Abstract:This article examines the animalization of Nero in Book 4 of Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana and focuses, in particular, on Apollonius' surprising claim that Nero dared to do what no wild beast ever did, namely, devour his own mother (4.38.3–4). It argues that Apollonius' words evoke widespread beliefs about the reproduction of vipers, and that Philostratus took full advantage of connections that were active in the collective imaginaire —between young vipers, Orestes and Alcmaeon, and Nero—in order to present Agrippina's murder as an act of bestial cannibalism and, thus, Nero as a monstrous creature completely beyond redemption.
{"title":"Nero the Viper: Zoological Lore and Political Critique in the Life of Apollonius of Tyana","authors":"Emilio Capettini","doi":"10.1353/ajp.2020.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajp.2020.0032","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the animalization of Nero in Book 4 of Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana and focuses, in particular, on Apollonius' surprising claim that Nero dared to do what no wild beast ever did, namely, devour his own mother (4.38.3–4). It argues that Apollonius' words evoke widespread beliefs about the reproduction of vipers, and that Philostratus took full advantage of connections that were active in the collective imaginaire —between young vipers, Orestes and Alcmaeon, and Nero—in order to present Agrippina's murder as an act of bestial cannibalism and, thus, Nero as a monstrous creature completely beyond redemption.","PeriodicalId":46128,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY","volume":"141 1","pages":"635 - 664"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ajp.2020.0032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46768139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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 Horace's relationship with neoteric poetry in the context of Epodes 11 and 12 as signaled by Horace's use of meaningful names. Epode 11 focuses on Latin love elegy, but Epode 12 engages broadly with neoteric poetics through names associated with and references to that earlier poetry. This includes an adaptation of the lament from Calvus' Io. Horace creates a portrait of the mulier in Epode 12 that stands in contrast to the ideal neoteric woman. Horace's sexual failure with her dramatizes the poet's relationship with iambic invective, of which she is an allegorical representation.
{"title":"O Ego Non Felix: Inachia, Lesbia, and Horace's Epodes","authors":"James R. Townshend","doi":"10.1353/ajp.2020.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajp.2020.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper explores Horace's relationship with neoteric poetry in the context of Epodes 11 and 12 as signaled by Horace's use of meaningful names. Epode 11 focuses on Latin love elegy, but Epode 12 engages broadly with neoteric poetics through names associated with and references to that earlier poetry. This includes an adaptation of the lament from Calvus' Io. Horace creates a portrait of the mulier in Epode 12 that stands in contrast to the ideal neoteric woman. Horace's sexual failure with her dramatizes the poet's relationship with iambic invective, of which she is an allegorical representation.","PeriodicalId":46128,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY","volume":"141 1","pages":"499 - 536"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ajp.2020.0028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41820036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metaphor in Homer: Time, Speech, and Thought by Andreas T. Zanker (review)","authors":"J. L. Ready","doi":"10.1353/ajp.2020.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajp.2020.0033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46128,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY","volume":"141 1","pages":"665 - 668"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ajp.2020.0033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46394498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In this close reading of Seneca's consolation to his mother, I propose new ways of understanding the text as a whole, building critically on responses to Fantham's thesis of "displacement" (Fantham 2007), and mapping how the notoriously violent opening relates to the central body of the text, and to its concluding chapters. The paper focuses on Seneca's metaphors of the wound and wounding, and on what kinds of ethical relation might be imagined and sustained by the counter-intuitive process of irritating, revisiting and sharing in psychophysical wounds rather than closing them. In considering the disruption to invulnerable male identity that the wounded mother may be seen to represent in this text, I reassess the significance of the ad Heluiam in the development of Stoic ethics and explore what is missing in Foucault's tendentious account of imperial Stoicism as a quasi-medical regimen and social practice in which "all is lost if you begin with care for others" (Foucault 2005, 198).
{"title":"The Intimacy of Wounds: Care of the Other in Seneca's Consolatio Ad Helviam","authors":"Victoria E. Rimell","doi":"10.1353/ajp.2020.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajp.2020.0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this close reading of Seneca's consolation to his mother, I propose new ways of understanding the text as a whole, building critically on responses to Fantham's thesis of \"displacement\" (Fantham 2007), and mapping how the notoriously violent opening relates to the central body of the text, and to its concluding chapters. The paper focuses on Seneca's metaphors of the wound and wounding, and on what kinds of ethical relation might be imagined and sustained by the counter-intuitive process of irritating, revisiting and sharing in psychophysical wounds rather than closing them. In considering the disruption to invulnerable male identity that the wounded mother may be seen to represent in this text, I reassess the significance of the ad Heluiam in the development of Stoic ethics and explore what is missing in Foucault's tendentious account of imperial Stoicism as a quasi-medical regimen and social practice in which \"all is lost if you begin with care for others\" (Foucault 2005, 198).","PeriodicalId":46128,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY","volume":"141 1","pages":"537 - 574"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ajp.2020.0029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47753890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article considers the exiguous history of disease definition in the Greco-Roman medical traditions. It argues that the long-lived and influential definition of disease historically associated with Galen predates him by at least a generation, and that available evidence places its probable roots in the work of Methodist physicians. The conclusion is unexpected, given Galen's universal dismissal of Methodist theory and practice. For reasons I explore, however, the functional terms of the definition are congenial to Methodist epistemological commitments. The same features ideally suit it to Galen's system of disease, to his teleological views, and to his syncretistic approach to earlier Greek intellectual authorities.
{"title":"Galen on the Definition of Disease","authors":"L. Salas","doi":"10.1353/ajp.2020.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajp.2020.0031","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article considers the exiguous history of disease definition in the Greco-Roman medical traditions. It argues that the long-lived and influential definition of disease historically associated with Galen predates him by at least a generation, and that available evidence places its probable roots in the work of Methodist physicians. The conclusion is unexpected, given Galen's universal dismissal of Methodist theory and practice. For reasons I explore, however, the functional terms of the definition are congenial to Methodist epistemological commitments. The same features ideally suit it to Galen's system of disease, to his teleological views, and to his syncretistic approach to earlier Greek intellectual authorities.","PeriodicalId":46128,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY","volume":"141 1","pages":"603 - 634"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ajp.2020.0031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47810060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Scholars have long been interested in Suetonius' De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus for the evidence it preserves of the history of education and philology at Rome. This article focuses on a different aspect of the work: its repeated links with satire. Suetonius' grammatici are presented both as authors and targets of satirical attacks, and fragments of their work preserved in the De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus reveal a wider, sub-elite field of satirical writing occluded in the polished, literary genre of Roman satura. Through analysis of Suetonius' biographical vignettes and related passages in Juvenal's Satire 7, this article sheds light on a vision of grammatici as outsiders who critique Rome—and each other—from the social and literary margins.
{"title":"The Margins of Satire: Suetonius, Satura, and Scholarly Outsiders in Ancient Rome","authors":"James Uden","doi":"10.1353/ajp.2020.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajp.2020.0030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Scholars have long been interested in Suetonius' De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus for the evidence it preserves of the history of education and philology at Rome. This article focuses on a different aspect of the work: its repeated links with satire. Suetonius' grammatici are presented both as authors and targets of satirical attacks, and fragments of their work preserved in the De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus reveal a wider, sub-elite field of satirical writing occluded in the polished, literary genre of Roman satura. Through analysis of Suetonius' biographical vignettes and related passages in Juvenal's Satire 7, this article sheds light on a vision of grammatici as outsiders who critique Rome—and each other—from the social and literary margins.","PeriodicalId":46128,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY","volume":"141 1","pages":"575 - 601"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ajp.2020.0030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41627418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The AJP Best Article Prize for 2019 has been Presented by the American Journal of Philology to: Ella Haselswerdt Cornell University","authors":"William M. Breichner","doi":"10.1353/ajp.2020.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajp.2020.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46128,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY","volume":"141 1","pages":"v - v"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ajp.2020.0027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41818992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Three ancient poets—Sappho, Theocritus, and Catullus—provide neglected evidence for Greek wedding poems composed in hexameters. Theocritus, Idyll 18 and Catullus in Carmen 62 are usually thought to reflect Greek wedding songs originally sung in lyric or choral meters; but why did Sappho, herself a lyric poet extraordinaire, compose some of her wedding poems in hexameters, a meter that she hardly uses elsewhere? This paper suggests that the Greeks traditionally performed at least one kind of wedding poem in dactylic hexameters. This in turn leaves open the possibility that when Theocritus and Catullus use hexameters in their wedding poems, they, too, are imitating the content and the form of this neglected genre. This is a circular argument of sorts, but one familiar to scholars seeking to make sense of the earliest fragments of ancient Greek poetry.
{"title":"Stationary Epithalamia in Hexameters? The Evidence from Sappho, Theocritus, and Catullus","authors":"C. Faraone","doi":"10.1353/ajp.2020.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajp.2020.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Three ancient poets—Sappho, Theocritus, and Catullus—provide neglected evidence for Greek wedding poems composed in hexameters. Theocritus, Idyll 18 and Catullus in Carmen 62 are usually thought to reflect Greek wedding songs originally sung in lyric or choral meters; but why did Sappho, herself a lyric poet extraordinaire, compose some of her wedding poems in hexameters, a meter that she hardly uses elsewhere? This paper suggests that the Greeks traditionally performed at least one kind of wedding poem in dactylic hexameters. This in turn leaves open the possibility that when Theocritus and Catullus use hexameters in their wedding poems, they, too, are imitating the content and the form of this neglected genre. This is a circular argument of sorts, but one familiar to scholars seeking to make sense of the earliest fragments of ancient Greek poetry.","PeriodicalId":46128,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY","volume":"141 1","pages":"317 - 348"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ajp.2020.0016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49172369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age by Donna Zuckerberg (review)","authors":"N. Sweeney","doi":"10.1353/ajp.2020.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajp.2020.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46128,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY","volume":"141 1","pages":"487 - 490"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ajp.2020.0026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42632145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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 argues that Cambyses' treatment of Psammenitus in Book 3 of Herodotus' Histories constitutes the adaptation of a punishment recorded in the Old Persian text of the Bisotun inscription. By outlining a typology for the practice, the article demonstrates the primacy of a Persian source, and proposes a series of specific, programmatically significant alterations made by Herodotus in the constructi on of the punishment. The resulting episode represents a complex engagement with questions arising from the Persian invasion of Egypt both in the Histories and in the wider historical record concerning Cambyses' legitimacy as Egyptian ruler.
{"title":"Barbarians at the Gate: Herodotus, Bisotun, and a Persian Punishment in Egypt","authors":"Keating P. J. McKeon","doi":"10.1353/ajp.2020.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajp.2020.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper argues that Cambyses' treatment of Psammenitus in Book 3 of Herodotus' Histories constitutes the adaptation of a punishment recorded in the Old Persian text of the Bisotun inscription. By outlining a typology for the practice, the article demonstrates the primacy of a Persian source, and proposes a series of specific, programmatically significant alterations made by Herodotus in the constructi on of the punishment. The resulting episode represents a complex engagement with questions arising from the Persian invasion of Egypt both in the Histories and in the wider historical record concerning Cambyses' legitimacy as Egyptian ruler.","PeriodicalId":46128,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY","volume":"141 1","pages":"349 - 380"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ajp.2020.0020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47264417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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