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 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.
