beginning of the debate between the two disciplines, namely, to that ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy, where the former, which preceded the latter, was one of the main branches of ancient education. Rather, it is the nature of philosophy itself, being a field of research absolutely dependent on language, and not just as an unavoidable and obligatory means for the expression of philosophical ideas and ideals, but, and much more important, as the core of the essence of philosophy, of its very being as a vehicle conveying truth and Truth. It was precisely for that reason that Plato, always the hysterical, prescribed banishment to the poets from his ideal state. The rational Aristotle, in contrast, sought a different venue. Unlike his former teacher, he did not reject poetry, but tried to recruit it for his own needs, and therefore probablyfor even after M.'s extensive study we cannot know for sure-Homeric Problems was one of the most impressive manifestations of Aristotle's efforts to go along with this line of thought.
commissioned as a picture labelas C. tells us, it 'could easily be judged purely literary' (p. 420) (e.g. Gutzwiller, op. cit., p. 66, suggests that Anyte may vary a lost poem by Erinna). Though C.'s argument is in essence valid (some Hellenistic epigrams could have had an original 'real' function), no 'blueprint' exists to help us come to irrefutable conclusions. Irrespective of some reservations, this is a book full of original interpretations and ideas that reflect C.'s committed interaction with texts. It is not only experts in the field of Hellenistic and Latin poetry who will profit from it, but also graduate students (translations accompany Greek and Latin texts).
Scholars and editors of Hellenistic epigram have often discounted the authenticity of dialectal variance attested in the manuscript tradition, either privileging the dialectal variant that conforms to the predominant dialect in the epigram or even choosing to change attested dialect forms to produce a uniform coloring. This article argues that the addresses to earth at lines 2 and 10 of Leonidas of Tarentum Anth. Pal. 7.440 = Gow/Page, HE 11 were originally Doric. I show that there are paleographic as well as literary grounds for the reading. In particular, the presence of Doric forms at these two points in the epigram evoke the language of tragic lament. The findings of this article have potentially significant implications for the editing of dialectal mixture in the Greek Anthology.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.