{"title":"Alcibiades's Epiphanic Experience in Plato's Symposium","authors":"Zacharoula A. Petraki","doi":"10.5406/23285265.47.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23285265.47.1.03","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In Plato's Symposium, Alcibiades resorts to the imagery of art and describes the Socratic virtues in terms of \"divine statues.\" In this paper, I argue that Plato makes Alcibiades use the poetics of divine salvific and erotic epiphany in order to describe his (quasi) epiphanic experience at the sight of Socrates at Potidaia, Delion, and Agathon's house. First, I offer a brief account of scholarly views on this imagery and of my own contribution. Then, I discuss Alcibiades's Bacchic experience with Socrates qua Silenus, and I examine those passages in which Plato turns traditional epiphanic language to his own ends.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"45 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42554006","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":"Celestial Realm, Vegetal Worlds, and the Marvelous in the First Book of Kyranides","authors":"S. Piperakis","doi":"10.5406/23285265.47.1.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23285265.47.1.07","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The first book of the Hermetic Kyranides consists of 24 alphabetical chapters, one each listing a plant, a bird, a stone, and a fish, whose names all begin with the same letter of the Greek alphabet, and expounding their medical and magical properties. Even though the book deals entirely with the issue of natural sympathies and antipathies employed to attain various ends, it surprisingly lacks a great number of astrological references. My purpose in this paper is to analyze the rare and quite implicit at times relationships among stars and plants, including plant products, tracked down in the text.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"156 - 176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43822696","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 Hero's Narrative in Ovid's Heroides 9 and 13","authors":"Marianna Leventi","doi":"10.5406/23285265.47.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23285265.47.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Some letters in Ovid's Heroides include stories which the heroines imagine their lovers narrating. Thus, in some letters Ovid has constructed both a heroine's and a hero's narrative (the latter probably mediated by the former). This paper argues that there are similarities in the narrative strategies of the stories that Ovid attributes to the heroine and the hero in Heroides 9 (Deianira and Hercules) and 13 (Laodamia and Protesilaus), and then analyzes the interpretative possibilities that arise from this type of narrative assimilation. Through the use of intertextuality and relative mythological chronology, it also explores whether Ovid's heroines model their husbands after themselves as narrators, or whether their narratives are influenced by those of the heroes instead.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"101 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44720511","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":"Dis/ableism in the \"Problem of Claudius\": The Reception of Claudius's Disabilities in the Ancient Sources","authors":"Daniel James Kershaw","doi":"10.5406/23285265.47.1.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23285265.47.1.06","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:By utilizing methodological frameworks and techniques employed in Disability Studies and Disability History, this article aims to attenuate the historiographical \"problem of Claudius.\" Scholarship is currently at an impasse in reconciling the 'Suetonian/Senatorial' depiction of Claudius \"the fool\" and Claudius the progressive legislator, builder, and administrator that modern revisionism has discerned. By analyzing the disability bias that exists in the ancient literary material, this discussion demonstrates that ancient representations of Claudius are significantly distorted by ableist assumptions and disablist prejudice. In recognizing this, we can understand Claudius on a more contextually appropriate level, unencumbered by mutually exclusive depictions.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"132 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45745809","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":"Foreword to Oscar Serlin's The Soldier's Dilemma","authors":"Angeliki Tzanetou","doi":"10.5406/23285265.47.1.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23285265.47.1.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49064506","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":"Double-Bind, Baleful Hope: Peithô's Constraint in the Oresteia","authors":"Allannah Karas","doi":"10.5406/23285265.47.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23285265.47.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:At key moments of decision and action throughout Aeschylus's Oresteia, central characters actively or passively engage with the power of peithô (\"inducement\" or \"agreeable compulsion\"). The etymological and mythopoetic traditions of peithô, however, reveal deep roots in magical constraint and force. This paper demonstrates how, from Agamemnon through to the end of Eumenides, peithô enacts a magical double-bind upon nearly all of the characters: deluding them with power, producing mental weakness, shifting power dynamics, and occasioning potential (or actual) ruin. Only the Olympians wield peithô with impunity and, through it, maintain control within the new social structure.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"1 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48569453","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":"Theater, Performance, and Illusion in Ovid Metamorphoses 11","authors":"Edward S. Sacks","doi":"10.5406/23285265.47.1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23285265.47.1.05","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Themes of theater, performance, and illusion course through Metamorphoses 11. The theme of \"theater\" and its disintegration is established in the opening Orpheus episode and culminates in Ceyx-Alcyone, where Morpheus's self-conscious acting in Alcyone's dream shatters the usual harmony between actor and role. The unveiling of theater is also connected with the unveiling of metamorphosis. This latter disruption, in the Peleus-Thetis episode, involves crucial disclosures about metamorphosis by one metamorphic deity Proteus to defeat the transformations of another (Thetis). These disintegrations are part of connected motifs, wherein art, artist, and metamorphosis are severed into component parts and exposed to view.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"102 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47604881","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":"Praxilla's Adonis and the Female Voice: An Erotic \"Reverse Priamel\" in Sappho's Shadow and Nossis's Light","authors":"M. Panagiotopoulou","doi":"10.5406/23285265.47.1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23285265.47.1.02","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that the Adonis-fragment of Praxilla can be understood as an inverse priamel with allusions to Sappho and later echoes in Nossis. More specifically, a fragment composed by Praxilla is attached to a famous Sapphic poem, through the use of the priamel and the question of \"what is the most beautiful.\" The theme of both fragments is similar: love is a superior value. Praxilla's poetry emphasizes the importance of both spiritual and carnal erotic feelings. Furthermore, Nossis's connection to Praxilla's poem underscores the sensuality of its choices of diction. This exploration of the female poetic voice articulates the aesthetic views of women artists and their expression of feelings of sexual oppression in the context of ancient patriarchy in three different periods of antiquity.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"24 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44052263","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 Glimpse at the Melody of Ibycus? Accent Distribution in fr. 286 Page","authors":"A. Abritta","doi":"10.5406/23285265.46.1.2.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23285265.46.1.2.09","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper presents what seems to be a peculiar melodic design in Ibycus, fr. 286 PMG and shows how it contributes to our understanding of his poetry, in particular regarding how the tone of the words emphasizes the division between the sections of the poem. After a general introduction to the problem and the question of the relation between the tonal contours of ancient Greek music and language, the author introduces a \"melodic chart\" with the reconstructed tonal movements of the fragment. Finally, he attempts to show how this distribution of accents relates to the thematic division and responds to objections.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"163 - 175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42679795","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}