{"title":"The Body and Desire: Gregory of Nyssa's Ascetical Theology by Raphael A. Cadenhead (review)","authors":"A. Thomas","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2022.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2022.0037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81921899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome: Between Art and Social Reality by Tonio Hölscher (review)","authors":"K. Jones","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2022.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2022.0040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86277743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Travel and Home in Homer's Odyssey and Contemporary Literature: Critical Encounters and Nostalgic Returns by Carol Dougherty (review)","authors":"H. Lehmann","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2022.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2022.0038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89292080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Orientalism and the Reception of Powerful Women from the Ancient World ed. by Filippo Carlà-Uhink and Anja Wieber (review)","authors":"A. Potter","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2022.0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2022.0039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74803171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ovationes Anni Salutis MMXXII","authors":"D. J. White","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2022.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2022.0035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74141669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
his timely book explores two paradoxically unified narratives of plague in Latin literature: dissolution and reconstitution. Gardner analyzes Roman approaches to “zombie-esque” plague narratives not merely as ruinous episodes of death but, more broadly, as apocalyptic and postapocalyptic narratives, asking what comes after destruction. Beginning with the simple notion that disease affecting individual corpora offers a convenient metaphor for the political corpus , Gardner draws out a range of complex nuances latent in the multivalent nature of Roman contagion. Plague erases individual bodies and familial ties through liquefaction, dissolution and decay; this destruction of the individual cre-ates a tabula rasa on which a new socio-political collective can be written.
{"title":"Pestilence and the Body Politic in Latin Literature by Hunter H. Gardner (review)","authors":"Rebecca Moorman","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2022.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2022.0027","url":null,"abstract":"his timely book explores two paradoxically unified narratives of plague in Latin literature: dissolution and reconstitution. Gardner analyzes Roman approaches to “zombie-esque” plague narratives not merely as ruinous episodes of death but, more broadly, as apocalyptic and postapocalyptic narratives, asking what comes after destruction. Beginning with the simple notion that disease affecting individual corpora offers a convenient metaphor for the political corpus , Gardner draws out a range of complex nuances latent in the multivalent nature of Roman contagion. Plague erases individual bodies and familial ties through liquefaction, dissolution and decay; this destruction of the individual cre-ates a tabula rasa on which a new socio-political collective can be written.","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88190726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Tabletop roleplaying games (TRPGs) are an increasingly important mode of contemporary cultural production and a medium through which received ideas about the classical past are reproduced through play. This article shows how TRPGs can be analyzed in conjunction with classical texts and topics to highlight processes of cultural production in the ancient world in a university-level first year seminar through a series of cases comparing Homeric gods and heroism in the Iliad to the treatment of those topics in Dungeons and Dragons (1974) and Agon (2006), and a simple design exercise using Fate Accelerated (2013). These cases provided context and scaffolding for creative assignments in which students used ancient material to design their own games. Fostering student engagement with ancient material through the analysis, play, and design of modern games gives another pedagogical avenue for approaching ideas about how cultures influence texts and how ideas about the past are received in contemporary media.
{"title":"Imagining Classics: Towards A Pedagogy of Gaming Reception","authors":"H. Cameron","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2022.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2022.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Tabletop roleplaying games (TRPGs) are an increasingly important mode of contemporary cultural production and a medium through which received ideas about the classical past are reproduced through play. This article shows how TRPGs can be analyzed in conjunction with classical texts and topics to highlight processes of cultural production in the ancient world in a university-level first year seminar through a series of cases comparing Homeric gods and heroism in the Iliad to the treatment of those topics in Dungeons and Dragons (1974) and Agon (2006), and a simple design exercise using Fate Accelerated (2013). These cases provided context and scaffolding for creative assignments in which students used ancient material to design their own games. Fostering student engagement with ancient material through the analysis, play, and design of modern games gives another pedagogical avenue for approaching ideas about how cultures influence texts and how ideas about the past are received in contemporary media.","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91248316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In this paper, I analyze the presence of fire and light imagery in the Odyssey, especially in book 18, against the backdrop of Achilles’ return to the battlefield in the Iliad, where the motif of fire plays a pivotal role. Approaching the Homeric poems from an intertextual perspective, I argue that the poet of the Odyssey uses a typically Achillean imagery of fire to foreshadow Odysseus as an implacable Iliadic warrior. As a case-study, I propose a reading of Od. 18.354–6 in the light of Il. 18.206–14, aiming to show how fire-related elements in the description of Odysseus disguised as a beggar clearly allude to Achilles’ appearance against the Trojans.
{"title":"Bright Heads: Fire Imagery and Intertextuality in Odyssey 18","authors":"Eleonora Giunchi","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2022.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2022.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this paper, I analyze the presence of fire and light imagery in the Odyssey, especially in book 18, against the backdrop of Achilles’ return to the battlefield in the Iliad, where the motif of fire plays a pivotal role. Approaching the Homeric poems from an intertextual perspective, I argue that the poet of the Odyssey uses a typically Achillean imagery of fire to foreshadow Odysseus as an implacable Iliadic warrior. As a case-study, I propose a reading of Od. 18.354–6 in the light of Il. 18.206–14, aiming to show how fire-related elements in the description of Odysseus disguised as a beggar clearly allude to Achilles’ appearance against the Trojans.","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78460049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. O’sullivan, Eleonora Giunchi, Joanna Kenty, H. Cameron, Thomas J. Sienkewicz, B. Lowe, Rebecca Moorman, Jeremy J. Swist, Kristian L. Lorenzo
Abstract:At a time of waning military prestige in the fourth century, Athens attached great importance to its choral and dramatic heritage as a source of civic display and pride. In spectacular festivities staged at Tyre in 331 bce and detailed by Plutarch (Alex. 29.1–5; de fort. Alex. 334 d-e), Alexander the Great drew upon elements of the Athenian contests in his own celebrations. I suggest here that he did so in order to articulate his own power with a Greek—and more particularly an Athenian—audience in mind, and that his gesture was shaped by apprehensions of instability in the Peloponnese.
{"title":"Staging Power: Alexander, Athens and the Contests at Tyre","authors":"L. O’sullivan, Eleonora Giunchi, Joanna Kenty, H. Cameron, Thomas J. Sienkewicz, B. Lowe, Rebecca Moorman, Jeremy J. Swist, Kristian L. Lorenzo","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2022.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2022.0021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:At a time of waning military prestige in the fourth century, Athens attached great importance to its choral and dramatic heritage as a source of civic display and pride. In spectacular festivities staged at Tyre in 331 bce and detailed by Plutarch (Alex. 29.1–5; de fort. Alex. 334 d-e), Alexander the Great drew upon elements of the Athenian contests in his own celebrations. I suggest here that he did so in order to articulate his own power with a Greek—and more particularly an Athenian—audience in mind, and that his gesture was shaped by apprehensions of instability in the Peloponnese.","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73640885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Edward J. Watts (review)","authors":"Jeremy J. Swist","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2022.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2022.0028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77569218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：