Prometheus. Rivista di studi classici

Per l’interpretazione di Theogn. 341-350

2022-06-10T15:53:47+00:00

The paper proposes an alternative interpretation of Theogn. 341-350. The image of the dog crossing the river and shaking off ‘everything’ assumes that the animal has reached the shore and implies salvation. Two reconstructive hypotheses are therefore given depending on whether one assumes that the ‘dog-poet’ remained in his homeland or was forced into exile.

L’elegia delle due barbe (Theogn. 1330)

2022-06-10T15:53:51+00:00

In Theognis’ elegy 1327-34, at line 1330 read γενύ͜ων instead of γονέ͜ων.

On the Alleged dativus ethicus in Pindar

2022-06-10T15:53:55+00:00

The article deals with six Pindaric passages where a dativus ethicus is supposed to be used by the poet. After a brief re-examination of Pind. Ol. 6.22-25, 9.35-39, 10.1-2, Pyth. 1.59, and Parth. fr. 94b.66 M., and on the grounds of a more detailed analysis and reconsideration of the traditional exegesis of Is. 5.38-39 it may be concluded that such rhetorical device never occurs; by contrast, the dative in these passages rather fulfills the common and specific syntactic function of either commodi, termini, or object.

La metrica di Eveno di Paro

2022-06-10T15:54:01+00:00

Euenus of Paros has been strongly criticised for his hexameter at fr. 1 W.² = G.-P.²,^,v. 5, which has several metrical problems. However, a different perspective suggests that those irregularities may be intentional, aiming to communicate Euenus’ own idea of rhetoric.

‘Platone’ e l’anima δύσερως. Una nota ad AP 5.78=FGE 588 s.

2022-06-10T15:54:05+00:00

Discussion of the textual variant δύσερως instead of τλήμων in ‘Plato’ AP 5.78.2 = FGE 589, preserved by the Sylloge Parisina.

Per una semantica delle pietre: Posidippo e i trattati litologici tardoantichi

2022-06-10T15:54:09+00:00

Posidippus’ epigrams 14 and 15 A-B, devoted to the iaspis and dracontia stones respectively, feature important argumentative similarities to Late Antique lithological treatises; the study of the vocabulary and the analysis of the properties of the stones reveals Posidippus’ particular attention to magical, soteriological and therapeutic implications.

Un excerptum inedito della Biblioteca pseudo-apollodorea (2.26-29)

2022-06-10T15:54:15+00:00

The author identifies a new manuscript extract from Ps. Apollodorus’s Bibliotheca (2.26-29) in an exemplar of Virgil’s opera omnia published in Rome in 1471 (now, Paris, BnF, Rés g. Yc. 236). This item was owned by Angelo Poliziano, who copied the Apollodorean excerpt from manuscript R (Paris, BnF, gr. 2722), which is the archetype of the whole manuscript tradition of the Bibliotheca. This discovery is quite relevant because the folio of R containing Apollod. 2.26-29 is currently missing. An edition of the extract, with a short commentary, is provided at the end of the essay.

A note on an epigram of Meleager (AP 7.79.5-6)

2022-06-10T15:54:22+00:00

This paper concerns the last couplet of an epitaph by Meleager for Heraclitus of Ephesus (AP 7.79.5-6), arranged as a dialogue between the deceased and a passerby. It argues that the segment Μὴ τρηχύς, ἐπεὶ τάχα καὶ σύ τι πεύσῃ / τρηχύτερον should be taken together and attributed to the passerby, whereas the final words Πάτρας χαῖρε σὺ δ’ ἐξ Ἐφέσου should be assigned to Heraclitus.

Catullus 1.9-10

2022-06-10T15:54:28+00:00

The vulgate reading patrona virgo at Catullus 1.9 should be taken as representing an attempt to decipher a corrupted scribal inversion of rogo, patrone, a plea addressed to the poem’s dedicatee, Cornelius Nepos (“accept this book… please, my patron”). The nature of such patronal support is examined, along with some other recent studies of lines 9-10.

Orazio, Carm. 1.10.13-16

2022-06-10T15:54:33+00:00

This article points out unnoticed echoes of Homer (Od. 9.38-39) and Virgil (Aen. 3.1 ff. and perhaps 2.21-23) in Hor. Carm. 1.10.13-16 and shows that in this Horatian stanza the transmitted ‘variatio’ Ilio […] Troiae is perfectly sound and does not need to be emended. The article also shows that Ov. Fast. 5.663-664 (quem montibus […] Iovi) derives directly from Alcaeus (fr. 308).

Properzio, Ovidio e le Laudes Galli

2022-06-10T15:54:37+00:00

The two couplets of Prop. 2.34.91-92 and Ov. amor. 3.9.63-64 can be read as important testimonies in the complex debate on the Virgilian laudes Galli, at the end of the Georgics. Both are related to the death of Gallus and throw light on the reactions of the contemporaries to the suicide of the elegist and the emotional context of the moment. On this basis even the alleged elimination of the laudes Galli by Virgil can be explained in a new perspective.

Caligola, Augusto e il gioco dei dadi . Per il testo e l’interpretazione di Sen. Cons. ad Pol. 17.4 (e di Svet. Aug. 71.3)

2022-06-10T15:54:43+00:00

This article focuses on the text of Seneca’s ad Polybium 17.4, in particular on tesseris ac foro, which lies immediately before a text suspected of being corrupt and published by Reynolds between cruces: this expression is commonly interpreted as relating to gambling and foro should accordingly indicate a kind of tabula lusoria. A new exegesis of foro is proposed here, based also on the analysis of Svet. Aug. 71.3 and therefore a different textual arrangement is assumed for the whole Senecan passage.

Satirical Designators for Romans. The Roman Past and Roman names in Persius’ Satire 1

2022-06-10T15:54:52+00:00

Persius refers to Romans with names drawn from the Roman past, namely Polydamas et Troiades, Titos, Romulidae, and Romule. The names are chosen due to their multi-layered semantics and allusions that result into irony and generate paradoxes that make up the satire. This paper aims to highlight the employment of these designators as a case study in literary onomastics in Roman satire. It comments on the function of the names in their context with a focus on the treatment of the Roman past through them; then it analyses the emerging patterns as additional aspects of Persius’ style and critique.

Le ‘pretese’ di un maestro (nota a Petronio, Sat. 46.5)

2022-06-10T15:55:02+00:00

In Petronius, Sat. 46, during the cena Trimalchionis, the freedman Echion tells the rhetorician Agamemnon about the education of the little boy Primigenius. This article addresses the textual and exegetical problems of the passage concerning the two teachers of the boy (46.5). It deals in particular with the vexata quaestio of the reading sed venit dem litteras (H), for which it proposes a minimal correction (velit) and a new interpretation.

Petronio, ¿un sutil Homeromastix? Nota al topos ergo me non ruina terra potuit haurire? (Sat. 81.3)

2022-06-10T15:55:12+00:00

The purpose of this note is to analyze the relationship between the ‘topos’ ergo me non ruina terra potuit haurire? in Sat. 81, and the Iliad, since I believe that Petronius, the “autore nascosto”, brings about an assimilation of Encolpius with Agamemnon, which functions as degradation of the epic, but, at the same time, as a sort of metapoetic commentary on a particular passage of the Iliad.

Archi e imprese notturne: una nota esegetica (e testuale) a Valerio Flacco 3.133-137

2022-06-10T15:55:21+00:00

In the night battle of Cyzicus, reminiscent of the Dolonia, Hercules kills his opponent Phlegyas, who is carrying a torch, shooting an arrow at him (Val. Fl. 3.133-137). This paper argues that in his Hercules and Phlegyas episode Valerius Flaccus is alluding to an Homeric scholion (ad Il. 10.260), in which the usefulness of bow and arrows at night is stressed. Statius will later allude not only to Homer and the Homeric scholia, as has been shown by S. Casali, but also to Valerius Flaccus, making Agylleus, Hercules’ unworthy son, assume that in night raids archery would be useless (Stat. Theb. 10.260-261). Moreover, an old conjecture by N. Heinsius at Val. Fl. 3.134 (flectere for pectore) is reconsidered.

Nota testuale a De rebus bellicis 2.6

2022-06-10T15:55:30+00:00

Avaritia appears to be a suitable supplement for the lacuna postulated by Paul Maas in De rebus bellicis 2.6.

Timossena, la moglie di Plutarco

2022-06-10T15:55:34+00:00

This article summarizes (and puts in order) the biographical information supplied by Plutarch about his wife in the Consolatio uxoris and his other works. It begins with the certain or very probable data, i.e. her name, her children, their names, their number and sequence; it also suggests some plausible considerations about her original family, i.e. about her father and brothers; and concludes with some (partly conjectural) clarifications about her marriage with Plutarch and about the difficulties that arose between their respective parents, finally raising a little suspicion about her age.

Celebrando a Dioniso en la polis: las Dieciséis mujeres de Elis

2022-06-10T15:55:42+00:00

In this paper I study the so-called Sixteen women who were in charge of the cults of Dionysus in Elis and of Hera in Olympia. The nomenclature of the association, its hierarchical organisation and its activities are analysed. There are reflections on the leadership capacity of a group of women in late antiquity and on the fact that the Sixteen could serve both Hera and Dionysus simultaneously.

Theognis and Cassius Dio

2022-06-10T15:55:48+00:00

It is suggested that Cassius Dio was familiar with, and alluded to the poetry of Theognis. Part of the speech of Livia to Augustus (D.C. 55.16.2) draws on Thgn. 81, and part of the funeral speech of Tiberius for Augustus (D.C. 56.40.7) draws on Thgn. 803-804.

La principessa, il sacerdote e il medico. Note sulla rappresen¬tazione del mal d’amore nelle Etiopiche di Eliodoro (3.7-11, 4.6-7)

2022-06-10T15:55:52+00:00

This article provides an analysis of lovesickness in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica: in picturing princess Charicleia as lovesick, the novel shows the influence of several models, both literary and medical. As a result, Heliodorus’ representation appears to be close to the Hippocratic Corpus in relation to pathology, whereas the physician Acesinus diagnoses Charicleia’s illness relying on differential diagnosis, that is on a Galenic method. In the final part the therapeutic approach of the priest Calasiris may express a view of lovesickness as a mental illness.

L’epitafio di Zosimos: tra versi omerici e “scritture ispirate”

2022-06-10T15:55:58+00:00

In this paper a metrical funerary inscription from the Phrygian Highlands, dated to the late imperial period and dedicated to a local prophet named Zosimos and his wife, is analysed in detail from both the epigraphic and literary points of view. It is an interesting example of the spreading of Greek paideia in Asia Minor during the late Empire and in particular of the relationship between Greek paideia and the new religious panorama that emerged in that period.

Un falso problema di testo in Gregorio Nazianzeno (nota critica a carm. 2.1.12, v. 426)

2022-06-10T15:56:02+00:00

The paper proposes an exegesis and a solution to Greg. Naz. carm. 2.1.12 v. 426, where the difficult word κόρδαξ, transmitted by L and C, is set in cruces. The word usually indicates a theatrical (and obscene) dance, but – by Gregorius and his commentators – is used to indicate the male dancer who performs it, often at weddings (a fertility omen?).

A new source for the Commentaria of John Philoponus on Aristotle’s De anima: Marc. Gr. 266 (M)

2022-06-10T15:56:08+00:00

Marc. Gr. 266 (M) – not numbered among the “Aristotelian” manuscripts by Harlfinger and not collated by Hayduck for his critical edition of John Philoponus – at numerous points presents a text that differs from that of the other mss. and offers interesting readings.

Un lettore bizantino di Caritone

2022-06-10T15:56:12+00:00

A hitherto unpublished letter of a Byzantine scholar, Georgios Oinaiotes, on lending a book by Chariton provides new evidence about the Greek novel Callirhoe and its readers during the early Palaeologan renaissance.

Notizie bibliografiche

2022-06-10T15:56:16+00:00