This article uses literary memory studies to explore the anecdotes affixed to Melanthius. Like the other minor tragedians', a comic simulacrum subsumed his life and works, but inscribed his name in Greece's mnemonic archive. He alone re-emerged from this space to acquire eight anecdotes, preserved across Satyrus, Clearchus, Plutarch, and Athenaeus. The aim is threefold : to reassert the collection's unity, to illuminate the intertextual forces underlying anecdote as a genre, and finally to highlight the generative qualities which made Melanthius' so compelling a memory figure.
In the so-called `Phaedra episode' of Apuleius' Metamorphoses (10, 2-12), a seemingly dead boy is first cremated and then rescued alive from his grave. The article opposes attempts to explain away the contradiction and argues that Apuleius' mistake provides insights into the genesis of his novel.
The article examines the ancient edition of Hipponax. It was divided into two books, the first containing the skazons, the second the epodes (and perhaps other metres) ; book 1 began with a poem accusing Boupalos, who was mentioned in the opening line. Both these editorial choices fronted two of the characteristic traits of Hipponactean poetics : the skazon and Boupalos. In so doing, the editor used the structure of the edition to render in book form the ethos of Hipponax.
Starting from the discussion of a textual problem in the final couplet of a pederastic epigram composed by Apuleius, and quoted by the author in the Apologia (Apul. fr. 4 Courtney/Blansdorf), this article provides further explora-tion of the intertextual relationships in Apuleian poetry with the Greco-Roman literary tradition, focusing in particular on bucolic poetry (Verg. ecl. 2 ; Calp. ecl. 3) and erotic epigrams (Meleager, already a model for Verg. ecl. 2 ; ps.-Plato).
This paper discusses the network of acrostics found in Apollonius Rhodius, along with the contribution these acrostics can render to the interpretation of the text as a whole. To this end, I examine (and in some cases reinterpret) known acrostics in Apollonius, before identifying and interpreting six new acrostics. The paper concludes that the acrostics net-work has the purpose of unifying the text and guiding the reader, and also that its dose link to the god Apollo has a sphragistic effect.
