8 Herodotus’ Reception in Ancient Greek Lexicography and Grammar: From the Hellenistic to the Imperial Age

Tribulato, Olga

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“…At the University of Cambridge Chiara Monaco is at work on a PhD thesis on the Atticist take on comic language, which issues from the MA she completed at Rome under Cassio's supervision (Monaco 2015). For further work on the linguistic theorization of Atticist lexicography see Tribulato 2014;Tribulato 2016;Tribulato 2018. While we are now beginning to be better equipped to undertake a linguistic study of the Atticist take on issues of language correctness and linguistic evolution, the survival of Atticist material in the Byzantine Age, and particularly in its lexica, still awaits -with very few recent exceptions -to be addressed in a truly linguistic perspective. 4 This contribution seeks to make a small step in this direction by investigating what linguistic motivations may lurk behind the Byzantine interest in certain ancient glosses.…”

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“…The 'neutral' glossing of the word also characterizes three entries in Hesychius (σ 994, 996, 997 Hansen) which are sometimes repeated in later lexica. 28 On this role of Herodotus in the age of linguistic Atticism see Tribulato 2016. 29 Homer remained a staple of Greek education and rhetorical training throughout the Byzantine Age: see e.g.…”

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Making the Case for a Linguistic Investigation of Greek Lexicography: Some Examples from the Byzantine Reception of Atticist Lemmas

Tribulato¹

2019

The Paths of Greek

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Ancient lexica give us important information about linguistic evolution and its perception by native speakers. However, linguistic investigations of lexicographical material are slow to come to the forefront of Classical linguistics and even more so of Medieval Greek linguistics. This paper makes a contribution in this direction by investigating the relevance of lemmas handed down from Atticist lexicography in the linguistic context of Medieval Byzantium, where writers had to move between different registers and were often confronted with the differing usages of the two most important models: the Classics and the Scripture.

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Making the Case for a Linguistic Investigation of Greek Lexicography: Some Examples from the Byzantine Reception of Atticist Lemmas

Tribulato¹

2019

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“…18,(486)(487)(488)(273)(274)(275). Closely after, verse 7 gives a first hint that a testing of the bow might be about to tradition gives an idea as to how thoroughly he was read by literary scholars and grammarians (Tribulato 2016). Needless to say, that it is rather unexpected to find Herodotus among literary models of a poetic collection such as the Anacreontea.…”

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The Testing of the Bow in Anacreontea

Kazanskaya¹

2019

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The paper analyzes poem 33 of the Anacreontea (collection of poems in the Anacreontic style dating from the Imperial times); the poem describes the poet's encounter with Eros on a rainy night and the cruelty of the god who shoots the poet through the heart only to test whether his bow had suffered any damage in the rain. At first glance, the poem gives the impression of a simple, fable-like narrative; however, a closer look unveils a series of allusions and references to literary models (especially, to Homer). Most commentators consider the killing of the suitors in Odyssey 21 (μνηστηροφονία) as the Anacreontic poet's main model. The article shows that this Homeric allusion is in fact elegantly combined with a reference to Herodotus, and that Eros' last words evoke Hdt. 3, 35.

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Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature

Kirkland

2022

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This book is the first monograph devoted to the reception of Herodotus among Imperial Greek writers. Using a broad reception model and focused largely on texts outside of historiography proper, the book analyzes the entanglements of criticism and imitation in select works by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Plutarch, Dio Chrysostom, Lucian, and Pausanias. It offers a new angle on Herodotus’s intellectual afterlife, channeled through evocations both explicit and implicit in literary criticism, the moral essay, public oration, satire, and periegetic literature. The book shifts focus from reputation only—what ancient authors explicitly had to say about Herodotus—toward the kinetic interrelation between Herodotus’s reputation and his active reworking across genre and mode. It demonstrates how Herodotus was strategically construed and often implicitly summoned—as fabulist, classicist, moralizer, and evasive intellectual—and how such Herodotean presences played to the wider purposes of Imperial writers. Herodotus became a touchstone for writers concerned with a nimbus of questions that the Histories first helped to articulate. Imperial Greeks found Herodotus useful in puzzling through questions of authorial persona, mimesis, the relationship between aesthetic and ethical criticism, the self, and the contingent definitions of Hellenism under Rome. Ultimately, the book widens an incomplete reception history and reads bi-focally, examining how attention to the presence of Herodotus in various texts unveils new layers of meaning in those works, while also showing how ancient receptions offer insight into the Histories.

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8 Herodotus’ Reception in Ancient Greek Lexicography and Grammar: From the Hellenistic to the Imperial Age

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Making the Case for a Linguistic Investigation of Greek Lexicography: Some Examples from the Byzantine Reception of Atticist Lemmas

Making the Case for a Linguistic Investigation of Greek Lexicography: Some Examples from the Byzantine Reception of Atticist Lemmas

The Testing of the Bow in Anacreontea

Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature

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