Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/arn.2023.a905662
D. Carrier
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/arn.2023.a905652
W. Arrowsmith
{"title":"The Uses of Paganism","authors":"W. Arrowsmith","doi":"10.1353/arn.2023.a905652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/arn.2023.a905652","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":147483,"journal":{"name":"Arion: A Journal of the Humanities and the Classics","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127577153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/arn.2023.a905657
Nonnus, John Griffin
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Now that we have entered an age when respect for the plays of classical Greece has been reduced to treating them as an excuse for showing how much cleverer are “versions” by contemporary adaptors / dramatists than those of their long-dead forebears, and I have entered an age when respect for those architects and pioneers of their new genre of theatre two and a half thousand years ago has itself an aura of the antiquated, I would like here to revisit, for the last time, reasons why a theatrical understanding of the 46 plays that have survived is not always the same as a dramatic one, but should take priority over any theoretical or literary approach. In the more than thousand English translations of the plays published from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, translators have tended to recreate the Greeks in the forms and fashions of the drama of their own time, or to have invented formats which reflect contemporary notions, often deluded, of cultural sensibilities in the classical world. After all, it is not until the twentieth century that these multiple translations begin to reveal any awareness of the plays as performance pieces, either originally or since. By then the plays had been largely appropriated by a multitude of extraneous vested interests which came to dominate scholarship. The worst disservice has been done to the Greeks by the arrogation of a performance discipline by philosophers, psychoanalysts, and various generations of cultural jugglers, often claiming a pedigree that goes back to Aristotle, and even Plato. Enthusiasm for the theatre from Socrates and Plato went no further than to exclude it from the ideal state as too dangerous, while Aristotle’s defense of the drama in the Poetics, some insights notwithstanding, was written seventy years after the death of Sophocles and Euripides and never reads like the work of a theatre-goer.
{"title":"A Sense of Theatre: The Theatre Historian’s Perspective","authors":"J. Walton","doi":"10.1353/arn.2023.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/arn.2023.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Now that we have entered an age when respect for the plays of classical Greece has been reduced to treating them as an excuse for showing how much cleverer are “versions” by contemporary adaptors / dramatists than those of their long-dead forebears, and I have entered an age when respect for those architects and pioneers of their new genre of theatre two and a half thousand years ago has itself an aura of the antiquated, I would like here to revisit, for the last time, reasons why a theatrical understanding of the 46 plays that have survived is not always the same as a dramatic one, but should take priority over any theoretical or literary approach. In the more than thousand English translations of the plays published from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, translators have tended to recreate the Greeks in the forms and fashions of the drama of their own time, or to have invented formats which reflect contemporary notions, often deluded, of cultural sensibilities in the classical world. After all, it is not until the twentieth century that these multiple translations begin to reveal any awareness of the plays as performance pieces, either originally or since. By then the plays had been largely appropriated by a multitude of extraneous vested interests which came to dominate scholarship. The worst disservice has been done to the Greeks by the arrogation of a performance discipline by philosophers, psychoanalysts, and various generations of cultural jugglers, often claiming a pedigree that goes back to Aristotle, and even Plato. Enthusiasm for the theatre from Socrates and Plato went no further than to exclude it from the ideal state as too dangerous, while Aristotle’s defense of the drama in the Poetics, some insights notwithstanding, was written seventy years after the death of Sophocles and Euripides and never reads like the work of a theatre-goer.","PeriodicalId":147483,"journal":{"name":"Arion: A Journal of the Humanities and the Classics","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121779457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
At the end of Book 12 of the Odyssey, after the last of his men have been dispatched by Zeus to a watery grave for killing and eating the Cattle of the Sun, Odysseus clings perilously to a branch of a fig tree overhanging the abyss of the monstrous whirlpool Charybdis. As he had prepared to depart from Circe, she warned him he would need to pass between the cave-dwelling dog-woman Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis, and that the only way to survive was to avoid the whirlpool and thus let Scylla snatch up six of his men, and so it transpired. Now, his return from the island of the Sun brings him again into their narrow strait. Pieces of his ship emerge from the whirlpool, he drops down onto them from the fig tree, is kept hidden by Zeus from Scylla, and floats away on his nine-day voyage to Calypso’s island. Since antiquity, inquiring minds have mapped Homeric narrative onto the real world. Mount Ida overlooks the Trojan plain. Ithaca, Pylos, Crete and Ethiopia are real places. Strabo understands Homer as a repository of geographical knowledge, observing that when Homer mentions several places, these are correctly organized in a spatial sense (1.2.20). The digital project Mapping the Catalogue of Ships (Clay, Evans, Jasnow, n.d.) graphically demonstrates the “spatial mnemonic” that organizes the display of geographical knowledge in the catalogue of Greeks ships assembling for the expedition against Troy. Sometimes the relation between poem and place is less straightforward: Pharos at the mouth of the Nile could arguably be recognized in Homer’s account of the
{"title":"Myth, Geography, and Ethnography at the Strait of Messina","authors":"C. Connors","doi":"10.1353/arn.2023.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/arn.2023.0004","url":null,"abstract":"At the end of Book 12 of the Odyssey, after the last of his men have been dispatched by Zeus to a watery grave for killing and eating the Cattle of the Sun, Odysseus clings perilously to a branch of a fig tree overhanging the abyss of the monstrous whirlpool Charybdis. As he had prepared to depart from Circe, she warned him he would need to pass between the cave-dwelling dog-woman Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis, and that the only way to survive was to avoid the whirlpool and thus let Scylla snatch up six of his men, and so it transpired. Now, his return from the island of the Sun brings him again into their narrow strait. Pieces of his ship emerge from the whirlpool, he drops down onto them from the fig tree, is kept hidden by Zeus from Scylla, and floats away on his nine-day voyage to Calypso’s island. Since antiquity, inquiring minds have mapped Homeric narrative onto the real world. Mount Ida overlooks the Trojan plain. Ithaca, Pylos, Crete and Ethiopia are real places. Strabo understands Homer as a repository of geographical knowledge, observing that when Homer mentions several places, these are correctly organized in a spatial sense (1.2.20). The digital project Mapping the Catalogue of Ships (Clay, Evans, Jasnow, n.d.) graphically demonstrates the “spatial mnemonic” that organizes the display of geographical knowledge in the catalogue of Greeks ships assembling for the expedition against Troy. Sometimes the relation between poem and place is less straightforward: Pharos at the mouth of the Nile could arguably be recognized in Homer’s account of the","PeriodicalId":147483,"journal":{"name":"Arion: A Journal of the Humanities and the Classics","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132150250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Character Is Fate","authors":"Jack Granath","doi":"10.1353/arn.2023.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/arn.2023.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":147483,"journal":{"name":"Arion: A Journal of the Humanities and the Classics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116746872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
One of the most important American private collections of the nineteenth century was that of Alexander Turney Stewart at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 34th Street in New York. In it, beginning in 1874, hung the spectacular work of the French academic artist Jean-Léon Gérôme (Vesoul, 1824–Paris, 1904): Pollice Verso (fig. 1), a painting which, thanks to the reproductions and photo engravings of Adolphe Goupil (dealer and later father-in-law of the artist), became so tremendously popular that it was the most prized possession of the valuable collection. Perhaps because of this, the educated patron—who, as it happens, had briefly made a living as a tutor of Greek and Latin literature before becoming immensely rich with his business1—commissioned another painting directly from the artist that could serve as a pendant to his famous paint-
{"title":"Gallop to Freedom: On the Importance of the Classical Sources for Gérôme’s Circus Maximus","authors":"Joan Mut Arbós","doi":"10.1353/arn.2023.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/arn.2023.0000","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most important American private collections of the nineteenth century was that of Alexander Turney Stewart at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 34th Street in New York. In it, beginning in 1874, hung the spectacular work of the French academic artist Jean-Léon Gérôme (Vesoul, 1824–Paris, 1904): Pollice Verso (fig. 1), a painting which, thanks to the reproductions and photo engravings of Adolphe Goupil (dealer and later father-in-law of the artist), became so tremendously popular that it was the most prized possession of the valuable collection. Perhaps because of this, the educated patron—who, as it happens, had briefly made a living as a tutor of Greek and Latin literature before becoming immensely rich with his business1—commissioned another painting directly from the artist that could serve as a pendant to his famous paint-","PeriodicalId":147483,"journal":{"name":"Arion: A Journal of the Humanities and the Classics","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115821323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Cent Ballades: Christine de Pizan (1364–c. 1430)","authors":"M. Corbett","doi":"10.1353/arn.2023.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/arn.2023.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":147483,"journal":{"name":"Arion: A Journal of the Humanities and the Classics","volume":"132 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124949535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dislanguaged: David Ferry’s Orphic Turn","authors":"Martin W. Michálek","doi":"10.1353/arn.2023.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/arn.2023.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":147483,"journal":{"name":"Arion: A Journal of the Humanities and the Classics","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121943396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Seussian Catullus on Sparrows and Kisses Carmina 2 and 5","authors":"S. Lerer","doi":"10.1353/arn.2023.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/arn.2023.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":147483,"journal":{"name":"Arion: A Journal of the Humanities and the Classics","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131195129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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