This paper considers the possibility of metaphors being used in a deliberate manner in Early Gree... more This paper considers the possibility of metaphors being used in a deliberate manner in Early Greek and particularly Homer’s Iliad: the epic poems of Homer are shaped by a tradition of oral composition and formulaic language which contains a wealth of metonyms and metaphors. By focusing on the copious formulaic metaphors and metonyms of death in battle, it will be argued that the communicative purpose of metaphors, which is essential for philological interpretation, can be independent of deliberate usage and that deliberateness constitutes no reliable requirement for poetic purpose and effect.
Hecataeus, as well as on several textual issues and on particular lacunae that, over centuries, e... more Hecataeus, as well as on several textual issues and on particular lacunae that, over centuries, editors have tried to restore. Gertjan Verhasselt’s paper offers solutions to several methodological problems that appear in editions of ‘cited fragments’ known by later writers. Olson focuses on the problematic nature of some unassigned fragments of Eupolis’ plays, insisting that the edition of such ‘exemplary fragments’ (137) is a synthetical work that requires consideration of extratextual factors. Part III (‘From contexts to fragments’) deals with the reception of fragmentary Archaic and Classical literature in the Greek Imperial world. Renate Schlesier explores the selective treatment of Sappho’s erotic fragments in Maximus Tyrius’ quotations in order to draw a closer analogy between her and the Platonic Socrates, which has led to several misconceptions concerning her biography. Eran Almagor uses the term ‘fragment’ in a broader sense and suggests that the fragmentary nature of the Solonian elegiac verses in Plutarch’s biography is an imitation of the obscure and ambiguous status of his laws. On the contrary, Henriette van der Blom conceives the term ‘fragment’ in stricter terms. In her analysis of an oratorical episode involving Sulla from Republican Rome, she explains the importance of the fragmentary evidence included in the testimonia of an ancient text for the historical, political and social context of the events described and their reception. Part IV addresses the ‘Fragments themselves’. Christophe Cusset and Antje Kolde offer a poetical reading of a fragment of a Hellenistic papyrus concerning a monologue by an anonymous woman in love to an absent and unspeaking person. They approach the broken speech intertextually, ‘in light of the so-called “figures”’ (200) that the Fragmentum Grenfellianum has in common with Roland Barthes’ essay Fragments d’un discours amoureux (Paris 1977). Martin Stöckinger revisits the fragmentary form of Carmina Einsidlensia, providing a new interpretation of the closures of the pastoral poems as a whole and successfully combining literary criticism and textual scholarship. The final study by Victor Martínez examines the information gleaned from pottery sherds at microscopic and macroscopic levels and explains the significance of placing the results with accuracy in time and space by using more collaborative techniques. Part V (‘Fragments of grand discourses’) places fragments into wider sociocultural systems. Lech Trzcionkowski investigates material and textual fragments concerning the Orphica that are included in secondary sources. Marquis Berrey deals with the reconstruction of a lost scientific object, a hybrid medical machine from the Hellenistic period that ‘participated in contemporary courtly discourses’ (287), and concludes 269
This paper considers the possibility of metaphors being used in a deliberate manner in Early Gree... more This paper considers the possibility of metaphors being used in a deliberate manner in Early Greek and particularly Homer’s Iliad: the epic poems of Homer are shaped by a tradition of oral composition and formulaic language which contains a wealth of metonyms and metaphors. By focusing on the copious formulaic metaphors and metonyms of death in battle, it will be argued that the communicative purpose of metaphors, which is essential for philological interpretation, can be independent of deliberate usage and that deliberateness constitutes no reliable requirement for poetic purpose and effect.
Hecataeus, as well as on several textual issues and on particular lacunae that, over centuries, e... more Hecataeus, as well as on several textual issues and on particular lacunae that, over centuries, editors have tried to restore. Gertjan Verhasselt’s paper offers solutions to several methodological problems that appear in editions of ‘cited fragments’ known by later writers. Olson focuses on the problematic nature of some unassigned fragments of Eupolis’ plays, insisting that the edition of such ‘exemplary fragments’ (137) is a synthetical work that requires consideration of extratextual factors. Part III (‘From contexts to fragments’) deals with the reception of fragmentary Archaic and Classical literature in the Greek Imperial world. Renate Schlesier explores the selective treatment of Sappho’s erotic fragments in Maximus Tyrius’ quotations in order to draw a closer analogy between her and the Platonic Socrates, which has led to several misconceptions concerning her biography. Eran Almagor uses the term ‘fragment’ in a broader sense and suggests that the fragmentary nature of the Solonian elegiac verses in Plutarch’s biography is an imitation of the obscure and ambiguous status of his laws. On the contrary, Henriette van der Blom conceives the term ‘fragment’ in stricter terms. In her analysis of an oratorical episode involving Sulla from Republican Rome, she explains the importance of the fragmentary evidence included in the testimonia of an ancient text for the historical, political and social context of the events described and their reception. Part IV addresses the ‘Fragments themselves’. Christophe Cusset and Antje Kolde offer a poetical reading of a fragment of a Hellenistic papyrus concerning a monologue by an anonymous woman in love to an absent and unspeaking person. They approach the broken speech intertextually, ‘in light of the so-called “figures”’ (200) that the Fragmentum Grenfellianum has in common with Roland Barthes’ essay Fragments d’un discours amoureux (Paris 1977). Martin Stöckinger revisits the fragmentary form of Carmina Einsidlensia, providing a new interpretation of the closures of the pastoral poems as a whole and successfully combining literary criticism and textual scholarship. The final study by Victor Martínez examines the information gleaned from pottery sherds at microscopic and macroscopic levels and explains the significance of placing the results with accuracy in time and space by using more collaborative techniques. Part V (‘Fragments of grand discourses’) places fragments into wider sociocultural systems. Lech Trzcionkowski investigates material and textual fragments concerning the Orphica that are included in secondary sources. Marquis Berrey deals with the reconstruction of a lost scientific object, a hybrid medical machine from the Hellenistic period that ‘participated in contemporary courtly discourses’ (287), and concludes 269
Casey Dué, Mary Ebbott: Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush. A Multitext Edition with Essays and C... more Casey Dué, Mary Ebbott: Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush. A Multitext Edition with Essays and Commentary. Cambridge, Mass./London: Center for Hellenic Studies (distributed by Harvard UP) 2010. XI, 426 S. (Hellenic Studies. 39.) 18 $.
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