Helen Van Noorden
2021
Noorden, Helen Van; Marlow, Hilary; Pollmann, Karla
Eschatology in antiquity: forms and functions Book
Routledge, 2021, ISBN: 9781138208315.
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abstract = {This collection of essays explores the rhetoric and practices surrounding views on life after death and the end of the world, including the fate of the individual, apocalyptic speculation and hope for cosmological renewal, in a wide range of societies from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Byzantine era. The 42 essays by leading scholars in each field explore the rich spectrum of ways in which eschatological understanding can be expressed, and for which purposes it can be used. Readers will gain new insight into the historical contexts, details, functions and impact of eschatological ideas and imagery in ancient texts and material culture from the twenty-fifth century BCE to the ninth century CE. Traditionally, the study of “eschatology” (and related concepts) has been pursued mainly by scholars of Jewish and Christian scripture. By broadening the disciplinary scope but remaining within the clearly defined geographical milieu of the Mediterranean, this volume enables its readers to note comparisons and contrasts, as well as exchanges of thought and transmission of eschatological ideas across Antiquity. Cross-referencing, high quality illustrations and extensive indexing contribute to a rich resource on a topic of contemporary interest and relevance. Eschatology in Antiquity is aimed at readers from a wide range of academic disciplines, as well as non-specialists including seminary students and religious leaders. The primary audience will comprise researchers in relevant fields including Biblical Studies, Classics and Ancient History, Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Art History, Late Antiquity, Byzantine Studies and Cultural Studies. Care has been taken to ensure that the essays are accessible to undergraduates and those without specialist knowledge of particular subject areas.},
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This collection of essays explores the rhetoric and practices surrounding views on life after death and the end of the world, including the fate of the individual, apocalyptic speculation and hope for cosmological renewal, in a wide range of societies from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Byzantine era. The 42 essays by leading scholars in each field explore the rich spectrum of ways in which eschatological understanding can be expressed, and for which purposes it can be used. Readers will gain new insight into the historical contexts, details, functions and impact of eschatological ideas and imagery in ancient texts and material culture from the twenty-fifth century BCE to the ninth century CE. Traditionally, the study of “eschatology” (and related concepts) has been pursued mainly by scholars of Jewish and Christian scripture. By broadening the disciplinary scope but remaining within the clearly defined geographical milieu of the Mediterranean, this volume enables its readers to note comparisons and contrasts, as well as exchanges of thought and transmission of eschatological ideas across Antiquity. Cross-referencing, high quality illustrations and extensive indexing contribute to a rich resource on a topic of contemporary interest and relevance. Eschatology in Antiquity is aimed at readers from a wide range of academic disciplines, as well as non-specialists including seminary students and religious leaders. The primary audience will comprise researchers in relevant fields including Biblical Studies, Classics and Ancient History, Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Art History, Late Antiquity, Byzantine Studies and Cultural Studies. Care has been taken to ensure that the essays are accessible to undergraduates and those without specialist knowledge of particular subject areas.
2019
Noorden, Helen Van
Didactic and Apocalyptic Turns: Clarity and Obscurity, Homer and Hesiod in the Sibylline Oracles Journal Article
In: Didactic Poetry of Greece, Rome and Beyond: Knowledge, Power, Tradition, pp. 179-202, 2019.
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This chapter offers a fresh perspective on issues of authority and accessibility, which are central to the didactic poetic traditions rooted in archaic Greek epic, through an examination of a text less well known to classicists: the extant corpus of Sibylline Oracles, in which are incorporated various forms of didaxis. These oracles were composed and re-edited by Jews and Christians from the 2nd century BCE onwards, but ascribed to the Sibyl, a pagan prophetess. They are presented in Greek hexameters, but draw on the content and diction of Jewish and Christian scripture as well as on those of Homer, Hesiod and later pagan authors. They offer a blend of world history, eschatology and ethical exhortation, ostensibly directed to various nations, and are introduced by their anonymous late antique Christian compiler as morally edifying to read. Yet their fluctuations of tone and their deployment of multiple internal addressees may be felt to undermine their capacity to teach, even if we adopt an interpretation of the text which privileges some tones and some addressees over others. Placing the Sibylline Oracles alongside more familiar didactic poems in Greek and Latin which urge their readers towards a certain outlook, I highlight in both arenas a tension between approaches of ethical or practical instruction, a mode which presumes the agency of the listeners or readers to act on clear prompts, and of ‘apocalyptic’revelation, which hectors a powerless audience with a vision of an unconditional future, often in coded language.
2018
Noorden, Helen Van
Hesiod Transformed, Parodied, and Assaulted Book Chapter
In: Loney, Alexander C; Scully, Stephen (Ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Hesiod, 2018.
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2015
Noorden, Helen Van
Playing Hesiod Book Chapter
In: pp. 350 pages, Cambridge University Press, 2015, ISBN: 9781139019347.
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2014
Noorden, Helen Van
Hesiod’s races and your own: Socrates’ Hesiodic project Book Chapter
In: Chapter 3, pp. 176-200, Oxford University Press, 2014.
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abstract = {This chapter approaches the question of Hesiod’s importance for Plato by reassessing the use of ‘Hesiod’s races’ in the Republic. Critical evaluations of the ways in which Platonic philosophia itself ‘invokes, confronts and absorbs poetic texts’(Halliwell 2000, 95) have often begun from the discussion of mimesis in Republic Book 10, in which Socrates2 seems to have nothing to say about Hesiod that distinguishes him from Homer,‘leader and teacher of the tragedians’(eg 595c1–3). 3 By focusing on a different section of Socrates’ dialogue with Glaucon and Adeimantus, however, this chapter aims to show why it is insufficient merely to bracket Hesiod with Homer in his importance for Plato’s construction of ‘philosophical’discourse. },
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2012
Noorden, Helen Van
Historiography Journal Article
In: The Classical Review, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 390-392, 2012, ISBN: 978-0-7156-3833-0.
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2011
Noorden, Helen Van
Aratus Book Chapter
In: Oxford University Press, 2011.
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2009
Noorden, Helen Van; Harder, MA; Regtuit, RF; Wakker, GC
Aratus’ Maiden and the Source of Belief Journal Article
In: Nature and Science in Hellenistic Poetry, pp. 255-275, 2009.
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Noorden, Helen Van
further, he is recognized both for his poetic skill and as a scientific Journal Article
In: Nature and Science in Hellenistic Poetry, vol. 15, pp. 255 Pages, 2009.
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abstract = {16-17). 3. For Callimachus, Apollonius and Nicander, see respectively Asper (this volume: 2–6) and Sistakou (this volume: 194); Hatzimichali (this volume: 29). For an overview of the Latin translations and of Aratus' influence on Ovid, cf. Gee (2000); on Virgil's use of Aratus in the Georgics, cf. first Kidd (1997) 41-43). 4. Extant comments on Aratus' poetic skill begin with Callimachus' Epigram 27 Pf. Lewis (1992) argues that the poem's popularity is best explained by its use as an astronomical textbook. For papyrological evidence of this, see Cribiore (2001) 142-143 nn. 56-57). 5. Cf. Hatzimichali (this volume: 38–39) on the multifaceted reception of Nicander in antiquity.},
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16-17). 3. For Callimachus, Apollonius and Nicander, see respectively Asper (this volume: 2–6) and Sistakou (this volume: 194); Hatzimichali (this volume: 29). For an overview of the Latin translations and of Aratus' influence on Ovid, cf. Gee (2000); on Virgil's use of Aratus in the Georgics, cf. first Kidd (1997) 41-43). 4. Extant comments on Aratus' poetic skill begin with Callimachus' Epigram 27 Pf. Lewis (1992) argues that the poem's popularity is best explained by its use as an astronomical textbook. For papyrological evidence of this, see Cribiore (2001) 142-143 nn. 56-57). 5. Cf. Hatzimichali (this volume: 38–39) on the multifaceted reception of Nicander in antiquity.
2007
Noorden, Helen Van
Reading Hesiod's' myth of the races' in Classical Antiquity Book
University of Cambridge, 2007, ISBN: 9781316190364.
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