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William Custis West, III, Greek Public Monuments of the Persian Wars: XIII. Corinthian Monuments

XIII. Corinthian Monuments 63. Epigram for the aid of Aphrodite in the Persian Wars in general. Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate 39; Athenaeus 13.573c. Bergk, Poetae Lyricae Graecae, 4th ed., Simonides 137; Hauvette 1894: 8; Hiller 1926: 29; Diehl, Simonides 104. Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate 39 (Plutarch has just related the story that when Xerxes invaded Greece, Corinthian courtesans… Read more

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Foreword

Foreword Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches {viii|ix} Building on the foundations of scholarship within the disciplines of philology, philosophy, history, and archaeology, this series spans the continuum of Greek traditions extending from the second millennium BCE to the present, not just the Archaic and Classical periods. The aim is to enhance perspectives by applying various disciplines to problems that have in the past been treated as the… Read more

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Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Do mo bhean chéile agus do m’inion7i gcuimhne m’athair léannta fil súil nglais fégbas Érinn dar a hais; noco n-aceba íarmo-thá firu Érenn nách a mná -“Colum Cille” (EIL 29) {x|xi} At the end of this project I encountered an image showing ira besting patientia (Rosenwein 1998, 15). On… Read more

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Abbreviations

Abbreviations AALM = Atti dell ’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei AAntH = Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae AC = Acta Classica AJP = American Journal of Philology AnnCagl = Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Università di Cagliari BLS = Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society BSL = Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris CA = Classical Antiquity… Read more

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10. Poetic Visions of Immortality for the Hero

Chapter 10. Poetic Visions of Immortality for the Hero 10§1. Upon having their lifespan cut short by death, heroes receive as consolation the promise of immortality, but this state of immortality after death is located at the extremes of our universe, far removed from the realities of the here-and-now. We in this life have to keep reminding ourselves that the hero who died is still capable of… Read more

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12. Poetry of Praise, Poetry of Blame

Chapter 12. Poetry of Praise, Poetry of Blame 12§1. As we see from Georges Dumézil’s comparative study Servius et la Fortune, Indo-European society operated on the principle of counterbalancing praise and blame, primarily through the medium of poetry. [1] This state of affairs is most overtly preserved in the evidence of Indic and Old Irish, [2] but… Read more

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13. Iambos

Chapter 13. Iambos 13§1. With the mention of Lukámbēs, we may now turn to the íamboi of Archilochus. [1] Of course, we are dealing here not so much with a metrical category but rather with a genre of composition: [2] “iambic metre got its name from being particularly characteristic of íamboi, not vice versa.” [3]… Read more