Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica

This article examines a specific occurrence of the so called unmovierte/motionslose Partizipien, i.e., cases in which, when a substantivum commune (e.g., θεός, ἄνθρωπος, δοῦλος, θνητός, etc.) is used as a predicate of a feminine subject and the copula consists of the present participle of εἰμί (ὤν, οῦσα, ὄν), this agrees with the gender of the predicate and not the subject (Aeschl. Eum. 297, Eur. Hel. 1630, and perhaps Eur. Ion 973). The second part of the article is devoted to an exhaustive analysis of the controversial Eur. fr. 413 K., from the lost tragedy Ino, the purpose of which is to defend the soundness of the Euripidean fragment in its transmitted form.

Idyll 14. is one of the most problematic poems in Theocritus’ corpus. This paper deals with some textual and exegetical difficulties, concerning in particular ll. 1-2, 7, 10, 17, 26, 35-36, and 38.

This paper argues that Apollonius Rhodius’ simile comparing Jason to Apollo (Arg. 1, 307-311) alludes to Anan. fr. 1 West. Beyond its intrinsic interest in enriching the interpretation of Apollonius’ simile, this allusion offers new evidence for the reception that Ananius - a minor poet at the margins of the iambic canon - enjoyed in the Hellenistic period.

This article addresses some linguistically remarkable forms of two recently published decrees, from Aigeae in Macedonia and from Temnos in Aeolis, that accepted the inviolability of the sanctuary of Asclepius at Cos.

The article deals with the issue of the relationship between Aristarchus and the Glossographers by investigating a few known cases of convergence in their respective explanation of Homeric glosses. A significant contribution comes from some D-scholia to the Iliad which are witnesses to this convergence. Such a reception can be explained if to later exegetes Aristarchus appeared not to be underrating or condemning the Glossographers’ achievements per se. Far from neglecting or despising the Glossographers, Aristarchus included, discussed and adapted their solutions to his specific critical parameters, recognizing their target as different from his own - namely, linear reading of the poem instead of textual diorthosis in the wider framework of reconstructing the Ὁμηρικόν.

In Sidonius’ carm. 2, the profile of the emperor Anthemius’ philosophical and literary studies is conceived as a cultural manifesto in which the adaptation to the Western elites’ horizon of expectation is intertwined with an attempt to modulate the panegyric’s strategy of exemplarity in a localist key. In such a complex plot a crucial role is fulfilled by a thorough scrutiny of models and anti-models that the poet identifies both in Claudian’s praises of Mallius Theodorus and Serena, and in some loci of his own works.

Abstract: The paper focuses on the political message that the treatment of myth conveys in Anthemius’ panegyric, and highlights the complex meaning of Sidonius’ literary choices by analyzing some passages from the preface and the mythological section of the poem. Sidonius’ recourse to myth serves to justify the appointment of a Greek at the head of the pars Occidentis. The analogies with Claudian bring out the specificities of this unprecedented situation, and anyone familiar with Claudian’s poems could measure the enormous difference between the past conditions of the western empire and the present one.

Among the figures introduced by Sidonius in the second half of the panegyric of Anthemius there is Oenotria, traditionally interpreted as a personification of Italy. This identification, in general correct, can be enriched with further nuance: the image of the goddess reflects a tendency to enhance the Appenine dimension of Roman Italy, an ancestral dimension recalling the origins of the conflict with Carthage that the empire is once again called to face. The hero of this new Punic war will be a man from the East, Anthemius, come to re-establish the correct balance in the central Mediterranean, once that Ricimer’s management of Roman external policy had not given satisfactory results.

In his Panegyric on Anthemius, Sidonius Apollinaris describes the Vandals by mixing literary and ethnographic models with important information on the history of this people and on their king, Gaiseric. In particular, Sidonius attributes to the Vandals a cultural alterity in relation to other barbarian peoples, since he claims that the Caucasus was the ancestral homeland of the Vandals. This paper aims to investigate Sidonius’ representation of the Vandals’ cultural alterity.

This paper proposes two conjectures on the text of Eustathius of Thessalonike transmitted by the manuscripts at 1852, 8-10, and analyses the technical and grammatical meaning of the adverbs ἰδιοπαθῶς and ἑτεροίως.

Ancient and medieval Greek etymology: theory and practice. I - Andreas Willi

Miltiades B. Hatzopoulos, Ancient Macedonia - Franca Landucci

Peter Högemann - Norbert Oettinger, Lydien. Ein altanatolischer Staat zwischen Griechenland und dem Vorderen Orient - Marina Polito

Loren D. Marsh, Muthos: Aristotle’s concept of narrative and the fragments of Old Comedy - Stephen Halliwell

Maria Giovanna Sandri, Trattati greci su barbarismo e solecismo. Introduzione ed edizione critica - Sabrina Grimaudo