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“What a Fine Thing It Is to Be Able to Say to Oneself … ”: Reflexivity and Verbal Contexts in the Stoic Epictetus Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Glenn Wehus
This article analyses how the Stoic philosopher Epictetus uses the reflexive pronoun (e.g. myself, yourself) in his teachings on human character formation. Following Jeremiah, who has highlighted t...
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Editorial Note Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Monika Asztalos, Anastasia Maravela
Published in Symbolae Osloenses: Norwegian Journal of Greek and Latin Studies (Vol. 97, No. 1, 2023)
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Departments of Greek and Latin Studies in Norwegian Universities Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2024-03-21
Published in Symbolae Osloenses: Norwegian Journal of Greek and Latin Studies (Vol. 97, No. 1, 2023)
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Contributors’ Addresses Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2024-03-21
Published in Symbolae Osloenses: Norwegian Journal of Greek and Latin Studies (Vol. 97, No. 1, 2023)
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Critical Notes on Pseudo-Sisbert’s Exhortatio Poenitendi Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Álvaro Cancela Cilleruelo
This paper discusses textual problems in an anonymous Late Latin poem entitled Exhortatio poenitendi. In his classic edition (Berlin 1914), Karl Strecker used nine witnesses. In my critical edition...
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On the Authorship of Pseudo-Archilochus, Frr. 327–328 W2 (290–291 Τ.) Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Guillermo Galán Vioque
This paper unveils a new manuscript witness of the fragments of Pseudo-Archilochus, frr. 327–328 W2 and presents new evidence to support the attribution of these fragments to Marcus Musurus, as was...
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Augustine’s De ciuitate Dei, Book 22: Its Earliest Manuscript Tradition and Stemma Codicum Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Julia Aguilar Miquel
This paper deals with the earliest manuscript transmission and dissemination of Book 22 of Augustine’s De ciuitate Dei (411–426/7). Firstly, it offers a list of the extant manuscripts predating the...
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Notes on Egyptian Plant Names in Pseudo-Dioscorides Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Rafał Rosół
Among the many phytonyms transmitted in the manuscript branch R of Dioscorides’ De materia medica, 149 names can be found which are marked as Egyptian. With only a few exceptions (e.g. αἷμα ὄνου ‘m...
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Animal Behaviour and Barbarian Customs: Points of Contact Between Ethnography and Ethology in Greek and Latin Sources Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Irene Pajón Leyra
In the context of the ancient philosophical discussion of animal intelligence, authors tried to show the commonality of the human and the animal mind by collecting and presenting anecdotes in which...
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Artfully False Duals in Empedocles’ Painters Simile (fr. 23 DK) and the Hexameter Tradition Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Leon Wash
In Empedocles’ painters simile of fr. 23 DK, the painters are modified by three dual participles, formerly taken by most scholars to be “false” duals (for plural) like the analogous dual participle...
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Gattungspoetik, Intra- und Intertextualität im zweiten Fabelbuch des Phaedrus Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Heiko Ullrich
Der folgende Aufsatz versucht zu zeigen, wie Phaedrus in den Fabeln des zweiten Buches – häufig mithilfe intra- und intertextueller Verweise – eine Gattungspoetik der Fabel entwickelt. Diese setzt ...
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Greek-Coptic Script-Mixing in Egyptian Personal Names and Toponyms of Greek Documents Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Antonia Apostolakou
This paper investigates the inclusion of “Coptic-only” letters in the spelling of Egyptian personal names and toponyms in otherwise Greek documents. A diachronic analysis of eighty documentary text...
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Που in Attic Drama: Evidential Marker and Common Ground Manager Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Sanderijn Gijbels, Raf Van Rooy
In this paper, we offer a detailed analysis of the particle που in Attic drama. We argue that Attic που is a marker of indirect personal evidentiality; it marks, in other words, that the informatio...
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Otho’s duo facinora (Tacitus, Hist. 2.50.1): Conflict, Congruence, Exemplarity Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Gottfried Mader
Otho’s brief career in the Histories is framed by two symmetrical facinora, criminal coup and heroic suicide (1.21–22 and 2.47). Internal cross-references correlate these key moments, as commentato...
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A Defense of “Blood-Price” in Pindar Fr. 133 (Maehler): Ποινη in Homer, Aeschylus, the Orphic Fragments, and Pindar Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Dannu J. Hütwohl
This paper argues that Pindar fr. 133 (Maehler) is best interpreted as referring to the Orphic myth of the murder of Dionysus. The author traces the use of the word ποινή “blood-price” in early Gre...
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Departments of Greek and Latin Studies in Norwegian Universities Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2023-06-22
Published in Symbolae Osloenses: Norwegian Journal of Greek and Latin Studies (Vol. 96, No. 1, 2022)
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Editorial Note Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Monika Asztalos, Anastasia Maravela
Published in Symbolae Osloenses: Norwegian Journal of Greek and Latin Studies (Vol. 96, No. 1, 2022)
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Life and Death on the East Frieze of the Parthenon Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Pär Ola Sandin
The gods on the Parthenon frieze are represented as looking out on the real world from the position of their material image on the Acropolis, displaying the contemporary imperial self-awareness of Athens. Poseidon’s gaze guards the entrance to the straits of Artemisium. Hermes and Ares look towards Egypt with implicit adversary intent. Aphrodite pointing something out to Eros means that she is indicating
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The Greek Tragic Trimeter as a Prosodic Milieu Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Boris Maslov
The iambic trimeter has been studied extensively, but mostly from a descriptive point of view. This article places the discussion of the tragic trimeter in relation to the functionalist tradition of the study of rhythm and syntax in verse. It presents new data on the interdependence of rhythm and word boundary placement in the tragic trimeter (based on the work of Attic tragic playwrights and the Byzantine
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Tragic Workings in Sophocles’ Ajax: The Institution of the Warrior Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Synnøve Des Bouvrie
Sophocles’ Ajax has been subject to intense scholarly debate. While widely admired, the tragedy has frustrated critics who have found its composition and character portrayal problematic. It is argued that this may be due to the limitations of the methods current in the “Humanities' Paradigm”. Instead, an approach based on the “Anthropological Paradigm” is proposed, viewing the drama within its social
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Notes on the Text of Plautus, Menaechmi 497 and Truculentus 311–312 Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Dag Trygve Truslew Haug
In this short note, I discuss the text of Menaechmi 497, where I argue for adopting A’s pol and propose the conjecture iam for eam, and Truculentus 311–312, where I argue for adopting P’s exportatur and propose bibitis for ebibitis. I argue that a proper understanding of the distinction between prefixed comesse (with a “perfectivizing” com-) and uncompounded esse is crucial to understanding these passages
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Ciris 250–258 and 340–348: Textual Problems and Poetic Techniques Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Monika Asztalos
This contribution discusses the text of two passages in the Ciris. At 256 marmoreum intra is taken as an ellipsis for marmoreum limen intra. At 257 Carme is tentatively proposed for inquit. It is argued that the transmitted hic (340), for which his was substituted in the Aldina 1517, should be retained in the text. Arguments are presented in support of Gaar’s spe mulserat (341) and Woodman’s subducere
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The Mouth of the Whale and Homeric Gates: Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Anastasia Maravela
The article argues that the literary references of the description of the teeth of the enormous whale that swallows the travellers in Lucian’s Verae Historiae I 30 are in Homer’s poetry, more specifically in the episode of the battle before the Achaean wall in Iliad 12 and in Penelope’s account about the gates that dreams come through in Odyssey 19. The lexical, narrative, and thematic features that
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Zum Schicksal des Skylakeus bei Quintus Smyrnaeus (Posthomerica 10.147–166) Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Silvio Bär
Dieser Beitrag befasst sich mit einer Digression im zehnten Buch von Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica (PH): einer externen Prolepse auf das Schicksal des Lykiers Skylakeus, der – so die Vorausdeutung – bei seiner Heimkehr von den lykischen Frauen gesteinigt wird, ehe er von einem Verfluchten zu einem Geehrten umgedeutet und seine Grabstätte hinfort göttlich verehrt wird. Es wird gezeigt, dass der Digression
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Rewriting History: The Metaphrasis of a Mid-Byzantine Chronicle Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Staffan Wahlgren
Byzantine metaphrasis means reformulating texts in another register, either by upgrading (a common practice with regard to saints’ Lives in the tenth century) or downgrading (a phenomenon best known from the fourteenth century). In this paper, a previously unstudied example of upgrading is investigated: the so-called Version B of the Chronicle of Symeon the Logothete. Changes in B as compared to its
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La figure d’Esculape dans l’Ovidius moralizatus de Pierre Bersuire Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Marek Thue Kretschmer
Pierre Bersuire’s Ovidius moralizatus, one of the major medieval commentaries on Ovid’s Metamorphoses, exists in two principal versions, Avignon (A) and Paris (P). This article examines certain textual developments and additions related to the myth of Aesculapius (Met. 2.598–632 + 15.622–744) that distinguish the Parisian version from the Avignon version of the Ovidius moralizatus.
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Rubric Confusion in SM 96A.24–47: A Fragment of Erotylos’ Orphica or a Recipe for a Rotulus Amulet? Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Christopher A. Faraone
SM 96A is a vertical papyrus roll (14 × 86 cm) that dates to the fifth–sixth centuries CE and seems to be dedicated mainly to recipes for amulets or curative incantations. The rubric ηρυτυλος at line 24 introduces a long narrow list of words and it is usually interpreted as Ἐρωτύλος, the name of an author quoted in PGM XIII 946–953, from whose Orphika the scribe quotes a long magical word. Another
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Magical texts from Barcelona (Montserrat Abbey and Palau Ribes collections) Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Raquel Martín Hernández, Sofía Torallas Tovar
This paper presents the edition and commentary of three papyrus fragments from the collections preserved at the Abbey of Montserrat and the Archive of the Jesuits in Barcelona. They have in common that they might be interpreted as connected to magical or divinatory practice.
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Sacrificing to the Planets: Planetary Incenses and Flowers of P.Leid. I 395 (= PGM XIII.16–20, 24–26) Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Spyros Piperakis
P.Leid. I 395 preserves a lengthy magico-religious handbook, commonly known as the “Eighth Book of Moses”, which in the opening section instructs the practitioner to use seven specific incenses and seven flowers associated with the seven planets. In this paper, I examine the listed materials, offering modern Linnaean identifications and shedding light on the possible logical underpinnings behind their
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Notes on Magical Papyri: Part i Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Michael W. Zellmann-Rohrer
This article collects new proposals for the reading and understanding of two Greek magical formularies developed in work on the Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies: Text and Translation (GEMF): a narrative incantation motif involving Zeus and, as argued here, a personified part of the human body to be healed by the procedure (“Conduit”) in PGM IV (GEMF 57), and a witness to a complex of invocations
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Contributors’ Addresses Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2023-06-22
Published in Symbolae Osloenses: Norwegian Journal of Greek and Latin Studies (Vol. 96, No. 1, 2022)
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Doors and Doorposts: A Note on the Opening of Book 4 of the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Peter Hulse
A textual problem is identified in Book 4 of the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius at 4.26–27. This problem is discussed and explained. A diagnostic conjecture is then proposed.
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Strabo and Augustan Egypt Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Hugh Lindsay
After residence in Alexandria in the 20s BC, Strabo describes early imperial Egypt in Book 17 of his Geography. This paper explains Strabo’s contemporary focus, and his reactions to earlier account...
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Agathon’s Iliupersis in Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Giulio Celotto
At Thesmophoriazusae 101–129 Agathon sings a choral song about the fall of Troy. The choice of this theme serves two purposes. First, it connects this scene to the larger plot of the comedy by allu...
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Editorial Note Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Monika Asztalos, Anastasia Maravela Editors
Published in Symbolae Osloenses: Norwegian Journal of Greek and Latin Studies (Vol. 95, No. 1, 2021)
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Panegyrics, Poetry and Hair in the Late First and Early Second Century AD Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Siri Sande
This article confronts descriptions (1) in the Younger Pliny's panegyric to Trajan of the outward appearance of the empress Plotina with portraits showing the coiffures of Plotina and other women in high society, (2) in Statius' Silvae of the artfully arranged hair of young slaves with monuments showing such delicati. It is argued that these descriptions serve to emphasise the ability of those praised
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Departments of Greek and Latin Studies in Norwegian Universities Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2022-09-30
Published in Symbolae Osloenses: Norwegian Journal of Greek and Latin Studies (Vol. 95, No. 1, 2021)
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Contributors’ Addresses Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2022-09-30
Published in Symbolae Osloenses: Norwegian Journal of Greek and Latin Studies (Vol. 95, No. 1, 2021)
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Horace, S. 1.5.97–104 Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Egil Kraggerud
Confident in writing Lymphis with a capital L at S. 1.5.97, I analyse the watery element in the satire’s wider religious and physical context, and reinterpret credat Iudaeus Apella, / non ego (100-101), arguing in favour of the transmitted future credet.
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A Note on Varro Atacinus (13 + 23 Blänsdorf) Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Maxwell Hardy
One conjecture is proposed on the text of Varro’s Bellum Sequanicum (23 B = 106 H = 1 C), dulci … sapore for dulcis … saporis, and a handful of variant readings are reconsidered in a fragment of ...
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Aias’ Critical Day Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Robert Cowan
Calchas’ prophecy in Sophocles’ Aias that Athena’s anger will pursue Aias for only “this one day” evokes the Hippocratic concept of the critical day, on which the patient might either die or survive. This is part of the wider engagement with Hippocratic ideas in Attic tragedy and has significant implications for the depiction of Aias’ “second”, metaphorical illness in the play. It places divine and
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Apollonius Rhodius 1.103: A Discussion of a New Emendation Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2021-11-12 Silvio Bär
In Apoll. Rhod. Arg. 1.103, there are three textual variants for the adjective that accompanies the noun ὁδόν: κοινήν, κϵινήν and κϵίνην. Recently, the emendation σκοτίην has been suggested; a suggestion that is seemingly supported by a parallel in Arg. Orph. 41. It is argued here that this emendation is unwarranted and that probably either κϵινήν or κϵίνην is authentic, whereby the two variants constitute
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Athena Departs for the Acropolis (Od. 7.78–81): A Suggestion Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Catalin Anghelina
At the beginning of book 7 of the Odyssey, Athena appears to Odysseus in the form of young girl to instruct him about the Phaeacians. Then, apparently for no reason, she departs for the “house” of Erechtheus on the Athenian Acropolis. I suggest that Athena’s destination symbolically reflects the state of affairs between Athena and Odysseus, on the one hand, and Poseidon, on the other. Athena’s passing
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The Insubordination of If- and That-Clauses from Archaic to Post-Classical Greek: A Diachronic Constructional Typology Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2021-08-25 Ezra la Roi
This paper provides the first systematic investigation of the role of insubordination, the diachronic conventionalization of formally subordinate clauses as main clauses, in the syntax and semantics of the Ancient Greek sentence. Since diachronic studies are still a desideratum, this paper details the insubordination of if- and that-clauses from Archaic to Post-Classical Greek. Firstly, a principled
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Pollius Felix and the Porticus Liviae (Statius’ Silvae 2.2.31) Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2021-08-23 Nicolas Liney
This article considers the tensions between private dwelling and public city space in architecture and rhetoric in imperial Rome, particularly as they appear in Statius’ Silvae 2.2, an ecphrastic poem on a seaside villa. When Statius describes his patron’s porticus as “the size of a city” (urbis opus, 2.2.31), he is alluding to an Augustan monument, the Porticus Liviae described in Ovid’s Fasti (6
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Editorial Note Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2021-07-30
(2020). Editorial Note. Symbolae Osloenses: Vol. 94, No. 1, pp. 1-1.
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Phrasing Homer: A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach to Homeric Versification Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2021-07-30
Anyone interested in the colometry or “inner metrics” of the Homeric hexameter is confronted with a wide variety of different approaches, favouring two-, three- or four-colon verses or any combination of these. This article builds on Egbert Bakker’s interpretation of Homeric discourse as a succession of intonation / information units (IUs). Its aim is to provide more secure cognitive-linguistic criteria
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The Human Condition According to the Similes in Homer’s Iliad Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2021-07-30
The article analyses the similes of the Iliad with a particular focus on how human life is represented in this “parallel world”. It argues that in a clear majority of cases human activity is presented in a negative light. A quick survey of the relevant similes gives a sketch of human life and the preponderously negative undertones. The final part attempts to give reasons for this predominantly negative
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Un point de géographie horatienne: Rigidum Niphaten (Carm. 2.9.20) Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2021-07-30
The nature of the Niphates mentioned by Horace in Carm. 2.9.20 has been controversial since ancient commentaries and has continued to stimulate debate among modern critics. If its location in Armenia is not questioned, some see it as a mountain, others think that it is a river or a people, and still others prefer to keep the ambiguity or not to express an opinion on the matter. A detailed review of
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Departments of Greek and Latin Studies in Norwegian Universities Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2021-07-30
(2020). Departments of Greek and Latin Studies in Norwegian Universities. Symbolae Osloenses: Vol. 94, No. 1, pp. 229-230.
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Contributors’ Addresses Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2021-07-30
(2020). Contributors’ Addresses. Symbolae Osloenses: Vol. 94, No. 1, pp. 231-232.
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North vs. South: Alternative Models for the Diurnal Solar Movement in Early Greece Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2021-05-12 Tomislav Bilic´
The paper discusses the testimonies for the diurnal solar movement in various early Greek texts, focusing especially on its nocturnal segment. Alongside the instantiations of myths containing references to the daily course of the sun in poetic and mythographical texts, the pertinent opinions of selected natural philosophers are also studied. Several speculative models were constructed by the early
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The Italic Consonant Stem Ablative: Some Comparative and Theoretical Arguments for an Inherited Ending in *-d Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2021-05-11 Reuben J. Pitts
The Italic consonant stem ablative in -ĕ is usually regarded as an anomalous instance of locative contamination in the ablative singular case endings. This interpretation has long been recognized as problematic, given that the Italic ablative is functionally the result of syncretism with the Proto-Indo-European instrumental, rather than the locative. In addition, it is difficult to reconcile the traditional
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The Transformations of the Writing Body: Rhetoric, Monumental Art, and Poetry in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2021-03-11 Alexander Kirichenko
This article analyses the power dynamics that Ovid stages in the Metamorphoses as interplay of rhetoric, monumental art, and poetry. It argues that (1) the transformations of gods can be read as a metaphor of rhetoric subjecting the audience to the speaker’s will; (2) that the products of the transformations of humans can be regarded as notional monuments to divine power; (3) that, for Ovid, all successful
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Degrees of Redundancy in Double Introductions of Direct Speech in Gregory of Tours Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Jana Mikulová
This paper examines direct speech introduced by two or more verbs of speech in selected works by Gregory of Tours (sixth century). It describes combinations of verbs in the reporting clause and shows that the classification of an instance as redundant cannot rely only on the co-occurrence of two verbs of speech in the reporting clause, but that it is necessary to consider the meaning of these verbs
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Purity of Heart and the Vision of God in Clement of Alexandria Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Henny Fiskå Hägg
This study focuses on some aspects of the church father Clement of Alexandria’s interpretation of the sixth beatitude of the Sermon on the Mount, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God”. Clement connects “purity of heart” to the idea of withdrawal from evil and growth in practical well-doing and sees it as an intermediate phase and a process on the way towards the contemplation and knowledge
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A Land Lease-Related Document from the Agoranomic Dossier of Daippos Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2020-11-05 Marcin Kotyl
This paper offers an edition and discussion of a Greek papyrus fragment (P.B.U.G. inv. 122A) dated to the first half of the second century BCE. The document was originally most likely a private six-witness contract which was subsequently validated and registered in the local notary office. It is also argued that the text belongs to the dossier of Daippos, the representative of agoranomos Agathokles
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Greek Sticheron from Medieval Nubia Praising John the Baptist (Q.I. 1964, 6a Revisited) Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2020-06-18 Agata Deptuła
This article presents a new edition of a fragment of an eleventh-century parchment from Qasr Ibrim (Q.I. 1964, 6a). An inspection of the manuscript led to identification of one of the pieces as a short hymn praising John the Baptist, known from Byzantine liturgical books.
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In the Wake of a Great Edition: Textual Notes on Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannos Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2020-05-05 Egil Kraggerud, Eirik Welo
In our second article (for the previous one see SO 92, 2018, 57–64) we discuss the following textual issues in Oedipus Tyrannos: I. 31–34 we are in favour of Johnson’s and Musgrave’s ἰσούμενοί σ᾽. – II. 73–74 a grammatical analysis is applied to make the construction clear. – III. 360 we propose ἢ ’κπειρᾷ πλέον; – IV. 640 our solution is ⟨τάδε⟩ δυοῖν [ἀπο]κρίνας κακοῖν. – V. 1494 we suggest τοῖς ἴσα
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A Declamation on a Sopatrian Model: P.Hamb. II 134 Reconsidered Symbolae Osloenses Pub Date : 2020-03-25 Nikoletta Kanavou, Amphilochios Papathomas
In this paper, we revisit P.Hamb. II 134, which preserves a fragmentary declamation on the familiar aristeus theme, suggest a number of improvements to the text and provide an English translation. We further argue that the speaker in our piece is an aristeus, probably a father, who addresses his son, a deserter, in opposition to recent interpretations that reckon the speaker to be a deserter–father