{"title":"A New Satyric or Comic Fragment from Praeneste?","authors":"J. Kwapisz","doi":"10.1086/725139","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A little-studied mosaic from Praeneste represents a scene of a beauty contest, which may be the Judgment of the Goddesses, although possible interpretations also include the contest between Cassiopeia and the Nereids. It has been overlooked that the inscription in the mosaic is metrical: a part of an iambic trimeter. This is probably a fragment of a comedy or a satyr play, from the scene that the mosaic depicts.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725139","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"CLASSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A little-studied mosaic from Praeneste represents a scene of a beauty contest, which may be the Judgment of the Goddesses, although possible interpretations also include the contest between Cassiopeia and the Nereids. It has been overlooked that the inscription in the mosaic is metrical: a part of an iambic trimeter. This is probably a fragment of a comedy or a satyr play, from the scene that the mosaic depicts.
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Classical Philology has been an internationally respected journal for the study of the life, languages, and thought of the Ancient Greek and Roman world since 1906. CP covers a broad range of topics from a variety of interpretative points of view. CP welcomes both longer articles and short notes or discussions that make a significant contribution to the study of Greek and Roman antiquity. Any field of classical studies may be treated, separately or in relation to other disciplines, ancient or modern. In particular, we invite studies that illuminate aspects of the languages, literatures, history, art, philosophy, social life, and religion of ancient Greece and Rome. Innovative approaches and originality are encouraged as a necessary part of good scholarship.