The annotations of the Greek humanist Marcus Musurus in the recently recovered biblical manuscript UCM 22 (= 442 Rahlfs, 16th century in.), corresponding to the Septuaginta (Maccabaei, Book II), are studied in this article, as well as their possible origin: the Marc.gr. 1.
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This paper examines Apollonius Rhodius’s use of a Homeric gloss, ὁμαδέω. It argues that Apollonius adopts a double strategy in his intertextual engagement with Homer: Apollonius differentiates himself from his epic model on the one hand and establishes continuity on the other. For their appreciation, the two contrasting strategies require varying levels of familiarity with the Homeric original and Apollonius’s own epic. This reflects, I argue, the fact that Apollonius addresses different expectations from his audiences, and that he, accordingly, variously presents himself as an innovative poet or as a meticulous scholar. The double strategy lends Apollonius authority as poet and scholar.
{"title":"Apollonius Rhodius and a Homeric Gloss","authors":"Hyunjip Kim","doi":"10.33063/er.v114i1.212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33063/er.v114i1.212","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines Apollonius Rhodius’s use of a Homeric gloss, ὁμαδέω. It argues that Apollonius adopts a double strategy in his intertextual engagement with Homer: Apollonius differentiates himself from his epic model on the one hand and establishes continuity on the other. For their appreciation, the two contrasting strategies require varying levels of familiarity with the Homeric original and Apollonius’s own epic. This reflects, I argue, the fact that Apollonius addresses different expectations from his audiences, and that he, accordingly, variously presents himself as an innovative poet or as a meticulous scholar. The double strategy lends Apollonius authority as poet and scholar.","PeriodicalId":489364,"journal":{"name":"Eranos - Acta philologica Suecana","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134903544","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}
Athanasius’ Life of Antony has been researched intensively by modern scholars, but one crucial facet of this text—its style—has yet to receive any focused treatment, an oversight which has resulted in an underappreciation, and uninformed negative assessments, of its overall stylistic merits. This article demonstrates that the Life in fact abounds in the kind of rhetorical ornamentation and accentual rhythm that are hallmarks of artistic late Greek prose, and these findings in turn shed new light on Athanasius’ virtuosity as a prose stylist.
{"title":"Athanasius’ Life of Antony","authors":"Andrew Cain","doi":"10.33063/er.v114i1.159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33063/er.v114i1.159","url":null,"abstract":"Athanasius’ Life of Antony has been researched intensively by modern scholars, but one crucial facet of this text—its style—has yet to receive any focused treatment, an oversight which has resulted in an underappreciation, and uninformed negative assessments, of its overall stylistic merits. This article demonstrates that the Life in fact abounds in the kind of rhetorical ornamentation and accentual rhythm that are hallmarks of artistic late Greek prose, and these findings in turn shed new light on Athanasius’ virtuosity as a prose stylist.","PeriodicalId":489364,"journal":{"name":"Eranos - Acta philologica Suecana","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134903545","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}
I propose a plausible supplement for the incipit of the Homeric Hymn to Dionysus (1) that is meant to illuminate the priamel structure of Fragment A. Consequently, I give a full account of how ring composition works in the surviving fragments of the opening and the end of the Hymn. I argue that the Nyse variant is corroborated in way concomitant with another Homeric Hymn to Dionysus (26). The hymnic instance is supported through recourse to interformular occurrences in the Homeric Hymns, in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca, in Callimachus’ Hymn to Zeus. I conclude with an appreciation of contextual parameters that make the priamel structurally cohere.
{"title":"“Starting From the Immortal Father”","authors":"Marios Skempis","doi":"10.33063/er.v114i1.269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33063/er.v114i1.269","url":null,"abstract":"I propose a plausible supplement for the incipit of the Homeric Hymn to Dionysus (1) that is meant to illuminate the priamel structure of Fragment A. Consequently, I give a full account of how ring composition works in the surviving fragments of the opening and the end of the Hymn. I argue that the Nyse variant is corroborated in way concomitant with another Homeric Hymn to Dionysus (26). The hymnic instance is supported through recourse to interformular occurrences in the Homeric Hymns, in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca, in Callimachus’ Hymn to Zeus. I conclude with an appreciation of contextual parameters that make the priamel structurally cohere.","PeriodicalId":489364,"journal":{"name":"Eranos - Acta philologica Suecana","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134903542","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 major French and German etymological dictionaries of Latin, there is some puzzlement over the semantics of exāmen: how can one word refer to a measurement or examination, but also to a swarm of bees? Walde and Hofmann suggest these two disparate meanings stem from the diverse meanings of the verb exigō (<*ex-agō, ‘to drive out’), from which exāmen derives. They claim these two senses of exāmen become two words in the Latin Sprachgefühl. Ernout and Meillet agree: there is more than one exāmen in the Latins’ sentiment linguistique. I, too, agree. But this approach does not tell us why these terms derive from exigō, nor does it give any hint of an underlying concept which measurements and swarms of bees share, which makes a derivation from exigō appropriate to both.
The present paper addresses this puzzle by reducing the two meanings of exāmen to one meaning of the parent term *ex-agō: ‘to drive out.’ In sum: a swarm of bees is a ‘driving out’ or outpouring, and a measurement or examination is a ‘driving out’ or setting out for scrutiny. This interpretation is moreover supported by semantically parallel uses of cognate terms in other Indo-European languages, notably Greek and Old Irish, and by semantic parallels in English and in the Slavic language family. Along the way, I touch upon a philosophical puzzle: at what point do evolving linguistic items with a common source become distinct from one another?
{"title":"Semantics of Exāmen","authors":"Boaz Faraday Schuman","doi":"10.33063/er.v113i.209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33063/er.v113i.209","url":null,"abstract":"In the major French and German etymological dictionaries of Latin, there is some puzzlement over the semantics of exāmen: how can one word refer to a measurement or examination, but also to a swarm of bees? Walde and Hofmann suggest these two disparate meanings stem from the diverse meanings of the verb exigō (<*ex-agō, ‘to drive out’), from which exāmen derives. They claim these two senses of exāmen become two words in the Latin Sprachgefühl. Ernout and Meillet agree: there is more than one exāmen in the Latins’ sentiment linguistique. I, too, agree. But this approach does not tell us why these terms derive from exigō, nor does it give any hint of an underlying concept which measurements and swarms of bees share, which makes a derivation from exigō appropriate to both.
 The present paper addresses this puzzle by reducing the two meanings of exāmen to one meaning of the parent term *ex-agō: ‘to drive out.’ In sum: a swarm of bees is a ‘driving out’ or outpouring, and a measurement or examination is a ‘driving out’ or setting out for scrutiny. This interpretation is moreover supported by semantically parallel uses of cognate terms in other Indo-European languages, notably Greek and Old Irish, and by semantic parallels in English and in the Slavic language family. Along the way, I touch upon a philosophical puzzle: at what point do evolving linguistic items with a common source become distinct from one another?","PeriodicalId":489364,"journal":{"name":"Eranos - Acta philologica Suecana","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134951843","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}