Pub Date : 2023-12-28DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-12347349
Irene J. F. de Jong
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Pub Date : 2023-12-22DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-bja10255
Lorenzo Salerno
In Pl. 1.3, Apuleius provides an account of the genesis of the tripartition of philosophy, recalling its incorrect (but by then traditional) attribution to Plato. In doing so, Apuleius states that Plato showed that the three parts of philosophy do not fight each other, but on the contrary support each other with mutual aid. While the meaning of the passage is clear, the text has been long debated. The aim of this paper is to show that none of the texts printed so far is satisfactory, and to propose a new solution.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-22DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-bja10211
Kathrin Winter
Heraclitus’ fragments employ a powerful literary technique which is used to convey information without giving it directly: the texts appeal to sensation and bodily experience to evoke spatial scenes and so become intuitively comprehensible and display a surprisingly vivid quality. The means to bring this effect about can be analysed and explained with approaches from cognitive studies. This article presents three criteria to analyse vividness in spatial scenes and applies them to four fragments of Heraclitus in order to show how the text makes use of perceptual structures and exploits them to convey information without the recipient noticing it.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-22DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-bja10237
Stavros Tsitsiridis
In the following close examination of chapter 26 of Aristotle’s Poetics it is argued (a) that unlike the main part of the treatise, tragedy and epic are no longer compared in the frame of ‘poetic art’, i.e. as literary genres, but rather as Gesamtkunstwerke judged by elitist criteria; (b) that the chapter adopts a logical method of argumentation founded on the dialectical method of the Topics; (c) that, as at the end of Book 8 of the Politics, it mainly reflects disputes in the Academy instigated by the so-called ‘New Music’; (d) that for a variety of reasons this chapter of the Poetics and hence the earlier layer of the treatise dates back to Aristotle’s first Athenian period (367-347 BCE).
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Pub Date : 2023-12-22DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-bja10180
W. Hübner
The ride of the Ovidian Phaethon hitherto has not been explained sufficiently, in particular by J. Loos in Mnemosyne 2008 and 2012. Instead for the different motion of the sun one has to regard the particularities and position of the zodiacal signs, especially that of the Scorpion.
迄今为止，奥维德派的 "法厄同"（Phaethon）并没有得到充分的解释，特别是 J. Loos 在 2008 年和 2012 年的《Mnemosyne》一书中。太阳的不同运动需要考虑黄道十二宫的特殊性和位置，尤其是天蝎座。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-25DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-bja10197
Simon Mollea
This article investigates the relationship between the noun humanitas and the adjective humanus. In particular, it argues that literary evidence suggests that the comparative and the superlative of humanus are far more suitable than its positive grade to render the Greek ideas of παιδεία and/or φιλανθρωπία which are usually subsumed in the word humanitas. One of the main consequences of this is therefore that it might be hazardous to speak about the humanitas of authors who wrote before the comparative and the superlative of humanus, if not the word humanitas itself, were first attested. Crucial to this discussion are passages by Aulus Gellius, Terence, Cicero, Valerius Maximus and Ammianus, as well as some occurrences of the expressions studia humanitatis and studia humaniora we find in some Renaissance Humanists.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-25DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-bja10183
Elaine C. Sanderson
Lucan’s invocation to Nero (1.33-66) is notorious for its seemingly contradictory praise and condemnation of the emperor. While analyses of this passage often turn to Virgil’s Georgics (1.24-28, 489-497, 500-515) to begin to explain this inherent paradox, Grimal (2010) has demonstrated the importance of Manilius’ Astronomica as a cosmological framework for these lines which invites a more positive reading of Nero’s presentation here. By examining the presence of two Manilian models in Lucan’s invocation to Nero, their contributions to the Lucanian cosmos, and their consequences for our understanding of the options laid out for the emperor’s heavenly future, this study argues for a more pragmatic—even hopeful—reading of Nero’s apotheosis and the implications of this for Lucan’s commentary on the Neronian present.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-25DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-bja10202
Leanna Boychenko
This article seeks to explain Callimachus’ blame of Thebes in the Hymn to Delos, arguing that Callimachus uses Apollo as a mouthpiece to voice the goals of his poetic project, signaling not only the influence of earlier Greek works—particularly Pindar’s Isthmian 1—but also his departure from these models. Moreover, Callimachus’ relationship with Pindar is more than simply literary, as shown through an intertextual reference that reveals a perceived familial tie, which helps explain Callimachus’ use of Pindar as a source. Callimachus’ blame of Thebes is a programmatic statement, demonstrating how Callimachus views his sources, his poetry, and himself.
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