{"title":"Hesychia in Thucydides","authors":"Martha C. Taylor","doi":"10.1086/721533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721533","url":null,"abstract":"A comprehensive examination of words for quiet (ἡσυχάζειν, ἡσυχία, etc.) in Thucydides shows three things. First, although quiet can serve as a political metaphor for an anti-Athenian anti-imperialist conservative ideal it does not always do so. Second, in an unstudied cluster, Thucydides uses the prepositional phrase καθ᾿ ἡσυχίαν—meaning to do something at one’s own pace on the battlefield—to help chart the diminished competence of the Athenians in the Sicilian expedition. Third, in a final cluster, Thucydides uses words for quiet to describe the surprising self-control that the Athenians displayed during the stasis of 411.","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":"47892544","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":"Hollow Love: Discourses of Desire and Delusion in Turnus’ Pursuit of the Phantom in Aeneid 10","authors":"Kenneth L. Draper","doi":"10.1086/721554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721554","url":null,"abstract":"In Aeneid 10.636–88, Juno creates a phantom Aeneas and tricks Turnus into chasing it off the battlefield and onto a departing ship. In this article, I consider a feature of the episode that has not received critical attention: Virgil uses a suite of intertexts (Lucretius 4, Catullus 63 and 64, and Horace’s Carm. 3.27) to cast Turnus as a deluded lover of Aeneas. I argue that by assimilating Turnus’ martial struggles to the sufferings of love, Virgil draws our attention to the erotics of warfare—the frustrated desires and tragic delusions of combat.","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":"42010716","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":"Sappho’s Second Book","authors":"Mark de Kreij","doi":"10.1086/721691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721691","url":null,"abstract":"The second book of the Alexandrian edition of Sappho’s poetry contained distichs in the dactylic pentameter. Two papyri of the end of the book are extant, with complementary parts of the final poem in the book: frag. 44 V. One further papyrus, containing a mythical narration about Artemis (frag. 44A V), is usually attributed to Sappho’s second book as well. The nature of these fragments makes them stand out within the corpus of Sappho’s poetry, and could suggest a link between the second book, the dactylic metre, and the mythical narratives in the extant fragments. A thorough study of the material and literary evidence reveals a very different picture. The discovery of an asteriskos on P.Fouad inv. 239 proves beyond reasonable doubt that it is not a fragment of Sappho’s second book. Moreover, the papyrological evidence demonstrates that her epic-style poem on the wedding of Hector and Andromache (frag. 44 V), is not representative of Book 2 either. The remaining fragments, mostly from quotations, present a much more homogeneous picture of poetry concerned with young women and the poetic I’s interactions with them.","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":"49409381","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 Roots of Divination in Archaic Poetry","authors":"Amit Baratz","doi":"10.1086/721576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721576","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers an analysis of a neglected aspect of divination in Archaic Greek literature. It aims to demonstrate that often divination stems from a self-contained ability to obtain hidden knowledge irrespective of the gods. In the human realm, seers prophesy not by divine inspiration or through reading divine signs, but by their own autonomous prophetic faculty. In the divine realm, the gods use various means of divination to obtain knowledge of what lies above and beyond them. Lastly, nature is conceived as possessing independent mantic resources of its own. The conclusion explains how these three phenomena developed from one essential religious conception.","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":"46203518","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":"Foaming Cups: A Textual Note on Valerius Flaccus Argonautica 1.815","authors":"M. Heerink, Pieter van den Broek","doi":"10.1086/721577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721577","url":null,"abstract":"In this note we argue that in line 815 of Book 1 of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica spumantia should be read—a reading of one manuscript, which was independently also conjectured by Nicolaas Heinsius—and not the manuscript reading fumantia, which is printed by all editors. We argue for the reading from three perspectives: the sacrificial context of the passage, the intratextual contact with another passage from the Argonautica, and the intricate intertextual contact with a passage from Silius Italicus’ Punica.","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":"45642174","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 River Oeroe on the Battlefield of Plataea (Hdt. 9.51 and Paus. 9.4.4)","authors":"J. Pâmias","doi":"10.1086/721537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721537","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that the river’s name Oeroe in Boeotia (attested in Hdt. 9.51 and in some manuscripts of Paus. 9.4.4) is to be rejected in favor of the reading Peroe (found in some manuscripts of Pausanias).","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":"44311037","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 Aesthetics of Disgust in Lucretius’ De rerum natura","authors":"Rebecca Moorman","doi":"10.1086/721538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721538","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues that the plague in Lucretius’ De rerum natura facilitates an aesthetic experience founded on disgust that is distinct from the sublime, or the notion of aesthetic fear more regularly recognized in Book 6. Fear and disgust each respond to a different kind of death—sudden demise or slow decay—and a different aesthetic category is needed to describe the reader’s experience of overcoming each form of death. The reader’s ability to derive positive pleasure from the plague is a culmination of the philosophical education for which the poet has been preparing his audience throughout De rerum natura.","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":"44138246","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":"Scattering Seeds: The Lyncus and Triptolemus Episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses","authors":"Hannah Sorscher","doi":"10.1086/721555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721555","url":null,"abstract":"A brief episode at the end of Book 5 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the story of Lyncus and Triptolemus, performs a significant structural role as a transition between the first and second pentads. Through thematic connections and verbal parallels, the episode looks back to the poem’s first human transformation, Lycaon’s, as well as forward to stories of Tereus, Procne, and Philomela (Book 6) and Erysichthon (Book 8). The tale also foreshadows major themes in Books 6–10, such as human family drama, and invites metapoetic interpretation that points to its structural importance.","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":"46339901","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 Case for the 399 BCE Dramatic Date of Plato’s Cratylus","authors":"Colin C. Smith","doi":"10.1086/721536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721536","url":null,"abstract":"I here revive and support the hypothesis that Plato’s Cratylus is set in 399 BCE, on the day of Theaetetus and Euthyphro and before that of Sophist and Statesman. To revive it, I suggest that the cases for competing dramatic dates are weaker. To support it, I show that the connections between Cratylus and Euthyphro warrant reconsideration, and I address neglected dramatic details, the role of etymology in religious esotericism, and some missed connections between the philosophical concerns of the two dialogues. I conclude by suggesting ways in which this hypothesis yields promising new horizons to explore.","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":"45038630","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":"Moretvm 45: An Emendation","authors":"Boris Kayachev","doi":"10.1086/721532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721532","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues that the text of Moretum 45, transuersat durata manu liquidoque coacta (“kneads (?) the dough made firm and dense with his hand and water”), has two problems: first, the asyndetic conjunction with the preceding line is harsh; second, the verb transuersare is otherwise unattested in classical Latin and does not produce a plausible sense here. Both problems are simultaneously solved by writing et uersat: “and keeps turning over the dough as it is being made firm and dense with his hand and water.”","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":"48030840","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}