Pub Date : 2023-07-25DOI: 10.1017/s0009838823000150
Denis M. Searby
The Corinthian Speech (Corinthiaca) in the corpus of Dio Chrysostom (Or. 31) is attributed to Favorinus (c.80–160) based on internal criteria of content and style. This article argues that a reference to an author of a Corinthian speech found in a collection of sayings in codex Vaticanus Graecus 1144 is a unique external reference to Favorinus as author of this speech.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-24DOI: 10.1017/s0009838823000174
J. Dwyer
About halfway through Terence's Hecyra, Pamphilus sends his slave Parmeno on a fool's errand to find Callidemides, a (non-existent) friend of his (415–50). Previous analyses of this unique exchange have revealed several layers of humour at work, but this article proposes a new reading of the scene through the lens of performance and staging which suggests that Pamphilus’ verbal description of Callidemides is lifted from the physical appearance of Parmeno himself. This scenario accounts for all the elements of the fool's errand provided by Terence and ties the scene into the play's broader thematic interest in stock character subversion.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-24DOI: 10.1017/s0009838823000186
Giulio Celotto
This paper argues that in Silvae 3.3, written to console Claudius Etruscus on the death of his beloved father, Statius reverses his own account of the contentious relationship between Tisiphone and Pietas in Thebaid Books 1 and 11 to present his patron's affectionate bond with his father as antithetical to Oedipus’ resentful relationship with his sons. In the Thebaid, Oedipus summons Tisiphone from the Underworld to punish his own children by stirring up civil war, and the Fury promptly obeys, banishing Pietas from earth to prevent her from stopping the conflict. In Silvae 3.3, on the other hand, the poet asks Pietas to come back to earth, and urges the Furies to stay away from the deceased. The return of Pietas, also portrayed in Silvae 5.2, shows that in his collection of occasional poetry Statius rewrites his own epic to restore cosmos: while in the chaotic narrative universe of the Thebaid all fundamental values, including filial devotion, are turned upside down, the Silvae describe a more conventional and reassuring world, founded on virtue rather than vengeance.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-24DOI: 10.1017/s000983882300023x
F. J. Alonso
This article identifies a double allusion to the tragic characters of Phaedra and Eriphyle in Amm. Marc. 14.1.3 and considers its possible meanings. In combination, these allusions evoke the double nature of the story of Eriphyle, therefore functioning as a reference to the double nature of Caesar Gallus’ depiction in Ammianus. The double allusion consequently forms part of Ammianus’ tragic style throughout Book 14. Having identified the presence of this double allusion, the article illuminates its possible meaning by connecting Ammianus’ passage to the Virgilian rewriting of the description of Eriphyle in Homer.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-21DOI: 10.1017/s0009838823000198
P. Thonemann
Lucian's Hippias or The Bath, traditionally considered to be a straight-faced encomium of a historical architect and real-life bath-house of the Antonine period, is now often judged to be a work of satire, though what exactly is being satirized has remained elusive. This article argues that the architect ‘Hippias’ is closely modelled on Plato's caricature of the sophist Hippias of Elis in the Hippias Minor, and that his bath-house is a comic extrapolation from the sophist's home-made oil-flask and strigil. Lucian's Hippias should be read as a parody of contemporary prose encomia of public buildings.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-06DOI: 10.1017/s0009838823000472
Giacomo Fedeli
The anti-Catullan and anti-elegiac perspective characterizing Horace's erotic Odes builds on elements of the biography of his persona found in his juvenile collections, the Satires and the Epodes, where the construction of Horace's poetic autobiography as a lover brings together matters of didactics, ethics and literary criticism.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1017/s0009838823000319
L. Pontiggia
This article argues that the discovery of Pythagorean volumes in Numa's tomb in 181 b.c. may have played a significant role in the conception of the meeting between Numa and Pythagoras in the last book of Ovid's Metamorphoses, since several features of this event integrate very well into the discourse at the heart of Book 15 on the Greek origins of Roman culture and literature, on the immortality of poetry, and on the relationship between poetry and power. The article further argues that Ennius’ Annals Book 15 may have covered the events up to 179, if that really was the year of Nobilior's dedication of the Aedes Herculis Musarum, and included the discovery of Numa's books in 181; and hence that Ovid may have used the Ennian account of this discovery as a model for the Numa–Pythagoras episode, appropriating the poetic and political meaning that it already had in Annals Book 15.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-20DOI: 10.1017/s0009838823000423
R. Granieri
Hermodorus of Syracuse, a Sicilian disciple of Plato, is reported by Simplicius to have set out a classification of beings, which is of a piece with an argument for principle monism (in Ph. 247.30–248.18 > F 5 IP2; 256.28–257.4 = F 6 IP2). A similar classification appears in Sextus Empiricus’ Aduersus mathematicos X (262–75), where it is officially ascribed to some ‘Pythagoreans’ (Πυθαγορικοί) or ‘children of the Pythagoreans’ (Πυθαγορικῶν παῖδες), but seems ultimately based on Early Academic material. Virtually all commentators have read these classifications conjointly. More radically, both have been taken to record Plato's oral teaching and to give essentially the same categorial scheme, which is regarded as the most developed instance of a so-called ‘Academic doctrine of the categories’. This article re-examines these texts and provides an alternative reading. Section 1 focusses on Hermodorus and defends three theses: (1) there was never such a thing as an ‘Academic doctrine of the categories’; (2) Hermodorus does not seem to recount what Plato said, but to propose an integrated interpretation and defence of aspects of his thought; (3) Hermodorus’ pronouncements about principles are incompatible with other testimonies on Plato's unwritten teaching, notably Aristotle's. Section 2 moves to Sextus and defends a fourth thesis: (4) despite their similarities, the classifications of Hermodorus and Sextus’ Pyrhagoreans are considerably different, though perhaps originated from the same debate.
叙拉库扎的赫莫多罗斯是柏拉图的西西里门徒，辛普利修斯认为他提出了一种生物分类，这与一元论的原则论点是一致的(Ph. 247.30-248.18 > F 5 IP2;256.28-257.4 = f 6 ip2)。类似的分类出现在塞克斯图斯·恩里克乌斯的《Aduersus mathematicos X》(262-75)中，其中官方将其归因于一些“毕达哥拉斯学派”(Πυθαγορικοί)或“毕达哥拉斯学派的孩子”(Πυθαγορικ ν ν πα ν δες)，但似乎最终基于早期学术材料。几乎所有的评论员都把这些分类结合起来读过。更激进的是，两者都被用来记录柏拉图的口头教学，并给出本质上相同的范畴方案，这被认为是所谓的“学院派范畴学说”的最发达的例子。本文重新审视了这些文本，并提供了另一种阅读方式。第一节着重于Hermodorus，并为三个论点辩护:(1)从来没有“范畴的学术学说”这样的东西;(2)赫莫多罗斯似乎并没有叙述柏拉图所说的话，而是对他的思想的各个方面提出一种综合的解释和辩护;(3) Hermodorus关于原则的声明与柏拉图不成文教导的其他证词不相容，特别是亚里士多德的证词。第二节转到塞克斯都，并为第四个论点辩护:(4)尽管有相似之处，赫尔莫多罗斯和塞克斯都的pyrhagoians的分类有很大的不同，尽管可能起源于相同的辩论。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-19DOI: 10.1017/s0009838823000058
E. Prodi
This article examines the citation of Didymus’ ‘first’ commentary on Pindar's Paeans in Ammon. Diff. 231 Nickau. It argues that the commentary on the Paeans was the first volume in Didymus’ commentary to all of Pindar.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-16DOI: 10.1017/s0009838823000137
David B. Woods
It is argued that Tertullian's relatively lengthy description of a chameleon in his De pallio serves as a metaphor not so much for the convert to a philosophical way of life in general but for the convert to Christianity in particular. The argument rests on the unusual emphases within this description which recall different features of Christianity or popular beliefs about the same.
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