Callimachus and Catullus in a Quest for Liberty

Although studies of Callimachus’s crucial influence upon Catullus abound, my thesis purports to provide new insights to an old question. I argue that Callimachus bequeaths a quest for liberty to Catullus. Each of the three chapters devotes its Greek half to one aspect of this Callimachean quest and its Latin half to the way in which Catullus Romanises such a pursuit. Specifically, in chapter 1, I submit that through the combination of two metaphors in the Reply to the Telchines (namely Μοῦσα λεπταλέη and σχοῖνος Περσίς) Callimachus stakes his claim to poetic freedom. Thereafter, I propose that Catullus’s decided adoption of Callimachean λεπτότης through the word lepos does not merely amount to the espousal of a poetic tenet. Rather, it heralds his infringement of the mos maiorum thanks to the social overtones of lepos even if, as poem 16 illustrates, Catullus is aware of his contemporaries’ malevolent reactions. Subsequently, in chapter 2, I set forth that Callimachus refuses to abide by the principle of τὸ πρέπον, which governs the convenient relationship between subject-matter and linguistic register. Thereupon, I propound that Catullus embraces Callimachus’s rebelliousness against the criterion of τὸ πρέπον. In so doing, despite the anxieties about his own attitude, which he voices in the last stanza of poem 51, Catullus conveys his own politically charged noncompliance with two staples of Roman seemliness (honestum otium and utilitas of the written fruits of leisure). Then, in chapter 3, I maintain that Callimachus masterfully succeeds in blending encomiastic poetry in praise of members of the Ptolemaic court with assertions of his poetic excellence. Finally, I put forward that, in his carmina addressed to socially superior individuals, Catullus absorbs and bolsters the Callimachean heritage: he reciprocates respect with poetic gifts and retaliates arrogance by means of vitriolic abuse

Life-writing in the History of Archaeology

Life-writing is a vital part of the history of archaeology, and a growing field of scholarship within the discipline. The lives of archaeologists are entangled with histories of museums and collections, developments in science and scholarship, and narratives of nationalism and colonialism into the present. In recent years life-writing has played an important role in the surge of new research in the history of archaeology, including ground-breaking studies of discipline formation, institutionalisation, and social and intellectual networks. Sources such as diaries, wills, film, and the growing body of digital records are powerful tools for highlighting the contributions of hitherto marginalised archaeological lives including many pioneering women, hired labourers and other ‘hidden hands’. This book brings together critical perspectives on life-writing in the history of archaeology from leading figures in the field. These include studies of archive formation and use, the concept of ‘dig-writing’ as a distinctive genre of archaeological creativity, and reviews of new sources for already well-known lives. Several chapters reflect on the experience of life-writing, review the historiography of the field, and assess the intellectual value and significance of life-writing as a genre. Together, they work to problematise underlying assumptions about this genre, foregrounding methodology, social theory, ethics and other practice-focused frameworks in conscious tension with previous practices

Perceptions of power in the contemporary american novel

Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, 1996.Este estudo tenta delinear como o poder - tanto institutional quanto representacional - é percebido na ficção norte-americana do período pós-guerra até o presente. O trabalho examina romancistas representativos e analisa uma série de trabalhos individuais dentro de seu conteúdo histórico. Na primeira parte, teorias sócio-políticas sobre o poder fornecem o suporte teórico para detectar como o poder é visto nos romances. A segunda parte discute o romance político pós-guerra, Gore Vidal e Norman Mailer, entre outros. Constata-se que uma percepção de poder Weberiana (adversarial) de poder por parte dos romancistas da segunda parte é substuída por uma visão Foucaltiana (poder insidiosamente filtrado) por parte dos romancistas da terceira parte, o que corresponde a transformação da sociedade contemporânea, sua política e cultura no capitalismo multinacional, durante e depois dos anos 60

Crime in verse: the poetics of murder in the Victorian era

(print) xii, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cmIntroduction -- Murder, execution, and the criminal classes -- The murderous subject and the criminal sublime -- "Household law" and the domestication of murderItem embargoed for five year

The Ethical Obligation for Disclosure of Medical Error in the Intensive Care Unit

The very facts that humans are fallible and that they are integrally involved in the delivery of healthcare and medical treatment guarantee that medical errors will occur despite the best of training, skills and vigilance, precautions, or preventive procedures. While medical errors occur across the spectrum of care and treatment, the propensity for their occurrence and the severity of the damage they are likely to inflict are undeniably greatest in the hospital intensive care unit (ICU). The fundamentals of biomedical ethics require nothing less than a thorough systematic analysis of the sources of error in the ICU, along with a comprehensive, coordinated approach to preventing error to the extent humanly possible and to handling and mitigating the effects of error whenever they do occur. Through the chapters of this dissertation, the research and analysis has provided the following: 1) a detailed account, to the extent that it has been documented, of the high frequency of errors occurring in the U.S. in general and specifically in hospital intensive care units, as well as the range and extent of the harm done to patients and family members, both physically and financially; 2) a classification and analysis of the proximate, intermediate and ultimate causes of and contributing factors to medical errors, which in addition to identifying causation has formed the basis for this dissertation’s recommendations aimed at developing procedures and protocols to effectively reduce errors to the greatest degree possible while minimizing their harmful impact; 3) an in-depth analysis of expectations, grounded in biomedical ethics, for dealing with the consequences of medical errors including disclosure and communication, the expectations of patients and family members, the attitudes and concerns of medical professionals, the disconnect between these two groups, and recommendations for procedures and protocols to ensure prompt, complete, and just handling of all consequences of the error; 4) an in-depth framework, based on Western religious and cultural foundations, for both those responsible for and those injured by medical errors to interact in handling the consequences of the error, as well as all of the communication which it engenders; and 5) proposals for numerous procedures and protocols, both for lessening the vulnerability of hospital ICU patients to suffering the effects of an error and for addressing and counteracting the variety of systemic problems which create or heighten the propensity for the occurrence of medical errors

Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Discovery, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity

This dissertation analyzes the paradigms Christian writers (150-500 C.E.) used to array, historicize, and polemicize ethnographic data. A study of late antique heresiological literature (orthodox treatises about heretics) demonstrates how the religious practices, doctrinal beliefs, and historical origins of heretics served to define Christian schematizations of the world. In studying heretics, Christian authors defined and ordered the bounds of Christian knowledge and the process by which that knowledge was transmitted

The Cultural Contradictions of Cryptography

This dissertation examines the origins of political and scientific commitments that currently frame cryptography, the study of secret codes, arguing that these commitments took shape over the course of the twentieth century. Looking back to the nineteenth century, cryptography was rarely practiced systematically, let alone scientifically, nor was it the contentious political subject it has become in the digital age. Beginning with the rise of computational cryptography in the first half of the twentieth century, this history identifies a quarter-century gap beginning in the late 1940s, when cryptography research was classified and tightly controlled in the US. Observing the reemergence of open research in cryptography in the early 1970s, a course of events that was directly opposed by many members of the US intelligence community, a wave of political scandals unrelated to cryptography during the Nixon years also made the secrecy surrounding cryptography appear untenable, weakening the official capacity to enforce this classification. Today, the subject of cryptography remains highly political and adversarial, with many proponents gripped by the conviction that widespread access to strong cryptography is necessary for a free society in the digital age, while opponents contend that strong cryptography in fact presents a danger to society and the rule of law. I argue that cryptography would not have become invested with these deep political commitments if it had not been suppressed in research and the media during the postwar years. The greater the force exerted to dissuade writers and scientists from studying cryptography, the more the subject became wrapped in an aura of civil disobedience and public need. These positive political investments in cryptography have since become widely accepted among many civil libertarians, transparency activists, journalists, and computer scientists who treat cryptography as an essential instrument for maintaining a free and open society in the digital age. Likewise, even as opponents of widespread access to strong cryptography have conceded considerable ground in recent decades, their opposition is grounded in many of the same principles that defined their stance during cryptography’s public reemergence in the 1970s. Studying this critical historical moment reveals not only the origins of cryptography’s current politics, but also the political origins of modern cryptography

Performing Interpersonal Violence Court, Curse, and Comedy in Fourth-Century BCE Athens

This book offers the first attempt at understanding interpersonal violence in ancient Athens. While the archaic desire for revenge persisted into the classical period, it was channeled by the civil discourse of the democracy. Forensic speeches, curse tablets, and comedy display a remarkable openness regarding the definition of violence. But in daily life, Athenians had to draw the line between acceptable and unacceptable behavior. They did so by enacting a discourse on violence in the performance of these genres, during which complex negotiations about the legitimacy of violence took place. Since discourse and reality were intertwined and the discourse was ritualized, actual violence might also have been partly ritualized. By still respecting the on-going desire to harm one’s enemy, this partial ritualization of violence helped restrain violence and thus contributed to Athens’ relative stability

Northeastern Illinois University, Academic Catalog 2019-2020

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UMSL Bulletin 2018-2019

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