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„In tyrannos“ !? – Sicco Polentons Ovidvita zwischen mittelalterlichem ‚Aberglauben‘, ‚republikanischem Diskurs‘ und pragmatischem Bildungsideal Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Friedrich Meins
The paper offers a new interpretation of the Life of Ovid in the Scriptorum illustrium Latinae linguae libri XVIII of Sicco Polenton. While so far scholarship has mostly criticized the lack of historical and philological accuracy in this Life and Sicco’s dependency on medieval speculations, the paper tries to take a closer look at the implications of Sicco’s own methodological stance towards poetry
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The Riddles in Martius Valerius Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Ruurd Nauta
The bucolic poet Martius Valerius used to be dated to the twelfth century, but has now been securely assigned to the sixth; articles on his work should therefore be published in journals not of medieval, but of classical philology. The present brief contribution proposes a new solution to the two riddles that Martius, following the example of Virgil, included at the end of his third eclogue. These
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Capaneus philosophus? Una nota su Zenone, Filodemo, Stazio (e Lucrezio) Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Francesco Cannizzaro
This short article, which starts with a reconsideration of the philosophical characterization of Statius’ Capaneus, aims at investigating the reception of the mythical figure of Capaneus in Hellenistic philosophy. Both among the Stoics (Zeno and, maybe, Chrysippus, according to Diogenes Laertius and Athenaeus) and the Epicureans (Philodemus in P.Herc. 452 olim 463, fr. 13), Capaneus occurs in the philosophical
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Ovidio, Cicerone e il finale delle Metamorfosi Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Emanuele Berti
The finale of Ovid’s Metamorphoses contains a sphragis in which the poet proclaims the immortality of his poetic work and the eternal survival of his pars melior (Ov. Met. 15.871–879). These lines present a number of rather close parallels with excerpts from the seventh suasoria of Seneca the Elder’s collection, whose theme is Deliberat Cicero an scripta sua comburat promittente Antonio incolumitatem
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Juvencus’ Präsenz im Proömium des Cento Probae: ein bisher unbemerkter Fall akustischer Imitation Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Ana Clara Sisul
In the prooemium of the Cento Vergilianus de Laudibus Christi of Faltonia Betitia Proba (lines 1–23) there are fragments not only of Vergil’s works but also of Lucan’s Bellum Civile and Juvencus’ Evangeliorum Libri. This article shows that in these lines Juvencus has a particular importance, for the references to his work increase until they reach a remarkable intensity in lines 22–23 and they stand
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On a Newly Discovered Acrostic in Virgil (Ecl. 4.9–11): The ‘Tenth’ Age Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Neil Adkin
A syllabic acrostic (de-ca-te, “tenth”) has recently been discovered by Leah Kronenberg at Eclogue 4.9–11. The aim of the present article is to adduce further evidence for the intentionality of this acrostic. The article begins by pointing to corroborative clues in the text encompassed by the acrostic itself. Attention is then drawn to the overlooked deni‑acrostic in the previous Eclogue (3.55–58)
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Unpublished Conjectures by Nicolaus Heinsius on Ovid’s Metamorphoses 1–4 Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Pere Fàbregas Salis
This paper publishes for the first time 132 conjectures by Nicolaus Heinsius on Ovid’s Metamorphoses 1‒4. The value and possible motivations of each proposal are briefly assessed.
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Cornutiana Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Giovanni Zago
This article provides conjectural emendations and exegetical notes to several passages in Cornutus’ Theologiae Graecae compendium; it also offers an emendation of a controversial fragment of Cleanthes on physics (SVF 1,497).
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Φήμη in Herodian’s Roman History Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou
This article offers a usage study of the word φήμη throughout Herodian’s Roman History. It sets Herodian’s practice in a broader literary picture that includes other historians, but also epic and the novel, and then suggests that the extremely high frequency of φήμη in Herodian is unique among Greek-language historians and that Herodian is indebted to Latin-language historiography for this technique
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Honey and the Indecency of Epicurus’ aurea dicta (DRN 3.12) Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Michael Pope
In this article the aurea dicta of Epicurus (DRN 3.12) are placed in conversation with larger discourses related to apian, floral, and honey imagery. Within these literary contexts, bees and honey are often associated with morally suspect appetites, effeminacy, and potentially dangerous erotic entanglements. Lucretius, I argue, seems to allude to these risky literary valences and manipulates them for
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... sicut mitissima satyris. Una nota testuale a Plin. Nat. 8.216 Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Marco Vespa
In book 8 of his Naturalis historia, Pliny the Elder mentions the particularly savage character of some monkeys. Most editions and translations of Pliny’s text maintain that the reference to the fierce nature of these animals concerns both the cynocephali and the satyri. However, in the manuscript Riccardianus 488 (R in the transmission of Pliny), a second hand, contemporary to the period in which
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Reuocat tua forma parentem – Hasdrubals Fest, Scipios Besuch bei Syphax und ihre epischen Bezüge Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Christoph Schwameis
This paper considers two scenes in Books 15 and 16 of the Punica of Silius Italicus: Hasdrubal’s celebration of the founding of Carthage with the ecphrasis of the general’s cloak (Sil. 15,410–440) and Scipio’s visit to the court of King Syphax (16,170–276). For both passages there are important reference texts in scenes of Vergil’s Aeneid and Statius’ Thebaid that have until now received no, or not
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Exitium Troiae funestaque flamma. Il personaggio di Paride nell’Ilias Latina Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Giuseppe Aricò
The character of Paris in the Ilias Latina maintains the ambiguity that characterises him in the Greek Iliad, where he does not lack military attitudes, but chafes against his duties to his country, being committed instead to satisfying his taste for luxury. This ambiguity is even reinforced in the epitome. The ‘heroic’ aspect of Paris’ personality emerges in a clearer light, expressed in a more mature
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New Evidence on Nicanor’s Theory of Punctuation Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 René Nünlist
A concise summary of Nicanor’s theory of punctuation that has recently been discovered in a codex mixtus of the 15th century throws precious new light on a topic of some complexity. The general picture that emerges from the new extract does not substantially differ from that of the other known summary, which has been the starting point for all modern reconstructions of Nicanor’s theory. Therefore,
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Ap. Rhod. Argon. 3.291: An Emendation Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Lorenzo Vespoli
It is well-known to scholars that the simile of the wool spinner described in Verg. Aen. 8.407–413 reworks on a verbal level Ap. Rhod. Argon. 3.291–295. Comparing Verg. Aen. 8.410 and Ap. Rhod. Argon. 3.291, this paper aims to suggest that in Ap. Rhod. Argon. 3.291 Virgil read a different text from that generally accepted by modern editors.
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“L’importante è finire”. Ancora a proposito del riuso di Verg. Aen. 4.415 in Auson. Epigr. 75.8 Green Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Vincenzo Ortoleva
In the complete quotation of Verg. Aen. 4.415 in Auson. Epigr. 75.8 Green, the participle moritura, originally referring to Dido, takes on the obscene double entendre of “about to orgasm”, matching analogous attestations of this distinctive sense of the verb morior.
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Parua magnis: Die Villenbeschreibungen des jüngeren Plinius im intertextuellen Größenvergleich (epistulae 2,17 und 5,6) Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Beate Beer
Despite the frequent use of the antithesis of parua and magna in Latin literature, the expression parua magnis in Pliny 5,6,43–44 need not be read as proverbial but as a quotation of Vergil, georg. 4,176. This attribution follows from the naming of Vergil and of Aratus in epist. 5,6,43–44. Combined allusions as in 5,6,43–44, consisting of a quotation, the naming of the author and/or narrative structures
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Was the Commentary on Vergil by Aelius Donatus Extant in the Ninth Century? A Reappraisal Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Vittorio Remo Danovi
That the Vergilian commentary by Aelius Donatus – one of the most influential late-antique commentaries that have not survived – was extant in the ninth century and available to some Carolingian scholars is still a widespread belief. The evidence in support of this thesis is said to have been provided by the Harvard Servianist J. J. H. Savage in three articles published between 1925 and 1931. In these
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The Social Networking Function of Cicero’s Prefaces to the Philosophical Works Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Christopher Dowson
The value of the prohoemia or ‘prefaces’ to Cicero’s later philosophical works, composed in the last years of his life, has not yet been settled. Two schools of thought have emerged somewhat more clearly in recent times: one places a greater value on the prefaces as tools for understanding Cicero’s philosophica as a whole, the other applies a more skeptical approach, using a degree of caution as to
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Mythenchronologische Inkonsistenzen in den Argonautica? Beobachtungen zum prima navis-Motiv bei Valerius Flaccus Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Bernhard Söllradl
In Roman literature, the Argo commonly ranks as the first ship. The Flavian poet Valerius Flaccus seems to place himself in this line of tradition too by constantly stressing the Argo’s pioneer status. Yet it has rightly been noted that nowhere in the Argonautica is the Argo explicitly said to be the first ever ship. Her exceptional role is based rather on her status as the first sea-going ship to
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Hipponax am „neronischen Musenhof“. Zu Persius’ Satiren-Prolog Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Lothar Spahlinger
The choliambic metre of the prologue poem of Persius’ Satires is key to understanding the poem’s message. On the one hand it creates a link to Hipponax as the canonical exponent of the iambic genre and to the tale of his inspiration transmitted by Giorgios Choiroboskos, and so attests the presence of the iambic poet in the cultured literary circles at Nero’s imperial court. On the other hand the poet
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Verifica di un pregiudizio scettico Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Gian Biagio Conte
The author returns to a much debated topic, the so-called “Episode of Helen”, which has come to us only through indirect transmission, and endeavors to dismantle the prejudice against Virgilian authorship. G. P. Goold’s pugnacious intervention, dating back to more than half a century ago, contributed decisively – in fact, more than it should have – to the thesis that the text is spurious. A critical
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„Elektronen und was es da noch geben mag ...“ Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Sebastian Zerhoch
This article presents an edition with introduction and commentary of two unpublished letters that Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff wrote to the art historian and cultural scholar Aby Warburg in the 1920 s. The edition completes a correspondence that includes a letter from Warburg that has already been published several times. The two letters cast light on the hitherto barely known relation of Wilamowitz
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Notes on the Text of Lygdamus Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Maxwell Hardy
Five conjectures are proposed on the text of four poems in the ‘Lygdamean cycle’ (= [Tib.] 3.1–6): 1.20 morer for minor, 4.5 uera monent sacrae, uenturi nuntia, sortes for diui uera monent uenturae nuntia sortis, 4.45 nescit for bachus, 5.8 laudatae for laudandae, and 6.55 nostris inimica querelis for nobis inimica merenti. Older readings and conjectures are defended at 2.15 (Huschke’s praefataeque
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The Medium and the Messenger in Seneca’s Phaedra, Thyestes, and Trojan Women Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Claire Catenaccio
The language of Seneca’s messenger speeches concentrates preceding patterns of imagery into grotesquely violent action. In three tragedies – Phaedra, Thyestes, and Trojan Women – the report of an anonymous messenger dominates an entire act. All three scenes describe gruesome deaths: the impalement of Hippolytus on a tree trunk in Phaedra, Atreus’ butchering of his nephews in Thyestes, and the slaughter
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Mit Vernunft zu Gott? Vernunftbegriffe in Ciceros De natura deorum Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Christian Vogel
Concepts of reason play a decisive role in the discussion of the different ideas of god in Cicero’s De natura deorum. However, the dialogue uses many different conceptual terms (such as ratio, mens, consilium, intelligentia or cogitatio) to refer to the achievements and potentials of reason. The variable use of the expressions across the dialogue at first suggests purely rhetorical criteria – variatio
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Iliad 8,408 and 422: The variae lectiones ὅττι νοήσω, ὅττι νοήσῃ or ὅττί κεν εἴπω, ὅττί κεν εἴπῃ and the Use of the Modal Particle κεν in Homeric Greek Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Filip De Decker
In this short article I discuss the variae lectiones in Il. 8.408 and 8.422. All manuscripts have ὅττι νοήσω (408) and ὅττι νοήσῃ (422), but many editors have preferred to print Aristarkhos’ corrections ὅττί κεν εἴπω and ὅττί κεν εἴπῃ respectively. By comparing the instances in which ὅττί κεν εἴπω/ῃς/ῃ and ὅττι νοήσω/ῃς/ῃ are used and by delving deeper into the use of the modal particle (MP) in epic
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An Unpublished Letter by A. E. Housman Related to the Textual Criticism of Statius’ Siluae Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Mikhail Shumilin
The article presents an edition of the previously unpublished letter from A. E. Housman to Grigory E. Saenger, written in Latin and dated 28 May, 1909, as well as a commentary on this text. The letter contains a criticism of Saenger’s 1909 edition of Statius’ Siluae. Housman evaluates the general approach of the edition and pronounces his judgement on two particular decisions made by the editor. The
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Tre note a Stazio, Tebaide 5 (64–70; 77–80; 81–84) Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Baruch Martínez Zepeda
This paper will examine three textual problems in Statius’ Thebaid, book 5 (Hypsipyle’s narration of the massacre on Lemnos) that have not previously been discussed in appropriate detail. It will also try to contribute to the demonstration of the fact that, on several occasions, P (Parisinus lat. 8051, s. ix2/3) is not the best codex in the tradition and that we can easily accept the text of the majority
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Caligantem nigra formidine lucum: Verg. georg. 4.468, la stele di Philae e un’annotazione degli Scholia Bernensia Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Paola Gagliardi
The notice in the Scholia Bernensia about Vergil, Georgics 4.468 that links the name of Gallus to the katabasis of Orpheus can be read as a confirmation of the relation between Vergil’s short poem and the elegiac poet’s work. Significant in this sense is the term formido, very elegant as used by Vergil and maybe part of the poetic lexicon of Gallus, as is perhaps suggested by a passage of the Philae
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Ein überflüssiger und ein nur ansatzweise richtiger Eingriff in den überlieferten Text von Ciceros Schrift De fato Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Hermann Weidemann
In the present article, proposed corrections to two passages of Cicero’s treatise De fato are examined. It is shown that, on the one hand, a widely accepted correction for §27 that replaces the well attested reading vera fuerunt instantia ... vera erunt instantia with vera fuerit instantia ... vera erit instantia is unnecessary, and that, on the other hand, my recently suggested correction for §48
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Schulübungen oder Kalenderblätter? Zur Interpretation einer Gruppe spätantiker Kulthymnen in der Appendix Claudianea Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Martin M. Bauer
Until now, the short cult hymns to Liber, Mars and Juno in the Appendix Claudianea have mostly been seen as rhetorical school exercises. Yet a philological-historical analysis shows that they could be remains of occasional poetry from everyday life. The hymns are structured according to the Roman festival calendar and, on the basis of language and content, should probably be dated to the final phase
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Homerus sceptra potitus (Lucr. 3,1037–1038). De rerum natura als Hinführung zur Homerlektüre? Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Dorothea Weber
De rerum natura displays a particular closeness to the Homeric epics on various levels: in language, in arguments, and in the selection of examples. This closeness clearly goes beyond similarities arising from the affinity as determined by genre. Further, a couple of passages are veritable translations from the Iliad resp. the Odyssey. There, the attitude towards the pretext becomes especially clear
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Doctus Amyclas. I presagi della tempesta in Luc. 5.539‒560 tra epica, poesia didascalica e retorica Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Nicolò Campodonico
In response to Caesar, who intends to reach Antonius in Italy, the boatman Amyclas sets out the celestial and terrestrial signs that foretell a storm and advises against putting out to sea (Luc. 5.539‒560). In this speech Lucan draws on the treatment of such phenomena in the didactic poems of Aratus and Vergil, but the allusions are remodelled in epic language and adapted to the narrative context of
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Galeno sulla lunghezza di un’epitome da Didimo: De indolentia 24 a BJP (= 121–122 KS). ἐν ἑξακισχιλίοις στίχοις versus ἐν ἓξ βιβλίοις Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Lorenzo Perilli
The article proposes a correction of a passage of Galen’s De indolentia, alternative to the one accepted so far. The correction ἐν ἓξ βιβλίοις (“in six books”) is proposed, as alternative to the text hitherto accepted, itself due to a conjectural intervention, ἐν ἑξακισχιλίοις στίχοις (“in six thousand lines”): the manuscript Vlatadon 14 bears an impossible ἐν ἑξακισχιλίοις βιβλίοις (“in six thousand
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A New Emendation for matavitatau in Petronius’ Satyricon Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Tiziano Boggio
In this paper I propose an emendation for a long-standing textual problem in the Satyricon. In the Cena Trimalchionis one of the freedmen, Niceros, recounts a bizarre story, culminating in a frightening encounter between him and a werewolf. In a desperate attempt to escape peril, Niceros draws his sword to repel horrific shadows and utters a sequence of eleven letters which has puzzled scholars for
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Tra gli Inferi e le stelle: un problema testuale nel mito di Orfeo in Virgilio (georg. 4,509) e il Leitmotiv astronomico nelle catabasi da Omero a Dante (con echi di Apollonio Rodio) Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Francesca Boldrer
The article treats the presence of stars in terrestrial landscapes, in opposition to the Underworld and in connection to the topos of katabasis, above all in order to pursue in more depth a textual problem in the fabula Orphei of Vergil’s Georgics (4,509 astris / antris). The philological question is approached both on the basis of context and in relation to the descent into Hades of Aeneas, as well
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Pater Vulkan: Martial als Vergil-Interpret in Epigramm 5,7 Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Delila Jordan
The paper presented here treats a hitherto unnoticed intertextual allusion in Mart. 5,7,7 to Verg. Aen. 8,394. Both lines contain two jokes at the expense of the smith-god Vulcan, by recalling the affairs of his wife Venus. First, the epic/epigrammatic speaker points to the well-known passage in Hom. Od. 8,266–363 in which Demodocus recounts the unpleasant – and for the other gods highly amusing –
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A Note on the Platonist Boethus: In Light of New Evidence from the Syriac Tradition Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Tianqin Ge
This article re-examines the identity and chronology of the lexicographer Boethus, by analyzing three pieces of evidence. It is argued that the lexicographer Boethus is a Middle Platonist flourishing in the late first or early second century, who believed in the transmigration of souls and was engaged in exegesis of Plato. In particular, this article draws attention to a testimony on Boethus from a
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A Brief Note on religio and the Ending of De Rerum Natura Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Michael Pope
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Letture e lezioni frontoniane nell’epistolario di Simmaco Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-20 Sara Fascione
This study aims to define the ways in which the work of Fronto circulated and was used in the intellectual circles of the fourth century A.D. through the testimony offered by the letters of Symmachus. In addressing illustrious members of the senatorial aristocracy of his time, Symmachus echoes Fronto’s work several times. The examination of Symm. Ep . 3.11 to Naucellius, with special reference to the
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Zum Text des λόγος-Syllogismus in Stephanus’ Kommentar zu Aristoteles’ περὶ ἑρμηνείας (15,29–30 Hayduck) Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-20 Michael Krewet
Article Zum Text des λόγος-Syllogismus in Stephanus’ Kommentar zu Aristoteles’ περὶ ἑρμηνείας (15,29–30 Hayduck) was published on November 20, 2021 in the journal Philologus (volume 165, issue 2).
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Frontmatter Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-20
Article Frontmatter was published on November 20, 2021 in the journal Philologus (volume 165, issue 2).
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Solons Fr. 12 G.-P.2 (= 9 W.2): ein Textvorschlag Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-20 Michele Solitario
This paper proposes a new conjecture for Solon fr. 12 G.-P. 2 (= 9 W. 2 ). In this, as in other poems, Solon shows a clear desire to present himself as an expert in the political milieu and to serve as a guide for the community of Athens. The politician’s penetrating gaze, his far-sighted νόος, is able to grasp in nuce the development of political dynamics which, if they prevail, could mean the ruin
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Penthemimeral Elision in Tragic Trimeters Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-20 James T. Clark
This paper provides a statistical survey of the incidence of elision at the penthemimeral caesura in the iambic trimeters of Greek tragedy. It updates and builds on the work of Descroix (1931) by considering the rates of elision of different types of words: lexicals, nonlexical polysyllables, and nonlexical monosyllables. While all tragedians elide less at the caesura than throughout the line, in Aeschylus
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Nicht Wissen ist auch Macht. Zur Gesprächsdynamik der Eingangsszene in Platons Kratylos Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-20 Kathrin Winter
In the introductory scene of Plato’s Cratylus a power game takes place that is based on an asymmetrical distribution of knowledge and which determines the dynamics of the communication. Since Cratylus claims to have greater knowledge than Hermogenes, he puts his discussion partner in an inferior position. Hermogenes strives to balance out this power differential by different strategies. One such strategy
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Why Humans Do Not Cast Off Old Skin Like Snakes. Knowledge and Eternal Youth in Nicander’s Theriaca Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-20 Olga Chernyakhovskaya
In Theriaca 343–358, Nicander recounts a rather unusual myth. After Prometheus had stolen fire, Zeus was seeking the thief and, when men delivered Prometheus over to him, he gave them the gift of youth. Humans entrusted the ass to carry this load, but the ass was seized by thirst and sought the help of the snake, who demanded in return the thing he was carrying on his back. This is how the gift of
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Tiberius aequatus Augusto Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-20 Christoph Pieper
This paper comments on the tension between constant imitatio and refused aemulatio gloriae in Tiberius’ attitude towards Augustus in Velleius Paterculus’ History . I argue that Tiberius is equalling and eventually even surpassing Augustus precisely because he refuses to compete with him, let alone surpass him. In order to do so, I focus on two hitherto neglected Augustan intertexts, which are referenced
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The New Consul and the Eagles of Jupiter: Poetics and Propaganda in Claudian’s Preface to the Panegyric for Mallius Theodorus Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-20 Álvaro Sánchez-Ostiz
This article proposes an interpretation of Claudian’s preface to his Panegyric for Mallius Theodorus that places the poem in the communicative context of its recitation and in the literary frame of the panegyric. An analysis of the political messages in both poems, the panegyric and its brief ‘paratext’, reveals that the preface consistently uses the myth of the two eagles of Jupiter to indicate symbolically
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Love Motifs in Prudentius Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-20 Rosario Moreno Soldevila
By analysing three paradigmatic passages, this paper explores how Prudentius uses classical love motifs and imagery not only to lambast paganism, but also as a powerful rhetorical tool to convey his Christian message. The ‘fire of love’ imagery is conspicuous in Psychomachia 53–57, which wittily blends Christian and erotic language. In an entirely different context ( C. Symm. 2.1071–1085), the flamma
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Hecale μαῖα: a Note on Callim. Hec. fr. 80 Hollis Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-20 Francesco Sironi
Article Hecale μαῖα: a Note on Callim. Hec. fr. 80 Hollis was published on November 20, 2021 in the journal Philologus (volume 165, issue 2).
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A Conjecture on Lucian, Tragodopodagra 34 Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-20 Gabriele Palermo
Article A Conjecture on Lucian, Tragodopodagra 34 was published on November 20, 2021 in the journal Philologus (volume 165, issue 2).
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On the Use of carcer at Stat. Achil. 1.625 Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-20 Julene Abad Del Vecchio
Article On the Use of carcer at Stat. Achil. 1.625 was published on November 20, 2021 in the journal Philologus (volume 165, issue 2).
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Frontmatter Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01
Article Frontmatter was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Philologus (volume 165, issue 1).
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Editorial Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01
Article Editorial was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Philologus (volume 165, issue 1).
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Bemerkungen zur Ektheosis Arsinoes des Kallimachos: Gattung, Struktur und Inhalt Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Zsolt Adorjáni
This article aims to present an overall interpretation of a poem by Callimachus that centres on the dead Ptolemaic queen Arsinoe II. Firstly the position of the Ektheosis Arsinoes in Callimachus’ œuvre, the genre to which it belongs and its structure will be investigated. This leads to the analysis of the highly allusive character of the work (above all to Hesiod, Ibycus, Simonides and Pindar as well
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Genizah Ms. 17: an Extract from an Early Version of the Passio of St Plato of Ancyra, Part 2 Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Alexandra Trachsel
Article Genizah Ms. 17: an Extract from an Early Version of the Passio of St Plato of Ancyra, Part 2 was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Philologus (volume 165, issue 1).
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„Alles ist in Gott“ – Überlegungen zur bestimmenden theologischen Denkform des Corpus Hermeticum Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Benedikt Krämer
Given the Corpus Hermeticum ’s history of formation, it has prompted the attempt to separate layers or groups of writings within the collection of treatises. This process of division, which was for the most part undertaken on criteria of content (dualism, pantheism, etc.), has been viewed rather negatively by the more recent research, on grounds of method. Given the discovery of numerous doctrinal
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I “mali futuri” e non solo: possibili riprese tucididee in Dexippo e Eliodoro Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Enrico Cerroni
The reception of the work of Thucydides in late antique authors constitutes a huge chapter of allusions and reworkings, on methodological, structural, lexical levels and more. A fortiori, certain particularly famous passages by the historian are well suited for a study of their reception, above all where key terms or rare expressions are concentrated. The case of the adjective ἀλγεινός, a poeticism
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Das Motiv der Schlaftötung in der antiken Literatur und Ikonographie Philologus (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Justine Diemke
Killing a sleeping person is a popular motif in world literature and can be found already in the Iliad , with the murder of the sleeping Rhesus. The present paper surveys the motif of killing a sleeper in Greek and Roman literature and in iconography, where the dastardliness of the deed is clearly accentuated. The sleeping chamber was hard for outsiders to access, for which reason this method of killing