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Richard Rawles

University of Edinburgh, Classics, Faculty Member

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Books by Richard Rawles

P. Agócs, C. Carey & R. Rawles (eds): Receiving the Komos. Ancient and Modern Receptions of the Victory Ode. London, 2012.

P. Agócs, C. Carey & R. Rawles (eds): Reading the Victory Ode, Cambridge, 2012.

Papers by Richard Rawles

Theoric song and the Rhetoric of Ritual in Aeschylus' Suppliant Women

Andújar, Coward and Hadjimichael (eds), The Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy, Berlin, 2018., 2018

Analysis of chorality, theoric ritual and rhetoric in Aechylus' Supplices.

Lysimeleia (Thucydides 7.53, Theocritus 16.84): what Thucydides does not tell us about the Sicilian expedition

In this paper, it is proposed that the lake Lysimeleia, mentioned by Thucydides in his account of... more In this paper, it is proposed that the lake Lysimeleia, mentioned by Thucydides in his account of the latter part of the Sicilian Expedition and by Theocritus in his encomium of Hieron II of Sicily, is likely to have been a sacred lake to the two goddesses Demeter and Kore. This suggestion is integrated into a way of reading the relevant passages in Thucydides and Theocritus, and its possible implications in the context of early discourses concerning the Athenian campaign at Syracuse are explored. In particular, this episode is read as one which can help us to consider the significance of Thucydides’ tendency to downplay religious aspects of the events he describes and to speculate about what sorts of discourses about the Sicilian Expedition might have circulated among others, who would have been likely to consider such questions very differently.

Aristophanes’ Simonides: Lyric Models for Praise and Blame

E. Bakola, L. Prauscello and M. Telò (eds): Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres (Cambridge 2013), 175-201., 2013

Ibycus and Simonides

P. Agócs, C. Carey and R. Rawles (eds): Reading the Victory Ode (Cambridge, 2012), 3-27., 2012

Eros and Praise in early Greek Lyric

L. Athanassaki and E.L. Bowie (eds): Archaic and Classical Choral Song. Politics, Performance and Dissemination (Berlin, 2011), 139-59., 2011

Simonides fr.11.14 W: “Close-Fighting Danaans"

Mnemosyne 61 (2008), 459-66., 2008

Simonides and Theocritus 4: intertextual readings

Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 59 (2008), 9-34., 2008

Notes on the Interpretation of the 'New Sappho'

Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 157 (2006), 1-7., 2006

Musical Notes on the new anonymous lyric poem from Köln

Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 157 (2006), 8-13., 2006

Homeric Beginnings in the Tattoo Elegy

Classical Quarterly 56 (2006), 486-95., 2006

Simonides and a new papyrus in Princeton

Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 153 (2005), 59-67., 2005

Book Reviews by Richard Rawles

Review of C. Faraone: The Stanzaic Architecture of Early Greek Elegy, Oxford, 2008, in JHS 129 (2009), 136-8.

Review of Andrej Petroviç: Kommentar zu den simonideischen Versinschriften, Leiden, 2007 (Mnemosyne suppl. 282), in CW 102 (2009), 354-5.

Review of Emanuele Lelli: Callimachi Iambi XIV-XVII, Rome, 2005, in CR 58 (2008), 85-6.

(Online publication January 22 2008)

Review of Elizabeth Irwin: Solon and Early Greek Poetry: the Politics of Exhortation, Cambridge, 2005, in JHS 127 (2007), 157-8.

Review of Lawrence M. Kowerski: Simonides on the Persian Wars: a study of the elegiac verses of the “New Simonides,” New York and London, 2005, in JHS 126 (2006), 154-5.

Review of B. Acosta-Hughes: Arion’s Lyre. Archaic lyric into Hellenistic Poetry, Princeton NJ, 2010, in JHS 131 (2011), 189-90.

Review of E. Greene and M. Skinner (eds): The New Sappho on Old Age. Textual and Philosophical Issues, Cambridge Mass., 2009.

Classical Review 61 (2011), 362-5., 2011

P. Agócs, C. Carey & R. Rawles (eds): Receiving the Komos. Ancient and Modern Receptions of the Victory Ode. London, 2012.

P. Agócs, C. Carey & R. Rawles (eds): Reading the Victory Ode, Cambridge, 2012.

Theoric song and the Rhetoric of Ritual in Aeschylus' Suppliant Women

Andújar, Coward and Hadjimichael (eds), The Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy, Berlin, 2018., 2018

Analysis of chorality, theoric ritual and rhetoric in Aechylus' Supplices.

Lysimeleia (Thucydides 7.53, Theocritus 16.84): what Thucydides does not tell us about the Sicilian expedition

In this paper, it is proposed that the lake Lysimeleia, mentioned by Thucydides in his account of... more In this paper, it is proposed that the lake Lysimeleia, mentioned by Thucydides in his account of the latter part of the Sicilian Expedition and by Theocritus in his encomium of Hieron II of Sicily, is likely to have been a sacred lake to the two goddesses Demeter and Kore. This suggestion is integrated into a way of reading the relevant passages in Thucydides and Theocritus, and its possible implications in the context of early discourses concerning the Athenian campaign at Syracuse are explored. In particular, this episode is read as one which can help us to consider the significance of Thucydides’ tendency to downplay religious aspects of the events he describes and to speculate about what sorts of discourses about the Sicilian Expedition might have circulated among others, who would have been likely to consider such questions very differently.

Aristophanes’ Simonides: Lyric Models for Praise and Blame

E. Bakola, L. Prauscello and M. Telò (eds): Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres (Cambridge 2013), 175-201., 2013

Ibycus and Simonides

P. Agócs, C. Carey and R. Rawles (eds): Reading the Victory Ode (Cambridge, 2012), 3-27., 2012

Eros and Praise in early Greek Lyric

L. Athanassaki and E.L. Bowie (eds): Archaic and Classical Choral Song. Politics, Performance and Dissemination (Berlin, 2011), 139-59., 2011

Simonides fr.11.14 W: “Close-Fighting Danaans"

Mnemosyne 61 (2008), 459-66., 2008

Simonides and Theocritus 4: intertextual readings

Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 59 (2008), 9-34., 2008

Notes on the Interpretation of the 'New Sappho'

Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 157 (2006), 1-7., 2006

Musical Notes on the new anonymous lyric poem from Köln

Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 157 (2006), 8-13., 2006

Homeric Beginnings in the Tattoo Elegy

Classical Quarterly 56 (2006), 486-95., 2006

Simonides and a new papyrus in Princeton

Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 153 (2005), 59-67., 2005

Review of C. Faraone: The Stanzaic Architecture of Early Greek Elegy, Oxford, 2008, in JHS 129 (2009), 136-8.

Review of Andrej Petroviç: Kommentar zu den simonideischen Versinschriften, Leiden, 2007 (Mnemosyne suppl. 282), in CW 102 (2009), 354-5.

Review of Emanuele Lelli: Callimachi Iambi XIV-XVII, Rome, 2005, in CR 58 (2008), 85-6.

(Online publication January 22 2008)

Review of Elizabeth Irwin: Solon and Early Greek Poetry: the Politics of Exhortation, Cambridge, 2005, in JHS 127 (2007), 157-8.

Review of Lawrence M. Kowerski: Simonides on the Persian Wars: a study of the elegiac verses of the “New Simonides,” New York and London, 2005, in JHS 126 (2006), 154-5.

Review of B. Acosta-Hughes: Arion’s Lyre. Archaic lyric into Hellenistic Poetry, Princeton NJ, 2010, in JHS 131 (2011), 189-90.

Review of E. Greene and M. Skinner (eds): The New Sappho on Old Age. Textual and Philosophical Issues, Cambridge Mass., 2009.

Classical Review 61 (2011), 362-5., 2011

‘The Danaids of Aeschylus’ Suppliant Women: Chorality, Genre, Ritual and Rhetoric,’ at the conference ‘Paths of Song: Interactions between Greek Lyric and Tragedy,’ UCL, April 2013.

‘Thus Homer and Stesichorus Sang to the Peoples: Simonides and his sources,’ at the conference ‘Simonides Lyricus,’ Cambridge, September 2011.

‘Ibycus and epic,’ at the Classics seminar of the University of Edinburgh, March 2010 and for the Classical Association of Scotland, Glasgow, June 2010.

‘Simonides in Comedy and Comedy in Simonides,’ at the conference ‘Comic Interactions: Comedy across Genres and Genres in Comedy,’ UCL, July 2009 and at a meeting of the Scottish Hellenic Society (Edinburgh), October 2009.

‘Simonides reading Virtue: 579 PMG,’ at the Classics seminar of the University of Glasgow, January 2009, and at St Andrews, February 2011.

‘Simonides and Theocritus 4,’ at the Classics seminar of the University of Manchester, January 2008.

‘Eros and Praise in Early Greek Choral Lyric,’ at the conference ‘Archaic and Classical Choral Song,’ Rethymno, May 2007.

‘Ibycus and Simonides,’ at the conference ‘Epinician,’ UCL/ICS, London, July 2006.

‘The Köln Song Book: the “new Sappho” and another new lyric poem from papyrus,’ at the seminar of the UCL Dept. of Greek and Latin, February 2006.

‘Simonides fr.25 W and the anecdotal tradition,’ at the Greek Literature seminar, ICS, December 2005.

‘Simonides and a new papyrus in Princeton,’ at the Greek Literature seminar, ICS, December 2004.

‘Simonides, Callimachus, Epigram: some cicadas in Greek poetry,’ at the seminar of the UCL Dept. of Greek and Latin, January 2004, and inaugural Turner colloquium, ICS, May 2004.

"Erotic Lyric" in Blackwell Companion to Ancient Sexuality, ed. T. Hubbard, pp. 335-351.

by Bartolo A Natoli and Richard Rawles

Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models

Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2020

Review of this (very good) edited volume, submitted to BMCR