Pub Date : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.1017/s0009838823000022
C. Metcalf
This note shows that Virgil's description of Fama at Aen. 4.173 is inspired by Sappho, fr. 44.12 Voigt.
这篇笔记表明,维吉尔在Aen. 4.173对法玛的描述是受到萨福的启发,为44.12 Voigt。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-13DOI: 10.1017/s0009838823000010
N. Lane
This note questions the transmitted word order at Pind. Ol. 2.100 and proposes a transposition to remove short open vowel at verse end.
这篇笔记质疑在品德传送的语序。[Ol. 2.100]并提出了一种换位法来去除诗尾的短开元音。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1017/S0009838823000459
Teddy Fassberg
Abstract One of the most remarkable features of the language of early Greek writing is a pervasive rhetorical strategy which consists in personifying objects for the purpose of identifying humans closely associated with them. Such ‘speaking objects’ have no Semitic parallel; how, then, is their conventional status in the Archaic Age to be explained? This article first considers the formulaic language of speaking objects, which is no straightforward transcription of speech, and seeks to explain where it comes from. It then turns to the question of why writers employed the curious strategy of personification by setting it in the broader context of early Greek writing and literature. Variously analogous to herms, slaves and skytalai, speaking objects are shown to have been conceived as messengers acting on behalf of their senders by not speaking in their name.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1017/S0009838823000502
Benjamin C. Nagy, †Janice M. Lee
Abstract The authenticity of the Additamentum Aldinum (Sil. Pun. 8.144–223) has long been a matter of debate. While many scholars have expressed doubts that it is by Silius and suggest rather that it is from the hands of a skilful humanist, it has not, up to this time, been possible to provide solid evidence to support their intuition. This paper not only re-examines the standard arguments for and against authenticity but brings the latest computational stylometric techniques to bear on the question. These analyses reveal that the style of the Additamentum differs in statistically significant terms from the rest of Silius’ Punica.1
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1017/S0009838823000460
Jannis F. Koltermann
Abstract This article examines the appearances of Augustus in Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars outside Augustus' own Life. It shows how Suetonius contrasts the positive image of Augustus drawn in the Life of Augustus with the distortion of this image by Augustus’ successors, depicted in the later Lives. In their reception, he is still presented as an ideal to follow, yet as a role model for cruelty (Tiberius), adultery and military failure (Caligula), or lyre-playing (Nero)—roles which Suetonius’ real Augustus never or only marginally assumed. Thus in a series of close and intratextual readings, this article invites a more general reassessment of Suetonius’ work: it suggests that the Lives of the Caesars draw a more critical image of the Principate than has often been said, that they are more consciously part of an image-making process and, above all, that they should more commonly be understood as one whole work, rather than read individually and in isolation.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1017/S0009838823000496
Philip Rance
Abstract Cassius Dio's fragmentary Roman History 15 contains an account of Archimedes’ role in defending Syracuse during the Roman siege of 213–212 b.c., incorporating a legendary tale about a solar reflector Archimedes constructed to burn Roman warships, and including details of his death when the city fell. The textual basis of this famous episode depends on two derivative twelfth-century works: Zonaras’ Epitome of Histories (9.4–5) and Tzetzes’ Chiliades (2.35). After clarifying the present state of enquiry, this paper introduces two new witnesses, overlooked by editors of Dio and extensive scholarship on Archimedes, and assesses their value for reconstructing Dio's text. Comparative analysis of corresponding Dio-derived material in Tzetzes’ Carmina Iliaca and Hypomnema in S. Luciam, especially verbal correspondences with Zonaras’ Epitome, demonstrates that they are independent and, sometimes, superior witnesses to Dio's wording and content, reflecting Tzetzes’ selective use of the Roman History in different verse and prose compositions over several decades. The study considers editorial implications for this section of Dio's work and general characteristics of Tzetzes’ writings as repositories of testimonia and fragments.
摘要 卡西乌斯-迪奥(Cassius Dio)残缺不全的《罗马史》第15卷记载了阿基米德在公元前213-212年罗马围攻锡拉库扎期间的保卫战中的作用,其中包含了一个关于阿基米德为烧毁罗马战舰而建造的太阳反射器的传奇故事,还包括了他在锡拉库扎陷落时死亡的细节。这一著名情节的文本基础取决于两部十二世纪的衍生作品:佐纳拉斯(Zonaras)的《历史书目》(9.4-5)和策策斯(Tzetzes)的《奇利亚德》(2.35)。在澄清了目前的研究现状后,本文介绍了两个被《迪奥》的编辑和有关阿基米德的大量学术研究所忽视的新的见证人,并评估了它们对重建《迪奥》文本的价值。通过比较分析策泽斯的 Carmina Iliaca 和 Hypomnema in S. Luciam 中相应的迪奥衍生材料,尤其是与 Zonaras 的 Epitome 的语言对应关系,证明它们是迪奥措辞和内容的独立见证,有时甚至是更好的见证,反映了策泽斯几十年来在不同的诗歌和散文创作中对罗马史的选择性使用。本研究考虑了编辑对迪奥这部分作品的影响,以及茨泽斯的著作作为见证和片段库的一般特点。
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1017/S0009838822000581
S. Poletti
Abstract This article discusses three textual problems in Servius’ commentary on Virgil (Serv. on Aen. 11.741; Ecl. 2.58; Ecl. 4.4). In two notes a new conjecture is proposed; in one passage a transmitted reading, so far neglected by earlier editors, is supported.
摘要本文讨论了塞尔维乌斯《维吉尔注释》中的三个文本问题(servus, on Aen. 11.741;发射极耦合逻辑。2.58;发射极耦合逻辑。4.4)。在两个注释中,提出了一个新的猜想;在一篇文章中,一种传播的阅读,迄今为止被早期的编辑忽视,是支持的。
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1017/S0009838822000684
Daniel R. Hanigan, Grant R. Kynaston
Abstract All modern critics have read verses 128–36 of Pseudo-Scymnus’ iambic Periodos to Nicomedes (c.133–110/109 b.c.e.) as a description of the personal autopsies of the author. However, close analysis of both the literary dynamics of the poem and the syntax of the lacunose text that precedes this passage shows that this cannot be the case. This article proposes that Timaeus of Tauromenium (c.350–260 b.c.e.) is a superior candidate for the referent of these lines, and offers a coherent approach to emending the manifestly corrupt text. This reinterpretation makes better sense of the extant text of the Periodos, and allows these verses to be read as a second-century witness to Timaeus’ autoptic prowess.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1017/S0009838822000556
Radcliffe G. Edmonds
Abstract The fragments of a hexameter poem about Dionysus recently discovered in a palimpsest (Sin. Ar. NF 66) reveal some different faces of Dionysus, including an Adonis-figure at the heart of a dispute between two goddesses (Persephone and Aphrodite), and a personified wine-god, Oinos, threatened by the machinations of his enemies in the court of Zeus. These palimpsest texts help to illuminate some of the allusions to the early life of the god that have long puzzled scholars, especially in some of the early Christian apologists and the collection of Orphic Hymns.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1017/S0009838822000635
Giulia Marolla
Abstract This article presents, as a case study, the various inconsistencies which occur in the prosopographical entries concerning Simplicius, one of Sidonius’ most frequent addressees. Through the exegesis of passages of letters addressed to him (Epist. 3.11, 4.4, 4.7, 4.12, 5.4) and of passages believed to concern him (Carm. 24.89; Epist. 2.9 and 5.7), it argues for a revision of the common identification of Simplicius as brother of Apollinaris and Thaumastus, and for a re-evaluation of the sources which supposedly lead to this conclusion. Some cautionary remarks on the unchecked use of prosopography as a tool are followed by a hypothesis concerning the identity of this addressee of Sidonius.
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