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{"title":"On Being a Lapsed Classicist: From Personal and Disciplinary Rupture to Restoring Lost Traditions and Finding a Way Back","authors":"Lylaah L. Bhalerao","doi":"10.1353/apa.2023.a913464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/apa.2023.a913464","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> On Being a Lapsed Classicist:<span>From Personal and Disciplinary Rupture to Restoring Lost Traditions and Finding a Way Back<sup>*</sup></span> <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Lylaah L. Bhalerao </li> </ul> <blockquote> <p><span>Dem tell me</span><span>Dem tell me</span><span>Wha dem want to tell me</span></p> <p><span>Bandage up me eye with me own history</span><span>Blind me to my own identity</span></p> —John Agard, <em>Checking Out Me History</em> (2004) </blockquote> <p><small>when the pandemic began</small>, I was in the penultimate term of my Bachelor's degree in Classics and moving back into my family home in London. Now, I am in the third year of my PhD in Ancient World Studies and living in New York City, having moved across the Atlantic when borders were still closed, airports were empty, and travelers were all masked. For me, these last years of communal separation have spelled a rupture from Classics and from home; but also, a return to intellectual and cultural traditions embedded in my roots. Traditions that, as has become apparent to me, have also been severed from the discipline we call \"Classics.\" Here I attempt to tell a personalized disciplinary history: using the story of my Caribbean diaspora family (largely defined by physical and cultural rupture) and how it has impacted my relationship with antiquity as a microcosm, I meditate on how Classics has intentionally created rupture between itself and intellectual traditions of color. Furthermore, I am now asking whether it is possible to return to the discipline and to restore these intellectual traditions to a position of legitimacy and esteem. <strong>[End Page 335]</strong></p> <p>I spent a lot of time over the pandemic years feeling <em>angry</em>. No doubt we were all <em>angry</em>—at the universe, governments, our own circumstances. My <em>anger</em>, however, was directed at the discipline. <em>Anger</em>. It is one of the most widely studied words in the Classics.<sup>1</sup> However, it is not an emotion to which scholars feel entitled, it is not one we admit to having—not in the rational, objective world of academia and certainly not if we are in the minority of scholars of color. Add to that being a woman, and the reputation precedes itself. My <em>anger</em> had less to do with the pandemic itself than with the racial reckoning also occurring during this time and how Classics departments, particularly in the United Kingdom, addressed their own complicity in upholding discriminatory structures and ideologies.<sup>2</sup> The pandemic simply provided the time and space for two Classics degrees' worth of <em>anger</em> to rise to the surface.</p> <p>When I first thought about rupture and return, one moment of <em>anger</em> stood out clearly: in March 2022 I was researching into Afrocentrism for a paper on reclaiming Blackness in Greek and Roman N","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138516329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Atreus Callidus: The Tragic Afterlife of Plautus's Comic Hero","authors":"Erica M. Bexley","doi":"10.1353/apa.2023.a913470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/apa.2023.a913470","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>abstract:</p><p>This article argues that the model of the Plautine <i>seruus callidus</i> underpins Seneca's Atreus, whose similarities to the clever slave include verbal mastery, metatheatrical plotting, eavesdropping, and cultivating a special relationship with the audience. Analysis of these parallels is situated in the broader frame of theater history to show how comedy can influence tragedy and how the <i>Thyestes</i>' blend of tragic and comic material makes Atreus Seneca's most distinctive and enduring character. The paper's final section addresses Atreus's afterlife, examining how Shakespeare reimagines the Senecan protagonist's tragicomic mix in the characters of Hamlet and Iago.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138516349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bearing and Sharing the Burdens of Mentoring in the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Deborah Beck","doi":"10.1353/apa.2023.a913465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/apa.2023.a913465","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; Bearing and Sharing the Burdens of Mentoring in the COVID-19 Pandemic &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Deborah Beck &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;academic mentoring is one&lt;/small&gt; of the many forms of inequity that were laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic. The plight of junior and contingent faculty is vividly presented in the other &lt;em&gt;paragraphoi&lt;/em&gt; in this issue. The difficulties faced by members of the ever-increasing academic \"precariat\" also affect the shrinking proportion of our field that reaches the kind of professional stability that was once the norm in the academy.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; As fewer and fewer faculty can reasonably be expected to mentor others, more and more people in the academy need more and more mentoring and support. At the same time, not everyone who reaches a high level of privilege in our field feels that their privilege entails greater responsibility toward others, while some who do feel that responsibility were unable to exercise it during the pandemic for a variety of reasons. The result is that the mentoring responsibilities of any one person can become an overwhelming burden, leading to the same burnout experienced by other helping professions during the pandemic (healthcare, therapists, K–12 teachers, and so forth). In all these professions, the vast needs that were exposed or created by the pandemic are largely continuing during the \"New Normal\" that has followed the social distancing and lockdowns of 2020–22. Ideally, our pandemic experiences will lead to more effective and equitable approaches to mentoring in higher education. As with mentoring itself, small actions can lead to big improvements for both mentors and mentees.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The job of a mentor, as I think of it, is to help people be the best version of themselves that they can be. Mentoring students pairs this responsibility with teaching them new facts and skills. Mentoring staff and faculty colleagues helps them to navigate challenges and make good use of opportunities at different stages of their professional development. Ideally, mentoring also &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 345]&lt;/strong&gt; fosters a sense of shared responsibility toward and pride in the organization. The differences between teaching, mentoring, and caring are not always clear at the best of times. During the pandemic, those differences largely vanished.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Every word of my definition of \"mentor\" became more exhausting, difficult, and stressful during the pandemic. What does \"help\" mean when everyone is struggling with the basics of day-to-day life? What does \"best\" look like, either in the midst of the pandemic or after its acute phase has ended? \"Best\" has changed radically after the isolation and online instructional environment of the early years of the pandemic. Everyone's best self right now is significantly less \"best\" than it would have been in 2019. My memory has not returned to","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138516365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reckonings","authors":"Matthew S. Santirocco","doi":"10.1353/apa.2023.a913459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/apa.2023.a913459","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; Reckonings &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Matthew S. Santirocco &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;small&gt;keywords&lt;/small&gt; &lt;p&gt;sustainability of Classics and SCS, misappropriations of Greece and Rome, race and racism, accessibility, SCS mission and priorities, SCS annual meeting, reparative scholarship, open access publishing, educational innovation&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h2&gt;&lt;small&gt;i&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;i speak to you tonight&lt;/small&gt; with a great sense of humility and gratitude.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; As a graduate student over forty years ago and then as a young untenured professor, I found in the American Philological Association (APA), as our Society for Classical Studies (SCS) was then called, the larger intellectual community, professional mentoring, and personal support that I needed, but that none of my institutions at the time could provide on their own. Over the years I have tried to give back to the organization by serving it in various capacities, among them as editor of its monograph series, as vice president for professional matters, and as financial trustee. I want to thank you for giving me one more, and very special, opportunity to serve as your president.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The past three years have been challenging ones for all of us. But the SCS has shown remarkable resilience. It is impossible to overstate the important &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 287]&lt;/strong&gt; role played by our executive director, Helen Cullyer. During her tenure, there has not been a year in which she has not had to manage some sort of disruption, be it operational, financial, political, and even, climatological. In all these situations, her foresight, judiciousness, creativity, and energy have been equaled only by her deep commitment to the Society's mission, her responsiveness to our diverse membership, and her support of the Board and especially this grateful president. We are also fortunate to have on our team Cherane Ali, who, together with Helen, had to turn on the proverbial dime to rethink our annual meeting, first when COVID necessitated moving it online, and then this year when we are having our first hybrid meeting. Moving from our administrative team, I want to thank the Board and the many volunteers who take on SCS responsibilities. Finally, we all owe a great debt of gratitude to one such colleague, my predecessor as president, Professor Shelley Haley, who cares so deeply about moving our field in the right direction. When she handed me the gavel a year ago, I committed to continuing that work.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I decided that the best way I could do that was to draw on my experience as a Classicist who has been engaged in academic administration for over three decades, as a department chair, center director, college dean, and academic vice provost.&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; I have been fortunate to be at institutions that had the will and the wherewithal to be ambitious on behalf of the humanities and especially anci","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"329 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138516332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Latin Vocabulary and Reading Latin: Challenges and Opportunities","authors":"Tom Keeline, Tyler Kirby","doi":"10.1353/apa.2023.a913472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/apa.2023.a913472","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>abstract:</p><p>Scholars agree that you need to know 95‒98% of the words in a text in order to understand it. Using a digital and statistical analysis of a four-million-word corpus, we quantify the challenge of reaching this threshold in classical Latin. The vocabulary distribution has a long tail: to read with fluency you'd have to learn a lot of uncommon words. Because of the nature of the extant classical Latin corpus, this is an almost impossible task today. But Latin learners shouldn't despair. Instead, we should adjust our expectations, our teaching, and our reading practices. We make suggestions for possible changes.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138516335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rupture and Return: Introduction","authors":"Catherine Conybeare","doi":"10.1353/apa.2023.a913460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/apa.2023.a913460","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; Rupture and Return:&lt;span&gt;Introduction&lt;/span&gt; &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Catherine Conybeare &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;I più dimenticano che quando si esce dal tunnel si esce in un altro versante e in una diversa valle, non nella stessa valle e nello stesso versante dai quali si era partiti. Ignorare questa ovvia verità vuol dire rifiutare ogni e qualsiasi insegnamento contenuto nella crisi.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;Most people forget that when you come out of a tunnel, you emerge on a different slope in a different valley, not the same valley and the same slope from which you had set out. Ignoring this obvious truth means refusing any and every lesson contained in the crisis.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;in june&lt;/small&gt; 2020, &lt;small&gt;chiara gamberale&lt;/small&gt; published a book, &lt;em&gt;Come il mare in un bicchiere&lt;/em&gt;, that puts on record the uncertainty, the fears, the striving for connection of the first couple of months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The book presents a set of freewheeling conversations between the eponymous \"Chiara\" and her friends; they are interspersed with verbal snapshots of particular moments and thoughts, from one of which my epigraph is taken. I picked up the book at a train station in November 2022 and read it at a gulp. It reminded me of sensations that had become buried as the pandemic restrictions wore on: fear, yes, and agitation, and (paradoxically) sometimes a transfigured calm, but above all an urgent sense that nothing would be the same again. I have read nothing else that captured that moment so well.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Perhaps the image of emerging from a tunnel into a new landscape is obvious, but I found it very striking. (I was reading the book as I traveled down the Ligurian coast, going in and out of tunnels every few minutes.) That was exactly how I had felt in the solitude of lockdown: that those of us fortunate enough to come through the pandemic would recommit to each other and to the world in ways that recognized a whole new landscape. We would beautify that landscape and—as it were—make it sustainable. The protests after the death of George Floyd and the reopening of a wide conversation &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 303]&lt;/strong&gt; around race that should never have been closed were part of the urgency in the new landscape. So was a fresh awareness among many of the needs of the neurodivergent or physically disabled. So was a renewed appreciation for the environment, the beauties of birdsong and of the seasons. Initiatives around social and environmental justice were eagerly taken up, not least by those in our own discipline. Surely the view when we emerged from the tunnel would be of a more socially equitable and environmentally conscious society? Surely we could continue that momentum?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Of course, that is not how it happened. Pandemic restrictions went on for far longer than anyone but the e","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138516364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Origin Stories: Plundered Libraries and Theories of Appropriation in Greek and Roman Imperial Literature","authors":"Alexandra Leewon Schultz","doi":"10.1353/apa.2023.a913468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/apa.2023.a913468","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>abstract:</p><p>This article argues that anecdotes about Roman generals plundering foreign libraries were a type of Roman origin story that gained traction among imperial authors writing about the republican past. Scholars have traditionally treated these anecdotes as historical sources that document not only the beginnings of Roman literary, scientific, and book history, but also Rome's ability to transform military victory into cultural and intellectual conquest. Adopting a different approach, I argue that anecdotes about plundered libraries were a means by which imperial authors contested the extent and nature of foreign cultural influence on Rome and hence the makeup of Romanness itself.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138516351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Aeneas's Trousseau: Gender(ed) Exchange in Aeneid 1","authors":"Rachel Lilley Love","doi":"10.1353/apa.2023.a913469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/apa.2023.a913469","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>abstract:</p><p>Dido's gifts to the shipwrecked Trojans in book 1 of the <i>Aeneid</i> resemble suitors' gifts (ἕδνα) recorded in the Hesiodic <i>Catalogue of Women</i>. Reading Dido against a Hesiodic rather than Homeric model casts her as a suitor of Aeneas, which in turn lends further coloring to the composition of Aeneas's reciprocating gifts of a <i>palla</i> (\"dress\"), <i>uelamen</i> (\"veil\"), <i>corona</i> (\"crown\"), and jewelry, gifts associated in Greek tragedy with the bridal trousseau (φερναί). The (imperfect) recasting of Dido and Aeneas as suitor and bride, respectively, only becomes legible when better attention is paid to the gendered dynamics of exchange and modes of female communication within the <i>Aeneid</i>.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138516361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editors' Note","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/apa.2022.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/apa.2022.0013","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Editors' Note <!-- /html_title --></li> </ul> <p><small>for this issue's <em>paragraphos</em>, we</small> commissioned a piece on \"Race, Recovery, and Hope,\" jointly authored by Bridget Murnaghan (SCS President 2020) and Shelley Haley (SCS President 2021), to reflect on the two consecutive presidential panels, focused respectively on William Sanders Scarborough (SCS 2021) and Helen Maria Chesnutt (SCS 2022), dedicated to race and the discipline of Classics. The forthcoming special issue of <em>TAPA</em>, \"Race and Racism: Beyond the Spectacular,\" edited by Sasha-Mae Eccleston and Patrice Rankine, will continue the work of interrogating racism and exclusion in the discipline and mapping both intellectual histories and future disciplinary outcomes.</p> <p>At the same time as we draw attention to ongoing concerns of race in the discipline, we offer this issue of <em>TAPA</em> with significant concern surrounding gender. The recent pool of submissions has lacked the gender diversity we expect, and is far more skewed than the 60/40 split between men and women that has roughly characterized SCS annual meeting submissions and <em>TAPA</em> submissions and publications in the past. While this basic imbalance itself is problematic, what we have seen in recent submission pools is a cause for even greater alarm. We have initiated an internal review of our process, while recognizing that the principal source of the problem is not a mystery: the pandemic has exacerbated the challenges for caregivers in the labor force generally, and its disproportionate effect on women in academia—and especially women with children—has been widely observed. We do not cite this fact to evade responsibility, but to assume it: as a journal that aims to publish the best in Classics research, <em>TAPA</em> fails in its mission if it does not publish work by authors of all genders, races, and backgrounds.</p> <p>We know there is more to do. We are eager to partner with SCS members and the broader <em>TAPA</em> readership to identify ways to support greater gender diversity in the journal. This includes improving our mechanisms for collecting anonymized data to ensure that trans, genderqueer, and nonbinary authors are adequately represented. We invite thoughts as to how to do this, and more broadly, how to contend with the extraordinary burdens—which the pandemic has only increased—on the time and energy of scholars with caregiving responsibilities. How can we recognize and encourage the contributions <strong>[End Page ix]</strong> of scholars of all genders in the journal? We will be holding open houses throughout the year to learn from authors, readers, and SCS members. We invite all to share feedback with us by email (tapa@princeton.edu). <strong>[End Page x]</strong></p> Copyright © 2022 Society for Classical Studies ... </p>","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138516331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Voice of the People: Popular Symposia and the Non-Elite Origins of the Attic Skolia","authors":"Gregory S. Jones","doi":"10.1353/APA.2014.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/APA.2014.0013","url":null,"abstract":"<p class=\"summaryheading\"><span class=\"summaryheading\">summary:</span></p><p> This paper reexamines the known performance contexts of the <i>skolion</i> in light of recent advances in our understanding of sympotic demographics and Greek popular culture, providing a close reading of select songs. In showing that the genre was primarily associated with public festivals and non-elite symposia, I argue that the Attic <i>skolia</i> were originally composed, performed, and transmitted by middling citizens at common symposia. Thus, we may isolate within the extant corpus of Greek literature a rare example of popular poetry that expresses the genuine voice of non-elites who articulated egalitarian views based on <i>isonomia</i> independently of elite sources. </p>","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"43 9 1","pages":"229 - 262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2014-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84779394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}