{"title":"Ovid Metamorphoses 14.81–83 and 15.464–66","authors":"Konstantine Panegyres","doi":"10.1086/723878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723878","url":null,"abstract":"Ovid Metamorphoses 14.81–83 and 15.464–66 display a repeated wordplay on ira, which corresponds to the anger of human beings and gods being depicted in those lines. This wordplay may relate to the broader background of epic μῆνις.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43616834","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 Phaedo as an Alternative to Tragedy","authors":"David Ebrey","doi":"10.1086/724042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724042","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that the Phaedo is written as a new sort of story of how a hero faces death. The opening of the Phaedo makes clear that two features that Plato closely associates with tragedy, pity and lamentation, are inappropriate responses to Socrates’ impending death, and that tuchē (chance) did not affect his happiness. This is the first step in the dialogue’s sustained engagement with tragedy. For Plato, tragedy falls under the category of stories about heroes and gods. Plato wrote the Phaedo so that we would see Socrates as a philosophical hero, a replacement for traditional heroes such as Theseus or Heracles. In fact, I argue that the Phaedo meets every requirement in Republic Books 2–3 for how to tell stories about heroes and gods and so belongs to the same broad category as tragedy. Within this framework, it tells the story of how a true hero saved his companions through philosophy.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47030488","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":"Styx Dipping: Revisiting a Mother’s Nightmares (Achil. 1.133–34)","authors":"Julene Abad Del Vecchio","doi":"10.1086/723879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723879","url":null,"abstract":"In this note, I offer a supplementary reading of lines 133–34 of Statius’ Achilleid, concerned with Thetis’ nightmarish visions that see her dipping Achilles for a second time into the river Styx. I argue that she visualizes herself as carrying the dead body of her son, and submerging him herself into the river’s awful waters. Moreover, while prevailing interpretations have primarily concentrated on the veiled joke lurking behind these lines (namely, that the goddess did not make her son fully impenetrable), I suggest seeing a more direct allusion to Achilles’ mortal destiny.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41932488","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":"Helios or Jesus? The Last Words of the Emperor Julian","authors":"M. Marcos","doi":"10.1086/724131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724131","url":null,"abstract":"The death of the Roman Emperor Julian provided Christians with the opportunity not only for the return of a line of Christian emperors, but also for the use of the emperor’s supposed last words as proof of the supremacy of Christ over all else. This article studies the different verba ultima attributed to Julian by Eutychianus of Cappadocia, Philostorgius, and Theodoret and argues that Theodoret willfully edited the emperor’s last words as part of his apologetic and polemical agenda, to develop the emperor further into a character that aptly transmitted the fatalism of paganism and the triumph of Christianity.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46233666","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":":Latin Elegy and the Space of Empire","authors":"A. Riggsby","doi":"10.1086/723783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723783","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49217387","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":":Athens at the Margins: Pottery and People in the Early Mediterranean World","authors":"Catherine Kearns","doi":"10.1086/723828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723828","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46925820","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":"Writing Down Epic: Another Homeric Allusion in Horace Odes 1.6","authors":"Robert A. Rohland","doi":"10.1086/722537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722537","url":null,"abstract":"This note sheds new light on Horace’s translation of the opening of the Iliad at Odes 1.6. It is frequently noted that Horace’s parodic translation turns Achilles’ epic wrath into a bathetic “feeling of annoyance” (stomachus). Yet this note argues that Horace is indebted here also to Odyssey Book 17, which already included a similarly bathetic take on the opening of the Iliad. As Horace refuses to write epic poetry in Odes 1.6, he writes anti-epic poetry that is paradoxically at least as Homeric as any epic poem.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42474208","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 Misunderstood Passage and an Unnecessary Deletion in Aeneid 11.399–409","authors":"S. Casali","doi":"10.1086/722561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722561","url":null,"abstract":"This note deals with a difficult passage from the speech that Turnus gives to the Italian council in Aeneid 11. In lines 378–409 Turnus replies to Drances’ speech, but the relevance of 403–5 to his argument is not immediately clear. Accordingly, there is currently a consensus among editors and commentators, in whose opinion line 404 should be deleted. This note attempts to demonstrate that the deletion of 404 is not necessary, and that the current consensus interpretation of 403–5 is unsatisfactory.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44418146","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":"Pronouns, Persuasion, and Performance in the Athenian Courtroom: ΟΥΤΟΣ in Lysias","authors":"Peter A. O’Connell","doi":"10.1086/722615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722615","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the performative and rhetorical roles of the deictic pronoun οὗτος in the forensic speeches of Lysias. A distinction between deixis and anaphora, it argues, is inadequate to explain the connotations of οὗτος. Simultaneously a visual pointer and pronoun of givenness, οὗτος contributes to speakers’ rhetorical strategies by isolating the opponent from the speaker and judges and presenting the opponent (and his guilt) as already familiar to the judges. The connotations of οὗτος are often, but not always, negative. They depend on how the speaker presents the relationship among himself, his addressee(s), and the third party designated by οὗτος.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42827576","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 Split a Head in Two and Pop Out Eyeballs: On the Plausibility of Two Injuries in the Iliad","authors":"A. Abritta","doi":"10.1086/722570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722570","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of the present paper is to show the plausibility of two groups of injuries in the Iliad, a skull “split in two” (Il. 16.412–14, 16.578–80, 20.386–87) and the famous popping out of the eyeballs of two warriors hit with a stone in the face (Il. 13.614–18, 16.733–42). Each type of wound is studied by contrasting the descriptions in the poem with current medical research. The conclusions reflect on the issue of realism in the Homeric poems and the impact that the plausibility of the studied wounds have on it.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45653589","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}