Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica

It has frequently been maintained that a Roman legation which, according to Livy, was sent to the Greek East in 172 should be considered an annalistic doublet of a legation dispatched later, probably in the winter of 172/171. This paper argues in favor of the historicity of the legation, without denying possible manipulation by Roman sources concerned to legitimate the punishment of Rhodes in 167 after the end of the Third Macedonian War.

This paper discusses the identity of the author quoted by Apuleius in mund. 24, 1-2 reviewing previous scholarship that recognized either Plat. Tim. 28c or Sall. Iug. 19, 2 behind the quotation introduced by the formula ut ait ille employed by Apuleius. After a review of the use of this formula in Latin literature before Apuleius, it is argued, on the grounds of Apuleius’ practice of playful allusion, that both references are hinted at. Some light may thereby be shed on the highly sophisticated literary construction and project of the De mundo.

A problem in the Odyssey that has puzzled scholars both ancient and modern is why Odysseus does not immediately reveal himself to Penelope when he returns to Ithaca, although he does reveal himself to his son Telemachus, the swineherd Eumaeus, and the cowherd Philoetius. Porphyry tackled this problem in his Homeric Questions, citing Aristotle (presumably from Aristotle’s lost Homeric Problems). This article discusses Porphyry’s text with a re-edition and translation of the scholion and accompanying text-critical notes.

This paper shows that: 1) the adespoton SH 1185 is handed down by a number of sources greater than that reported by its last editors: not only Zonaras, but also Et. Gen. (AB), Et. Sym. (EF), and Magna Grammatica (Magna Grammatica and especially Et. Gen. [B] providing new, significant readings); 2) the gloss παρείατο in Et. Gen. (A) is likely to transmit a short epic fragment, which had remained unnoticed until now.

This essay presents the finding that the Porus scene in Walter of Châtillon’s Alexandreid is an imitatio et aemulatio of the final scene in Virgil’s Aeneid. Furthermore, this essay shows that also the Aristotle speech processed in the Alexandreid contains imitative and aemulative allusions to both the Anchises speech in the sixth book and the final scene of the Aeneid. The basis for the understanding of this imitatio et aemulatio is the finding that Walter, for the elaboration of his Aristotle speech, resorted to Aristotle’s original doctrine of virtue. Building on these new insights, this essay attempts to make the numerous intertextual references in Walter’s Alexandreid fruitful for the interpretation of Virgil’s Aeneid.

The text of the Latin translation of Xenophon’s Lakedaimonion politeia by Lilius Tifernas published by David Marsh (1991) is revised through a new collation of the testis unicus Vat. Urb. lat. 227 and some conjectural emendations.

Apuleius Madaurensis, Metamorphoses, Book III. Text, introduction, translation, and commentary by Leo-nardo Costantini – Evelyn Adkins

Ch. S. van den Berg, The politics and poetics of Cicero’s Brutus – Alberto Cavarzere

Mauro Bonazzi, Creature di un sol giorno. I Greci e il mistero dell’esistenza – Federico M. Petrucci

Brill’s companion to Theocritus, edited by P. Kyriakou, E. Sistakou, A. Rengakos – Antonietta Porro

Stefano Caciagli, L’eteria arcaica e classica – Paolo A. Tuci

Carlo Di Giovine, Metafore e lessico della relegazione. Studio sulle opere ovidiane dal Ponto – Chiara Battistella

M. Drew-Bear – F. Chausson – H. Maehler, Les archives du Conseil Municipal d’Hermoupolis Magna – Letizia Cinus

Elements of tragedy in Flavian epic. Edited by Sophia Papaioannou, Agis Marinis – Stefano Briguglio

L’Ermotimo di Luciano. Introduzione, traduzione e commento a cura di Michele Solitario – Morena Deriu

Maria Luisa Fele, Le fonti dei Romana di Iordanes. I, Dalle origini del mondo ad Augusto (Rom. 1-257) – Concetta Longobardi

Luigi Ferreri, La tradition manuscrite du recueil de Théognis de Maxime Planude à l’édition aldine (1496) – Paola Carmela La Barbera

M. Labate, Petronio. Ricostruzioni e interpretazioni. A cura di G. Vannini, G. Zago – Antonino Pittà

Rosanna Lauriola, Brill’s companion to episodes of ‘heroic’ rape/abduction in classical antiquity and their reception – Greta Gerthoux

Cristiano Minuto, Il mondo bucolico delle Dionisiache di Nonno di Panopoli. Rivisitazione letteraria e impianto retorico nel contesto tardoantico – Daria Gigli

Zinon Papakonstantinou, Cursing for justice. Magic, disputes, and the lawcourts in classical Athens – Matteo Barbato

E. Pöhlmann, Ancient music in antiquity and beyond. Collected essays (2009-2019). With a preface by G. Heldmann – Eleonora Rocconi

L. Rocchi, Studies on P.Oxy. XXXI 2537 – Chiara Meccariello

Giampiero Rosati, Ovidio e il teatro del piacere. Il corpo, lo sguardo, il desiderio – Philip Hardie

Scritti in memoria di Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli, a cura di Pia de Fidio, Valeria Gigante Lanzara, Antonio Rigo. Con la collaborazione di Luigi Vecchio – Valeria Fontanella.