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  • Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion

    Author(s):
    Thomas J. Nelson
    Date:
    2022
    Group(s):
    Ancient Greece & Rome
    Subject(s):
    Homer, Iliad (Homer), Allusions, Intertextuality, Iphigenia (Mythological character), Beginning, Classics, Greek literature
    Item Type:
    Article

  • Beating the Galatians: Ideologies, Analogies and Allegories in Hellenistic Literature and Art

    Author(s):
    Thomas J. Nelson
    Date:
    2022
    Group(s):
    Ancient Greece & Rome
    Subject(s):
    Greek literature, Hellenistic, History, Galatians, Gigantomachy (Greek mythology), Callimachus, Seleucids, Ptolemaic dynasty, 305-30 B.C., Lucian, of Samosata
    Item Type:
    Book chapter

  • Intertextual Agōnes in Archaic Greek Epic: Penelope vs. the Catalogue of Women

    Author(s):
    Thomas J. Nelson
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    Ancient Greece & Rome
    Subject(s):
    Homer, Odyssey (Homer), Intertextuality, Allusions, Penelope (Greek mythological character), Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character), Hesiod, Competition
    Item Type:
    Article

  • Archilochus’ Cologne Epode and Homer’s Quivering Spear (fr. 196a.52 IEG2)

    Author(s):
    Thomas J. Nelson
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    Ancient Greece & Rome
    Subject(s):
    Classics, Greek poetry, Archilochus, Allusions, Parody, Homer, Iliad (Homer)
    Item Type:
    Article

  • Repeating the Unrepeated: Allusions to Homeric Hapax Legomena in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry

    Author(s):
    Thomas J. Nelson
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    Ancient Greece & Rome
    Subject(s):
    Classics, Greek literature, Greek poetry, Epic poetry, Greek, Poetry, Drama, Greek drama (Tragedy), Greek drama (Comedy)
    Item Type:
    Book chapter

  • Tragic Noise and Rhetorical Frigidity in Lycophron’s Alexandra

    Author(s):
    Thomas J. Nelson, Katherine Molesworth
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    Ancient Greece & Rome
    Subject(s):
    Classics, Greek literature, Hellenistic, Greek poetry, Hellenistic, Lycophron, Alexandra (Lycophron), Aesthetics, Greek drama (Tragedy)
    Item Type:
    Article

  • The Coma Stratonices: Royal Hair Encomia and Ptolemaic-Seleucid Rivalry?

    Author(s):
    Thomas J. Nelson
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    Ancient Greece & Rome
    Subject(s):
    Greek literature, Hellenistic, Greek poetry, Hellenistic, Classics, Seleucids, Hair, Laudatory poetry
    Item Type:
    Book chapter

  • Achilles’ Heel: (Im)mortality in the Iliad

    Author(s):
    Thomas J. Nelson
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    Ancient Greece & Rome
    Subject(s):
    Greek poetry, Epic poetry, Greek, Poetry, Literature, Mythology, Greek, Mythology, Classical, Mythology, Homer, Iliad (Homer), Achilles (Mythological character)
    Item Type:
    Article

  • Attalid Aesthetics. The Pergamene ‘Baroque’ Reconsidered

    Author(s):
    Thomas J. Nelson
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    Ancient Greece & Rome
    Subject(s):
    Greek poetry, Latin poetry, Poetry, Ancient, Aesthetics
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Attalids, Pergamon, Hellenistic literature, Hellenistic Poetry, Classics, Hellenistic history, Greek and Latin poetry, Ancient Greek poetry, Baroque

  • Metapoetic Manoeuvres Between Callimachus and Apollonius: A Response to Annette Harder

    Author(s):
    Thomas J. Nelson
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    Ancient Greece & Rome
    Subject(s):
    Greek poetry, Latin poetry, Literature, History
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Hellenistic Poetry, Callimachus, Apollonius Rhodius, Metapoetics, Classics, Greek and Latin poetry, Hellenistic history, Literary criticism, Literary history

  • Nicander's Hymn to Attalus: Pergamene Panegyric

    Author(s):
    Thomas J. Nelson
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    Ancient Greece & Rome
    Subject(s):
    Greek literature, Greek poetry, Latin poetry, Greek language
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Pergamon, Attalus, Nicander, Hymn, Encomium, Classics, Greek and Latin poetry, Hellenistic history, Greek language and literature

  • Penelopean Simaetha: A Flawed Paradigm of Femininity in Theocritus’ Second Idyll

    Author(s):
    Thomas J. Nelson
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    Ancient Greece & Rome
    Subject(s):
    Classical literature, Greek literature, Homer, Poetry, Ancient, Greek poetry, Intertextuality
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Homeric allusion, Idyll 2, Penelope, Simaetha, Theocritus

  • ‘Most Musicall, Most Melancholy’: Avian Aesthetics of Lament in Greek and Roman Elegy

    Author(s):
    Thomas J. Nelson
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    Ancient Greece & Rome
    Subject(s):
    Poetry, Ancient, Greek poetry, Latin literature, Aesthetics, Elegiac poetry
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Lament, nightingale, swan, Classics, Ancient Greek poetry, Elegy
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  • Review of C. Tsagalis (ed.) (2017) Poetry in Fragments: Studies on the Hesiodic Corpus and its Afterlife.

    Author(s):
    thomasjnelson
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    Ancient Greece & Rome
    Subject(s):
    Hesiod, Poetry, Ancient, Greek poetry, Greece, History, Ancient
    Item Type:
    Review
    Tag(s):
    Hesiodic fragments, Catalogue of Women, Classics, Ancient Greek poetry, Ancient Greek

  • Review of D. Sider (ed.) (2017) Hellenistic Poetry. A Selection.

    Author(s):
    thomasjnelson
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Ancient Greece & Rome
    Subject(s):
    Poetry, Ancient, Greek poetry
    Item Type:
    Review
    Tag(s):
    Hellenistic Poetry, Ancient Greek poetry, Classics, Hellenistic history

  • The Shadow of Aristophanes: Hellenistic Poetry’s Reception of Comic Poetics

    Author(s):
    thomasjnelson
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    Ancient Greece & Rome
    Subject(s):
    Poetry, Ancient, Greek poetry, Greece, History, Ancient, Comedy, Poetics, Reader-response criticism
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Hellenistic Poetry, Callimachus, Old Comedy, Aristophanes, Ancient Greek poetry, Ancient Greek, Classics, Comedy (genre), Literary reception

  • Erudition and Scholarship in Greek Epigram

    Author(s):
    Thomas J. Nelson
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Ancient Greece & Rome
    Subject(s):
    Greece, History, Ancient, Literature, Literature, Ancient
    Item Type:
    Book section
    Tag(s):
    Epigram, scholarship, Greek Epigram, Erudition, Ancient Greek, Ancient literature, Ancient history

  • Closure in Greek and Roman Epigram

    Author(s):
    Thomas J. Nelson
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Ancient Greece & Rome
    Subject(s):
    Greece, History, Ancient, Latin literature, Literature, Literature, Ancient
    Item Type:
    Book section
    Tag(s):
    Epigram, Closure, Ancient Greek, Ancient literature, Literary theory

  • From Zero to Hero: Jason's Redemption and the Evaluation of Apollonius' Argonautica

    Author(s):
    Thomas J. Nelson
    Date:
    2014
    Subject(s):
    Classical literature, Greek literature
    Item Type:
    Conference paper
    Tag(s):
    Hellenistic Poetry, Argonautica, Apollonius Rhodius, Classical Greek literature, Classics

  • POETRY AND ART FROM ALEXANDER TO AUGUSTUS. Review of P. Linant de Bellefonds et al. (eds.) (2015) D'Alexandre à Auguste.

    Author(s):
    Thomas J. Nelson
    Date:
    2016
    Subject(s):
    Classical antiquities, Greeks--Social life and customs, Civilization, Greco-Roman, Classical literature, Greek literature, Latin literature
    Item Type:
    Review
    Tag(s):
    Hellenistic History, Hellenistic Poetry, Roman Poetry, Hellenistic Art, Roman Art, Classical archaeology, Classical Greek culture, Classical Greek literature

  • Review of S.A. Stephens (2015) Callimachus: the Hymns

    Author(s):
    Thomas J. Nelson
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    Ancient Greece & Rome
    Subject(s):
    Classical literature
    Item Type:
    Review
    Tag(s):
    Callimachus, Hellenistic Poetry, Hymns, Classics

  • SELEUCID SPACE AND IDEOLOGY. Review of P.J. Kosmin (2014) The Land of the Elephant Kings.

    Author(s):
    Thomas J. Nelson
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    Ancient Greece & Rome
    Subject(s):
    Greece, History, Ancient, Greeks--Social life and customs, Civilization, Greco-Roman
    Item Type:
    Review
    Tag(s):
    Hellenistic History, Seleucid History, Ancient Greek history, Ancient history, Classical Greek culture, Classics

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