{"title":"The date of the Helen episode","authors":"C. E. Murgia","doi":"10.2307/3658536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3658536","url":null,"abstract":"CONTROVERSY continues concerning the authenticity of Virgil Aen. 2.567-588. Missing from the early Mss of Virgil, the lines survive only through quotation by Servius, who claims that the lines were originally composed by Virgil, but were left out by Tucca and Varius in the first edition. In general, textual critics, on grounds of the suspect quality of the tradition and of the language and style of the passage, deny authenticity,1 while literary critics maintain it.2 The latter","PeriodicalId":81378,"journal":{"name":"Harvard studies in classical philology","volume":"101 1","pages":"405-426"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3658536","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68869753","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":"Pleasures recalled: A.R. 3.813-814, Asclepiades and Homer","authors":"A. Sens","doi":"10.2307/3658533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3658533","url":null,"abstract":"recalls, through a nexus of allusions to Hellenistic and archaic poetry, a series of contexts whose implications for her own situation the naive and self-deceptive Medea fails to understand. The opposition between the delights of life and pleasurelessness of death is a widespread commonplace,3 but the language of 3.813 displays a specific resemblance to a verse from an epigram by Asclepiades (HE 816-819 [AP 5.85]) in which the speaker playfully reminds his vir-","PeriodicalId":81378,"journal":{"name":"Harvard studies in classical philology","volume":"69 1","pages":"303-310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3658533","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68870036","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":"THE TITLE OF AESCHYLUS' OSTOLOGOI","authors":"P. Grossardt","doi":"10.2307/3658528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3658528","url":null,"abstract":"T HERE are two competing theories concerning the correct meaning of the term'OroXo6yot in the title of Aeschylus' fragmentary play about the final stages of Odysseus' homecoming (TrGF 3 F 179-180). The word is certainly composed of bo6r# and X7Pytv, and therefore must be translated as \"bone-gatherers.\" But it is not completely clear what kind of bones are gathered and by whom precisely they are collected. According to the oldest hypothesis on the matter' the \"bone-gatherers\" would be the beggars in Odysseus' palace who ask for food and are happy to get bones at least.2 According to another opinion, now presumably the position of the majority of scholars, the title of the play points to the ancient custom according to which the relatives of a dead person collected the bones of their cremated family member and buried them in an urn,3 and in this case the \"bone-gatherers\" would be the suitors' relatives who execute their normal duty and act as the chorus of the play, seeking compensation from Odysseus and agreeing to a settlement only after a long dispute.4 A related though separate question is the generic classifi-","PeriodicalId":81378,"journal":{"name":"Harvard studies in classical philology","volume":"101 1","pages":"155-158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3658528","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68869624","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":"\"Quaestiones Pisonianae\": Procedural and Chronological notes on the S.C. De Cn. Pisone Patre","authors":"C. Mackay","doi":"10.2307/3658534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3658534","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81378,"journal":{"name":"Harvard studies in classical philology","volume":"101 1","pages":"311-370"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3658534","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68870121","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 Statius´ Thebaid","authors":"D. R. S. Bailey","doi":"10.2307/3185232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3185232","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81378,"journal":{"name":"Harvard studies in classical philology","volume":"100 1","pages":"463-476"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3185232","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69007784","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":"Epos as Authoritative Speech in Herodotos´ Histories","authors":"Alexander Hollmann","doi":"10.2307/3185216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3185216","url":null,"abstract":"E POS is one of several words used by Herodotos in his Histories to designate human speech. Others include: logos, ph6ne, rhema, rhisis, and mathos. Of these terms, logos is by far the most frequently found in the Histories (447 instances according to Powell's Lexicon to Herodotus) while epos occupies second place with some 81 instances. The other terms are far less frequent than these two, occurring 33 (ph6ne), 6 (rhema), 3 (rhisis), and 2 times (mathos). One can already tell from these figures something of the place that epos occupies in this spectrum: not the term most frequently used, but frequent enough to suggest that it functions as a substitute with narrower focus for the more common term, logos. This is in fact the thesis I will develop in this paper, that epos represents a term which carriers a greater \"semantic weight\" but which is more restricted in its range.' To use the terms of the Prague school of linguistics, I suggest that epos constitutes the marked member of the pair epos and logos, and designates speech that is somehow special, distinctive, and authoritative as opposed to speech in general. In what follows I will demonstrate that the marked nature of epos resides in its reference to authoritative speech, and, in conclusion, I will show how Herodotos' use of the term represents an interesting departure from the way it is used in Homer. Few have commented on the meaning of epos in Herodotos. When they do so, they tend to focus either on the meaning of epos as verse, or","PeriodicalId":81378,"journal":{"name":"Harvard studies in classical philology","volume":"100 1","pages":"207-226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3185216","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69007807","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":"\"Dream of a Shade\": Refractions of Epic Vision in Pindar's \"Pythian 8\" and Aeschylus' \"Seven against Thebes\"","authors":"G. Nagy","doi":"10.2307/3185211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3185211","url":null,"abstract":"T HIS essay explores the idea of epic in relative rather than absolute terms, with specific reference to the image of a \"dream of a shade\" in Pindar's Pythian 8 and Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes.' In both form and content, these two poetic creations contain features that may be described as epic in nature. The main argument of this essay is that such features, as refracted separately in the two distinct genres of tragedy and victory ode or \"epinician,\" are in fact complementary in revealing a unified picture of epic as a genre in its own right.2 The problem is, we cannot even begin to piece together such a picture without a clarification of the idea of epic as a genre. So I offer this premise: that the genre of epic, as well as any other genre, cannot be defined absolutely, as if it belonged to Plato's world of Forms (in the usage of Plato, the very idea of \"Form\" is expressed by the same word that means \"genre\": eidos).3 Rather, genre needs to be defined both","PeriodicalId":81378,"journal":{"name":"Harvard studies in classical philology","volume":"100 1","pages":"97-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3185211","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69008057","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 Distant Anatolian Echo in Pindar: The Origin of the Aegis Again","authors":"Calvert Watkins","doi":"10.2307/3185205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3185205","url":null,"abstract":"IN a paper presented at the Hittite and Anatolian Symposium honoring Hans G. Gfiterbock at the American Oriental Society's meeting of March of 1997 I argued for the diffusion to Hellas of the Hittite sacral hieratic symbol of the Hunting Bag (KU~kursas) in the second millennium, where it can be identified in the Greek sacral hieratic symbol of the aegis (aicdy), attested from Homer onward. Since the publication of the proceedings of this symposium, due from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and edited by Aslihan Yener, is apparently delayed, and since my contribution and its presentation was addressed more to a Hittitological audience than a Classical one, I take the liberty of resuming here the main points of my argumentation, and expanding slightly the attention to the Iliad' before passing to Pindar. That the Hittite cult object kursas designates a \"hunting bag\" (KUS is the Sumerographic determiner for objects made of hide) is now generally accepted, thanks to a series of iconographic and textual identifications by Popko, Dinqol, Alp, and decisively by Guiterbock in the Fs. H. Kantor (1985), now reprinted in his Selected Writings (1997).2 The representation on the frieze of the stag rhyton of Norbert Schimmel collection is clear (fig. 1): between a seated deity (of uncertain identification) and a tree (probably the sacred GI~eya) are two spears, a quiver with arrows, the kursas bag with strap handle, and a stag's head and forelegs. The history of the identification was set forth by Gregory McMahon in 1991,3 who provided a valuable account of the character-","PeriodicalId":81378,"journal":{"name":"Harvard studies in classical philology","volume":"100 1","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3185205","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69007468","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":"MUSAI HYPOPHETORES: APOLLONIUS OF RHODES ON INSPIRATION AND INTERPRETATION","authors":"J. M. Gozález","doi":"10.2307/3185219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3185219","url":null,"abstract":"HIS paper offers a critical review of an old, well-known zetema. We examine Apollonius' use of 3nropiTjop at Argonautica 1.22, and explore what it reveals about his understanding of inspiration and interpretation in the poem, and the corresponding role he assigns to the Muses. We shall argue that the scholarly debate, a choice between the acceptations \"suggester\" and \"interpreter,\" has not as yet been properly framed: the meaning \"interpreter\" can be conceded, but the question remains-whose interpreter? To the received opinion \"interpreter of the poet\" we shall oppose the alternative \"interpreter of Apollo's oracles and will,\" which set off and direct the progress of the epic.' We shall ground this understanding of U3rol'piop in the Homeric precedent of Iliad 16.235, which we deem the correct interpretive framework. And we shall find our poet eminently concerned with the interplay of \"inspiration,\" whose source is the will of Apollo, and \"interpretation,\" that is, the explication of Apollo's will by the poet and his access to Apollo's intentions-an access crucially dependent on the mediation of the Muses, herein portrayed as subordinate to Apollo. Apollonius' poetics, then, reveal a profound concern with the hiddenness of the divine purpose and the intrinsic complexity of recovering past heroic traditions: seers and mediating deities, preeminently, the Muses, help the poet unravel their fabric.","PeriodicalId":81378,"journal":{"name":"Harvard studies in classical philology","volume":"100 1","pages":"269-292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3185219","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69007878","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}