Background
Lateiner, Donald was born on June 1, 1944 in New Rochelle, New York, United States. Son of Alfred and Mary Elizabeth (Klein) Lateiner.
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In Sardonic Smile, Donald Lateiner examines every major variety of Homeric nonverbal behavior, especially those found in the Odyssey. Noting differences from modern gestures and attending to variation that results from gender, age, and status, Lateiner explores the "silent language" and "what goes without saying" among the heroes Odysseus, Telemakhos, and Penelope--but also the savage Kyklops, the suitors, and the servants. No previous work has thoroughly analyzed nonverbal behavior in Homeric epic. Gesture and posture, conscious and unconscious manipulation of space and time, and involuntary "leakage," such as twitching and shivering, can intensify and underline--or contradict and ironize--the speech of characters and hexameter narrative. A Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1995. "An important contribution to Homeric studies." --Choice "Sardonic Smile opens up new dimensions for the study of ancient literature; one may predict that analysis of the nonverbal 'parallel texts' will become increasingly common as a result of the important study." --Walter Donlan, Classical Journal Donald Lateiner is John R. Wright Professor of Greek and Humanities, Ohio Wesleyan University. He is the author of The Historical Method of Herodotus and has written and lectured widely on nonverbal behavior in antiquity.
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Herodotus was the first writer in the West to conceive the value of creating a record of the recent past. He found a way to co-ordinate the often conflicting data of history, ethnology, and culture. The Historical Method of Herodotus explores the intellectual habits and the literary principles of this pioneer writer of prose. Donald Lateiner argues, against the perception that Herodotus' work seems amorphous and ill organized, that the Histories contain their own definition of historical significance. He examines patterns of presentation and literary structure in narratives, speeches, and direct communications to the reader, in short, the conventions and rhetoric of history as Herodotus created it. This rhetoric includes the use of recurring themes, the relation of speech to reported actions, indications of doubt, stylistic idiosyncrasies, frequent reference to nonverbal behaviours, and strategies of opening and ending. Lateiner shows how Herodotus sometimes suppresses information on principle and sometimes compels the reader to choose among contending versions of events. His inventories of Herodotus' methods allow the reader to focus on typical practice, not misleading exception. In his analysis of the structuring concepts of the Histories, Lateiner scrutinizes Herodotean time and chronology. He considers the historian's admiration for ethnic freedom and autonomy, the rule of law, and the positive values of conflict. Despite these apparent biases, he argues, the text's intellectual and moral preferences present a generally cool and detached account from which an authorial personality rarely emerges. The Historical Method of Herodotus illuminates the idiosyncrasies and ambitious nature of a major text in classics and the Western tradition and touches on aspects of historiography, ancient history, rhetoric, and the history of ideas.
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Lateiner, Donald was born on June 1, 1944 in New Rochelle, New York, United States. Son of Alfred and Mary Elizabeth (Klein) Lateiner.
AB, University of Chicago, 1965; AM, Cornell Univercity, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1972.
Lecturer, San Francisco State College, 1969; assistant professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1972-1979; assistant professor, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, 1979-1982; associate professor, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, 1982-1987; professor Humanities-Classics, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, since 1987. John R. Wright professor Greek Ohio Wesleyan University.
( In Sardonic Smile, Donald Lateiner examines every major...)
( Herodotus was the first writer in the West to conceive ...)
Member League of Women Voters, American Civil Liberties Union, American Philological Association, Classical Association of Midwest and South (program committee 1989-1992), Hellenic Society, Archeological Institute American (president Columbus, Ohio chapter 1991-1994), Friends of Ancient History (president 1983).
Married E. Marianne Gabel, July 2, 1976. Children: Ulysses, Abraham.