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Hermes
ISSNs: 0018-0777, 2365-3116
40 found
- Eine Konjektur zu Aischines Gegen Ktesiphon, 25.Nicolai Futás & Tobias Hirsch - 2023 - Hermes 151 (4):494-499.In his oration Against Ctesiphon, Aeschines mentions the power his rival Demosthenes had during his term as treasurer of the theoric fund (ἐπὶ τὸ θεωρικόν). Many modern assumptions about the function of the Athenian financial administration and politics between the end of the Social War (357-355 BC) and the early 330’s BC are based on Aischin. Ctes. 25. This article argues for taking into account an emendation brought forward by the early 19 th century British scholar Peter Paul Dobree. His (...)
- Advertising Innovation in Pindar’s Olympian 13.Hans Hansen - 2023 - Hermes 151 (4):386-404.As a technology of commemoration, epinician song was a late archaic innovation. To gain acceptance for this innovative genre, Pindar works to anchor it to Greek epic and encomiastic poetry, that is, to demonstrate its continuity with these genres. But Pindar also regularly vaunts his poetry on the grounds that it is novel and inventive, potentially undermining his efforts at anchoring. This paper studies Olympian 13 as an example of a text in which Pindar’s habits of anchoring his poetry and (...)
- A Textual Note on Pindar, Nemean 9.17.Nicholas Lane - 2023 - Hermes 151 (4):490-493.This note discusses the lacuna at Nemean 9.17, considers the supplements suggested to date and proposes a new one.
- Spatia vitae. Social Time Issues in Sidonius.Tabea L. Meurer - 2023 - Hermes 151 (4):467-489.Studies on temporality in Sidonius’ letters have so far been dominated by narratological approaches. This article proposes an additional perspective by focusing on social and ethical dimensions of time issues. Drawing from scholarship on both imperial epistolography and ancient timekeeping, I develop a framework for studying temporal-behavior patterns as negotiations of elite habitus. Many letters that provide insights in temporal habits (chronotypes) define also in- and out-groups based on temporal conventions (chronotopes). Time management displays a life order Sidonius can approve (...)
- Text, Image, and Music.Marie Okáčová - 2023 - Hermes 151 (4):449-466.The overall aim of this paper is to enquire about the performative qualities of Optatian’s visual poems and contextualize these experimental texts within the late-antique culture of transformation and change. Adopting a performative approach, the author sheds new light on the metatexts embedded in the majority of Optatian’s carmina as well as the metadiscursive significance of several individual pieces of his collection (Carm. 3 and 25, in particular). The performative features traceable in the corpus include: a) notions of multi-mediality and (...)
- Plutarch on Civil Wars.Ayelet Peer - 2023 - Hermes 151 (4):424-448.Plutarch’s exuberant writings reaped praise in both antique and modern times. Various aspects of his work have been amply studied and analysed, yet some remain less discussed. This paper therefore aims to contribute to the ongoing research of his works by examining Plutarch’s references to stasis in general, and more particularly to the Roman civil wars. Plutarch lived through the civil wars of 69 CE, and although he did not suffer by experiencing them directly, these events no doubt contributed to (...)
- On the Origin of Statius, Thebaid 6.227–33.Pablo Puente - 2023 - Hermes 151 (4):500-506.This discussion deals with Statius, Thebaid 6.227-33, a passage considered an interpolation by most critics. The most recent edition of the poem describes the lines as genuine but transmitted in the wrong position without indicating their original location. I develop this perspective by considering and rejecting a possible transposition of the passage to a position between Thebaid 3.113 and 3.114. I then argue that the lines might instead be a marginal creation of an ancient interpolator inspired by the passage in (...)
- Wen liebten die alten Germaninnen? Zu Tacitus, Germania 19,2.Christoph Schubert - 2023 - Hermes 151 (4):507-510.
- Crantore lettore del prologo del Timeo: Il fr. 8 Mette tra decostruzione ed ermeneutica.Christian Vassallo - 2023 - Hermes 151 (4):405-423.This paper analyses in-depth Proclus’ testimonium to Crantor on Plato’s Atlantis (fr. 8 Mette). The expression ἱστορία ψιλή we read in the evidence should be interpreted in light of Proclus’ effort to classify the various readings of the Atlantis story (and of Platonic myths in general). From the elements at our disposal, we may tentatively infer that Crantor upheld a metaphorical (i. e. didactic) reading not only of the creation account of the Timaeus, but of the Atlantis myth as well. (...)
- Der erste Prolog des Fabeldichters Babrios.Jochen Althoff - 2023 - Hermes 151 (3):346-372.An analysis of this allusive prologue demonstrates the poet’s acquaintance with all of Greek literature. The tone of his choliambic verses is softer and more urbane than that of his iambic predecessors, his message is less obtrusive, ambiguous and can only be grasped by an active interpretative effort. The linguistic and stylistic forming of the fables, which are consciously referring back to the prosaic and more polemic Aesop, is the core of the poet’s interest. With regard to content the poet (...)
- Ein neues Pacuvius-Fragment in der comparatio Platonis et Plauti und sein Nachhall in dem Kommentar des Remigius von Auxerre zu Boethius’ consolatio Philosophiae.Marcus Deufert - 2023 - Hermes 151 (3):298-316.The paper re-edits and discusses a medieval text that contains a syncrisis of Plato and Plautus. I argue that, in addition to fragments from lost comedies of Plautus, the text also contains a previously unrecognized fragment of the playwright Pacuvius. The same fragment seems to have been known to Remigius of Auxerre (or his model) when he wrote his commentary on consolatio Philosophiae of Boethius.
- Marco Perperna Veientone.Andrea Frizzera - 2023 - Hermes 151 (3):317-333.Marcus Perperna Veiento, proscribed in 82 BC while he was praetor in Sicily, represents a very interesting case of mobility. The proscription, a much more severe measure than exile, forced Perperna to a complex series of travels through the Western Mediterranean. His movements were aimed at organizing a resistance and, if possible, concerted military action against the Sullan and post-Sullan regimes in Rome, also by joining Lepidus’ and Sertorius’ revolts. The aim of this paper is to reconstruct in detail Perperna’s (...)
- Speusipps Reise nach Makedonien.Tobias Hirsch - 2023 - Hermes 151 (3):373-378.A journey to Macedonia, which, according to Diogenes Laertius and Flavius Philostratus, Speusippus, the Academy’s head after the death of Plato, is said to have made in order to attend the wedding of Cassander, the later Macedonian king, has puzzled scholars long since. They either consider it a story of pure fiction denying its historical relevance or by conveniently altering Cassander’s year of birth try to reconcile both events. This article argues for changing ‘Cassander’ into ‘Asander’, as both names were (...)
- Parmenides’ Allusion to Heraclitus.Tom Mackenzie - 2023 - Hermes 151 (3):259-266.This note addresses the longstanding question of whether Parmenides B6.9 should be read as an allusion to Heraclitus B51. It offers a response to some recent objections that have been raised against such a reading, and in particular draws attention to the reception context of both texts, a topic that has been largely overlooked in the scholarship on this issue.
- Le chœur entre spectacle et spectateurs.Rocco Marseglia - 2023 - Hermes 151 (3):267-285.The vocabulary of seeing shows three types of “mediation” provided by the chorus between spectacle and spectators. As persona spectans, i. e. internal spectator, the chorus mirrors the figure of the spectator; as persona sentiens, it shows its own emotional response, which operates like instructions for use of tragic spectacle for spectators; as persona monstrans, the chorus focuses public attention on spectacle and involves it in the representation. These three choral modalities act as a catalyst of public emotional response and (...)
- Horace on ‘Imitation’ and Life.Robert Parker - 2023 - Hermes 151 (3):383-384.Horace Ars Poetica 317–8 plays pointedly on the transition in the sense of μίμησις from imitation of life to imitation of a literary model, suggesting that the poet should ‘look back’ at times from the latter to the former.
- Quonam … fine – Senatorische Selbstmordgedanken in den Punica des Silius Italicus (15,587–590).Christoph Schwameis - 2023 - Hermes 151 (3):379-382.Silius Italicus describes the mass panic in Rome during Hasdrubal’s invasion of Italy. In doing so, he also deals with the reaction of the senators. The nature of this description has not yet been fully understood in terms of content; Josef Delz even suggested changing the text. I argue for keeping the text and propose a new interpretation of the description: The author of the epic exaggerates the account of the historiographical source by having the Roman senators contemplate suicide and (...)
- Ludi Apollinares, rituelles Drama und Plautus’ Aulularia.Ferdinand Stürner - 2023 - Hermes 151 (3):286-297.Proceeding from issues of textual criticism, I show that the ludi Apollinares are a very probable setting for the first production of Plautus’ Aulularia, and that Euclio’s prayer to Apollo should be related to the sculptural features of the temple of Apollo Medicus in Rome. Furthermore, thematic parallels between the ritual program of the ludi Apollinares and Aulularia suggest that there is a closer connection between palliata performances and ritual drama than commonly assumed.
- Locating Corydon.Timothy Peter Wiseman - 2023 - Hermes 151 (3):334-345.Provoked by Tom Geue’s recent book Author Unknown (2019), this article argues that a close reading of Calpurnius Siculus’ fourth Eclogue provides significant information about how and where the poet expected his poem to be received by its audience. Read against Vitruvius’ description of painted porticos and Diomedes’ account of the ‘common kind’ of poetry, in which ‘the poet himself speaks and speaking characters are also introduced’, the text was evidently designed to be presented as a performance, probably in the (...)
- Die Ziegen von Skyros und die Ernährung der stillenden Mütter (über [Hp.] Mul. I 44).Giovanna Alvoni - 2023 - Hermes 151 (2):249-251.explanation of the mention of the goats of Scyros in [Hp.] Mul. I 44 in the context of dietary advices for nursing mothers.
- The Ending of Pseudo-Oppian’s Cynegetica.Sean E. McGrath - 2023 - Hermes 151 (2):210-222.While scholars have generally agreed that the Cynegetica, a didactic epic in four books from the third century CE falsely ascribed to Oppian of Cilicia, are missing their ending, the structural implications of this loss are rarely considered seriously. This article brings together all available evidence (or lack thereof) from the poem itself and the secondary tradition about the intended scope of the Cynegetica. It argues that the Cynegetica were probably never completed, with the final 29 lines being a blueprint (...)
- La struttura dell’argumentum orationis pro Milone di Asconio Pediano.Lucia Galli - 2023 - Hermes 151 (2):192-209.This article analyses the inner structure of the argumentum orationis pro Milone in order to evaluate how Asconius arranges his narration of events. The analysis focuses on how the various sections unwind, on the use of connectives and temporal indicators, as well as on the use of tenses, and argues that the argumentum proceeds according to the chronological succession of events in its general outlines, within which minor events are inserted by association of ideas regardless of the chronological order. A (...)
- On Isocrates’ Dual Use of the Term “Sophist”.Geneviève Lachance - 2023 - Hermes 151 (2):138-154.At first sight, Isocrates’ use of the term “sophist” (σοφιστής) may appear contradictory as it is associated with both a positive and a pejorative meaning. The article contends that Isocrates was not being unintentionally vague or imprecise as he deliberately used the term to refer to two disparaging groups of professional teachers or writers who, in his opinion, had nothing in common. Isocrates tended to privilege the positive meaning of the term over the negative one, considering the latter as a (...)
- A Textual Note on Pindar, Isthmian 7.28.Nicholas Lane - 2023 - Hermes 151 (2):246-248.
- Les ludi Graeci chez Cicéron.Elodie Paillard & Vanessa Monteventi - 2023 - Hermes 151 (2):177-191.This article re-analyses in detail the meaning of the expression ludi Graeci which appears in two of Cicero’s letters (Ad Fam. 7,1 and Ad Att. 15,5). A careful examination of the first instance reveals that ludi Graeci indeed referred to theatrical performances in Greek language and not merely to Latin plays that followed Greek models. A brief survey of contemporary epigraphical sources shows that no occurrence excludes this interpretation. The question of the apparent contradiction between Cicero’s philhellenism and his criticism (...)
- An Overlooked Greek Hexameter Fragment.Konstantine Panegyres - 2023 - Hermes 151 (2):252-253.It is argued that a Greek citation in Fulgentius’ Expositio Virgilianae Continentiae previously thought to be prose is in fact a corrupt hexameter verse.
- Some Observations on Libanius, Declamation 36.Robert J. Penella - 2023 - Hermes 151 (2):254-255.
- Delegation: The Power of Decision of the Consuls at Rome and Senatorial Procedures in the Second and First Centuries BCE.Cristina Rosillo-López - 2023 - Hermes 151 (2):155-176.The present study aims at elucidating two aspects of Roman governance: first of all, the overlooked, but relevant, power of decision of the consuls (and, in a minor degree, of the praetors); secondly, the relationship between magistrates and Senate. The sources, especially epigraphic senatus consulta, consistently describe a procedure through which the Senate voted to delegate fully or partially decision-making on specific matters of foreign affairs to a consul or praetor who was in Rome. This procedure is present in almost (...)
- Aimnastos of Plataia and his Family.Salvatore Tufano - 2023 - Hermes 151 (2):131-137.This article aims to demonstrate that Aimnastos of Plataia (Th. 3.22.5) is identical with a character who appears twice in Herodotus (9.64.2; 72.2). In addition to providing evidence in favor of this identification, this study also comments on Aimnastos’ son, Lakon, and on the presentation of this character in Thucydides. Thucydides seems to correct Herodotus on the actual status of this Plataian family.
- Eine fragmentarische Organon-Handschrift vom Sinai im Spiegel dreier partieller Abschriften aus München, Paris und dem Escorial.Hermann Weidemann - 2023 - Hermes 151 (2):223-245.The numerous manuscript fragments which were rediscovered in Saint Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, in 1975 include eleven parchment folios inscribed with parts of all but one of Aristotle’s logical writings. As C. Brockmann has shown, the Organon codex to which these folios belong is the exemplar from which in the Codex Parisinus gr. 1843 the Prior and the Posterior Analytics were copied. In the present article it is shown that, in the latter manuscript, the Sinai manuscript also served as exemplar for (...)
- Reassurance and Doubt in Homer’s Odyssey.K. Paul Bednarowski - 2023 - Hermes 151 (1):3-22.Our Odyssey is shaped by oral poetics but also by storytelling techniques developed to attract and hold audiences’ attention. From Odysseus’s first appearance, episodes consistently bring to mind his revenge plot against the suitors and test the qualities and skills he will need to carry it out. These episodes offer reassuring evidence that Odysseus will defeat the suitors balanced by doubt-inducing signs that he will fail. Taken together, these episodes elicit hope and fear, the constituent elements of suspense, regarding Odysseus’s (...)
- Aὐτὸς γνώσῃ. Gorgia e Filebo.Marco Gemin - 2023 - Hermes 151 (1):40-49.The abrupt beginning of the Philebus refers to the abrupt interruption of the dialogue with Callicles in the Gorgias. The reuse of the phrase αὐτὸς γνώσῃ (Phlb. 12a9 = Gorg. 505c9), unique in Plato, is an evident sign of the will to connect the two texts and contexts. Both of them deal with the problem of the interruption of the philosophical dialogue. The absolute lack of contextualization and the ‘open’ conclusion in the Philebus are consistent with this framework. The continuity (...)
- Pullus, Pullius, and Pulcher.C. F. Konrad - 2023 - Hermes 151 (1):120-126.It is argued that (1) the alleged violation of the auspices by both the Consuls of 249 B. C. did in fact occur and (2) resulted in separate prosecutions directed at each of them; (3) the name ‘Pullius’, reported for one of the plebeian Tribunes that prosecuted P. Claudius Pulcher, is probably authentic; (4) the cognomen of L. Iunius Pullus is not spun out the violation of the auspices attributed to him and his colleague; and (5) the cognomen ‘Pulcher’, first (...)
- Decte il mendico (sch. Od. 4.248 P.).Walter Lapini - 2023 - Hermes 151 (1):105-108.
- A Note on Aeschylus, Choeph. 68.Enrico Medda - 2023 - Hermes 151 (1):109-114.This paper proposes a slight emendation at Aesch. Choeph. 68, which allows to rescue the transmitted adjective διαλγής by referring it to the sufferer instead that to Ate, and to recover at the same time a connective particle which many editors missed in the passage.
- Die Briefe Frontos und senatorische Interaktion mit dem Princeps in der Hohen Kaiserzeit.Christoph Michels - 2023 - Hermes 151 (1):50-70.The epistolary corpus of M. Cornelius Fronto, the rhetoric teacher of the ‘princes’ M. Aurelius and L. Verus, offers valuable insights into the functioning of the monarchical order of the Principate, despite the seemingly trivial subject matter of many of his letters, due to the unique level of communication. Especially the communication with the domus Augusta provides important additions to the comparable letters of Pliny the Younger. While scholars have so far concentrated on Fronto’s relationship with his pupil Marcus, this (...)
- Una nota ad “Airone” (“Ciris”) 15: quattuor antiquis heredibus est data consors.Włodzimierz Olszaniec - 2023 - Hermes 151 (1):127-128.It is argued in this note that the word quattuor in line 15 of the “Ciris” should be emended to quatenus. A possible cause of error is also suggested.
- Phileas of Athens and Skymnos of Chios in Ailios Theon’s Progymnasmata.Marc Steinmann - 2023 - Hermes 151 (1):115-119.In the Armenian tradition of Ailios Theon’s Progymnasmata two otherwise unknown historians occur. By examining the context of the passage and comparing it with authors like Philostephanos, it is made plausible that the ‘unknown’ historians are Phileas of Athens and Skymnos of Chios, whose names are misspelled in the Armenian text.
- The End of Sophocles’ Philoctetes and the Significance of ΓΝΩΜΗ.Ruobing Xian - 2023 - Hermes 151 (1):23-39.In this article, I argue for Sophocles’ dramatic use of γνώμη-language at the end of his Philoctetes. Through a thorough analysis of the phrase γνώμη … φίλων at l. 1467, I demonstrate how Sophocles drew on the contemporary resonances of γνώμη in Athenian legal contexts to make the play’s final scene rich and complex. In addition, the tension between the mortal and divine worlds, which is a recurrent theme in the play, is mirrored in the expression γνώμη … φίλων, which (...)
- The Agricultural Preface between Rome and China.James L. Zainaldin - 2023 - Hermes 151 (1):71-104.This paper compares the preface of Columella’s Res rustica with that of the earliest fully extant Chinese agricultural treatise, the Qimin yaoshu (‘Essential Techniques for the Common People’) of Jia Sixie. I argue that both prefaces have a similar function: to present to the reader the social world in which the author wishes his agricultural work to be understood. By drawing on authoritative literary and historical traditions, each author projects an idealized vision of farming in which the discipline acquires a (...)
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