Department of Classics

Emeritus Thomas D. Worthen

Research Interests:

Publications:

The Myth of Replacement: Stars, Gods, and Order in the Universe. (University of Arizona Press 1991)
English Words from Latin and Greek Elements (D. M. Ayers 2nd edn. rev.). The University of Arizona Press
"Pneumatic Action in the Klepsydra and Empedocles' Account of Breathing," Isis 61 (1970), 520-30
"XEIPIAN: Ajax 494-95," Classical Philology 69 (1975),116
"The Idea of 'Sky' in Archaic Greek Poetry: en de ta teirea panta, ta t' ouranos estephanotai. Iliad 18.485," Glotta LXVI.1-2 (1988), 1-19
"Eclipses by the Semester," The Griffith Observer 57.6 (June 1993), 14-19
"The Pleiades and the Hesperides: Finding Parity with an Astronomical Key," Vistas in Astronomy 39 (1995), 539-45
"Herodotus's Report on Thales's Eclipse," Electronic Antiquity vol. 3.7 (May 1997), http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/V3N7/worthen.html
Sokrates and Aristodemos, the automatoi agathoi of the Symposium: Gentlemen go to parties on their own say-so," New England Classical Journal 26.5 (1999), 15-21


		Emeritus Thomas D. Worthen tdw1203@cox.net Research Interests: Early Astronomic Science and Lore and Its Relation to Mythology Demokritos and Greek Science Ancient Greek Publications: The Myth of Replacement: Stars, Gods, and Order in the Universe. (University of Arizona Press 1991) English Words from Latin and Greek Elements (D. M. Ayers 2nd edn. rev.). The University of Arizona Press "Pneumatic Action in the Klepsydra and Empedocles' Account of Breathing," Isis 61 (1970), 520-30 "XEIPIAN: Ajax 494-95," Classical Philology 69 (1975),116 "The Idea of 'Sky' in Archaic Greek Poetry: en de ta teirea panta, ta t' ouranos estephanotai. Iliad 18.485," Glotta LXVI.1-2 (1988), 1-19 "Eclipses by the Semester," The Griffith Observer 57.6 (June 1993), 14-19 "The Pleiades and the Hesperides: Finding Parity with an Astronomical Key," Vistas in Astronomy 39 (1995), 539-45 "Herodotus's Report on Thales's Eclipse," Electronic Antiquity vol. 3.7 (May 1997), http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/V3N7/worthen.html Sokrates and Aristodemos, the automatoi agathoi of the Symposium: Gentlemen go to parties on their own say-so," New England Classical Journal 26.5 (1999), 15-21 Classics Home
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