{"title":"Priapic Punishments in Petronius’ Satyrica 16–26","authors":"M. Habash","doi":"10.1353/SYL.2007.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SYL.2007.0002","url":null,"abstract":"In Petronius’ Satyrica 16–26, Quartilla approaches Giton, Ascyltus, and Encolpius to cure her Tertian Fever (17.7). More than this occurs, however. The trio are to be punished for an inexpiabile scelus (17.6) and Encolpius is apparently singled out for earlier offenses against the god. The odd things occuring at this vigil can be explained as retribution for these earlier crimes. In the Priapea and Horace (Sermones 1.8) Priapus’ style often is to punish offenders by turning upon them the same crime or a humorous inversion of it. Accordingly, the punishments at the Priapi genio pervigilium suggest what Encolpius’ earlier crimes against the god were.","PeriodicalId":402432,"journal":{"name":"Syllecta Classica","volume":"247 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124716364","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":"Procne’s Beak in Aristophanes’ Birds","authors":"Gwendolyn Compton-Engle","doi":"10.1353/SYL.2007.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SYL.2007.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues that the importance of the Procne scene in Aristophanes’ Birds extends well beyond any association of the nightingale with the official auletes of the production. Maintaining, contrary to some recent studies, that Procne is costumed with a beaked bird mask that is removed by Euelpides, the paper demonstrates that the removal of that mask is the final expression of an emergent mastery obtained by the human protagonists over the birds’ beaks, which are a focal point of costume interaction in the first half of the play.","PeriodicalId":402432,"journal":{"name":"Syllecta Classica","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127045046","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":"Giamblico contro Plotino e Porfirio: Il Dibattito sull'Atto e sul Movimento (apud Simplicio, In Categorias 301.20-308.10)","authors":"D. Taormina","doi":"10.1353/SYL.1997.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SYL.1997.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Nella Risposta alla Lettera Inviata da Porfirio ad Anebo e Soluzione delle Questioni Poste in Essa,1 Giamblico dedica un'intera sezione alla classificazione dei \"generi superiori\"2 e, per introdurla, affronta la \"questione dei movimenti attivi o passivi\" posta da Porfirio. Tuttavia non la giudica utile per la classificazione che vuole stabilire e allega tre ragioni. Innanzi tutto Porfirio ha sovvertito Tordine dell'indagine e, anziehe domandare quali sono le proprietà degli esseri superiori dapprima secondo Tessenza, poi secondo la potenza e infine secondo gli atti, ha paríate soltanto delle proprietà degli atti negli \"elementi ultimi.\" In secondo luogo, nei generi superiori, non c'è Topposizione deU'agire e del patire e le ?????e?a?, assolute e immutabiU, sono considerate anche senza la relazione con Topposto. Infine non è possibile attribuire a questi generi movimenti che provengano \"dalTagente e dal paziente.\" Neppure per T anima—continua GiambUco—ammettiamo che Tautocinèsi (a?'t?????s?'a) sia prodotta da ciö che muove e da ciö","PeriodicalId":402432,"journal":{"name":"Syllecta Classica","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130084603","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":"Mors Repentina and the Roman Art of Dying","authors":"Mary Beagon","doi":"10.1353/SYL.2005.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SYL.2005.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Sudden death features rarely in the ancient sources: the Elder Pliny and Suetonius supply the most detailed testimonials. Most discussions of dying are philosophical in tone and promote an image of “prepared” death which considerably influenced the later Christian tradition. Five aspects of a Roman art of dying emerge, elements of which are paralleled in a more pragmatic sixth, the will. The sudden deaths in Pliny and Suetonius, however, may indicate a popular tradition in which absence of pain or fear overrode preparation. Closer examination of two of these suggests that features of both traditions might be combined to produce the “ideal” death.","PeriodicalId":402432,"journal":{"name":"Syllecta Classica","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130180805","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}
Helena R. Dettmer, Erling B. Holtsmark, R. Rabel, Timothy P. Hofmeister, Rosamond Kent Sprague, Robert B. Hardy, F. Fajardo-Acosta, Garth Tissol, Leo C. Curran, J. T. Kirby, Robert Edgeworth, Mark L. Sosower
{"title":"Laudatio","authors":"Helena R. Dettmer, Erling B. Holtsmark, R. Rabel, Timothy P. Hofmeister, Rosamond Kent Sprague, Robert B. Hardy, F. Fajardo-Acosta, Garth Tissol, Leo C. Curran, J. T. Kirby, Robert Edgeworth, Mark L. Sosower","doi":"10.1353/syl.1990.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/syl.1990.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":402432,"journal":{"name":"Syllecta Classica","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132988641","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}
Erling B. Holtsmark, N. Austin, M. M. Winkler, Joyce K. Penniston, K. Walters, Rick M. Newton, R. Macfarlane, James S. Ruebel, James M. May, Edward J. Milowicki
{"title":"Laudatio","authors":"Erling B. Holtsmark, N. Austin, M. M. Winkler, Joyce K. Penniston, K. Walters, Rick M. Newton, R. Macfarlane, James S. Ruebel, James M. May, Edward J. Milowicki","doi":"10.1353/syl.1996.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/syl.1996.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":402432,"journal":{"name":"Syllecta Classica","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131322581","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":"Metafisica e Matematica in Giamblico","authors":"F. Romano","doi":"10.1353/SYL.1997.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SYL.1997.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":402432,"journal":{"name":"Syllecta Classica","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125338052","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":"Strangers in Their Own Land: Greeks and the Roman God-Emperor","authors":"Barbara C. Burrell","doi":"10.1353/SYL.2003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SYL.2003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"This paper views the operation of the imperial cult in the Roman East as a dialogue, in which the initial offer of worship could be either accepted outright or modified by the recipient to his own purposes, and that response could affect how future petitions were presented. Roman judgements of which cities were most suitable to host their province’s imperial temples often led to intercity rivalry. Hellenic orators and Roman rulers both disparaged this rivalry, but their own evaluations of the relative worth of cities in fact encouraged it.","PeriodicalId":402432,"journal":{"name":"Syllecta Classica","volume":"164 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123161167","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":"Symposia and the Macedonian Elite: The Unmixed Life","authors":"E. Carney","doi":"10.1353/SYL.2007.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SYL.2007.0000","url":null,"abstract":"This paper will evaluate the degree to which, during the reigns of Philip II and Alexander III (an era which produced most of our evidence about Macedonian drinking), court symposia actually differed from those of southern Greece. It will argue that Macedonian drinking practices were distinctive in some significant respects and reflect upon the relationship between these drinking habits and the nature of Macedonian monarchy and elite culture. It will suggest that the “unmixed” quality of Macedonian elite culture was more than a mere construct of Demosthenes and other Greek authors.","PeriodicalId":402432,"journal":{"name":"Syllecta Classica","volume":"353 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123186964","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":"Ars and Artifex in the Ars Poetica: Revisiting the Question of Structure","authors":"L. Golden","doi":"10.1353/SYL.2000.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SYL.2000.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":402432,"journal":{"name":"Syllecta Classica","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115969874","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}