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Syllecta Classica Volume 19: April

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Publisher: Department of Classics @ the University of Iowa - Department of Classics @ the University of Iowa
ISSN: 2160-5157

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Number and Numeracy in Early Greek Literature

Hawke, Jason G.

2015 Syllecta Classica

The issue of Greek numeracy before c. 550 BC has been neglected, though an understanding of it is necessary to appreciate the intellectual history of Greece in the archaic period. After the Bronze Age, Greeks developed their numerical sophistication in a largely native context, and research in...
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Kleonai, Kleone, and Kleonymos: Competing Founding Myths for the Polis of Kleonai in the Northeastern Peloponnesos

Marchand, Jeannette

2015 Syllecta Classica

The ancient sources which discuss the etymology of the name of the polis Kleonai in the northeastern Peloponnesos have received little study; with close scrutiny, more texts than previously thought can be found to relate directly to the question. In these texts, traces of three different founding...
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Emotional Appeals in the Mytilenean Debate

Fulkerson, Laurel, --

2015 Syllecta Classica

Thucydidesâ Mytilenean debate has often been read as a study in opposites, and one of the standard oppositions seen in it is that between reason and passion. This article seeks to show that Cleonâs and Diodotusâ speeches are more similar than different, and that both contain implicit...
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Madness, Pity, and Echoes of Epic in Catullus 63

Wakefield, Foster

2015 Syllecta Classica

Catullusâ Attis is known as a figure of devotion and delusion, a zealot who castrates himself as an offering to Cybele, regrets his actions too late, and is condemned to lifelong exile and servitude. This paper argues that traditional oral-epic thematic and phraseological design in 63...
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Performing Ideology: Classicism, Modernity, and Social Context An APA / Camp Three-Year Colloquium

Manuwald, Gesine; Marshall, Hallie

2015 Syllecta Classica
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2006 Panel: Classical Drama as Political Drama

Dugdale, Eric -- (Eric Kari)

2015 Syllecta Classica
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The Myth of the House of Atreus: 5th Century B.C.E. and 20th Century C.E.

Suter, Ann, --

2015 Syllecta Classica

This essay compares Aeschylusâ use of the myth of the House of Atreus in the Oresteia with Sartreâs use of it in The Flies. Aeschylus chose and changed details from among extant versions to make a drama which glorified Athenian achievements in its new democratic organization and...
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Against Whatever War: Mikis Theodorakisâ Operatic Lysistrata

Simpson, Andrew, --

2015 Syllecta Classica

Greek composer Mikis Theodorakisâ opera Lysistrata, based on Aristophanesâ comedy, premiered in Athens in April 2002. Theodorakis, who has shrewdly combined politics and art throughout his career, created both the libretto and the score for this politically charged, anti-war opera. The...
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"Remembrance is Not Enough": The Political Function of Tony Harrisonâs Poetry

Marshall, Hallie Rebecca

2015 Syllecta Classica

Tony Harrisonâs dramatic works frequently engage with issues of cultural memory, both what is remembered and what is forgotten. In most instances, Harrison explores these issues by engaging with canonical texts, which, like certain examples of material cultureâparticularly monumental...
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The Medea Project for Incarcerated Women: Liberating Medea

Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin

2015 Syllecta Classica

From the late twentieth and into the early twenty-first century, productions of Greek tragedy have been comparatively frequent; many of them use tragedy as a way to think through contemporary problems from a politically progressive point of view. In this essay, I look at Rhodessa Jonesâ Medea...

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