Dr. Ashley Clements
Lecturer
Greek Literature and Philosophy
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
I studied Ancient History and Social Anthropology at University College London, Classics at Cambridge, and taught at Durham University before joining the Classics Department at Trinity College Dublin in 2006
Research Interest
My research explores the intersections of Greek literature and philosophy in the fifth and fourth centuries BC. My most recent project (2014: CUP) examines the popular reception and political use of early Greek philosophy by the Greek comic poet Aristophanes in his comedy Thesmophoriazusae ('Women at the Thesmophoria') (411 BC). But further research interests also include Greek (popular and philosophical) conceptions of the senses and of perception; Greek philosophy and wisdom literature; literary approaches to Platonic dialogue; and anthropology in Classics (and vice versa). My next project is an introduction to the history of the dialogue between the disciplines of Anthropology and Classics.
Publications
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Clements, A. (2009) Thesmophoriazusaes Two Dawns, Mnemosyne 62: 535-67.
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Clements, A. (2013) Looking Mustar: Greek popular epistemology and the meaning of drimus, in S. Butler and A. Purves (eds.), Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses. Acumen Press: 71-88.
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Clements, A. (2014) Divine scents and presence, in M. Bradley (ed.), Smell and the Ancient Senses. Routledge: 46-59.
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Clements, A. (2014) The senses in philosophy and science: five conceptions from Heraclitus to Plato, in J. Toner (ed.), The Cultural History of the Senses in Antiquity. Berg Press: 115-38.
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Clements, A. (2014) Aristophanes Thesmophoriazusae: Philosophizing Theatre and the Politics of Perception. Cambridge University Press.
