Le débat entre Zéthos et Amphion dans l’épisode I d’Antiope est construit, dans une mesure importante, à partir de l’appropriation de la personne d’Hésiode. Les deux jumeaux jouent tour à tour le rôle d’Hésiode pour reconnaître chez l’autre un des grands vices de Persès, le frère d’Hésiode : Zéthos voit Amphion comme un paresseux, et Amphion considère Zéthos comme cupide.
En su libro sobre Sófocles, Josh Beer afirma que, en Traquinias, Zeus no es mencionado como divinidad local sino sólo como fuerza elemental encargada de garantizar la justicia y el orden. El padre de Heracles, aunque no aparece en la tragedia, es una presencia constante principalmente por su relación con el héroe, pero también como motor indispensable de la acción dramática. Esta presencia se puede constatar a raíz de las muchas alusiones a la divinidad en algunas de sus parcelas de acción, pero también en varios de los cultos que recibía a lo largo de Grecia. Frente a Beer, en este artículo defendemos la importancia de la presencia de Zeus no sólo como fuerza elemental y padre de Heracles, sino también como divinidad local, cultual y protectora, siempre en estrecha relación con el contexto dramático en el que aparece.
La réforme calendaire de la province d’Asie initiée par Paullus Fabius Maximus est traditionnellement datée en janvier 9 av. J.-C. Deux nouvelles datations ont récemment été proposées : 8 et 7 av. J.-C. (dans le second cas, la réforme serait entrée en vigueur deux ans après sa promulgation). Les éléments permettant de dater la réforme sont ici minutieusement analysés. Le premier point aborde la question du proconsulat de Maximus et les éléments institutionnels qui pourraient avoir une influence sur sa datation. La seconde section traite des années bissextiles depuis l’instauration du calendrier julien (45 av. J.-C.) jusqu’à son amendement par Auguste (8 av. J.-C.) ; les modèles explicatifs existants sont comparés afin de déterminer le meilleur d’entre eux. La troisième partie conclut à une datation de la réforme en janvier 8 av. J.-C. En annexe est proposée une nouvelle édition des documents composant le dossier épigraphique de la réforme, accompagnée d’une traduction française.
Le Dyscolos de Ménandre offre un excellent exemple du paradoxe que constitue la liaison du tragique et de l’optimisme. Le paradoxe se résout finalement par une dissolution des deux termes, leçon de politique que la pièce peut très bien apporter pour peu qu’on la replace dans son contexte historique.
In his unfinished mythological epic poem entitled De raptu Proserpinae Claudian narrates the well-known myth of the rape of Proserpina by Pluto. In II, 277-306, Pluto tries to convince the young girl to follow him to the Underworld and become his queen. Scholars have noted that in Pluto’s speech Claudian conforms to a characteristic feature of the poets of Late Antiquity, i. e. generic interplay. More precisely, they have examined the mixture of epic, elegy and epithalamium that takes place in this passage. In this paper, I discuss the generic interplay between the aforementioned genres in the speech, and I mention the presence of another two, i. e. pastoral and hymnic poetry. Furthermore, I study the metapoetical dimension of the passage and especially the impact of Callimachean poetical theory on it, a subject that has previously been ignored.
In this article, I discuss the use and absence of the augment in the 3rd person singular forms ἔθηκ(ε)(ν) and θῆκ(ε)(ν) in the Odyssey. First, I investigate which forms can be considered metrically secure. In order to do so, I use metrical bridges and caesurae. Then, I discuss the forms in which the metre is not entirely conclusive and try to determine by internal comparison whether the absence or presence of the augment can be accepted. Once I have established a corpus of usable forms, I analyse them and check if they confirm the previous syntactic and semantic observations that have been made for the use and absence of the augment (the clitic rule by Drewitt & Beck, the reduction rule by Kiparsky and the distinctions between speech versus narrative, foreground versus background and remote versus recent past).
This article catalogues and interprets the dimensions of Greek epigrammatists’ relationship with the “ Aesopic” fable. It continues the inquiry of Rodriguez Adrados-van Dijk (1999-2003) and sketches the impact of “ Aesopic” animal fables on epigrams of the Hellenistic and first Imperial ages, as well as the reasons for the Hellenistic and Imperial-age epigrammatists’ preference for fables. The rhetorical reworking of fables by epigrammatists is observed and described (imitation, recreation, variation, amplification), especially in epigrams of the epideictic subgenre. In conclusion, morphological elements common to fables and certain epigrams are noted.
Este trabajo explora la posibilidad de aplicar el concepto de ‘ indexicalidad’ al análisis de la cortesía lingüística en latín. Para ello, toma como estudio de caso una muestra de latín no literario, tres cartas del archivo de Claudio Tiberiano en Karanis, y se centra en tres aspectos fundamentales : la lengua elegida para la carta, el apelativo pater y la expresión del acto de habla directivo. A través de ese análisis se pretende avanzar en el desarrollo de un marco teórico integral, que nos permita salvar las dificultades que plantea el estudio de la cortesía lingüística en latín.
Ancient sources are very generous in telling us of journeys undertaken by various categories of people, from emperors to the very poor. During these trips, all travelers made use of the available accommodation and refreshment for themselves and their animals, stopping over at inns or hostels, sometimes at private houses or in public institutions, or even “ camping” along the road. In this paper, we will survey part of this rich catalogue of people from all walks of life, focusing on those who traveled for ‘ state’ or ‘ diplomatic’ reasons. We will try to understand whether their means of travel differed from those of common people, in addition to the fact that many high officers, magistrates and even some intellectuals were provided with a diploma, the pass that awarded the right to make free use of certain facilities offered at roadside stations. In this way, we will investigate whether there is any archaeological evidence to support the existence of different ranks of accommodation spread along the roads of the Empire.
Asclepios, God Paean and Savior. Community Issues relating to Isyllos’ Dedication in Epidaurus – This paper deals with the Isyllos inscription found in Epidaurus (IG IV2 128). This text has been well known since its discovery in the XIXth century. To date, scholars have focused on the paean, on the religious ceremonies recorded in the text or on the biographical elements of the author Isyllos. In this article, I would like to present a new analysis of the structure of the inscription, focusing on its epigraphic and metrical components. First of all, I will consider the epigraphic features and assume that the text may be seen as a whole. I will then give some background information about the author and give a discourse analysis based interpretation of Isyllos’ composition as a poetic act that can be related to other inscriptions from Epidaurus (IG IV2 121 and 125).
The Tempest, the Wind, and the Humors : about a Poetical and Medical Image aim of this paper is to throw some new light on the medical use of metaphor in the Ancient Greek Literature. Metaphor was widely used by the Greek authors, in poetry as well as in medical treatises, where it served a mainly heuristic purpose. This paper focuses on one exceptionally well-developed metaphor, that of the storm inside the man in the Hippocratic Breaths, analyzing its functions within the medical discourse and comparing it to the functions of the same metaphor in the tragedies of Aeschylus and Sophocles. This leads us to a somewhat better understanding of the way in which the medical discourse “ emancipates” itself from ordinary language.
