Poets and Lawmakers

2021 ◽  
pp. 203-244
Author(s):  
Ioannis Ziogas
Keyword(s):  
Founding Father ◽  
Roman Poet ◽  
Ars Amatoria ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Trial Setting

This chapter argues that Ovid’s didactic elegy (Ars amatoria) should be studied in the tradition of the genre’s founding father, Hesiod. The relationship between law and didacticism is encoded already in Hesiod’s Works and Days and continues thereafter in Greek elegy (Theognis and Solon). Ovid is part of this tradition. The courtroom setting, to which Ovid has repeated recourse, reproduces the trial setting of the Works and Days. Not unlike Hesiod, Ovid aims at an out-of-court settlement in contrast with the litigiousness of corrupt lords. Hesiod and Solon cast themselves as champions of justice in a world dominated by unjust rulers. Subtly but clearly, this is how Ovid envisages the relationship between his poetry and the laws of Augustus. The Roman poet aligns himself with the old and authoritative voices of legendary bards and lawgivers in competition with powerful leaders who attempt to control the juridical order.

Comedies of Tough Love

2018 ◽  
pp. 503-519
Author(s):  
Joanne Diaz
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Much Ado About Nothing ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Love's Labour's Lost ◽  
The One ◽  
Ars Amatoria ◽  
The Relationship

Shakespeare’s comedies feature characters who are always open to the possibilities of Ovidian transformation, and in four comedies in particular—Two Gentlemen of Verona, Taming of the Shrew, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Much Ado about Nothing—the transformation can be a painful one. This chapter surveys these four comedies in order to understand the relationship between teaching and taming. I engage with recent Shakespeare criticism that foregrounds the importance of Ovid’s work to the rhetorical practices of Tudor-era grammar schools. I also draw upon readings of Ovid’s Heroides, Ars Amatoria, and Metamorphoses in order to articulate a vision of a pedagogical enterprise that on the one hand privileged translation and transformation and on the other hand attempted to regulate the bodies of Tudor schoolboys. In doing so, I explore the complex Ovidian engagements that produced knowledge of the body and of relationships in Shakespeare’s culture and on his stage.

scholarly journals Microsaccades reflect the dynamics of misdirected attention in magic

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony S. Barnhart ◽  
Francisco M. Costela ◽  
Susana Martinez-Conde ◽  
Stephen L. Macknik ◽  
Stephen D. Goldinger
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Ecological Validity ◽  
Spatial Location ◽  
Covert Attention ◽  
Attentional Processes ◽  
Match To Sample ◽  
Magic Trick ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Trial Setting

The methods of magicians provide powerful tools for enhancing the ecological validity of laboratory studies of attention. The current research borrows a technique from magic to explore the relationship between microsaccades and covert attention under near-natural viewing conditions. We monitored participants’ eye movements as they viewed a magic trick where a coin placed beneath a napkin vanishes and reappears beneath another napkin. Many participants fail to see the coin move from one location to the other the first time around, thanks to the magician’s misdirection. However, previous research was unable to distinguish whether or not participants were fooled based on their eye movements. Here, we set out to determine if microsaccades may provide a window into the efficacy of the magician’s misdirection. In a multi-trial setting, participants monitored the location of the coin (which changed positions in half of the trials), while engaging in a delayed match-to-sample task at a different spatial location. Microsaccades onset times varied with task difficulty, and microsaccade directions indexed the locus of covert attention. Our com-bined results indicate that microsaccades may be a useful metric of covert attentional processes in applied and ecologically valid settings.

Love and Incest

2021 ◽  
pp. 346-383
Author(s):  
Ioannis Ziogas
Keyword(s):  
Founding Father ◽  
The Law ◽  
Marriage Laws ◽  
Ars Poetica ◽  
Ars Amatoria

This chapter starts by discussing Orpheus as a figure who combines the roles of the archetypal poet and lawgiver (Horace, Ars Poetica 391–401; Ovid, Metamorphoses 10–11). While in Horace the legendary bard institutes marriage laws, in Ovid he is the founding father of pederasty. Orpheus’ version of the myth of Myrrha (a daughter who fell in love with her father) re-evaluates the prohibition on incest as the origin of the law of the father. Myrrha’s love is an attempt to appropriate patria potestas by challenging the father’s power to say no to incest. What is more, the myths of Orpheus and Myrrha resonate with Augustan Rome: Orpheus bears more than fleeting similarities to the teacher of the Ars amatoria; Cinyras and Myrrha recall Augustus and Julia, a resemblance that opens the gap between the intention of the law of the pater patriae and its undesirable effects.

scholarly journals Wealthy Women and Legacy Hunters in Late Imperial Rome

2012 ◽  
Vol 67 (03) ◽  
pp. 431-452
Author(s):  
Elke Hartmann
Keyword(s):  
Single Women ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Roman Poet ◽  
Imperial Rome ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Roman Society ◽  
Childless Women ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the historical value of poetical texts, such as the Roman poet Martial’sEpigrams, with regard to the relationship betweencaptatores(legacy hunters) and wealthy, often elderly single women. By comparing the provisions and limits of private law, common practices of acquisition, and wealth management in Roman society during the first and second centuries AD with the behavioral patterns elaborated in poetic texts, this article demonstrates that the theme of legacy hunting was not a mere literarytopos, but a scenario based on models of gender and age in addition to the values associated with them. Unmarried and childless women of the elite could be depicted as very wealthy and powerful due to their ability to establish personal relationships through the transmission of their wealth. Martial’s perception of the modes of communication and interaction between female testari-ces and male legacy hunters are interpreted as reflections of male experiences of belittlement.

Anthropology, History and Personal Narratives: Reflections on Writing ‘African Voices, African Lives’

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 283-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pat Caplan
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Founding Father ◽  
The Relationship

Almost half a century ago, the famous British anthropologist Evans-Pritchard suggested that anthropology is actually a form of historiography, thus initiating a debate about the relationship between the two disciplines which has continued sporadically ever since. His statement was a reaction to the claims of Radcliffe-Brown, a founding ‘father’ of British social anthropology, that social anthropology was a kind of science, whereas Evans-Pritchard sought to claim it for the humanities.

scholarly journals The Luck Egalitarianism of G.A. Cohen - A Reply to David Miller

SATS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Albertsen
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Distributive Justice ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Luck Egalitarianism ◽  
Founding Father ◽  
Textual Evidence ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Luck Egalitarian

AbstractThe late G.A. Cohen is routinely considered a founding father of luck egalitarianism, a prominent responsibility-sensitive theory of distributive justice. David Miller argues that Cohen’s considered beliefs on distributive justice are not best understood as luck egalitarian. While the relationship between distributive justice and personal responsibility plays an important part in Cohen’s work, Miller maintains that it should be considered an isolated theme confined to Cohen’s exchange with Dworkin. We should not understand the view Cohen defends in this exchange as Cohen’s considered view. Accepting this thesis would change both our understanding of Cohen’s political philosophy and many recent luck egalitarian contributions. Miller’s argument offers an opportunity to reassess Cohen’s writings as a whole. Ultimately, however, the textual evidence against Miller’s argument is overwhelming. Cohen clearly considers the exchange with Dworkin to be about egalitarianism as such rather than about the best responsibility-sensitive version of egalitarianism. Furthermore, Cohen often offers luck egalitarian formulations of his own view outside of the exchange with Dworkin and uses luck egalitarianism as an independent yardstick for evaluating principles and distributions.

The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
Roman Poet ◽  
Translation Practice ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
French Culture ◽  
Cultural Movements ◽  
Fresh Perspective ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Transitional Time

Seventeenth-century France saw one of the most significant ‘culture wars’ Europe has ever known. Culminating in the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, this was a confrontational, transitional time for the reception of the classics. This study explores responses to the life of the ancient Roman poet, Ovid, within this charged atmosphere. To date, criticism has focused on the reception of Ovid’s enormously influential work in this period, but little attention has been paid to Ovid’s lives. Through close analysis of a diverse corpus, which includes prefatory Lives, novels, plays, biographical dictionaries, poetry, and memoirs, this study investigates how the figure of Ovid was used to debate literary taste and modernity and to reflect on translation practice. It shows how the narrative of Ovid’s life was deployed to explore the politics and poetics of exile writing; and to question the relationship between fiction and history. In so doing, this book identifies two paradoxes: although an ancient poet, Ovid became key to the formulation of aspects of self-consciously ‘modern’ cultural movements; and while Ovid’s work might have adorned the royal palaces of Versailles, the poetry he wrote after being exiled by the Emperor Augustus made him a figure with which to question the relationship between authority and narrative. This study not only nuances understanding of both Ovid and life-writing in this period, but also offers a fresh perspective on classical reception: its paradoxes, uses, and quarrels.

Ranke: History as Worship

1980 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-555
Author(s):  
M. A. Fitzsimons
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Founding Father ◽  
Patron Saint ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical History ◽  
The Relationship

Notoriously history has two principal meanings: the past itself and the historian's presentation of the results of his inquiry into it. When the latter meaning is examined, it is evident that, for all of his stance of common sense and matter-of-factness, the historian encounters his profession's form of the problem of knowledge. How and why does he select his sources? What is the validity or truth of his account? What is the relationship between fact and generalization? Does his avowed or unconscious motivation affect the historian's search, selection and presentation? Does his form of presentation affect his use of facts and his judgment?Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886), modern founding father of critical history and patron saint of devourers of archives, raised these questions and responded to them. His masterly histories of Reformation Germany, Prussia, England, France and the papacy were esteemed as the fruit and vindication of his method. In England and the United States, however, the method was identified with a few slogans and injunctions: history is primarily a study of politics and foreign policy; return to or search out the sources; evaluate them and prize, above all, the sources that present the testimony of participants and eyewitnesses; strive simply to tell things as they actually happened. So to reduce Ranke's position is intellectual primitivism, a primitivism that persisted because attempts to discuss the problem of historical knowledge were ignored or derided as futile.

scholarly journals The Retransmission of Rumor and Rumor Correction Messages on Twitter

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (7) ◽  
pp. 707-723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alton Y. K Chua ◽  
Cheng-Ying Tee ◽  
Augustine Pang ◽  
Ee-Peng Lim
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Source Credibility ◽  
Negative Binomial Regression ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Founding Father ◽  
Message Type ◽  
Binomial Regression ◽  
The Relationship

This article seeks to examine the relationships among source credibility, message plausibility, message type (rumor or rumor correction) and retransmission of tweets in a rumoring situation. From a total of 5,885 tweets related to the rumored death of the founding father of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew, 357 original tweets without an “RT” prefix were selected and analyzed using negative binomial regression analysis. The results show that source credibility and message plausibility are correlated with retransmission. Also, rumor correction tweets are retweeted more than rumor tweets. Moreover, message type moderates the relationship between source credibility and retransmission as well as that between message plausibility and retransmission. By highlighting some implications for theory and practice, this article concludes with some limitations and suggestions for further research.

Interstellar gas in the central region of the Galaxy

1967 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 239-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. J. Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Central Region ◽  
Galactic Plane ◽  
Neutral Hydrogen ◽  
Continuum Emission ◽  
Galactic Centre ◽  
Interstellar Gas ◽  
Hydrogen Recombination ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Centre Region ◽  
The Relationship

A review is given of information on the galactic-centre region obtained from recent observations of the 21-cm line from neutral hydrogen, the 18-cm group of OH lines, a hydrogen recombination line at 6 cm wavelength, and the continuum emission from ionized hydrogen.Both inward and outward motions are important in this region, in addition to rotation. Several types of observation indicate the presence of material in features inclined to the galactic plane. The relationship between the H and OH concentrations is not yet clear, but a rough picture of the central region can be proposed.

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