Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica

This article reviews the etymology of the diverse dialectal forms of the Greek modal particle, which have been notoriously difficult to connect with each other from a historical perspective. In particular, the article seeks to test Colvin’s recent account by discussing whether it is possible to establish a rigorous and plausible chronology of phonological and functional changes that would give rise to the first-millennium form distribution. Such a chronology extends Colvin’s model by taking into account the semantic distinction between domain-widening and modal quantification.

The paradigmatic form of hybris in Greek sources (consistent with how the concept is conceptualised in modern psychology and business studies) had to do with the self-assertion of the rich and powerful, which results in their disrespecting their subordinates in arrogating to themselves claims to respect to which they are not entitled. This contribution looks at the flipside of this scenario, because hybris, as the arrogating of timē to which a person has no right, can also operate in Greek thought in the opposite direction: from the bottom up. The concept of timē, that is, can accommodate also instances of individuals of subordinate status overstepping the remit of their position in the social hierarchy and arrogating to themselves prerogatives that are reserved for those higher up the social ladder. While denouncing the hybris of the powerful has egalitarian implications – it defends the right to equal respect (or at least to some respect) on the part of those who are disrespected – denouncing the hybris of the downtrodden towards their superiors is a tool for maintaining and reproducing a social hierarchy by grounding it in an allegedly shared (yet heavily asymmetrical) system of recognition.

The paper explores the presence of the comic poet Philemon in Stobaeus’ Anthology by gathering and analyzing the available data and comparing them with other dramatic poets. The second part discusses Philemon’s fragments attested both by Stobaeus and by the gnom-ic papyri. These papyri are known to contain shared material with the Anthology and can be traced back to the same tradition. Lastly, the paper examines Philemon’s quotations found in both Stobaeus and later gnomologia (14th-16th century), highlighting Stobaeus’ centrality in later reception.

A trilemmatic scheme recurs in the tenth book of Plato’s Laws. It recalls the Gorgianic trilemma in the treatise On not Being, in a Parmenidean context. It also might be present in Protagoras’ On Gods.

This article revisits Th. Birt’s hypothesis that Ovid’s Heroides 1-15 consisted of three books of five epistles each. In favour of this proposition, arguments both literary and, in particular, philological are put forward: the traces of division found in the manuscript transmission are to be interpreted as authentic and not as a medieval innovation. The structure in three books of five epistles each also validates the place of the Epistula Sapphus in the collection as recorded in the Florilegium Gallicum.

The text collation indicates that Ge II, the hand responsible for this folium in the Genav. gr. 44, in all likelihood used as a model for the scholia – which are essentially all D scholia – a manuscript of the d family rather than h.

After examining the poetic context of Ar. Ra. 1331-1363 and focussing on the editorial assessment established by Chantry (1999, 150) for schol. vet. Ar. Ra. 1344b-d., this article aims to propose an alternative emendation for a corrupt passage in schol. 1344b, along with defending the order of the glosses as transmitted in the medieval manuscripts.

At the end of the 19th century E. L. De Stefani undertook a systematic examination of the manuscript tradition of Aelian’s De natura animalium. A collateral outcome of this investigation was the discovery of six annotations, belonging to an exegetical-lexicographic vein of primary importance, as demonstrated by the poetic and grammatical quotations contained therein. A scholium handed down by Laur. pl. 86, 8 and by the Vat. Pal. gr. 260, and others, contained in the Laur. pl. 86, 7 (L), most likely derive from Diogenianus, as suggested by Latte. According to K. Alpers, this material descends from a corpus of scholia to the De natura animalium, once preserved in a manuscript with a richer exegetical apparatus than that found in L. Further investigations allowed us to recover many unpublished annotations and to reconstruct, at least partially, the original corpus.

The paper suggests a new interpretation of the adjective luci-fugax as read in Min. Fel. 8, 4, not in the sense that «it flees from the light» but that «it makes the light flee».

Ilse Hilbold, Écrire Juliette Ernst. Bibliographie et sciences de l’Antiquité au XXe siècle – Fausto Montana

Moritz Hinsch, Ökonomik und Hauswirtschaft im klassischen Griechenland – Ugo Fantasia

W. Hübner, Disiecti membra poetae. Neue Spuren des astrologischen Lehrdichters Dorotheos von Sidon – Matteo RossettiG. Mosconi, Democrazia e buon governo. Cinque tesi democratiche nella Grecia del V secolo a. C. – Laura Loddo

M. Plotii Sacerdotis, Artium grammaticarum libri I-II, [Probi] De catholicis. I, Introduzione e edizione critica sinottica a cura di Andrea Bramanti. II, Commento e indici a cura di Andrea Bramanti – Frédérique Biville

Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou, Tragic papyri: Aeschylus’ Theoroi, Hypsipyle, Laïos, Prometheus Pyrkaeus and Sophocles’ Inachos – Daniela I. Cagnazzo

Pauline A. LeVen, Music and metamorphosis in Graeco-Roman thought – Sara Troiani