Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica

three textual notes on Apolloph. fr. 5, 4 K. - A., Athenio fr. 1, 34 K. - A. and Aristoph. Ach. 184, Aves 949.

This study investigates the role that Aristotle ascribes to solidarity amongst homoioi as a crucial factor when a polis tries to impose new constitutional arrangements to other cities: this is a subject widely discussed already in the Fifth Century. Aristotle, in particular, suggests to regulate the relationships among states according to the same principles that regulate the relationships within the polis, i. e. the dikaia and the philia.

This paper focuses on two texts about Anaximenes of Lampsacus which have not been published in any of the existing collections of Anaximenes’ fragments and should therefore be classified as new testimonia. In the first part, the author examines Ps.-Max. Loc. comm. 12, 69, as well as further testimonia on Anaximenes’s relationship with Diogenes the Cynic, thus questioning the tradition that Anaximenes was a disciple of Diogenes. In the second part, the author examines Niceph. Basil. Enc. Io. 6, 170-179, as well as further testimonia on Anaximenes as an historian of Alexander. The analysis suggests that Anaximenes stressed two points: 1) he was an eyewitness of Alexander’s conquest of Asia; 2) he wanted to write a work whose literary status was far greater than that of previous works, thus matching the unchallenged greatness of his object, i.e. the deeds of Alexander, the ‘new Achilles’. The analysis also reveals the strong influence of Anaximenes in Arrian’s ‘second preface’ in the Anabasis of Alexander (1, 12).

This article reconsiders the problematic and much discussed lines 11-12 of Callimachus fr. 1 Pfeiffer = 1 Massimilla = 1 Harder (the so called Aetia prologue), where there is an allusion to Mimnermus’ elegiac poetry, with the intention of offering a new textual reconstruction and a new interpretation of the general meaning of the passage. Since G. Bastianini demostrated that it is impossible to read the verbal sequence αἱ κατὰ λεπτόν in the lemma of the scholium Londiniense related to those verses by adding the supplement ῥήσιες (αLἱ κατὰ λεπτόν / ῥήσιες), several new solutions have been proposed. One in particular, advanced by L. Lehnus, seems to be paleographically more credible than the rest: he reads αἱ μεγάλαι in the lemma of the scholion and proposes to incorporate it into Callimachus’ text. Starting from this paleographical basis, but also reconsidering the addition of μεγα above the line in the scholion, this paper suggests to integrate αLἱ μέγα λ[εῖαι... at the end of v. 11 with the word ᾠδαί at the beginning of v. 12 (αLἱ μέγα λ[εῖαι / ᾠδαί μ’...]) alluding to sung performances of the sympotic Mimnermus’ elegies. Indeed, the whole context of lines 11-12 constitutes a complex allusion not only to Mimnermus and his poetry, but also to his heirs at Colophon, Antimachus and Hermesianax, and to their different ways of reappropriating his poetry in later performances.

This article deals with five textual cruces in Cicero’s divinatio in Q. Caecilium and actio prima in Verrem (div. Caec. 25 and 46; Verr. 1, 16 and 55). For each passage, I compare the reading of the manuscripts with the corresponding lemma found in Ps.-Asconius’ commentary on the Verrines. The analysis of these two different types of witness shows that, on the authority of Ps.-Asconius, it is possible to heal some corruptions in the manuscripts of Cicero and that, as a result, the scholiast plays a key role in the constitutio textus of the Verrines, since in some cases his commentary is the sole source that enables us to recover sound readings in the face of errors or lacunae found in all the direct witnesses.

It is generally believed that two passages in Diomedes and ps.-Probus testify to the existence of a theatre in Syracuse at the time of the Deinomenid tyrants, Hiero and Gelo. It is, however, more likely that the Hiero and Gelo of these grammatical sources are to be identified with the third-century tyrants Hiero II and Gelo II. Moreover, the abovementioned passages belong to a group of testimonia on the origins of bucolic poetry, and in the same vein they manipulate both mythological and historical material in order to achieve their primary goal, without aiming for an historically verifiable reconstruction.

Possibly a Late Antique ekphrastic exercise, the nineteen stylopinakia representing mythological scenes from the temple of the Attalid queen Apollonis of Cyzicus that are transmitted by AP. 3 make any attempt at interpretation difficult, since they lack any literary or archaeological parallel. A review of the evidence and the terminology contained in the lemmata accompanying the epigrams accommodates a reconstruction of the stylopinakia - perhaps located on the column bases, metopes arranged in a frieze, or ephemeral elements - as forming a Π inside the cella, possibly alternating with other kinds of decoration.

The Carolingian manuscript Poggianus of Nonius Marcellus, which Poggio styles libellus, has been unanimously deemed lost. Here, however, by tracing its extraordinary history - Poggio’s dispatching it from Paris to Niccoli in Florence, completion by a humanistic hand, various changes of ownership - one sees how it came to be in the Laurentian Library, where it is still preserved as Plut. 48,1 (a composite ms.: books I-III Carolingian, IV-XX humanistic). A series of complex and fascinating events that centre around Florence.

A global overview on philology (in the broadest sense) as a discipline is charted, describing its chronological and geographical extension, from its modern foundation in 19th century Germany to the less diffusely known achievements within Hellenistic scholarship, the Rabbinical context, among Indian, Chinese and Japanese commentators, and Persian editors, in order to outline the physiognomy of this discipline as an essential component of human understanding and the characteristics it should acquire in the 21st-century disciplinary order.

Aristofane, Frammenti. Testo, traduzione e commento a cura di Matteo Pellegrino - Serena Perrone

Nicolas Bérauld, Praelectio et Commentaire à la Silve Rusticus d’Ange Politien (1518) - Claudio Bevegni

Didymos of Alexandria, Commentary on Pindar. Ed. and transl. with introd., explanatory notes, and a critical catalogue of Didymos’ works [by] Bruce Karl Braswell - Lara Pagani

Marco Fantuzzi, Achilles in love. Intertextual studies - Lara Pagani

Silvia Fenoglio, Eustazio di Tessalonica, Commentarii all’Odissea: glossario dei termini grammaticali - Lara Pagani

Enrico Flores, Orazio lirico con antologia delle Odi - Marcella Guglielmo

Orazio, L’esperienza delle cose (Epistole, Libro I). A cura di Andrea Cucchiarelli - Marcella Guglielmo

Faltonia Betitia Proba, Cento Vergilianus. A cura di Alessia Fassina, Carlo M. Lucarini - María Luisa La Fico Guzzo