CLASSICAL WORLDPub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/clw.2023.0009
Hongyu Sun
{"title":"Q. Marcius Philippus in the Third Macedonian War","authors":"Hongyu Sun","doi":"10.1353/clw.2023.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2023.0009","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Q. Marcius Philippus (cos. I, 186; II, 169; cen. 164) is generally considered a duplicitous diplomat by both ancient and modern historians. This paper re-examines his diplomacy in the Third Macedonian War. It can be argued that Marcius was more interested in promoting his own political interest than in tricking and harming the Greeks. There was no novelty in Marcius' diplomacy. Instead, Scipio Africanus and Flamininus had provided precedents for his behavior. The paper also examines Polybius' and Livy's portrayals of Marcius and explores the roles played by Marcius in the historians' overall arrangements of the war narrative.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":"116 1","pages":"299 - 328"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46331517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CLASSICAL WORLDPub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/clw.2023.0007
Nikos Manousakis, E. Stamatatos
{"title":"Authorship Analysis and the Ending of Seven Against Thebes: Aeschylus' Antigone or Updating Adaptation?","authors":"Nikos Manousakis, E. Stamatatos","doi":"10.1353/clw.2023.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2023.0007","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The present paper revisits the discussion concerning the authenticity of a crucial part in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes: the highly controversial ending of the play. Much has been written on the subject by various scholars, and even though there is now a general consensus that at some point in antiquity the ending of the play was \"touched\" by an author other than Aeschylus, the problem still remains unresolved in its devilish details. The question is of critical importance for classicists and theatre practitioners but also for anyone interested in classical literature, since, if the ending in the manuscripts is in fact Aeschylean, then Aeschylus could have been the first dramatist—long before Sophocles—to put on stage a defiant Antigone, eager to bury her brother Polyneices despite the civic prohibition. If the ending is spurious, then this will decisively affect how the play in question is read, studied, and staged. To address the problem, we used various tried and tested computer authorship attribution methods: Common n-grams, Support Vector Machines, and n-gram tracing. Thus, this study sheds new, interdisciplinary light on an old and perplexing philological question.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":"116 1","pages":"247 - 274"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47458405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CLASSICAL WORLDPub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/clw.2023.0008
Joshua Paul
{"title":"Quicumque Meos Violavit Amores: Romantic Roadblocks and the Inmates of Tartarus in Tibullus 1.3","authors":"Joshua Paul","doi":"10.1353/clw.2023.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2023.0008","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:One common thesis on the underworld of Tibullus 1.3 suggests that the elegist casts the prisoners of Tartarus as enemies of love. In this article, I argue that the residents of Hades correspond not to nebulous obstacles between Tibullus and Delia but rather to precise character types readers encounter throughout the elegies. I consider specific verbal correspondences in book 1 of Tibullus to highlight parallels between Tityos and the farmer–soldier, the Danaids and Delia, Cerberus and the custos, Tantalus and the rival pederast, Tisiphone and the lena, and Ixion and the dives amator.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":"116 1","pages":"275 - 297"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46366240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CLASSICAL WORLDPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1353/clw.2023.0002
Federico di Pasqua
{"title":"A Lover not a Fighter? Poetic and Aristocratic Honor in Tibullus 1.3","authors":"Federico di Pasqua","doi":"10.1353/clw.2023.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2023.0002","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Tibullus 1.3 constructs a narrative that blends traditional and elegiac themes. This synthesis, instantiated in Delia's matronly virtue and the love poet's militaristic epitaph, constitutes the poem's narrative core, in which Tibullus establishes a traditional dimension for his amorous pursuits. Furthermore, by casting himself as a Roman Odysseus, the speaker asserts heroic status for himself, both as a litterateur and as an upright Roman male. 1.3, at the same time, highlights Tibullus' loyalty to his milieu, pledged on the poet's imaginary epitaph, thus embedding his erotic pursuits as a love poet within the traditional values (honos, pudicitia, pietas) of Rome's elite.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":"116 1","pages":"173 - 193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43977210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CLASSICAL WORLDPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/clw.2022.0027
John Ma
{"title":"Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis by Sarah C. Humphreys (review)","authors":"John Ma","doi":"10.1353/clw.2022.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2022.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":"116 1","pages":"108 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49386225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CLASSICAL WORLDPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/clw.2022.0025
S. Sansom, Todd Clary, Carolyn Aslan
{"title":"Active Learning Techniques to Enhance Conceptual Learning in Greek Mythology","authors":"S. Sansom, Todd Clary, Carolyn Aslan","doi":"10.1353/clw.2022.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2022.0025","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Students in large-enrollment humanities courses need each other and frequent instructor feedback to learn complex concepts. This article details active learning techniques and assessments that we used to increase student communication, engagement, and learning in a large-enrollment, university-level Greek mythology course. We first inventory these techniques, including polling, structured-analysis activities, and two-stage exams, before demonstrating them at work with a concept central to our course, the oral palimpsest. We then assess their effect on student learning and show how expanded opportunities for communication and practice increased student comprehension of a difficult mythological concept.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":"116 1","pages":"105 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47126703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CLASSICAL WORLDPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/clw.2022.0024
S. R. Knighten
{"title":"Like Father, Like Son? Reading & Rereading Homer's Odyssey in Daniel Mendelsohn's An Odyssey","authors":"S. R. Knighten","doi":"10.1353/clw.2022.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2022.0024","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The cultural presence of Homer's Odyssey throughout literary history cannot be understated. It is a text that has inspired endless reading and adaptation, especially in the twenty-first century. One new adaptation stands out among the ever-growing list of Odyssey reinterpretations. Daniel Mendelsohn's 2017 memoir An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic recounts a classics professor's experience teaching his octogenarian father in an undergraduate course on Homer's epic. This essay explores the way Mendelsohn's memoir reads and rereads the father-son relationship in the Odyssey. Through the use of the epic convention of anagnorisis (recognition) as well as by challenging the poem's standard for father-son relationships, Mendelsohn explores the extent to which a son can truly know his father and succeed him.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":"116 1","pages":"51 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43892082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CLASSICAL WORLDPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/clw.2022.0023
S. Cianciosi
{"title":"The Presence of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura in Girolamo Vida's Christiad","authors":"S. Cianciosi","doi":"10.1353/clw.2022.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2022.0023","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Christian readers engaged for centuries with Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and often contrasted or harmonized its Epicurean ideas. By analyzing a series of loci similes, I suggest that the imitation of Lucretius in a Neo-Latin epic written in sixteenth century Italy, Girolamo Vida's Christiad, represents a polemical response to that ancient author. Learned readers experienced cognitive dissonance when they could recognize the Lucretian intertexts. However, a systematic and usually contrastive adaptation showed them how to refute the false doctrine advocated by that Epicurean poem in what amounts to an extremely crafted case of Neo-Latin intertextuality, a still understudied area.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":"116 1","pages":"23 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48629642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CLASSICAL WORLDPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/clw.2022.0022
M. G. González, S. Cianciosi, S. R. Knighten, S. Sansom, Todd Clary, C. Aslan, A. Crisà, John Man-shun Ma
{"title":"Persians, a Long Thrēnos","authors":"M. G. González, S. Cianciosi, S. R. Knighten, S. Sansom, Todd Clary, C. Aslan, A. Crisà, John Man-shun Ma","doi":"10.1353/clw.2022.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2022.0022","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Starting from the idea that in Persians Aeschylus was attempting to arouse fear and pity in the audience (rather than glee at victory over the enemy), I propose to demonstrate that one of the resources he deployed to this end was the use of vocabulary and formulas typical of the genre of funerary epigraphy. This enabled him to present Persian grief in terms very familiar to the Athenian–and more generally, the Pan-Hellenic–audience. The influence of funerary epigraphy has not yet been analyzed in relation to Persians, but such an approach may shed new light on our understanding of this play.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":"116 1","pages":"1 - 105 - 107 - 108 - 108 - 110 - 111 - 114 - 22 - 23 - 49 - 51 - 73 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45529663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CLASSICAL WORLDPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1353/clw.2022.0018
Michael Furman
{"title":"Developing a Graduate Level Pedagogy Course: A Test Case at Florida State University","authors":"Michael Furman","doi":"10.1353/clw.2022.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2022.0018","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article explores the issue of pedagogical training for graduate students in the field of classics using the program at Florida State University as a model. After establishing the current state of available training in Ph.D. granting institutions across the United States and identifying the importance of such training, a framework for a graduate level pedagogy course is built using the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). This framework can be used by any program looking to offer specialized pedagogy training to their graduate students.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":"115 1","pages":"417 - 438"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48676726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}