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The princeps investigates: two cases of domestic violence in Tacitus’ Annals Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Kimberly Harris
This article considers two case studies of intimate partner violence from Tacitus’ Annals: the murders of Apronia in ad 24 (Tac. Ann. 4.22) and Pontia Postumina in ad 58 (Tac. Ann. 13.44). Tacitus’ account of these acts of violence and the legal proceedings that follow are considered in detail to demonstrate that legal and non-legal action could be taken in response to some instances of domestic violence
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Bitchy ladies: domestic violence against ornatrices in Latin poetry—protest femininity, toxic femininity? Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Marguerite Johnson
In a revisionist historical environment in which scholars are increasingly invited to reconsider readings of classical texts from a philological perspective, or from an approach that privileges strict historicity, numerous interpretative possibilities present themselves. Working within such an environment, this study aims to delve into several literary expressions of domestic violence meted out to
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A tale of two Octavias: historical empathy and intimate partner ‘violence’ Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Sarah Lawrence
This paper starts with the contention that the category of ‘violence’ is culturally constructed and varies according to one’s cultural and historical context. This is not intended to excuse contemporary acts that violate our laws and standards, but instead to provide a platform for examining Roman ideas of acceptable and unacceptable force so far as we can access them via texts written by male members
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The abuse of aged parents in the ancient Roman world Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Tim Parkin
This article focuses on the limited evidence that exists for domestic abuse and violence against older individuals in the Roman world, in particular directed against parents by their offspring. Literary and legal testimony is considered, along with some discussion of skeletal evidence, and particular instances from Roman Egypt are also presented. The article considers questions of gender in this context
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‘Start with the cage’: coercive control and the Roman husband Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Eleanor Cowan
This chapter investigates domestic violence in the ancient world by making use of the expanded understanding of the abusive relationship between perpetrator and victim offered by the concept of coercive control. Coercive control describes a pattern of behaviour which may include acts of physical violence, but also non-physical emotional, psychological and financial abuse. I offer four case-studies
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Reading intimate partner violence in Latin controversiae Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Kirsten Parkin
Intimate partner violence—any behaviour within a current or former intimate relationship that causes physical, psychological, or sexual harm—is a public health issue of global proportions. It disproportionately affects women: one in three women report having experienced a form of physical or sexual violence from an intimate partner during their life (World Health Organization 2021). So too intimate
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The farmer wants a wife: ecofeminism, domestic violence, and coercive control in Roman agricultural writing Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Robert Cowan
This article explores the explicit and implicit depiction of domestic violence and coercive control in a range of texts from different genres, all dealing with agriculture: a farmer’s attack on his wife after a rustic festival in a Tibullan elegy, the Elder Cato’s instructions to his overseer on how to control his wife coercively in De agricultura, and the portrayal—and suppression—of anthropomorphized
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Domestic sexual abuse in early Christianity: conflations of violence and desire in the Acts of John Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Kylie Crabbe
‘Either I’ll have you as a wife, as I had you before, or you must die!’ So Andronicus yells at Drusiana, having locked her in a tomb for refusing to have sex with him, in the second-century Acts of John. Drusiana’s domestic setting houses a nested story of violence. Her husband’s abuse parallels that of a rival assailant, Callimachus, who in turn also involves Andronicus’ steward in his violent planning
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Horses for courses: Plato’s vocabulary and authority in the Onomasticon Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Alexei V Zadorojnyi
The Onomasticon by Julius Pollux is more than just a word-hoard: Pollux’s work actively mediates, through lexicographic appraisal, the cultural assets and anxieties of the Second Sophistic. In the light of the ongoing debate among the Imperial intellectuals and specifically Platonists about the value of style and diction as ingredients of the Platonic text, the numerous references to Plato’s vocabulary
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Plato’s Laws in Musonius Rufus and Clement of Alexandria Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Tomohiko Kondo
Clement of Alexandria’s Paedagogus contains many quotations and paraphrases of Plato’s Laws. Meanwhile, it is well established that Clement’s Paedagogus owes much of its material to Musonius Rufus and that Musonius’ Discourses also sometimes make allusions to Plato’s Laws. This paper explores the intertextual relations of the three by closely analyzing some passages (especially on sexual morality and
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The wisdom of the eagle: a (Middle) Platonic reading of Apuleius, Florida 2 Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Lucia Pasetti
The eagle of Florida 2 is the literary synthesis of many Homeric eagles. The description of this raptor is not only a display of erudition and rhetorical technique, but reflects Middle Platonic thought on the animal’s λόγος. The use of Homer, in addition to stylistically ennobling the described subject, documents the relationship between the eagle and the divine that is emphasized by Plutarch and Aelius
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Popularization or occlusion of truth in the Platonic myths: Plutarch, Numenius, and Maximus of Tyre Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Collin Miles Hilton
Why does Plato critique traditional myth so vehemently in the Republic, yet compose his own imagistic narratives in the very same dialogue? In this chapter, I examine the responses of Plutarch, Numenius, and Maximus of Tyre. Plutarch defends the use of myth on the grounds that it opens up philosophy for a wider audience, if taught carefully, while Numenius argues that it piously hides the truth from
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(Middle) Platonic philosophers in Lucian Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Heinz-Günther Nesselrath
This paper attempts to assess whether we can find Platonic philosophers with more or less distinct Middle Platonist traits depicted in Lucian’s works. After a look at the terminology Lucian employs for denoting philosophers claiming allegiance to Plato, some case studies (on Platonists in Vitarum auctio, Nigrinus, Hermotimus, Piscator, Convivium, and Philopseudeis) address the question formulated above
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Insatiable souls: Philo of Alexandria’s readings of food Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Carsten Flaig
While Philo of Alexandria maintained that the pleasure that stems from the consumption of food can overstimulate human desire, he attributed great philosophical significance to the symbolism of food. On the one hand, in De specialibus legibus 4, the food that is permitted for consumption in the Torah is open to philosophical explanation and inspires learning; on the other, Philo connects what he considers
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Philosophy and Platonism in Fronto’s Correspondence Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Leonardo Costantini
This chapter focuses on the references and allusions to Plato in Fronto’s epistolary corpus, especially in his correspondence with Marcus Aurelius, to whom Fronto taught rhetoric. Attention will be paid to Fronto’s engagement with philosophy and his high esteem for Plato and (Middle) Platonism: Plato symbolizes the perfect synthesis between philosophy and rhetoric, which Fronto measures against the
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Death and memory: the role of Plato’s Phaedo in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophists Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Ben Cartlidge
This chapter examines the ways in which Athenaeus makes use of Plato, pointing to links between his texts and the content of Plato’s dialogues. This is linked to Middle Platonic teaching in the Imperial period, and used as a tool to explain the use Athenaeus makes of the Phaedo in particular.
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Receptions and appropriations of Platonic myth: Dio, Plutarch, and Aristides between literary fashion and philosophical exegesis Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Michael Trapp
This chapter examines the Platonizing myths of Dio Chrysostom, Plutarch, and (to a lesser degree) Aelius Aristides, in the light of our evidence for both the philosophical and the literary-rhetorical reception of Plato’s own myths. It argues that, while reflections of the development of Platonism as a systematic philosophy can be detected in them, it can be hard and may in some respects be pointless
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Storying early Alexandria: occluded histories, colonial fantasies Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Katherine Blouin
There is something very affective, and also formulaic, about the story of the foundation of Alexandria. What makes it so enduring? What is it really about? And whose story is this? This paper explores the European historiographical tradition regarding the landscape and occupation of the site of Alexandria prior to and at the time of the city’s foundation. The number of publications on ancient Alexandria
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For an African elenchus: colonial and postcolonial misprisions and Classics in Africa Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 David van Schoor
This paper reflects on the god Dionysus in the context of African explorations of the role and meaning of Classical traditions in and for Africa. The problem of decolonization entails the creative challenge to conceive an African modernity, but how we shall recognize what that is to mean remains open. Knowledge as claim and contestation are foregrounded with Dionysus and in his presence. He is a figure
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Africa and the making of Classical literature: on decolonizing Greco-Roman literature syllabi Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Elena Giusti
This article presents the author’s development and teaching of a year-long module on Africa in Greco-Roman literature and its receptions, and the challenges of imagining a decolonized pedagogy in Classics, and specifically in the subfield of Greco-Roman literature. It argues that the equivalence of curriculum ‘diversification’ with ‘decolonization’ can be pernicious in its tokenizing effects, and that
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Decolonizing Classics in Africa: the work of Alexander Kwapong Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Barbara Goff
Alexander Osei Adum Kwapong (1927–2014) was a notable classical scholar who studied at the renowned Achimota School of Ghana, and gained a PhD in Ancient History from King’s College, Cambridge. He subsequently became the first African Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, and went on to a career in several institutions of higher education. As with some other African Classical scholars, the attitude
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Classics and the politics of Africanization in Ghana Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Michael K Okyere Asante
During the early years following Ghana’s political independence from British rule, calls were made for university education to have ‘an African character’. As a field steeped in Eurocentric narratives, how did the Classics survive, and how did classicists respond to the politics of Africanization? This paper draws on the political contexts under which secondary and tertiary education in Ghana underwent
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Check your privilege: reconsidering the social position of public slaves in the cities of the Roman Empire Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-06 Weiss A.
In my book on public slaves in the Roman empire I have argued, as several others have before and after me, for the relatively higher social position of public slaves.11 The important word here of course is ‘relatively’, which is to say that compared to private slaves, on average public slaves ranked higher, not that each and every public slave had a higher standing than every individual private slave
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The legal capacity of public slaves in the Roman empire Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-06 Aubert J.
Slaves are things, and therefore objects rather than subjects of law. In other words, freeborn and freed people may have rights over slaves, but slaves are not supposed to have any rights over anything or anyone. However, such an absolute principle is simply not practical, and may never have been enforced. De facto, slaves often enjoyed some level of consideration as a result of their humanness, and
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Effective management of public slavery in Hospitallers’ Malta Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-06 Brogini A.
A vast quantity of research on slavery in the early modern Mediterranean was undertaken in the 1970s and 1980s.11 This research has recently benefited from a historiographical revival,22 in connection with current trends inherited from global history, which analyzes the trade of slaves and captives from the long-term angle of maritime connectivity.33 This trade led to an economic rise of Christian
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Inherited institution: Ottoman state slavery and war captives in the early modern era Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-06 Nalçacı N.
Until recently, slavery studies had been dominated by the field of Atlantic and ancient era slavery. Other regions and eras had mostly been neglected. However, slavery existed in nearly every society in different parts of the world, in accordance with geographical, cultural, and economic circumstances; it changed its form throughout the ages until it was finally abolished officially, although different
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Public slavery in the precolonial Gold Coast (Ghana) Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-06 Shumway R.
Slavery was a common feature of social organization in many African societies up to the late nineteenth century, including those with a small minority of slaves, and a few outright slave societies (in which slave labour was the primary mode of production).11 Enslaved people were traded within several commercial networks connected to the African continent from ancient to modern times, including those
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Being everybody’s slaves? Framing the issue Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-06 Luciani F.
This volume stems from an international conference entitled ‘Being Everybody’s Slaves: Public Slavery in Ancient and Modern World’, which was held at Newcastle University on 22–4 March 2018. The event was part of the ‘Servi Publici: Everybody’s Slaves (SPES)’ research project that was based at Newcastle University from 2016 to 2018 and received funding under a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship
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Acknowledgements Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-06
This volume originates from a conference held in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University in 2018. The event was part of the ‘Servi Publici: Everybody’s Slaves (SPES)’ research project that was based at Newcastle University from 2016 to 2018 and received funding under a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, grant agreement no. 704716). Warm
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‘All human beings are either free or slave’? Servi publici in Late Antiquity Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Andrea Binsfeld
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‘In defence of the empire’: Mauritius’ government slaves in eighteenth-century Mauritius Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Vijayalakshmi Teelock
Mauritius' Government slaves form a unique body of slaves emerging out of its French colonial past. Slaves bought by the colonial administration formed part of the 'public works' department and built the infrastructure of the islans as well as manning forts, manufacturing gunpowder and even being recruited in the French naval squadrons going to fight the British in India.
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Reflections on public slavery and social death Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Benedetta Rossi
It is tempting to see public slaves as sharing characteristics of both slave and free and, therefore, as embodying an intermediate position that proves binary approaches to slavery and freedom wrong. This article argues that this temptation should be resisted. Based on an analysis of cases from different regions and periods, it agrees broadly with Patterson's clear distinction between slave and free
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Translating Homeric scholia: five case studies from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Filippomaria Pontani
Translating the fragments of ancient exegesis to classical poets might seem to many scholars an idle task. In philological studies of the nineteenth and twentieth century, this kind of material was almost always presented in the original, in the assumption that linguistic, stylistic, or rhetorical (let alone etymological or grammatical) observations could not be understood and would anyway be of no
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Homeric scholarship in the pulpit: the case of Eustathius’ sermons Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Maroula Perisanidi, Oliver Thomas
Many classicists are familiar with Eustathius (c.1115–95) through his huge Homeric commentaries or Parekbolai. He is thought to have composed these, along with studies of Pindar, Aristophanes, and Dionysius the Periegete, while working as a teacher in Constantinople, and he continued to revise them later in life while Archbishop of Thessalonike.1 Quite different parts of Eustathius’ output, however
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Exegetical dialogue through compilation: examples from the h-family of the Iliad scholia Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Fausto Montana
At the very beginning of his critical edition of the scholia vetera to the Iliad, Hartmut Erbse endorsed a general distinction based on a criterion, or preconception, of a qualitative kind: ‘scholia, quae in marginibus codicum Homericorum aetatis Byzantinae inveniuntur, in duo genera divisa sunt, quorum alterum Scholia minora vel Scholia Didymi (D) vocatur (quamquam haec ab illo grammatico neque collecta
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Some problems in the ‘Deception of Zeus’ Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Richard Hunter
I begin with Zeus’s speech to Hera near the beginning of Iliad 15, after he wakes up and realizes that she has tricked him (Il. 15.53–77):
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Aristarchus in his own words? What his ‘most secure’ fragments can tell us about Aristarchus’ commentaries and their transmission Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Francesca Schironi
As is well known, we have lost Aristarchus’ original works and rely only on excerpta, mostly preserved in scholia and lexica dating back to the Byzantine period. The richest sources are the scholia maiora to Homer, especially those in the famous codex Venetus A (tenth century ce), which preserves ample excerpts of the so-called Viermännerkommentar, the ‘commentary of the four men’—Didymus, Aristonicus
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Introduction Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Bill Beck, Adrian Kelly, Tom Phillips
The ancient scholia to the Iliad—excerpts of ancient scholarship and commentary on the Iliad that have been preserved as marginal and interlinear notes in major medieval manuscripts—constitute a uniquely rich and challenging source for anyone interested in Greco-Roman antiquity. A mass of material that includes textual criticism, lexical debate, and literary interpretation, the scholia range in quality
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Bibliography Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-08-12
Abbreviations in the text and the bibliography are the same as (or fuller than) those given in the Greek–English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott (9th edition, with a revised supplement, Oxford 1996) and the Latin Dictionary of Lewis and Short (Oxford 1879); journal titles follow the conventions set out in L’Année Philologique.
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Nicanor: more than a punctuator Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 René Nünlist
The famous Viermännerkommentar on Homer’s Iliad originally combined the works of the four scholars Aristonicus (explaining the reasons for Aristarchus’ marginal signs), Didymus (focusing on textual variants), Herodian (on Homeric prosody and accentuation), and Nicanor (on Homeric punctuation).11 The last grammarian in this list, Nicanor of Alexandria, active during the reign of the emperor Hadrian
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Reading for Achilles in the bT-Scholia to the Iliad* Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Beck B.
In a comment on the first line of the Iliad, the late antique11 redactor of the bT-scholia (hereinafter ‘the bT-critic’ or simply ‘the critic’22 records a zētēma: why did Homer not name his epic after its most prominent hero?
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Acknowledgements Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-08-12
This volume originates from a conference held at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies at the University of Oxford in 2018. We are grateful to the John Fell Fund for its support, and to all who attended for making it a such a stimulating event. Liz Potter and Greg Woolf nurtured the project in its early stages, the anonymous readers offered constructive and helpful comments as the
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The scholiast as poet: Tzetzes and his Allegories of the Iliad Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Johannes Haubold
The subject of this chapter is John Tzetzes’ Allegories of the Iliad, one of the major works of Homeric exegesis from the Comnenian period (twelfth century ce), a poem of some 6600 lines of ‘political verse’ or decapentasyllabus about the life of Homer, the prehistory of the Trojan War, and the contents of the Iliad, which it subjects to detailed allegorical interpretation.11 Together with its sequel
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‘The Alexandrian scholar poets are our ancestors’: ancient scholarship and modern self-perception Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Constanze Güthenke
The definition of a discipline is open to debate, but what is certain is that there cannot be a discipline of one. A discipline, even if in the singular and for all its focus on a delimited subject of study, requires the plural of its participants. Just as the content of a discipline is relational—being formed by what lies outside it as much as by what lies inside—so the knowledge in a discipline is
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A checklist of the testimonia and fragments of Didymus Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-13 Thomas R P Coward, Enrico Emanuele Prodi
This Checklist aims to collect the testimonia to Didymus’ life and references to all extant fragments of his works. It is not, and could not have been, a proper edition to supersede the one published by Moritz Schmidt in 1854; the latter endeavour we leave to guts more brazen than ours. But we believe that a Checklist of fragments, organised by works, will be a useful instrument for those working on
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Chapter One Didymus and epic poetry Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-13 Lara Pagani
This chapter studies Didymus’ scholarly activity on epic poetry, especially on Homer, in relation to both his own exegetical efforts and his work about the textual recension of Aristarchus of Samothrace. It provides a critical survey of the fragments of Didymus’ Homeric commentaries, with an overview on the subjects they covered. As for the treatise on Aristarchus’ diorthōsis, which is much more significant
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Abbreviations Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-13
An.Ox. J. A. Cramer, Anecdota Graeca e codd. manuscriptis bibliothecarum Oxoniensium, 4 vols, Oxford 1835–37.
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Chapter Three Didymus on Attic tragedy Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-13 Thomas R P Coward
This chapter examines Didymus’ studies on Greek tragedy, in particular on Sophocles and Ion of Chios. It demonstrates Didymus’ methods of exegesis and his use of other exegetical corpora. It explains the thinking behind some of his choices and preferences, including the mistakes. Furthermore, it examines the problems of identifying Didymean material where Didymus is not named.
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Chapter Two Didymus and lyric Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-13 Enrico Emanuele Prodi
Didymus worked extensively on archaic lyric poetry. The greatest amount of surviving material comes from the Pindar scholia and concerns Pindar’s Epinicians, but there are fragments and testimonies of his commentaries to other authors and a treatise On Lyric Poets. This chapter reviews the evidence for Didymus’ lyric scholarship, then discusses the contents of the On Lyric Poets—whose surviving fragments
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Chapter Six The compiler compiled: Didymus in Imperial scholarly and miscellanistic literature Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-13 Scott J DiGiulio
Few ancient scholars were as prolific as Didymus of Alexandria, who was hailed by some in antiquity as the greatest of the grammarians. Yet, despite his polymathic output and seemingly positive ancient reputation, Didymus was much maligned for his carelessness and the compilatory nature of his work, attitudes which have continued in modern scholarship. This chapter aims to reassess the earliest period
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Acknowledgements Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-13
We would like to thank our contributors for accepting our invitation to take part in this volume. We are grateful to Eleanor Dickey, JosephHowley, Ivan Matija맬 Fausto Montana, Camillo Neri, Paolo Scattolin, Oliver Thomas, and Giuseppe Ucciardello for their comments,which have saved us from many an error. We are deeply indebted to Liz Potter, who supported this project since its inception and steeredit
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Introduction Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-13 Enrico Emanuele Prodi, Thomas R P Coward
Didymus Chalcenterus (‘Bronze-Gut’, Χαλκέντερος) is one of the most important figures in the study of Greek literature in antiquity. He stands at the intersection of what for us are the Hellenistic and the Imperial period, a crucial node in the history of classical scholarship. His output was vast and the evidence for it is substantial. The current resurgence of interest towards ancient scholarship
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Chapter FiveDidymus and the Greek historians Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-13 Fausto Montana
We lack positive evidence that Didymus composed scholarly works specifically devoted to Greek historians. Even more, the very origins and characteristics of the Alexandrian interest in the historiographic genre, not to say in literary prose, represent open issues for the historian of Hellenistic scholarship. In this chapter, the rare and sparse pieces of information are gathered, in order to obtain
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Index of passages cited Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-13
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Chapter Four Didymus and comedy Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-13 Federica Benuzzi
Didymus’ commentaries on the comic playwrights and his Comic Vocabulary responded to the interests of the readership of Attic comedy primarily in two ways: by summarizing the opinions of previous scholars and by offering a wide range of explanations, useful also to less specialized readers. Although his exegesis of comedy is now preserved only through quotations (mainly in the scholia to Aristophanes)
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Ancient vases in modern vitrines: the sensory dynamics and social implications of museum display Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Meyer C.
AbstractThis contribution explores the changing sensory priorities underpinning the display of Greek painted pottery in European collections. The focus is on the introduction of glass-fronted cabinets in the purpose-designed public museums of art and archaeology of the mid-nineteenth century. Contrary to expectations, the contemporaneous debates surrounding the use of gallery furniture show that the
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Myths of the Odyssey in the British Museum (and beyond): Jane Ellen Harrison’s museum talks and their audience Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Baker A.
AbstractJane Ellen Harrison’s early work giving tours and lectures in London’s museums offers an unusual window on visitor experience in the late nineteenth century. This article examines the composition and motivations of her audience, looking at how Harrison’s lectures addressed gendered and class-based anxieties about their access to education and ability to respond appropriately to prestigious