Works by Robinson, Matthew (exact spelling)

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    Looking Edgeways. Pursuing Acrostics in Ovid and Virgil.Matthew Robinson - 2019 - Classical Quarterly 69 (1):290-308.
    What follows is an experiment in reading practice. I propose that we read some key passages of theAeneidand theMetamorphosesin the active pursuit of acrostics and telestics, just as we have been accustomed to read them in the active pursuit of allusions and intertexts; and that we do so with the same willingness to make sense of what we find. The measure of success of this reading practice will be the extent to which our understanding of these familiar and well-studied texts (...)
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    Moral Motivation, The Pitfalls of Public Confession, and Another Conversion in Confessions, Book 10.Matthew Robinson - 2023 - Augustinian Studies 54 (2):131-156.
    This article focuses on the unresolved scholarly question of how Confessiones, book 10 should be interpreted, proposing a new explanation as to how and why the second half of book 10 is critically important to this text. Emphasizing important relations between the introductory chapters and the second half of book 10, the article revisits Augustine’s treatment of ambitio saeculi, interpreted as a state of will, with which author Augustine continues to struggle, even during his act of confessing publicly (i.e., in (...)
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  3. Ovid and the Catasterismi of Eratosthenes.Matthew Robinson - 2013 - American Journal of Philology 134 (3):445-480.
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    Competition, Imagery, and Pleasure in Plato’s Republic, 1–9.Matthew Robinson - 2013 - Plato Journal 13:51-75.
    This paper interprets the Republic’s “parallel” imagery of a contest between the lives of the most just and most unjust men as indicating that book 9’s two pleasure arguments are the culmination of the dialogue’s refutation of Thrasymachus’ sophistry. This strategic function of the pleasure arguments explains why Socrates designates the account of the just man’s pleasure the most severe defeat of the unjust man. The article concludes with a brief defense of using the contest imagery as an interpretive aid (...)
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    Eratosthenes (J.) Pàmias, (K.) Geus (edd., trans.) Eratosthenes. Sternsagen (Catasterismi). (Bibliotheca Classicorum 2.) Pp. 258, map. Oberhaid: Utopica Verlag, 2007. Cased, €29.95. ISBN: 978-3-938083-05-. [REVIEW]Matthew Robinson - 2009 - The Classical Review 59 (2):401-.