Impact Factor: 0.1

Published since January 1, 1846

Philologus

Zeitschrift für antike Literatur und ihre Rezeption / A Journal for Ancient Literature and its Reception

ISSN: 2196-7008

Edited by: Sotera Fornaro, Tobias Reinhardt, Christoph Schubert, Jan R. Stenger

About this journal

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.

Abstracting and Indexing

Philologus is covered by the following services:

Baidu Scholar
BDSL Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
BLL Bibliographie Linguistischer Literatur
Brepols: L'Année philologique
CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure)
CNPIEC - cnpLINKer
Dimensions
EBSCO (relevant databases)
EBSCO Discovery Service
ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
Genamics JournalSeek
Google Scholar
IBR (International Bibliography of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences)
IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences)
International Philosophical Bibliography - Répertoire bibliographique de la philosophie
J-Gate
JournalGuide
JournalTOCs
KESLI-NDSL (Korean National Discovery for Science Leaders)
Linguistic Bibliography
MLA International Bibliography
MyScienceWork
Naver Academic
Naviga (Softweco)
Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers
PhilPapers
Primo Central (ExLibris)
ProQuest (relevant databases)
Publons
QOAM (Quality Open Access Market)
ReadCube
Scilit
SCImago (SJR)
SCOPUS
Semantic Scholar
Sherpa/RoMEO
Summon (ProQuest)
TDNet
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory/ulrichsweb
WanFang Data
Web of Science - Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Web of Science - Current Contents/Arts & Humanities
WorldCat (OCLC)
X-MOL
Yewno Discover

Supplementary Materials

Topics

Volume 167 Issue 2

November 2023

Frontmatter

Publicly Available November 10, 2023

Frontmatter

Page range: I-IV

Download PDF

Aufsätze

November 10, 2023

Cornutiana

Giovanni Zago

Page range: 173-190

Abstract

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).

November 10, 2023

Φήμη in Herodian’s Roman History

Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou

Page range: 191-213

Abstract

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. The following sections examine how Herodian perceives the phenomenon of φήμη and makes it a salient feature of his historiographical strategy. The discussion shows that φήμη, regardless of its truth status, has multiple functions in Herodian’s narrative. First, it contributes to the portrayal of historical agents. Second, it is a crucial dramatic factor that signals turning points in the story and generates vividness and an atmospheric narrative. Third, it acts as a plot-driver in the story. Fourth, it has a role in the composition of the narrative by creating intratextual associations and narrative patterns. Finally, it has metanarrative ramifications, since there is a parallel between the use of φήμη by the historical agents and by Herodian himself. Overall, the analysis advances our understanding of Herodian’s narrative technique and his construction of historical truth.

November 10, 2023

Honey and the Indecency of Epicurus’ aurea dicta (DRN 3.12)

Michael Pope

Page range: 214-235

Abstract

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 his own poetic and rhetorical ends. Honey, we discover, is much more than a sugary substance.

November 10, 2023

... sicut mitissima satyris. Una nota testuale a Plin. Nat. 8.216

Marco Vespa

Page range: 236-246

Abstract

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 the text was copied, added supra lineam the obscure term * miarsima , which would refer to the nature of the satyri in opposition to that of the cynocephali . By examining part of the ancient zoological and geographic traditions, in particular the De natura animalium by Aelian, this article defends editing the text of Pliny with the adjective mitissima , already present in the first printed editions of the Naturalis historia , as follows: Efferatior cynocephalis natura sicut mitissima satyris .

Open Access November 10, 2023

Reuocat tua forma parentem – Hasdrubals Fest, Scipios Besuch bei Syphax und ihre epischen Bezüge

Christoph Schwameis

Page range: 247-268

More Download PDF

Abstract

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 enough, attention: Aeneas’ visit to the future Rome ( Aen. 8,102–553) and the sacrifice of Eteocles ( Theb. 11,205–238). After a brief assessment of the historiographical basis, I set out the influence in content and language of these reference texts on the two scenes. Further, I consider the adaptation of other epic pre-texts in the ecphrasis of Hasdrubal’s cloak and propose a new interpretation: the ecphrasis links Hasdrubal to Ganymede, Polyphemus and Cacus, and Scipio with Jupiter, Odysseus and Hercules. The study highlights positive and negative aspects of the pre-texts and shows the ambivalent characterisation of Silius’ Scipio, who is associated both with positive figures (Hercules and Aeneas) and with the sinister Polynices. The shared reference of the two scenes of the Punica has a linking, framing and preparatory function.

Miszelle

November 10, 2023

Platone, Epist. 6.323c1: corrigendum?

Luigi Silvano

Page range: 269-272

Volume 167 (2023)

Volume 166 (2022)

Volume 165 (2021)

Volume 164 (2020)

Volume 163 (2019)

Volume 162 (2018)

Volume 161 (2017)

Volume 160 (2016)

Volume 159 (2015)

Volume 158 (2014)

Volume 157 (2013)

Volume 156 (2012)

Volume 155 (2011)

Volume 154 (2010)

Volume 153 (2009)

Volume 152 (2008)

Volume 151 (2007)

Volume 5 (2007)

Volume 150 (2006)

Volume 149 (2005)

Volume 148 (2004)

Volume 147 (2003)

Volume 146 (2002)

Volume 145 (2001)

Volume 144 (2000)

Volume 143 (1999)

Volume 142 (1998)

Volume 141 (1997)

Volume 140 (1996)

Volume 139 (1995)

Volume 138 (1994)

Volume 137 (1993)

Volume 136 (1992)

Volume 135 (1991)

Volume 124 (1980)

Volume 123 (1979)

Issue 1-2

Volume 122 (1978)

Volume 121 (1977)

Volume 120 (1976)

Issue 1

Volume 119 (1975)

Issue 1-2

Volume 118 (1974)

Volume 117 (1973)

Issue 1-2

Volume 116 (1972)

Issue 1-2

Volume 115 (1971)

Issue 1-4

Volume 114 (1970)

Issue 1-2

Volume 113 (1969)

Issue 1-2

Volume 112 (1968)

Issue 1-2

Volume 111 (1967)

Issue 1-2

Volume 110 (1966)

Issue 1-2

Volume 109 (1965)

Issue 1-4

Volume 108 (1964)

Volume 107 (1963)

Issue 1-2

Volume 106 (1962)

Issue 1-2

Volume 105 (1961)

Issue 1-2

Volume 104 (1960)

Issue 1-2

Volume 103 (1959)

Issue 1-2

Volume 102 (1958)

Issue 1-2

Volume 101 (1957)

Issue 1-2

Volume 100 (1956)

Issue 1-2

Volume 99 (1955)

Issue 1-2

Volume 98 (1954)

Issue 1-2

Volume 97 (1948)

Issue 1

Volume 96 (1944)

Issue 1-2

Volume 95 (1943)

Issue 1-4

Volume 94 (1941)

Issue 1-4

Volume 93 (1938)

Issue 1

Volume 92 (1937)

Issue 1-4

Volume 91 (1936)

Issue 1-4

Volume 90 (1935)

Issue 1-2

Volume 89 (1934)

Issue 1-4

Volume 88 (1933)

Issue 1-4

Volume 87 (1932)

Volume 86 (1931)

Issue 1-4

Volume 85 (1929)

Issue 1-4

Volume 84 (1928)

Issue 1-4

Volume 83 (1928)

Issue 1-4

Volume 82 (1927)

Issue 1-4

Volume 81 (1926)

Issue 1-4

Volume 80 (1924)

Volume 79 (1923)

Volume 78 (1922)

Volume 77 (1921)

Issue 1-4

Volume 76 (1920)

Issue 1-4

Volume 75 (1918)

Issue 1-4

Volume 74 (1917)

Issue 1-4

Volume 73 (1916)

Issue 1-4

Volume 72 (1913)

Issue 1-4

Volume 71 (1912)

Issue 1-4

Volume 70 (1911)

Issue 1-4

Volume 69 (1910)

Volume 68 (1909)

Volume 67 (1908)

Issue 1-4

Volume 66 (1907)

Issue 1-4

Volume 65 (1906)

Issue 1-4

Volume 64 (1905)

Issue 1-4

Volume 63 (1904)

Issue 1

Volume 62 (1903)

Issue 1

Volume 61 (1902)

Issue 1

Volume 60 (1901)

Issue 1-4

Volume 59 (1900)

Issue 1

Volume 58 (1899)

Issue 1-4

Volume 57 (1898)

Issue 1

Volume 56 (1897)

Issue 1

Volume 55 (1896)

Issue 1-4

Volume 54 (1895)

Issue 1-4

Volume 53 (1894)

Issue 1-4

Volume 52 (1894)

Issue 1-4

Volume 51 (1892)

Issue 1

Volume 50 (1891)

Issue 1-4

Volume 49 (1890)

Issue 1

Volume 48 (1889)

Issue 1-4

Volume 47 (1888)

Issue 1-4

Volume 46 (1887)

Issue 1-4

Volume 45 (1886)

Volume 44 (1885)

Volume 43 (1884)

Volume 42 (1884)

Volume 41 (1882)

Issue 1-4

Volume 40 (1881)

Volume 39 (1880)

Issue 1-4

Volume 38 (1879)

Issue 1-4

Volume 37 (1877)

Issue 1-4

Volume 36 (1877)

Issue 1-4

Volume 35 (1876)

Issue 1-4

Volume 34 (1875)

Issue 1-4

Volume 33 (1874)

Issue 1-4

Volume 32 (1873)

Volume 31 (1872)

Issue 1-4

Volume 30 (1870)

Issue 1-6

Volume 29 (1869)

Issue 1-4

Volume 28 (1869)

Issue 1-4

Volume 27 (1868)

Volume 26 (1867)

Issue 1-4

Volume 25 (1867)

Issue 1-4

Volume 23 (1866)

Issue 1-4

Volume 24 (1866)

Issue 1-4

Volume 22 (1865)

Issue 1-4

Volume 21 (1864)

Issue 1-4

Volume 19 (1863)

Issue 1-4

Volume 20 (1863)

Issue 1-4

Volume 18 (1862)

Volume 17 (1861)

Volume 15 (1860)

Issue 1-3

Volume 16 (1860)

Volume 14 (1859)

Issue 1-4

Volume 13 (1858)

Issue 1-4

Volume 12 (1857)

Issue 1-4

Volume 11 (1856)

Issue 4

Volume 10 (1855)

Issue 1-4

Volume 9 (1854)

Issue 1-4

Volume 8 (1853)

Volume 7 (1852)

Issue 1-4

Volume 6 (1851)

Issue 1-4

Volume 4 (1849)

Issue 1-4

Volume 3 (1848)

Issue 1-4

Volume 2 (1847)

Volume 1 (1846)

Issue 1

Journal Impact Factor	0.1	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
5-year Journal Impact Factor	0.1	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
Journal Citation Indicator	0.73	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
CiteScore	0.1	2022, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2023)
SCImago Journal Rank	0.100	2022, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2023; Data Source: Scopus)
Source Normalized Impact per Paper	0.214	2022, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2023; Data Source: Scopus)

More information about journal rankings

Submit

Philologus has received a new online submission system. Please submit your article via https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/philologus. Please also consider the "Instructions for Authors" that you find above under the menu item "Supplementary Information".

Editorial

Editors:

Maria Sotera Fornaro (Sassari), Tobias Reinhardt (Oxford), Christoph Schubert (Erlangen-Nürnberg), Jan Stenger (Würzburg)

Editors in Chief:

Christoph Schubert (Erlangen-Nürnberg) und Jan Stenger (Würzburg)

Advisory Board:

Markus Asper (HU Berlin), Krystyna Bartol (Poznán), Therese Fuhrer (München), John Hamilton (Harvard), Gavin Kelly (Edinburgh), Peter E. Knox (Cleveland, OH), Danielle van Mal-Maeder (Lausanne), Enrico Medda (Pisa), Christof Rapp (LMU München), Alison Sharrock (Mancester), Ineke Sluiter (Leiden), Martin Vöhler (Thessaloniki)

Editorial Office:

E-Mail: philologus@fau.de
Editorial Office Gräzistik: c/o Institut für Klassische Philologie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Residenzplatz 2, Tor A, 97070 Würzburg
Editorial Office Latinistik: c/o Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Philosophische Fakultät, Institut für Alte Sprachen, Kochstraße 4/2, 91054 Erlangen

(Deutsch)

Online ISSN: 2196-7008
Print ISSN: 0031-7985
Type: Journal
Language: Multiple languages
Publisher: De Gruyter (A)
First published: January 1, 1846
Publication Frequency: 2 Issues per Year