Showing papers in "Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies in 2011"
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TL;DR: The Simonides elegy for the dead at Plataea fits within an obscure but discoverable tradition, associated especially with Sparta, of public songs of lamentation that celebrated fallen warriors at festivals like the Gymnopaidiai as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The new Simonides elegy for the dead at Plataea fits within an obscure but discoverable tradition, associated especially with Sparta, of public songs of lamentation that celebrated fallen warriors at festivals like the Gymnopaidiai.
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TL;DR: The closest and most numerous parallels to Hesiod's account of the succession of ruler gods are found in the Hurro-Hittite Song of Going Forth, while the differences show that the Greek version was shaped to illustrate the superiority of Zeus over his predecessors.
Abstract: The closest and most numerous parallels to Hesiod’s account of the succession of ruler gods are found in the Hurro-Hittite Song of Going Forth , while the differences show that the Greek version was shaped to illustrate the superiority of Zeus over his predecessors.
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TL;DR: The authors examined FGrHist 76 Duris, especially fragments 2, 13, and 69, to clarify the scope of ancient quotation of now-lost authors and illustrate the variety of problems that arise in identifying the boundaries of fragments.
Abstract: Examination of FGrHist 76 Duris, especially fragments 2, 13, and 69, can clarify the scope of ancient quotation of now-lost authors and illustrate the variety of problems that arise in identifying the boundaries of fragments.
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TL;DR: Polybius' notion of tyche resembles that of the Stoics in that it is epistemological: he allows chance to be invoked for phenomena whose causes cannot or cannot yet be discovered by our limited human understanding as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Polybius’ notion of tyche resembles that of the Stoics in that it is epistemological: he allows chance to be invoked for phenomena whose causes cannot or cannot yet be discovered by our limited human understanding.
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TL;DR: The Stoics' rejection of deference to the founding thinkers' authority contrasts with the other philosophical schools and was essential to the Stoic goal of individual agency, responsibility, and selfhood in living a good life as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The Stoics’ rejection of deference to the founding thinkers’ authority contrasts with the other philosophical schools and was essential to the Stoic goal of individual agency, responsibility, and selfhood in living a good life.
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TL;DR: The treatment of Greek words in manuscripts of Augustine and of Ausonius suggests that late Latin writers employed transliteration, rather than writing Greek letters, more often than has been thought, both for familiar loan-words in Latin and for words perceived as still Greek as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The treatment of Greek words in manuscripts of Augustine and of Ausonius suggests that late Latin writers employed transliteration, rather than writing Greek letters, more often than has been thought, both for familiar loan-words in Latin and for words perceived as still Greek.
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TL;DR: The authors of as discussed by the authors argue that scholars tend to overlook certain features of Athenian laws and mistakenly assume that they displayed a clarity, consistency and degree of completeness resembling that of our own laws.
Abstract: B the publication of D. M. MacDowell's Athenian Homicide Law in the Age of the Orators 1 there had been general agreement among scholars for about a century concerning the prosecution of homicide cases in Athens: the regular procedure of StKYJ 4>6vov was available only to relatives of a homicide victim (or to the master of a slave) ; no ypa4>~ 4>6vov existed; and under special circumstances the relatives might use a special procedure, apagoge, to prosecute a homicide.2 Against this consensus MacDowell argued first (12-22) that StKat 4>6vov could be brought by others than the relatives (or master) of the victim, and secondly (133-35) that a ypa4>~ 4>6vov in connection with an apagoge could be brought by anyone (in theory at least). These conclusions have been challenged by others,3 but no clear consensus has emerged. The reasons for this disagreement are first that the evidence is incomplete and difficult to evaluate (a common situation in the study of Athenian law), and secondly that scholars tend to overlook certain features of Athenian laws and mistakenly assume that they displayed a clarity, consistency and degree of completeness resembling that of our own laws. Thus scholars often ask questions about Athenian laws that the Athenians themselves would probably not have been able to answer. It is especially with this consideration in
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors support the view that perioikoi mostly served in contingents of their own rather than the morai, and the Spartan state relied mainly on the hypomeiones to fill out the dwindling ranks of the proper Spartiatai.
Abstract: Scattered testimonia and the continuing ideology of the military value of the Spartan paideia in the fourth century support the view that perioikoi mostly served in contingents of their own rather than the morai , and the Spartan state relied chiefly on the hypomeiones to fill out the dwindling ranks of the proper Spartiatai .
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TL;DR: In this paper, a search of Galen's works was carried out based on a fairly extensive, but by no means complete, search of the Galen corpus, and the following abbreviations were used in references to Galen: An in art: An arteriis natura sanguis contineatur: Kuhn IV Anat., De anatomicis administrationibus: KuhN II, Simon II CC: De causis contentivis: CMG Suppl.Orient.
Abstract: 1 This paper is based on a fairly extensive, but by no means complete, search of Galenic texts. Works that survive only in Latin or Arabic translation were used only in those cases where the concept of continuity is clearly present. One such passage, Anat. 10 p.49.15-l6 Simon, was identified by J. Kollesch, CMG Suppl. V p.79. The following abbreviations are used in references to Galen's works: An in art.: An in arteriis natura sanguis contineatur: Kuhn IV Anat.: De anatomicis administrationibus: Kuhn II, Simon II CC: De causis contentivis: CMG Suppl.Orient. II CMG: Corpus Medicorum Graecorum Const. AM: De constitutione artis medicae: KUhn I CP: De causis pulsuum: Kuhn IX DF: De differentiisfebrium: Kuhn VII HELMREICH: G. Helmreich, ed. De usupartium, 2 vols. (BT, Leipzig 1907-09) II: De inaequali intemperie: Kuhn VII In Epid. I comm.: In Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum primum commentarii: CMG V 10.1 In Epid. III comm.: In Hipp. Epid. librum tertium commentarii: CMG V 10.2.1 In Epid. VI comm.: In Hipp. Epid. lib rum sextum commentarii: CMG V 10.2.2 In Fract. comm.: In Hippocratis lib rum de fracturis commentarii: Kuhn XVIII B In NH comm.: In Hippocratis de natura hominis librum commentarii: CMG V 9.1 In OM comm.: In Hippocratis lib rum de officina medici commentarii: Kuhn XVIII B In Progn. comm.: In Hippocratis Prognostieum eommentarii: CMG V 9.2 In Prorrhet. comm.: In Hippoeratis Prorrhetieum eommentarii: CMG V 9.2 In VA eomm.: In Hippocratis de vietu acutorum librum eommentarii: CMG V 9.1 10: De instrumento odoratus: CMG Sup pI. V lui.: Adversus ea quae Iuliano in Hippoeratis Aphorismos enuntiata sunt: CMG V 10.3 K: Kuhn, Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia. LA: De locis affeetis: Kuhn VIII MC: De morborum causis: Kuhn VII MD: De morborum differentiis: Kuhn VI MM: Methodus medendi: Kuhn X Mot.muse.: De motu museulorum: Kuhn IV NF: De naturalibusfacultatibus: Kuhn II Part.hom.diJf.: De partium homoeomerium differentia: CMG Suppl.Orient. III PD: De pulsuum differentia: Kuhn VIII PHP: De placitis Hippocratis et Platonis: CMG V 4.1.2, Kuhn V
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TL;DR: The papyri and literary testimonia that mention various administrative positions and functions, especially as regards taxation, allow us to trace elements of change and continuity in the period of Persian occupation of Egypt (A.D. 619-629) as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The papyri and literary testimonia that mention various administrative positions and functions, especially as regards taxation, allow us to trace elements of change and continuity in the period of Persian occupation of Egypt (A.D. 619-629).
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TL;DR: The dialogue between Livia and Augustus about the conspiracy of Cinna Magnus (Dio 55.14-22) subtly undermines Livia, portraying her clemency as Machiavellian, in a manner consistent with Dio's view of powerful women as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The dialogue between Livia and Augustus about the conspiracy of Cinna Magnus (Dio 55.14-22) subtly undermines Livia, portraying her clemency as Machiavellian, in a manner consistent with Dio’s view of powerful women.
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TL;DR: The existence of such a separate collection had been discovered by Wilamowitz, who noted that the verbatim agreement in several summaries of Euripidean plots (mostly of plays no longer preserved) in the mythographers and various scholia was likely to be based on a common source as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: E Y STUDENT of Euripides is by now aware that the plot summaries-as opposed to the didascalic 'Aristophanic' hypotheses,l and Byzantine elaborations-which precede most of the plays in mediaeval manuscripts were not originally composed for this purpose, but were taken from another book consisting solely of such texts. The existence of such a separate collection had been divined by Wilamowitz, who noted that the verbatim agreement in several summaries of Euripidean plots (mostly of plays no longer preserved) in the mythographers and various scholia was likely to be based on a common source.2 Two years after Wilamowitz's death the first certain fragments of this book were published.3 These and many others
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TL;DR: In the Oresteia, the house of Atreus moves progressively from metaphor to material reality, and the meaning of the stories of the house is revealed through the invocation of the "Atreus dream" as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Dreams invoked in the Oresteia move progressively from metaphor to material reality, and are instrumental in serving to reveal the meaning of the story of the house of Atreus.
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TL;DR: The prologue of the Lysis is integral to the issues addressed in the dialogue, as it illustrates an ordinary concern, friendship, which in fact gives rise to extraordinary philosophical analysis and continues as central to the analysis.
Abstract: The prologue of the Lysis is integral to the issues addressed in the dialogue, as it illustrates an ordinary concern, friendship, which in fact gives rise to extraordinary philosophical analysis and continues as central to the analysis.
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TL;DR: The authors showed that the use of age groups in drafting armies in ancient Greece requires use of a multiple of 12 in order to deduce total citizen numbers, implying larger population figures than is usually thought.
Abstract: Attention to the Greeks’ use of age groups in drafting armies shows that the battle-figures in ancient authors require use of a multiple of 12 in order to deduce total citizen numbers, implying larger population figures than is usually thought.
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TL;DR: Constantine's experience of omens and miracles and use of apotropaic magical symbols, at first pagan then Christian, fits with a long tradition, then strengthening, of such beliefs as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Constantine’s experience of omens and miracles and use of apotropaic magical symbols, at first pagan then Christian, fits with a long tradition, then strengthening, of such beliefs
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TL;DR: Literary evidence for a felt distinction between Greeks and barbarians does not begin with Herodotus and the Persian Wars, but can be glimpsed from Homer through the Archaic period as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Literary evidence for a felt distinction between Greeks and barbarians does not begin with Herodotus and the Persian Wars, but can be glimpsed from Homer through the Archaic period.
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TL;DR: The analysis of Thuc. 8.92 and Lysias 3 shows that Athenian law allowed the torture of Greek non-citizens in investigating homicide as discussed by the authors, which is a clear violation of human rights.
Abstract: Analysis of Thuc. 8.92 and Lysias 3 shows that Athenian law allowed the torture of Greek non-citizens in investigating homicide.
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TL;DR: Arrian's account of Parmenio's warning to Alexander at Persepolis is meant not only to evoke Herodotus' account of Croesus and Cyrus, but also to critique Herodoteus' notion of endless reciprocity in history.
Abstract: Arrian’s account of Parmenio’s warning to Alexander at Persepolis is meant not only to evoke Herodotus’ account of Croesus and Cyrus, but also to critique Herodotus’ notion of endless reciprocity in history.
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TL;DR: The references to a paredros of a god who is summoned in the magical papyri do not equate the god and his representative but hold them distinct, respecting the integrity of a divine hierarchy.
Abstract: The several references to a paredros of a god who is summoned in the magical papyri do not equate the god and his representative but hold them distinct, respecting the integrity of a divine hierarchy.
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TL;DR: Pindar's skolion fr122 as mentioned in this paper does not concern temple prostitutes of Aphrodite, but is rather a sympotic celebration of a private person's donation of prostitutes for the enjoyment of a party of men of Corinth.
Abstract: Pindar's skolion fr122 need not concern temple prostitutes of Aphrodite, but is rather a sympotic celebration of a private person's donation of prostitutes for the enjoyment of a party of men of Corinth
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TL;DR: The contradictory descriptions of Hermes' cave reflect not multiple authorship but the poet's successive focalization on the viewer of the moment, and they progress with the growth of her identity as a god as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The contradictory descriptions of Hermes’ cave reflect not multiple authorship but the poet’s successive focalization on the viewer of the moment, and they progress with the growth of Hermes’ identity as a god.
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TL;DR: Nilsson as discussed by the authors interpreted line 4 as exact repetition of line 2; accordingly the lines can be seen as spondaic, and interpreted line 5 as molossi, which is not an independent unit of movement.
Abstract: 1 Paus. 6.26.1; cf M. P. Nilsson, Griechische Feste (Stuttgart 1906) 291-93, and W. R. Halliday, The Greek Questions of Plutarch (Oxford 1\"928) 153-59. On the cult of Dionysus at Elis see L. R. Farnell, The Cults of the Greek States V (Oxford 1909) 329. 2 Plut. Mor. 251 E; cf C. Calame, Les choeurs de jeunes fiUes en Gri!Ce archaique I (Rome 1977) 152-53,210-14. 3 Mor. 299B (PMG 871). The text printed here is based on that of Page. To avoid being forced to analyse line 4 and, by implication, line 2 as molossi (the molossus is not an independent unit of movement), it has seemed preferable to follow E. von Leutsch, Philologus 11 (856) 730, and read line 4 as exact repetition of line 2; accordingly the lines can be seen as spondaic. On repetition in ritual contexts see E. Norden, Vergilius Aeneis VI (Leipzig 1903) 136-37, and on the effect of such repetition W. Headlam and A. D. Knox, Herodas: The Mimes and Fragments (Cambridge 1922) 20U; cf also the remarks of R. Merkelbach, Philologus 101 (1957) 24f, and A. Henrichs, ZPE 39 (1980) 12 n.9. In line 5 I have printed (}VWII with earlier editors: cf W. BURKERT, Griechische Religion der archaischen und klassischen Epoche (Stuttgart 1977: hereafter 'Burkert') 341, who translates \"mit Stierfuss rasend.\" 4 Nilsson (supra n.1) 292 comments: \"Das hohe Alter des eleischen Kultliedes ist unstreitig.\" See also R. WUnsch, RE 9 (1914) 146 s. v. \"Hymnos\"; O. Kern, Die Religion der Griechen I (Berlin 1926) 154; E. R. Dodds, Euripides Bacchae 2 (Oxford 1960)
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TL;DR: The usual image of the extreme monastic rigor of the desert fathers is modified by consideration of a major theme in the Apophthegmata Patrum and in Cassian, emphasizing the need for moderation and discretion in the exercise of asceticism as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The usual image of the extreme monastic rigor of the desert fathers is modified by consideration of a major theme in the Apophthegmata Patrum and in Cassian, emphasizing the need for moderation and discretion in the exercise of asceticism.
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TL;DR: In this article, the textual tradition of Hecuba has been surveyed fully by K. Matthiessen and the authors cite manuscript readings from the collations of his own which they have allowed me to use.
Abstract: HE TEXTUAL TRADITION of Hecuba has been surveyed fully by K. Matthiessen.1 In this paper I cite manuscript readings from the collations of his own which Dr Matthiessen, with very great generosity, has allowed me to use. 2 1. Hecuba 414-22 (Po') HE. Po. HE. Po. HE. Po. HE. Po.
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TL;DR: Markland's marginalia in his copy of Johnson's edition of Sophocles anticipate a number of emendations by others and show his importance as a contributor to establishing the text as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Markland’s marginalia in his copy of Johnson’s edition of Sophocles anticipate a number of emendations by others and show his importance as a contributor to establishing the text.
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TL;DR: The evidence of the orators showed that the paragraphe on such issues as proper jurisdiction did not precede a separate hearing on the substance of the case but was one element of the argumentation in a single proceeding as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The evidence of the orators shows that the paragraphe on such issues as proper jurisdiction did not precede a separate hearing on the substance of the case but was one element of the argumentation in a single proceeding.
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TL;DR: A central theme of the Hymn to Apollo is the importance of reciprocity between the god and mankind, involving benefactions that accrue to both in the founding and the continuance of the cult.
Abstract: A central theme of the Hymn to Apollo is the importance of reciprocity between the god and mankind, involving benefactions that accrue to both in the founding and the continuance of the cult.