{"title":"Bed Head: A Note on the Durability (and Subsequent Potential “Reuse”) of Women’s Hairstyles in Antiquity","authors":"Callie Callon","doi":"10.1086/720285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/720285","url":null,"abstract":"Basing her arguments on a modern recreation of women’s elaborate hairstyles worn in ancient Rome, Janet Stephens proposed that such styles were sewn into place, and therefore were durable and comfortable enough to potentially sleep in and wear for successive days. What has been lacking is an ancient attestation to this as actual practice for women in antiquity. I propose that this can be found in Clement of Alexander’s The Instructor. This not only likely demonstrates the veracity of Stephens’ theory, but also has other important implications for the study of female hairstyles. First, this can potentially serve as a welcome corrective to ancient male derogatory rhetoric on the purported excessive time and resources devoted to female hairstyling. Second, this can also perhaps elucidate the lived experience of real women engaged in self-fashioning and the status that was thought to accompany this in antiquity—not only in that such styles may have been available to more women than previously thought, but also in that those who utilized more than one slave to style their hair were showcasing all the more their status, as likely only one attendant was actually required to achieve the desired coiffure.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47725165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Control of the Laws in the Ancient Democracy at Athens","authors":"E. Harris","doi":"10.1353/book.79378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/book.79378","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48012203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Greek Superpower: Sparta in the Self-Definitions of Athenians. Edited by Paul Cartledge and Anton Powell. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2018. Pp. [x] + 239.","authors":"T. Figueira","doi":"10.1086/720067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/720067","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47344115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ethics of Revenge and the Meanings of the “Odyssey.” By Alexander C. Loney. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. [xii] + 265.","authors":"B. Beck","doi":"10.1086/719683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719683","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44183441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heralds and Messengers: Character Identity and Function in Greek Tragedy","authors":"Florence Yoon","doi":"10.1086/718685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718685","url":null,"abstract":"The term “messenger” is generally used in the discussion of Greek tragedy to identify an anonymous character who reports offstage events. Yet “messenger” is not a fixed identifier, to be used in parallel with character names, but a description of a fluid conventional function, best compared with terms such as “prologue-speaker.” By contrasting the messenger with the related figure of the herald we can more clearly articulate the distinction between a character’s in-world identity and his extra-dramatic function. This more specific usage is supported by the language of the plays, and its usefulness is demonstrated through a study of Sophocles’ Trachiniae.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44176597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extrametrical ΝΑΙ and ΕΙΕΝ in Greek Tragedy","authors":"James T. Clark","doi":"10.1086/718780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718780","url":null,"abstract":"This note examines all extrametrical occurrences of the phatic interjections ναί and εἶἑν in Greek tragedy. It first establishes that it is likely that extrametrical interjections were followed by a pause in delivery, that it is unusual for phatic interjections to be separated from the discourse in this way, and that the tragedians probably had some particular effect in mind when placing these words extra metrum. The ten passages are then examined in turn, and interpretations of the significance of the pauses are offered.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45888691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sophocles Electra 1050–57 and the Pragmatics of Tragic Exits","authors":"M. Catrambone","doi":"10.1086/718802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718802","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues for the authenticity of Sophocles Electra 1050–54, deleted in Lloyd-Jones and Wilson’s and Finglass’ editions. After a refutation of scholars’ earlier objections (including Stobaeus’ misleading attribution of 1050–51 to Sophocles’ Phaedra), two substantive arguments are advanced in favor of their retention: (1) in terms of scenic grammar, if 1050–54 were removed, Chrysothemis’ exit would be ineptly unnoticed, in contradiction with Sophocles’ usual handling of exits; (2) in terms of conversation analysis, 1050–54 replicate a pre-patterned sequence ubiquitously found in tragedy to terminate rapid dialogues when exits are involved, whereas their absence would make the closing unjustifiably abrupt.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49165037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"False Reports and Waiting Wives on the Home Front in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Sophocles’ Trachiniae","authors":"E. Weiberg","doi":"10.1086/718677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718677","url":null,"abstract":"Nostos plays such as Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Sophocles’ Trachiniae can be productively read within the context of the fifth-century Athenian home front. Focusing on wives’ receipt of false reports about their husbands in Agamemnon and Trachiniae, this article argues that Clytemnestra’s and Deianeira’s tense interactions with messengers both register Athenian wives’ anxieties about receiving untrustworthy information during their husbands’ absences and dramatize a double bind for wives on the home front, whose initiative in response to such reports is both demanded and condemned in the new circumstances presented by Athens’ fifth-century military revolution.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45206777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“The Famed Child of Menoeceus” (Eur. Phoen. 10)","authors":"Jennifer S. Starkey","doi":"10.1086/718644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718644","url":null,"abstract":"At lines 10–13 of Euripides’ Phoenician Women, Jocasta interrupts her account of the descendants of Cadmus to introduce herself as “child of Menoeceus” (παῖς Μενοικέως). This is striking because elsewhere it is always Creon who is so described. Moreover, Jocasta is strangely insistent upon her father’s and brother’s importance to her own identity. This paper explores the implications of this passage for Jocasta’s character, demonstrating how the prologue anticipates and intersects with a number of themes central to the play: glory (κλέος), motherhood, relationships between siblings, and the interweaving of the Spartoi with the Labdacids.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47311737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Murder, Logic, and Embryology: The Beginnings of Political and Moral Philosophy in Aischylos’ Oresteia","authors":"Dimitrios Iordanoglou, Johan Tralau","doi":"10.1086/718958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718958","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we argue that the trial scene in Aischylos’ Eumenides exhibits attempts at “internal critique,” that is, arguments refuting a thesis “from within,” for example, by identifying a logical inconsistency. Apollo, Orestes, and the Erinyes employ such techniques with varying success in three argumentative moves pertaining to murder, revenge, and kinship, thus showing and teaching the audience the art of such argument. While these techniques are typically considered Socratic-Platonic, we argue that this is a decisive moment in the history of argumentation, and possibly the first juncture in extant Greek literature where a character explicitly points out a contradiction.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46157171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}