Acta ClassicaPub Date : 2023-12-08DOI: 10.1353/acl.2022.a914031
Anna Lankina
{"title":"Heresy and polemic: reassessing the fifth-century ecclesiastical historians of Late Antiquity","authors":"Anna Lankina","doi":"10.1353/acl.2022.a914031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/acl.2022.a914031","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Scholars have tended to emphasize distinctions within late antique historiography, breaking it up into categories of ecclesiastical/‘pagan’, orthodox/heretical, Greek/Latin, narrative/chronicle, and others. The division of ecclesiastical historians into orthodox/heretical has led to designating non-Nicene history writing as polemical. I hope to show that drawing a stark line between the ecclesiastical historians discounts the significant connections between them. Philostorgius, Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodoret serve as a good starting point for the reintegration of these historians into the literary culture of which they were a part. I examine these histories to demonstrate their commonalities while simultaneously showing their distinctiveness. Specifically, I focus on how these historians presented the imperial role in the destruction of religious property.","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":"74 19","pages":"245 - 264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138586748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acta ClassicaPub Date : 2023-12-08DOI: 10.1353/acl.2023.a914044
Michelle Currie
{"title":"Facing fear in Troades: Hecuba's and Andromache's competing strategies","authors":"Michelle Currie","doi":"10.1353/acl.2023.a914044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/acl.2023.a914044","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Seneca's philosophical works propose that resignation or hope may restrain fear. In his tragedy Troades, Seneca reflects further on the relative effectiveness of these approaches through the 'doublet' characters Hecuba and Andromache. Though the women are not Stoics, their ways of facing fear echo Seneca's philosophical recommendations and illustrate some finer details of managing emotions. While resignation may theoretically seem superior, their experiences reveal how specific circumstances may instead call for hope. Seneca's play reveals his insights on each approach's nuances, including why either hope or resignation suits individual situations and the unique challenges and benefits each offers. The complications of choosing and adhering to a method of emotional control and the importance of using reason as the basis for such control become especially clear through this play's detailed treatment of the women's situations.","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":"71 21","pages":"15 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138586864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acta ClassicaPub Date : 2022-07-29DOI: 10.1353/acl.2022.0007
W. Nijs
{"title":"The Heights of Philosophy: Some Thoughts on Lucretius 2.7–13","authors":"W. Nijs","doi":"10.1353/acl.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/acl.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In this article I argue against the view that the templa serena in Lucr. 2.7-13 should be exclusively interpreted as a reference to mental realms. Instead, I suggest that Lucretius is intertwining the concept of templa serena as mental sanctuaries with the symbolical image of an 'elevated temple of Epicurean philosophy'. We should take into account both the cognitive and the symbolical meaning of Lucretius' imagery. I point to parallels in the Epicurean tradition, in order to demonstrate that the concept of an elevated sanctuary of philosophy as a spatial entity, rather than a mental realm, may have been a popular topos within Italy's Epicurean circles.","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":"65 1","pages":"141 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45080865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acta ClassicaPub Date : 2022-07-29DOI: 10.1353/acl.2022.0017
A. de Villiers
{"title":"Walking Through Elysium: Vergil's Underworld and the Poetics of Tradition ed. by B. Gladhill and M.Y. Myers (review)","authors":"A. de Villiers","doi":"10.1353/acl.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/acl.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":"65 1","pages":"283 - 286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48490525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acta ClassicaPub Date : 2022-07-29DOI: 10.1353/acl.2022.0022
Matthew Wright
{"title":"The Continuity of Classical Literature Through Fragmentary Traditions ed. by F. Ginelli and F. Lupi (review)","authors":"Matthew Wright","doi":"10.1353/acl.2022.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/acl.2022.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":"65 1","pages":"300 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46130572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acta ClassicaPub Date : 2022-07-29DOI: 10.1353/acl.2022.0021
R. Whitaker
{"title":"The Wooden Horse: An English Version of Virgil, Aeneid Book II by T.J. Leary (review)","authors":"R. Whitaker","doi":"10.1353/acl.2022.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/acl.2022.0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":"65 1","pages":"297 - 300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46155595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acta ClassicaPub Date : 2022-07-29DOI: 10.1353/acl.2022.0018
P. Goodman
{"title":"Augustan Papers: New Approaches to the Age of Augustus on the Bimillennium of his Death ed. by M.C. Pimentel et al. (review)","authors":"P. Goodman","doi":"10.1353/acl.2022.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/acl.2022.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":"65 1","pages":"287 - 291"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46794576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acta ClassicaPub Date : 2022-07-29DOI: 10.1353/acl.2022.0005
A. Kallergi
{"title":"Larger than life: Intertextuality between the poetry of Callimachus and the second book of Horace's Epistles","authors":"A. Kallergi","doi":"10.1353/acl.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/acl.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The aim of this paper is to underline the intertextual ties of the second book of the Horatian Epistles with the poetry of Callimachus. Horace is markedly inspired by the Alexandrian way of writing, both in choosing the form of the collection and in the manner that he uses some of the common motifs found in the Epistles. In other words, most of the famous motifs of Callimachus, such as the ὀλιγοστιχία and the need for originality that Callimachus declares in the prologue of Aitia are firmly present, yet they undergo transformation in Horace's poetry.","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":"65 1","pages":"112 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49250846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}