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Volume 47

Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of World Authors from Classical Antiquity through the Fourteenth Century, from the First Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Elisabeth Gellert Jelena O. Krstovic´

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Acknowledgments

The editors wish to thank the copyright holders of the excerpted criticism included in this volume and the permissions managers of many book and magazine publishing companies for assisting us in securing reproduction rights. We are also grateful to the staffs of the Detroit Public Library, the Library of Congress, the University of Detroit Mercy Library, Wayne State University Purdy/Kresge Library Complex, and the University of Michigan Libraries for making their resources available to us. Following is a list of the copyright holders who have granted us permission to reproduce material in this volume of CMLC. Every effort has been made to trace copyright, but if omissions have been made, please let us know.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS IN CMLC, VOLUME 47, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

American Journal of Philology, v. 106, 1985; v. 109, Spring, 1998. Copyright © 1985, 1998 The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Australian Journal of Philosophy, v. 75, September, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Classical Antiquity, Vol. 15, October 1996 for “XPDNC/Writing Caesar” by John Henderson; Vol. 18, October 1999 for “The Rhetoric of Combat: Greek Military Theory and Roman Culture in Julius Caesar’s Descriptions” by

J. E. Lendon. © 1996, 1999 by the Regents of the University of California. Reprinted by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—Classical Journal, v. 89, December-January 1994; v. 95, February-March, 2000. Reproduced by permission. —Classical Philology, v. 83, July, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by The University of Chicago. Reproduced by permission.—The Explicator, v. 51, Fall, 1992. Copyright © 1992 Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Reproduced with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802.—The Humanist, v. 59, January-February, 1999. Copyright 1999 by the American Humanist Association. Reproduced by permission.—Latomus: Revue D’Etudes Latines, v. 11, 1952; v. 40, October-December 1981. Reproduced by permission.—MLN, v. 110, January 1995. © 1995 by The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission. —New Literary History, v. 16, Autumn, 1984. © 1984 by The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Philosophy, v. 65, April, 1990 for “Democritus and the Impossibility of Collision” by Raymond Godfrey. © copyright 1990 by The Journal of Philosophy, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press and the author.—Speculations in Science and Technology, v. 21, March, 1998 for “Democritus—Scientific Wizard of the 5th Century BC” by Robert L. Oldershaw. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, v. 32, Winter, 1992. © 1992 The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, v. 6, Fall 1981. © 1981 by Studies in Twentieth Century Literature. Reproduced by permission.—Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, v. 97, 1966. Reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS IN CMLC, VOLUME 47, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Barnes, Jonathan. From The Presocratic Philosophers: Volume 2: Empedocles to Democritus. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. © Jonathan Barnes 1979. Reproduced by permission.—Brumbaugh, Robert S. From The Philosophers of Greece. Thomas Y. Crowell, 1964. Copyright © 1964 by Robert S. Brumbaugh.—Cameron, Alister. From The Identity of Oedipus the King: Five Essays on the Oedipus Tyrannus. New York University Press, 1968. © 1968 by New York University Press. Used by permission of New York University Press.—Fergusson, Francis. From The Idea of a Theater: A Study of Ten Plays: The Art of Drama in Changing Perspective. Princeton University Press, 1949. Copyright, 1949, by Princeton University Press. Renewed 1976 by Francis Fergusson. Renewed 1977 by Princeton University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Griffith, R. Drew. From The Theatre of Apollo: Divine Justice and Sophocles’ Oedipus the King. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996. © McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996. Used by permission.—Harris, Edward M. From Aeschines and Athenian Politics. Oxford University Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 Edward M. Harris. Reproduced by permission.—Havelock, Eric A. From The Liberal Temper in Greek Politics. Yale University Press, 1964. Reproduced by permission.—Hussey, Edward. From The Presocratics. Duckworth, 1972. Copyright © 1972 by Edward Hussey. Reproduced by permission of Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd.—McKirahan, Richard D. From Philosophy before Socrates: An Introduction with Texts and Commentary. Hackett Publishing Company, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Meier, Christian. From “Caesar and the War as Reflected in His Commentaries,” in Caesar. Translated from the German by David McLintock. BasicBooks, 1996. Copyright © 1982 by

Christian Meier. Reproduced by permission of Perseus Books Group.—Nill, Michael. From Morality and Self-Interest in Protagoras, Antiphon and Democritus. E. J. Brill, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. Reproduced by permission. —Ringer, Mark. From Electra and the Empty Urn: Metatheater and Role Playing in Sophocles. The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998 the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher.—Segal, Charles. From Sophocles’ Tragic World: Divinity, Nature, Society. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Harvard University Press.—Taylor, C.C.W. From The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus. University of Toronto Press, 1999. © University of Toronto Press Incorporated 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Yavetz, Zwi. From Julius Caesar and His Public Image. Cornell University Press, 1983. Used by permission of Cornell University Press.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN CMLC, VOLUME 47, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

A theater production still for “Oedipus the King” by Sophocles. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.—Aeschines, bust, Hall of Philosophers at the Palazzo Nuovo, Rome, photograph. © Massimo Listri/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Caesar, Gaius Julius, painting. The Library of Congress.—Caesar, Julius (bust), photograph. The Library of Congress.—Democritus, engraving. Getty Images. Reproduced by permission.—Sophocles (bust), sculpture. Corbis-Bettman. Reproduced by permission.

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