MLA Commons | Elton Barker | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/eltonbarker/activity/ Activity feed for Elton Barker. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:05:11 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 ebd2c7c0d73c523599c7bcff43a1f3e3 Elton Barker deposited Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece in the group Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839769/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 02:25:39 -0400 Sometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ad43b555892ed49945f0a558b793c22 Elton Barker deposited Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece in the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839766/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 02:25:23 -0400 Sometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of…[Read more]

]]> 0 70afc85f6aa0a9f3e60ca7636419556d Elton Barker deposited Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece in the group History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839762/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 02:25:09 -0400 Sometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of…[Read more]

]]> 0 8eefb22953c45b172c49e117bcf49ae7 Elton Barker deposited Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839756/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 02:24:27 -0400 Sometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of…[Read more]

]]> 0 04081e62157f754426a6d45af5870996 Elton Barker deposited Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839755/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 02:23:53 -0400 Sometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of…[Read more]

]]> 0 19c11c6fa427ed1762c44ba05c54f54e Elton Barker deposited Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839728/ Tue, 04 Apr 2023 19:13:41 -0400 Sometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of…[Read more]

]]> 0 1bc60d9638c914de5d111362ab5fde07 Elton Barker deposited BMCR review of Greta Hawes, Pausanias in the world of Greek myth. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xii, 237. ISBN 9780198832553 in the group History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834851/ Mon, 20 Feb 2023 02:24:33 -0500 Recent scholarship has done much to challenge the long-held antipathy towards Pausanias, even if some of the best studies appear “enamored not so much of Pausanias himself as they are of the idea of Pausanias”. As one of the leading new Pausaniacs, Greta Hawes has been at the vanguard of efforts to get the measure of this storied landscape. Her…[Read more]

]]> 0 77f73f6404f7131aa2308f8c9bed4024 Elton Barker deposited BMCR review of Greta Hawes, Pausanias in the world of Greek myth. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xii, 237. ISBN 9780198832553 in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834850/ Mon, 20 Feb 2023 02:24:03 -0500 Recent scholarship has done much to challenge the long-held antipathy towards Pausanias, even if some of the best studies appear “enamored not so much of Pausanias himself as they are of the idea of Pausanias”. As one of the leading new Pausaniacs, Greta Hawes has been at the vanguard of efforts to get the measure of this storied landscape. Her…[Read more]

]]> 0 9cfe860c2920022b47c326552c99fe2e Elton Barker deposited BMCR review of Greta Hawes, Pausanias in the world of Greek myth. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xii, 237. ISBN 9780198832553 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834837/ Sun, 19 Feb 2023 20:45:09 -0500 Recent scholarship has done much to challenge the long-held antipathy towards Pausanias, even if some of the best studies appear “enamored not so much of Pausanias himself as they are of the idea of Pausanias”. As one of the leading new Pausaniacs, Greta Hawes has been at the vanguard of efforts to get the measure of this storied landscape. Her…[Read more]

]]> 0 60d1d514982196a64aed862f121400b8 Elton Barker deposited Die Another Day: Sarpedon, Aristodemos, and Homeric Intertextuality in Herodotus in the group History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833859/ Sat, 11 Feb 2023 02:28:28 -0500 The subject of this chapter is a single contested word in Herodotus’ Histories. In it I explore its semantic range and use it to think about broader questions of Herodotus’ interplay with Homer. Where many of the Homeric touches in Herodotus can be put down to, and more productively used, as examples of traditional referentiality or, at least, n…[Read more]

]]> 0 e24fda2f56d9b9b59e5be94ac84be5d1 Elton Barker deposited Die Another Day: Sarpedon, Aristodemos, and Homeric Intertextuality in Herodotus in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833858/ Sat, 11 Feb 2023 02:27:59 -0500 The subject of this chapter is a single contested word in Herodotus’ Histories. In it I explore its semantic range and use it to think about broader questions of Herodotus’ interplay with Homer. Where many of the Homeric touches in Herodotus can be put down to, and more productively used, as examples of traditional referentiality or, at least, n…[Read more]

]]> 0 74b60e838e28cc1460765d211aa50244 Elton Barker deposited Die Another Day: Sarpedon, Aristodemos, and Homeric Intertextuality in Herodotus https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833783/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 18:31:55 -0500 The subject of this chapter is a single contested word in Herodotus’ Histories. In it I explore its semantic range and use it to think about broader questions of Herodotus’ interplay with Homer. Where many of the Homeric touches in Herodotus can be put down to, and more productively used, as examples of traditional referentiality or, at least, n…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed9f34913c01436638ed7e53fc9074d1 Elton Barker created the doc Die Another Day: Sarpedon, Aristodemos, and Homeric Intertextuality in Herodotus https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833782/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 18:23:46 -0500 0 7690e16bae29695837ce69655446a9fd Elton Barker deposited Pelagios – Connecting Histories of Place. Part I: Methods and Tools in the group Open-source historical mapping https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758316/ Fri, 12 Nov 2021 02:25:22 -0500 This article provides a short history of the methods and tools developed by the Pelagios initiative: a series of seven projects dedicated to linking digital historical resources based on the geographic places to which they relate and refer. The first section of the article situates the work within the wider field of semantic and geospatial…[Read more]

]]> 0 d6544fbe97bc5c5eb533bc116aba8922 Elton Barker deposited Pelagios – Connecting Histories of Place. Part I: Methods and Tools in the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758315/ Fri, 12 Nov 2021 02:25:00 -0500 This article provides a short history of the methods and tools developed by the Pelagios initiative: a series of seven projects dedicated to linking digital historical resources based on the geographic places to which they relate and refer. The first section of the article situates the work within the wider field of semantic and geospatial…[Read more]

]]> 0 c28f518fa527d0f83c8145718a0d098f Elton Barker deposited Pelagios – Connecting Histories of Place. Part I: Methods and Tools in the group History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758314/ Fri, 12 Nov 2021 02:24:50 -0500 This article provides a short history of the methods and tools developed by the Pelagios initiative: a series of seven projects dedicated to linking digital historical resources based on the geographic places to which they relate and refer. The first section of the article situates the work within the wider field of semantic and geospatial…[Read more]

]]> 0 6e4b1ba78f32dfa7dbc4881295cfec2e Elton Barker deposited Pelagios – Connecting Histories of Place. Part I: Methods and Tools in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758313/ Fri, 12 Nov 2021 02:24:17 -0500 This article provides a short history of the methods and tools developed by the Pelagios initiative: a series of seven projects dedicated to linking digital historical resources based on the geographic places to which they relate and refer. The first section of the article situates the work within the wider field of semantic and geospatial…[Read more]

]]> 0 438b9acfee13665abd28360a3d217e16 Elton Barker deposited Pelagios – Connecting Histories of Place. Part I: Methods and Tools in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758312/ Fri, 12 Nov 2021 02:23:38 -0500 This article provides a short history of the methods and tools developed by the Pelagios initiative: a series of seven projects dedicated to linking digital historical resources based on the geographic places to which they relate and refer. The first section of the article situates the work within the wider field of semantic and geospatial…[Read more]

]]> 0 825af14dc530f809a9c18b2ccea23ef9 Elton Barker deposited Pelagios – Connecting Histories of Place. Part I: Methods and Tools https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758226/ Thu, 11 Nov 2021 09:17:21 -0500 This article provides a short history of the methods and tools developed by the Pelagios initiative: a series of seven projects dedicated to linking digital historical resources based on the geographic places to which they relate and refer. The first section of the article situates the work within the wider field of semantic and geospatial…[Read more]

]]> 0 dedb19697c8c3a0dbc362cd866355cae Elton Barker deposited Homer’s Thebes: Epic Rivalries and the Appropriation of Mythical Pasts in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739554/ Wed, 26 May 2021 02:26:10 -0400 Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are the only early Greek heroic epics to have survived the transition to writing, even though extant evidence indicates that they emerged from a thriving oral culture. Among the missing are the songs of Boeotian Thebes.

Homer’s Thebes examines moments in the Iliad and Odyssey where Theban characters and thematic eng…[Read more]

]]> 0 072e31f604ef5e9d10af95744c1283d2 Elton Barker deposited ON SPACE, PLACE, AND FORM IN HERODOTUS’ HISTORIES in the group History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739553/ Wed, 26 May 2021 02:26:04 -0400 This article reflects on how our own technological developments can help us see Herodotus’ archetype of historical inquiry in a new light. It explores various aspects of place in the Histories—as spaces that are lived, constructed, and relational—to show how and why the idea of place can be such a powerful means for linking information and under…[Read more]

]]> 0 fe76b0b60edef7a2801f1af15b7b1330 Elton Barker deposited ON SPACE, PLACE, AND FORM IN HERODOTUS’ HISTORIES in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739552/ Wed, 26 May 2021 02:25:41 -0400 This article reflects on how our own technological developments can help us see Herodotus’ archetype of historical inquiry in a new light. It explores various aspects of place in the Histories—as spaces that are lived, constructed, and relational—to show how and why the idea of place can be such a powerful means for linking information and under…[Read more]

]]> 0 08497c77d7c39cc04f6f91203882dd21 Elton Barker deposited ON SPACE, PLACE, AND FORM IN HERODOTUS’ HISTORIES in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739551/ Wed, 26 May 2021 02:25:03 -0400 This article reflects on how our own technological developments can help us see Herodotus’ archetype of historical inquiry in a new light. It explores various aspects of place in the Histories—as spaces that are lived, constructed, and relational—to show how and why the idea of place can be such a powerful means for linking information and under…[Read more]

]]> 0 767c73383a8bebcc6a3d6fd18212f21e Elton Barker deposited Homer’s Thebes: Epic Rivalries and the Appropriation of Mythical Pasts https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739391/ Tue, 25 May 2021 07:54:36 -0400 Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are the only early Greek heroic epics to have survived the transition to writing, even though extant evidence indicates that they emerged from a thriving oral culture. Among the missing are the songs of Boeotian Thebes.

Homer’s Thebes examines moments in the Iliad and Odyssey where Theban characters and thematic eng…[Read more]

]]> 0 81fbea1f450fab963cc79d5e392994fd Elton Barker deposited ON SPACE, PLACE, AND FORM IN HERODOTUS’ HISTORIES https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739389/ Tue, 25 May 2021 07:38:13 -0400 This article reflects on how our own technological developments can help us see Herodotus’ archetype of historical inquiry in a new light. It explores various aspects of place in the Histories—as spaces that are lived, constructed, and relational—to show how and why the idea of place can be such a powerful means for linking information and under…[Read more]

]]> 0 693100fb4e60b95aa4a8d36f3ddd1e43 Elton Barker's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739382/ Tue, 25 May 2021 07:24:30 -0400 0 e1f1f3dd0dc461fe36c77ec4ca1f0038 Elton Barker created the site pelagios: connecting online resources through common references to places https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1619849/ Wed, 03 Oct 2018 08:04:55 -0400 0 6c93237b1c57b4a1dffb6ef8fe8fd461 Elton Barker deposited The Pleiades Gazetteer and the Pelagios Project in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560416/ Tue, 31 Jan 2017 01:00:35 -0500 Pelagios is a community-driven initiative that facilitates better linkage between online resources documenting the past, based on the places that they refer to. Our member projects are connected by a shared vision of a world – most eloquently described in Tom Elliott’s article “Digital Geography and Classics” (Elliot and Gillies, 2009) – in which…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1ae4b18737f9f2d186604c06026389f Elton Barker deposited The Pleiades Gazetteer and the Pelagios Project in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560415/ Tue, 31 Jan 2017 01:00:24 -0500 Pelagios is a community-driven initiative that facilitates better linkage between online resources documenting the past, based on the places that they refer to. Our member projects are connected by a shared vision of a world – most eloquently described in Tom Elliott’s article “Digital Geography and Classics” (Elliot and Gillies, 2009) – in which…[Read more]

]]> 0 e0cac39afb825786892694ebdf3daa3b Elton Barker deposited The Pleiades Gazetteer and the Pelagios Project https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560280/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 09:44:49 -0500 Pelagios is a community-driven initiative that facilitates better linkage between online resources documenting the past, based on the places that they refer to. Our member projects are connected by a shared vision of a world – most eloquently described in Tom Elliott’s article “Digital Geography and Classics” (Elliot and Gillies, 2009) – in which…[Read more]

]]> 0 56426f387de1d2971169603d8d61fb75 Elton Barker deposited PAGING THE ORACLE: INTERPRETATION, IDENTITY AND PERFORMANCE IN HERODOTUS' HISTORY in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560236/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 01:02:13 -0500 Herodotus begins his inquiry (‘historia’) into why Greeks and Persians came into conflict with the figure of Croesus, ‘the first man whom we know enslaved Greeks’ – the archetypal eastern despot. In the subsequent narrative of his reign, Herodotus explores the reasons behind Croesus’s actions, and the consequences following on from them, throu…[Read more]

]]> 0 498b0726b2487c24806ff5dfa9dd1003 Elton Barker deposited Flight club: the new Archilochus and its resonance with Homeric epic in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560235/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 01:02:02 -0500 This paper analyses the new Archilochus fragment (POxy. LXIX 4708), which tells the story of Telephos’ rout of the Achaeans, in terms of its resonance with Homeric epic. Where previous scholarship has read Archilochus’ poetry as indebted to and derivative on Homer, we instead use the idea of ‘traditional referentiality’ – the process by which a w…[Read more]

]]> 0 6344ca96ee16a0d82daf23f4c58c637a Elton Barker deposited Momos advises Zeus: changing representations of ‘Cypria’ fragment 1 in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560234/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 01:01:54 -0500 This paper investigates the importance of context for assessing fragment one of the ‘Cypria’, one of the poems belonging to an ‘Epic Cycle’ that – along with the Iliad and Odyssey – told the story of the war at Troy. With the exception of the Homeric epics, these poems come down to us in pieces, in the form of mutilated quotations, assorted te…[Read more]

]]> 0 7dbd15bb5fa16aaecc4f344d2fa90af2 Elton Barker deposited Oedipus of many pains: Strategies of contest in Homeric poetry in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560233/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 01:01:43 -0500 In this paper we analyse Oedipus’ appearance during Odysseus’ tale in book 11 of Homer’s Odyssey in order to outline and test a methodology for appreciating the poetic and thematic implications of moments when ‘extraneous’ narratives or traditions appear in the Homeric poems. Our analysis, which draws on oral-formulaic theory, is offered partly as…[Read more]

]]> 0 d0c8b5334695d21ee81e342f610213ec Elton Barker deposited Entering the Agon: Dissent and authority in Homer, historiography and tragedy in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560232/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 01:01:34 -0500 This book investigates one of the most characteristic and prominent features of ancient Greek literature – the scene of debate or agon, in which with varying degrees of formality characters square up to each other and engage in a contest of words – and sets out for the first time to trace its changing representations through Homeric epic, his…[Read more]

]]> 0 573ea04f9302a707166e8adba9903c8b Elton Barker deposited A Beginner’s Guide to Homer in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560231/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 01:01:26 -0500 In this guide we pick our way through a range of themes and issues that help negotiate the distance between Homer’s time and our own: the question of who, or what, Homer is and how to approach reading his poetry (the Introduction); the epic cosmos that Homer inherits, challenges and changes forever (Ch. 1); the Iliad’s examination of politics thr…[Read more]

]]> 0 508d01bc62a83664c3a212f093370b7e Elton Barker deposited Writing space, living space: time, agency and place relations in Herodotus’s Histories in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560230/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 01:01:25 -0500 This chapter examines lived space in Herodotus’s Histories’ and explores how the picture that emerges differs from abstract depictions of space. Such overly schematic representations we see articulated by the Persians at the very beginning of the Histories, or explicitly challenged by Herodotus when he ‘laughs at’ the maps produced by his Ionian…[Read more]

]]> 0 26b5c7cfb77278012b1e96093758179d Elton Barker deposited Writing space, living space: time, agency and place relations in Herodotus’s Histories in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560229/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 01:01:17 -0500 This chapter examines lived space in Herodotus’s Histories’ and explores how the picture that emerges differs from abstract depictions of space. Such overly schematic representations we see articulated by the Persians at the very beginning of the Histories, or explicitly challenged by Herodotus when he ‘laughs at’ the maps produced by his Ionian…[Read more]

]]> 0 155e148d0604517d1bf747d9fd00b0da Elton Barker deposited Even Heracles Had to Die: Homeric ‘Heroism’, Mortality and the Epic Tradition in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560228/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 01:01:08 -0500 Our purpose in this chapter is not to try to reconstruct the lost epics of Heracles but rather to use the conceptual framework of interformularity and intertraditionality to explore the ways in which the Iliad represents Heracles and makes his tradition speak to the concerns of this narrative. We begin by sketching out the antiquity of Heracles in…[Read more]

]]> 0 be1e0f064078f8de4d2bb1ace8e4e207 Elton Barker deposited Linking early geospatial documents, one place at a time: annotation of geographic documents with Recogito in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560227/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 01:01:07 -0500 Recogito is an open source tool for the semi-automatic annotation of place references in maps and texts. It was developed as part of the Pelagios 3 research project, which aims to build up a comprehensive directory of places referred to in early maps and geographic writing predating the year 1492. Pelagios 3 focuses specifically on sources from…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc4899b798f609ff19137a477c9876b7 Elton Barker deposited Linking early geospatial documents, one place at a time: annotation of geographic documents with Recogito in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560225/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 01:00:55 -0500 Recogito is an open source tool for the semi-automatic annotation of place references in maps and texts. It was developed as part of the Pelagios 3 research project, which aims to build up a comprehensive directory of places referred to in early maps and geographic writing predating the year 1492. Pelagios 3 focuses specifically on sources from…[Read more]

]]> 0 836962ab8c23d8fc6ffc55323c581cee Elton Barker deposited Odysseus’s nostos and the Odyssey’s nostoi: rivalry within the epic cycle in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560224/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 01:00:30 -0500 In this article we explore some of the ways in which our Odyssey engages with other epic homecoming (nostoi) traditions and how they help prepare for and glorify Odysseus’s return home. The process of telling nostoi tales in Ithaca, Pylos and Sparta dramatizes for the audience the selection and presentation of homecoming narratives, whose m…[Read more]

]]> 0 10ec1874c58206e7b6a29ae35b7e82e9 Elton Barker deposited Introduction: Creating new worlds out of old texts in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560223/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 01:00:29 -0500 Despite initial expectations that globalization would eradicate the need for geographical space and distance, “maps matter” today in ways that were unimaginable a mere two decades ago. Technological advances have brought to the fore an entirely new set of methods for representing and interacting with spatial formations, while the ever-increasing…[Read more]

]]> 0 5bcbdedc5b29da58935935f55c0eb375 Elton Barker deposited Introduction: Creating new worlds out of old texts in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560222/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 01:00:18 -0500 Despite initial expectations that globalization would eradicate the need for geographical space and distance, “maps matter” today in ways that were unimaginable a mere two decades ago. Technological advances have brought to the fore an entirely new set of methods for representing and interacting with spatial formations, while the ever-increasing…[Read more]

]]> 0 be766d551046659b04a6b06f5f7c161a Elton Barker deposited Greek Literature, the Digital Humanities, and the Shifting Technologies of Reading in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560221/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 01:00:17 -0500 Contrary perhaps to expectation, Classical studies is at the vanguard of the latest technological developments for using digital tools and computational techniques in research. This article outlines its pioneering adoption of digital tools and methods, and investigates how the digital medium is helping to transform the study of Greek and Latin…[Read more]

]]> 0 4ed5e4e1aa62ccbea1c5a786cd351867 Elton Barker deposited Greek Literature, the Digital Humanities, and the Shifting Technologies of Reading in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560220/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 01:00:06 -0500 Contrary perhaps to expectation, Classical studies is at the vanguard of the latest technological developments for using digital tools and computational techniques in research. This article outlines its pioneering adoption of digital tools and methods, and investigates how the digital medium is helping to transform the study of Greek and Latin…[Read more]

]]> 0 46b11626a0f48d0e8be68e9e2aa68167 Elton Barker deposited PAGING THE ORACLE: INTERPRETATION, IDENTITY AND PERFORMANCE IN HERODOTUS' HISTORY https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560132/ Sun, 29 Jan 2017 13:30:06 -0500 Herodotus begins his inquiry (‘historia’) into why Greeks and Persians came into conflict with the figure of Croesus, ‘the first man whom we know enslaved Greeks’ – the archetypal eastern despot. In the subsequent narrative of his reign, Herodotus explores the reasons behind Croesus’s actions, and the consequences following on from them, throu…[Read more]

]]> 0 56504eab846336d8d7638d68fff96605 Elton Barker deposited Flight club: the new Archilochus and its resonance with Homeric epic https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560131/ Sun, 29 Jan 2017 13:26:02 -0500 This paper analyses the new Archilochus fragment (POxy. LXIX 4708), which tells the story of Telephos’ rout of the Achaeans, in terms of its resonance with Homeric epic. Where previous scholarship has read Archilochus’ poetry as indebted to and derivative on Homer, we instead use the idea of ‘traditional referentiality’ – the process by which a w…[Read more]

]]> 0 4dafe74d4b0097e6c45830e21bdf25ea Elton Barker deposited Momos advises Zeus: changing representations of ‘Cypria’ fragment 1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560129/ Sun, 29 Jan 2017 13:06:19 -0500 This paper investigates the importance of context for assessing fragment one of the ‘Cypria’, one of the poems belonging to an ‘Epic Cycle’ that – along with the Iliad and Odyssey – told the story of the war at Troy. With the exception of the Homeric epics, these poems come down to us in pieces, in the form of mutilated quotations, assorted te…[Read more]

]]> 0 abadfea85942fbab38fb133a34873567 Elton Barker deposited Oedipus of many pains: Strategies of contest in Homeric poetry https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560128/ Sun, 29 Jan 2017 13:03:57 -0500 In this paper we analyse Oedipus’ appearance during Odysseus’ tale in book 11 of Homer’s Odyssey in order to outline and test a methodology for appreciating the poetic and thematic implications of moments when ‘extraneous’ narratives or traditions appear in the Homeric poems. Our analysis, which draws on oral-formulaic theory, is offered partly as…[Read more]

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