{"title":"Crates of Mallos and Pytheas of Massalia: Examples of Homeric Exegesis in Terms of Mathematical Geography","authors":"Tomislav Bilić","doi":"10.1353/APA.2012.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/APA.2012.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Crates of Mallos, a Hellenistic grammarian and geographer, is known to have combined Homeric exegesis and mathematical geography into a comprehensive world-view. His views appear to have influenced a tradition of map-making, as evidenced by an unusual late antique map that locates parts of Odysseus’s voyage from Aeaea to Hades according to Crates’ geography. This essay elucidates Crates’ geographical accounts of the Homeric Laestrygonians and of the constellation Draco and his understanding of the arctic circle in light of the map and of earlier geographers, particularly Pytheas of Massalia, who similarly incorporated Homeric references into his theorizing about the fixed arctic circle.","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"41 1","pages":"295 - 328"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2012-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77705187","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":"Bureaucratic Language in the Correspondence between Pliny and Trajan","authors":"K. Coleman","doi":"10.1353/APA.2012.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/APA.2012.0013","url":null,"abstract":"This article identifies and analyzes bureaucratic features in the language employed by Pliny and Trajan in Epistles 10 as an example of communication between two officials of senior but unequal status who were engaged in managing provincial affairs in the Roman empire.","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"25 1","pages":"189 - 238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2012-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88498410","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":"The Forging of a God: Venus, the Shield of Aeneas, and Callimachus’s Hymn to Artemis","authors":"Stephanie Mccarter","doi":"10.1353/APA.2012.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/APA.2012.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Callimachus’s Hymn to Artemis provides a useful intertext for tracing the development of Venus and Aeneas in Vergil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The Callimachean Artemis and Vergilian Venus each receive promises of future glory from their fathers, charm artisans into producing weapons that advance their divinity, and gradually emerge as powerful goddesses in their own right. Comparison with the Hymn furthermore shows how Aeneas’s status as a future god is guaranteed by his divine armor.","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"64 1","pages":"355 - 381"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2012-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76700441","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}
Neil Coffee, Jean-Pierre Koenig, S. Poornima, R. Ossewaarde, Christopher W. Forstall, Sarah L. Jacobson
{"title":"Intertextuality in the Digital Age","authors":"Neil Coffee, Jean-Pierre Koenig, S. Poornima, R. Ossewaarde, Christopher W. Forstall, Sarah L. Jacobson","doi":"10.1353/APA.2012.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/APA.2012.0010","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a new digital approach to intertextual study involving the creation of a free online tool for the automatic detection of parallel phrases. A test comparison of Vergil’s Aeneid and Lucan’s Civil War shows that the tool can identify a substantial number of meaningful intertexts, both previously recorded and unrecorded. Analysis of these results demonstrates how automatic detection can provide more comprehensive and accessible perspectives on intertextuality as an aggregate phenomenon. Identification of the language features necessary to detect intertexts also provides a path toward improved automatic detection and more precise definitions of intertextuality.","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"182 1","pages":"383 - 422"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2012-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91346254","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":"The Meaning of bōmolokhos in Classical Attic","authors":"Stephen E. Kidd","doi":"10.1353/APA.2012.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/APA.2012.0015","url":null,"abstract":"The bōmolokhos (buffoon, fool) has received misguided attention in comic scholarship due to a misunderstanding of Pherecrates fr. 150 KA. The second-century c.e. Harpocration (who cites the line) considers this passage to consist of a genuine etymology, and his view has gone roughly unchallenged ever since. But this is a mistake: the etymology which Pherecrates provides is not a legitimate one but rather a typical case of comic wordplay.","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"35 1","pages":"239 - 255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2012-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82183598","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":"On the Oscanism salaputium in Catullus 53","authors":"S. Hawkins","doi":"10.1353/APA.2012.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/APA.2012.0017","url":null,"abstract":"<p class=\"summaryheading\"><span class=\"summaryheading\">summary:</span></p><p> This paper argues that Catullus 53 deserves a place among the other programmatic statements in the poet’s work. By reconsidering a reference to this poem in Seneca’s <i>Controversiae</i> and the way in which the word <i>salaputium</i> is applied to Catullus’s close friend, C. Licinius Calvus, the article aims to show that the poem can be read as a re-fashioning of an old literary topos into a terse and truly witty neoteric statement. That statement has interesting ramifications both for the connections between neoteric poetics and Atticist rhetoric and for the interpretation of other poems in the Catullan oeuvre. </p>","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"57 1","pages":"329 - 353"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2012-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82843939","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":"Defining the Divine in Rome: In memoriam S. R. F. Price","authors":"D. Levene","doi":"10.1353/APA.2012.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/APA.2012.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Recent analysis of the imperial cult has argued that it can be best understood in terms of the lack of a fundamental division between gods and humans at Rome worshiping a human as a god was accordingly not a transgressive act. This paper challenges this interpretation, demonstrating that gods and humans were indeed usually conceived as separate species of being. The imperial cult was thus transgressive in theory; however, it primarily operated in contexts where that could be overlooked and the worship of humans as gods accordingly appeared unproblematic.","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"79 1","pages":"41 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2012-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86461890","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":"Odyssey 20.356-57 and the Eclipse of 1178 b.c.e .: A Response to Baikouzis and Magnasco","authors":"Peter Gainsford","doi":"10.1353/APA.2012.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/APA.2012.0006","url":null,"abstract":"The recent argument of Constantino Baikouzis and Marcelo Magnasco that Odyssey 20.356–57 preserves a reference to the solar eclipse of 26 April 1178 b.c.e . has received widespread attention in generalist publications. Unlike Carl Schoch’s 1926 argument, which came to the same conclusion,the new argument cannot be dismissed on the basis of the passage’s context. Baikouzis and Magnasco require several other tacit assumptions, however, and many of these may be rejected with great confidence.","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"36 1","pages":"1 - 22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2012-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88606210","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":"Pliny’s Epistolary Dreams and the Ghost of Domitian","authors":"Yelena Baraz","doi":"10.1353/APA.2012.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/APA.2012.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Letters that report dreams and visions showcase Pliny’s concern with controlling interpretation. I argue that in two letters on dreams Pliny advocates a confrontational response to negative dreams as a successful paradigm. I then read a letter that addresses the issue of the existence of ghosts with three tales. By comparing the first two tales with other versions by Tacitus and Lucian I analyze the implications of the letter’s structure and show how Pliny carefully crafts his narratives in an attempt to control the reader’s interpretation of the final story, crucial to his career under Domitian and his future reputation.","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"49 1","pages":"105 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2012-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78071110","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":"The (Cultural) Harmony of Nature: Music, Love, and Order in Daphnis and Chloe","authors":"Silvia Montiglio","doi":"10.1353/APA.2012.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/APA.2012.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Music in Daphnis and Chloe translates the order that governs the pastoral world. It is silenced when that order is shattered, especially by the irruption of love. Music, however, is not simply the expression of an idyllic order. It also participates in the education of the novel’s protagonists, who must grow to find a new order in their lives subsequent to love’s irruption: that new order is the institutionalization of love, matrimony, and the definition of man’s and woman’s roles in it. This paper attempts to show that Daphnis becomes an increasingly accomplished musician whereas Chloe’s music is gradually silenced, and argues that Longus endorses the musical education he maps.","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"13 1","pages":"133 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2012-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87910731","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}