{"title":"Greek epic: a Near Eastern genre?*","authors":"J. Haubold","doi":"10.1017/S006867350000081X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S006867350000081X","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses a problem that is rapidly advancing to the status of a new Homeric question: the relationship between Greek epic and the narrative traditions of neighbouring Near Eastern cultures. The present situation recalls the debates that raged over the issue of oral poetry not so long ago. The formula used to be the central object of contention, now it is the ‘Near Eastern parallel’. Today there are so many parallels on record that it is hard to keep track. Yet, as with the formula, the number of known parallels seems to bear little relation to their usefulness. Now as then, problems of the most basic kind abound. What, for a start, is a Near Eastern parallel? And why should we care if someone pointed one out to us? Questions such as these are only just beginning to be asked in earnest. As with the oral-traditional hypothesis, the Near Eastern hypothesis concerns the whole of Greek literature. But the problem has crystallised around epic, and so it is epic that concerns me here. In the first part of my paper, I sketch out briefly what I see as some of the parameters of the present impasse. In the second half, I suggest a framework for future study that enables us to see what we have come to call ‘Greek epic’ as one regional offshoot of the broader Near Eastern genre of cosmic history. In order to illustrate my claim, I look at one of the more notorious parallels between Greek and Near Eastern literatures: the problem of mortality as developed in the Iliad and the Poem of Gilgamesh. I argue that the full implications of the issue are better understood within the overall framework proposed in this article.","PeriodicalId":177773,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129375771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where did Italian peasants live?","authors":"P. Garnsey","doi":"10.1017/S0068673500004090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068673500004090","url":null,"abstract":"Until recently this was a question that was not asked. It was not asked because there was a prior question that was asked, and that received a negative answer: Did peasant proprietors survive in significant numbers in the late Republic or early Empire? The consensus of opinion has been that they were always to be found, but that they were relatively few. As the traditional rural economy of which they had been the characteristic feature gave way under the impact of new economic forces, they became a residual phenomenon. Moreover, this development had already occurred by the late second century B.C. It is to be noted that peasant proprietors, small farmers working the land they owned, rather than free cultivators as a whole, have usually been the object of inquiry. The roles of tenancy in the late Republic and of wage labour in all periods have rarely been positively evaluated. Again, the idea that small ownercultivators, tenant-farmers and day-labourers were overlapping categories in ancient Italy has been little developed in the scholarly literature.","PeriodicalId":177773,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129489818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CCJ volume 47 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0068673500000663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068673500000663","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":177773,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129581088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Third Meeting","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0068673500010427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068673500010427","url":null,"abstract":"146, Trin. 2. 4. 1, Ter. Heaut. 1. 1. 2 (cp. Quint. 10. 3. 14, Plin. Letters, 4. 27. 1) was the correct reading. Writers like Gregory of Tours freely used quod with the meaning of cum,, and such a Temporal use may have given rise to the French et que 'and when' (following e.g. a Temporal Clause). English that in ' go that you may see' is not easy to derive logically from that in ' I say that it is so,' where ' that ' was at first a Demonstrative: cp. the use of TO in Od. 4. 655. Was its early meaning in this construction like that of ro-rt ' then,' viz. ' go : that (TOT* ' then') you may see' becoming ' go that (in order that) you may see' ? If Greek tl once meant ' then ' (cp. ttra and €7r«iTa and lirti), it would be possible to compare the origin of the Homeric use of « meaning 'in order that.' In conclusion, then, these Pronoun-forms in -d (apart from any discussion as to their original range of Case-meanings, which was probably still wider) could perhaps be used in early times, not only as Subject and Object, but also as an expression for Time when, and hence as an expression for Cause.","PeriodicalId":177773,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124804800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Four Notes on ‘Ovidiana Graeca’","authors":"R. Dawe","doi":"10.1017/S0068673500003187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068673500003187","url":null,"abstract":"Ovidiana Graeca (fragments of a Byzantine version of Ovid's amatory works) has just been published as the first supplement of the Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society. The Greek text seems to contain few serious corruptions, but in one or two places some minor adjustments seem necessary, and these I now put forward with the utmost brevity, fortified by the criticisms of the original editors, Mrs P. E. Easterling and Mr E. J. Kenney.","PeriodicalId":177773,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society","volume":"15 12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127633912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CCJ volume 5 (New Series) Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s1750270500012057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1750270500012057","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":177773,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121055223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First Meeting","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/S0068673500005848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068673500005848","url":null,"abstract":"P. 127, 1. 11. (TITIKOV ifiiropiov. dcrriicov ifnvopiov is not only supported by Bekker's Anecdota, p. 255 (quoted by Mr Kenyon) but also by three other passages in the same collection, pp. 208, 284, 456, in all of which it is explained as oirov oi dorol ifiiroptvovrai. P. 141, 11. 2—5. The following is suggested as a provisional restoration pending further information as to the letters actually traceable in the MS.","PeriodicalId":177773,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society","volume":"2013 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121361371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CCJ volume 23 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0068673500003862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068673500003862","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":177773,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society","volume":"199 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121183924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mr Dawe on Aeschylus: Some Notes1","authors":"T. Stinton","doi":"10.1017/S1750270500030098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1750270500030098","url":null,"abstract":"The interpretation (ö) ToA(jrfjs suggested in the scholia and imported in some MSS into the text may well be ancient (p. 165), but it need not be Aeschylus: grammarians were familiär with the ambiguities of this form from Homer (cf. 2 I 605, on Tinfjs—n. gen. or adj. nom.; Hdn. Gr. 11, 108 L.). The sense is in my view inferior, and the idiomatic asyndeton of the vulgate (on which see K.-G. 11, 344) might well have disconcerted an ancient critic. As for the suprascript article, these are ' as incessant and irritating as a dripping tap', p. 165.","PeriodicalId":177773,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121256567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Topography in the Timaeus: Plato and Augustine on mankind's place in the natural world","authors":"C. Osborne","doi":"10.1017/S0068673500005071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068673500005071","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper I shall be considering the relationship between the shape or structure of the world and the moral position occupied by human beings, particularly with regard to man's attitude towards and use of the natural resources of the material world he inhabits. 1. The shape of the world There are two basic spatial metaphors that we frequently use in analysing notions of value and morality: one is the scale of up and down, with high and low or top and bottom as alternative ways of referring to the same type of hierarchy; the other is the notion of a centre, the bull's eye: if we are self-centred we value ourselves more highly than other things; if we have an anthropocentric view we value humanity above other animals. Thus we usually suppose that we put whatever we value most highly (on the one set of metaphors) at ‘the centre of things’ (on the other set).","PeriodicalId":177773,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126944059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}