PHILOLOGUSPub Date : 2024-09-18DOI: 10.1515/phil-2023-0041
Friedrich Meins
{"title":"„In tyrannos“ !? – Sicco Polentons Ovidvita zwischen mittelalterlichem ‚Aberglauben‘, ‚republikanischem Diskurs‘ und pragmatischem Bildungsideal","authors":"Friedrich Meins","doi":"10.1515/phil-2023-0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/phil-2023-0041","url":null,"abstract":"The paper offers a new interpretation of the <jats:italic>Life of Ovid</jats:italic> in the <jats:italic>Scriptorum illustrium Latinae linguae libri XVIII</jats:italic> of Sicco Polenton. While so far scholarship has mostly criticized the lack of historical and philological accuracy in this <jats:italic>Life</jats:italic> and Sicco’s dependency on medieval speculations, the paper tries to take a closer look at the implications of Sicco’s own methodological stance towards poetry, historiography and rhetoric. A discussion follows whether Sicco’s own biography has shaped his outlook on the ancient poet, and to what extent Sicco’s treatment of Ovid’s relegation can be integrated into an early humanist tradition of anti-tyrannical discourse. It is argued that both Sicco’s literary ideals and the elaboration of the <jats:italic>Life of Ovid</jats:italic>, especially the description of the exile, reflect Sicco’s own life story and social background, but also his fundamental purpose of promoting his humanistic teaching.","PeriodicalId":44663,"journal":{"name":"PHILOLOGUS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142262246","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}
PHILOLOGUSPub Date : 2024-09-11DOI: 10.1515/phil-2024-0002
Ruurd Nauta
{"title":"The Riddles in Martius Valerius","authors":"Ruurd Nauta","doi":"10.1515/phil-2024-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/phil-2024-0002","url":null,"abstract":"The bucolic poet Martius Valerius used to be dated to the twelfth century, but has now been securely assigned to the sixth; articles on his work should therefore be published in journals not of medieval, but of classical philology. The present brief contribution proposes a new solution to the two riddles that Martius, following the example of Virgil, included at the end of his third eclogue. These solutions are then put into the context of the commentary tradition on Virgil’s <jats:italic>Bucolics.</jats:italic>","PeriodicalId":44663,"journal":{"name":"PHILOLOGUS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142176662","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}
PHILOLOGUSPub Date : 2024-09-09DOI: 10.1515/phil-2023-0058
Francesco Cannizzaro
{"title":"Capaneus philosophus? Una nota su Zenone, Filodemo, Stazio (e Lucrezio)","authors":"Francesco Cannizzaro","doi":"10.1515/phil-2023-0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/phil-2023-0058","url":null,"abstract":"This short article, which starts with a reconsideration of the philosophical characterization of Statius’ Capaneus, aims at investigating the reception of the mythical figure of Capaneus in Hellenistic philosophy. Both among the Stoics (Zeno and, maybe, Chrysippus, according to Diogenes Laertius and Athenaeus) and the Epicureans (Philodemus in P.Herc. 452 <jats:italic>olim</jats:italic> 463, fr. 13), Capaneus occurs in the philosophical discourse on the definition of the sage, albeit with different nuances and reference texts. Statius, Neapolitan <jats:italic>poeta doctus</jats:italic> with Stoic and Epicurean <jats:italic>patroni</jats:italic>, may have drawn insights from this intellectual environment to provide his Capaneus with philosophical overtones. In the last paragraph it is cautiously suggested, on the basis of P.Herc. 452 <jats:italic>olim</jats:italic> 463, fr. 13, that Lucretius’ Epicurus in the well-known prologue of the <jats:italic>De rerum natura</jats:italic> – a model for Statius’ Capaneus – may have been influenced by the Epicurean reception of Capaneus.","PeriodicalId":44663,"journal":{"name":"PHILOLOGUS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142176663","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}
PHILOLOGUSPub Date : 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1515/phil-2023-0042
Emanuele Berti
{"title":"Ovidio, Cicerone e il finale delle Metamorfosi","authors":"Emanuele Berti","doi":"10.1515/phil-2023-0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/phil-2023-0042","url":null,"abstract":"The finale of Ovid’s <jats:italic>Metamorphoses</jats:italic> contains a <jats:italic>sphragis</jats:italic> in which the poet proclaims the immortality of his poetic work and the eternal survival of his <jats:italic>pars melior</jats:italic> (Ov. <jats:italic>Met.</jats:italic> 15.871–879). These lines present a number of rather close parallels with excerpts from the seventh <jats:italic>suasoria</jats:italic> of Seneca the Elder’s collection, whose theme is <jats:italic>Deliberat Cicero an scripta sua comburat promittente Antonio incolumitatem, si fecisset</jats:italic>. Allusions to this declamatory exercise may activate in the Ovidian passage a reference to the theme of book-burning, evoked especially by the term <jats:italic>ignis</jats:italic> in line 871: this form of censorship against authors disliked by the imperial regime began to appear toward the end of Augustus’ principate, in the very same years when Ovid completed the composition of his <jats:italic>Metamorphoses</jats:italic>, before in turn being exiled by Augustus (an event to which the phrase <jats:italic>Iovis ira</jats:italic>, again in line 871, may allude). But at the same time, in the face of such a possible threat, Ovid affirms the certainty that his work will nonetheless prove stronger than fire and grant him perpetual life.","PeriodicalId":44663,"journal":{"name":"PHILOLOGUS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141779735","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}
PHILOLOGUSPub Date : 2024-05-07DOI: 10.1515/phil-2023-0028
Ana Clara Sisul
{"title":"Juvencus’ Präsenz im Proömium des Cento Probae: ein bisher unbemerkter Fall akustischer Imitation","authors":"Ana Clara Sisul","doi":"10.1515/phil-2023-0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/phil-2023-0028","url":null,"abstract":"In the prooemium of the <jats:italic>Cento Vergilianus de Laudibus Christi</jats:italic> of Faltonia Betitia Proba (lines 1–23) there are fragments not only of Vergil’s works but also of Lucan’s <jats:italic>Bellum Civile</jats:italic> and Juvencus’ <jats:italic>Evangeliorum Libri</jats:italic>. This article shows that in these lines Juvencus has a particular importance, for the references to his work increase until they reach a remarkable intensity in lines 22–23 and they stand out on different levels both formally and semantically. This thesis is supported by re-examining the origin of a reference in line 22 of the <jats:italic>Cento</jats:italic> (<jats:italic>erige mentem</jats:italic>) that is usually ascribed to Lucan. The attribution to Juvencus can be established through the phenomenon of acoustic imitation.","PeriodicalId":44663,"journal":{"name":"PHILOLOGUS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141153652","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}
PHILOLOGUSPub Date : 2024-03-27DOI: 10.1515/phil-2023-0024
Pere Fàbregas Salis
{"title":"Unpublished Conjectures by Nicolaus Heinsius on Ovid’s Metamorphoses 1–4","authors":"Pere Fàbregas Salis","doi":"10.1515/phil-2023-0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/phil-2023-0024","url":null,"abstract":"This paper publishes for the first time 132 conjectures by Nicolaus Heinsius on Ovid’s <jats:italic>Metamorphoses</jats:italic> 1‒4. The value and possible motivations of each proposal are briefly assessed.","PeriodicalId":44663,"journal":{"name":"PHILOLOGUS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140323376","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}
PHILOLOGUSPub Date : 2023-12-15DOI: 10.1515/phil-2023-0027
A. Fusi
{"title":"Due note al testo di Marziale (1.55.4, 4.56.5)","authors":"A. Fusi","doi":"10.1515/phil-2023-0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/phil-2023-0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44663,"journal":{"name":"PHILOLOGUS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138999646","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}
PHILOLOGUSPub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1515/phil-2023-0018
Giovanni Zago
{"title":"Cornutiana","authors":"Giovanni Zago","doi":"10.1515/phil-2023-0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/phil-2023-0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article provides conjectural emendations and exegetical notes to several passages in Cornutus’ Theologiae Graecae compendium ; it also offers an emendation of a controversial fragment of Cleanthes on physics ( SVF 1,497).","PeriodicalId":44663,"journal":{"name":"PHILOLOGUS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135615436","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}
PHILOLOGUSPub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1515/phil-2022-0032
Marco Vespa
{"title":"<i>... sicut mitissima satyris</i>. Una nota testuale a Plin. <i>Nat.</i> 8.216","authors":"Marco Vespa","doi":"10.1515/phil-2022-0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/phil-2022-0032","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In book 8 of his Naturalis historia , Pliny the Elder mentions the particularly savage character of some monkeys. Most editions and translations of Pliny’s text maintain that the reference to the fierce nature of these animals concerns both the cynocephali and the satyri . However, in the manuscript Riccardianus 488 (R in the transmission of Pliny), a second hand, contemporary to the period in which the text was copied, added supra lineam the obscure term * miarsima , which would refer to the nature of the satyri in opposition to that of the cynocephali . By examining part of the ancient zoological and geographic traditions, in particular the De natura animalium by Aelian, this article defends editing the text of Pliny with the adjective mitissima , already present in the first printed editions of the Naturalis historia , as follows: Efferatior cynocephalis natura sicut mitissima satyris .","PeriodicalId":44663,"journal":{"name":"PHILOLOGUS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135614245","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}
PHILOLOGUSPub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1515/phil-2022-0040
Christoph Schwameis
{"title":"<i>Reuocat tua forma parentem</i> – Hasdrubals Fest, Scipios Besuch bei Syphax und ihre epischen Bezüge","authors":"Christoph Schwameis","doi":"10.1515/phil-2022-0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/phil-2022-0040","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper considers two scenes in Books 15 and 16 of the Punica of Silius Italicus: Hasdrubal’s celebration of the founding of Carthage with the ecphrasis of the general’s cloak (Sil. 15,410–440) and Scipio’s visit to the court of King Syphax (16,170–276). For both passages there are important reference texts in scenes of Vergil’s Aeneid and Statius’ Thebaid that have until now received no, or not enough, attention: Aeneas’ visit to the future Rome ( Aen. 8,102–553) and the sacrifice of Eteocles ( Theb. 11,205–238). After a brief assessment of the historiographical basis, I set out the influence in content and language of these reference texts on the two scenes. Further, I consider the adaptation of other epic pre-texts in the ecphrasis of Hasdrubal’s cloak and propose a new interpretation: the ecphrasis links Hasdrubal to Ganymede, Polyphemus and Cacus, and Scipio with Jupiter, Odysseus and Hercules. The study highlights positive and negative aspects of the pre-texts and shows the ambivalent characterisation of Silius’ Scipio, who is associated both with positive figures (Hercules and Aeneas) and with the sinister Polynices. The shared reference of the two scenes of the Punica has a linking, framing and preparatory function.","PeriodicalId":44663,"journal":{"name":"PHILOLOGUS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135615530","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}