{"title":"Callimachean Tradition and the Muse’s Hymn to Ceres (Ov. Met. 5.341–661)","authors":"C. Sampson","doi":"10.1353/APA.2012.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/APA.2012.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This paper supplements the work of Hinds 1987 by arguing thatthe Sicilian setting for the abduction of Proserpina inMetamorphoses5 marks Ovid’s engagement with Callimachean style and poetic tradition, and that the influence of Hellenistic works (especially the Aetia) on this passage is richer and more complex than has been acknowledged. I aim to show in particular how Ovid manipulates the poetic and intellectual background on which he draws, to which end I take recourse to a new Ptolemaic-era papyrus, as well as a reanalysis of the hymn’s structural and thematic cohesion.","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"192 1","pages":"103 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2012-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74190074","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":"From Hellas with Love: The Aesthetics of Imitation in Aristaenetus’s Epistles","authors":"Regina Höschele","doi":"10.1353/APA.2012.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/APA.2012.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Combining general observations on Aristaenetus’s use of the epistolary medium, which serves to bridge the gulf between the author’s present and Hellas’s literary past, with a close reading of two epistles, my article investigates the aesthetics of imitation underlying this collection of amatory letters. I show how issues of artistic mimesis are treated both in the opening text (1.1), which programmatically reflects upon the style of Aristaenetus’s work, its imitative nature and the fictionality of his epistolary loves, and in Ep. 2.10, written by a painter in love with his own creation.","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"445 1","pages":"157 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2012-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82896794","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":"Will the Epicurean Sage Break the Law if He is Perfectly Sure that He Will Escape Detection?: A Difficult Problem Revisited","authors":"G. Roskam","doi":"10.1353/APA.2012.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/APA.2012.0000","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with a notorious vexata quaestio in the domainof the Epicurean philosophy of law and justice: will the Epicurean sage break the law if he can be sure that his deed will never be detected (εἰδὼς ὅτι λήσει)? Epicurus himself remained quite cautious on this topic, as appears from his answer that “the unqualified predication is not free from difficulty.” After a discussion of several traditional interpretations, which often unduly neglect the paramount importance and far-reaching implications of the εἰδὼς ὅτι λήσει-presupposition, I argue that the Epicurean sage will in the end judge each case on its own merits, using pleasure as his only criterion while taking into account the particular circumstances.","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"71 1","pages":"23 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2012-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85889440","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":"Religious Feasting in Apuleius's Metamorphoses: Appetite for Change?","authors":"S. Tilg","doi":"10.1353/APA.2011.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/APA.2011.0012","url":null,"abstract":"The phenomenon of religious feasting in Apuleius's Metamorphoses has been largerly overlooked or played down by scholarship so far. In fact, food and feasting constitute a significant part of the last, so-called Isis Book of the Metamorphoses, all too often reduced to the story of a more or less ascetic religious experience. The significance of shared meals at the ultimate stage of Apuleius's narrative has consequences for our interpretation of the Metamorphoses in general and allows some conjectures about its potential secondary reception through recitals.","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"92 1","pages":"387 - 400"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2011-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89888564","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":"Death by Elegy: Ovid's Cephalus and Procris","authors":"J. Hejduk","doi":"10.1353/APA.2011.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/APA.2011.0008","url":null,"abstract":"<p class=\"summaryheading\"><span class=\"summaryheading\">summary:</span></p><p>This paper examines how Ovid manipulates the elegiac trio of love, art, and disease/wounding/medicine. In particular, it argues that the stories told by, to, and about Cephalus and Procris in the <i>Ars Amatoria</i> and <i>Metamorphoses</i> reify the clichés of elegy, showing art—like love—to be both deadly and salvific. These themes parallel the affairs of Apollo and the poet's own narrative autobiography.</p>","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"45 1","pages":"285 - 314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2011-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73707254","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":"Virgil's Program of Sabellic Etymologizing and the Construction of Italic Identity","authors":"Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill","doi":"10.1353/APA.2011.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/APA.2011.0016","url":null,"abstract":"I argue that several Sabellic glosses, in addition to the two already recognized by Servius, are to be found in Aeneid 7, and that the preponderance of Sabellic etymological plays in this book constitutes an implicit declaration by Virgil that the remaining half of the epic is to be anchored to Italian soil.","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"101 1","pages":"265 - 284"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2011-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78094576","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":"Deus ille noster: Platonic Precedent and the Construction of the Interlocutors in Cicero's De oratore","authors":"W. Stull","doi":"10.1353/APA.2011.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/APA.2011.0015","url":null,"abstract":"In a letter to Atticus defending the treatment of Scaevola in De oratore, Cicero appeals both to the example of Plato, \"that god of ours,\" and to the memory of what the real Scaevola was actually like. Turning from the letter to De oratore itself, I show how this juxtaposition of Platonic divinity and Roman memory reflects a pattern present in the prefaces to each of the three books. I argue that Cicero presents his characters, in pointed response to Plato in general and the Phaedrus in particular, in such a way as to privilege history and oratory over philosophy.","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"19 1","pages":"247 - 263"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2011-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89422294","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 Strange Love of the Fish and the Goat: Regional Contexts and Rough Cilician Religion in Oppian's Halieutica 4.308-73","authors":"E. Lytle","doi":"10.1353/APA.2011.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/APA.2011.0010","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines one of the better-known episodes in Oppian's Halieutica, an unusual account that describes first the strange desire of a fish, the σαργός, for the goat, and then the bizarre way in which that desire is manipulated by humans to capture the fish (4.308-73). Although it has been dismissed by most previous scholars as the product of ignorance, misunderstood source material or poetic imagination, I argue that this account can be elucidated by evidence for social, economic and religious contexts in the poet's native Rough Cilicia.","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"6 1","pages":"333 - 386"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2011-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90364248","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":"Sex on Capri","authors":"E. Champlin","doi":"10.1353/APA.2011.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/APA.2011.0009","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses words notoriously coined to convey the \"dark pleasures\" of Tiberius Caesar in his last years on Capri (27-37 <small class=\"caps\">C.E. </small>). The <i>OLD</i> defines them thus: <i>sellarium</i> \"A privy\"; <i>sellarius</i> \"A type of male prostitute\"; <i>spintria</i> \"A type of male prostitute.\" These definitions are both wrong and misleading. <i>Sellaria</i> (<i>sic</i>) should be taken as a proper noun connoting \"The Brothel\"; <i>sellarius</i> does not exist; and <i>spintria</i> should be understood as \"bracelet worker,\" including both males and females. Real prostitution is not involved, but rather an extreme form of traditional elaborate private theatricals.","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"61 1","pages":"315 - 332"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2011-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86035340","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":"Berenice and her Lock","authors":"D. Clayman","doi":"10.1353/APA.2011.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/APA.2011.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Callimachus's \"Lock of Berenice,\" which concludes the Aetia, was written for and about Berenice II, the wife of Ptolemy III Euergetes. This poem and Callimachus's \"Hymn to Athena\" are presented as portraits of the queen that treat some aspects of her questionable past in a way that is positive, yet nuanced. Material evidence, including a cameo, a mosaic portrait, faience jugs, and documentary papyri shed further light on her public persona.","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"12 1","pages":"229 - 246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2011-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82562730","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}