Some Recent Articles

 

On Classicism and the Classical Ideal

The Materiality of Classical Studies (from Parallax 2003)

Hearing Voices: The Herculaneum Papyri and Classical Scholarship, forthcoming in Antiquity Recovered: The Legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum, edited by Victoria Coates and Jonathan Seydl (Malibu: The Getty Museum) [Winckelmann meets Epicureanism in the flesh. And is not at all pleased.]

Homer: The Very Idea (Arion, 2002)

What is 'Classical' about Classical Antiquity? Eight Propositions (Arion, 2005)

Herculaneum in the History of Art (on Winckelmann's encounter with Herculaneum, published in issue 3 of Herculaneum Archaeology). [a short and slightly edited version of "Hearing Voices," above]

See also this Modest Proposal

 

On Things Ancient

Patterns of Perception in Aeschylus (Cabinet of the Muses: essays on classical and comparative literature in honor of Thomas G. Rosenmeyer, edited by Mark Griffith and Donald J. Mastronarde (Atlanta 1990) 31-56.)

Sounds You Cannot Hear (in French, on Cicero, Philodemus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Longinus [from Clara Auvray-Assayas and Daniel Delattre, eds., Cicéron et Philodème: La polémique en philosophie. 2001, 315-41.])

Lucretius and the Poetics of Void (from Le Jardin Romain, ed. A. Monet, Lille, 2002) [self-explanatory]

Epicurean Attachments (from Cronache Ercolanesi 2003) [what connects life, pleasure, beauty, friendship, and divinity? Epicurus replies.]

Love of Life from Erotikon, ed. Shadi Bartsch and Thomas Bartscherer, Chicago 2005.

Vergil's Voids (from Before Subjectivity? Lacan and the Classics, ed. JIP and Mark Buchan, Helios 2004.)

Introduction to Before Subjectivity? Lacan and the Classics.

 

On Nietzsche

Unconscious Agency in Nietzsche (Nietzsche-Studien, 1998)

Nietzsche et les charmes de la métaphysique: 'La logique du sentiment' (Revue Germanique Internationale, 1999)

 

Less Recent Things

Saussure and Derrida on the Figure of the Voice, MLN 1986.

 

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