{"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":"117 1","pages":"282 - 302"},"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":"117 1","pages":"324 - 342"},"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":"117 1","pages":"259 - 281"},"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}
{"title":"On Aeschylus’ Fragment 429a Radt (= 599a Mette)","authors":"M. Sandri","doi":"10.1086/718646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718646","url":null,"abstract":"New evidence provided by MS Barocci 68 proves that Aeschylus’ fragment 429a Radt is to be excluded from future editions. The deletion of frag. 429a Radt is not without consequences for a textual issue in Aeschylus’ frag. 164 Radt.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":"117 1","pages":"386 - 389"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43137847","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":"Tragic Hexameters and Generic Archaeology: Hera’s Hymn to the Nymphs (Aesch. Frags. 168–168b Radt)","authors":"Enrico Emanuele Prodi","doi":"10.1086/718801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718801","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the hexameter piece in Aeschylus’ fragments 168–168b Radt (probably from Semele or Water-bearers), a hymn to the nymphs of Argos sung by Hera while disguised as a wandering priestess. First I detail the way in which the text evokes and adapts the tradition of hymnic poetry in hexameters (instantiated, among others, by the Homeric Hymns) in both content and form. Then I argue that Aeschylus performs an exercise in generic archaeology, recreating an archetypal stage of the hymnic tradition in the fitting context of a mythical episode.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":"117 1","pages":"234 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45321806","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":"To kalliston kleos: Cassandra’s Reformulation of Heroic Values in Euripides’ Trojan Women","authors":"Celsiana Warwick","doi":"10.1086/718676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718676","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that Cassandra’s speeches in Euripides’ Trojan Women critique and revise the rhetoric of Athenian funeral oration by drawing upon the themes and tropes of lament. In making her seemingly paradoxical claim that the Trojans are more fortunate than the Greeks, Cassandra blends funeral oration’s valorization of glorious death with lament’s emphasis on the pain that war causes for women and other noncombatants. By synthesizing these two viewpoints, she formulates a new code of conduct for warriors that grants glory only in wars that do not damage the stability of the oikos.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":"117 1","pages":"343 - 363"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42457137","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":"Tragedy: Reconstruction and Repair","authors":"Sarah H. Nooter","doi":"10.1086/718678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718678","url":null,"abstract":"This piece introduces the issue through two scholarly methodologies: reconstruction and reparative reading. After briefly contextualizing these methods, it introduces each article under one rubric or the other and inquires into the status of our knowledge, and pursuit of knowledge, in regard to Greek tragedy.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":"117 1","pages":"229 - 233"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47540065","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 Trachiniae 1021–22","authors":"Ludovica Medaglia, Glenn W. Most","doi":"10.1086/718782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718782","url":null,"abstract":"Lines 1021–22 of Sophocles’ Trachiniae, which come right after a notorious and probably insoluble textual crux, have received much less attention but are in fact extremely problematic as well. Though these lines can be construed, they cannot be understood adequately. The scholia propose two implausible ancient interpretations; modern scholars have suggested either no less implausible interpretations of the transmitted text or unsatisfactory emendations for it. The coauthors of the present note suggest a different strategy for emending the text, which results in two different and alternative suggested conjectures.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":"117 1","pages":"389 - 399"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43390320","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 King and the Falcon: Euripides in an Egyptian Ritual","authors":"Hanna Gołąb","doi":"10.1086/717208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/717208","url":null,"abstract":"An ostracon from Edfu (O. Edfu 326 = SH 989) inscribed in the late Ptolemaic period is a fascinating example of cultural hybridity in late Hellenistic Egypt. So far, however, the short text has been analyzed mostly from the Greek perspective and, as a result, remains grossly misinterpreted. This note brings to light the neglected Egyptian dimension of the text and demonstrates that the short song merges Euripides’ Phoenissae with a festival of the Coronation of the Sacred Falcon in Edfu, on the basis of cultic associations of the gods Horus and Helios.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":"117 1","pages":"184 - 191"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43509301","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":"Orpheus’ Head at the Mouth of the Meles: Conon Narratives 45","authors":"Brian D. Mcphee","doi":"10.1086/717158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/717158","url":null,"abstract":"Most of Conon’s Narratives is only available as abridged by Photius in the Bibliotheca, but epitomization has introduced many obscurities into Conon’s often-idiosyncratic stories. This paper examines one such obscurity in Conon’s Orpheus narrative (45), namely, his decapitated head’s discovery by the mouth of one Meles River—a unique mythological variant. Against scholarly uncertainty, this river can be confidently identified with the Smyrnean Meles, which connects meaningfully with the Orpheus myth both via its Homeric associations and by means of etymological wordplay. These interconnections testify to a level of literary sophistication in the Narratives that abridgment has tended to conceal.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":"117 1","pages":"209 - 219"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45988044","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}