Euphrosyne

This study analyzes the use of the formula οὐδέ τί σε χρή in epic poetry, especially with regard to its use for indirect speech acts and expressions of verbal politeness. This is a formula exclusively attested in Homer and the Homeric Hymns. Furthermore, the specific contexts in which this formula is used are analyzed, with particular attention to a possible dependency of use between both corpora. The study concludes that, while this formula is a common feature in both works, an evolution is evident in its use in the Hymns when compared to the Homeric poems, particularly in terms of the syntactic-pragmatic contexts in which it appears.

Among Sophocles’ Philoctetes and Euripides’ Cyclops there are some likenesses that connect both plays. These interconnections can be justified by the similarities in the descriptions that are depicted and by the words that link both spaces, which differs from the space depicted by Homer in his description of Cyclops’ cave. In this analysis, the author stresses those elements that connect both characters, Philoctetes and Polyphemus, with the place where they live and the contrast with the civilized world that they confront when Ulysses arrives.

This paper aims to study the overlapping of irreligious vocabulary, rhetoric, and a rumour widely used against Demosthenes – his alleged cooperation in the murder of Nicodemus. Our analysis focuses on how rumours were suitable for humiliating the opponent and how their combination with irreligious notions turned them into a powerful device for invective. Bearing this in mind, we consider four different variants of this argument, provided by Demosthenes, Aeschines, and Dinarchus.

Maurenbrecher, adhering to the testimony of Nonius, attributes fr. IV 2 M. (= IV 2 Ramsey) of Sallust’s Historiae to the fourth book and considers the context to be that of the desertion of Fannius and Metrophanes, which occurred, in his opinion, in 72 bc. But the situation imagined by Maurenbrecher is not only not in line with tradition but also contradicts it. Everything suggests that Metrophanes and his companion (probably Magius) were mentioned in connection with the Pontic legation of 75 bc and that the indication lib. IV of Nonius should be corrected to lib. II.

The episode of Gallus in the XIV book of Ammianus Marcellinus’ Res gestae gives a view of a twisted reality, which is characterized by the alternation of contradictory situations, that the historian represents through a wise use of words and images. The reality that revolves around the figure of Gallus is dominated by the taste of Ammianus for contrast and antithesis; these elements are used by the historian in order to describe a world where truth and falsehood, right and unfair, swap their roles. After he suddenly reached the top of his political power, Gallus acts with cruelty and complete carelessness of justice, stimulated by his wife Constantina, who, however, with her death, also causes the definitive downfall of Caesar. Nevertheless, the end of Gallus, caused by the decisive intervention of Constantius, determines the recovery of that humanitas, which he had lost due to his aspiration to a greater political power.

This article aims to identify some of the most relevant Planudean stylistic and translatological trends that can be deduced from the autograph metaphrase of Ovid’s Heroides (Vat. Reg. gr. 133 = R). The operation can be easily carried out precisely because we dispose of a manuscript penned by the author himself. Therefore, it will be fruitful to derive from the text the most salient traits of the Planudean usus vertendi within the Heroides, also proving a non-negligible translatological autonomy of the polymath.

In this paper, we offer to the interested reader the first Spanish translation, with copious explanatory footnotes attached, of the Compilatio Ticinensis excerpts L and M. For our notated translation, we have used Bernhard’s (2006: 48-50) critical text edition.

The present article focuses on Giorgio Vasari’s uses of ekphrasis in his Vite (1550/1568), informed by his rhetorical education and progymnasmatic understanding of ekphrasis as it was passed down at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Although some authors have pointed out that the father of early art history followed ekphrastic patterns to describe works of art, no studies examine the progymnasmatic influence on Giorgio Vasari’s rhetorical education and art historical writing. Based on the manuals and model ekphraseis that were commonplace at that time, this article surveys the ancient concept of ekphrasis that Latin teachers presumably conveyed to their students. I argue that this notion was most likely influenced not only by Aphthonius’ Progymnasmata but also by byzantine sources, indirect knowledge of Nicholas of Myra’s progymnasmatic explanations on ekphrasis of pictures and sculptures and by collections of model ekphraseis attributed to Libanius. An analysis of Vasarian descriptions provides evidence of progymnasmatic qualities in early modern art history and opens new perspectives for a critical comparison with former art historical texts.

The Aeneid has a long tradition in Spanish literature, especially in the Latin tradition of epic poetry. This poetic species underwent an unprecedented development in Renaissance Spain, which is a reflection of the glorious historical moment experienced by the poets of the Golden Age. The Lyra Heroyca (Salamanca, Matias Gast, 1581) by Francisco Núñez de Oria is a clear example of this. This sixteenth-century doctor from Toledo, author of several medical treatises in vernacular Spanish, also dared to compose a long epic Latin poem in fourteen cantos, on the basis of the material provided by Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, in praise of the kings Charles V and Philip II. The aim of the present article is therefore to justify with arguments that the Aeneid is the main classical source for the seven books that precede the military conflict in Núñez de Oria’s Lyra Heroyca.

This paper proposes and explores a relationship at a methodological level between the account of the “High Middle Ages” in the Historia general de España by Juan de Mariana (1601) and the thirteenth-century Iberian Historiography. Furthermore, it identifies the different operations developed by the author to compose his Medieval History by studying the genealogy of his “pérdida de España” narration.

Blas Álvarez de Miraval (c. 1560-c. ?) is an outstanding humanist doctor, author of the work On the Conservation of the Health of the Body and the Soul, in which he tries to close the full circle of the classic concept of health, taken to the maximum expression through the care of the body, but also of the soul. This galenic approach is approached in both its two aspects, conservation and restoration, with Motor Sciences as one of its main exponents. The purpose of this study is to search for the relationship between medical Humanism and motor skills sciences today, highlighting these important humanistic sources for Medicine but also of great value for Sports Sciences.

This note deals with overlooked wordplay between ἀθλητής and πτῶμα in Aelian’s Varia Historia 9.31. Although the respective words have general meanings of “athlete” and “fall”, they may also have the particular meanings of “wrestler” and “defeat or loss suffered by a wrestler”, these particular meanings perhaps being the overlooked theme of the passage.

Felix Budelmann, Ineke Sluiter and Bob Corthals (ed.). Minds on stage. Greek tragedy and cognition. Oxford: University Press, 2023. 271 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-288893-8, reviewed by Ana Rita Figueira

Mario Telò. Greek tragedy in a global crisis. Reading through pandemic times. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 286 pp. ISBN PB 978-1-3503-4812-7, reviewed by Ana Rita Figueira

Sandra Rodríguez Piedrabuena. Caracterización y Cortesía en Eurípides. Zaragoza: Libros Pórtico, 2022. 297 pp. ISBN 978-84-7956-213-7, reviewed by Nuno Simões Rodrigues

M. Carmen Encinas Reguero, Javier Bilbao Ruiz (ed.) (2021).ΘΕΑΤΡΟΝ ΚΑΙ ΖΩΗ. Estudios de teatro griego en honor de la Profesora Milagros Quijada Sagredo. Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas. 395 pp. ISBN: 987-84-7882-867-8, reviewed by Pietro Berardi

William Guast. Greek Declamation and the Roman Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xiv + 216 pp. ISBN: 978-1-009-29712-7 (hardback). DOI: 10.1017/9781009297158, reviewed by Vanessa Fernandes

Graziana Brescia. Giunone e la paelex. Dinamiche di un conflitto tra terra e cielo. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2022. 180 pp. ISBN: 9788846763952, reviewed by Giampiero Scafoglio

Giampiero Scafoglio, Fabrice Wendling (ed.). Romaniser la foi chrétienne? – La poésie latine tardive entre tradition classique et inspiration chrétienne. Nice: Brepols, 2023. 255 pp. ISBN 978-2-503-60087-1, reviewed by Paulo Ramos

Céline Urlacher-Becht (ed.). Dictionnaire de l’épigramme littéraire dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. 2 vols XVIII + 1528 pp. ISBN: 978-2-503-59310-4, reviewed by Maria Cristina Pimentel

Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Francesco Santi (ed.). Medioevo Latino e Cultura Europea. In Ricordo di Claudio Leonardi (mediEVI, 32). Firenze: SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2021. xlii + 436 pp. 978-88-9290-082-0, reviewed by Maria Leonor Xavier

Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Francesco Santi (ed.). La situazione degli studi sul Medioevo Latino. In Memoria di Peter Stotz, a vent’anni da un incontro a Zurigo (mediEVI, 34). Firenze: SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2022. xii + 133 pp. ISBN: 978-88-9290-156-8, reviewed by Maria Leonor Xavier

Joaquim Pinheiro, Samuel Mateus, Mario Franco (ed.). Pestes e Epidemias: Estudos Interdisciplinares em Humanidades. Ribeirão – V. N. Famalicão: Húmus, 2022. 249 pp. ISBN: 978-989-755-754-5, reviewed by Gustavo B. Barroso

Paloma Martín-Esperanza. Hispania Restituta. La Antigüedad clásica en el programa político y cultural de los Reyes Católicos: relaciones entre España e Italia. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2023. 658 pp. ISBN: 9788400112363, reviewed by Ana María Tarrío

Isabella Ianuzzi. Convencer para convertir: la Católica Impugnación de Fray Hernando de Talavera (Monumenta Christiana Baetica. Monografías y Suplementos 1). Granada: Ed. Nuevo Inicio, 2019. 265 pp. ISBN: 978-84-120514-8-3, reviewed by Ana María Tarrío

Michela Graziani, Salomé Vuelta García (ed.). Stampa e autorialità tra Italia e Peninsola iberica (Biblioteca dell’“Archivum Romanicum”. Serie I: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia). Calenzano: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2022. viii + 84 pp. ISBN: 9788822268532, reviewed by Ana Margarida Azevedo

Moira Fradinger. Antígonas, writing from Latin America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 480 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-289709-1, reviewed by Magdalena Bournot

George Kovacs and C. W. Marshall (ed.). Son of Classics and Comics. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016. 250 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-026889-3, reviewed by Nuno Simões Rodrigues