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José M. González

José M. González

Associate Professor of Classical Studies
Classical Studies
jose.gonzalez@duke.edu
Box 90103, Durham, NC 27708-0103
230 Allen Building, Duke Box 90103, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours Zoom, by appointment.  

Selected Publications

The Aristotelian psychology of tragic mimesis

Chapter · January 1, 2019 This paper argues that the psychology of mimesis presupposed by Poetics 4 is immediately relevant to Aristotle's psychology of tragic mimesis. at 1448b16 involve a cognitive mode characteristic of Aristotelian induction that joins particulars with universa ... Full text Cite

Hesiod and the Disgraceful Shepherds: Pastoral Politics in a Panhellenic Dichterweihe?

Chapter · 2016 I seek to motivate the indiscriminate abuse ("ignoble disgraces, mere bellies") to which the Muses at Hesiod's Dichterweihe subject all "field-dwelling shepherds" with reference to the pastoral politics of the Greek mainland in the archaic and classical pe ... Cite

Hesiod and Homer

Chapter · 2016 Cite

Homer and the Alphabet

Chapter · 2016 Cite

A Diachronic Metapoetics of Reception: Homeric κλέος and Biblical זרע (zera‘)

Chapter · 2015 This article compares two examples (Greek and Hebrew) of what I call the "metapoetics of reception." These are instances in which the composition of a traditional work over the longue durée (here, the Iliad and the Hebrew scriptures) reflects the interacti ... Cite

Introduction: Diachrony in Synchrony

Chapter · 2015 An introduction to the phenomenon of diachronic awareness in the synchronic experience of culture, its institutions, and its artifacts. A historical survey of the scholarship on the subject (especially in the domain of linguistics) is followed by theoretic ... Cite

Diachrony: Diachronic Studies of Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

Book · 2015 Not a few of the more prominent and persistent controversies among classical scholars about approaches and methods arise from a failure to appreciate the fundamental role of time in structuring the interpretation of Greek culture. Diachrony showcase ... Cite

The Epic Rhapsode and His Craft: Homeric Performance in a Diachronic Perspective

Book · 2013 The Epic Rhapsode and His Craft studies Homeric performance from archaic to Roman imperial times. It argues that oracular utterance, dramatic acting, and rhetorical delivery powerfully elucidate the practice of epic rhapsodes. Attention to the ways ... Link to item Cite

The Catalogue of Women and the End of the Heroic Age (Hesiod fr. 204.94–103 MW)

Journal Article TAPA · 2010 The Catalogue of Women supplies the crucial link between Hesiodic poetry and heroic epic. The heroic world of archaic poetry cannot be fully understood without it. But the interpretation of fragment 204 MW, which describes the end of the heroic age, has lo ... Cite