Pub Date : 2019-10-04DOI: 10.7146/classicaetmediaevalia.v68i0.116239
J. Roy
This article seeks to develop, with some significant change, the arguments put forward by Bresson to show that a Persian boy, the son of Pharnabazos, was allowed to compete in the Olympic Games. It is argued that at Olympia his admission was supported by his older Spartan lover, himself an Olympic athlete, and by the Spartan king Agesilaos who acted as the boy’s guardian. These arguments support the view recently advanced by Nielsen and, at greater length, by Remijsen that non-Greeks were not excluded from competing in the Olympic Games
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Pub Date : 2019-05-20DOI: 10.7146/CLASSICAETMEDIAEVALIA.V68I0.113922
C. Mann
At several occasions during his campaigns, Alexander the Great staged gymnic, hippic and musical competitions. Until now scholars have assumed that the king founded new festivals, but the ancient evidence makes it quite clear that it were singular, non-recurrent events. Competitions like that, for which I suggest the term “campaign agones”, are also known from other Greek armies. “Campaign agones” should be added to the well-known categories (competitions at recurrent festivals, funeral contests, gymnasium agones) as a distinct, although less important, category in the Greek agonistic world.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-30DOI: 10.7146/CLASSICAETMEDIAEVALIA.V68I0.113606
Stella Alekou
In this paper, the discussion centres on the portrayal of the female traveller in Ovid’s Heroides 10, 12 and 21. Notwithstanding the predominance of travelling narratives in the collection, most letters tend to focus on the description of the heroes’ journeys as passively attested by the abandoned puellae, whereas the epistles of Ariadne, Medea and Cydippe explicitly address the issue of travelling as – also – a feminine activity. The examination of the travel motif will encourage us to review critically the wellestablished and quite restricted perception of women in Ovid’s Heroides as mere elegiac puellae in love. The paper will tackle the recontextualisation of the travel metaphor from the text of two exiled women to Cydippe’s final words – possibly written during Ovid’s relegatio –, to examine the poet’s plea for survival and commemoration.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-30DOI: 10.7146/CLASSICAETMEDIAEVALIA.V68I0.113598
Dimitrios Kanellakis
In this paper I explore how sacrifice and politics, two central aspects of the Oresteia, are presented through animal imagery and how they are indissolubly linked. In the first section I discuss how the animal imagery attributed to Cassandra constructs a semantic parallelism between her and Iphigenia, the two of them being the only innocent victims in the bloody circle of this trilogy. In the second section I examine how animals are linked to governments and how the quantitative, temporal, and spatial arrangement of animal imagery reveals their sequence.
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Pub Date : 2019-03-25DOI: 10.7146/CLASSICAETMEDIAEVALIA.V68I0.113090
Jordi Pàmias
The original structure of Pherekydes’ mythographical collection remains a controversial issue. Its rearrangement in the Hellenistic period did not merely consist of a new division of the books by taking the length of the rolls into account. The article attempts to show that the overall structure of the Historiai underwent a major revision in the library of Alexandria. The author advances the theory that Pherekydes’ work wasreorganized into an encyclopaedia of historiai arranged alphabetically.
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Pub Date : 2019-03-25DOI: 10.7146/CLASSICAETMEDIAEVALIA.V68I0.113091
Giampiero Scafoglio
Dio Chrysostom, in his Trojan Discourse (Speech 11) rewrites the story of the Trojan War in a new and different way (with Trojans’ victory over Greeks, the murder of Hector by Achilles, and so on), in contrast with the tale of the Iliad and under the pretense of an historical reconstruction. He preys on Homeric narrative techniques (such as the selective and motivated plot of the Iliad, and the first-person tale in the Odyssey), in order to disprove the traditional version of the legend and to pave the way for a new view. Dio takes a metaliterary and intertextual approach to Homeric epics, insofar as he criticizes and deconstructs their narratives (bearing in mind Homeric criticism by Aristotle and by Alexandrine grammarians), in order to rebuild the story anew. He also provides a specimen of generic crossing, since he frames an epic subject in the context of a prose speech that belongs to epidictic oratory and that simulates some historiographical practices.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-03DOI: 10.7146/CLASSICAETMEDIAEVALIA.V67I0.111770
K. Larsen
This article presents a new critical edition of Catullus’ Carmen 66 along with an introduction, a translation and a textual commentary. The text, based on fresh collations of the manuscripts O and G , deviates from the Oxford text by R.A.B. Mynors in 27 cases. Furthermore, it is the first edition to consider the conventional first two lines of Catullus 67 as the last two lines of Catullus 66, an idea independently conjectured by Alex Agnesini in 2011 and Ian Du Quesnay in 2012.
本文介绍了卡图卢斯的《卡门》66的一个新的批评版本，并附有介绍，翻译和文本评论。该文本基于对手稿O和G的新整理，在27个案例中偏离了R.A.B. Mynors的牛津文本。此外，这是第一次将《Catullus 67》的前两行视为《Catullus 66》的最后两行，这是Alex Agnesini在2011年和Ian Du Quesnay在2012年独立推测出来的想法。
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Pub Date : 2019-01-03DOI: 10.7146/classicaetmediaevalia.v67i0.111772
Julieta Cardigni
The present paper analyzes Martianus Capella’s De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii from a generic point of view, departing from Systemic Functional Linguistics, in order to establish parody as its main feature, in consistence with its generic adscription to Menippean Satire. As a result, we expect to prove that Martianus is attacking discourse and discursive knowledge, and proposing silence as an alternative category for the characterization of transcendence and truth. This perspective intends to show De nuptiis as a Menippean Satire which subverts all values exposed along the work, turn ing thus into an anti-didactic text.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-03DOI: 10.7146/classicaetmediaevalia.v67i0.111768
Esther Eidinow
This article examines a Classical reference to werewolves, a passing analogy made by Plato in the Republic, in his description of the development of a tyrant. In gen- eral, scholars of myth/ritual have largely downplayed or taken for granted the specific Platonic context; while philosophers have tended to overlook both Lyka i an cannibalism, and the intricacies of political alliances in the early fourth century BC. This paper brings together three areas of investigation: philosophy, religion and political history, situating the myth/ritual complex of Lykaon/Mt. Lykaion within the framework of (1) Plato’s Republic, where this myth/ritual is introduced analogically, and (2) fourth-century Peloponnesian politics, to which, it is argued, the Platonic werewolf analogy may be alluding, either in general or specific terms.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-03DOI: 10.7146/classicaetmediaevalia.v67i0.111771
Despina Keramida
Ovid’s writing is infused with the retelling of known myths and the portrayal of heroes and heroines, whose figurae held a central role in Greek and Roman literature. This article argues in favour of reading Ariadne’s story at Ars am. 1.527-64 as a rape narrative. The exploration of the passage in question and its comparative reading with other poems (such as Prop. 1.3 and the Ovidian version of the rape of the Sabine women), illustrates and explains why Ovid reimagines Ariadne as a victim of erotic violence.
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