Christopher Faraone (272 results)

Reprint, stapled. Condition: Gut. pp. 209-245. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Cover slightly bumped, author's name handwritten on cover, otherwise a good and very clean copy. - From the text: Scholars have traditionally interpreted Hipponax fragment 128 (West) as an epic parody designed to belittle the grand pretensions and gluttonous habits of his enemy. I suggest, however, that this traditional reading ultimately falls short because of two unexamined assumptions: (1) that the meter and diction of the fragment are exclusively meant to recall epic narrative and not any other early hexametrical genre, and (2) that the descriptive epithets in lines 2 and 3 are the ad hoc comic creations of the poet and simply refer to the table manners of a glutton or a parasite. I argue instead that this fragment in several ways reflects the language, the meter and the performative goal of hexametrical chants or incantations designed to expel harmful famine demons or to escort human scapegoats from the city. I also suggest that the vivid and somewhat comic descriptions of the enemy in fragment 128 probably do not aim at his personal eating disorders, but rather they are drawn from two interrelated and generic features of archaic Greek thought: a tradition of describing famine-demons as insatiable eaters, and a popular theme in Greek invective which demonizes political enemies as rapacious pests who threaten to gobble up the commonwealth of the city and who therefore must be expelled from the community, precisely like a famine-demon. - Wikipedia: Christopher A. Faraone (* 1955) ist ein US-amerikanischer Gräzist. Faraone wurde 1988 an der Universität Stanford zum Ph.D. promoviert und gehört seit 1991 der Fakultät der University of Chicago an, wo er als Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Humanities und Professor of classical languages and literature tätig ist. Seine Schwerpunkte sind die archaische und hellenistische griechische Dichtung, die antike Magie und die griechische Religion sowie die orientalischen Einflüsse auf die griechische Kultur. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Reprint. Condition: Gut. pp. 249-265. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Author's name underlined on cover, otherwise a very good and clean copy. - Summary: Catalogues and priamels figure prominently in the longer fragments of early Greek elegy. In this brief study I survey a half-dozen of these elegiac lists and show that the early poets regularly use a five-couplet stanza to create a formal structure for their compositions. In some cases the catalogues appear to be "set-pieces" adaptable in the midst of performance to a number of different contexts. - Wikipedia: Christopher A. Faraone (* 1955) ist ein US-amerikanischer Gräzist. Faraone wurde 1988 an der Universität Stanford zum Ph.D. promoviert und gehört seit 1991 der Fakultät der University of Chicago an, wo er als Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Humanities und Professor of classical languages and literature tätig ist. Seine Schwerpunkte sind die archaische und hellenistische griechische Dichtung, die antike Magie und die griechische Religion sowie die orientalischen Einflüsse auf die griechische Kultur. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Reprint. Condition: Gut. pp. 195-214. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Author's name handwritten on cover, otherwise a very good and clean copy. - From the text: Most of our detailed knowledge of the practice of magic in Graeco-Roman Egypt is based on an extraordinary group of papyrus rolls, which date to the third- and fourth-centuries CE and which were most probably found in a tomb near Thebes in Upper Egypt. Known to scholars as the "Theban Magician's Library" or the "Anastasi Handbooks" named after the diplomat who first purchased them in the nineteenth century these papyri are, in fact, a mixed blessing to scholars. On the one hand, they account for more than half of the extant Greek magical papyri and they provide an enormous amount of practical information about how magical spells were collected, transmitted and performed in late-antique Egypt. On the other hand, because they have dominated the discussion of Hellenistic and Roman magic for more than a century and a half, they have come to stand as a powerful paradigm for what all Greek magical handbooks should look like. - Wikipedia: Christopher A. Faraone (* 1955) ist ein US-amerikanischer Gräzist. Faraone wurde 1988 an der Universität Stanford zum Ph.D. promoviert und gehört seit 1991 der Fakultät der University of Chicago an, wo er als Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Humanities und Professor of classical languages and literature tätig ist. Seine Schwerpunkte sind die archaische und hellenistische griechische Dichtung, die antike Magie und die griechische Religion sowie die orientalischen Einflüsse auf die griechische Kultur. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Reprint. Condition: Gut. pp. 30-50, 4 fig. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Author's name handwritten on cover, otherwise a very good and clean copy. - From the text: Early in the plot of Aristophanes' Peace, the comic hero Trygaios watches helplessly as Polemos ("War"), the ogre who has imprisoned Peace in a cave, hauls a huge mortar on stage and calls for his henchman Kudoimos ("Battle-Din") to bring him a pestle with which he will grind up and destroy mankind with battles and armed conflicts. As Polemos lists the various Greek cities that will be crushed in his mortar, Trygaios responds with a series of asides to the audience bemoaning the fate of Greece and joking about the recent battle at Amphipolis, at which the two firebrand generals, Cleon and Brasidas, were killed. In the midst of this sequence, Trygaios pleads with the audience to help prevent Kudoimos from returning with the pestle (276-279). - Wikipedia: Christopher A. Faraone (* 1955) ist ein US-amerikanischer Gräzist. Faraone wurde 1988 an der Universität Stanford zum Ph.D. promoviert und gehört seit 1991 der Fakultät der University of Chicago an, wo er als Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Humanities und Professor of classical languages and literature tätig ist. Seine Schwerpunkte sind die archaische und hellenistische griechische Dichtung, die antike Magie und die griechische Religion sowie die orientalischen Einflüsse auf die griechische Kultur. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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Reprint, stapled. Condition: Gut. pp. 115-135. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With author's dedication to Jeff [Henderson]. - A very good and clean copy. - From the text: Toward the end of Sophocles' Trachiniae the bewildered and guilt-ridden Hyllus defends his mother's use of the poisoned robe: Hyllus: "Although her intentions were good, she botched the whole enterprise."- Heracles: "Does she do good by killing your father?" - Hyllus: "Well, when she saw that marriage in her house, she was determined to cast a love-charm (stergêma) on you, but she failed utterly." (1136-39). Although Hyllus clearly exonerates his mother on the grounds of motive, Deianira's culpability has long been a sore point for commentators. In the past, most modern readers were inclined to see her as an idealsome would even say heroicwife, who destroys her husband by a tragic miscalculation. According to this traditional reading we must attribute her error either to simple foolishness or to her uncontrollable passiona passion which clouds her otherwise good judgment. In recent years, however, scholars have grown uneasy with this picture of Deianira. Some suggest that she is, in fact, a nervous, irresolute woman, who is unable to make even the smallest decision without the help of the Nurse or the Chorus. Others argue that Deianira originally appeared in Greek myth as a wild, man-killing Amazon and that Sophocles is guilty of a fifth-century whitewash of her charactera drastic and somewhat incomplete revision which inevitably results in inconsistencies in her motivation, as well as the survival of dissonant details in the plot, such as the poisoned robe and Deianira's method of suicide. Errandonea, the original proponent of this approach, went so far as to say that Deianira, caught in the grip of eros, purposely murders Heracles even in Sophocles' version. - Wikipedia: Christopher A. Faraone (* 1955) ist ein US-amerikanischer Gräzist. Faraone wurde 1988 an der Universität Stanford zum Ph.D. promoviert und gehört seit 1991 der Fakultät der University of Chicago an, wo er als Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Humanities und Professor of classical languages and literature tätig ist. Seine Schwerpunkte sind die archaische und hellenistische griechische Dichtung, die antike Magie und die griechische Religion sowie die orientalischen Einflüsse auf die griechische Kultur. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Reprint, stapled. Condition: Gut. pp. 150-154. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With author's dedication to Jeff [Henderson]. - Slightly rubbed and bumped, text clean. - From the text: When the Erinyes catch up with Orestes in Athens they find him clutching the archaic wooden statue of Athena and invoking her aid along with that of Apollo {Eum. 235 ff). The Erinyes scorn his prayers and bid him hear their 'binding song': ymnon d' ákoúsi tónde désmion (306). Wecklein in his 1888 edition of the play remarked 'erinnert an magische Künste' and quoted Laws 933 a, where Plato, discussing murder by poison, makes brief mention of the popular belief in sorcerers, incantations and binding spells (katadéseis). Subsequent commentators repeat Wecklein's brief note nearly verbatim and then elaborate it along two different lines, either claiming some vague Orphic source (Thomson 1938) or citing Wuensch's Defixionum Tahellae Atticae (Blass 1907; Groeneboom 1952). More recently, Lebeck argued that the ostensible title ('binding song') is incompatible with the actual content of the stasimon (Apollo's encroachment on the Erinyes' power); she concluded that the title is irrelevant or at best only of secondary importance. - Wikipedia: Christopher A. Faraone (* 1955) ist ein US-amerikanischer Gräzist. Faraone wurde 1988 an der Universität Stanford zum Ph.D. promoviert und gehört seit 1991 der Fakultät der University of Chicago an, wo er als Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Humanities und Professor of classical languages and literature tätig ist. Seine Schwerpunkte sind die archaische und hellenistische griechische Dichtung, die antike Magie und die griechische Religion sowie die orientalischen Einflüsse auf die griechische Kultur. -- Another note on this reprint: N. B. Booth, The Chorus of Promethes Pyrphoros and Hesiod Th. 563. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Reprint, stapled. Condition: Gut. pp. 1-15. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With author's dedication to Jeff [Henderson]. - A very good and clean copy. - From the text: One of the many important advances in Pindaric criticism in the last twenty-five years has been the growing appreciation of his peculiar use of first-person future verbs of singing, praising, or testifying, which all seem to refer to the present activity of performing the ode in which they appear.1 Thus, for example, when Pindar says nyn . . . keladisómetha (OI. 10.78-79), nyn . . . keladíso (OI. 11.11-14) or égó . épaskíso (Nem. 9.9-10), he is not promising to sing another poem at some future time, but rather he is talking about the poem he is in the process of performing. In recent years scholars have noted that this peculiar use of the future is not, in fact, limited to the epinician genre, but occurs regularly in parthéneia, paeans, other literary and cult hymns, and in choral passages of Attic tragedy that mimic or evoke special ritual songs like the thrinos, or the paean. - Wikipedia: Christopher A. Faraone (* 1955) ist ein US-amerikanischer Gräzist. Faraone wurde 1988 an der Universität Stanford zum Ph.D. promoviert und gehört seit 1991 der Fakultät der University of Chicago an, wo er als Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Humanities und Professor of classical languages and literature tätig ist. Seine Schwerpunkte sind die archaische und hellenistische griechische Dichtung, die antike Magie und die griechische Religion sowie die orientalischen Einflüsse auf die griechische Kultur. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Reprint, stapled. Condition: Gut. pp. 1-19. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With author's dedication to Jeff [Henderson]. - A very good and clean copy. - From the text: At a crucial point in Pindar's celebrated fourth Pythian, Aphrodite gives Jason the iunx, an erotic charm that he will use to seduce Medea. Described as "a mad bird pinned to a four-spoked wheel," this iunx has occasioned much discussion and confusion. It is usually argued or assumed that a sympathetic "spinning" motion lies at the heart of the magical operation, and that the victims of such a magical device are to be similarly whirled about until they are so utterly confused and disoriented that they yield to the demands of the practitioner. - Wikipedia: Christopher A. Faraone (* 1955) ist ein US-amerikanischer Gräzist. Faraone wurde 1988 an der Universität Stanford zum Ph.D. promoviert und gehört seit 1991 der Fakultät der University of Chicago an, wo er als Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Humanities und Professor of classical languages and literature tätig ist. Seine Schwerpunkte sind die archaische und hellenistische griechische Dichtung, die antike Magie und die griechische Religion sowie die orientalischen Einflüsse auf die griechische Kultur. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Reprint, stapled. Condition: Gut. pp. 60-80. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With author's dedication to Jeff [Henderson]. - A very good and clean copy. - From the text: The so-called 'Cyrenean Foundation Decree' describes and paraphrases what appears to be the oath of the seventh-century Theran colonists who founded the city of Cyrene in Libya. This oath contains a conditional self-imprecation, a common enough feature of many Greek oaths, but one which in this case involves wax effigies in what can best be described as a ritual employing 'sympathetic magic': Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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Typoscript, stapled. Condition: Gut. 43 p., 5 fig. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of the ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - A clean copy. - From the text: The separate entrances of the male and female semi-choruses in Aristophanes' Lysistrata are marked by an unusual bit of stagecraft whose importance to the general theme of the play the salvation of Athens has never been fully appreciated. The old men enter the stage at line 254 each carrying a pair of olive-wood logs, a vine torch and a small pot of live embers. Having heard that a group of women have taken control of the Acropolis, they come on stage intent on burning down the gates of the citadel and removing the women, whom they liken to a notorious enemy of Athens: the Spartan general Cleomenes who occupied the citadel in 510. The men pile their logs before the closed gate, ignite their torches in the hot coals and then try to set fire to the logs (lines 307-11). But after a few minutes of hilarious bumbling their plans are foiled by the sudden appearance of a second half-chorus of old women who rush in with waterjars on their shoulders or in their hands; these women threaten the men and then finally with an invocation of Achelous douse them and their fire (381-82), thus effectively ending the threat of incineration. - Wikipedia: Christopher A. Faraone (* 1955) ist ein US-amerikanischer Gräzist. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean pages with light foxing. Wrappers have light shelf wear. ; Conents: Faraone, The wheel, the whip and other implements of torture: erotic magic in Pindar Pythian 4.213-19. Miller, Pindaric mimesis: the associative mode. Naiditch, On pronouncing the names of certain British classical scholars. Skinner, Catullus in performance. Reviews, anouncements. 9.0" tall; 107 pages.