Abstract:In this article we analyze explicit expressions of pity among family members within Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis and Sophocles' Electra with particular attention to the closeness of individuals involved and the merit for misfortune, two categories informed by Aristotle's definition of pity in the Rhetoric. Instances within these plays suggest that a type of estrangement exists between pitier and pitied while the question of whether one's misfortune is merited can be ignored in favor of assumed obligations to kin. This interpretation sheds light on the instance of pity found between father and son in Aeschylus' Persians.
{"title":"Familial Pity in Greek Tragedy","authors":"Teresa Danze","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this article we analyze explicit expressions of pity among family members within Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis and Sophocles' Electra with particular attention to the closeness of individuals involved and the merit for misfortune, two categories informed by Aristotle's definition of pity in the Rhetoric. Instances within these plays suggest that a type of estrangement exists between pitier and pitied while the question of whether one's misfortune is merited can be ignored in favor of assumed obligations to kin. This interpretation sheds light on the instance of pity found between father and son in Aeschylus' Persians.","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"184 1","pages":"313 - 336"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75755757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
his volume is a groundbreaking study of how Classical texts, tropes, figures, art, myths and history have been received, used, deployed and interpreted within the Black Atlantic. The book aims to show how artists and intellectuals in the Black Atlantic have excavated the classical texts, images, narratives and practices in order to imagine new possibilities. The essays emphasize the outcomes of slavery’s aftermaths by way of various geographical (dis)location and cultural connections. The volume is divided into three parts: 1) Wakes, 2) Journeys and 3) Tales. The editors grace the book with a programmatic Introduction in which they lay out the aims and contours of the project. Paul Gilroy’s famous work on the Black Atlantic provides the broad conceptual framework for these analyses of the reception of the classics in the diasporic world.
{"title":"Classicisms in the Black Atlantic ed. by Ian Moyer, Adam Lecznar and Heidi Morse (review)","authors":"Ronald Charles","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"his volume is a groundbreaking study of how Classical texts, tropes, figures, art, myths and history have been received, used, deployed and interpreted within the Black Atlantic. The book aims to show how artists and intellectuals in the Black Atlantic have excavated the classical texts, images, narratives and practices in order to imagine new possibilities. The essays emphasize the outcomes of slavery’s aftermaths by way of various geographical (dis)location and cultural connections. The volume is divided into three parts: 1) Wakes, 2) Journeys and 3) Tales. The editors grace the book with a programmatic Introduction in which they lay out the aims and contours of the project. Paul Gilroy’s famous work on the Black Atlantic provides the broad conceptual framework for these analyses of the reception of the classics in the diasporic world.","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"72 1","pages":"356 - 360"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83919364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nero-Antichrist: The Founding and Fashioning of a Paradigm by Shushma Malik (review)","authors":"L. Ginsberg","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"7 1","pages":"369 - 371"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81956101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Laughing Atoms, Laughing Matter: Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and Satire by T.H.M. Gellar-Goad (review)","authors":"C. Dance","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2022.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2022.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"94 1","pages":"372 - 374"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83894860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This paper explores the depiction of magic in Amores 3.7, an elegy in which "Ovid" suffers from impotence and wonders if a witch is to be blamed for his predicament. Adding to existing metapoetic readings, I argue that the poem combines allusions to famous witches from earlier Greco-Roman literature with detailed evocations of actual rites that are familiar to us from the material record, such as the piercing of magic dolls and the casting of binding and separation spells. These acts were meant to cause the same deathlike sensations that Ovid experiences in Am. 3.7, which means that—even though the poem ultimately calls the efficacy of magic into question—it nevertheless provides a "realistic" portrayal of these spells' imagined effects.
{"title":"Ovid and the Magic Doll: Witchcraft and Defixiones In Amores 3.7","authors":"Mathias Hanses","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2022.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper explores the depiction of magic in Amores 3.7, an elegy in which \"Ovid\" suffers from impotence and wonders if a witch is to be blamed for his predicament. Adding to existing metapoetic readings, I argue that the poem combines allusions to famous witches from earlier Greco-Roman literature with detailed evocations of actual rites that are familiar to us from the material record, such as the piercing of magic dolls and the casting of binding and separation spells. These acts were meant to cause the same deathlike sensations that Ovid experiences in Am. 3.7, which means that—even though the poem ultimately calls the efficacy of magic into question—it nevertheless provides a \"realistic\" portrayal of these spells' imagined effects.","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"1 1","pages":"249 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87745100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reading Poetry, Writing Genre. English Poetry and Literary Criticism in Dialogue with Classical Scholarship ed. by Silvio Bär and Emily Hauser (review)","authors":"Margarita Sotiriou","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"49 1","pages":"361 - 362"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77920667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cheiron's Way: Youthful Education in Homer and Tragedy by Justina Gregory (review)","authors":"S. Goins","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2022.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2022.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"91 1","pages":"363 - 365"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82221069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
he edited volume under review began as two conferences in 2009 and 2010. The contributors are all respected scholars in the field who represent an array of methodological approaches to citizenship. The uniting factor is the recognition of the archaic period as a valuable era of study in its own right, rather than solely a precursor to the classical age, and an overt rejection of the traditional view of citizenship based on Aristotle’s standard of holding office and administering justice. Looking beyond an institutional definition of citizenship that privileges political office, the volume showcases what it meant for the Greeks of the archaic period to be citizens from the standpoint of descent and participation. An examination of the table of contents reveals the impressive range of contributions. The chapters explore the role of military obligations, commensality, religion, athletics, associations, luxury and other community delimiting activities. The volume serves both as a compilation of the current state of scholarship on archaic Greek citizenship and as a call to action, with some chapters laying the groundwork for future developments in the field. Rather than produce the most cursory summaries of all the chapters within the constraints of this review, I will instead highlight representative chapters, in particular those that gesture towards new directions for the field. Thus, exclusion by no means indicates a lack of quality or appeal. The book opens with Duplouy’s wide-ranging survey that lays out traditional approaches to citizenship and the general response to them of the past couple of decades. Announcing from the outset that his survey will not be comprehensive, he manages to dip into controversies without getting bogged down. Despite his caveat, the chapter is a useful outline of the main currents of scholarship for those wishing to situate the chapters that follow.
{"title":"Defining Citizenship in Archaic Greece ed. by Alain Duplouy and Roger Brock (review)","authors":"Naomi T. Campa","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"he edited volume under review began as two conferences in 2009 and 2010. The contributors are all respected scholars in the field who represent an array of methodological approaches to citizenship. The uniting factor is the recognition of the archaic period as a valuable era of study in its own right, rather than solely a precursor to the classical age, and an overt rejection of the traditional view of citizenship based on Aristotle’s standard of holding office and administering justice. Looking beyond an institutional definition of citizenship that privileges political office, the volume showcases what it meant for the Greeks of the archaic period to be citizens from the standpoint of descent and participation. An examination of the table of contents reveals the impressive range of contributions. The chapters explore the role of military obligations, commensality, religion, athletics, associations, luxury and other community delimiting activities. The volume serves both as a compilation of the current state of scholarship on archaic Greek citizenship and as a call to action, with some chapters laying the groundwork for future developments in the field. Rather than produce the most cursory summaries of all the chapters within the constraints of this review, I will instead highlight representative chapters, in particular those that gesture towards new directions for the field. Thus, exclusion by no means indicates a lack of quality or appeal. The book opens with Duplouy’s wide-ranging survey that lays out traditional approaches to citizenship and the general response to them of the past couple of decades. Announcing from the outset that his survey will not be comprehensive, he manages to dip into controversies without getting bogged down. Despite his caveat, the chapter is a useful outline of the main currents of scholarship for those wishing to situate the chapters that follow.","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"42 1","pages":"366 - 368"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86732321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:A passage from Speusippus' letter to Philip underlines the value of the myths presented by the Athenian thinker in his missive as λόγοι δυνάμενοι τὴν σὴν ἀρχὴν ὠφελεῖν, that is, useful arguments for the king's rule. Speusippus' words are by no means trivial, considering that myths played a significant role as a political instrument in the Macedonian court since at least the reign of Alexander Philhellene, as Herodotus shows. Besides addressing the development of the mythical narratives related to the remote past of the Argead dynasty, this paper analyses the political use that the Macedonian rulers made of them and their successive adaptation to the necessities of the Argeadae, as well as the role that the Greek writers linked to the court played in shaping myths that, as Speusippus pointed out, became propagandistic λόγοι in the service of the Macedonian interests.
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Abstract:In this article, we continue the discussion about the future of critical editions begun in volume 112 of The Classical Journal by Keeline and continued in volume 114 by Olson. Written from the point of view of two scholars working in the field of digital philology, the article affirms some elements of Keeline's vision and addresses Olson's concerns about that vision. Concrete examples from an active project that seeks to translate the visual elements of traditional critical editions into machine-readable data reveal that Keeline and Olson's views are not as far apart as they seem.
{"title":"The Digital Critical Apparatus: Thoughts from the Field","authors":"Samuel J. Huskey, Hugh Cayless","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this article, we continue the discussion about the future of critical editions begun in volume 112 of The Classical Journal by Keeline and continued in volume 114 by Olson. Written from the point of view of two scholars working in the field of digital philology, the article affirms some elements of Keeline's vision and addresses Olson's concerns about that vision. Concrete examples from an active project that seeks to translate the visual elements of traditional critical editions into machine-readable data reveal that Keeline and Olson's views are not as far apart as they seem.","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"78 1","pages":"337 - 355"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80286382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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