publications and talks

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Donna Shalev
Publication List, Updated October 2014 (followed by CV)
1. D.Phil. Thesis:
[1] D. Goldberg, Studies in the Language of Menander (vii + 304 pages + appendices;
unpublished).
Topics: Part I: The Perfect. Part II: Hyperbaton.
Supervisor: Peter G. McC. Brown (Trinity College, University of Oxford)
Submitted: 30.9.96. Approved: 19.6.97.
Unpublished.
2. Books
3. Books Edited
Prior to last appointment
[2] L. Sawicki – D. Shalev (eds.), (2002). Donum Grammaticum. Studies in Latin and
Celtic Linguistics in Honour of Hannah Rosén. Peeters: Louvain - Paris - Sterling,
Virginia. 410pp incl. index.
[3] M. Ben-Sasson - R. Brody - A. Lieblich - D. Shalev (eds.), (2010) Canonization
and Genizah. Magnes: Jerusalem (Hebrew). 500 pp.
After last appointment
[*] Scripta Classica Israelica volumes for 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
4. Chapters and Articles in Collections
Prior to last appointment
[4] D. Shalev (1998) “Vocatives in Responses: A Bridging Mechanism in Dialogue
Exchange?” in: B. García-Hernández (ed.), Estudios de lingüística latina, Madrid:
Ediciones Clásicas, 765-779. (Peer reviewed.)
[5] D. Shalev (2001). “A Pattern of Agent Expression in Non-Active and Non-Personal
Expressions in Latin” in: Cl. Moussy (ed.), De lingua latina novae quaestiones, Peeters:
Louvain - Paris - Sterling Virginia, 583-596. (Peer reviewed.)
[6] L. Sawicki – D. Shalev (2002) “Perfects and Exclamatives” in: L. Sawicki – D.
Shalev (eds.), Donum Grammaticum. Studies in Latin and Celtic Linguistics in Honour
of Hannah Rosén. Peeters: Louvain - Paris - Sterling, Virginia, 299-306.
[7] D. Shalev (2003) “Yes (and No) in Ancient Literary Greek” in: M. Bondi – S. Stati
(eds.), Dialogue Analysis 2000, Tübingen: Niemeyer, 351-360 (Peer reviewed).
[8] D. Shalev (2005) “Economy of Information in Ancient Greek Comic Dialogue” in:
A. Betten et al. (eds.), Dialogue Analysis IX. Dialogue in Literature and the Media.
Selected Papers, 39-50 (Peer reviewed).
[9] D. Shalev (2010) “First Inventor as Canonical Founding Figure in Greek Culture:
Protagoras, Controversy, and Rivalry of Protoi Heuretai” in: M. Ben-Sasson et al.
(eds.), Genizah and Canonization, 351-383. [Hebrew] (some interface with #19, with
more emphasis on a wider range of sources in Arabic awa'il literature, and addition of
discussion on Walter Burleigh, Nietzsche, and priority conflict in invention narratives).
[10]D. Shalev (2011) “Theory of Discourse in Ancient Sources” in: M. Blondheim, M.
Hamo, T. Liebes (eds.), Discourse/s: Media, Message, Meaning (Besod Siach: Media,
Maba'im, Mashma'ut), 102-117. [Hebrew] (some interface with #20, but with a heavy
emphasis on modern discourse theory) (Peer reviewed).

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After last appointment
[11] D. Shalev (2011) “Plato in Arabic: Features of Language and Format in the
Medieval Arabic Translations of Dialogue Passages from the Republic” in: Y. Maschler
et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 25th and 26th Annual Meetings (2009-2010), v. XVIII,
On the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Passing Away of Haiim B. Rosén,
Founder of the Israeli Linguistic Society, 116-131. [Hebrew]. (Hebrew, with basis of
part of #26).
[12] D. Shalev (2012) “Smitten with love-mania: Popular Romantic Literary Tradition
and Other Literary Traditions in a Hermetic Visionary Recital” in: M. Niehoff, M.
Meroz, J. Garb (eds.), Festschrift in Honour of Yehuda Liebes, 101-119. [Hebrew]
(some of the material, here accessible only to readers of Hebrew, is brought in English
into the broader discussion in #25, more elaborate and expanded with many additional
sources and directions) (Peer reviewed).
5. Articles in Refereed Journals:
Prior to last appointment
[13] D. Shalev (1998), Review of E. Dickey, Greek Forms of Address From Herodotus
to Lucian (Oxford: 1996). Scripta Classica Israelica, xvii, 235-238.
[14] D. Shalev (2001) “Illocutionary Clauses Accompanying Questions in Greek
Drama and in Platonic Dialogue”. Mnemosyne, n.s. 4, vol. liv/5, 531-561.
[15] D. Shalev (2001), Review of S. Colvin, Dialect in Aristophanes. The Politics of
Language in Ancient Greek Literature (Oxford: 1999). Scripta Classica Israelica, xx,
275-282.
[16] D. Shalev (2002) “Exclamatory Sentences, Intonation, and the Verbs -clama- vs.
Neutral verba dicendi”. Papers on Grammar, VIII, 229-260.
[17] D. Shalev (2005) “Action Nouns in Reports of Speech”. Papers on Grammar, IX,
1-14.
[18] D. Shalev (2006) “Heliodorus' Speakers: Multiculturalism and Literary Innovation
in Conventions for Framing Speech”. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 49,
175-201.
[19] D. Shalev (2006) “The Role of εὑρἠματα in the Lives of Diogenes Laertius, and
Related Literature”. Hermes, 134/3, 309-337. (some interface with #9, but in English,
with 5 page conspectus of invention passages, and elaboration of philological and
literary argument, biographical and sympotic literature).
[20] D. Shalev (2008) “Speech Act Theory, and Ancient Sources for the Division of
λὀγος”. Papers on Grammar, X, 243-275. (Continuation to #10, but in English, and
geared to philologists, richer and more varied sources, and discussion of Medieval
Arabic materials and many new questions and elaborations).
After last appointment
[21] D. Shalev (2011) “Mimēsis, Dihēgēsis, Style: Socrates’ Paraphrase in Plato
Republic 393d8-394a6 of Homer Iliad 1.11-42”. Papers on Grammar, XI, 233-272.
[22] D. Shalev (2012) “Diagnostics of Altered Mental States: From Euripides' Bacchae
to Medieval Arabic Texts”. Scripta Classica Israelica, xxxi, 161-183.
[23] D. Shalev (2013) “Prorsus as a Response Formula in Ficino’s Latin: Plato, Gorgias
513d6-514d2”. Journal of Latin Linguistics, 12 (1), 123-136.
[24] D. Shalev (2013) Review of Leonardo Tarán and Dimitri Gutas Aristotle Poetics
Editio Maior of the Greek Text with Historical Introductions and Philological
Commentaries (Leiden: 2012) Scripta Classica Israelica, xxxii, 265-272.

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[25] D. Shalev (2014) “Muḍṭariban maǧnūnan: A Case of Phraseology and Evolving
Motifs of Literary and Medical Love-Sickness in the Tale of Salāmān and Absāl”.
Arabica 61, issues 3-4, 219-251. (Some common ground with #12, but in English;
extensive elaborations and additions, including Platonic materials and medieval Arab
medical sources).
[26] D. Shalev (Accepted) “Linguistic Features in Medieval (and Other) Arabic
Translations of Plato: Dialogue Technique and Abstraction”, Arabic Sciences and
Philosophy, 52 pp. (English expansion and reworking of #11 for abstraction; section on
dialogue technique mainly new).
[27] D. Shalev (In Press) “Observations on the Notion and Application of Oratio
Obliqua in Literary Classic Greek, with Special Reference to Drama and Plato”.
Linguarum Varietas, 30 pp.
[28] D. Shalev (2015) “Socrates Playing with Meletus: the Pedigree, Birth, and Afterlife
of a Chreia”. Journal of Latin Linguistics 14/1. 127-153.
[29] D. Shalev (2015) “Collected Papers on Greek into Latin in the Context of
Translation Movements in Antiquity”. Scripta Classica Israelica 34. 227-245.
6. Participation in Scientific Conferences, Lectures, and Other Activity:
Prior to last appointment
[1] May 1992, Jerusalem: ‘Euphemism in Menander’ [in Hebrew], (Israel Society for
the Promotion of Classical Studies Annual Conference). (lecture)
[2] February, 1997, Yale University: ‘The Perfect in Narrative’. Classics Seminar
lecture
[3] April, 1997, Madrid: ‘Vocatives in Responses: A Bridging Mechanism in Dialogue
Exchange?’ (9th International Conference of Latin Linguists). (lecture)
[4] May, 1998, Tel Aviv: ‘Verse-Break in Attic Drama and the Term Antilabe’ [in
Hebrew], (Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies Annual Conference).
(lecture)
[5] April, 1999, Paris: ‘A Pattern of Agent Expression in Non-Active and Non-Personal
Expressions in Latin’, (10th International Colloquium of Latin Linguists). (lecture)
[6] May, 2000, Jerusalem: ‘Heliodorus’ Speakers’, [Hebrew] Hebrew University
Classics Seminar (year on Ethnography) (lecture)
[7] June, 2000, Bologna: ‘Yes and No in Classical Greek Literary Dialogue Texts’,
(Conference of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis). (lecture)
[8] July, 2000, Jerusalem: ‘On Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq’s translation of Theomnestus’
Hippiatrica’ (From Jahiliyya to Islam: International Colloquium). (response)
[9] June, 2001, Bar Ilan ‘Cultural Norms and Codes for Conversation in Classical Greek
Sources’ [in Hebrew] (Conference of the Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies
in Israel) (lecture).
[10] June, 2001, Amsterdam, ‘Verbs as Cues for Exclamatory Sentences: Exclamo et
al., Inquam et al.’, (11th
International Colloquium of Latin Linguists) (lecture).
[11] June, 2001, Amsterdam. ‘Textual Conventions, Discourse Stages, and
Grammatical Form: Directives in Prescriptive Passages’ (contribution to Workshop on
Discourse Cohesion in Latin).
[12] June, 2001, Amsterdam prepared response to another contribution (Ego sum
Amphitruo: Der Satztyp “Selbstidentifikation”) in the Workshop on Discourse
Cohesion in Latin.
[13] September, 2001, Yale. English version of [9] at Interdepartmental Seminar
(lecture).

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[14] January, 2002, Philadelphia. ‘Traditional Grammars and the Syntax of Literary
Dialogue Texts’ (Meeting of the American Philological Association) (lecture, invited
to panel on new approaches to Greek Grammar ‘Life After Smyth’).
[15] May, 2002, Jerusalem. ‘Survival of Greek Literary Texts’ (Scholion Forum on
Genizah and Canon) (lecture, and mediated discussion).
[16] June, 2002, Jerusalem ‘Plato adapts Homer: from Mimetic to Diegetic Narrative’
[Hebrew]. Hebrew University Classics Dept. seminar (year on Sources and
Adaptations) (lecture).
[17] March, 2003, London. Expanded version of [13] (= [9], but in English) with
literary as well as theoretical sources (Institute of Classical Studies Greek Literature
Seminar) (lecture).
[18] April, 2003, Salzburg. ‘Indirectness in Ancient Greek Comedy’ (Conference of the
International Association of Dialogue Analysis) (lecture).
[19] April, 2003, Salzburg. Chair and respondent of session on discourse markers in
dialogue in Latin (Conference of the International Association of Dialogue Analysis).
[20] June, 2003, Bologna. ‘The Verbal Noun in Reports of Speech’ (12th
International
Colloquium of Latin Linguists) (lecture).
[21] June, 2004, Jerusalem, ‘New Under the Sun? Discourse Theory in Antiquity’
[Hebrew] (Discourse and Discourses: Media, Message, Meaning. International
Conference in Honour of Prof. Shoshana Blum-Kulka) (invited lecture).
[22] June 2004, Jerusalem, ‘Solomonic Images in the Literary-Cultural Tradition in
Antiquity’ [Hebrew] (A Temple of Stone and Shrines of Words: King Solomon and his
Cultural Image: An Academic Cabaret) (joint lecture with Dr.
Oded Ir-Shai).
[23] Jan. 2005, Jerusalem, ‘Language and Translation as Factors and Symptoms of
Canonization, Selection, Nachleben: Reception, Survival, and Popularity’ [Hebrew].
Canon and Genizah Group Seminar, Scholion (public lecture).
[24] March 2005, Jerusalem, (with Prof. Amiah Lieblich) ‘What is Classical?’
[Hebrew]. Canon and Genizah Group Seminar, Scholion (public lecture and mediated
discussion).
[25] June 2005, Jerusalem, ‘πρῶτος εὑρετής: First Inventor as Founding Figure among
the Greeks: The Cases of Protagoras and Pythagoras in Diogenes Laertius' Lives of the
Philosophers’ [Hebrew]. Canon and Genizah Culminating Conference, Scholion
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Jewish Studies (lecture) (some overlap with
talk [26] but exclusively on Greek sources, and on priority conflict in the formats of
invention narratives).
[26] May 2006, Jerusalem, ‘Integration of Invention Passages in Diogenes Laertius'
Composition Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, and in Germane Texts in the Arabic
Tradition’ [Hebrew]. Classics Department Seminar (lecture) (some overlap of topic
with talk [25], but presenting Arabic sources, and Walter Burleigh).
[27] May 2007, Jerusalem, ‘The Arabic Translation of Plato's Story of Gyges and the
Ring’ [Hebrew]. (Conference of the Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies in
Israel (lecture).
After last appointment
[28] June 2008, Jerusalem, ‘Katabasis in Plato and Its Later Manifestations in Medieval
Arabic Sources’ [Hebrew]. (Annual Conference on Ancient Cultures and Literatures
'Katabasis', Humanities Faculty, Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

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[29] July 2008, Jerusalem, ‘Didactic Setting in Socratic Dialogue, Formal Transition,
and Reference to Format in Arabic Accounts of Plato's Oeuvre’ (Paideia and Scripture
Workshop, Institute for Advanced Study, Jerusalem).
[30] October 2008, Tel Aviv, ‘ 'Yes' in Ancient Greek: The Expression 'nai' in Attic
Comedy and its Place in the Language System and in Theory’ (Conference to Honour
Netta Zagagi, Tel Aviv University) (talk [36] below is an English version with
elaborations).
[31] February 2009, Jerusalem ‘On the Text of Aristotle's Poetics and its Fate in the
Arab Middle Ages: General Background and a Close Reading of Chapter 19’ (Group
on Ibn Rushd's Commentary of Aristotle Poetics, Van Leer Institute Jerusalem).
[32] May 2009, Jerusalem ‘Eros and Illness in Greek Romantic and Medical Texts and
Its Transmission into Arabic in the Middle Ages’ (Mishkenot Sha’ananim conference
on Greek Culture).
[33] February 2010, Haifa ‘Phenomena in the Language of Plato in Arabic Translation’
(Haiim Rosén Decade Memorial Session, Annual Meeting of the Israel Society for
Linguistics, Haifa University).
[34] October 2010, Jerusalem ‘Locus Amoenus and Relations in the Family’
(Departmental Seminar, Classics).
[35] December 2010, Jerusalem ‘Verbal Hybris, Professional Ego, (? and ἠθοποιία) in
Greek Sources: The Case of the Doctor-Philosopher Galen’ (Annual Meeting on
Ancient Literatures, 'Hybris').
[36] January 2011, ‘Saying 'Yes' in Ancient Greek: the Expression 'ναί' in Attic
Comedy, and its Place in Theory’ (Guest Lecture at the Classics Seminar) (Expanded,
English, version of talk [30]).
[37] March 2011, Jerusalem: ‘Diagnostics of Altered Mental States: from Euripides'
Bacchae to Medieval Arabic Texts – And Back’ ('Greeks and the Irrational' a
Conference in Memory of Martin Ostwald).
[38] June 2011, Atlanta: ‘Platon écrivain: the Notion and Term ποικιλία and Its
Nachleben in Arabic Doxographical Sources’ (Annual Conference of the International
Society of Neoplatonic Studies).
[39] March 2012, Jerusalem: ‘Greek in Latin, Greek into Latin: ναί, res, and More’
(Dept. Seminar, Classics).
[40] November 2012, Tsfat: ‘Galen's de optimo medico cognoscendo, the Literary
Motif of Medical Questioning in Greek and Arabic’ (Galen in Arabic and Hebrew,
International Conference at Bar Ilan Medical School).
[41] January 2013, Tel Aviv: ‘Dialogue Passages from Plato in the Medieval Arabic
Tradition: Dialogue and Translation Technique’ (Dept. Seminar, Tel Aviv University
Classics). (Hebrew original on which talk [44], in English, elaborates).
[42] May 2013, Rome: ‘Observations on the Notion and Application of Oratio Obliqua
in Greek: Plato and Germane Sources’ (Panel Talk, International Conference of Latin
Linguistics).
[43] December 2013, Jerusalem: ‘The Mise-en-Scène of Diagnosis in Arabic Medical
Sources, adab, and Romantic belles-lettres, With Special Reference to Ibn Sina and
Others Drawing on Greek Sources’ (Lecture at Reunion Conference for ‘Jewish
Physicians’ research group, Institute for Advanced Study, Jerusalem).
[44] January 2014, Sevilla: ‘Platonic Dialogue and its Translation into Medieval
Arabic’ (Guest Lecture, Aula Luis Cernuda, Facultad de Filología, Universidad de
Sevilla) (English version of talk [41], with additional discussion of Spanish and Modern
Arabic translations).

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[45] September 2014, London: ‘How To Do (Persuasive) Things with ipsissima verba:
The Greek Text of Aristotle Rhetoric III ch.18, and Its Arabic Nachleben’ (Lecture at
the Conference 'Language of Persuasion: Linguistic Approaches to Its Theory and
Practice in the Classical World' at UCL).
[46] [March 2015], Rome: ‘Urbanitas, Attenuated Declaratives and Interrogation in
Ancient Greek Dialogue’ (lecture, Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics).
[47] [June 2015], Toulouse: ‘Quasi and other complementizers of non-direct discourse
in different phases of Latin’ (lecture, with Hannah Rosén, at the International
Colloquium of Latin Linguistics).
[48] [June 2015], Ra‘anana: ‘Socrates Playing with Meletos: the Pedigree, Birth, and
Afterbirth of a Chreia’ (lecture, at the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical
Studies, and chairing of session in memory of Prof. S. Scolnicov)
[49] [October 2015] Verona: ‘Between Mimesis and Diegesis: Unreportable
Utterances’ (invited lecture at conference on Diegesis and Mimesis in Fiction and
Drama).
[50] [November 2015]: ‘Germane Bauformen in the Greek Sympotic Tradition and in
Arabic Adab Sources: Format, Textual Parameters, and Cultural Transfer’ (invited
lecture at upcoming conference ‘Narratives on Translation’).