The Classical Quarterly articles from January 1997

The Classical Quarterly archives from January 1997

[GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] AND [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] IN HOMER(1).(Text primarily in Greek)
January 1, 1997... [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] and [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] are the two most important titles applied to the top stratum of Homeric aristocracy.(2) [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], usually translated as `lord' or...

APHRODITE AND THE PANDORA COMPLEX.
January 1, 1997... I What have the following in common: Epimetheus, Paris, Anchises, and the suitors of Penelope? The ready answer might be that it must have something to do with women, for it requires no great thought to see that the attractions of...

WHEN IS A HARP A PANPIPE?(Text primarily in Greek)
January 1, 1997... THE MEANINGS OF [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] From the Archaic period to the sixth century A.D., as well as in later Byzantine lexica, we find numerous instances of the word [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] as the name of a...

POSTSCRIPT ON SILENT READING.(Response to article by A.K. Gavrilov in this issue, p. 56)
January 1, 1997... The purpose of this sequel to A. K. Gavrilov's discussion (pp. 56-73) is to call attention to the following passage from Ptolemy, [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]: [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] The reason [sc. why the...

COMIC TECHNIQUE AND THE FOURTH ACTOR.
January 1, 1997... A recent article on `The Number of Speaking Actors in Old Comedy' by D. M. MacDowell has argued that to perform the plays of Aristophanes required the use of four, but never five, speaking actors.(1) Systematically argued, MacDowell presents...

NOTES ON FRAGMENTS OF EURIPIDES(1).(Text primarily in Greek)
January 1, 1997... 1. ALEXANDROS Fr. 23.2-8 Snell, 13-19 Page This is Snell's text: 5 [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] 2-3 suppl. Cronert 4 suppl. Snell 5-6 suppl. Cronert 7 suppl. Pohlenz 8 suppl. Cronert 2 [GREEK TEXT NOT...

DECELEANS AND DEMOTIONIDAE AGAIN(1).
January 1, 1997... The dossier of decrees concerning the Deceleans and the Demotionidae of Athens (IG ii(2) 1237) presents fascinating problems and has attracted plentiful discussion. For a long time there has been a division between the view of Wilamowitz and...

SPACE, TIME AND PHANTASMS IN ARISTOTLE, DE MEMORIA 2, 452B7-25.
January 1, 1997... For whenever one actually remembers he always says in his soul that he heard or saw or thought this before. (De Memoria 1 449b22-3) Aristotle thinks that in order to remember, (1) one must be cognizant of a phantasma used as a copy of...

EDITING PROPERTIUS.
January 1, 1997... `Quot editores, tot Propertii' (`For every editor, a different Propertius') has been a familiar--and much misunderstood--phrase in Propertian scholarship ever since it first appeared in the preface to Phillimore's Oxford Classical Text of...

ACHILLEAE COMAE: HAIR AND HEROISM ACCORDING TO DOMITIAN(1).
January 1, 1997... For a homicidal tyrant Domitian was disconcertingly droll. A number of examples of his `sardonic wit' survive.(2) One of them was so good that Marcus Aurelius supposedly repeated it, and attributed it to Hadrian rather than Domitian on the...

TRANSLATION IN AULUS GELLIUS.
January 1, 1997... In the last twenty years, the study of translation has emerged as a discipline in its own right.(1) Scholars in various fields have turned their attention to the linguistic, philosophical, and ideological issues involved in the `carrying...

AMMIANUS AND SOME TRIBUNI SCHOLARUM PALATINARUM c. A.D. 353-64.
January 1, 1997... The Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus is a major source of our knowledge of the late Roman army.(1) However, although himself a former army officer, it was not the intention of Ammianus to explain the institutions and organization of the...

ILIAD 7.293ff.
January 1, 1997... [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] Wordplay involving names is routine in Homer. Less common, but not rare, is wordplay that does not have anything to do with names. Thus, at Iliad 1.290f. there is a play on [GREEK TEXT NOT...

ANTH. PAL. 12.152.
January 1, 1997... [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]. The commentators have noticed the central role that wordplay performs in this epigram. Heraclitus the Magnesian is indeed a magnet, but it is the heart of the poet rather than iron that he attracts. As...

A FRAGMENT OF SIMONIDES?(1).
January 1, 1997... In Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (E. N.), at 1149b 15-16, there is a quotation: [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] Aristotle does not tell us who wrote these words, and we now find the quotation as lyric fr. adesp. 949.(2) ...

'ATHENS AIDS ERETRIA': A STATE'S JURISDICTION OVER ITS CITIZENS' ACTIONS.
January 1, 1997... In the course of studying ancient Greek diplomatic relations I have come to think that one item of evidence deserves a little more said about it than it has, up to now, received. Tod II.154, entitled `Athens aids Eretria: 357-6 B.C.',(2) is a...

EUMENIDES 267-75: [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII].
January 1, 1997... 267 [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] 270 [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] 275 [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] Having withered you while you live I will lead you down so that you may give recompense for the...

SOPHOCLES, ELECTRA 137-9(1).
January 1, 1997... The familiar crux in line 139, as obelized by Dawe,(2) disappears in the new Oxford Text,(3) whose editors accept the Triclinian reading [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]. Their short critical note(4) touches only on the metrical issue,...

THE MEANING OF REPUBLIC 606a3-b5.
January 1, 1997... [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] If you would reflect that the part of the soul that in the former case, in our own misfortunes, was forcibly restrained, and that has hungered for tears and a good cry and satisfaction, because it is...

SCENTS AND SENSIBILITY IN PLAUTUS' CASINA.
January 1, 1997... When Lysidamus arrives on stage in Plautus' Casina, he delightedly announces that he is in love with the slave girl Casina.(1) He is returning, he says, from an expedition to buy perfume which he hopes has made him appealing to his beloved....

THE BOOKS OF PHAEDRUS REQUESTED BY CICERO (ATT. 13.39).
January 1, 1997... Around 16 August of 45 B.C. Cicero wrote a brief letter to Atticus (Att. 13.39) in which he reminds Atticus to send the books of the Epicurean scholarch Phaedrus that he had requested. The Greek words in the text of his request have been...

HORACE, Carm. 3.30.1-5(1).
January 1, 1997... Exegi monumentum aere perennius regalique situ pyramidum altius, quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens ossit diruere aut innumerabilis annorum series et fuga temporum. In the poem which sets the seal on his three books of odes,(2)...

BIRDS, GRANDFATHERS, AND NEOTERIC SORCERY IN AENEID 4.254 AND 7.412(1).
January 1, 1997... On his way to convey Jupiter's rebuke to Aeneas, Mercury passes by his maternal grandfather Atlas, a mountain vividly personified as an old man with snowy beard/frozen rivers running down his chin (4.249-51). Here he pauses, then flings...

SANE IN VERGIL AND OVID: AN UNPOETISCHES WORT REVISITED.
January 1, 1997... In his influential work Unpoetische Worter, B. Axelson mentions sane as one of the words used freely in prose but generally avoided in verse.(1) He briefly discusses its occurrences in poetry. A closer look at these occurrences offers some...

OVID, MET. 6.640: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN MOTHER AND SON.
January 1, 1997... In telling the story of Tereus, Procne, and Philomela (Met. 6.401-674), Ovid transformed tragedy--the Tereus of Sophocles(1)--into epic. The result was a narrative that followed the tragic plot but with a very different presentation. For...

MARTIAL 14.100: PANACA.
January 1, 1997... Si non ignota est docti tibi terra Catulli, potasti testa Raetica vina mea. The wine referred to in the second line of the epigram was produced near Verona, at the foot of the Rhaetian Alps. It was well regarded by most and was a...

INTERPOLATING AN ISTHMUS: JUVENAL 6.294-7(1).
January 1, 1997... nullum crimen abest facinusque libidinis ex quo paupertas Romana perit, hinc fluxit ad istos 295 et Sybaris colles, hinc et Rhodos et Miletos atque coronatum et petulans madidumque Tarentum. 295 istos KU sicut coni. Nogarola: istros V:...

THE NEW PASSAGE OF TIBERIUS CLAUDIUS DONATUS.
January 1, 1997... In CQ 45 (1995), 547-50, S. J. Harrison and M. Winterbottom (hereafter H-W) propose a series of emendations to the text of the recently discovered passage of Donatus which contains his commentary on Aen. 6.1-157. I offer some further...