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Volume 163 Issue 1

Issue of Philologus

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Publicly Available May 30, 2019

Aufsätze

February 28, 2018

Achilles from Homer to the Masters of Late Archaic Poetry, or: From pathos to Splendour

Annamaria Peri

Page range: 1-15

Abstract

Late archaic lyric poetry tends to obscure all pathetic and tragic elements of Achilles’ destiny present in the Iliad . The offence against his honour, his grief for Patroclus, his yearning for native Phthia, and a painful awareness of being ὠκύμορος (“short-lived”) – none of these themes play a role in the passages of Pindar, Bacchylides or Simonides where Achilles is mentioned. Yet each of these three poets operates differently with regard to the epic source, and it is worth investigating how they do so.

May 8, 2018

Archilochus 222W and 39W: Allusion and Reception, Hesiod and Catullus

Shane Hawkins

Page range: 16-46

Abstract

This article is a contribution to our understanding of how Archilochean poetics may be situated in the longer poetic tradition. In examining two fragments that have received little attention, I hope to illustrate how Archilochus’ poetry both engaged with its predecessors and was in turn engaged by its successors. Fragment 222W employs a theme that was perhaps already conventional for Hesiod, in which the incompatibility of the sexes is implicated in the cycle of seasons, an idea that also seems relevant to Archilochus’ quarrel with the daughters of Lycambes. Light is shed on 39W by comparing it to later words for skinning that serve as metaphors for cheating someone, the best known example of which is found in Catullus. In the first fragment the text can be elucidated by a look to Archilochus’ forerunners, and in the second by looking to his heirs.

May 3, 2018

Aristotle’s Vocabulary of Pain

Wei Cheng

Page range: 47-71

Abstract

This paper examines Aristotle’s vocabulary of pain, that is the differences and relations of the concepts of pain expressed by (near-)synonyms in the same semantic field. It investigates what is particularly Aristotelian in the selection of the pain-words in comparison with earlier authors and specifies the special semantic scope of each word-cluster. The result not only aims to pin down the exact way these terms converge with and diverge from each other, but also serves as a basis for further understanding Aristotle’s philosophical conception of pain.

February 28, 2018

What is Pythagorean in the Pseudo-Pythagorean Literature?

Leonid Zhmud

Page range: 72-94

Abstract

This paper discusses continuity between ancient Pythagoreanism and the pseudo-Pythagorean writings, which began to appear after the end of the Pythagorean school ca. 350 BC. Relying on a combination of temporal, formal and substantial criteria, I divide Pseudopythagorica into three categories: 1) early Hellenistic writings (late fourth – late second centuries BC) ascribed to Pythagoras and his family members; 2) philosophical treatises written mostly, yet not exclusively, in pseudo-Doric from the turn of the first century BC under the names of real or fictional Pythagoreans; 3) writings attributed to Pythagoras and his relatives that continued to appear in the late Hellenistic and Imperial periods. I will argue that all three categories of pseudepigrapha contain astonishingly little that is authentically Pythagorean.

June 15, 2018

The Stylistic Function of Neologisms in Cercidas

Duccio Guasti

Page range: 95-109

Abstract

In this paper I analyze the rhetorical function of compositional neologisms in Cercidas’ versification, in order to provide a new semantical and/or syntactical explanation for single words that have not been correctly interpreted before. In particular I analyze the fragments 1.41–50 Lom., 2.25–7 Lom. and 60 Lom., focusing especially on the correct interpretation of τεθνακοχαλκίδης, συοπλουτοσύνη and μεταμελλοδύνη. At the end of the paper, final considerations on the rhetorical function of neologism in Cercidas’ text are offered.

February 14, 2018

Quaestiones Convivales: Plutarch’s Sense of Humour as Evidence of his Platonism

Anastasios Nikolaidis

Page range: 110-128

Abstract

Given Plutarch’s fragmentary piece on Aristophanes and Menander ( Mor . 853A–854D), a piece of Table Talk on almost the same topic ( Mor . 711A–713F) and various attacks on comic poets scattered through the Lives , one might believe that Plutarch is a staid, conservative and humourless author. But several other instances in his writings reveal a playful, facetious, witty and humorous Plutarch. This paper will focus on the Quaestiones Convivales , which bear ample witness to this aspect of Plutarch’s personality and authorial technique. It will examine the ways in which he introduces and describes the various interlocutors, discuss certain comments (or arguments) with which he tries to ridicule his philosophical opponents, notably the Stoics and the Epicureans, try to distinguish the various manifestations of Plutarch’s humour (spontaneous reaction, literary device, pleasantry, witticism, irony) and finally suggest that Plutarch’s stance and attitude towards playfulness, comic situations and laughter may ultimately be affected, at least in part, by his allegiance to Plato.

March 28, 2019

Te veniente die, te decedente canebat: il τόπος del mattino e della sera tra neoterismo e poesia augustea

Paola Gagliardi

Page range: 129-144

Abstract

The reference to the rising and setting of the sun to indicate the unceasing duration of an action becomes a τόπος in Latin poetry from an influential distich of Cinna onwards, which was reworked a number of times in Augustan poetry. As well as Vergil and Horace, who adapt the model to different genres and occasions, the treatment of it by the elegists is interesting, in whom the two terms that define East and West are set in relation to the eternity of poetic renown. This transformation may go back to Gallus, to whom Ovid, above all, makes significant references. The numerous occurrences of the τόπος in different authors and genres make possible interesting comparisons.

Miszellen

May 30, 2019

Δούλευμα

Konstantine Panegyres

Page range: 145-149

February 6, 2019

Aristotle against Anaxagoras?

A Note on De philosophia, fr. 18 Ross

Manuel Galzerano

Page range: 150-155

February 14, 2019

P.Oxy. VI 866: A Fragment of Comedy or Historical Prose?

Nikoletta Kanavou

Page range: 156-160

October 25, 2018

Ut scriptor cyclicus olim: Das griechische Original von Horaz, ars 137

Reinhold F. Glei, Niklas Gutt

Page range: 161-166

May 8, 2019

Quint. Inst. 1.2.26

Mikhail Shumilin

Page range: 167-170

March 12, 2019

Lectiones falsae et emendatae in Apuleius’ Florida?

Old Evidence and a New Proposal on Apul. Flor. 14.4

Adalberto Magnavacca

Page range: 171-176

Open Access May 8, 2019

Nonnus’ Actaeon: Destiny in a Name

Nonnus, Actaeon, Ovid, Nomina significantia, Acontius

Alessandro Schiesaro

Page range: 177-183

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Philologus, founded in 1846, is one of the oldest and most respected periodicals in the field of Classics. It publishes articles on Greek and Latin literature, historiography, philosophy, history of religion, linguistics, reception, and the history of scholarship. The journal aims to contribute to our understanding of Greco-Roman culture and its lasting influence on European civilization.

The journal Philologus, conceived as a forum for discussion among different methodological approaches to the study of ancient texts and their reception, publishes original scholarly contributions with a strong international focus. Publications languages are: German, English, Italian, French.

As of 2014 the publication of supplementary volumes will be resumed. The series Philologus. Supplemente / Philologus. Supplementary Volumes will publish monographs and edited volumes pertaining to all aspects of the study of ancient literature and its reception, with a special focus on topics concerning literary theory, philosophy and the history of scholarship from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Volume 163 Issue 1

Issue of Philologus

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Achilles from Homer to the Masters of Late Archaic Poetry, or: From pathos to Splendour

Abstract

Archilochus 222W and 39W: Allusion and Reception, Hesiod and Catullus

Abstract

Aristotle’s Vocabulary of Pain

Abstract

What is Pythagorean in the Pseudo-Pythagorean Literature?

Abstract

The Stylistic Function of Neologisms in Cercidas

Abstract

Quaestiones Convivales: Plutarch’s Sense of Humour as Evidence of his Platonism

Abstract

Te veniente die, te decedente canebat: il τόπος del mattino e della sera tra neoterismo e poesia augustea

Abstract

Δούλευμα

Aristotle against Anaxagoras?

A Note on De philosophia, fr. 18 Ross

P.Oxy. VI 866: A Fragment of Comedy or Historical Prose?

Ut scriptor cyclicus olim: Das griechische Original von Horaz, ars 137

Quint. Inst. 1.2.26

Lectiones falsae et emendatae in Apuleius’ Florida?

Old Evidence and a New Proposal on Apul. Flor. 14.4

Nonnus’ Actaeon: Destiny in a Name

Nonnus, Actaeon, Ovid, Nomina significantia, Acontius