{"title":"IMPERSONATING THE BANISHED PHILOSOPHER PSEUDO-SENECA'S LIBER EPIGRAMMATON","authors":"N. Holzberg","doi":"10.2307/4150047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4150047","url":null,"abstract":"poetry has been to convince the majority of critical readers that the persona of the banished ego must, like its counterpart first-person personae in the poet's other works, be perceived as the product of poetic engineering. Ovid stages his appearance in the role of exul as an elegiac part spoken in monologues and letters. The content of an elegy is traditionally a lament, to be voiced in the first person, and in the Amores the circumstances which Ovid's persona has occasion to bewail had been those of an elegiac lover. A similar situation, with some modifications, forms the backdrop for the Tristia and the Epistulae ex Ponto. Like the poeta amans, the poeta exulans complains that he is denied access to a particular place-now no longer the puella's bedroom, but his hometown, Rome-and that this \"lock-out\" is due to the hard-heartedness, or duritia, of a certain person there: in this case not an imperious lass, but an imperial ruler, Augustus. As many studies of the exile elegies have shown, Ovid frequently avails himself here of the diction and themes of erotic elegy, so much so that, just like his earlier works, these last of his poetic compositions have at times all the appearance of an intertextual parlor game.' In the two elegy collections, Tristia and Ex Ponto, the allusions to other works of literature which the player-reader is supposed to recognize also take the form of structural parallels. The experiences of the poeta exulans are recorded poem by poem in chronological order, and similar ongoing unfolding can be found in the Greek collections of fictional prose letters that survive from Hellenistic and imperial times. These can be seen as predecessors of the modern epistolary novel. I See esp. Stroh 1971:250-255; Nagle 1980:42-70; Labate 1987; Videau-Delibes","PeriodicalId":81378,"journal":{"name":"Harvard studies in classical philology","volume":"102 1","pages":"423-444"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4150047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69358713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dionysus and Donkeys on the Streets of Alexandria: Eratosthenes' Criticism of Ptolemaic Ideology","authors":"J. Pâmias","doi":"10.2307/4150038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4150038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81378,"journal":{"name":"Harvard studies in classical philology","volume":"102 1","pages":"191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4150038","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69359086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nisus and Euryalus: exploiting the contradictions in Virgil's doloneia","authors":"S. Casali","doi":"10.2307/4150045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4150045","url":null,"abstract":"The contradiction in the reception of the Nisus and Euryalus episode arises not from misunderstandings of the episode by one set of readers or the other, but as a contradiction created by the intertextual nexus that the « Aeneid » establishes with other literary texts. The peculiarity of the episode of Nisus and Euryalus is an allusion to the peculiarity of Il. 10, the Homeric Doloneia. Allusions to other literary texts (Aen. 9, 226 alludes to Lucretius 1, 86 and Aen. 9, 227 to Lucilius, fr. 4 Marx) create negative connotations. Furthermore, the Doloneia enters the « Aeneid » in Book 1 (1, 469-473) as an example of a biased text. Thus Vergil foresees the pessimistic interpretation and the resistance to the bias of his text. But Vergil also foresees the optimistic interpretation and the political uses of his text.","PeriodicalId":81378,"journal":{"name":"Harvard studies in classical philology","volume":"7 1","pages":"319-354"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4150045","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69359161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On editing the Silvae: a response","authors":"D. R. S. Bailey","doi":"10.2307/4150049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4150049","url":null,"abstract":"N S he says, C.'s contribution is not a review of my Loeb edition but, in the main, a collection of censures; though to judge from CR 31 (1981) 39-42 (see my Select Classical Papers, 361 f.), a review, if he had written one, would have been on similar lines. Note the treatment of the original conjectures in my text (I count 29 and six in the apparatus): three disfavored, one approved, one shown to have been anticipated. The rest apparently provided nothing to his purpose. But to proceed seriatim:","PeriodicalId":81378,"journal":{"name":"Harvard studies in classical philology","volume":"102 1","pages":"455-460"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4150049","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69358725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ovid, Varro, and Castor of Rhodes: the chronological architecture of the Metamorphoses","authors":"T. Cole","doi":"10.2307/4150046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4150046","url":null,"abstract":"N his 1887 Gittingen dissertation Erich Bethe proved conclusively, through close comparison of nearly two hundred passages in Hyginus, Apollodorus, and the fourth book of Diodorus Siculus, that all three authors must have drawn, whether directly or indirectly, on the same non-extant source or group of sources for significant portions of their accounts of mythological prehistory.' Bethe himself believed that the source was a single, comprehensive handbook, and in this form his thesis has had a mixed reception among Apollodorus specialists.2 The audience they provided was inevitably a small one, however. The main impact of the dissertation was felt elsewhere-as a result of the prospect its final pages offered of things rather more interesting to come: proof-to be provided at a later date (\"alio loco de eo mihi erit latius disserendum\")-that the same handbook source, or one very much like it, had been used extensively by Ovid in the Metamorphoses, and a more accurate general picture of the ancient mythographical tradition and the nature of Ovid's borrowings from it.3","PeriodicalId":81378,"journal":{"name":"Harvard studies in classical philology","volume":"102 1","pages":"355-422"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4150046","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69358709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A legacy from the library of the Lyceum? inquiry into the joint trasmission of Theophrastus' and Aristotle's metaphysics based on evidence provided by maniscripts E and J","authors":"Miriam Hecquet-Devienne","doi":"10.2307/4150037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4150037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81378,"journal":{"name":"Harvard studies in classical philology","volume":"102 1","pages":"171-190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4150037","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69359079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}