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This paper examines the narratives of artists, successful and unsuccessful in Ovid's epic poem. I... more This paper examines the narratives of artists, successful and unsuccessful in Ovid's epic poem. It analyzes how such characters reflect on the author and the nature of poetic endeavor.

This chapter examines how the two first Greek historians treat solemn oaths between individuals a... more This chapter examines how the two first Greek historians treat solemn oaths between individuals and states, their procedures, bilateral or unilateral, the guarantees, and the outcomes, more often deceptive and broken than observed.

Chapter 1 of the Cambridge Companion to Homer, "The Iliad: An Unpredictable Classic" explores the... more Chapter 1 of the Cambridge Companion to Homer, "The Iliad: An Unpredictable Classic" explores the European first written epic's subjects, themes, narrative structures, and sometimes heroic characters. The raw nature of loneliness among companions stands out among its issues.

Papers by donald lateiner

THE PlTIERS AND THE PITIED IN HERODOTUS AND THUCYDIDES DONALD LATEINER GREEK TEXTS IN EVERY EPOCH... more THE PlTIERS AND THE PITIED IN HERODOTUS AND THUCYDIDES DONALD LATEINER GREEK TEXTS IN EVERY EPOCH, STARTING FROM AND THEN responding to Homer, 1 weigh with interest the power and limitations of pity. It has but a small role, at best, in public decision ...

The Homer Encyclopedia, 2011

International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 2001

American Historial Review Clases I, 1998

... | Ayuda. Reviews of Books: Ancient. Autores: Jay Bregman; Localización: American historial re... more ... | Ayuda. Reviews of Books: Ancient. Autores: Jay Bregman; Localización: American historial review.Clases I, ISSN 0002-8762, Vol. 102, Nº 4, 1997 , pags. 1137-1139. © 2001-2010 Universidad de La Rioja · Todos los derechos reservados. XHTML 1.0; UTF‑8.

American historial review. Clases I, 1997

The Ancient Emotion of Disgust

The American Historical Review, 1998

The Homer Encyclopedia, 2011

International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 2001

American Historial Review Clases I, 1998

American historial review. Clases I, 1997

The Ancient Emotion of Disgust

The American Historical Review, 1998

Sociocultural, clinical, esthetic and literary perspectives, 1992

The study of nonverbal behavior in ancient epic literature can utilize most of the categories cre... more The study of nonverbal behavior in ancient epic literature can utilize most of the categories created by the modern, ordinary life field-work of psychologists, anthropologists, semiologists, and kinesicists. Study of nonverbal behaviors in literature, ancient or modern ...

The Classical World, 1998

The Classical World, 1989

This book traces continuity in the development of the Athenian constitution, whereas previous stu... more This book traces continuity in the development of the Athenian constitution, whereas previous studies have usually looked for catastrophic changes. Sealey selects three features of Athenian law which are important for the structure of society and the location of authority: (1) the legal status, and to a lesser extent the socioeconomic condition, of the different kinds of inhabitants of Attica; (2) the distinction, recognized in the fourth century, between "laws" and "decrees," analyzing what the Athians understood by "law"; and (3) the development of the Athenian courts.At an early stage the Athenians conceived the ideal of the rule of law and adhered to it continuously. They did so by means of a static concept of law and maintenance of an independent judiciary.The book is designed to be of importance not only for specialists in classical studies but for general historians, political scientists, and those concerned with the history of law. The book is within the reach of an advanced undergraduate and graduate audience.

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2018

noteworthy that Alain Prochianz struggles against a culture set in its ways and never really emer... more noteworthy that Alain Prochianz struggles against a culture set in its ways and never really emerges victorious. It is equally noteworthy that if one eliminated the neuro words from Pitts-Taylors book, its politics would still be transparent and its efforts towards naturalizing human differences still noble. Brains beer had another slogan: “Its Brains you want!” It is curious that in that advertisement it was factually beer not brains that was on offer. These authors seem to be collectively saying that now our response would be a zombie-like: “brains, brains, brains.” But that surely is an exaggeration. Such an irreverent reproach to these authors is not to slight them. Not at all. Each of their books should be read carefully and thought about yet more carefully. In an emerging, rich and eclectic field of scholarship they are canonical texts and important contributions. Each shows that the question of what we want our brains to be has contemporary purchase. Yet it is absolutely the case that each of these books ignores uncomfortable interpretations too, including the possibility that neuroscientific ways of knowing are more marginal and less grandiose than we believe and that we are writing about the brain as a kind of proxy for an as yet unformulated rant. This observation may well validate Vidal and Ortega’s contention that we want our brains to be a creed. But even their answer does not explain why some scholars – myself included – think that critique of neuro culture is urgently required now. Putting it differently, if we are all shouting “stop”, does that mean it is too late to just ask for the beer? And if so, then have we already lost? And to what did we lose? Perhaps it is in the answer to these final rhetorical questions that we see the broader contours of a study still waiting to be written by an historian of medicine.

EMILY BARAGWANATH AND MATHIEU DE BAKKER (eds.), Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus 2012. 384... more EMILY BARAGWANATH AND MATHIEU DE BAKKER (eds.), Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus 2012. 384 pp. Oxford University Press. Oxford University Press. Hardback 75 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978019969397-9. Narrative has always powerfully transferred memories, fantasies, and understanding to other men's brains. Many sorts of fiction and history, biography, drama, and judicial briefs either organize themselves entirely along a consecutive story-telling axis or insert fractured narratives, whether proleptic, analeptic, or "alloleptic", into a necessarily linear presentation of words in an oral-aural telling or on an inscribed stone, written roll, scroll, tablet, or printed page, or even a glowing computer screen. Book reviewers often follow in the steps of their targets' organization, so they rarely tell a story in chronological order. Herodotos, unlike Heliodoros (one of his admirers), often tries to begin at the beginning, although he often spirals back into the story...

The Ancient Novel and Beyond, 2003

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Classical Philology, 2019

Tears in the Graeco-Roman World, 2009

Abstract: History records many occasions for tears. Ethnicity, gender, class, age etc. nuance wee... more Abstract: History records many occasions for tears. Ethnicity, gender, class, age etc. nuance weeping events, a universal human phenomenon. The present paper principally examines weepers extracted from eleven Greek historians writing between 440 and 140 BC: the ...

A short review of a book on magic.