Hermes

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    Xenophon’s Cyropaedia.John Dillery - 2024 - Hermes 152 (4):387-408.
    The Cyropaedia is a notoriously difficult text to identify in terms of generic affiliation. This paper examines the distribution of reported speech to narrative and finds that the only comparable texts that demonstrate the same preference for dialogue are philosophical ones, esp. Plato. The introduction to the Cyr. is also examined, and certain key terms explored, in particular διήγησις/διηγέομαι, for clues as to the type of narrative that is being launched. Finally, other texts and narrative traditions that seem to be (...)
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    Problems in the Appendix Tibulliana.Maxwell Hardy - 2024 - Hermes 152 (4):485-502.
    Conjectures are offered on the text of eight passages in the third book of the Corpus Tibullianum : 2.2 uere for iuuenem, 4.13 nobis for noctis, 4.87 colla for terga, 6.21 at saeuit grauibus for non uenit iratus, 6.38 dicta for uerba, 7.24 possunt for poterunt, 7.142 feruet harenosis for ardet arectais, and 7.156 cadens riget for riget densam.
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    Zur textgeschichtlichen Relevanz der lateinischen Überlieferung der Aristotelischen Metaphysik.Peter Isépy - 2024 - Hermes 152 (4):409-427.
    The present article locates for the first time the four medieval Greek-Latin translations of the Aristotelian Metaphysics in the Greek manuscript tradition, based on representative collations. Two of the translations, the Translatio Guillelmi of Wilhelm of Moerbeke, cited up to now in the text editions (Ross, Jaeger), and the Translatio Composita, can be neglected in a new edition of the Metaphysics. On the other hand, the Translatio Iacobi and the Translatio anonyma must be consulted for the constitution of the text: (...)
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    Reading Plato’s Laws to Understand Varro’s Antiquarianism.Irene Leonardis - 2024 - Hermes 152 (4):470-484.
    One of the strategies to overcome the capital loss of Varro’s antiquarian works is to try to recollect themes, content, and even specific expressions from his own preserved works (the Rerum Rusticarum libri and, in parts, the De lingua Latina ). This material, as was common in his writing practice, was reused and readapted from other contexts. Pursuing this strategy, the paper reconsiders two passages of the dialogue on Res Rusticae by reading them in light of Plato’s Nomoi. The study (...)
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    Zur Etymologie des griechischen Substantivs βύνητος.Elena Mahlich - 2024 - Hermes 152 (4):503-505.
    A garment called βύνητος has survived from the Greek, for which the current research opinion is based on an Egyptian etymology. The aim of this paper is to offer a suggestion for identifying this Egyptian loan word.
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    Due note ad Esichio K 2238–2239.Antonio Papapicco - 2024 - Hermes 152 (4):506-513.
    In Hsch. K 2238-2239 the paradosis of both the transmitted lemmata (καραισταί and καραιστής) is surely corrupt and has been corrected by Musurus respectively in κεραϊσταί (2238) and κεραϊστής (2239). However, Musurus’ corrections do not offer a good text since the lemmata do not agree with the following glosses. The aim of this article is to reconsider the correction κεράστης already suggested by Schmidt for K 2239, neglected by both the recent editions of Hesychius. On this basis, I similarly propose (...)
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    Bezwinger der Zeit – oder warum Scipio Aemilianus in Karthago und Numantia siegte.Theresia Raum - 2024 - Hermes 152 (4):434-459.
    With his victories over Carthage (146 BC) and Numantia (133 BC), Scipio Aemilianus contributed significantly to the establishment of Rome’s unchallenged rule in the Mediterranean. The article analyses and compares Scipio’s military action in the conquest of the two cities under the aspect of temporality and places the results in a temporal-structural framework. Due to the requirements of the cursus honorum, Roman commanders in the Middle Republic had a narrow window of opportunity to generate military glory. The violent actions of (...)
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    Zum Text und zur Echtheit von Lucius Cincius Alimentus FRHist F11 dub. (= Fulgent. serm. ant. 8, p. 114, 6–11 Helm).Jonas Schollmeyer - 2024 - Hermes 152 (4):460-469.
    In this paper, I discuss the text and the authenticity of Lucius Cincius Alimentus FRHist F11 dub. The generally accepted reading exultauit should be replaced by the reading insultauit, not mentioned in any of the collections of fragments of the Roman historians. Most of the evidence points to attributing the fragment to the antiquarian Lucius Cincius. However, the possibility that it belongs to the historian Lucius Cincius Alimentus, who originally wrote in Greek, cannot be completely ruled out, even though the (...)
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    Zτὰ γνώριμα ὀλίγοις γνώριμά ἐστιν.Eleni Skarsouli - 2024 - Hermes 152 (4):428-433.
    The phrase τὰ γνώριμα ὀλίγοις γνώριμά ἐστιν that occurs in the ninth chapter of the Aristotelian Poetics was usually interpreted as a statement of Aristotle that the public at his time did not know the myths. It was therefore regarded as problematic in view of other Aristotelian passages but also in view of information provided by other authors concerning the knowledge of the public. The problem, however, can be solved if one understands the dative ὀλίγοις not as personal dative, but (...)
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    How Does a Late Antique Oracle Speak?Giovanbattista Galdi - 2024 - Hermes 152 (3):348-372.
    During the imperial and late antique period, various systems of lot divination spread in various regions of the Roman Empire. Notably, this custom appears to be particularly widespread in (Southern) Gaul, as revealed, among other things, by three lot books that are very likely to originate from this area, namely the Sortes Sangallenses, the Sortes Sanctorum and the Sortes Monacenses. The present paper focusses on the Sortes Sanctorum, a short divinatory text that includes 56 lots, all entirely preserved, dating from (...)
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    Some Reflexions on Varro’s Hebdomades.Joseph Geiger - 2024 - Hermes 152 (3):307-319.
    This article discusses three rather neglected issues concerning Varro’s Hebdomades : 1. The basis of Varro’s fascination with the number seven, leading him to his eventual concept of such an exceptional work; 2. An attempt to find out as much as possible about the nature of the work, described by Pliny as the first illustrated book in Rome, and 3. A discussion of its reception and impact in Rome.
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    Andromache oder Briseis in einem Fragment des Aischylos (TrGF 3 F 267,1)?Peter Grossardt - 2024 - Hermes 152 (3):258-283.
    The following paper takes up an old question about the correct identification of the person that is mentioned or addressed in the first line of a short fragment from Aeschylus’ Phrygians. It is argued that the person is indeed Andromache, as the ancient authorities attest, and not Briseis, as some modern authors have claimed. However, the fragment continues a tendency to bring Andromache and Briseis in close connection with each other, that started already with Homer and his epic forerunners. Aeschylus, (...)
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    Philitas von Kos und die Entstehung der griechischen Bukolik.Carlo M. Lucarini - 2024 - Hermes 152 (3):375-381.
    The aim of this paper is to show that Philitas of Cos did not write bucolic poetry. The Scholia in Theocritus draw on ancient commentaries, which quoted Philitas, but no feature of the bucolic poetry is assigned to Philitas. Propertius opposes Philitas’ love poetry to the bucolic, and there is no clue that Longus Sophista or Vergil knew of Philitas’ bucolic poetry. Moreover, it seems that ancient poets and erudites were persuaded of the Sicilian (i. e. Theocritean) origin of the (...)
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    Strabo and Demetrius of Scepsis on Filling Gaps in the Homeric Account.René Nünlist - 2024 - Hermes 152 (3):337-347.
    A controversy among ancient geographers about the localisation of the Argonauts’ quest for the golden fleece has deeper methodological implications because it reflects divergent views on how to fill gaps in the account that serves as one’s source. Reconstructing the controversy step by step, the article aims to bring to light these methodological implications. In so doing, it also demonstrates that the extant editions unjustifiably curtail the text of the relevant fragment from Demetrius of Scepsis. And it argues for a (...)
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    Die Statthalter der praetorischen Provinzen (55–51 v. Chr.).Nikolaus Pachowiak - 2024 - Hermes 152 (3):320-336.
    In the fasti of almost all praetorian provinces there seems to be a lacuna in the years 54 to 51 BC. In fact, there is not a single praetor from the colleges 55, 54 and 53 BC for whom a province ex praetura is known. It is argued here that anarchy and obstruction made the allocation of provinces impossible from 55 BC onwards. This was probably the main reason for the senateʼs decision in 53 BC to send privati to the (...)
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    Nota a Ps. Cens. frg. 6,3.Andrea Pizzotti - 2024 - Hermes 152 (3):382-384.
    This paper argues in favour of the conservation of the Latin script, transmitted by the manuscripts, of the word cathetos at Ps. Cens. frg. 6,3.
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    Phigalia, Oresthasion, and Pausanias the Periegete.James Roy - 2024 - Hermes 152 (3):284-306.
    Pausanias says that in 659 BCE the Spartans captured Phigalia and drove out the Phigalians. Guided by a Delphic oracle the Phigalians recovered their city with the help of 100 Oresthasians, all killed in the fighting and buried in a polyandrion in Phigalia. It is impossible to check how much – if any – of that story is historically correct, but it is possible to see how the development of the story over time matches other elements of the Phigalians’ developing (...)
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    On the Meteorite of Aigospotamoi.Otta Wenskus - 2024 - Hermes 152 (3):373-374.
    The meteorite of the year 467/466 BC whose fall was observed near Aigospotamoi cannot be identical with the object described by Pliny in NH 2, 149.
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    Oratory and Theatre in the Late Roman Republic.George Bogdan Cristea - 2024 - Hermes 152 (2):165-190.
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    L’ultimo frammento delle Laudes cassiodoree (Cassiod. Or. fr. p. 483–484 Traube).Marco Cristini - 2024 - Hermes 152 (2):191-204.
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    Die stundenweise Berechnung der Lebenszeit im römischen Altertum.Herbert Grassl - 2024 - Hermes 152 (2):227-234.
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    Der Mond ist untergegangen ….Jens Holzhausen - 2024 - Hermes 152 (2):235-242.
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    The Body as a Thinking Agent in the Hippocratic Treatise De Morbo Sacro.Jacqueline König - 2024 - Hermes 152 (2):144-164.
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    Two Textual Notes on Pindar’s Isthmian Odes.Nicholas Lane - 2024 - Hermes 152 (2):251-256.
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    Tages-Ordnung.Elke Stein-Hölkeskamp - 2024 - Hermes 152 (2):205-226.
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    The Aegeidae from Phlegra: A Ghost Reference in schol. Pind. Isthm. 7,18a Drachmann.Gertjan Verhasselt - 2024 - Hermes 152 (2):243-250.
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    The Disturbing Locus Amoenus in Plato’s Phaedrus.Marko Vitas - 2024 - Hermes 152 (2):131-143.
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    Un caso di “paraipotassi” in Lucrezio?Emanuele Berti - 2024 - Hermes 152 (1):68-80.
    The so-called parahypotaxis is a syntactical phenomenon, common in late Latin but attested sporadically already in classical Latin, consisting in the pleonastic use of a copulative conjunction (et or atque) at the beginning of the principal clause after a subordinate, especially temporal clause. In this paper I propose to recognize a case of parahypotaxis in a difficult passage of Lucretius’ De rerum natura (6, 577-584), differently explained by former interpreters. As an appendix, I discuss a passage of Vergil’s Aeneid (9, (...)
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    Aristotle on the Modes of Mimesis.Luis Galván - 2024 - Hermes 152 (1):40-56.
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    A Consul for a Heavenly Rome: Reclaiming Aristocratic Virtue in Prudentius, Peristephanon 2.Mattias Gassman - 2024 - Hermes 152 (1):100-113.
    At Peristephanon 2.549-560, Prudentius depicts St. Laurence as consul in a heavenly Rome. This extraordinary passage achieves two purposes. First, it links the celebration of Rome’s conversion to the concluding prayer. By looking toward the martyr in heavenly glory, Prudentius can make his prayer heard despite his separation from the martyr’s body. Laurence’s exaltation also qualifies aristocratic ambitions. Prudentius glories in the Senate’s conversion, but senatorial lifestyles were at odds with his ideals (as Laurence’s denunciation of the rich underscores). By (...)
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    Fimbriani.Fabio Guidetti & Christoph Lundgreen - 2024 - Hermes 152 (1):81-99.
    Plutarch’s account of Lucullus unsuccessfully begging his soldiers to follow him further, shortly before being forced to leave his command, is commonly read as the apex of his failure as a military leader. A close reading, however, reveals two hitherto overlooked aspects. Firstly, the story offers valuable information on late Republican military history, regarding the duration of military service before Augustus’ reform and the existence of clearly defined subgroups within the army. Secondly, the conflict between Lucullus and his soldiers allows (...)
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    Laios und seine Enkelkinder.Jens Holzhausen - 2024 - Hermes 152 (1):118-121.
    In Sophocles’ OT 261 the phrase κοινῶν παίδων κοινά is to be translated as “common (descendants) of joint children”. If Laios had not been killed, he and Iokaste would have had children and grandchildren together. By ways of tragic irony Oedipus describes thus reality: Laios does have grandchildren, as Oedipus’ children are truly Laius’ grandchildren, since Oedipus is his son.
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    The Council of Samos in 479 and Thucydides’ Silence.Robert D. Luginbill - 2024 - Hermes 152 (1):3-15.
    Herodotus gives a lengthy description of the important council of the Greek allies which took place at Samos after Mycale in 479, but Thucydides fails to mention it. This is likely not because of succinctness in his treatment of the period. Throughout the Pentecontaetia, Thucydides presents the events which led to the Peloponnesian War in a somewhat indirect and passive way in order to attribute its causality to historical forces of deeper import. His desire to accentuate the role of Athenian (...)
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    Nymphs, Muses (and Cicadas) at the Ilissus.Tomasz Mojsik - 2024 - Hermes 152 (1):16-39.
    The article proves that the term mouseion used by Plato in Phaedrus 278b cannot mean “sanctuary/shrine of the Muses” here, but it probably refers to the cicadas chirping under the plane tree of which Socrates speaks earlier in the dialogue (259b-c). Such an interpretation is consistent with our knowledge of the early stage of development of the concept of mouseion, and also with its use elsewhere in Plato’s dialogue (267b). It should therefore be concluded that the cult of the Muses (...)
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    Die Säule der Venus.Matthias Steinhart - 2024 - Hermes 152 (1):122-127.
    In 2.14 Propertius promises rich donations to Venus, to be attached to a „columna“ (v. 25). This column is often thought to be part of a temple, but such an interpretation raises problems. One reading is that columna means a single votive column, well-known in Roman (and Greek) religious praxis and in visual arts. With such a reading „columna“ gains in sacral importance. Then again, single columns have been used as Roman victory monuments: With that in mind the „columna“ can (...)
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    Plutarch und der Erdschatten. Zu De genio Socratis 22, 590 F und 591 A.Otta Wenskus - 2024 - Hermes 152 (1):114-117.
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    Homeric ἴσκε(ν) (Od. 19.203; 22.31) and its Reception in Apollonius and Theocritus.Ruobing Xian - 2024 - Hermes 152 (1):57-67.
    This article focuses on the interpretation of Homeric ἴσκε(ν) (Od. 19.203; 22.31) as well as its reception in Apollonius Rhodius (A. R. 1.834 et alibi) and Theocritus (Id. 22.167). I argue that the passage Od. 22.31-33, in which ἴσκεν (Od. 22.31) occurs, was owed to a bard’s imitation of Od. 19.203, who not only took ἴσκε (Od. 19.203) as a verbum dicendi but used ἴσκεν ἕκαστος ἀνήρ at Od. 22.31 as a semantic equivalent of the Homeric formula ὣς ἄρα τις (...)
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