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51. Cover Cover (pp. C1-C4)Classical Antiquity 28 (1): 39-70. 2009.This article focuses on a set of problems involving a controversial portion of the HHA that describes the performance of the Delian chorus in a rare instance of early performance criticism. First, the two variants for a key noun in line 162, bambaliastus and krembaliastus, are discussed. Skepticism is expressed about the applicability to this scene of the first variant. On the contrary, krembaliastus——the suitability of which has not been discussed in detail, even by scholars who seem to have fa…Read more
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9Sparta's Prima Ballerina: Choreia In Alcman's Second PartheneionClassical Quarterly 57 (2): 351-362. 2007.
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83Mixed Pleasures, Blended Discourses: Poetry, Medicine, and the Body in Plato's Philebus 46-47cClassical Antiquity 21 (1): 135-160. 2002.In Plato's Philebus the last section of the discussion on the falseness of pleasure is dedicated to those pleasures intrinsically mixed with pain. This paper focuses specifically on bodily mixed pleasures, an analysis that extends from 44d to 47c, while its focal point is 46-47c. By adopting the anti-hedonists' methodology, Socrates cunningly transforms his entire analysis of bodily mixed pleasures into a discourse on human disease, in which medical terminology prevails. Two major points are mad…Read more
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58Choreia and Aesthetics in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo: The Performance of the Delian MaidensClassical Antiquity 28 (1): 39-70. 2009.This article focuses on a set of problems involving a controversial portion of the HHA that describes the performance of the Delian chorus in a rare instance of early performance criticism. First, the two variants for a key noun in line 162, bambaliastus and krembaliastus, are discussed. Skepticism is expressed about the applicability to this scene of the first variant . On the contrary, krembaliastus—the suitability of which has not been discussed in detail, even by scholars who seem to have fa…Read more
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5Performance and Culture in Plato's Laws (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2013.This volume is dedicated to an intriguing Platonic work, the Laws. Probably the last dialogue Plato wrote, the Laws represents the philosopher's most fully developed views on many crucial questions that he had raised in earlier works. Yet it remains a largely unread and underexplored dialogue. Abounding in unique and valuable references to dance and music, customs and norms, the Laws seems to suggest a comprehensive model of culture for the entire polis - something unparalleled in Plato. This ex…Read more
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7Frontiers of Pleasure: Models of Aesthetic Response in Archaic and Classical Greek ThoughtOxford University Press. 2012.Frontiers of Pleasure calls into question a number of influential modern notions regarding aesthetics by going back to the very beginnings of aesthetic thought in Greece and raising critical issues regarding conceptions of how one responds to the beautiful. Despite a recent rebirth of interest in aesthetics, extensive discussion of this key cluster of topics has been absent. Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi argues that although the Greek language had no formal term equivalent to the "aesthetic," the not…Read more
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34Sparta's prima ballerina: Choreia in alcman's second partheneion (3 pmgf)Classical Quarterly 57 (02): 351-362. 2007.
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13Music and the Muses. The Culture of Mousikê in the Classical Athenian CityJournal of Hellenic Studies 125 174-175. 2005.
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