{"title":"Lucian, Aristophanes, and the Language of Intellectuals","authors":"David Stifler","doi":"10.1086/722590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722590","url":null,"abstract":"The Atticizing language of the Second Sophistic was a subject for frequent debate, a debate in which Lucian of Samosata was heavily involved. Old Comedy, especially Aristophanes, provided much of the Attic vocabulary from which writers of this period drew when undertaking their revival of Attic Greek, and Lucian’s prose is no exception. Lucian, however, is unique in his construction of a satirical voice to join the Atticism debate. Furthermore, as this article argues, Lucian’s mockery of deficient neo-Atticism draws on similar mockery in Aristophanes and other Old Comedy sources. By means of a self-conscious, agonistic program of reception, Lucian enlists Old Comedy voices as allies in lampooning other Imperial Greek authors.","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":"47266804","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":"“Neither a Demos nor a Polis”: Post-Seleucid Community Formation in the Book of Judith","authors":"Benedikt Eckhardt","doi":"10.1086/722610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722610","url":null,"abstract":"The Book of Judith has often been read against the backdrop of Judean politics in the second century BCE, with little tangible results beyond the questionable identification of fictional characters with historical figures. But with recent dates for the book converging around 100 BCE, another context comes into view: Judith is a story about war, politics, and community written in a post-Seleucid context. It can therefore elucidate questions we cannot normally hope to answer: How did Seleucid rule shape its subjects’ sense of community and expectations for the future, and how did this play out when the Seleucids were gone?","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":"42183416","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":"Pastoral between Words and Things: Theocritus, Ekphrasis, and Ontology","authors":"Yukai Li","doi":"10.1086/722589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722589","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes that the problem of pastoral irony (as formulated in Harry Berger’s seminal article on strong and weak pastoral) and the nature of ekphrasis are both clarified if they are understood as expressions of the desire for an escape from meaningful, signifying language and into the materiality of objects. Drawing on responses to Theocritus, readings of ekphrasis, and philosophical interpretations of the boundary between words and things, I argue that pastoral irony represents an initial moment of escape from signification, and ekphrasis a final moment of representing objects, mediated by a paradoxical object representing the negation of meaning.","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":"42270008","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":"Two Notes on the Pseudo-Hesiodic Aspis (ΑΤΟΝ, 59; ΑΑΤΑΙ, 101)","authors":"Ruobing Xian","doi":"10.1086/722516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722516","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I argue for an intertextual connection between Aspis 59 and the Iliadic formula Ἄρης ἆτος πολέμοιο as well as an intratextual one between ἆτον πολέμοιο (Sc. 59) and ἄαται πολέμοιο (Sc. 101). I further suggest that ἄαται is an artificial form which has been playfully invented by the composer. This morphological interpretation of ἄαται might shed some new light on the isolated epic forms ἕωμεν (Il. 19.402) and ἄμεναι (Il. 21.70) from the same root (*seh2- “satiate oneself”).","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":"47780725","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":"Who Called the Concordia of Tiberius’ Temple Concordia Augusta? Yet Another Problem for January 16 in the Fasti Praenestini","authors":"J. Lott","doi":"10.1086/722631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722631","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars have accepted, based on a single entry added to the Fasti Praenestini, that when Tiberius dedicated his rebuilt temple of Concordia in the Forum in 16 CE he renamed the goddess Concordia Augusta. This article argues that there is no other evidence for this renaming and that the epithet on the Fasti Praenestini was included as the result of local initiative rather than imperial action.","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":"41339353","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":"Medea’s Platonic Soul Takes Flight (Ap. Rhod. Argon. 3.1150–54)","authors":"A. C. Ficklin","doi":"10.1086/722355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722355","url":null,"abstract":"Commentators have long recognized a pair of Homeric allusions following Medea’s meeting with Jason (Argon. 3.1150–54), but they have overlooked an additional intertext that goes to the heart of her psychological state. I here argue that Plato’s Phaedrus, specifically the “winged chariot” simile of Socrates’ second speech (Phdr. 246a–56e), helps clarify the upward flight of Medea’s soul and (as already noted by Apollonian scholia) her loss of mental capacity. Homeric and Platonic contexts then interact, particularly around comparisons between Medea and Nausicaa, to produce a subtle, multilayered image of love’s madness.","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":"45552590","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":"Building Democracy in Late Archaic Athens. By Jessica Paga. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 247.","authors":"John Man-shun Ma","doi":"10.1086/721959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721959","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42214914","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":"Disability Studies and the Classical Body. Edited by Ellen Adams. London: Routledge, 2021. Pp. [xx] + 273.","authors":"Clara Bosak-Schroeder","doi":"10.1086/721992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721992","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46963530","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":"Doorways and Diegesis: Spatial and Narrative Boundaries in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses","authors":"B. Beck","doi":"10.1086/721535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721535","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that the difficulties that characters in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses experience at doorways symbolize, and often coincide with, the difficulties that readers experience in their attempts to negotiate the novel’s diegetic boundaries. Part 1 argues that the extensive overlap between the novel’s characters—in particular, Lucius, Aristomenes, Socrates, and Thelyphron, the sources of the novel’s first four extended narratives—complicates readers’ ability to negotiate narrative boundaries. Part 2 argues that readers find spatial analogues for their diegetic difficulties in scenes in which characters encounter difficulties at locked doors.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45654584","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":"Varro and the Romulean Tribes","authors":"J. Richardson","doi":"10.1086/721534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721534","url":null,"abstract":"It is often maintained that Varro dispensed with the usual explanations for the Tities, Ramnes, and Luceres—the so-called Romulean tribes—and simply made all three Etruscan. This view is inconsistent with the evidence. Varro was clearly developing a case of his own about the foundation of Rome, the early citizen populace, and the granting of citizenship. All the evidence can be accounted for very easily, if it is supposed that he had the tribes created when Rome was founded, but named only later in Romulus’ reign, following the war with the Sabines and the enrollment of new citizens.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41689258","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}