Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica

Critical edition of the epic. adesp. fr. 1 Powell, with word-byword commentary. Edition and commentary are preceded by a critical review of previous suggestions about the authorship and/or date of the fragment, and followed from the author’s conclusions about the date: fragment a is probably Hellenistic; the date of b and c is uncertain. There are insufficient grounds for establishing the identity of the author.

The present article aims to analyze the relationship between Plotinus and Heraclitus by presenting and evaluating all the indirect quotations of Heraclitus that are to be found in the Enneads. These testimonia refer to Heraclitean tenets through the mediation of different sources: Aristotle, Plato, and doxographical works. The evaluation of the passages focuses both on the way in which Plotinus uses his sources and on the philosophical framework in which they are inserted and assimilated. The citations revolve mainly around the allegedly Heraclitean motif of universal flux. The final testimonium will show that, even for modern interpreters, there is a distinct risk of being influenced by an ancient appropriation of Heraclitus’ thought: in our case, appropriation by the Stoics.

This paper discusses the exegetical implications of the longstanding acceptance of the incorrect reading ἐς τὸ θεῖον in the context of Thucydides famous eulogy of Nikias (VII.86.5). Included in the editio princeps (Venice 1502), probably on the basis of a conjectural emendation by Aldus Manutius, the sequence ἐς τὸ θεῖον was never challenged until the early nineteenth century and it was often cited, from the Renaissance onwards, to enhance the traditional view of Thucydides as a pious and devout historian.

This article analyzes information from Apollonius Dyscolus about a γραφή by the Peripatetic Dicaearchus in Hom. Il. 3, 244. We know that Zenodotus and Aristarchus made different textual choices in this passage, because of their varying opinions concerning the Homeric usage of the third person possessive pronoun: Aristarchus adopted the Dicaearchean reading, and so made it prevail over the reading of Zenodotus. This case provides further evidence for the re-evaluation of Aristotle and the role of his school in the development of Alexandrian philology.

The celebrated fragment of the ‘shameless hussy’ attributed to Naevius’ Tarentilla (74-9 Warmington) displays some similarities, both in the situation and in wording, to fr. 27 Kassel-Austin from Crates’ Games. Although there are many uncertainties about both fragments and their actual relationship, the proposed parallel could be seen as a further clue of the underestimated influence of ancient Greek comedy on the first Latin comedy.

This paper argues that the two occurrences of chorda in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (5, 339; 10, 145) allude to the sole contexts featuring χορδή in the Odyssey (21, 407) and in the Homeric hymn to Hermes (51), respectively.

This contribution focuses on the intertextual dimensions of the Imilce episode in Punica III, thus highlighting the importance of the earlier epic tradition for Silius’ portrayal of Hannibal and his quest. Various intertexts implicitly present in the poem (e.g. Virgil and Lucan) influence and shape the resulting image of the general in the episode, effectively undermining appearances.

From Ritter (1884) to Winterbottom (1984) the editors of Quintilian’s Minor Declamations have tried to emend the theme of decl. 320. This paper presents some new possibilities of emendation suggested by my work on the lemma negotiator at the Thesaurus linguae Latinae.

An extensive survey of texts shows that Tzetzes’ recourse to invective, criticism of other authors’ works, and the exaltation of his own can be attributed not only (or not mainly) to an innate inclination to polemic, an egocentric and quarrelsome disposition, or discouragement, or even a manifestation of what N. G. Wilson has defined as «stern independence of judgment», but rather and primarily to a concrete strategy, i.e., steady self-promotion and advertisement of his own works to win support and ‘buyers’ in a social and cultural context characterized by strong everyday competition.

Ms. Gr. IX, 5 (1336) of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, a witness to the D-scholia of Homer’s Iliad written by Demetrius Damilas, was copied from Vat. gr. 33 (Q), faithfully, albeit not always merely mechanically.

Corpus dei Papiri Filosofici (CPF). Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. Parte II.2. Sentenze di autori noti e ‘Chreiai’ - Serena Perrone

Digital texts, translations, lexicons in a multi-modular web application: methods and samples. Ed. Andrea Bozzi - Massimo Manca

Anna Sofia, Aigyptiazein: frammenti della commedia attica antica - Serena Perrone