Reading the Shield of Achilles: Terror, Anger, Delight

Scully, Stephen

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“…11 There are only four source materials available to describe Greek justice before the archaic 12 period: The Odyssey and The Iliad by Homer, and The Theogony, and Works and Days by Hesiod. None are explicitly concerned with describing law nor law enforcement, but historians have reconstructed a general vision of Greek society and its legal institutions 10 This passage has been interpreted as Homer presenting a dichotomy between the peaceful imagery of the justice process represented on the shield in contrast to the bloody war going on around it (Scully 2003). Despite particular debates concerning the passage's interpretation, it is generally inferred that the individuals described on the shield prefer peace to violence (Sidgwick 1894).…”

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The prison in economics: private and public incarceration in Ancient Greece

D’Amico

2009

Public Choice

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The prison in economics: private and public incarceration in Ancient Greece

D’Amico

2009

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“…169, without further discussion, states: 'Vergil leitet den Abschnitt ein mit dem Bild des neu gegründeten Rom'. 45 On reading the shield of Achilles seeScully (2003) especially 40-43 on its divine, synoptic perspective, which frames the two cities within a cosmic setting. This implies that we see them as clearly defined urban spaces, a detail that Apollonius and Vergil did not ignore.…”

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Vergilian Cities

Nelis¹

2015

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It is well known that the city of Rome figures largely in Vergil's poetry. Study of this topic has tended to focus on its historical aspects, and special attention has been paid to the fact that the Aeneid is a foundation epic. As far as actual descriptions of the city are concerned, most scholars have inevitably been drawn to the famous promenade of Aeneas and Evander through the site of Rome in book 8. In this paper I would like to take a slightly different approach to Vergil's Rome, by looking at a number of passages which offer glimpses of clearly defined urban spaces, arguing that Vergil has a particular interest in depicting cityscapes throughout his career. Right from the first Eclogue, and again in the Georgics, the depiction of Rome as a physical space is clearly a matter of considerable literary importance for Vergil. Ironically, when one turns to the Aeneid, Carthage and Troy receive more direct attention than Rome, but the destinies of all three cities are clearly intertwined. Evocations of the cityscape of Carthage as it is being built by Dido and of Troy as it is being destroyed by the Greeks interact with Vergil's handling of the fate of Rome, and study of the poet's handling of urban space helps to reveal some interesting aspects of his epic technique. Vergil's Aeneid combines the story of a character from Homer's Iliad with the history of Rome. 2 Even before its actual publication around 19 BCE, Propertius (2,34,61-6, c. 25 BCE) could characterize it as a poem about the Battle of Actium and immediately go on to compare it directly to the Iliad. Servius, in the preface to his commentary on the Aeneid, shows his awareness of essential strands in the epic's make-up when he states that Vergil's intention was to imitate Homer and praise Augustus (Homerum imitari et Augustum laudare a parentibus). Modern scholarship has explored extensively the ways in which the 1 Sincere thanks are due to Th. Fuhrer, F. Mundt and J. Stenger for their invitation to speak at the splendid conference in Berlin that gave rise to this volume, and also to Bettina Bergmann, Laurent Brassous and Manuel Royo for expert bibliographical guidance. 2 The bibliography on this broad topic is so vast that it is hard to know where to start; see,

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“…Jetzt gelingt es uns auch, das Geschrei der Tiere zu hören -gleich den Belagerern, die eben in einer Versammlung über ihre Strategie _____________ 1 In der weitreichenden Bibliographie zu diesem Thema hebe ich vor allem die folgenden Titel hervor: Becker (1990); Stansbury-O'Donnel (1995); Bouvier (2003); Scully (2003); D'Acunto/ Palmisciano (2010). Diese Namen beziehen sich auf einen einfachen Vorgang, nämlich, dem Hörer ein Ereignis, eine Szene mit Hilfe von Worten vor Augen zu führen.…”

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Beschreibung einer Belagerung: wenn Worte den Krieg ›sehen‹ lassen

Spina¹

2010

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Mais docteur, lui fis-je remarquer, vous savez certeinement qu'en latin assiéger se dit obsidere. Stalingrad est une ville obsédée. J. Littell, Les Bienveillantes (2006).In meinem Vortrag* möchte ich mich dem folgenden Problem widmen: Ich möchte mir die Frage stellen, ob das Beschreiben, das Erzählen eines Kriegesund sei es nur eines seiner wesentlichen Augenblicke -das Gleiche ist wie das Geben von Instruktionen zu einem Krieg, indem nämlich eben jene Beschreibungen und Erzählungen die verschiedenen Phasen und möglichen Ausgänge des Krieges analysieren. Auf welche Diskurs-Techniken greift man in diesen beiden Fällen zurück? Mein Beobachtungsfeld ist die griechische und römische Antike.Ich werde mit einem Schild beginnen -dem Schild eines großen Kriegers, Achilles -der mir als Ausgangspunkt einer Reflexion über die so genannten ›intelligenten Bomben‹ dienen möge. Denn es ist meine Überzeugung, dass wir unsere Überlegungen zur Antike nicht von unseren aktuellen Erfahrungen trennen können. Der Nutzen, welchen wir aus diesen Reflexionen ziehen können, war, ist und wird auch künftig Gegenstand leidenschaftlicher Diskussionen sein.Meine Worte werden letztlich Worte bleiben, gleich denen, die wir alle in diesen Tagen aussprechen, und dennoch werden diese Worte Bilder heraufbeschwören, auch Bilder des Todes oder des Schmerzes, immer aber Bilder von dramatischer Intensität. Die Griechen und Römer der Antike haben diesem Prärogativ des Diskurses, dieser rhetorischen Technik die verschiedensten Namen ge-_____________ * Vorrei ringraziare ancora una volta, usando la mia lingua, gli organizzatori dell'eccellente convegno, Hartmut Böhme e il mio giovane amico e collega, Marco Formisano, per il loro gentile invito. Proprio a Berlino, 41 anni fa, imparai quel po' di tedesco che ricordo. Ecco perché, per testimoniare i miei sentimenti verso questa città, sono stato così incosciente da leggere il mio testo interamente in tedesco. Di questo, però, non posso che ringraziare Iris Müller, che ha tradotto il mio contributo con grande fedeltà ed efficacia. Ringrazio, infine, H. Böhme, G. Most, G. Traina e K. Volk per i loro preziosi interventi nel corso della discussione sul mio intervento.Brought to you by | Monash University Library Authenticated Download Date | 4/22/17 12:49 PM

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Reading the Shield of Achilles: Terror, Anger, Delight

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The prison in economics: private and public incarceration in Ancient Greece

The prison in economics: private and public incarceration in Ancient Greece

Vergilian Cities

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