PHILOLOGUSPub Date : 2020-10-22DOI: 10.1515/phil-2020-0117
Lorenzo Vespoli
{"title":"The Sorrowful Song of Philomela (Aetna 586–587)","authors":"Lorenzo Vespoli","doi":"10.1515/phil-2020-0117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/phil-2020-0117","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper focuses on two lines of the poem Aetna that are generally considered to be corrupt (586–587). I suggest two emendations aimed at restoring a reasonable form of the text, consistent with the traditional portrait of the Pandionids. In order to solve the crux it is necessary to restore the two topoi related to the representation of the Pandionids after their metamorphoses: the place where they reside and the mourning song of the nightingale.","PeriodicalId":44663,"journal":{"name":"PHILOLOGUS","volume":"1 1","pages":"332 - 341"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86323192","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 : 2020-10-22DOI: 10.1515/phil-2020-0118
A. Corrado
{"title":"A New Supplement to Diogenes of Oenoanda’s Fr. 6 Smith: a Case of Epicurean Language Selection","authors":"A. Corrado","doi":"10.1515/phil-2020-0118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/phil-2020-0118","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper intends to offer a new supplement to a corrupt passage of the Epicurean inscription of Oenoanda. Smith, in the lacuna of Fr. 6, uses the phrasal term πρῶτα σώματα to indicate the atoms. The supplement is not satisfying as it is based solely on evidence drawn from non-Epicurean texts and Lucretius, who writes in Latin and is not always reliable for reconstructing the Epicurean terminology. In this article, I will try to demonstrate that πρῶτα σώματα is in fact a peripatetic – and subsequently stoic – term indicating the elements in general, which has never been used by any Epicurean author for polemical reasons. Finally, I will propose an alternative supplement.","PeriodicalId":44663,"journal":{"name":"PHILOLOGUS","volume":"28 1","pages":"269 - 276"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88588935","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 : 2020-10-22DOI: 10.1515/phil-2020-0116
Thomas Kuhn-Treichel
{"title":"Was tut ein Geschichtsschreiber?","authors":"Thomas Kuhn-Treichel","doi":"10.1515/phil-2020-0116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/phil-2020-0116","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Lucian’s work De historia conscribenda not only presents reflections on how one should or should not write history, but also illustrates possible ways to represent the authorial activity of a historian (i. e. how one writes ‘metahistory’). In this, two basic forms can be distinguished, both of which can be understood from a narratological perspective as metalepses. In the first case, the historian is represented as the direct originator of the action; in the second he acts as a mere observer, but one who moves spatially in and with his action. Both forms of statement stand within traditions of motifs that can be traced from antiquity through to the modern era; yet Lucian nonetheless makes an innovative contribution by inscribing value judgements into the motifs. The result is the suggestion that the historian fulfils the role of observer, while the role of originator turns out to be more apt for the poet than for the historian. This permits far-reaching conclusions to be drawn about the conception of poetry and historiography as a whole.","PeriodicalId":44663,"journal":{"name":"PHILOLOGUS","volume":"34 1","pages":"250 - 2689"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81032854","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 : 2020-10-06DOI: 10.1515/phil-2020-0109
Luca Beltramini
{"title":"Alcune osservazioni su naturae species ratioque nel De rerum natura di Lucrezio (e una nota al testo)","authors":"Luca Beltramini","doi":"10.1515/phil-2020-0109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/phil-2020-0109","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The article proposes to re-examine the Lucretian formula naturae species ratioque (1.146–148 = 2.59–61 = 3.91–93 = 6.39–41), the meaning of which has prompted some critical debate. The examination begins from an analysis of rhetoric and argument in the sections in which the phrase occurs, with the goal of demonstrating that the meaning ‘rational vision of nature’ is more apt to the context and to Lucretius’ poetic and philosophical programme, which often relies on metaphors drawn from the semantic field of vision to describe the comprehension of natural phenomena and the didactic aim of the work. In the light of this, the final part of the paper discusses the textual problem concerning lines 6.56–57 (= 90–91), which are normally considered spurious but which can be understood better in the light of the Lucretian conception of philosophy (and of poetry) as penetrating vision.","PeriodicalId":44663,"journal":{"name":"PHILOLOGUS","volume":"148 1","pages":"308 - 331"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90100118","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 : 2020-10-06DOI: 10.1515/phil-2020-0112
T. Power
{"title":"Catullus 6.17","authors":"T. Power","doi":"10.1515/phil-2020-0112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/phil-2020-0112","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article defends Baehrens’ reading cenam for caelum at Catullus 6.17 as more sensible than scholars have thought, based on allusions to Meleager, AP 5.175. It then proposes a new emendation to the line that is suggested by this Greek source.","PeriodicalId":44663,"journal":{"name":"PHILOLOGUS","volume":"05 1","pages":"300 - 307"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85988500","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 : 2020-10-06DOI: 10.1515/phil-2020-0113
T. Coughlan
{"title":"Lovely Earth (Leonidas of Tarentum Anth. Pal. 7.440 = Gow/Page, HE 11)","authors":"T. Coughlan","doi":"10.1515/phil-2020-0113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/phil-2020-0113","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Scholars and editors of Hellenistic epigram have often discounted the authenticity of dialectal variance attested in the manuscript tradition, either privileging the dialectal variant that conforms to the predominant dialect in the epigram or even choosing to change attested dialect forms to produce a uniform coloring. This article argues that the addresses to earth at lines 2 and 10 of Leonidas of Tarentum Anth. Pal. 7.440 = Gow/Page, HE 11 were originally Doric. I show that there are paleographic as well as literary grounds for the reading. In particular, the presence of Doric forms at these two points in the epigram evoke the language of tragic lament. The findings of this article have potentially significant implications for the editing of dialectal mixture in the Greek Anthology.","PeriodicalId":44663,"journal":{"name":"PHILOLOGUS","volume":"8 1","pages":"240 - 249"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73732350","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 : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1515/PHIL-2020-0111
Archibald Allen
{"title":"Ὦ Φαληρεύς: Plato, Symp. 172a","authors":"Archibald Allen","doi":"10.1515/PHIL-2020-0111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/PHIL-2020-0111","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Scholarly efforts to detect playfulness in the address to Apollodorus at Pl. Symp. 172a are reviewed and found unsatisfactory. In keeping with the dialogue’s erotic theme and comic spirit, a small supplemental emendation of the address’s Φαληρεύς is proposed to effect a phallic mock-demotic à la Aristophanes, Φαληρεύς.","PeriodicalId":44663,"journal":{"name":"PHILOLOGUS","volume":"49 1","pages":"342 - 347"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79771176","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 : 2020-09-23DOI: 10.1515/PHIL-2020-0110
T. Gellar-Goad
{"title":"Antestari: Procedural Law in Curculio 620–625","authors":"T. Gellar-Goad","doi":"10.1515/PHIL-2020-0110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/PHIL-2020-0110","url":null,"abstract":"Therapontigonus Platagidorus themiles gloriosus and Phaedromus the adulescens amans, rivals for the purchase of the uirgo intacta Planesium (enslaved to the leno Cappadox), are having their first encounter with one another; Phaedromus’ parasitus Curculio is present, as well. The line assignments for this excerpt from the scene have been contested, as have both the meaning of the verb antestari (621, 623) and the syntactical role of the accusatives associated with the verb. I propose here a solution to the matter that takes into account the plainest meaning of an accusative construed with licet, the stagecraft of the scene, and intratextual connections to moments earlier and later in the play. Phaedromus must be the speaker of the first line and a quarter, which includes the Roman legal formula to summon someone to court (ambula in ius, 621). The line must be shouted at Therapontigonus, who has attempted to purchase Planesium, recently discovered to be a freeborn citizen. The soldier responds with a refusal (non eo). Phaedromus then asks someone to serve as a witness for his summons of Therapontigonus (licet te antestari?). So much is clear; the remainder is not.","PeriodicalId":44663,"journal":{"name":"PHILOLOGUS","volume":"319 1","pages":"354 - 360"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76524434","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 : 2020-09-05DOI: 10.1515/phil-2020-0107
Vittorio Remo Danovi
{"title":"Una possibile eco antimachea in Nevio","authors":"Vittorio Remo Danovi","doi":"10.1515/phil-2020-0107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/phil-2020-0107","url":null,"abstract":"A partire dai repertori ottocenteschi di paralleli tra l’epica latina arcaica e i poemi omerici, è divenuto abituale nelle edizioni commentate del Bellum Poenicum il confronto tra il saturnio ferunt pulchras creterras aureas lepistas (fr. 31 Bl.2) e i versi omerici φέρε δὲ κρητῆρα φαεινὸν / κῆρυξ Ἰδαῖος ἠδὲ χρύσεια κύπελλα (Il. 3.247–248). Nonostante le difficoltà insite nella Quellenforschung dei frammenti della letteratura latina del III secolo a.C., sembra possibile suggerire, accanto a tale parallelo, un ulteriore raffronto con due versi del fr. 19 Wyss della Tebaide di Antimaco: ἄλλοι δὲ κρητῆρα πανάργυρον ἠδὲ δέπαστρα / οἰσόντων χρύσεια. In primo luogo, anche in questi ultimi si riscontrano le tre corrispondenze puntuali che possono essere individuate tra il frammento neviano e il passo dell’Iliade: nonostante le differenze di flessione, a ferunt, creterras e aureas rispondono ri-","PeriodicalId":44663,"journal":{"name":"PHILOLOGUS","volume":"42 1","pages":"351 - 353"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89601879","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 : 2020-08-26DOI: 10.1515/phil-2020-0108
J. Diggle
{"title":"Two Conjectures in Apollonius Rhodius (1.723, 2.165)","authors":"J. Diggle","doi":"10.1515/phil-2020-0108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/phil-2020-0108","url":null,"abstract":"The δρύοχοι (“wood-holders”) are the supports on which a ship in construction is laid (i. e. “props, shores, stocks”), as at Hom. Od. 19.574. They are not “ribs”, an alternative interpretation, originating with the Homeric scholia, mentioned by Race and preferred by Mooney. The placing of ribs comes later, and the rhetoric of the passage requires that Athena should be initiator of the shipbuilding, not merely a contributor when the work has begun. Even with δρυόχους interpreted as “ribs”, ἐπεβάλλετοwould have to be given a sense (“put in place”, or the like) which is unattested. With δρυόχους interpreted as “stocks”, the verb is even less natural — it has nothing like the senses","PeriodicalId":44663,"journal":{"name":"PHILOLOGUS","volume":"60 1","pages":"348 - 350"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83607633","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}