{"title":"Alcaeus, Pittakos ‘son of “Hyrras”’, and the Lesbian aristocracy, or ‘How to do things with words’","authors":"Alexander Dale","doi":"10.1017/s007542692300068x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s007542692300068x","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper offers a reassessment of the representation of Pittakos, tyrant of Lesbos, in Alcaeus’ verse. I begin by examining the textual evidence for Pittakos’ father, Hyrras, before progressing to re-evaluate the evidence for the aristocratic clans of Lesbos as attested in the Lesbian poets. Building on this, and with reference to the patronymic/gentilic Arkheanaktidās seemingly used of Pittakos in Alcaeus, I relate the preponderance of patronymic forms found in Alcaeus’ verse to the iambic and comedic use of ‘characterizing’ patronymics in -(ι)δᾱς. I then argue that both ῎Υρρας and Ἀρχϵανακτίδας are to be interpreted via a cross-cultural and bilingual rhetoric of kingship, with the latter being in essence a calque of a Lydian intermediary of the Luwian designation ura- handawati -, ‘great king’, with ὔρρας and its derivatives in Alcaeus a nominalization of the Luwian adjectival stem ura -, ‘great’. This argument is then related to the increasing evidence for Lesbos as a central locus for Graeco-Anatolian cultural exchange. The end result is a comprehensive reassessment of historical reconstructions emanating from the texts of Sappho and Alcaeus, as well as a reassessment of Alcaeus’ poetic objectives in his attacks on Pittakos, ‘son of Hyrras’.","PeriodicalId":46515,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF HELLENIC STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135241984","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}
{"title":"(M.R.) CHRIST Xenophon and the Athenian Democracy: The Education of an Elite Citizenry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. x + 215. $29.99. 9781108797757.","authors":"Robert Holschuh Simmons","doi":"10.1017/s0075426923000873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075426923000873","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":46515,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF HELLENIC STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135635331","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}
{"title":"(P.) KYRIAKOU, (E.) SISTAKOU and (A.) RENGAKOS (eds) Brill’s Companion to Theocritus. Leiden: Brill, 2021. Pp. xix + 832, illus. €195/$234. 9789004373556.","authors":"Richard Rawles","doi":"10.1017/s0075426923000721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075426923000721","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":46515,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF HELLENIC STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135635340","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}
{"title":"(E.) MACKIL and (N.) PAPAZARKADAS (eds) Greek Epigraphy and Religion: Papers in Memory of Sara B. Aleshire from the Second North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. Leiden: Brill, 2021. Pp. xiv + 360. €120. 9789004442535","authors":"Christopher de Lisle","doi":"10.1017/s0075426923000885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075426923000885","url":null,"abstract":"(E.) MACKIL and (N.) PAPAZARKADAS (eds) Greek Epigraphy and Religion: Papers in Memory of Sara B. Aleshire from the Second North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. Leiden: Brill, 2021. Pp. xiv + 360. €120. 9789004442535","PeriodicalId":46515,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF HELLENIC STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135635336","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}
{"title":"(S.) CONNELL (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle’s Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii + 355. £85. 9781107197732.","authors":"Norah Woodcock","doi":"10.1017/s0075426923000824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075426923000824","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":46515,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF HELLENIC STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135635334","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}
{"title":"(A.P.) JUDSON The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B: Interpretation and Scribal Practices. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xx + 352, illus. 50 figs, 21 tables. £90. 9781108494724.","authors":"Vassilis Petrakis","doi":"10.1017/s0075426923000812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075426923000812","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":46515,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF HELLENIC STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135635335","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}
{"title":"(D.M.) JOHNSON Xenophon’s Socratic Works (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies). Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. Pp. xii + 330. £130. 9780367472047.","authors":"Shane Brennan","doi":"10.1017/s0075426923000976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075426923000976","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":46515,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF HELLENIC STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135320993","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}
{"title":"(D.C.) WOLFSDORF (ed.) Early Greek Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xxviii + 799. £110. 9780198758679.","authors":"Rupert Sparling","doi":"10.1017/s0075426923000861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075426923000861","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":46515,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF HELLENIC STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135113564","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}
{"title":"(J.) ARFT Arete and the <i>Odyssey</i>’s Poetics of Interrogation: The Queen and Her Question. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xii + 362. £90. 9780192847805.","authors":"Benjamin Folit-Weinberg","doi":"10.1017/s0075426923000708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075426923000708","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46515,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF HELLENIC STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135217635","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}
{"title":"(T.) JOHO Style and Necessity in Thucydides. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xi + 354. £90. 9780198812043.","authors":"Rosaria Vignolo Munson","doi":"10.1017/s0075426923000745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075426923000745","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":46515,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF HELLENIC STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135113092","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}