{"title":"Senses and the Sacred in Pliny's Natural History","authors":"E. Manolaraki","doi":"10.5406/ILLICLASSTUD.43.1.0207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/ILLICLASSTUD.43.1.0207","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper discusses an overlooked aspect of Pliny's Natural History (HN): the embodiment through the senses of the Stoics' universal deity. At several junctures in the work, readers are prompted to make contact with the immanent numen naturae by hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching its perishable manifestations. Pliny's emphasis on the \"lesser\" senses as vehicles for a human-divine relation is worth examining as an innovative gesture in connection with the prominence of sight in imperial Stoicism. Moreover, identifying the function of Pliny's sensorium brings the HN in dialogue with the field of the senses in antiquity, and especially with the role of the senses in religion.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"207 - 233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44337314","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":"Turning Heads: Alexander and the Animals","authors":"A. Cohen","doi":"10.5406/ILLICLASSTUD.43.1.0088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/ILLICLASSTUD.43.1.0088","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article engages with two intriguing pictorial tropes, two \"pathos formulas,\" in the art of the late Classical and Hellenistic periods, one well known and one hardly noticed. The latter is a stylized head pose adopted by animals in the popular imagery of the hunt. This pose assigns humanlike consciousness to animals, thus raising bigger interpretive questions. The ancient understanding of Alexander's personality and/or appearance as leonine presents the reverse relationship, whereby the animal takes priority in conceptualizing the human. The well-known pathos formula explored in this connection concerns Alexander himself, whose turn of head is among the most frequently invoked but imperfectly understood aspects of his portraiture.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"136 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43220772","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":"Socrates, Satyrs, and Satyr-Play in Plato's Symposium","authors":"D. Sansone","doi":"10.5406/ILLICLASSTUD.43.1.0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/ILLICLASSTUD.43.1.0058","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the Symposium Plato associates Socrates with satyrs and satyr-play for two reasons: First, satyr-plays were the creation of tragic, not comic, playwrights, and Plato wishes to present his Socratic dialogues as the heirs to the prestige of an elevated, not a lewd, genre; second, the figure of the satyr, for all his rampant sexuality, is traditionally barren, a characteristic that Plato assigns (metaphorically) to Socrates in his role as midwife to the fecund minds of young men.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"58 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44106899","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 Cult of Peace on the Athenian Stage during the Peloponnesian War: From Euripides's Cresphontes to Aristophanes's Peace and Beyond","authors":"L. Athanassaki","doi":"10.5406/ILLICLASSTUD.43.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/ILLICLASSTUD.43.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper argues that Euripides in Cresphontes (produced probably in 424 B.C.E.) and Aristophanes in Farmers (423 B.C.E.) and Peace (421 B.C.E.) reflect and promote the plan of the peace enthusiasts in Athens to institute an official cult of the goddess in the city once peace with Sparta was agreed; through investigation of contemporary and later literary and visual evidence (including Aristophanes's Acharnians and Lysistrata, Thucydides, and Plutarch) it offers an explanation why this plan was not fulfilled till much later, i.e., after the Peace of Timotheus in 374 B.C.E.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"1 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45906941","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":"Regina Aurea (Aen. 1. 697–98)","authors":"M. Putnam","doi":"10.5406/ILLICLASSTUD.43.1.0176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/ILLICLASSTUD.43.1.0176","url":null,"abstract":"the subject of the striking adjective aurea has been a topic of debate since antiquity. servius offers us two choices: “si ‘Dido aurea’, pulchram significat, et est nominatiuus, si ‘sponda aurea’, septimus quidem est, sed synizesis fit, et spondeus est.” In other words, we can take aurea in the nominative to go with dido, in which case it is the equivalent of pulchra, or, as an example of synizesis, it is attached to sponda, the gilded couch on which she is reclining. if we opt for the latter interpretation, as commentators do generally, we should bear in mind the words of R. G. austin, in his note on line 698, that “virgil is alone in employing it [synizesis] elsewhere than at the end of the line.”2","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"176 - 178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47823410","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":"pessimus omnium poeta: Canonization and the Ancient Reception of Cicero's Poetry","authors":"C. Bishop","doi":"10.5406/ILLICLASSTUD.43.1.0137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/ILLICLASSTUD.43.1.0137","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article discusses the ancient reception of Cicero's poetry and explains why ancient critiques of it were primarily made under the aegis of genre essentialism: the Greek concept that each author was naturally suited to one genre. It argues that these critiques were a direct result of Cicero's canonization as Rome's primary prose author, and specifically of his transformation into an allegory for Republican eloquence silenced by tyranny. Because this canonization relied so heavily on the Philippics, in which Cicero discusses mockery of his poetry (2.19–20), it is concluded that, ironically, Cicero himself sowed the seeds for this tradition.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"137 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41960168","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":"Valgius Rufus and the Poet Macer in Tibullus and Ovid","authors":"L. Kronenberg","doi":"10.5406/ILLICLASSTUD.43.1.0179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/ILLICLASSTUD.43.1.0179","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article argues that the figure of Macer, who is characterized as a poet with elegiac and epic interests in Tibullus (2.6) and Ovid (Am. 2.18, Pont. 2.10, 4.16), is a pseudonym (\"the lean lover\") for Valgius Rufus. The usual candidates for Macer's identity, Aemilius Macer and Pompeius Macer, have nothing to recommend them but their name and status as poets. In contrast, the information we learn about Valgius Rufus from Horace Carm. 2.9, the Panegyricus Messallae, and his surviving elegiac and hexametric fragments fits extremely well with the portrait of Macer that emerges from Tibullus and Ovid.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"179 - 206"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45260077","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 Curia in Aeneid 7","authors":"Lissa Crofton-Sleigh","doi":"10.5406/ILLICLASSTUD.43.1.0160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/ILLICLASSTUD.43.1.0160","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In Aeneid 7, Latinus receives the Trojans in his curia, a building simultaneously described as tectum, regia, and templum in Vergil's ekphrasis (7.170–91), which has complicated discussions concerning the building's function and conception. Many studies have suggested that specific temples in Rome are the sole inspiration for Vergil. I argue, however, that the poet is more generally allusive, and I suggest below that the Roman curia, overlooked thus far in scholarship, also informs the poet's ekphrasis, through an examination of the architectural and ideological features in Latinus's curia. By projecting Roman architecture and monuments into the past, Vergil emphasizes that architecture comprises a significant part of the history and purpose of Rome.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"160 - 175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47777744","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":"Doctors in a Comic Costume: Medical Language and Mass Audience in the Comedy of Menander","authors":"G. Kazantzidis","doi":"10.5406/ILLICLASSTUD.43.1.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/ILLICLASSTUD.43.1.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article argues that the medical language in Menander's Aspis can be understood as both a kind of medical \"gibberish\" but also as an accurate representation of a professional diagnosis, and that the choice of interpretation is largely dependent on the medical knowledge of the individual audience member. To simply dismiss any instance of comic medical language as nonsensical, assuming that any other alternative would have made it less accessible to the audience and would have compromised the colloquial basis on which popular comedy operates, misses the point entirely; rather, it is better to think that different members in the audience would have been expected to respond to technical jargon in different ways. Seen in this light, medical language is essentially used by Menander as a means of debating the poet's own linguistic distance from or proximity to different people in the audience: by putting a (fake) doctor on stage—and by making him speak in a strange language which sounds convincing to other characters in the play precisely because it remains elusive, the poet creates an authorial double who tests the linguistic limits of both the internal and the external audience, leaving us to decide how much of his, and Menander's, (deceptively) nonsensical jargon we are in the position to understand.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"25 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42615703","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":"Stop Making Sense: The Politics of Aristophanic Madness","authors":"I. Ruffell","doi":"10.5406/ILLICLASSTUD.43.2.0326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/ILLICLASSTUD.43.2.0326","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper discusses the use of madness in Aristophanic Comedy, and in particular how it is used as a means of evaluating and interrogating political interventions. The well-known theme of madness in Aristophanes's Wasps provides the frame. Interpreting Philocleon's madness has proved problematic because the complexity of comic madness has been under-estimated. Against negative models of madness that dominate in tragedy and in political discourse, madness in comedy can be not only a means of interrogating ideological and political norms, but also a constructive and even heroic form of behavior, which draws on epic and religious associations. Bdelycleon's attempt to cure his father removes the positive substance and political value that anchors his father's insanity, which leads to the aporetic finale.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"326 - 350"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45308444","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}