MLA Commons | Kenneth Mayer | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/annapolisken/activity/ Activity feed for Kenneth Mayer. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:41:17 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 b821a82b8a74e67d1abe230a3e7e27d1 Kenneth Mayer deposited The Golden Line: An Exercise that Changed an Academic Discipline in the group Education and Pedagogy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1736791/ Sat, 01 May 2021 02:23:43 -0400 What happens when an exercise succeeds too well? Could a school exercise designed to teach
a foreign language also influence how a discipline interprets its central literary texts?
For centuries in Britain, Latin versification was the pinnacle of both pedagogy and scholarship,
the ultimate proof of a good teacher and a good pupil. Every day,…[Read more]

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a foreign language also influence how a discipline interprets its central literary texts?
For centuries in Britain, Latin versification was the pinnacle of both pedagogy and scholarship,
the ultimate proof of a good teacher and a good pupil. Every day,…[Read more]

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a foreign language also influence how a discipline interprets its central literary texts?
For centuries in Britain, Latin versification was the pinnacle of both pedagogy and scholarship,
the ultimate proof of a good teacher and a good pupil. Every day,…[Read more]

]]> 0 14c490b9d00ec0fe847f0936907b8ca7 Kenneth Mayer's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1726360/ Thu, 04 Feb 2021 20:41:36 -0500 0 15bf82f38953ba5f1b9bb19f89fec593 Kenneth Mayer's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1705036/ Tue, 11 Aug 2020 20:49:44 -0400 0 f9e83fc5f85375f3c88d95b714ec9862 Kenneth Mayer replied to the topic Do student preferences and classroom dynamics shape scholarly disciplines? in the discussion Education and Pedagogy https://hcommons.org/groups/education-and-pedagogy/forum/topic/do-student-preferences-and-classroom-dynamics-shape-scholarly-disciplines/#post-30440 Sat, 18 Apr 2020 00:16:03 -0400 The schoolboys’ revenge: how the golden line entered classical scholarship, Classical Receptions Journal,, Volume 12, Issue 2, April 2020, Pages 248–278, https://doi.org/10.1093/crj/clz029

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]]> 0 a610a336dfdc0d84212b271a56aed22c Kenneth Mayer's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1664798/ Sun, 29 Sep 2019 20:16:07 -0400 0 51d88c7b45783df71f1fc534931469f0 Kenneth Mayer's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1601207/ Mon, 19 Feb 2018 14:12:53 -0500 0 dbe253eb6385fdd97795e14ba7e56800 Kenneth Mayer created the site Agonisma - Extemporaneous Takes on Old Topics ἀγώνισμα ἐς τὸ παραχρῆμα ἀκούειν https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596745/ Fri, 12 Jan 2018 20:21:57 -0500 0 1513ec364da0b6be6f8824d0f84ce796 Kenneth Mayer's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1592286/ Tue, 12 Dec 2017 17:49:32 -0500 0 a62943a904028325e48f9c57180a1508 Kenneth Mayer started the topic Do student preferences and classroom dynamics shape scholarly disciplines? in the discussion Education and Pedagogy https://hcommons.org/groups/education-and-pedagogy/forum/topic/do-student-preferences-and-classroom-dynamics-shape-scholarly-disciplines/ Thu, 30 Nov 2017 13:28:27 -0500 Does anyone discuss how student interests or concerns can wind up shaping curricula or even the direction of a scholarly discipline?
I have combed the education literature and not seen a hint of anything that could give me a model or theoretical context for my claims about how classroom practice shaped scholarly discipline in Classics,…[Read more]

]]> 0 c24dcd6465399b95bf4fecd9d0116a50 Kenneth Mayer's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1579476/ Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:43:43 -0400 0 0c923216b9456f65a07fdbc3663d7f99 Kenneth Mayer's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1567258/ Fri, 28 Apr 2017 17:54:07 -0400 0 4e8f80270e9e9672570bdc279d4d1d7d Kenneth Mayer created the group Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1561589/ Tue, 07 Feb 2017 20:28:44 -0500 0 aeb30f665fedea64b8b0eed4643b1515 Kenneth Mayer deposited Themistocles and the Voice of the Other https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1561584/ Tue, 07 Feb 2017 19:22:51 -0500 All commented on Themistocles’ feat of mastering the Persian language. I show how Plutarch’s depiction of Themistocles differs from previous accounts in cultural assimilation and language acquisition. I argue that Plutarch has been influenced by contemporary concerns relating to assimilation and ethnicity. I analyze three incidents: the ins…[Read more]

]]> 0 2210563a88054112a4bd93f155bdb52f Kenneth Mayer deposited “Phrynichus, Pericles, and Praise” in the group History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1558999/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:00:11 -0500 Thucydides’s unusual praise of the Athenian general Phrynichus in 8.27.5 gives insight into how the historian thought and wrote. The praise seems unwarranted in the immediate instance and in light of Phrynichus’s subsequent actions. I argue that the praise seems directed at the manner in which Phrynichus made his decisions, and how Thucydides’s…[Read more]

]]> 0 d40b8ba728463924583517c3f2c4aded Kenneth Mayer deposited “Phrynichus, Pericles, and Praise” in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1558998/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:00:07 -0500 Thucydides’s unusual praise of the Athenian general Phrynichus in 8.27.5 gives insight into how the historian thought and wrote. The praise seems unwarranted in the immediate instance and in light of Phrynichus’s subsequent actions. I argue that the praise seems directed at the manner in which Phrynichus made his decisions, and how Thucydides’s…[Read more]

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