{"title":"Meleager and Catullus at Vergil <i>Eclogue</i> 1.55","authors":"Taylor S. Coughlan","doi":"10.1086/726409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726409","url":null,"abstract":"Meleager’s pair of epigrams on a grasshopper and cicada (AP 7.195 = HE 12 and AP 7.196 = HE 13) were popular with Roman poets of the late Republic. Allusions to the companion epigrams feature in two of the most programmatically significant poems of the period, Catullus 2 and Vergil Eclogue 1. In this note, I propose a previously unrecognized allusive relationship between these two Latin poems and their engagement with the grasshopper epigram of Meleager. Both Catullus and Vergil recall the address to Meleager’s grasshopper at AP 7.195 as a παραμύθιον, but they interpret the meaning of the epithet quite differently. παραμύθιον has the attested meanings of either “encouragement/exhortation” or “consolation.” I argue that Vergil’s translation of παραμύθιον ὕπνου into somnum suadebit inire at Eclogue 1.55 is a direct response to Catullus’ earlier interpretation of παραμύθιον as solaciolum at 2.7. Vergil’s allusion to Catullus 2 serves to highlight the differences in erotic scenarios for the speaker of Catullus 2 and Tityrus and to demonstrate Vergil’s ability to creatively integrate Catullan erotic lyric into his bucolic poetic mode.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135369131","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":"Facts as Fiction in the Early Career of Aristophanes","authors":"Zachary P. Biles","doi":"10.1086/726535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726535","url":null,"abstract":"Aristophanic parabases regularly pose an interpretive challenge due to the competing objectives of historical inquiry and literary sensitivity, with the former often taking precedence. This article seeks a more balanced analysis in appraising Aristophanes’ representation of his early career in the parabases of Knights, Clouds, and Wasps. Attention to Aristophanes’ representational strategies in these passages reveals his concentration on the same details of his career activity, above all his reliance on didaskaloi to produce his plays; differences of detail that have been taken to point to a more complex picture of his professional development are attributable to differences of rhetorical interest and emphasis in each of these passages, determined further by the metaphors chosen to enliven the discussions. Particular effort is made to explain the unifying rhetorical framework of the Wasps parabasis and show how elements of the poet’s biography are enmeshed in features of the dramatic plot. All of which argues for a need for consistent literary contextualization in analyzing details of Aristophanic comedies.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135369129","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 Path of the Sun: Pindar <i>Olympian</i> 2.61–62","authors":"David Goodfellow","doi":"10.1086/726611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726611","url":null,"abstract":"This paper claims that Pindar’s Olympian 2.61–62 refers to the astronomical equinox by showing that the equinox, and its concomitant ecliptic, the “path of the sun,” has a significant connection to afterlife beliefs in the ancient world, derived from the Babylonian Enuma Elish. From this perspective, the problematic terms in this “eschatological” passage (53–69) arise simply. The explanation proposed is that the path of the sun is a place of afterlife judgment focusing on the three-month periods centered on the equinoxes (ἐστρίς ἑκατέρωθι), leading to an ascension via the planets, metaphorically climbing the “tower of Saturn” (παρὰ Κρόνου τύρσιν).","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135369230","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 Earliest Peripatetic Commentators in the First Century BCE and the Old Academy: A Neglected Antiochean Legacy","authors":"Tianqin Ge","doi":"10.1086/726410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726410","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the references to the members of the Old Academy in Andronicus and Boethus. I defend the proposition that these earliest Peripatetic commentators’ use of Speusippus and Xenocrates is indicative of their notion of “the ancients” and “the recent authors.” These first-century BCE Peripatetics attempt to return to “the ancients” or their philosophical authorities, namely Plato’s first pupils: Aristotle, Speusippus, and Xenocrates. Furthermore, it is argued that this philosophical agenda is indicative of the Antiochean influence, which enables us to reevaluate the philosophical exchanges between different philosophical schools in the first century BCE.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135368451","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":"Lucian <i>Verae historiae</i> 2.20 and the Relative Chronology of the Homeric Poems","authors":"Ruggiero Lionetti","doi":"10.1086/726411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726411","url":null,"abstract":"At Lucian Verae historiae 2.20 Homer is asked “whether he wrote the Odyssey before the Iliad, as most people say.” In the form in which it is transmitted, the text implies that the view that the Odyssey was composed before the Iliad was the (by far) prevailing one in antiquity. This paper argues that such an assumption is contradicted by all the positive evidence provided by literary sources and scholiography. The problem can be solved by correcting the transmitted τὴν Ὀδύσσειαν τῆς Ἰλιάδος into τῆς Ὀδυσσείας τὴν Ἰλιάδα. Thus emended, the passage reads: “whether he wrote the Iliad before the Odyssey, as most people say.”","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135369127","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":"New Perspectives on the Meaning of <i>cum galeare ursici</i> (Char. <i>Gramm.</i> 1.80 = <i>GL</i> I 80.9 = Barwick 101.5–6)","authors":"Umberto Verdura","doi":"10.1086/726375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726375","url":null,"abstract":"This note aims at analyzing the text of Charisius Grammatica 1.80 = GL i 80.5–10 = Barwick 101.1–7, and at offering new perspectives on the meaning of the quotation from C. Gracchus cum galeare ursici, with a particular focus on the adjective ursici. This paper will argue that a solution might be to amend the transmitted text to cum galeare ursino and to understand its meaning as “with a bearskin cap,” using Vegetius Epitoma rei militaris 2.16.2 as a parallel.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135369133","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":"<i>Sus</i> and <i>Mus</i> in Lucretius (<i>De rerum natura</i> 5.25), Vergil (<i>Georgics</i> 1.181), and Horace (<i>Ars poetica</i> 139)","authors":"T. H. M. Gellar-Goad","doi":"10.1086/726376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726376","url":null,"abstract":"This note argues that the Lucretian hexameter-final monosyllable Arcadius sus (5.25) stands at the beginning of a Roman hexameter tradition of satiric final-monosyllable animals, echoed by Vergil’s exiguus mus at Georgics 1.181 and Horace’s ridiculus mus at Ars poetica 139. Lucretius’ sus, in context, deflates and deglamorizes the boarish Labor of Hercules; Vergil’s mus makes the satiric subtext explicit, and playfully suggests that pest control is a Herculean task; Horace’s mus folds the satiric epic pattern in on itself, by using it to satirize epic.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135368452","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":"Chronos the Master Craftsman in the Sisyphus Fragment (Critias <i>TRGF</i> 1 [43] F 19)","authors":"John Henry","doi":"10.1086/726373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726373","url":null,"abstract":"The present note discusses the Sisyphus fragment by Critias and aims to clarify Sisyphus’ invocation of “Time, the master craftsman” in lines 33–34 in light of his scientific atheism.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135368453","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":"Alcidamas and the Idea of Literary History: P. Mich. Inv. 2754","authors":"Henry L. Spelman","doi":"10.1086/726374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726374","url":null,"abstract":"The problematic and important P. Mich. Inv. 2754 is generally agreed to preserve part of Alcidamas’ Mouseion, and that work is in turn generally agreed to lie behind the extant Contest of Homer and Hesiod. Building on and sometimes diverging from James Porter’s recent contribution in this journal, this essay offers new answers to long-standing problems. Section 1 interprets the difficult final lines of the Michigan papyrus. Section 2 adduces corroborating evidence by drawing parallels with the Contest. Section 3 argues that the papyrus preserves the end of Alcidamas’ Mouseion, which was also known as his On Homer. Section 4 offers a more holistic interpretation of the Mouseion and its epilogue.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135368450","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}