This is a slightly new project in my lazy and sporadic campaign of self-promotion. People ask why? Well actually they don’t ask me anything whatsoever because they just couldn’t care however if someone was to take enough interest in my life to ask why I posted nonsense gibberish about myself then I would answer them by saying that I am deeply affected with a terrible urge to ‘do, do, do’ and if I don’t ‘do, do and do’ then I suffer from what you might call crippling anxiety attacks, ah the nature of the beast I’ve heard, so Classics.
I am of course a Classicist, that and a barman so I’ve decided, seeing that I’m now an insufferable, Oxford pratt, to publish essays, commentaries and works of a classical nature on their own page, it is a new venture and we’ll see how it goes. This term is the Aeneid, so expect much repetition of aspects of Stoicism, Roman Imperial Teleology and other fine nonsense. Everything that is published will have had a good reception from my Tutor Dr Robert Cowan otherwise I won’t put it up without revision (unless I have a massive disagreement with his comments or I just feel like it…to be honest this is just me sticking an argumentum ad verecundiam in to cover my ass) Other than that, I hope some of this may be of interest.
Updated 1/5/11
With Classical Moderations having been sat and passed I’ve found a few old essays that I thought might be helpful to anyone studying the relative subjects; these consist of the Late Bronze Age Aegean and social, political contexts of Aeschylus’ Persae and Herodotus’ Histories. In addition I have put up a few translations of Propertius in order to make a lot of classicists feel a whole lot better about their ability to translate, as always I hope they’re of some use.
This page has the following sub pages.
- Why does the Aeneid begin with Dido and Carthage?
- In what ways does the Aeneid attempt to describe a teleological view of Roman imperial history and how successful is this attempt?
- Commentary: Aeneid II, Lines 370-385
- How important is the antithesis between male and female in the Aeneid and what ideological issues are structured around that antithesis?
- How does the Aeneid relate to its predecessors? How useful are the concepts of allusion, intertextuality and genre in reading the poem?
- Does the Aeneid offer a coherent philosophical, religious or theological worldview?
- Commentary Aeneid XII, 257-69
- What does an appreciation of the Aeneid’s narrative technique contribute to a reading of the poem?
- ‘Nothing to do with Dionysus’: do you agree with this view on the relationship between Athenian drama, Dionysus and the polis?
- Propertius Monobiblos Translations
- Homer and Troy
- What do the presentations of the Persian wars tell us about the contexts (literary, political, social), in which they were produced?
- Nomos and Physis
- Lust as Love? An Erotic Reception of Propertius I
- Heroic Mythology
- Inscription of Cn. Pompeius Strabo, Asculum, c.89BCE
- Aias: The Hero and the Cult of Hero
- Is the Aias is an expression of fifth century Athenian democratic ideology?
