Showing papers in "Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies in 2007"
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TL;DR: The words and actions in the opening scene of Prometheus Bound, especially the piercing of Prometheus, have the effect of evoking ancient "binding curses," which would have been familiar to the Athenian audience.
Abstract: The words and actions in the opening scene of Prometheus Bound , especially the piercing of Prometheus, have the effect of evoking ancient "binding curses," which would have been familiar to the Athenian audience.
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TL;DR: Stressing that the statues require explication, the poet emphasizes Homeric themes and the Roman origins of Byzantium; his themes and inventions compromise modern attempts to reconstruct the collection as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Stressing that the statues require explication, the poet emphasizes Homeric themes and the Roman origins of Byzantium; his themes and inventions compromise modern attempts to reconstruct the collection.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the apparent dichotomy between a traditional and a philosophical view of Zeus is resolved by the Stoic idea that Zeus orders opposing forces and makes possible the ethical bettering of humans.
Abstract: The poem's apparent dichotomy between a traditional and a philosophical view of Zeus is resolved by the Stoic idea that Zeus orders opposing forces and makes possible the ethical bettering of humans.
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TL;DR: Plato's Timaeus became with Philo and Plutarch a privileged source of authority for the Middle Platonists, and with Celsus and Porphyry a marker of pagan identity as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Plato's Timaeus , in the beginning widely invoked, became with Philo and Plutarch a privileged source of authority for the Middle Platonists, and with Celsus and Porphyry a marker of pagan identity.
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TL;DR: The evolution of the Leucophryena is clarified if the Magnesians' claim was not to have "at first" sought stephanitic games for the Greeks of Asia as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The evolution of the Leucophryena is clarified if the Magnesians' claim was not to have "at first" sought stephanitic games for the Greeks of Asia, but to have been the "first" Greeks of Asia to seek stephanitic games.
11 citations
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TL;DR: The diversity and the weaknesses and value of the ancient commentaries can be illustrated through various examples, which show their evolution across antiquity and the middle ages as mentioned in this paper, and the evolution of the commentaries across time and space.
Abstract: The diversity and the weaknesses and value of the ancient commentaries can be illustrated through various examples, which show their evolution across antiquity and the middle ages.
9 citations
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TL;DR: The gloomy portrait of the underworld kat' asphodelon leimona in Od. 11 suggests that this phrase is a resegmenting of an original kata sphodelon, an "ashen" meadow as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The gloomy portrait of the underworld kat' asphodelon leimona in Od. 11 suggests that this phrase is a resegmenting of an original kata sphodelon , an "ashen" meadow.
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TL;DR: The crisis of succession near the end of Lysimachus' reign was prompted by the altered fortunes of his wife Arsinoe once her brother became king of Egypt as Ptolemy II in 285 B.C.
Abstract: The crisis of succession near the end of Lysimachus' reign was prompted by the altered fortunes of his wife Arsinoe once her brother became king of Egypt as Ptolemy II in 285 B.C.
6 citations
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TL;DR: The "good eris" in Works and Days is so presented as to parallel Pandora, who is seen as bringing about evils but who yet was the stimulus to labor that is an ethical imperative as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The "good eris" in Works and Days is so presented as to parallel Pandora, who is seen as bringing about evils but who yet was the stimulus to labor that is an ethical imperative.
6 citations
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TL;DR: The defenders of icons in the eighth and ninth centuries, especially Photius, significantly reinterpreted the fourth-century Arian controversy and the views of Eusebius in order to link the Iconoclasts to the Arians and themselves to Church fathers like Athanasius.
Abstract: The defenders of icons in the eighth and ninth centuries, especially Photius, significantly reinterpreted the fourth-century Arian controversy and the views of Eusebius in order to link the Iconoclasts to the Arians and themselves to Church fathers like Athanasius.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that Sixtus IV's reordering of the books of Historia Animalium was unwarranted, and our chapter divisions go back to his 1476 editio princeps.
Abstract: Gaza's translation was dedicated to Pope Sixtus IV (printed dedications to Nicholas V are "phantom"), his influential re-ordering of the books of Historia Animalium was unwarranted, and our chapter divisions go back to his 1476 editio princeps .
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TL;DR: Lucian's essay Teacher of Rhetoric implies the existence, already in the second century, of the abbreviated curriculum in rhetorical education to which Libanius testifies in the fourth.
Abstract: Lucian's essay Teacher of Rhetoric implies the existence, already in the second century, of the abbreviated curriculum in rhetorical education to which Libanius testifies in the fourth.
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TL;DR: The Etym.Mag. article "stratos" as mentioned in this paper is a compiler's pastiche of materials that can be traced partly to the extant Tacticon of Urbicius, partly to a lexicographic tradition that ran from Xenophon to Pollux.
Abstract: The Etym.Mag. article "stratos" is this compiler's pastiche of materials that can be traced partly to the extant Tacticon of Urbicius, partly to a lexicographic tradition that ran from Xenophon to Pollux.
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TL;DR: Curse tablets placed in lamps thrown into the spring of Anna Perenna in Rome in late antiquity are explained in terms of the Christians' view of pagan water nymphs as still-active and malevolent demons as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Curse tablets placed in lamps thrown into the spring of Anna Perenna in Rome in late antiquity are explained in terms of the Christians' view of pagan water nymphs as still-active and malevolent demons.
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TL;DR: In this article, the founder holding the token of the "Soter" is not Ptolemy I but Alexander in the guise of Zeus, and the statues in the precinct of Tyche in Alexandria, described by [Lib.] Ecphr.
Abstract: Of the statues in the precinct of Tyche in Alexandria, described by [Lib.] Ecphr. 25, the "founder" holding the token of the "Soter" is not Ptolemy I but Alexander in the guise of Zeus.
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TL;DR: Fr.16 employs an argument for the relativity of aesthetic evaluations that is most fruitfully interpreted as an example of "Inference to the best Explanation," a non-deductive form of reasoning of which many ancient and modern arguments for relativism are also instances as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Fr.16 employs an argument for the relativity of aesthetic evaluations that is most fruitfully interpreted as an example of "Inference to the Best Explanation," a non-deductive form of reasoning of which many ancient and modern arguments for relativism are also instances.
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TL;DR: The letters of Paul and the Deutero-Paulines, when analyzed in terms of Harris's levels of anger suppression, can be seen to exhibit different levels, and this reflects their diverse authors and dates as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The letters of Paul and the Deutero-Paulines, when analyzed in terms of Harris's levels of anger suppression, can be seen to exhibit different levels, and this reflects their diverse authors and dates.
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TL;DR: The British Library possesses the only surviving copy of Elmsley's edition of the plays of Sophocles, which evidently was withdrawn from circulation after printing as mentioned in this paper, and reveals the scholarly development at an earlier age than has been appreciated.
Abstract: The British Library possesses the only surviving copy of Elmsley's edition of the plays of Sophocles, which evidently was withdrawn from circulation after printing; it reveals Elmsley's scholarly development at an earlier age than has been appreciated.
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TL;DR: Harpocration's representation of the Philochorus' statements about the making of pompeia in Athens cannot be an exact quotation and cannot come from his Atthis, but more likely from his antiquarian writings as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Harpocration's representation of Philochorus' statements about the making of pompeia in Athens cannot be an exact quotation and cannot come from his Atthis , but more likely from his antiquarian writings.
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TL;DR: Grenfell/Hunt's papyri of "find 2" are not part of Breccia's find of 1932, but their "find 3" may be; tabulation of the contents of this find suggests a book owner who was a serious reader but not a professional scholar as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Excavation records reveal that Grenfell/Hunt's papyri of "find 2" are not part of Breccia's find of 1932, but their "find 3" may be; tabulation of the contents of Breccia's find suggests a book owner who was a serious reader but not a professional scholar.
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TL;DR: In Procopius' encomium of Anastasius, the "holy city" in need of water is not Hierapolis in Syria but Jerusalem, whose system of aqueducts is attested by archaeology and inscriptions.
Abstract: In Procopius' encomium of Anastasius, the "holy city" in need of water is not Hierapolis in Syria but Jerusalem, whose system of aqueducts is attested by archaeology and inscriptions