and Roman sculpture in the UK, contains some 900 plaster casts of statues, reliefs and architectural sculptures. It is particularly strong in classical sculpture but also includes important Hellenistic and Roman material. Cast collections provided exemplary models for students in art academies to learn to draw and were used for teaching classical archaeology. • Many of the historical casts, some dating back to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, are in better condition than the acid rain-damaged originals from which they were moulded. They are exact plaster replicas made, with piece moulds that leave distinctive seams on the surface of the cast. • The thematic arrangement of the Cast Gallery presents the contexts in which statues were used in antiquity; sanctuaries, tombs and public spaces. Other galleries containing Greek sculpture, casts and ancient Greek objects Gallery 14: Cast Gallery Gallery 21: Greek and Roman Sculpture Gallery 16: The Greek World Gallery 7: Money Gallery 2: Crossing Cultures Gallery 14: Cast Gallery 1. Cast of early Greek kouros, Delphi, Greece, 2. Cast of ‘Peplos kore’, from Athenian Acropolis, c570BC c530BC The stocky, heavily muscled naked figure stands The young woman held an offering in her in the schematic ‘walking’ pose copied from outstretched left hand (missing) and wears an Egypt by early Greek sculptors, signifying motion unusual combination of clothes: a thin under- and life. -
How to Write History: Thucydides and Herodotus in the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition
How to write history: Thucydides and Herodotus in the ancient rhetorical tradition A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Scott Kennedy, B.A., B.S. Graduate Program in Greek and Latin The Ohio State University 2018 Dissertation Committee: Anthony Kaldellis, Adviser Benjamin Acosta-Hughes Will Batstone Copyright by Scott Kennedy 2018 Abstract Modern students of Thucydides and Herodotus may find it odd to think of them as rhetoricians. Yet in the ancient world, both historians (and especially Thucydides) played an important role in rhetorical schools. They were among the favorite authors of ancient teachers of rhetoric and served as foundational pillars of the ancient curriculum, providing themes for school exercises and even for such seminal texts as Hermogenes' theoretical treatises on rhetoric. Modern scholars might never read technical rhetorical texts such as Hermogenes. They almost certainly would never turn to Hermogenes and his kind to help them understand Thucydides or Herodotus. But for our ancient intellectual predecessors, such an approach would have been unconscionable, as ancient rhetoric was the theoretical lens with which they understood and appreciated historical writings. In this dissertation, I explore the confluence of rhetoric and historiography in the ancient world through an examination of how Herodotus and Thucydides were used in ancient schools and then by later historians. Chapter 1 and 2 outline how these historians were embedded and encoded within the rhetorical curriculum. In Chapter 1, I examine how Herodotus and Thucydides entered the rhetorical curriculum and how rhetors incorporated them into the rhetorical curriculum through an examination of the surviving progymnasmata, scholia, and pedagogical myths. -
2019 Meskanen Eeva Leena Helena 0740810 Ethesis
This electronic thesis or dissertation has been downloaded from the King’s Research Portal at https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/ Questioning militarism in Spartan religion analysis of dedications from four Spartan sanctuaries Meskanen, Helena Awarding institution: King's College London The copyright of this thesis rests with the author and no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without proper acknowledgement. END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT Unless another licence is stated on the immediately following page this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ You are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work Under the following conditions: Attribution: You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Non Commercial: You may not use this work for commercial purposes. No Derivative Works - You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you receive permission from the author. Your fair dealings and other rights are in no way affected by the above. Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact [email protected] providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 06. Oct. 2021 Questioning Militarism in Spartan Religion: Analysis of Dedications from Four Spartan Sanctuaries Eeva Leena Helena Meskanen For the degree of Doctor of Philosophy King’s College London 2019 ABSTRACT ................................................................................................................................................................ -
A Poros Kouros from Isthmia
A POROS KOUROS FROM ISTHMIA (PLATE 91) pT^HE fragmentarystatue which forms the subject of this note was found at Isthmia on October 24, 1959 by members of the University of Chicago digging at the site under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies and the direction of Professor Oscar Broneer. The piece was found at a depth of 18.70 m. in the Large Circular Pit which lies to the west of the Palaimonion and south of the Temple precinct. This large shaft, probably an unfinished well, con- tained fill from the first half of the fifth century B.C. and earlier, including a few blocks and roof-tile fragments from the earliest Temple of Poseidon. The kouros has not yet been published and I am greatly indebted to Professor Broneer who has given me permission to describe and illustrate it here. The piece preserves the lower part of a male figure from below the waist to the, right knee. The left leg is broken at a much higher level across the thigh, probably at the point where the sculptor had begun to separate the two limbs. In addition, the entire front part of the statue is missing, having split clean with one of those flaking breaks typical of soft limestone, which appear almost like intentional cutting. Only the rear part of the kouros can therefore be studied for chronological and stylistic clues. Its dimensions make it slightly smaller than life size.' The material of the piece is a soft, whitish poros apparently free of impurities, which here takes an almost satiny finish. -
9781107028111 Index.Pdf
Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02811-1 - The Textualization of the Greek Alphabet Roger D. Woodard with a Chapter by David A. Scott Index More information Index Abaza, 324 Alexandria, 4 , 186 , 203 , 211 , 331 abeced ā rius , 221 alpha , 2 , 3 , 1 5 , 1 6 , 1 7 , 1 8 , 1 9 , 2 0 , 2 1 , 2 2 , 2 3 , 2 4 , Abou Simbel, 18 2 5 , 2 8 , 3 6 , 4 0 , 4 2 , 7 0 , 7 4 , 1 3 5 , 1 3 7 , 1 3 8 , 1 4 0 , Achaia, 29 , 73 , 250 , 303 144 , 163 , 166 , 171 , 224 , 235 , 247 , 250 , 251 , Achilles, 107 , 186 , 192 , 213 , 334 286 , 292 , 293 , 294 , 316 acrophonic principle, 157 , 160 alphabetic anomalies, 119 , 120 , 127 , 128 , 129 , a d a p t a t i o n , 5 1 , 6 3 , 6 4 , 6 5 , 6 6 , 1 4 6 , 1 5 1 , 1 5 2 , 1 5 3 , 1 3 1 , 1 3 3 , 1 3 5 , 1 3 7 , 1 7 8 , 2 6 2 , 3 3 9 156 , 157 , 158 , 159 , 160 , 163 , 168 , 173 , 254 , alphabetic fabric, 235 , 238 , 253 , 287 258 , 259 , 263 , 303 , 327 alphabetic weaving, 3 , 4 , 223 , 234 , 235 , 237 , A d m e t e , 1 9 8 238 , 243 , 244 , 245 , 247 , 249 , 252 , 253 , 256 , Aegina, 211 259 , 263 , 264 , 265 , 272 , 288 Aelian, 196 Althaea, 280 Aeneas Tacticus, 186 ambiguity, 59 , 65 , 66 , 96 , 147 , 149 , 150 , 186 , Aeschylus, 185 , 213 , 274 , 281 , 329 , 341 187 , 316 Aethlius, 202 Ammon, 214 , 215 , 216 agalma , 93 , 199 , 200 , 203 , 204 , 205 , 213 , 223 , Ammonites, 246 224 , 329 , 339 Amorgos, 28 , 29 , 33 , 39 , 80 , 85 , 102 , 207 , Agamemnon, 183 , 273 , 332 , 341 2 9 4 , 2 9 7 agnos , 195 , 196 , 197 , 202 , 219 , 220 Amphidromia, 186 agnus castus . -
Greek Mythology / Apollodorus; Translated by Robin Hard
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