Other
Writings
The following lists my conventionally published humanities
writings in reverse chronological order. For some entries a link is
supplied to the article’s appearance in an internet document service; by
clicking the link you can read the article online provided that your
institution subscribes to the service in question (links updated 4/29/09).
*Book Review of G. R. Boys-Stones and J. H. Haubold, eds., Plato and Hesiod
(
*Book Review of F. Ferrari’s Il migliori dei mondi impossibili:
Parmenide e il cosmo dei Presocratici (Rome, 2010), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.05.16.
*Book Review of S. Austin’s Parmenides and the History of
Dialectic: Three Essays
(
*“Once more on Hesiod’s supposed Tartarus
principle,” Classical World 102 (2009), 159-61. This textual
note on Theogony 116-122 argues that tartara at 119 refers to plural
underground entities overseen by the gods in addition to Mt. Olympus (118), as
opposed to a common view that it means a fourth active world principle called Tartarus or Underworld, in addition to Chasm, Earth and
Love (Project MUSE link here).
*Book Review of J. S. Clay’s Hesiod’s Cosmos (
*Response to Book
Review, “Beall on Mariaud
on Carol Thomas, Finding
People in Early
*Book
Review of
*“Hesiod’s
Treatise on Justice: Works
and Days:
vv. 109-380,”
Classical Journal
101 (2005/06), 161-82 (JSTOR link here; read
summary here).
*“An
Artistic and Optimistic Passage in Hesiod:Works and Days 564-614,” Transactions of the American
Philological Association
135 (2005), 231-47. This article argues the point of its title for the
section of the poem nominally treating spring and summer tasks, as opposed to a
reading that Hesiod advises a life based on drudgery (ProQuest
link here;
Project MUSE link here).
*“Overtures
of the peasant’s poets, and later arias: voiced creatures in Hesiod and
others,” Classical
and Modern Literature
24 (2004), 95-120 (Wilson Humanities link here;
read summary here).
*“Theism
and Mysticism in Hesiod’s Works
and Days,”
History
of Religions
43 (2004), 177-93 (University of Chicago journals online link here;
read summary here).
*“The Plow that Broke the Plain Epic Tradition: Hesiod, Works and Days, vv. 414-503,” Classical Antiquity 23 (2004), 1-32.
This article argues that the section of the poem nominally devoted to plowing
is an allegory of a protagonist pursuing organized productive activity, which
is implicitly compared with the random, destructive life of the epic hero (ProQuest link here).
*“Diogenes
Laertius on Aeschines the
Socratic’s Works,” Hermes 129 (2001), 142-44. This
textual note is reproduced by JSTOR (link here), and is
summarized in the main
archaic philosophy page.
*“Notes
on Hesiod’s Works
and Days,
383-828,” American
Journal of Philology
122 (2001), 155-71; erratum: 123 (2002), 312. This article, only
accessible to those who read Greek, takes positions on 17 issues in construing
the text within the actual “works and days” portion of the poem (JSTOR link here).
*“Hegel and the Milesian ‘Origin of
Philosophy,’” Classical
and Modern Literature
13 (1993), 241-56. This article is summarized in the main archaic
philosophy page.
*“Hesiod’s
Prometheus and Development in Myth,” Journal of the History of Ideas 52 (1991), 355-71 (JSTOR link here; read
summary here).
*“The
Contents of Hesiod’s Pandora Jar: Erga 94-98,” Hermes 117 (1989), 227-30. This
textual note constitutes one example of a dissident tradition among scholars
whereby the ancients did not think Pandora released evils from the “box,” but
rather good things that thereby became unavailable to humans (JSTOR link here).
*“Syntactical
Ambiguity at Taittirīya Upaniṣad 2.1,” Indo-Iranian Journal 29 (1986), 97-102. This
article is summarized in the main archaic
philosophy page.
*“The
Role of EPΓA 42-46,” Classica et Mediaevalia 36 (1985), 7-19. This
article offers a reading of a particularly puzzling segment of Works and Days.