Pub Date : 2022-12-23DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-bja10206
Coulter H. George
This article reviews the Sintaxis del griego antiguo, a two-volume syntax of Ancient Greek drawing largely on the Functional Grammar approach. Accordingly, constructions are organized more by their synchronic function than by their diachronic origin, and considerable attention is paid to the wider context in which linguistic examples appear.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-23DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-bja10190
R. Nünlist
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Pub Date : 2022-12-23DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-bja10156
John Henry
Recent commentators of Aristophanes’ Frogs have argued that there is a deliberate indeterminacy in his text when he wrote ΔΙΑΓΟΡΑΣ at line 320. It has been argued that the two readings of these letters in antiquity—δι’ ἀγορᾶς (‘through the Agora’) and Διαγόρας (the Melian poet)—were both intended by Aristophanes as a purposeful textual ambiguity for the actor to freely choose between in performance. But this article will argue that this agnosticism is ultimately misguided, and only the ‘Diagoras’ reading is viable in terms of syntax and historical context.
最近，阿里斯托芬《青蛙》的评论家们认为，当他在320行写ΔΙΑΓΟΡΑΣ时，他的文本中有一种故意的不确定性。有人认为，古代对这些信件的两种解读-δι ' ο γορ ο ς (' through the Agora ')和Διαγόρας(米洛斯诗人)-都是阿里斯托芬有意为演员在表演中自由选择的文本歧义。但本文将论证这种不可知论最终是被误导的，只有“Diagoras”的阅读在句法和历史背景方面是可行的。
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Pub Date : 2022-11-18DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-bja10175
C. Vassallo
This paper presents a new edition of Speusippus’ fr. 57 Tarán (= 100 Isnardi Parente), transmitted by Philodemus’ On Piety. The improved text sheds new light on the early Academy’s debate on cosmology and theology and on the already known doxographical accounts (especially Aëtius’) on Speusippus’ view of who the Deity is.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-17DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-bja10172
Chris Eckerman
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Pub Date : 2022-11-11DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-bja10152
Yannick Brandenburg
This paper traces the enjambment techniques employed by Hellenistic and Latin authors at the end of the elegiac couplet. While the Alexandrians make deliberate use of enjambment at the end of the pentameter, in later Hellenistic and in Latin epigram there is a discernible movement toward a unity of syntax and metre, as testified by the poets’ tendency to avoid enjambment between distichs. The earliest Latin epigrammatists loyally render their Greek contemporaries’ aesthetics. Catullus, in his turn to Callimachean poetics, at times employs enjambment in this position, especially in elegy (as opposed to epigram). These techniques are largely abandoned by the Augustan poets, who rigidly introduce epigrammatic avoidance of enjambment into longer elegiac poems; among them, only Propertius in his fourth book rarely uses it as a stylistic means.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-09DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-bja10151
Iwona Słomak
This article aims to revise previous findings concerning selected passages of Seneca’s Phoenician Women (374-375; 610-613; 184-187; 314-315; 437-439; 631-632). In each of them, the unanimous reading of the MSS was replaced by conjectures which are now almost universally accepted by reputable editors and commentators. To justify these emendations, it was argued that the MS phrase did not make sense or was grammatically or stylistically incorrect; sometimes, the text was modified on the assumption that the author had imitated another poet when working on a particular line. In this paper, the passages are analysed in the light of Seneca’s other statements and against the broader background of ancient literary tradition. The results show that the conjectures are based on unconfirmed assumptions or flawed premises and thus should be rejected in favour of the MS reading.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-09DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-bja10143
Richard M.A. Marshall
The Catalogus geometrarum from the Corpus Agrimensorum, an early witness to the Aratean commentary tradition, names an author with mathematical interests as Euclid the Sicilian. If this individual is identical with Euclid the geometer, then we are able to move beyond the traditional biographies of Euclid, which rest on the problematic evidence of Proclus and Pappus, and consider an ancient case of mistaken identity which suggests that Euclid may even have been a Geloian by birth. This new identification raises questions about the status of Doric as a scientific language, and Alexandria’s role as a haven for those dislocated by war or civil strife, not merely as a magnet for scientific talent.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-09DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-bja10130
Edward Kelting
Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius uses the transmigration of the soul to tie the present to the past through corporal metaphors of cultural preservation. These metaphors are laced throughout Apollonius’ visits to Indian Brahmans and Ethiopian naked sages (Gymnoi), two wisdom groups who respectively celebrate and deny the embodied knowledge of the past that reincarnation allows. This somatic line of thinking culminates in a debate over the Gymnoi’s eponymous nudity, which Apollonius critiques on two counts: it wrongly suggests that the Gymnoi can divest themselves of their past and creates a false dichotomy between clothes and body, ornament and essence.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-04DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-bja10142
Mitch Brown
In Menander’s Epitrepontes, Charisios acknowledges his own faults and mistreatment of his wife Pamphile in an act 4 speech. During his confession, he repeats the verb δείκνυµι three times within six lines. In this article, I argue that such a verb has a double meaning. Charisios’ explicit use of the verb conveys a ‘revelation of character’ as Charisios and the daimonion he invokes ‘reveals’ that he has erred in his actions. On a metatheatrical level between the audience and playwright, the verb also conveys the literal meaning of ‘showing’, as it nods to the playwright putting Charisios onstage (and thus ‘showing’ him) for the first time in this scene. This double meaning of δείκνυµι adds to the other metatheatrical moments in the play illuminated by other scholars and reveals in Menander a close attention to the power of absence and presence in his plays.
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