This essay examines relations between Greeks and non-Greeks in the eastern Mediterranean in three case studies. A Geometric clay pyxis from Athens is compared to an older Egyptian granary, to consider how shapes, images, and beliefs might travel across time and place. In the second case, a famous image of Artemis from Ephesus is traced to Anatolian traditions of the second millennium. Finally, the role of myth, or the narrative behind such images, is examined in the figure of Midas, whose asses’ ears could harbor royal Anatolian attributes. Details of these connections are explored elsewhere; this essay asks how and why we pursue them in classical art and myth, and what the results accomplish for our purposes as teachers and scholars of classical antiquity.
{"title":"Frogs around the Pond? Cultural Diversity in the Ancient World and the New Millennium","authors":"Sarah P. Morris","doi":"10.1353/SYL.2003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SYL.2003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines relations between Greeks and non-Greeks in the eastern Mediterranean in three case studies. A Geometric clay pyxis from Athens is compared to an older Egyptian granary, to consider how shapes, images, and beliefs might travel across time and place. In the second case, a famous image of Artemis from Ephesus is traced to Anatolian traditions of the second millennium. Finally, the role of myth, or the narrative behind such images, is examined in the figure of Midas, whose asses’ ears could harbor royal Anatolian attributes. Details of these connections are explored elsewhere; this essay asks how and why we pursue them in classical art and myth, and what the results accomplish for our purposes as teachers and scholars of classical antiquity.","PeriodicalId":402432,"journal":{"name":"Syllecta Classica","volume":"299 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123920513","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":"Latin sēnī crīnēs and the Hair Style of Roman Brides","authors":"L. LaFollette, Rex E. Wallace","doi":"10.1353/SYL.1993.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SYL.1993.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":402432,"journal":{"name":"Syllecta Classica","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130264576","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}
The phrase, ????a d' est? t?? f???a, taken fromAristode's .£«¿¿S7#¿Z» Ethics (1242a.26), defines the subject, or rather the problem, that I address in this paper. What didAristode mean by this apparendy straightforward claim, and how may we best translate it? Does it in fact encapsulate in some important sense the essence of the ????? in classical Athens, and, if so, is it informative about the emotional bonds that united the Greek family? Historians of the family commonly speak of the difficulties of recapturing the quality of sentiment among kin in earlier societies. Sarah Pomeroy, for example, has recendy written (1997, 3): "I am pessimistic about our ability to discover very much about the emotional experiences ofthe past, andwhether they changed over time."1 The difficulties A version ofthis paper was presented in November 1998 to the History Seminar at Cambridge University at the invitation of Paul Cartledge, Lene Rubinstein, and Dorothy Thompson. I should like to thank them, and all those who participated in the seminar, for stimulating discussion and commentary. Alan Boegehold read the present version, and was generous with advice and encouragement.
{"title":"οἰκίαδ' ϵστί τις Φιλία: Love and the Greek Family","authors":"David Konstan","doi":"10.1353/SYL.2000.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SYL.2000.0008","url":null,"abstract":"The phrase, ????a d' est? t?? f???a, taken fromAristode's .£«¿¿S7#¿Z» Ethics (1242a.26), defines the subject, or rather the problem, that I address in this paper. What didAristode mean by this apparendy straightforward claim, and how may we best translate it? Does it in fact encapsulate in some important sense the essence of the ????? in classical Athens, and, if so, is it informative about the emotional bonds that united the Greek family? Historians of the family commonly speak of the difficulties of recapturing the quality of sentiment among kin in earlier societies. Sarah Pomeroy, for example, has recendy written (1997, 3): \"I am pessimistic about our ability to discover very much about the emotional experiences ofthe past, andwhether they changed over time.\"1 The difficulties A version ofthis paper was presented in November 1998 to the History Seminar at Cambridge University at the invitation of Paul Cartledge, Lene Rubinstein, and Dorothy Thompson. I should like to thank them, and all those who participated in the seminar, for stimulating discussion and commentary. Alan Boegehold read the present version, and was generous with advice and encouragement.","PeriodicalId":402432,"journal":{"name":"Syllecta Classica","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128056285","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}
In the third of his "Lettres à M. de Genonville" (1719), Voltaire discussed several "fautes de vraisemblance" that he found in Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus. One of the worst was Oedipus' failure to make any connection between what Teiresias tells him and what he himself has earlier heard fromApollo. Voltaire's criticism, reaffirmed or challenged again and again up to the present, has dominated discussion of the Teiresias scene. In all of this discussion, so far as I know, the principle of verisimilitude has remained intact. But much in the scene suggests that this principle was not the correct one in the first place. The opening
{"title":"The Teiresias Scene in Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus","authors":"L. Edmunds","doi":"10.1353/SYL.2000.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SYL.2000.0004","url":null,"abstract":"In the third of his \"Lettres à M. de Genonville\" (1719), Voltaire discussed several \"fautes de vraisemblance\" that he found in Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus. One of the worst was Oedipus' failure to make any connection between what Teiresias tells him and what he himself has earlier heard fromApollo. Voltaire's criticism, reaffirmed or challenged again and again up to the present, has dominated discussion of the Teiresias scene. In all of this discussion, so far as I know, the principle of verisimilitude has remained intact. But much in the scene suggests that this principle was not the correct one in the first place. The opening","PeriodicalId":402432,"journal":{"name":"Syllecta Classica","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115927510","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}
Although beer was a common beverage in practically all ancient societies, the wine-drinking Greeks and Romans mysteriously excluded it from their diet. It is too simplistic to state that they simply disliked the drink, since those who ventured to try some beer did not necessarily find it so distasteful. Rather, the very fact that beer was the beverage of others was enough to condemn it.
{"title":"The Cultural Construction of Beer Among Greeks and Romans","authors":"Max Nelson","doi":"10.1353/SYL.2003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SYL.2003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Although beer was a common beverage in practically all ancient societies, the wine-drinking Greeks and Romans mysteriously excluded it from their diet. It is too simplistic to state that they simply disliked the drink, since those who ventured to try some beer did not necessarily find it so distasteful. Rather, the very fact that beer was the beverage of others was enough to condemn it.","PeriodicalId":402432,"journal":{"name":"Syllecta Classica","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122294783","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}
Thucydides’ claim that most Athenians were ignorant of the size and inhabitants of Sicily before the Sicilian Expedition is demonstrably false. He is keenly aware that Athens has a great deal of information about Sicily, but its main sources are hearsay, gossip, and the poetic topoi that have been circulating on the dramatic stages. The historian uses this claim of ignorance as a rhetorical device to recreate in his readers, and thereby comment upon, the dangerously democratic epistemological conditions under which the Expedition was discussed and launched.
{"title":"Thucydides’ Ignorant Athenians and the Drama of the Sicilian Expedition","authors":"David G. Smith","doi":"10.1353/SYL.2004.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SYL.2004.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Thucydides’ claim that most Athenians were ignorant of the size and inhabitants of Sicily before the Sicilian Expedition is demonstrably false. He is keenly aware that Athens has a great deal of information about Sicily, but its main sources are hearsay, gossip, and the poetic topoi that have been circulating on the dramatic stages. The historian uses this claim of ignorance as a rhetorical device to recreate in his readers, and thereby comment upon, the dangerously democratic epistemological conditions under which the Expedition was discussed and launched.","PeriodicalId":402432,"journal":{"name":"Syllecta Classica","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122327233","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}
Tony Harrison’s dramatic works frequently engage with issues of cultural memory, both what is remembered and what is forgotten. In most instances, Harrison explores these issues by engaging with canonical texts, which, like certain examples of material culture—particularly monumental architecture—are marked by both their duration and by the accretion of a multiplicity of interpretations and symbolic functions. These works become, to use Pierre Nora’s term, lieux de mémoire, “sites of memory,” endowed by the collective cultural imagination with a symbolic aura. Nora noted “that lieux de mémoire only exist because of their capacity for metamorphosis, an endless recycling of their meaning and an unpredictable proliferation of their ramifications” (19). It is with the metamorphic nature of mythic characters, texts, and sites that Harrison engages as they provide him spaces endowed with significance by both the past and the present: these are spaces in which collective and cultural memory has been repeatedly constructed through the centuries. Numerous aspects of memory in Harrison’s work could be fruitfully explored, but this paper limits itself to a relatively brief discussion of Harrison’s examination of remembrance, or the lack thereof, in the mythic examples of Hecuba, Medea, and Hercules, and the historical figures such as Faustina and the anonymous victims of contemporary conflicts.
{"title":"\"Remembrance is Not Enough\": The Political Function of Tony Harrison’s Poetry","authors":"H. Marshall","doi":"10.1353/SYL.2008.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SYL.2008.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Tony Harrison’s dramatic works frequently engage with issues of cultural memory, both what is remembered and what is forgotten. In most instances, Harrison explores these issues by engaging with canonical texts, which, like certain examples of material culture—particularly monumental architecture—are marked by both their duration and by the accretion of a multiplicity of interpretations and symbolic functions. These works become, to use Pierre Nora’s term, lieux de mémoire, “sites of memory,” endowed by the collective cultural imagination with a symbolic aura. Nora noted “that lieux de mémoire only exist because of their capacity for metamorphosis, an endless recycling of their meaning and an unpredictable proliferation of their ramifications” (19). It is with the metamorphic nature of mythic characters, texts, and sites that Harrison engages as they provide him spaces endowed with significance by both the past and the present: these are spaces in which collective and cultural memory has been repeatedly constructed through the centuries. Numerous aspects of memory in Harrison’s work could be fruitfully explored, but this paper limits itself to a relatively brief discussion of Harrison’s examination of remembrance, or the lack thereof, in the mythic examples of Hecuba, Medea, and Hercules, and the historical figures such as Faustina and the anonymous victims of contemporary conflicts.","PeriodicalId":402432,"journal":{"name":"Syllecta Classica","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127015307","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}
This paper is the first major attempt since J. P. Sullivan’s 1964 book Ezra Pound and Sextus Propertius. A Study in Creative Translation to assess the precise translational methods, structural organization, and poetic success of Ezra Pound’s Homage to Sextus Propertius. The assessment is based on an exhaustive line-by-line collation of the twelve English poems in the Homage with their disparate and fragmented sources in Propertius’ Latin. Pound used Lucian Müller’s nineteenth-century Teubner edition of Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius for his Latin text. Since that is not readily available outside a major research library, the Latin text in Goold’s Loeb Library edition of Propertius, the best now available, was collated against Müller and the Homage. An appended table summarizes the results in easily readable form. The paper first cites the ancient testimonia to correct widespread errors about Propertius’s style and then falls into two parts: the first provides a section-by-section analysis of the techniques used by Pound in translating Propertius, the second explores the claim that the poem is a great technical feat in structural organization, versification, and English poetry.
{"title":"Reassessing Ezra Pound’s Homage to Sextus Propertius","authors":"Steven J. Willett","doi":"10.1353/SYL.2005.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SYL.2005.0009","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is the first major attempt since J. P. Sullivan’s 1964 book Ezra Pound and Sextus Propertius. A Study in Creative Translation to assess the precise translational methods, structural organization, and poetic success of Ezra Pound’s Homage to Sextus Propertius. The assessment is based on an exhaustive line-by-line collation of the twelve English poems in the Homage with their disparate and fragmented sources in Propertius’ Latin. Pound used Lucian Müller’s nineteenth-century Teubner edition of Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius for his Latin text. Since that is not readily available outside a major research library, the Latin text in Goold’s Loeb Library edition of Propertius, the best now available, was collated against Müller and the Homage. An appended table summarizes the results in easily readable form. The paper first cites the ancient testimonia to correct widespread errors about Propertius’s style and then falls into two parts: the first provides a section-by-section analysis of the techniques used by Pound in translating Propertius, the second explores the claim that the poem is a great technical feat in structural organization, versification, and English poetry.","PeriodicalId":402432,"journal":{"name":"Syllecta Classica","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127186277","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}
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