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Item Metadata only A 'Homeric' hymn to Stalin: performing safe criticism in ancient Greek?(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014) Baltussen, J.N.This article offers an analysis of an unusual ‘Hymn to Stalin’, written in Homeric Greek, but found in a twentieth-century Czech novel. The examination of the style and context of the Ode reveals the allusive use of language, which illustrates how veiled criticism in a fictional account can inform us about historical events, even if it has an autobiographical origin. The analysis shows how the author, the Czech Václav Pinkava (pseudonym Jan Křesadlo), skilfully appropriates the hymnal style of both Stalinist and ancient Greek precedents, and argues that the use of Homeric vocabulary ingeniously transfers shades of meaning from the original Homeric context into the modern context (‘cracking the code’). The elaborate framing of the poem (authored by the protagonist in the novel, which is published under a pseudonym) also contributes to the overall impression that Pinkava used this format both as a send-up of the Stalinist literature of praise and as an example of ‘safe criticism’ or ‘Aesopian language’ — the subversive strategy of criticizing an oppressive regime by way of a cleverly constructed literary work for a knowing reader.Item Restricted A bark worse than his bite? Diogenes the Cynic and the politics of tolerance in Athens(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) Baltussen, H.; Baltussen, H.; Davis, P.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 I will suggest that the study of emotion in historical documents can benefit from a comparative analysis: personal accounts of the grieving process by highly literate individuals of the modern age can assist in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 A scene from comedy in Brindisi(Firenze University Press, 2014) Green, J.A recently-discovered mosaic in Brindisi contains what is undoubtedly a comic scene. Although badly damaged, it can be shown to have presented what was understood in antiquity as the key moment of Menander’s Samia, and it demands our reconsideration of the plot of that fragmentary play.Item Metadata only 'A simple girl'? Medea in Ovid Heroides 12(Aureal Publications, 2012) Davis, P.For Homer's Circe the story of Argo's voyage was already well known. Although we cannot be sure that the Odyssey's first audience was aware of Medea's role in Jason's story, we do know that by the time that Ovid came to write Heroides, she had already appeared in numerous Greek and Latin texts, in epic and lyric poetry and on the tragic stage. Given her complex textual and dramatic history, it seems hardly likely that any Ovidian Medea could actually be ‘a simple girl'. And yet precisely this charge of ‘simplicity’ has been levelled against Heroides 12 and its Active author. I propose to argue that the Medea of Heroides 12 is complex, not simple, and that her complexity derives from the fact that Ovid has positioned his elegiac heroine between past and future, guilt and innocence, epic and tragedy.Like all of Ovid's heroines, Medea writes at a critical juncture in her mythic life. But Medea's myth differs significantly from those of her fellow authors, for it requires her to play five distinct roles in four separate locations. Thus while Penelope, for example, plays only the part of Ulysses' loyal wife on Ithaca immediately before and during her husband's return, Medea plays the ‘simple girl’ in Colchis, the murderous wife in Iolcus, the abandoned mother in Corinth, the poisonous stepmother in Athens and the potential filicide back in Colchis. She is a heroine with a well-known and extensive history and so it is not surprising that the first line of Heroides 12 invokes the concept of memory: memini (‘I remember’).Item 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 Open Access Alexander the Great. Selections from Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch, and Quintus Curtius.(Cambridge University Press, 2006) Moloney, Eoghan; School of Humanities : ClassicsReviews: (J.) Romm (ed.) Alexander the Great. Selections from Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch, and Quintus Curtius. Translated by P. Mensch and J. Romm. Pp. xxx + 193, maps.Item Metadata only An alternative test for weak form efficiency based on technical analysis(Routledge, 2007) Loh, Yee L. E.; Business SchoolThis study proposes a test for weak form efficiency based on the practitioner's approach to technical analysis. Previous studies typically make inferences on weak form efficiency based on the empirical results of testing only one class of technical rules-trend indicators. The practitioner's approach, on the other hand, typically involves the simultaneous use of trend indicators and other confirming indicators because trend indicators do not sufficiently capture the information content in past prices. By combining trend indicators with confirming indicators that are also based on the detection of trends in past prices, it is possible to construct a superior technical trading strategy that captures a more comprehensive aspect of predictability in past prices. Applying the technical trading rules to data on five Asian-Pacific stock markets, the evidence suggests that a test for weak form efficiency based solely on trend indicators is noisy and that the alternative test proposed in this study is significantly more effective in capturing the information content in past prices. An examination of weak form efficiency based on this alternative test suggests that weak form efficiency is determined by factors other than technological progress.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 Open Access 'Ancient Tyranny', by S. Lewis (ed.)(The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 2008) Moloney, Eoghan; School of Humanities : ClassicsThe book reviewed is based on papers presented at a conference on ‘Tyrants, Kings, Dynasts and Generals…’ which was held at Cardiff University in July 2003. Contributors were invited to offer new perspectives on the autocratic rulers and dynasties of classical Greece, Rome and beyond.Item Metadata only Angst and indentity in Antioch following the Riot of Statues(Gorgias Press, 2010) Sitzler, S.; Sidwell, B.Item Restricted Another Look at the Origins of Iron Age II Cast Glass Vessels in the Levant(The Council for British Research in the Levant, 2011) O'Hea, M.In the 9th or 8th century BC, the technique of casting glass vessels appeared for the first time in the Levant. Made in translucent glass, the vessels were cast, cut and then ground using lapidary techniques. They are strikingly original departures from earlier Mesopotamian or Egyptian glass-working in both technology and effect, and were to influence the later development of Achaemenid Persian and even Greek Hellenistic high-quality glassware. Recent technical studies and publications of related stone and metal vessels suggest the need to revise the view that this glass was primarily Phoenician; its origins should be found in the kingdoms north Syria and Mesopotamia.Item Restricted Argo's Flavian politics: the workings of power in Valerius Flaccus(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) Davis, P.; Baltussen, H.; Davis, P.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 Metadata only Aspects of identity-construction and cultural mimicry amond Dalmatian Sailors in the Roman Navy(Australian Society for Classical Studies, 2010) Dzino, D.C. Ravonius Celer was a sailor of the Misene fleet from Dalmatia.C. Ravonius Celer qui et Bato Scenobarbi (f.) from Naples (CIL 10.3618 = Dessau 2901):D(IS) M(ANIBUS) / C(AIUS) RAVONIUS CELER QUI ET BATO SCE / NOBARBI NATION(E) DAL[M(ATA)] / MANIP(U)L(ARIS) EX (TRIREME) ISID[E MIL(ITAVIT) ANN(IS)] XI VIXIT [ANN(IS) …] / P(UBLIUS) AELIUS V[…] I VENER[(E)…]This inscription from his tombstone provides important evidence about the process of construction of individual identities in the period of the early principate, for it reveals the parallel existence of Roman and indigenous identity in a funerary context, commemorating C. Ravonius Celer, who is also at the same time Bato, a son of Scenobarbus of the Dalmatian ‘nation’. This inscription records the two identities of C. Ravonius Celer/Bato, which were incorporated into his personality as an essential part of who he was, revealing both his private and public self.Item Metadata only Attire in Ammianus and Gregory of Tours(Tartu Ulikooli, Chair of Classical Philology, University of Tartu, 2005) Newbold, R.Item Metadata only "Becoming Slav", "Becoming Croat": New approaches in the research of identities in post-Roman Illyricum(Brepols Publishers, 2008) Dzino, Danijel; School of Humanities : ClassicsItem Metadata only The Bellum Batonianum in contemporary historiographical narratives: In a search for the post-modern Bato The Daesitiate(2009) Dzino, Danijel; School of Humanities : Classics