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Item Metadata only A Grief Observed: Cicero on Remembering Tullia(Carfax Publishing Ltd, 2009) Baltussen, J.This paper presents a new analysis concerning the grief of the Roman politician Cicero over the death of his daughter. I argue that existing characterisations suffer either from methodological weaknesses or from a misguided perspective on the appropriateness of the expression of grief emotions. I will suggest that the study of emotion in historical documents can benefit from a comparative analysis: personal accounts of the grieving process by highly literate individuals of the modern age can assist in characterising the nature of Cicero's grief, in particular how it transpires in his correspondence. Some modern insights into the grieving process will also serve as an analytical tool for an accurate description of the grief we find in his works. My analysis will be based mostly on reassessing the evidence in the letters during the early stages of his grief. This paper is part of a larger project (see Baltussen forthcoming-2b, 3) which aims to look at the consolation as a form of (psycho)therapy in antiquity and beyondItem Metadata only Addenda Eudemea(University of Leeds, School of Classics, 2006) Baltussen, J.This paper presents 16 fragments of the Peripatetic philosopher Eudemus (c. 350-290 BC), which were not printed in the (still) standard edition of Wehrli (1955; revised 1969), but which had been signalled in passing by De Lacy (1957) and Gottschalk (1973). The aim is to provide a text with translation and brief annotation, to be included in a future edition, and to argue that context can add to our understanding of these passages. Their importance lies in bringing greater comprehensiveness to the collection, offering at least five additional (near) quotations, and illustrating the new trend in fragment studies to contextualize fragments on several levels in order to gain further insight into their value and reception.Item Metadata only An empedoclean 'hearing aid'? Fragment b99 revisited(Academia Verlag GmbH, 2006) Baltussen, J.Item Restricted Ancient philosophers on the sense of smell(Routledge, 2015) Baltussen, J.; Bradley, M.This essay discusses the ancient Greek philosophical ideas on the sense of smell. It sets out the difficulties of interpreting our source material and proposes to see the range of views from a developmental perspective, highlighting the deep influence the Peripatetic model of the golden mean has had on the way in which the early history of smell became known to us.Item Metadata only Aristote. De la generation et la corruption by Marwan Rashed. (Review)(Bryn Mawr College, 2006) Baltussen, J.Item Metadata only Aristotelian commentary tradition(Routledge, 2014) Baltussen, J.; Slaveva-Griffin, S.; Remes, P.It is fundamental to our understanding of commentary as a genre that they respond to another text, often called the ‘base text’. Ancient commentaries have sometimes been characterized as “secondary texts”, but the label is likely to cause some misconceptions about how we should understand the nature of commentary (Sluiter 2000). It is preferable to read “secondary” as “using another text as its starting point” rather than as “unimportant”, “subservient” or “unoriginal”. 1 In what follows I hope to show that the commentary in late antiquity defies such facile descriptions. Philosophical commentary required certain conditions for it to develop and thrive. And instead of being a philological activity, like most modern commentaries tend to be (producing a set of disparate notes to a text), philosophers would comment within a specific ideological setting and almost always to serve a higher purpose (understanding and truth); in other words, they were created in response to the school founder’s writings (a “canon”) and were didactic in purpose. Given the peculiar nature of the works it will be helpful to spend some time clarifying the background of philosophical exegesis, especially among the Peripatetics. After that I turn to the main part of the analysis, in which I clarify the methodology and evolution of the commentaries on Aristotle.Item Restricted Cicero's Consolatio ad se: character, purpose and impact of a curious treatise(Classic Press of Wales, 2013) Baltussen, J.; Baltussen, H.Item Restricted Cicero's translation of Greek Philosophy: Personal mission or public service?(St Jerome Publishing, 2011) Baltussen, J.; McElduff, S.; Sciarrino, E.Cicero's achievement of producing a stream of philosophical works in the last few years of his life is as remarkable as it is unusual. This activity constituted a heady mix of linguistic skill, intellectual ambition and an attempt at self-healing after his political and personal life had been hit by disaster. Cicero's important role in the transformation of Greek philosophy into Latin is well-known, but the linguistic and cultural aspects of his translation activities have not received a lot of attention. This paper explores the ways in which Cicero attempted to transpose Greek philosophical thought into the Latin language (latine reddere) and examines how his personal circumstances prompted this flood of translation in his final years.Item Metadata only Dialectic in dialogue: The message of Plato’s protagoras and Aristotle’s topics(Brill, 2008) Baltussen, J.; Anne Mackay, E.Item Metadata only Did Aristotle have a concept of "intuition"? Some thoughts on translating nous(Flinders University, 2007) Baltussen, J.; Greek Research in Australia Conference (6th : 2005 : Adelaide, Australia); Close, E.; Tsianikas, M.; Couvalis, G.Item Metadata only Die funktion der dialogstruktur in epiktets diatriben by Barbara Wehner (Review)(Bryn Mawr College, 2004) Baltussen, J.Item Metadata only Early Reactions to Plato’s Timaeus. Polemic and Exegesis in Theophrastus and Epicurus(Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2003) Baltussen, J.; Sharples, R.; Sheppard, A.Item Open Access Early theories of sense perception: Greek origins(Routledge, 2019) Baltussen, J.; Skeates, R.; Day, J.This chapter gives an overview of some key themes in the early theories of sense perception. It covers early Greek theories (in particular those of the so-called Presocratics), Plato, Aristotle, and the early Peripatetics (Theophrastus and Strato). The comments on these first attempts at theorising senses come to us through the filter of Peripatetic reporting, which can be a challenge to their interpretation. In addition, it is argued that one can, to a degree, detect an increasing sophistication in the theoretical reasoning on the mechanism of sense perception. Finally, where possible, the chapter questions the standard hierarchy of the senses and highlights unusual cases of multisensory observations. The chapter provides the intellectual background for underpinning sensory studies of the ancient world, not just archaeology.Item Open Access From polemic to exegesis: The ancient philosophical commentary(Duke Univ Press, 2007) Baltussen, J.Commentary was an important vehicle for philosophical debate in late antiquity. Its antecedents lie in the rise of rational argumentation, polemical rivalry, literacy, and the canonization of texts. This essay aims to give a historical and typological outline of philosophical exegesis in antiquity, from the earliest allegorizing readings of Homer to the full-blown “running commentary” in the Platonic tradition (fourth to sixth centuries CE). Running commentaries are mostly on authoritative thinkers such as Plato and Aristotle. Yet they are never mere scholarly enterprises but, rather, springboards for syncretistic clarification, elaboration, and creative interpretation. Two case studies (Galen 129–219 CE, Simplicius ca. 530 CE) will illustrate the range of exegetical tools available at the end of a long tradition in medical science and in reading Aristotle through Neoplatonic eyes, respectively.Item Metadata only Greek and Roman consolations: eight studies of a tradition and its afterlife(Classic Press of Wales, 2013) Baltussen, J.Item Restricted "Hippocratic" oaths?: A cross-cultural exploration of medical ethics in the ancient world(Walter de Gruyter, 2015) Baltussen, J.; Holmes, B.; Fisher, K.-D.Item Metadata only In the Grip of Disease. Studies in the Greek Imagination G.E.R. Lloyd(Bryn Mawr College, 2004) Baltussen, J.Book review: G.E.R. Lloyd, In the Grip of Disease. Studies in the Greek Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xxi, 258. ISBN 0-19-925323-4. £45.00.Item Metadata only Introduction(The Classical Press of Wales, 2013) Baltussen, J.; Baltussen, H.Our distant ancestors found their food by hunting and foraging. They indirectly depended on soils that provided plants, but they did not markedly alter soils by their actions. With transition to agriculture, human impact and dependence on soils was inevitable. Development of agricultural technologies during the evolutionary processes of civilization led to the stabilization of human communities through their settlement in fixed locations, rather than being nomadic in search of livelihood.Item Metadata only Marcus Aurelius and the therapeutic use of soliloquy : an interdisciplinary approach(Gorgias Press, 2010) Baltussen, J.; Sidwell, B.Item Metadata only Matricide revisited: dramatic and rhetorical allusion in Tacticus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio(Australian Society for Classical Studies, 2002) Baltussen, J.A murder is always a dramatic event, and, since the dramatic nature of it depends to a large extent on it being witnessed and reported, one would hope that a good author would ensure his or her report of a murder reflected that. Agrippina's death, a matricide, has often been labelled as ‘dramatic’ by modern commentators, yet a comprehensive and satisfactory analysis of the reports as described in three ancient sources is still outstanding. A number of papers have given partial attempts at offering proof of the dramatic nature of the reports. My aim in this paper is to bring in two further significant connections between the historians’ accounts and other domains (Greek drama, rhetoric) which have to my knowledge been overlooked. These new factors force us to re-evaluate earlier attempts of finding the sources of inspiration for Tacitus, Suetonius and Dio. I will do this by spelling out certain allusions implicit in all three authors, but with special emphasis on Tacitus, showing that, despite its understated nature, his succinct account could be highly evocative to his audience, alluding to the pathos appropriate to both tragedy and rhetoric. These two strands of influence on the reports not only enhance the effect of the passage at issue, but also make a full and proper reponse of the audience to it more plausible.
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