David Sider
Autor(a) de Homer's Iliad (Monarch Notes)
About the Author
David Sider is Professor Emeritus of Classics, New York University.
Obras de David Sider
Simonides: Epigrams and Elegies: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (2020) 3 cópias
Arethusa (vol 29 no 2): The New Simonides — Guest Editor — 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Philodemus and Poetry: Poetic Theory and Practice in Lucretius, Philodemus and Horace (1995) — Contribuinte — 8 cópias
The Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum archaeology, reception, and digital reconstruction (2010) — Contribuinte — 8 cópias
Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309) (2004) — Contribuinte — 6 cópias
Hellenistic Studies at a Crossroads : Exploring Texts, Contexts and Metatexts (2014) — Contribuinte — 6 cópias
Philodemus and the New Testament World (Novum Testamentum Supplements) (2003) — Contribuinte — 4 cópias
Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus (2014) — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
Arethusa (vol 27 no 1): Rethinking the Classical Canon — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1940-07-21
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
- Educação
- Columbia University (PhD|Greek|1969)
Columbia University (AM|1963|Greek)
Columbia University (AB|Mathematics|1961) - Ocupação
- Classics professor
- Organizações
- New York University
Fordham University
Queens College
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
University of Kentucky
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (mostrar todas 18)
Cooper Union
Brooklyn College
American Philological Association
Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
Society for Ancient Medicine
New York Classical Club
Classical Association of the Atlantic States
International Plato Society
Classical Association of the Midwest and South
Womenʹs Classical Caucus
Hellenic Society
American Friends of Herculaneum - Premiações
- Gildersleeve Award (2007)
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- Obras
- 12
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- Membros
- 183
- Popularidade
- #118,259
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 25
- Idiomas
- 2
This epic poem drawn from oral tradition was probably written down when Greece transitioned to literacy around 800 B.C. The wanderings of Odysseus date from the end of the Trojan War which is now archeologically dated approximately 1250 B.C., the same date provided by Herodotus.
ATHENA. We have to ask why Athena favored Odysseus far more than any other mortal. Since she personified skill and craft, she was present in him, and so naturally favors him. This became the epic of "Athens", yet none of the players are Athenians and the Laconians are the heroes!
TIME. The time scheme of the Odyssey is complicated. Why did Homer make such free use of time? We first meet Odysseus at the end of wanderings, just 40 days before he gets home. Between the time that Telemachus leaves Ithaca and Odysseus defeats the angry "insurgents" is only 40 days. But within this frame, Homer includes the history of the past 19 years, including the ten-year Trojan War related in a kind of flash-back. The fate of the Greek and Trojan heroes -- Achilles and Agamemnon, Hector and Hecuba--are narrated as side-bars. And Odysseus' nine years of fairy-land voyages following the war -- all flash-back.
ODYSSEUS. Is it really all about him? We first find him alone and weeping on Calypso's fantasy island. He will return to the "real" world, leaving behind the enchanted women, giants, and cannibals. Then the other characters--and Homer provides thousands of "compare and contrast" examples -- we find all the important figures compared to Odysseus.… (mais)