#jessica brill

[formlab]

Guggenheim Interior II, Jessica Brill

[catominor]

L. Furius and C. Martinus bibliography (part 2)

Ghostly, Edith. "The ailing body in Plutarch's Life of Lucius Furius Camillus." in Sickness and Health in Roman Literature, eds. John Tank, Janet Daqiri, and Jessica Station, 248-270 (Boston: Brill, 2015)

Toast, John C. "Rediscovered family origins? An examination of Gaius Martinus." Classical Biannually 3, no. 2 (1991): 1-11.

Astrelabe, Iris. "Stoicism Reframed: Images of desire in the fragmentary writings of Lucius Furius Camillus." The journal of classical philosophy 43, no. 1 (2023): 64-89.

Carmichael, Allison. "The case of Lucius Furius and Gaius Martinus." in Triangulating unconventional desires: peer homosexuality in the Roman period, 35-57. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995)

#i feel ive already begun to develop a kind of meta-lore for these fictional scholars. i am enjoying this so much #ficposting

[grundoonmgnx]

Jessica Brill, Green Lawn Chair, 2022

Acrylic and oil on canvas, 16 x 16 in

#jessica brilli

[aboutanancientenquiry]

“Why is Herodotus so Important?

Answer by Jan Haywood

This is a big question, which probably deserves its own lecture course! I will include here what, I think, are just a few particularly salient points. First of all, Herodotus’ Histories are a key narrative source for a major set of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and various Greek poleis (city-states), known as the Greco-Persian Wars (490-479 BCE); these conflicts proved to be a significant series of events, shaping relations between Persia and Greece long afterwards! Of course, Herodotus was far from the only author in antiquity to write about the Greco-Persian Wars. Others who did so include Diodorus, the Sicilian historian of the first century BCE (who seems to have been influenced by Herodotus’ work), as well as Plutarch, the biographer and historian from the first-second centuries CE, who famously criticised Herodotus’ account of the Greco-Persian Wars in his de malignitate Herodoti (On the Malice of Herodotus).

But Herodotus’ work is an incredibly rich one, and its importance extends far beyond what it can tell readers about the military conflict between Greece and Persia. Herodotus displays a keen interest in the customs, geography and culture of various peoples, not least the Egyptians, to whom he devotes an entire book (i.e. Book 2). (The Histories are conventionally divided into 9 books, though Herodotus is not responsible for these divisions.) His work is also rich in information concerning the religious history of the ancient Greek world, and it tells readers a great deal about non-Greek religions too. (Various recent publications have further enriched our understanding of this topic, for example, Andreas Schwab, Fremde Religion in Herodots Historien, Stuttgart 2020).

I don’t have the space to go into much detail here, but many readers have also derived great joy from numerous of Herodotus’ celebrated stories concerning particular individuals. For example, his account in Book 1 on the rise and fall of the Lydian king Croesus, as well as his account in Book 3 on Polycrates, the tyrant of Samos from the 540s – 522 BCE.

Finally, I will add that Herodotus has been hugely influential since antiquity in several ways. Not only does he stand as a key figure in the development of history-writing, but he also stands at the forefront of other fields of study, such as geography, ethnography, travel-writing, etc. The academic study of Herodotus’ impact in later periods and the reception of his work is now a burgeoning field, which continues to improve and refine our understanding of why Herodotus has been so important since classical antiquity. If you are interested in finding out more about this aspect of Herodotean research, a good place to start is Jessica Priestley and Vasiliki Zali’s excellent collection, Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond, Leiden and Boston 2016.”

Source: the site of Herodotus Helpline (https://herodotushelpline.org/why-is-herodotus-so-important/)

I would add that Herodotus is also very important because he had an understanding of the distinction between mythical and non-mythical past and chose to write an account of the latter, he proposed a methodology about historical research, and he tried to find the causes of the historical events, but also patterns in history. And of course The Histories is the first masterpiece in prose in every European language.

#herodotus #the histories #ancient greek classics #herodotus helpline #jan haywood

[mariacallous]

Waugh-type debutante argot stayed in her speech and prose for life; it isn't difficult to master the combination of overstatement and understatement of which it consists. Anything faintly nice is "bliss"; anything vaguely clever is "brill." Anything below par is "ghastly." Work in progress is "dread" used adjectivally, as in "the dread manuscript." The absolutely worst thing to be is "boring," or "a bore." There are deliberate lapses into "common" speech, such as "me" for "my." This upper-crust style could be used to telling effect. Jessica was confronted once with a racist southern educator who, skeptical of what she told him about desegregation in Oakland schools, said, "It don't seem possible, do it?" Jessica responded icily, "To me it do," and left him shriveled like a salted snail.

From Christopher Hitchens's review of Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford, edited by Peter Y. Sussman

[benthicsbelow]

Day 132.

Goat Island w / The Pod.

Second day and the light was just gorgeous (again!!) Heidi and Jessica saw three BABY EAGLE RAYS (whaaaa??) about the size of a dinner plate so I’d guess they were born in the reserve. Thats pretty spesh indeed. Also spotted a few dolphins from the carpark after getting out, on a mission and headed round the back of the island. All in all, a pretty brill start to the day :) 

#eaglerays #dolphins #marinereserve #underwaterphotography #seapics #ocean #rainbow #fish

[harleyjohnsonbcu]

References

13/10/22 

Josh Brill (2022) Dribbble. Available at: https://dribbble.com/joshbrill (Accessed: October 13th, 2022). 

Christopher Kane ruffle floral dress (2022) Designer Exchange. Available at: https://uk.designerexchange.com/product-detail/clothing/dresses/christopher-kane-ruffle-floral-dress/SDRECHR100115 (Accessed: 13th October 2022). 

  LINE — (2022) Jessica Bird. Available at: https://jessicarosebird.com/line (Accessed: 13th October 2022).  

Exploring alternative weaving materials with Lucy poskitt: The weaving kind makerie — (2017) The Makerie. Available at: https://www.themakerie.com/2017-weaving-kind-workshops/exploring-alternative-weaving-materials (Accessed: 13 October 2022).   

25/10/22 

Lougee, M (2018) Timber! Available at: https://www.mlougee.com/timber/ (Accessed: October 25, 2022).  

GALLERY — (2021) Meredith Woolnough. Available at: https://meredithwoolnough.com.au/past-work (Accessed: October 25, 2022).  

3/11/22 

Zigzag metallic-weave fine-knit scarf (2022) Harvey Nichols. Available at: https://www.harveynichols.com/brand/missoni/505894-zigzag-metallic-weave-fine-knit-scarf/p4352518/ (Accessed: November 3, 2022). 

Wells, H. (2021) Mark making experiments —, HELEN WELLS ARTIST. Available at: https://helenwellsartist.com/blog/2021/4/7/mark-making-experiments (Accessed: 3rd November 2022).

Unknown artist, Research & artwork (2018) Emich.edu. Available at: http://www.emich.edu/art/creative-work (Accessed: November 3rd, 2022).  

Ryan Coleman, Teal Smear, 2021 Ryan Coleman. Equ Press. Accessed at: http://ryancolemanstudio.com/shop/untitled-chromaluxe-dye-sublimation-print-on-aluminum-copy on 3 October 2022 

4/11/22 

Psychopomp, Portfolio (2020) Hollie Chastain. Available at: https://www.holliechastain.com/portfolio (Accessed: November 4, 2022). 

10/11/22 

Portraits of employees deceased, left, retired — (2022) Matt Peers. Available at: https://www.mattpeers.photography/portraits-of-employees-deceased-left-retired (Accessed: November 10, 2022). 

Anastasia Savinova Reykjavik, Genius Loci — (2022) Michele Mariaud. Available at: https://www.michelemariaud.com/anastasia-savinova (Accessed: November 10, 2022). 

Facebook, Mariafratiart (2022) Facebook.com. Available at: https://www.facebook.com/fratiart/photos/pb.100031771046281.-2207520000./1419900068436257/?type=3 (Accessed: November 10, 2022). 

“The cripples” by L. s. lowry (1949) Artuk.org. Available at: https://artuk.org/discover/stories/disability-and-debate-the-cripples-by-l-s-lowry (Accessed: November 10, 2022). 

[thatbitchsimone]

#jen brill #jessica stam

[dailydccomics]

Green Lanterns #28

#jessica cruz #simon baz #kaja dox #alitha of galactica #dc comics #green lanterns #lanternfam #green lantern corps #calleen of alstair #tyran'r #jan al #brill #simonjess #dc rebirth

[staticdreads]

green lantern, first class

#green lanterns #jessica cruz #simon baz #rami #time travel #kaja dox #alitha #brill #jan-al #calleen #z'krann z'rann #tyran'r

[catominor]

a selection of scholarship about L. furius and C. martinus:

Station, Jessica. "'A dignity separate from the common crowd': Plutarch's Lucius Furius Camillus." Roman History 178, no. 4 (2000): 43-67.

Toast, John C. "Lucius Furius Camillus: A Prosopological Study." Classical Biannually 34, no. 1 (2005): 135-68.

Stone, Lydia. "Stoicism in the Age of Sulla: The Philosophical Fragmenta of Lucius Furius Camillus Revisited" in Studies in Roman Philosophy in the Republican Period, eds. Gary Boring and Harold Dairy, 450-521. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017)

Smithson, Christian. "Queering the Republic: Lucius Furius Camillus and Gaius Martinus." The Online Journal of LGBT Studies 10, no. 4 (2021): 89-104.

Dageurrotype, Stephen. "The Mind of an Ambitious Man: A Psychoanalytical Study of Gaius Martinus." Freudian Studies Daily 435, no. 7 (1976): 34-48.

Hartlewood, C.B.T. "The Work and Life of a Scholar and Nobleman: Lucius Camillus and the Republic." The Yearly Classical Journal of the Wavendon Gentleman's Club 13 (1914): 76-98.

Daquiri-Smith, Janet. "Reading Lucius Furius Camillus in Seneca's Epistulae Morales: A Complicated Legacy." in A Companion to Seneca's Epistulae Morales, 2nd ed. eds. Janet Daquiri-Smith and Ben Daiquiri, 480-503. (Newark: John Wiley & Sons, 2009)

Tank, John. "The Military Strategy of Gaius Martinus." in The Roman Republican Army, ed. William H. Conical, 256-304. (Boston: Brill, 2013)

#i love making things up. underrated pastime #there will be more of these (threat) also :) #ficposting

[trans-emma-frost]

From Green Lanterns #29

#Green Lantern #Green Lanterns #Green Lantern Corps #Simon Baz #Jessica Cruz #Kaja Dox #Alitha #Brill #Z'Kran Z'Rann #Calleen #Tyran'r #DC Comics

[queenofdestiny]

Critique du film Dune de Denis Villeneuve

Encore un billet en français pour la simple et bonne raison que mon anglais est déplorable.

Tout d'abord la chose qui m'a le plus marqué: Le changement total de la scène du combat contre Jamis. Ceux qui ont lu le livre le savent, Paul a du mal à gagner au début car il a l'habitude de combattre avec le bouclier et attaque donc lentement. Sauf que dans le film, Denis Villeneuve a fait que Paul a à plusieurs reprises sa lame contre le cou de Jamis mais ne le tue pas. Stilgar demande alors à Jessica si Paul se moque de Jamis, ce à quoi elle devrait répondre que non, il a juste l'habitude de se battre avec le bouclier, mais non, elle répond "Paul n'a jamais tué", ce qui décrédibilise totalement, non seulement le personnage de Paul, mais aussi celui de Jessica, et que j'ai trouvé très décevant.

De plus, Caladan, sur laquelle il fait normalement toujours beau, le soleil brille etc (c'est la côte méditerranéenne) devient une planète sur laquelle il pleut tout le temps (c'est l'Ecosse). On ne voit pas un seul plan de Caladan sans pluie.

Dame Jessica. Elle est normalement une femme forte (elle ose tenir tête au Bene Gesserit!) mais passe la moitié du film à pleurer, et se morfond (en pleurant bien sûr) pendant que Paul passe l'épreuve d'humanité.

Je continuerai avec le Bene Gesserit. Je ne sais pas ce qui est passé par la tête de Denis Villeneuve mais il a dû se dire quelque chose comme "Tiens, le Bene Gesserit hmmm. Elle porteront des robes noires très longues et laides, comme les femmes afghanes, ah oui, et elles auront des sacs poubelle sur la tête! Je suis tellement brillant!". Les Bene Gesserit sont sensées être impressionantes. Ai-je vraiment besoin de préciser que ce n'est pas le cas?

La Voix. Pour expliquer ma déception, je me permet de citer sa description wikipédia "Par l’utilisation d’harmoniques spéciales, la Voix permet d’influer directement sur les centres nerveux d’un être humain, d’obtenir son obéissance rapide à des ordres brefs. C’est ainsi Gaius Helen Mohiam ordonne à Paul Atréides de venir auprès d’elle pour l’épreuve du Gom Jabbar. La Voix permet également d’insuffler un état émotionnel propice, ou de paralyser brièvement." L'utilisation du mot harmoniques sous-entend que la Voix est harmonieuse. Je ne sais pas s'il en est de même pour vous, mais pour moi, la Voix est tellement suave et douce que l'individu ne peut s'empêcher d'obéir, pour satisfaire la personne qui utilise cette Voix. Dans le film, la Voix est censée, grâce à des effets spéciaux, paraitre très autoritaire, ce qui est très décevant pour moi.

Quand à Arrakis, cette planète est GRISE. Il n'y a pas de couleurs. L'épice est censée être orange mais Denis Villeneuve l'a juste fait briller. On ne comprend pas comment sont organisés les bâtiments, la jungle luxuriante située dans la demeure des Atréides est composée de trois petits cactus en pot.

Le baron Harkonnen n'est pas assez gros, Villeneuve a voulu jouer sur les effets spéciaux et le faire flotter pour se déplacer, mais pour moi, il est tellement gros que même avec les suspenseurs il peut à peine marcher, alors voler! La seule chose qui lui rend hommage est le fait qu'il met le duc Leto nu.

Il ne se passe RIEN en 2h36. Le film se finit au moment où Paul est accepté parmi les fremen mais c'est normalement là que la véritable histoire COMMENCE.

Il faut au moins reconnaitre que s'il y a une chose que Denis Villeneuve a réussi, c'est l'effet des fremen qui sortent du sable. Malheureusement, on doit le voir 3 fois en 2h30.

Je me permet de citer Xavier Leherpeur pour conclure: "on voit une bande annonce de 2h40. On voit assez vite qu'il ne va pas tout faire rentrer dans ce film. Donc, au bout d'une heure vingt, dans un passage prémonitoire, le héros voit les images du prochain épisode. On nous montre une fraction de grande bataille épique où Timothée Chalamet saute sur tout le monde, tourne sur lui-même comme un Power Ranger… C'est absolument formidable, mais ça dure une seconde. Et puis ensuite, on le voit chevaucher le ver géant - qui est la seule scène que l'on attend. Dune est quand même le seul roman dans lequel le héros chevauche un phallus qui a une gueule d'anus, ça vaut la peine d'être cité. Là, on vous rassure, ce sera dans le prochain. Sauf qu'on nous dit qu'il n'est pas encore filmé ! Donc, il faut aller se taper celui-ci pour voir le prochain… Ça commence à faire beaucoup !"

Comme on pouvait s'y attendre, ce film est trop compliqué pour être agréable à ceux qui ne connaissent pas dune et trop simple pour ceux qui le connaissent. De plus, Denis Villeneuve a tout simplifié au possible, sacrifiant des informations au profit de la simplicité. à aucun moment n'est expliqué ce qu'est l'épice, ni les navigateurs.

Si vous voulez une autre critique, je vous conseille celle d' @tambourineman qui est en anglais mais très compréhensible.

#dune #critique #denis villeneuve #caladan #vladimir harkonnen #paul atréides #jessica atréides #xavier leherpeur #leto atréides #ver des sables

[aboutanancientenquiry]

This is the Brill Companion on the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond, by Jessica Priesley and Vasiliki Zali (Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2016).

I add the very informative review of this volume by Pr. Lorenzo Miletti https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2018/2018.04.56

“This companion is a generous and extremely welcome work which both widens and enriches the debate on Herodotus’ reception, a theme that has provoked wide interest in recent decades, after a long period in which scholarship consisted of a sparse list of contributions, the most famous being some essays by Arnaldo Momigliano.1

In the detailed introduction, Priestley and Zali, authors of two recent Herodotean monographs, 2 explain the purposes of their work and rightly underline the difficulties in dealing with such a mammoth matter. They prevent any criticism of incompleteness by enumerating how many fields of inquiry this volume has to leave aside, like Herodotus’ reception in the Imperial age, or in late antiquity, and so on. Lacunae of this type are perfectly understandable, since no book could ever fully cover the reception of such an important author as Herodotus; however, as I will argue below, some of these ‘voids’ are problematic.

The volume is divided into three parts: Part 1: ‘Father of History’ is on Herodotus’ influence on later (Western) historiography, from antiquity to early modern times; Part 2: Language, Translation, and Scholarship presents (perhaps too heterogeneously) essays exploring the fortune of various formal aspects of the Histories; Part 3: New Narratives and Genres focuses on the reception of Herodotus as a storyteller, passing (slightly ex abrupto) from Pausanias to Kapuściński and Gore Vidal with no one else in between.

Since it is impossible to discuss each of the valuable essays in these three parts, I will focus on what appears to be the two main ‘cores’ of this companion, namely Herodotus’ reception in antiquity and in the Renaissance. In order to do so more effectively, I have given the essays a different order. I apologise for not discussing the essays dealing with more recent episodes of the historian’s reception, due to a lack of space.

Though focusing on different aspects, most of the contributions deal with Herodotus’ reception in antiquity, starting with the delicate (and indeed vexata) quaestio of the relationship between the historian and his ‘successor’ Thucydides.

Marek Wekowski’s essay aims to demonstrate not only that Thucydides has Herodotus in his mind when dealing with the political situation of Athens and Sparta, but also that the very shape of (at least part of) Thucydides’ work can be read as a response to the ‘meaningful structure’ of Herodotus’ Histories, especially with reference to, on the one hand, the parallelism of Herodotus’ digressions on Athens and Sparta and, on the other hand, Thucydides’ Archaeologia (1.2-19) and Pentecontaetia (1.89-118). The two historians appear thus closer than is commonly acknowledged, especially as regards the “general vision of the ultimate goal of a large-scale historical narrative”.

Vasiliki Zali analyses in particular the way Thucydides and Xenophon (above all in the Hellenica) deal with a ‘typical’ Herodotean subject such as the Persian Wars, concluding that both writers, independent of any influences from other sources on the same topics, clearly rely on Herodotus’ account in handling the Greek victory as a delicate problem which can be used as an argument in the political debate between the main Greek cities, a problem involving both moral and political issues.

Xenophon is also at the core of the contribution by Vivienne Gray, who discusses passages from the Cyropaedia which are most probably indebted to Herodotus’ work. If compared to Herodotus’ Histories, the Cyropaedia offers a largely different portrait of Cyrus, who is represented as an example of an enlightened leader in Xenophon, and as a great king displaying both political virtues and tyrannical tendencies in Herodotus. Gray shows how Xenophon’s refined strategy implies an attentive handling of Herodotean points, as well as a re-writing of the episodes already reported in the Histories which clearly shows Xenophon’s ‘Socratic’ purposes.

Christopher Baron’s essay is a lavishly written work on Herodotus’ reception in the works of Duris of Samos. Baron’s analysis encompasses several aspects from which it is possible to detect Herodotus’ influence on Duris, namely “arrangement, subject matter, engagement with other authors, use of evidence, and pleasurable reading”. Baron discusses several fragments, convincingly concluding that a thorough appreciation of Herodotus’ deep influence clearly helps to dismiss the cliché-portrait of Duris as a ‘tragic historian’, and to understand better how Duris worked, especially as regards to his interest in mythical digressions and poetic sources, and to his criticism of Ephorus and Theopompus.

Eran Almagor analyses Flavius Josephus’ use of Herodotus by illustrating Josephus’ knowledge of the Histories through several, well-discussed, examples. Josephus manages a combined reading of the Bible and Herodotus, and he sometimes uses the latter in order to correct the former, as in the case of the sequence of the Achaemenid kings ( AJ 11.21-30 and 120-183). While Josephus’ criticism against the Greeks does not exclude Herodotus, this is nonetheless among his major models. Armagor goes beyond previous scholarship by extending the list of Josephus’ passages which seem linguistically and stylistically influenced by Herodotus.

John Marincola’s essay is a thorough analysis of how Herodotus’ account of the battle of Plataea is received by Plutarch in his Life of Aristides, an analysis carried out by paralleling this biography with Plutarch’s On the Malice of Herodotus (which is however not discussed in itself). Marincola points out how Plutarch re-elaborates Herodotean episodes by reducing emphasis in describing discrepancies among the Greek cities, by adding elements not present in Herodotus (see the religious omina before the battle), and also by stressing Panhellenic items more patriotically.

Greta Hawes’ contribution focuses on Herodotus’ influence on Pausanias’ Periegesis, but the reader has to wait no less than fourteen pages in order to find the first mention of what the title promises. Hawes’ convincing comparison, however, shows how Pausanias is indebted to Herodotus not only when discussing places already described by the ancient historian, or in general from a rhetorical point of view, but more deeply in his approach to sources and to the way of dealing with them, purposefully giving rise to an idea of the Greek land as a polycentric and somehow chaotic object, which the authorial storytelling is called to put in order.

Olga Tribulato’s essay offers a noteworthy discussion of Herodotus’ reception in Greek lexicography. She provides a detailed status quaestionis, but also opens new perspectives on how Herodotus’ Ionian forms were perceived throughout the centuries from the Hellenistic to the late imperial ages, by analysing quotations from Herodotus in the main lexicographical sources we can read today, namely Phrynichus, Moeris, Dionysius, Pollux, and the so-called Antiatticist (the analysis of this last author is particularly comprehensive). From a methodological point of view, the way the author manages textual, linguistic and reception issues is worthy of praise.

A useful premise to the group of essays focusing on the Renaissance is Félix Racine’s contribution, which analyses how Herodotus was read by Latin writers, from Cicero to the twelfth century, largely before Greek manuscripts of the Histories became available in the West and Latin translations were achieved. Racine shows how Herodotus was not widely read in Latin late antiquity, however, but he nevertheless continued to be seen as a major authority: in sum, an interesting case of how the reception of a writer is possible even without his work.

Adam Foley’s essay focuses on Lorenzo Valla’s Latin translation of Herodotus in its cultural context and on its fortunate early reception. Foley claims that before Valla humanists read Herodotus above all through the Latin ancient authors (he admits exceptions but does not discuss them). Valla’s work changed the way to approach Herodotus; it was celebrated to such an extent that it overshadowed the fame of Herodotus himself, thanks to its linguistic and stylistic virtues.

Following the recent interest in Matteo Maria Boiardo’s vulgarisation of Herodotus’ Histories, Dennis Looney describes the cultural context of Ferrara in the Quattrocento, also stressing Guarino Veronese’s role in Herodotus’ diffusion. Looney accurately describes, by exploring some specific cases, the way Boiardo worked, and also analyses the narrative of Boiardo’s main work, L’inamoramento de Orlando (1494) detecting in it the influence of Herodotus’ narrative.In his interesting essay on Herodotus in Renaissance France, 

Benjamin Earley shows, walking in Anthony Grafton’s footsteps, how this country was in the 16th century the place where a major debate on historical temporality developed, which led scholars to realize how distant the ancient world was, and so to reconsider the way the ancient authors may be useful to the present. After claiming his aim “to explore how the ongoing debate over historical temporalities affected readings of Herodotus’ truthfulness”, Earley analyses Saliat’s vulgarization, and then passages from Montaigne, Bodin, Estienne, Casaubon and Lancelot-Voisins de la Popelinière, showing how the debate involved problems about the definition of historical chronology and the reliability of Herodotus as a source.

Neville Morley focuses on the Herodotus/Thucydides opposition as it was developed from the early 17 th century on, by identifying a number of prominent scholars who exalted Thucydides by contrast to Herodotus and created the myth of Thucydides as the “best historian ever”. Then it concludes by pointing to the beginning of the 20th century as the period in which Herodotus slowly re-emerges as a positive model, while the myth of Thucydides is supplanted by a more moderate approach.

Benjamin Eldon Stevens’ essay explores the modern and ancient reception of a famous passage of Herodotus’ Histories, the “linguistic experiment” made by pharaoh Psammetichus in order to find out which language was the more ancient (Hdt. 2.2). Stevens parallels the episode with some modern linguistic research, and with medieval and early modern tales about analogous experiments. The discussion of later episodes is accurate and interesting; however, less convincing is how the Herodotean account of Psammetichus’ experiment is set in its proper context in the light of the historian’s own concept of language.3

If we look at this companion as a whole, it is possible to conclude that the editors and authors have been successful in showing how deep and striking the influence of Herodotus has been throughout the centuries, and also in stimulating further debates and research. Before concluding, I wish only to add two remarks. First: although – as mentioned above – incompleteness in this type of collective work is to be expected and excused, I believe that one or more essays covering the Byzantine world would have been welcome, as far as this stage of the historian’s reception has made possible the surviving itself of the Histories. Second: since the choice to cover a range of about 2500 years necessarily encourages the adoption of a continuity/discontinuity pattern instead of a synchronical approach to specific epochs, I wonder whether a more precise range like, for instance, the one chosen in the recent volume edited by Susanna Gambino Longo might constitute a more productive solution, open to more interdisciplinary scenarios, at least sic stantibus rebus (where res are our knowledge of Herodotus’ fortune).4

To sum up, this book is a well-edited product – with only a few typos5 –, which also provides indexes and a bibliography of great utility. It is highly recommended not only to Herodotean scholars, but also to experts in ancient historiography, classical reception, and Renaissance studies. All the essays are stimulating; several of them are excellent and offer new acquisitions in the wide field of Herodotean studies.

Authors and titles

Introduction (Jessica Priestley & Vasiliki Zali) 

PART 1 – “Father of History” 

1 Herodotus in Thucydides: A Hypothesis (Marek Wecowski)

 2 Herodotus and His Successors: The Rhetoric of the Persian Wars in Thucydides and Xenophon (Vasiliki Zali) 

3 Duris of Samos and a Herodotean Model for Writing History (Christopher A. Baron) 

4 “This is What Herodotus Relates”: The Presence of Herodotus’ Histories in Josephus’ Writings (Eran Almagor)

 5 History without Malice: Plutarch Rewrites the Battle of Plataea (John Marincola) 

6 Herodotus in Renaissance France (Benjamin Earley) 

7 The Anti-Thucydides: Herodotus and the Development of Modern Historiography (Neville Morley)

PART 2 – Language, Translation and Scholarship 

8 Herodotus’ Reception in Ancient Greek Lexicography and Grammar: From the Hellenistic to the Imperial Age (Olga Tribulato) 

9 Herodotus’ Reputation in Latin Literature from Cicero to the 12th Century (Félix Racine) 

10 Valla’s Herodotean Labours: Towards a New View of Herodotus in the Italian Renaissance (Adam Foley) 

11 Herodotus and Narrative Art in Renaissance Ferrara: The Translation of Matteo Maria Boiardo (Dennis Looney) 

12 The ‘Rediscovery’ of Egypt: Herodotus and His Account of Egypt in the Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute-Égypte (1802) by Vivant Denon (Andreas Schwab) 

13 Not beyond Herodotus? Psammetichus’ Experiment and Modern Thought about Language (Benjamin Eldon Stevens

)PART 3 – New Narratives and Genres 

14 Herodotus (and Ctesias) Re-enacted: Leadership in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia (Vivienne Gray) 

15 Pausanias and the Footsteps of Herodotus (Greta Hawes) 

16 Ryszard Kapuściński’s Travels with Herodotus: Reportage from the Self (Kinga Kosmala) 

17 Herodotus in Fiction: Gore Vidal’s Creation (Heather Neilson

)Notes1. Momigliano’s contributions are quoted frequently throughout the whole book, where he is evoked as an authority, but sometimes also as a cumbersome ‘father’ to be metaphorically ‘killed’: see especially the essays by Earley and Foley

.2. J. Priestley, Herodotus and Hellenistic Culture, Oxford 2014 (see BMCR 2014.10.42); V. Zali, The Shape of Herodotean Rhetoric, Leiden 2014 (see BMCR 2015.08.39).

3. For language in antiquity Stevens mostly relies on D.L. Gera’s monograph of 2003 (Oxford), while for a general overview of Herodotus’ conception of language he cites T. Harrison’s article of 1998 (in Histos, 2), leaving aside three monographs on this subject, namely J. Campos Daroca (Almería 1992), L. Miletti (Pisa-Roma 2008), and, more surprisingly, R. V. Munson (Cambridge MA 2005).

4. S. Gambino Longo (ed.), Hérodote à la Renaissance, Paris 2012 (see BMCR 2012.12.09).

5. See e.g. Herodotu (-o), p. 200; verecundia (-am), 210. An inversion at p. 171: ‘Florentine’ pro ‘Roman’ and vice versa. 

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[huntaarius]

Kara Chronicles day 252

#kara chronicles #day 252 #art #dc comics #green lanterns #simon baz #jessica cruz #brill

[youreawizard123]

scott mctominay - "stop rambling on and kiss me."

y/n's pov

i came home after a long day at work, absolutely exhausted. i want to scream, and shout, and cry, and laugh and just let everything go.

"hey bubba," scott greeted me as i came in the house. "how was it?"

"shocking." i said, taking off my uniform.

"aww, bless you. what happened?"

"you know that greg took a week off to 'focus on himself'?"

"yeah,"

"well, he's quit. the newbie, jessica, doesn't know what the fuck she's doing. olivia threatened to quit, because no one else is there to cover for her shifts with her new-born baby. she's lost the will, and will himself gave up after one hour. i'm doing my job, my boss' job because he's a sexist and miserable asshole who only wants to sit down and do nothing, and also trying to cover greg, jessica, will and olivia's job at the same time. then, harry decided that it would be a brilliant time to tell me that he's off on paternity, and max is drunk every time he comes in for a shift. i'm the only one somehow keeping the place running! and it's a fucking nightmare!"

"jesus, love."

"yeah, get some of this. richard came in being the biggest prick he possibly could be, which is as of no surprise, belinda and isaac were just flirting the whole time. tim and emma were being tim and emma, arrogant little shits, and we got five new youngsters who sit on their phone on tinder or whatever all fucking day. anna announced that she's going to try for some kids, vincent didn't rock up at all, yvonne's too busy trying to get carl, and-"

"stop rambling on and kiss me."

i didn't need to hear him again. i pressed my lips against his, making me calm down after being tense since six in the morning. even twelve hours later, now, i'm only just beginning to relax. his arms pulled me into a hug, after a little while. he began playing with my hair.

"how about i make you a bath with your fancy salts and whatever else you want, you can read that book you've wanted for ages. i was gonna save it for your birthday or christmas, but you can have it early. then when you're sorted and in your pj's, we can cuddle as we watch the new film on disney+. how does that sound?"

"it sounds perfect, babe. thank you."

"anything for you, love. i'll go get it sorted. bubbles?"

"yeah, please, if you don't mind."

"of course i don't. get yourself comfy, but not too comfy. i'll get it sorted for you, love."

scott went upstairs to go and get the bath sorted. i sat down on my phone, looking at instagram.

this was, before i was picked up by my boyfriend.

"scotty!"

"what? it's sorted. i figured i'd save your tired legs, so all you need to do is change, get in, start reading the book, once you're done you do what you need to do, and we can then cuddle."

"yeah. i love you so much."

"i love you more, princess. i'll get the film and snacks sorted, yeah?"

"yeah. i'll call you when i'm finished."

i got myself in the bath, with bubbles and salts in it. this boy treats me so well. i started reading the book. i got to chapter ten, i then i washed my hair and got out. i dried myself off, getting into my pj's.

"scotty! i'm done!"

he came from our bedroom. "hey, brill. got the film on, love."

i went into the bedroom to find our favourite snacks, with the film on the tv.

"you like?"

"i like. i love."

i sat on the bed. scott came in after me, grabbing blankets. we got under them, eating the snacks and watching the film.

i fell asleep in his arms, keeping me close to him.

#scott mctominay #mctominay #scotland national team #manchester united