Papers by Christian Kopff
Oxford University Press eBooks, Feb 1, 2000
BRILL eBooks, Nov 21, 2022
Studi italiani di filología classica, 1992
American Journal of Philology, 1990
... 319 Page 3. E. CHRISTIAN KOPFF says: "I wrote the Knights along with Baldy and gave it t... more ... 319 Page 3. E. CHRISTIAN KOPFF says: "I wrote the Knights along with Baldy and gave it to him as a gift."8 Baptae is usually dated 416 or 415 for reasons summarized by Paul Geissler.9 The play concerned nocturnal orgies in honor of the Thracian goddess, Cotyto. ...
Anq-a Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews, Jul 1, 2009
On May 12, 1962, General Douglas MacArthur traveled to West Point to receive the Silvanus Thayer ... more On May 12, 1962, General Douglas MacArthur traveled to West Point to receive the Silvanus Thayer Award. He thought enough of the speech he delivered that day to conclude his book of memoirs, Reminiscences, with it (423–26). This note addresses two problems in interpreting what has become known as his “Farewell Address”: First, was it improvised? Second, did MacArthur accurately quote Plato’s views on war? In his memoirs, MacArthur prefaced the speech with the words “I had no prepared address, but my remarks were recorded as follows” (423); his wife Jean recalled, “He didn’t have a note” (Duffy and Carpenter 115); and Laurence S. Wittner states that the speech was “delivered extemporaneously” (65). I have called it “the greatest improvised oration in American literature” (Kopff 24). When William Manchester discussed the farewell address in his biography of MacArthur, however, he disagreed emphatically and influentially:
Oxford University Press eBooks, Feb 1, 2000
American Journal of Philology, 1993
Antigone’s language is explained by Griffith’s insightful note on 473–96 (204): Creon “refers to ... more Antigone’s language is explained by Griffith’s insightful note on 473–96 (204): Creon “refers to Antigone in the third person throughout.” He will treat Haemon the same way, as Griffith notes on 726–65 (247). Antigone uses a distinctive Greek idiom to counter Creon’s attempt to reduce her to an object. What more powerful ending could a great tragedian create for this magnificent scene than the high drama of the play’s two principal characters confronting one another line for line? It is better drama than Creon bantering words with a foil like Ismene or the chorus leader. Griffith’s Antigone gives students the information they need to understand the play’s language and action. It adds original insights to scholarly debates and provokes the reader to come to terms personally with a great play. It should be judged a success.
American Journal of Philology, 2001
basis of her relationship to Paris, or that this connection is germane to the theme of the play. ... more basis of her relationship to Paris, or that this connection is germane to the theme of the play. These bare summaries do little justice to the details of Belfiore’s argument. Her book exhibits the manifold ways in which kinship and other bonds subtend the plots of Greek tragedy, and confirms Aristotle’s insight that violence within the family is most suited to eliciting the tragic emotions of pity and fear.
Classical Philology, Oct 1, 1981
Classical Philology, 1977
Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies, Mar 2, 1976
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Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies, Jun 5, 1977
Philologus, 1976
Sunt geminae Somni portae, quorum aitera fertur cornea, qua veris facüis datur exitus umbris, ait... more Sunt geminae Somni portae, quorum aitera fertur cornea, qua veris facüis datur exitus umbris, aitera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto, sed falsa ad caelum mittunt insomnia Manes, his ibi tum nalum Anchises unaque Sibyüam prosequitur dictis portaque emittit eburna, Me viam secai ad navis sociosqtte revisit. (Aeneid 6. 893-899) Servius (ad 6. 893) is straightforward: podice apertus est sensus: vuU autem intelligi falsa esse omnia quae dixit. Since late antiquity the passage has been seen as an allegory of the body or the soul 1 ; as a reference to rites of initiation 2 ; as an assertion that the sixth book is the record of a dream 3 ; or as a place where Vergil is affirming, like Plato in the great myths, the truth of the substance of his vision, not of its details 4. The reigning theory was long that of William Everett, who observed that in popular myth true dreams occur after, false dreams before midnight 5. The Ivory Gate was the only one open when Aeneas and the Sibyl wanted to leave Hades before midnight. Many have accepted this explanation, even Eduard Norden 6. J. J. Bray has forcibly stated the principal objection: "Poets do not run the risk of the simple reader assuming that he is being told not to believe a word of what 1 Convenient summaries of opinion are given by H. E.
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