Seeing One's Way: The Image and Action of Oidipous Tyrannos
To find ours, let us step back once more and examine Sophokles’ use of words. At a glance we notice a great deal of words related to sight in Oidipous Tyrannos . Roughly twice as many appear to us here than in the Antigone. The number picks up once more where Oidipous makes his final appearance in Oidipous at Kolonos. We can draw little more from this than that seeing and Oidipous are connected, fundamentally connected.
Information, Interaction and Society
The use of data to analyse broader perspectives is not a straightforward process. Unpublished excavation reports, specialist reports, archaeological databases and theses comprise the
Tomb and social status: The textual evidence
In archaeological theoretical literature it has been stressed that tombs might rather show the status of the living persons who organized the burial than the status of the buried person. This is of course an important argument but in Ancient Egypt we have the anthropologically quite exceptional situation that the tomb-owner already began the construction of his tomb and the organisation of his burial equipment when he was still alive.
Up at a Villa, Down in the City? Four Epigrams of Martial
It did not seem to us that rendition into the rhyming couplets of, say, an Alexander Pope from an earlier age or a James Michie from our own, or into the more contemporary free-verse style of a Palmer Bovie, would offer any more faithful a guide to Martial than the sort of fidelity we were aiming for. Especially for a readership coming from a background in modern English poetry, it seemed to us that a translation which attempts to simulate the discipline and constraints of the elegiac couplets, the hendecasyllabics, the limping iambic trimeters, and so on, of Martial’s original poems might have real value.
Hector and Iliad VI
Homer?s Iliad is the tale of the ninth year of the Trojan War, narrating events in both the Trojan city and the Achaean camp. The work is grand in its scope and remains character driven; for this reason we still discuss Achilles, Odysseus, Hector, and Paris as if they were real people.
Echoes of Gilgamesh in the Jacob Story
I will argue here that the Israelite author utilized
Monsters in the Roman Sky: Heaven and Earth in Manilius' Astronomica
The five-book astrological poem of Manilius, composed during the final years of Augustus
When a Book of the Dead text does not match archaeology: the case of the protective magical bricks
Consideration of this funerary rite will show how and why the practical application of the ritual in tombs could differ from the tradition noted in manuscripts; in other words, cases where reality does not match the text.
Homer and Oral Poetry
The recent discovery of the prominent role of the oral tradition in the Homeric texts does not, however, eliminate the role played by Homer; his inventiveness is a major part of what makes the epics shine.
The Apocalypse in Early Christianity
The idea of a universal apocalypse was certainly not a novelty at the time of Jesus? crucifixion and the advent of Christianity. Long before Christ?s arrival, Jewish prophets had predicted the extermination of the world, which was contingent upon the arrival of the Son of Man, God?s sole redeemer for humanity.