Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica

The analysis of Solon’s poetry and the comparison between it and the poetry and politics of archaic Greece allow the hypothesis that his audience was a hetaireia consisting of his relatives and allies. The difference between Solon and other poets linked to the hetaireia - e. g. Alcaeus or the Theognidea - may stem from an ideological difference between their audiences: the factions - generally aristocratic - that struggled for power and, consequently, the respective hetaireiai may have very different political positions with respect to their dealings with other cities and with the lower social classes, and with respect to maintaining their domination over internal opponents.

According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Theophrastus in his Περὶ λέξεως criticises Lysias for chasing after ποιητικόν rather than ἀληθινόν and over-using figures of speech. He also formulates a threefold division of antithesis. Does Theophrastus condemn poetry as antithetical to truth or is he referring to poetic expressions? Does he reject figures of speech tout court or is he suggesting that they should be avoided in speeches? How does his definition of antithesis differ from Aristotle’s? The article discusses these and other questions arising from a rhetorical fragment of Theophrastus that is remarkably detailed.

This article discusses the following issues: the true title of Ennius’ work that is known as Euhemerus sive Sacra historia; the potential meaning of this title and of the title of Euhemerus’ work Ἱερὰ ἀναγραφή; the relationship between the Greek title and Ennius’ Latin translation; the structure and interpretation of a fragment from Euhemerus (54 W. = Var. 64-82 V.2) that is of particular relevance for establishing the Ennian title; the meaning of a much-disputed phrase in that fragment (sacra scriptio); the text of a passage from Lactantius’ Epitome (13, 3); and the relationship between the Ennian titles Sacra historia and Annales.

In this short article I examine a passage from PHerc. 1012 including a work of the Epicurean philosopher Demetrius Lacon, and a testimony from Galen about the physician Phylotimus, a disciple of Praxagoras. As far as Demetrius’ text is concerned, I focus on the expression φό[βων | ὄντ]ων ἀδεήτων λόγων (col. XLVI 7-8 Puglia) in order to try to understand how the philosopher considers the phoboi to be alogoi. As for Galen’s passage (De usu partium, 3, 625, 1-2 Kühn = 2 Steckerl), I attempt to check whether Phylotimus’ view about the primacy of the heart compared with the brain is compatible with a scholium on the Iliad (Κ 10 = 1 Steckerl).

The author supports the reading of the mss. in Hieronymus’s text which gives testimony of a fragment from Cicero’s poem Marius.

This article proposes a new interpretation of part of Varro’s description of his aviary, i.e. rust. 3, 5, 14-15. More precisely, it considers the method of feeding the birds in the cage in the tholus, which is different from the method of feeding them in the cages in the porticoes (rust. 3, 5, 11). In the cages in the porticoes, the birds are fed per retem, while in the cage in the tholus they receive their food sub retem. The reason for this difference is to be found in the materials chosen for building the cages and in the reasons for these choices.

The oath ‘on Minerva’s hair’ at Tib. 1, 4, 26 has been suspected (Luck, for example, obelizes crines) or else it is interpreted as a reference to the rare myth of the beauty competition between Minerva and Medusa. The transmitted text is here defended, instead, as an example of subtle irony on the part of Tibullus: in order to conquer the desired puer, the lover swears on anything, however absurd.

This paper proposes new conjectures to resolve two loci vexati in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses. These are: 2, 21, 1-2, where F (Laurentianus 68, 2) reads a problematic eminens porrigit; and 3, 2, 5, a passage much disputed among scholars, where F reads in modum eorum quibus and forum eiusque.

This essay examines two different representations of ancient Rome, its history and its power, to be found in Giovanni Pascoli’s Latin poetry. Starting from a critical approach that considers the simultaneous presence of seemingly contradictory elements as a typical feature of Pascoli’s poetics, this article focuses both on the great emphasis accorded to the Roman past in the two Hymni composed in 1911 and on the more nuanced and indirect description of Rome’s powerful action in three historical poems later included in the section called Res Romanae.

Apuleyo de Madauros, Apología o discurso sobre la magia en defensa propria. Floridas. Prólogo del El dios de Sócrates. Introducción, traducción y notas de Juan Martos - Matteo Stefani

De Samos à Rome: personnalité et influence de Douris. Sous la direction de Valérie Naas - Mathilde Simon - Christopher Baron

Nicolas Horsfall, The epic distilled. Studies in the composition of the Aeneid. - Emanuele Berti

Prisciani Caesariensis Ars: liber XVIII, pars altera I. Introduzione, testo critico e indici a cura di Michaela Rosellini - Axel Schönberger