CLASSICAL WORLDPub Date : 2021-02-24DOI: 10.1353/CLW.2021.0002
Irune Valderrábano González, F. J. García
{"title":"Ares and Other \"Mothers' Sons\" in Greek Mythology: A Structural Analysis","authors":"Irune Valderrábano González, F. J. García","doi":"10.1353/CLW.2021.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CLW.2021.0002","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This paper, based on characters such as Hephaestus or Typhon, defines the Greek mythical category of the \"mother's son.\" It analyses the link between Ares and this type of character through the god's relationships with the female universe, and specifically with Hera, his mother, which help to determine the personality and attributes of the god of war, and his situation within the Olympian family. The similarities between Ares and the \"mother's sons\" makes it possible to study his mythological figure, explore the consequences of exclusively being \"born of woman\" or \"born of man,\" and finally, to consider the situation of the feminine and the masculine in Greek mythology.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/CLW.2021.0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44164349","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}
CLASSICAL WORLDPub Date : 2021-02-24DOI: 10.1353/CLW.2021.0003
K. Mann
{"title":"Phaedrus' Double Dowry: Laughter and Lessons in the Fabulae Aesopiae","authors":"K. Mann","doi":"10.1353/CLW.2021.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CLW.2021.0003","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In his first prologue, the first-century Latin poet Phaedrus promises that his fables offer a double dowry, laughter and life lessons. This article explores the central importance of laughter for Phaedrus, who defines his fables as jokes meant to inspire laughter and learning—but not anger. Laughter in the fables is a mark of intellectual superiority, a safe way to teach lessons (even for the powerless), and a way to punish those who deserve it.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/CLW.2021.0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43635709","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}
CLASSICAL WORLDPub Date : 2021-02-24DOI: 10.1353/clw.2021.0000
Giulio Celotto, Irune Valderrábano González, F. J. García, K. Mann, Jessica M. Romney, A. Sumler
{"title":"Editor's Report on Reviews and Books Received","authors":"Giulio Celotto, Irune Valderrábano González, F. J. García, K. Mann, Jessica M. Romney, A. Sumler","doi":"10.1353/clw.2021.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2021.0000","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This paper shows that Tacitus patterns his account of the civil war between Otho and Vitellius in Historiae 1–2 on Lucan's account of the conflict between Pompey and Caesar in the Bellum Civile. The characters involved, the setting of the decisive clash, and the sequence of events of the two conflicts are analogous. By emulating Lucan, Tacitus suggests that the civil war that he is recounting is the worst of all times, for both sides implicated in the conflict are potentially harmful for Rome.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/clw.2021.0000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66851183","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}
CLASSICAL WORLDPub Date : 2021-02-24DOI: 10.1353/CLW.2021.0005
A. Sumler
{"title":"Myth Rationalization in the Tragedies of Euripides","authors":"A. Sumler","doi":"10.1353/CLW.2021.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CLW.2021.0005","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The tragedies of Euripides are composed of traditional mythological material, yet the characters in his tragedies question the validity of their own stories, including the involvement of gods and goddesses. Philosophy, historiography, and early mythography were rationalizing myths at the time when Euripides was composing tragedies. I present several scenes from his tragedies, which exemplify and parallel these other rational genres. My article maintains that Euripides used these approaches to innovate the art of tragedy and participate in the intellectual climate of his milieu.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/CLW.2021.0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47784005","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}
CLASSICAL WORLDPub Date : 2021-02-24DOI: 10.1353/CLW.2021.0004
Jessica M. Romney
{"title":"Women in an Ancient Greek History Course: From Cameo to Part of the Whole","authors":"Jessica M. Romney","doi":"10.1353/CLW.2021.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CLW.2021.0004","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Current pedagogical models for ancient history/civilization courses treat women as a \"tourist topic\" (Mohanty 2003) as they are slotted into the course with little to no connection to the course of Greek/Roman history. Despite any intentions to diversify survey courses, tourist topics reinforce unquestioned binaries of power whereby (citizen) men act in ancient history while women (and others) are objects acted upon. This paper reviews current pedagogical models for ancient survey courses alongside C. T. Mohanty's Tourist model of teaching before turning to strategies for integrating non-hegemonic groups into survey courses in a consistent fashion.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/CLW.2021.0004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45902544","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}
CLASSICAL WORLDPub Date : 2021-02-24DOI: 10.1353/CLW.2021.0001
Giulio Celotto
{"title":"The Escalating Repetitiveness of Civil War: Lucanian Allusions in Tacitus' Account of the Conflict between Otho and Vitellius in Historiae 1–2","authors":"Giulio Celotto","doi":"10.1353/CLW.2021.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CLW.2021.0001","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This paper shows that Tacitus patterns his account of the civil war between Otho and Vitellius in Historiae 1–2 on Lucan's account of the conflict between Pompey and Caesar in the Bellum Civile. The characters involved, the setting of the decisive clash, and the sequence of events of the two conflicts are analogous. By emulating Lucan, Tacitus suggests that the civil war that he is recounting is the worst of all times, for both sides implicated in the conflict are potentially harmful for Rome.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/CLW.2021.0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66850842","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}
CLASSICAL WORLDPub Date : 2020-11-20DOI: 10.1353/clw.2020.0062
Arum Park
{"title":"Theatrical Reenactment in Pindar and Aeschylus by Anna Uhlig (review)","authors":"Arum Park","doi":"10.1353/clw.2020.0062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2020.0062","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/clw.2020.0062","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42612546","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}
CLASSICAL WORLDPub Date : 2020-11-20DOI: 10.1353/clw.2020.0069
Tim Stover
{"title":"The Fragility of Power: Statius, Domitian and the Politics of the Thebaid by Stefano Rebeggiani (review)","authors":"Tim Stover","doi":"10.1353/clw.2020.0069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2020.0069","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/clw.2020.0069","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49046905","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}
CLASSICAL WORLDPub Date : 2020-11-20DOI: 10.1353/clw.2020.0068
Matteo Barbato
{"title":"Creating a Constitution: Law, Democracy, and Growth in Ancient Athens by Federica Carugati (review)","authors":"Matteo Barbato","doi":"10.1353/clw.2020.0068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2020.0068","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/clw.2020.0068","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44297274","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}