{"title":"Epigram Reading Epigram: Antipater of Sidon “Coming Second” (<i>Anth. Pal.</i> 9.25)","authors":"Simon Zuenelli","doi":"10.1086/726650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726650","url":null,"abstract":"Anthologia Palatina 9.25, an important testimonium for the reception of Aratus’ Phaenomena, is either ascribed to Leonidas of Tarentum or Antipater in the manuscript tradition. In this article, I propose that the epigram was authored by Antipater of Sidon. First, I demonstrate that the poem, which—as I suggest—is modeled on Callimachus 56 HE (Epigr. 27 Pf.), self-consciously reflects its own secondary position within the literary tradition. Secondly, I show that this interest in epigonism is closely paralleled by epigrams authored by Antipater of Sidon, which exhibit both a similar imitative method and an interest in “secondness.” In so doing, my analysis also suggests innovative approaches for the readings of several of Antipater’s epigrams and sheds new light on his poetics of imitation more generally.","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":"135369130","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":":Choral Constructions in Greek Culture: The Idea of the Chorus in the Poetry, Art and Social Practices of the Archaic and Early Classical Period","authors":"Giovanni Fanfani","doi":"10.1086/726408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726408","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42502956","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":"A New Satyric or Comic Fragment from Praeneste?","authors":"J. Kwapisz","doi":"10.1086/725139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725139","url":null,"abstract":"A little-studied mosaic from Praeneste represents a scene of a beauty contest, which may be the Judgment of the Goddesses, although possible interpretations also include the contest between Cassiopeia and the Nereids. It has been overlooked that the inscription in the mosaic is metrical: a part of an iambic trimeter. This is probably a fragment of a comedy or a satyr play, from the scene that the mosaic depicts.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49318153","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":"Protagoras on How Political Communities Come to Be","authors":"J. M. Robitzsch","doi":"10.1086/725202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725202","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses Protagoras’ account of how political communities come to be in Plato’s Protagoras. The paper argues against recent readings of Protagoras’ culture story that attempt to assimilate it to Aristotle’s account by claiming that the text prefigures the Aristotelian thesis that human beings are political animals by nature. Instead, the paper suggests that Protagoras’ account is part of a different tradition of political thinking, political conventionalism, that is among others associated with Democritus and Epicurus and his followers and that is known as social contract theory in one of its most fully developed forms. Key characteristics of this tradition are an emphasis on the lack of security in the original condition of humankind and human weakness as the primary reason why human beings decided to live together in communities. However, while Protagoras’ account clearly prefigures a kind of political conventionalism, the paper also points out that this account lacks an important feature of social contract theory, namely, agreements as the means by which humankind transitioned from the original condition to life in communities.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44445886","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 Shadow of the Bellum Perusinum in the Ending of Vergil’s Eclogues","authors":"Nicola Piacenza","doi":"10.1086/725201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725201","url":null,"abstract":"The article points out that in the final lines of Vergil’s tenth Eclogue, the insistence on the term umbra could be explained by the Mantuan poet’s intention to allude to the contemporary bellum Perusinum, the conflict that led to Lucius Antony’s surrender through starvation and the destruction of Perugia. Some possible puns seem to support this hypothesis.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46809354","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":"Death, Memory, Intertextuality: Warrior Catalogues in Aeschylus’ Persians","authors":"D. Napoli","doi":"10.1086/725152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725152","url":null,"abstract":"When analyzed as an ensemble, the three warrior catalogues found in Aeschylus’ Persians reveal a striking multiplicity of intertexts operating under their surface. These intertexts, drawn from both literary and epigraphic sources, encourage the audience to understand the Persian warriors in two conflicting ways, at once close and distant from their experience, thereby prompting a complex emotional response. The ensemble of the warrior catalogues also showcases the play’s bold experimentation with the catalogue form, which is seamlessly incorporated into the dramatic texture or surprisingly hybridized with other forms.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46886653","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":"Life, Death, and Lightning: An Alternative Edition of Empedocles B 9 DK with Commentary","authors":"A. Corrado","doi":"10.1086/725200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725200","url":null,"abstract":"This paper offers an alternative edition of a well-known fragment of Empedocles’ poem On Nature, B 9 DK. The fragment is quoted by Plutarch in Against Colotes, which survives in only two manuscripts. The lines are very corrupt and many scholars have proposed various solutions and corrections to restore their original meaning. I offer a novel critical edition of the fragment with an English translation, two introductory chapters on the context and content of the fragment, and a textual commentary. In the introduction, I submit that the focus of the fragment is the life-creating power of the element fire, represented by Zeus’ lightning, mingling with or separating itself from the other elements. The edition also includes a detailed apparatus reporting all variants and previous critical interventions, the most noteworthy of which are also discussed in the commentary.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44598240","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":"Viewing Jerusalem in the Letter of Aristeas: Aesthetics, Experience, and Empire","authors":"M. Leventhal","doi":"10.1086/725162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725162","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the narrator’s viewing of Jerusalem and Judea, the Jerusalem Temple, and the high priest’s performance of the liturgy in the Letter of Aristeas (§§83–120). The first section considers the aesthetics that Aristeas views as operative in Jerusalem and demonstrates how his art-critical analysis of Jewish objects reveals them to follow Greek aesthetics more closely than Alexandrian artworks, which instead bespeak imperial excess. The second section proposes that, although he may appear to be on a military reconnaissance, the Letter highlights Aristeas’ experience of witnessing and being overwhelmed by the high priest Eleazar performing the liturgy. In concluding, it suggests that Aristeas’ mind-altering experience of viewing the liturgy in Jerusalem has great import for the narrative of the Torah’s translation into Greek. Telling the story of a Jewish translation involves a Greek transformation.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49431293","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":"Laughing Waves in Ancient Greek","authors":"Giordano Lipari, F. G. Sirna","doi":"10.1086/725233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725233","url":null,"abstract":"The unattributed ἀκύματος πορθμὸς γελᾷ, Aeschylus’ κυμάτων γέλασμα, Plato’s κῦμα ἐκγελῶν, Pseudo-Aristotle’s τὸ κῦμα ἐπιγελᾷ, and Strabo’s στόματα ἐπιγελῶντα imply images of waves as laughing, spanning centuries in the ancient Greek canon. A linguistically and physically consistent analysis clarifies prior uncertainties and flaws in their interpretation. The analogy with human laughter is at the heart of the ancient Greek vocabulary for wave motions; shoaling waves broke into figurative laughter. Our reanalysis reveals the wordplay preparing the third wave in Respublica 5, the Peripatetics’ study of the swell life cycle in Problemata 23, and an appropriate site description in Geographica 11.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49605606","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}