Classical Quarterly

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    Quotations of Lucan and the Indirect Tradition: Textual Notes on the Bellvm Civile.Florian Barrière - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):185-195.
    This article deals with the contribution of the indirect tradition to establishing the text of Lucan's Bellum ciuile. First, the methodological basis for the use of quotations is outlined, and then five passages from the Bellum ciuile are discussed. The variant readings which appear in the indirect tradition constitute important points that have been wrongly neglected by most editors of Lucan's poem.
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    Nature, Landscape and Identity in Silius Italicus’ Account of the Battle at the Trebia.Luca Beltramini - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):240-248.
    This article deals with the fight between the river Trebia and Scipio the Elder in Silius Italicus’ Punica (4.525–703), notoriously based on the Homeric battle between Achilles and Scamander (Il. 21.1–382). By means of a close reading of the geographical details of Silius’ account, this article aims at highlighting the peculiar role given to the landscape in this episode. By intertwining well-established epic topoi and historiographical reflections, the poet imbues Italy's landscape with a profound ideological meaning. His depiction of the (...)
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    Playing in the lion's Jaws: Metatextuality in Martial's ‘Lion and Hare’ Cycle.Emi C. Brown - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):249-259.
    This paper aims to provide an analysis of the metatextual function of one of the most well-known elements of Martial's Epigrams, the ‘lion and hare’ cycle from Book 1. This cycle, in which a hare is held precariously but safely in the jaws of a lion, has historically been read as representing the relationship between Domitian and poet. This paper aims to expand on this reading of the cycle while considering a largely unexplored point of view: the metatexual function of (...)
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    Helots at Thermopylae: The Greek Dead at Herodotus 8.25.Thomas Clements - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):50-66.
    This article argues for a more diverse approach to the appearance of enslaved persons in Greek historiography through an analysis of the Persian navy's battlefield tour of Thermopylae in Book 8 of Herodotus’ Histories. Previous approaches to slavery in Greek historiography have rightly commented on the cultural awkwardness to Greek authors of slaves’ extensive involvement in ancient warfare. However, this is only one aspect of how slaves featured in historiographical narrative. Herodotus continually problematizes the methods of enquiry and many characters (...)
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    Mors Individva and Aeqva(Seneca, Troades 401 and 434).Diane Coomans - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):364-365.
    This note highlights an original echo between two passages of Seneca's Troades that draws attention to one of Andromache's personality traits.
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    The Guilt of Cadmus the Farmer in Statius’ Thebaid.Cecilia Criado - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):209-226.
    Statius’ Thebaid inverts the traditional positive reading of agricultural work. In the account of the founding moments of Thebes, the poet remains faithful to what is documented in the extant Greek and Roman literary material. However, as this article argues, Statius introduces two significant innovations with respect to his thematic precedents. First, Cadmus the founder is explicitly and emphatically pointed out as guilty of the internecine struggle that results from his farming. Second, he does not limit himself to sowing the (...)
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    Anthologia Palatina 8 as a Hellenistic Book of Poems: Structure and Meaning in Gregory of Nazianzus.Óscar Prieto Domínguez - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):290-308.
    This article analyses Anth. Pal. 8 as a Hellenistic book of poems, i.e. as a collection artfully arranged by an author-editor and not as a mere gathering of sepulchral epigrams devoid of any reflection or literary aspiration. In common with modern poetry books, Anth. Pal. 8 was conceived for linear sequential reading. A close study of its tripartite structure, of the thoughtful collocation of each piece and of their organizing principles in well-thought-out sequences reveals the ultimate eschatological meaning of the (...)
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    A Servile Riddle From Pompeii? ( Cil 4.1877).Olivia Elder - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):354-359.
    This article reconsiders a graffitied riddle from Pompeii (CIL 4.1877). It argues that slavery is one possible dimension of the puzzle, and that acknowledging the existence of slavery in this text testifies to the potential of Pompeian graffiti as a source for overlooked social histories.
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    Down in Pompeii: A Sexual Graffito in Verse ( Cil 4.9123).Olivia Elder - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):360-364.
    This article revisits a famous graffiti poem from Pompeii (CIL 4.9123). It argues that the poem is both more erotically charged and more cleverly metaliterary than previously recognized; and that this reading of the poem offers new evidence for the literary richness of Pompeii's graffiti culture.
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    PLATO, REPUBLIC 606a7–606b2: SYNTAX AND MEANING.Cătălin Enache - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):317-320.
    Plato, Republic 606ab, which deals with the soul bipartition and the behaviour of the two soul components during a theatrical performance, has been the object of scholarly dispute concerning both its grammar and its meaning. This article proposes a new syntactical approach and argues that the passage does not have to be interpreted as contradicting the context.
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    Latin Lvpvs‘Wolf’ as a Greek Loanword.Simon Esposito - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):320-322.
    The Latin word lupus ‘wolf’ uniquely shares with Greek λύκος a metathesized form of Proto-Indo-European *u̯l̥kʷos, and it is unlikely that they could have arisen independently. But an early borrowing from Greek into the Italic languages can be justified, after metathesis took place, but before the changes to labiovelar consonants in each language that would exclude the possibility.
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    (Mis)Management of Roman Groves.Andrew Fox - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):176-184.
    The management and mismanagement of Roman groves was a serious matter, and intentional and unintentional violations of these spaces could be severely punished. In spite of this, groves remained loosely defined by Romans and their boundaries were commonly misunderstood, a confusion that has continued into modern scholarship, where groves are understood as either a clearing in a wood or a dark space lit by artificial lighting. This article takes up this discussion, and explores the nature of an ancient grove as (...)
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    Organic Composition or Ut Pictura Poesis? Ζωιον in Aristotle's Poetics.Luis Galván - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):85-99.
    This paper discusses Aristotle's references to a ζῷον in his Poetics (1450b34–51a4 and 1459a20) and evaluates their implications. The usual interpretation, ‘living creature’ or ‘animal’, is one-sided, because the word ζῷον is Aristotle's paradigm of homonymy, applying as it does to both the human being and the drawing (Cat. 1a1–6). After an examination of the two passages containing such references and their contexts, other passages by Aristotle and earlier writers (Plato, Alcidamas and Gorgias) that may shed light on the issue (...)
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    The Bones of Tibullus: Ovid, Amores 3.9.59.Kyle Gervais - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):349-354.
    This article argues for an emendation to Ovid, Amores 3.9, Ovid's lament for Tibullus. The transmitted text of line 59 would seem to present a contradiction: Ovid speculates about aliquid nisi nomen et umbra surviving death, and then proceeds in the next few lines to identify that aliquid as, precisely, Tibullus’ umbra. Ovid's original text was most likely aliquid nisi nomen et ossa, referring to a burial site and funerary inscription; with this text, Ovid reproduces details from Tibullus 1.3, a (...)
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    Lucretius’ Homeric Mourners.John Godwin - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1).
    Lucretius (3.894–9) puts words into the mouths of mourners as part of his attack on the fear of death. The language of the passage has been read simply as mockery of the bereaved, but the poet is using language strongly reminiscent of Homer, in particular from Circe's speech advising Odysseus about the dangers of hearing the Sirens’ singing. This adds a level of irony to the passage as the poet has a complex relationship with the bewitching power of poetry.
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    Framing the Delphic Oracle, Institutionalizing the Olympic Games: Phlegon of Tralles’ Olympiads.Zilong Guo - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):269-280.
    This article re-examines the account of the Delphic oracle in Phlegon of Tralles’ Olympiads (FGrHist 257 F 1). It argues that the oracular utterance is framed in an attempt to bolster the Lycurgan institution of the Olympic Games in 776 b.c. More specifically, according to Goffman's theory, the divine anger of Zeus (mênis) is keyed to the modulation of the frame, or the cognitive perspective, that has been radically changed by warfare and plague in the Peloponnese, thus serving a heuristic (...)
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    Matrilineal Succession in Greek Myth.Greta Hawes & Rosemary Selth - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):1-23.
    This article presents a systematic examination of matrilineal succession in Greek myth. It uses MANTO, a digital database of Greek myth, to identify kings who succeed their fathers-in-law, maternal grandfathers, step-fathers, or wives’ previous husbands. Analysis of the fifty-four instances identified shows that the prominence of the ‘succession via widow’ motif in archaic epic is not typical of the broader tradition. Rather, civic mythmaking more commonly relies on succession by sons-in-law and maternal grandsons to craft connections between cities and lineages, (...)
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    Bilingualism and greek identity in the fifth century b.c.E.Dylan James - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):32-49.
    The study of bi- and multilingualism in the ancient Mediterranean has come into its own in recent decades. The evidence is far greater for the Hellenistic and Roman periods than the Classical, so naturally scholarly attention has focussed less on the earlier era. This has led to some enduring notions about bilingualism in the fifth century b.c.e. which are yet to be fully scrutinized, including the idea that a Greek's speaking another tongue was inherently transgressive. What did it mean for (...)
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    Philosophy in Dio Chrysostom, On Anachôrêsis( Oration 20).Katarzyna Jażdżewska - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):227-239.
    This article uncovers the intellectual traditions behind Dio Chrysostom's Oration 20: On Anachôrêsis. The examination reveals a variety of subtexts and traditions with which Dio engages, and shows that at its core the text inspects three types of lives promoted by three philosophical schools: Epicurean, Stoic and Peripatetic. They are never referred to directly, however, which raises questions concerning Dio's strategy of not acknowledging the sources of the ideas with which he engages. The article also develops our understanding of anachôrêsis (...)
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    Emendations in Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica Book 8.Boris Kayachev - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):196-207.
    The article makes a case for a thorough reappraisal of the text of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica by discussing a number of textual problems in Book 8. It proposes some twenty new conjectures, as well as reviving six old ones that seem to have been undeservedly forgotten.
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    Emendations in Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica Book 8 – Corrigenda.Boris Kayachev - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):208-208.
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    Rhetorica Ad Herennivm 1.2: Qvoad Eivs, Qvod Eivs or Qvoad?Dániel Kiss - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):322-326.
    Rhet. Her. 1.2 quoad eius fieri poterit contains the surprising reading quoad eius. Earlier scholarship has debated the authenticity of this reading and its relationship to quod eius. A survey of the sources shows that quod eius appears in a number of inscriptions as well as in the transmitted text of nine passages within surviving Latin literature. So that phrase must be authentic; it appears to have arisen as a limiting formula in the language of the law. In two other (...)
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    Romans at Besa: New Light on an Athenian Deme in the Imperial Period.Anna Kouremenos & Giorgos Mitropoulos - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):159-175.
    This article presents an overview of Roman citizens registered in the small Attic deme of Besa. The epigraphic record indicates that three Roman emperors—Hadrian, Commodus and Severus Alexander—were enrolled as citizens in this deme, as was the influential eastern magnate G. Julius Antiochus Epiphanes Philopappos and several men who dominated Athenian politics during the High Imperial period. We argue that Hadrian's enrolment and repeated sojourns in Athens encouraged various individuals—including two of his successors—to join this deme, but why did the (...)
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    Euripides, Troades 95–7: Is Something Missing?David Kovacs - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):315-317.
    This paper raises objections to the constitution of these lines in the OCT. The lines are gnomic but they generalize based on an actual sequence of events just described and should contain an allusion to the offence that will cause the Greeks to perish, the outrage against Athena's temple. This, it is argued, stood in a lacuna best marked after 95. The article has three theses: (1) sacking ‘cities, temples, and tombs’ is implausible because the latter two are parts of (...)
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    An Allusion to the Blinding of Appius Claudius Caecus in Aeneid Book 8?Matthew P. Loar - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):343-346.
    This article argues that Virgil includes an allusion to the fourth-century censor Appius Claudius Caecus in Book 8 of the Aeneid. Three pieces of evidence point to this allusion: (1) wordplay, especially the near echo of ‘Caecus’ in ‘Cacus’; (2) semantic associations between Cacus and darkness; and (3) repeated references to sight and Cacus’ eyes. By invoking the memory of Appius, whose blinding in 312 b.c.e. allegedly came at the hands of Hercules as punishment for transferring control of the god's (...)
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    The Narratives of cicero's Epistvlae Ad Qvintvm Fratrem: Career, Republic and the Epistvlae Ad Atticvm.Laura Losito - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):105-123.
    The narrative and design of Cicero's overlooked collection of letters to his brother Quintus (henceforth, QFr.) demand investigation. Within each book, the constituent letters delineate the trajectory of Cicero's life, transitioning from his political prominence to his increasing irrelevance. This narrative unfolds not only within the micro-narratives of individual books but also across the macro-narrative of the entire collection. Containing only letters from Cicero to Quintus dated between 60/59–54 and featuring a notable resemblance to the Epistulae ad Atticum (henceforth, Att.) (...)
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    Hidden Gods, Hidden Texts: Aratean Echoes and Allegoresis in Cicero, De Divinatione 1.79.Adalberto Magnavacca - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):336-340.
    This article argues for an as-yet-undiscovered double allusion to Aratus’ Phaenomena (1–5 and 100–7) embedded in Cicero's De diuinatione (1.79). This intertextual link sheds light on a now-lost passage of Cicero's Aratea and raises some questions about the relationship between Cicero's dialogue and Catullus 64.
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    Julius Caesar and the Larch: Burning Questions at Vitruvius’ De Architectvra 2.9.15–16.Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):135-148.
    This article argues that Vitruvius’ description of Julius Caesar's ‘discovery’ of the larch (larix, De arch. 2.9.15–16), previously read as a journalistic account of the author's first-hand experience in Caesar's military entourage, should instead be interpreted as a highly crafted morality tale illustrating human progress thwarted. In the passage, the use of larch wood to construct a defensive tower renders the Alpine fortress at Larignum impregnable to assault by fire; only the fear aroused by siege provokes the inhabitants to surrender (...)
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    Julius Caesar and the Larch: Burning Questions at Vitruvius’ De Architectvra 2.9.15–16 – Erratum.Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):149-149.
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    The Identification of the Peloponnesian Apis with the Egyptian Serapis in Arnobius, Adversvs Nationes 1.36.6.Jónatan Ortiz-García - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):369-374.
    This article examines a brief mention of the Egyptian gods Apis and Serapis in the Aduersus nationes by Arnobius of Sicca. This reference is situated within the context of several traditions dealing with the origin and connections of both of these mythical figures transmitted with some variations until Late Antiquity. It is proposed that the Peloponnesian Apis is identified with the Egyptian Serapis through a tradition already attested in Classical Greek authors, though without it being possible to determine which author (...)
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    Early Greek Mythography and Epic Poetry: A Reassessment.Jordi Pàmias - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):24-31.
    Studies of early mythography have stressed the dependent relationship between the so-called logographers and epic archaic poetry. Better knowledge of archaic and classical mythography in recent years has provided more accurate details of the context of the production and purposes of the fragmentary works by Hecataeus, Acusilaus, Pherecydes and Hellanicus. Each of them has his own agenda and programme, which have to be explained within their context and not, from a purely historic-literary perspective, as an appendix, a continuation or an (...)
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    The Inconsistency Charge in cicero's De Finibus 1–2.Dale Parker - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):124-134.
    Cicero often challenged Epicureanism on the grounds of inconsistency. Cicero personifies the charge through his character Torquatus, who defends Epicureanism in De finibus 1–2. Cicero highlights the discrepancies among Torquatus’ beliefs and between them and his behaviour. Torquatus holds that the senses incontestably verify the tenets of Epicureanism, and that logic is superfluous. Yet he is sensitive to the fact that Epicurus’ teachings are not intuitive and require a fair amount of logical argumentation in its defence. Therefore, he defends his (...)
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    Two Attitudes to Divination in Eunapius.Robert Parker - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):379-380.
    A passage in Eunapius (476–7, pp. 440–2 Loeb) draws an interesting contrast between the attitudes to divination of the two sophists Maximus and Chrysanthius: Maximus, who manipulates the omens until they say what he wants, and Chrysanthius, who scrupulously obeys their apparent meaning. But a passage a little later (500–1, pp. 542–4 Loeb) apparently ascribes to Chrysanthius the opposite attitude. This article suggests a transposition to restore coherence to the text. Even if the transposition is wrong, the contrast drawn in (...)
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    Horseplay in Plautus’ Asinaria.Joanna Pieczonka - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):100-104.
    This article argues that the game presented in the third scene of the third act of Plautus’ Asinaria involves a horseplay rather than an assplay (Asin. 697–710). This is suggested by the young master's name, Argyrippus, and by a list of equine terms occurring in the text: uehere, inscendere, descendere, subdomari, tolutim, quadrupedo, aduorsom cliuom, in procliui.
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    Two Notes on Aurelius Victor's Liber de Caesaribvs(10.5 Lavtvsqve and 13.3 Satisqve).Elia Rudoni - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):374-378.
    At Aur. Vict. Caes. 10.5, the reading lautus should be retained; -que is a dittography and should be deleted. At 13.3, satis should be emended into sagatis. This article also provides a brief analysis of Victor's references to clothing and attempts to explain why he comments on the Dacian costume at 13.3, the only ethnographic reference to clothing in the entire work.
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    The mathematical example of gnomons in Aristotle, Physics 3.4, 203a10–16.Lorenzo Salerno - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):67-84.
    This article examines a complex passage of Aristotle's Physics in which a Pythagorean doctrine is explained by means of a mathematical example involving gnomons. The traditional interpretation of this passage (proposed by Milhaud and Burnet) has recently been challenged by Ugaglia and Acerbi, who have proposed a new one. The aim of this article is to analyse difficulties in their account and to advance a new interpretation. All attempts at interpreting the passage so far have assumed that ‘gnomons’ should indicate (...)
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    Notes on Plutarch, Alexander.David Sansone - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):260-268.
    Notes on the text and interpretation of passages in Plutarch's Life of Alexander.
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    An Unnoticed Telestich in Virgil, Aeneid 8.246–9?Gabriel A. F. Silva - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):346-349.
    The aim of this short note is to highlight a possible, hitherto unnoticed, telestich in Verg. Aen. 8.246–9, which presents the Greek word sēma (‘portent’, ‘wonder’, ‘prodigy’, ‘tomb’). To justify this identification, I will argue for its significance from its context in the poem (the battle between Hercules and Cacus), pointing out the insistence on the imagery of light and revelation, and the use of the phrase mirabile dictu, which appears in the same episode of the Aeneid, in the Latin (...)
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    Virtue's Claim to Fame (Statius, Thebaid 10.610–80).Melissande Tomcik - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):366-369.
    This note argues that the appearance of Virtus at the outset of Menoeceus’ sacrifice in Statius’ Thebaid (10.610–80) is modelled on Virgil's Fama (Aen. 4.173–97).
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    Eris: A Wordplay in Catullus 40.Simon Trafford - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):326-331.
    In poem 40, through a series of rhetorical questions, Catullus confronts Ravidus about what made him commit such a foolish action as to fall in love with Catullus’ own lover. The poem ends with the lines: eris, quandoquidem meos amores | cum longa uoluisti amare poena, ‘You will be, since you have chosen to love my lover at the risk of receiving a long punishment’. There is a long-standing tradition of scholarship which testifies to the frequency with which Catullus incorporates (...)
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    The Death and Public Rehabilitation of Apollinaris the Elder: Intertextuality with Lucan in Sidonius Apollinaris, Epist. 3.12.Joop van Waarden - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):309-314.
    Sidonius Apollinaris’ Epist. 3.12 tells how one day, while leaving Lyons, he caught a couple of gravediggers about to violate his grandfather Apollinaris’ grave, which had become unrecognizable over time. He instructs the addressee, his nephew Secundus, to restore the tomb mound and provide it with a stone for which he attaches the text. Whereas this letter is usually interpreted as a piece of self-promotion by the author for his filial piety and expert storytelling, this article suggests that there is (...)
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    Citro or Cedro Reficit? On an Emendation to a Fragment of varro's De Bibliothecis(Fr. 54 Grf Funaioli).Umberto Verdura - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):340-343.
    This paper discusses an earlier emendation to fr. 54 GRF Funaioli from Varro's De bibliothecis and argues that, while the text et citro refers to cedar oil, it should not be emended to et cedro. A comparison with a passage from Pliny the Elder (HN 13.86) is used to support the view presented in the article.
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    River, Giant and Hubris: A Note on Virgil, Aeneid 8.330–2.Krešimir Vuković - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):150-158.
    Virgil has Evander trace the origins of the name of the river Tiber back to the death of a giant, called ‘Thybris’ (Aen. 8.330–2). This article argues that the reference to the violent (asper) giant can be understood as etymological wordplay on the Greek word hubris and as a potential allusion to the grammatical debate on the nature of aspiration. Varro's De gente populi Romani is identified as an important source for the characterization of the Tiber as a giant in (...)
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    A Feminine Typological Trinity in proba's Cento Vergilianvs 380–414.Cristalle N. Watson - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):281-289.
    The mid-fourth-century c.e.Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi retells the biblical story using cento technique (recombining excerpted lines and partial lines from Virgil into a new poem). Its author, the Christian poet Faltonia Betitia Proba, states that her aim in writing the Cento is to demonstrate that Virgil ‘sang the pious deeds of Christ’ (Vergilium cecinisse … pia munera Christi). Her compositional strategy reflects the exegetical method of typology, as explored in detail by Cullhed: by reusing particular Virgilian verses for biblical (...)
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    More and Less Evidence for the Text of Julius Exuperantius.Jarrett T. Welsh - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):381-385.
    This paper examines a neglected fifteenth-century manuscript of the opusculum of Julius Exuperantius. It argues that that manuscript (Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, 748) is a sibling of Vatican City, BAV, Vat. lat. 3334, and situates the new manuscript in the stemma established by the last editor. It then proposes a modification to that editor's stemma, arguing that those two fifteenth-century manuscripts in fact descend from Milan, BA, H 37 sup., once owned by Francesco Pizolpasso. Finally, it considers the implications of those (...)
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