{"product_id":"9780905205571","title":"Greek Music, Drama, Sport, and Fauna: The Collected Classical Papers of E. K. Borthwick","description":"PROFESSOR E. KERR BORTHWICK (1925–2008) studied Classics at Aberdeen University and at Christ’s College Cambridge before being appointed Lecturer, first at the University of Leeds and then, in 1955, at Edinburgh University, where he remained for the rest of his career. He headed the Greek Department at Edinburgh from 1980 until his retirement in 1989 and was appointed to a Personal Chair in Greek in 1983.\u003cp\u003eAncient music and Greek drama were the main focuses of E.K. Borthwick’s academic output, and he had a particular flair for pinpointing, elucidating, and solving textual difficulties. But his interests ranged much further, as the works collected in this volume demonstrate; and his papers intrigue and entertain where a less lively pen might have made the points at issue seem dry and abstruse. Taken together, his articles constitute a stellar example of what a classicist with professional training as a philologist, an inquiring mind, an exact eye for detail, and the ability to communicate enthusiasm, can achieve in a life’s work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume opens with Professor Borthwick’s inaugural lecture on Homer, ‘Odyssean Elements in the Iliad’ (Edinburgh, 1983). The editor, Dr. Calum Maciver, has then arranged Borthwick’s 63 scholarly articles, published between 1959 and 2003, thematically under six headings: Ancient Music, The Pyrrhic Dance, Drama, Zoologica, Ancient Sport, Miscellanea. The volume includes a consolidated bibliography of all works cited, a general index, an index of Greek words, and an index locorum. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA selection of the titles under each of the headings indicates the range and variety of Kerr Borthwick’s scholarship:\u003cbr\u003eAncient Music: Κατάληψις – a Neglected Technical Term in Greek Music\u003cbr\u003eNotes on the Plutarch De Musica and the Cheiron of Pherecrates\u003cbr\u003e‘Music While You Work’ in Philodemus De Musica,\u003cbr\u003eThe Pyrrhic Dance: Trojan Leap and Pyrrhic Dance in Euripides’ Andromache\u003cbr\u003eThe Dances of Philocleon and the Sons of Carcinus in Aristophanes’ Wasps\u003cbr\u003eP. Oxy. 2738: Athena and the Pyrrhic Dance;\u003cbr\u003eDrama: Two Scenes of Combat in Euripides\u003cbr\u003eA Phyllobolia in Aristophanes’ Clouds?\u003cbr\u003eEuripides Erotodidaskalos? A Note on Aristophanes Frogs 957\u003cbr\u003eZoologica: A Grasshopper’s Diet – Notes on an Epigram of Meleager and a Fragment of Eubulus\u003cbr\u003eLimed Reeds in Theocritus, Aristophanes, and Propertius\u003cbr\u003eSeeing Weasels: The Superstitious Background of the Empusa Scene in the Frogs\u003cbr\u003eStarting a Hare: A Note on Machon, Fr. 15\u003cbr\u003eBee Imagery in Plutarch\u003cbr\u003eBees and Drones in Aristophanes, Aelian and Euripides\u003cbr\u003eAncient Sport: The Gymnasium of Bromius – a Note on Dionysius Chalcus, Fr. 3\u003cbr\u003eDeath of a Fighting Cock\u003cbr\u003eThe Cynic and the Statue\u003cbr\u003eMiscellanea: Notes on “The Superstitious Man” of Theophrastus\u003cbr\u003eDio Chrysostom on the Mob at Alexandria\u003cbr\u003eThe Scene on the Panagjurischte Amphora: A New Solution\u003cbr\u003eA Note on Some Unusual Greek Words for Eyes\u003cbr\u003eAristophanes and Agathon: A Contrast in Hair Styles\u003cbr\u003eA ‘Not Too Severe’ Epigram of Gaetulicus\u003cbr\u003eSocrates, Socratics, and the Word Βλεπεδαίμων\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brown, David Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020087345392,"sku":"9780905205571","price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780905205571_p0.jpg?v=1763854469","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780905205571","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}