Papers by Stephen Kershner
Body and Soul in Ancient Greece and Rome: Selected Essays from the Eighth Interdisciplinary Symposium on theHellenic Heritage of Sicily and Southern Italy. eds: Jurgen R. Gatt, Samatha Newington, Michaela Senkova. Parnassos Press – Fonte Aretusa. , 2024
Conflict and Competition: Agon in Western Greece, 2020
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Teaching Classical Languages, 2019
This article presents a method for developing and practicing both close reading skills and compos... more This article presents a method for developing and practicing both close reading skills and compositional skills as used in an undergraduate Latin Prose Composition course. By using contemporary popular music, students can learn how to recognize, comprehend, and use as a basis for analysis rhetorical and literary devices found in Latin poetry as well as poetic compositional style. When students translate popular songs that they know and understand into Latin and then analyze them according to basic philological processes, they are able to remove barriers to understanding deriving from cultural differences between the Roman world and their modern world. Further, this assignment also offers a solution to the critical problem that many students have no facility with poetic analysis of poetry in their native language. In addition to seeing extensive development of philological methods in students performing this assignment, results were also seen in advanced reading Latin courses in the form of better class discussion and more mature term papers.
The Medieval Cultures of the Irish Sea and the North Sea, 2019
Classicist Stephen Kershner, using the lens of Statius and the tradition of Roman epic, finds mea... more Classicist Stephen Kershner, using the lens of Statius and the tradition of Roman epic, finds meaningful patterns in what the medieval Irish translator of the Thebaid kept and didn't keep of the Roman poet's sensitive framing of the story of the Seven against Thebes. In simultaneously embracing and distancing itself from its Latin source, this Middle Irish text reveals the long-lasting impact of Statius on the literature of early Ireland, Britain, and the Western Middle Ages in general.
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Papers by Stephen Kershner