Hellenism and Empire: Language, Classicism, and Power in the Greek World, A.D. 50-250

Champìon, Craige B.; Swain, Simon

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“…treatment of classical texts and figures was at the core of the declamations given by mature students and established orators. 67 From this perspective, Himerius' striking account of lyric performances and his poetic anecdotes appear less isolated. 68 As an essential component of rhetorical formation, this 'creative supplementation' of classical antiquity was the bread and butter of imperial sophists and, to different degrees and in combination with different personal rhetorical agendas, determined the way in which these authors drew on archaic and early classical poetry.…”

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Lyric in the Second Degree: Archaic and Early Classical Poetry in Himerius of Athens

Modini

2022

The Class. Q.

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This article reconsiders the methodological issues posed by the reception of archaic and classical poetry in imperial rhetorical texts. It argues that references to ancient poems and poets in the works of imperial sophists are always already the product of appropriation and rewriting, and that the study of sophists’ engagement with poetry should go beyond Quellenforschung to explore how and why poetic models were transformed in light of their new rhetorical and imperial contexts. To illustrate this approach and its contribution to our understanding of both ancient-reception phenomena and imperial rhetorical culture, the article focusses on Himerius of Athens, a fourth-century c.e. sophist and teacher of rhetoric whose fondness for lyric poetry has caused his Orations to be used as a quarry for lyric fragments and testimonia. Himerius’ treatment of carefully chosen lyric models is here discussed with attention to his self-presentation and rhetorical agenda to show how the sophist appropriated the voices of diverse lyric icons to promote his school and negotiate his position in relation to the imperial administration. This analysis restores Himerius’ intellectual significance within late imperial culture and society, but it also demonstrates how a more in-depth study of the reception of ancient poetry in imperial sophistic literature has the potential to illuminate the strategies of cultural politics used by imperial authors to (re)construct Greek tradition.

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Lyric in the Second Degree: Archaic and Early Classical Poetry in Himerius of Athens

Modini

2022

The Class. Q.

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“…The Influence of the Widow of Ephesus: Grisebach (1889); Carleton (1988); Boldrini (1989); Huber (1990). Elsom (1989); Bondanella (1992) codes, decoding see Merkelbach (1962Merkelbach ( ) (1994; Bartsch (1989); Swain (1996) (1999:28) conversions, confessions see Shumate (1996) Bartsch (1989); Shea (1998) English novel, rise of, and ancient novel see Doody (1996) and such novelists as Richardson, Fielding, Smollett; Scholes (1966) epistolary novels see During (1951); Penwill (1978); Konstan (1990); Holzberg (1994a); Rosenmeyer (1994Rosenmeyer ( ) (2001 erotics see Fusillo 300-305;Foucault (1984aFoucault ( ) (1984b; Fusillo (1989) 179-234; Wmkler (1990a) (1990b); Zeitlin (1990Zeitlin ( ) (1994; Montague (1992Montague ( ) (1994; Richlin (1992) (1992a); Konstan (1994a); Goldhill (1995); Doody (1996) Furiani (1989a); Wiersma (1990); Elsom (1992); Montague (1992); Richlin (1992) (1992a) fiction, lies, make-believe see Winkler (1982); Gill (1993); Holzberg (1995a); Konstan (1998a) first-person narrative see Index 869: Veyne (1964); Paardt (1981); Hagg (1983) 42-44, 55, 74-75, 79, 110, 118;Reardon (1994); Holzberg (1995) 20-21,68, 72, 77, 88, 90;Kahane (2001) INTRODUCTION Foucault, M. see also erotics; Fusillo 303-305;…”

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“…Selden (1994) happy ending see Perkins (1995) (1989); Alvares (1993); Bowersock (1994); Hunter (1994); humor, laughter see StOCker (1969); Riitten (1997); Plaza (2000) imperialist, colonial, postcolonial see also travel; F. Azim, 1he Colonial Rise of the Novel (London 1993) and]. Newman, 1he Ballistic Bard: Postcolonial FICtions (London 1995) note that geographical mobility encourages the importance of the novel; Swain (1996); ; Schmeling (2003) interpolated tales see Sandy (1970); Shumate (1999) intertextuality see Kristeva (1970) 139-146;Barchiesi (1986); Fusillo (1988aFusillo ( ) (1990c; Harrison (1986b); Bremmer (1998); Finkelpearl (2001); Gibson (2001); Gowers (2001); W. Smith (2001) Isis and the ancient novel see Merkelbach (1962Merkelbach ( ) (1994Merkelbach ( ) (1995; Witt (1971); Griffiths (1975Griffiths ( ) (1978aGriffiths ( ) (1978b; Shumate (1996) Jewish narratives/novels see Pervo 687-689; Wills (1994Wills ( ) (1995 labyrinth, losing one's way see Doody (1996); Bodel (1999); protagonists of novels seem at times to wander around the ancient world, as if they were in a maze; see travel Liebespaar see Index 871 10ve-at-first-sight see Index 871; Rohde (1914) 159;Hilgg (1983) 6, 24, 36, 51, 56, 68, 123;Maehler (1990) Kuch (1989d) marriage see Egger (1994); Perkins (1995) 15ff., 41ff. ;Alexander...…”

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“…In the "death" and "resurrection" of the Widow of Ephesus in Petronius IlI-Il2, Cabaniss (1970) sees a parody of examples of resurrection motifs (resurrection of Christ). science fiction, fantastic travel see Anderson 555-561; Fredericks (1976); Swanson (1979); sexuality see erotics shipwrecks see Index 875; Hagg (1983) 17,21,102-103,148,160,163,174,203;Alexander (1995aAlexander ( ) (1995bAlexander ( ) (1998 social history see Scarcella 221-276;D'Arms (1981);Millar (1981); Bodel (1984); Sai'd (1987); Hopkins (1993); Bowersock (1994); Swain (1996); suicides see Hooff (1990) Histuria Apollonii Regis Tyri lies somewhere between the Greek novels to which it is related and the Latin "family novel" of which it is the only extant example. It is often read with Late Latin texts.…”

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Introduction to the Revised Edition

Schmeling¹

2003

The Novel in the Ancient World

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Though this is a large book, it can be approached easily in smallish pieces. The Table of Contents to this book sets out its design (references in bold type indicate pages in this book; references to authors with dates in parentheses can be found in the bibliography at the end of this book or in the supplemental listing at the end of the Introduction): the opening pages, 11-305, contain 10 essays on the most discussed aspects of the ancient novel (e.g., origins, readership, gender, theory); 309-456 discuss each of the 5 Greek authors, his novel, plot summary and special problems like dating, sources, and intent; 457-551 present similar types of discussions of the three Roman novels; 555-683 contain 7 studies of complete works and numerous fragments in Greek and Latin which are novel-like (fringe novels), which probably should be classified as novels but which also fall into various sub-genres of the novel, works which might be seen as imitating the novel, developing toward the novel or running parallel to it; 685-799 interpret the reception of the ancient novel in early Christian andJewish narratives, the Byzantine novels, and in modern literature; 803-814 layout in a series of 12 maps the journeys of characters in the ancient novels, epics, early Christian writings (St. Paul) and by juxtapositioning them invite the reader to compare journeys; 815-865 contain a comprehensive bibliography arranged by author; 865-876 are an index of names, themes and crucial points. This book is a good place to begin a study of the ancient novel, to examine essential matters, to review the novels themselves, and to become acquainted with a wide range of issues and problems concerning the ancient novel and its relevance to the ancient world and to modern literature. For the ancient novel surely spills over

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“…The ancient evidence for Philadelphus' interest in exotic animals is collected already byHubbell (1935).165 In terms of theoretical orientation, the work of Foucault and Said is especially influential; see, for example,Foucault (1969) and (1980); Said (1993);Vasunia (2003). Applications to antiquity are too numerous to survey here, but see, for example,Swain (1996);König and Whitmarsh (2007) (with a useful introduction).166 For general accounts of the development of ancient science during the Hellenistic period see, for example,Luce (1988);Rihll (1999); and, focusing on the central role of the Library at Alexandria,Jacob (1998). For the political significance of the Museum and Library, see, for example,Erskine (1995), where, however, much emphasis is placed on the connection between Aristotle and Alexander the Great and on the Lyceum as a model for the Museum.…”

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The Red Sea Aristotle

Lytle

2022

J. Hell. Stud.

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Deriving from a larger investigation into the sources used by Leonidas of Byzantium for his second-century AD Halieutica, this article argues that a handful of passages in Aelian’s De natura animalium (3.18, 3.28, 10.13, 10.20, 11.21, 11.23–24, 12.24–25[24] and 12.27[25]) comprise a coherent series indebted to the same section of Leonidas’ work. More importantly, all of these accounts are ultimately derived from a Peripatetic treatise on the marine fauna of the Red Sea. The author, whom I dub the Red Sea Aristotle, based his treatise on first-hand research likely conducted at a Ptolemaic settlement in the northern Red Sea. This treatise seems to have been known to at least one later Alexandrian lexicographer, while Agatharchides of Cnidus may have had access to it already in the middle of the second century BC. This Peripatetic treatise invites a reconsideration of orthodox claims about the fate of scientific zoology in the Hellenistic period.

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Hellenism and Empire: Language, Classicism, and Power in the Greek World, A.D. 50-250

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Lyric in the Second Degree: Archaic and Early Classical Poetry in Himerius of Athens

Lyric in the Second Degree: Archaic and Early Classical Poetry in Himerius of Athens

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