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Published 2018
Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2018.11.50
Rather than a simple conjunction which might relate two things, the titular ‘and’ from Michael Bennett’s Deleuze and Ancient Greek Physics could well serve as a reminder that any present-day undertaking to think philosophical antiquity is one to be regarded as ‘problematic’ in the sense detailed in the Critique of Pure Reason – that is, ultimately, as proposing something merely possible...
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Published 2018
Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2018.04.28
In concluding his Plotin Lecteur du Platon, Jean-Michel Charrue reprises Theiler’s earlier assessment to ask whether, in the end, Plotinus’ thought yields a “Platonisme intégral ou Plato dimidiatus?”1 For his part Charrue opts for the stronger affinity, explaining that Plotinus “was Platonic by all the fibres of his body”...
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Published 2017
Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2017.05.08
Reflecting on a performance of Euripides he had once seen in London starring Sybil Thorndike, T. S. Eliot recalled in a short piece several years later how although “the performance was certainly a success”, this had little to do with Gilbert Murray’s rendering of the original into English. Indeed, in Eliot’s assessment, “Miss Thorndike, in order to succeed as well as she did, was really engaged in a struggle against the translator’s verse”, since “Professor Murray has simply interposed between Euripides and ourselves a barrier more impenetrable than the Greek language”. In sum, while on that night “the audience was large, it was attentive, and its applause was long…The question remains whether the production was a ‘work of art’”...