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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
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
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
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
Chapter 11. On Strife and the Human Condition 11§1. We have by now seen that Memnon’s realm, the land of the Aithiopes, has landmarks that are parallel to those of the Golden Age and the Isles of the Blessed. By virtue of this parallelism, the land of the Aithiopes in fact affords an ideal setting for the immortality in store for Memnon after he dies the hero’s… Read more
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
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
Chapter 14. Epos, the Language of Blame, and the Worst of the Achaeans 14§1. The resemblances in poetic form between the Archilochean Iambos and the Homeric Epos suggest that blame poetry may have evolved away from an old (and unattested) form corresponding to that of praise poetry (as still attested in Pindar and Bacchylides) into its newer form resembling comedy. The key here to formulating the evolution… Read more
Chapter 15. The Best of the Achaeans Confronts an Aeneid Tradition 15§1. Having finished with the diction surrounding the Thersites figure, we may now turn to another Iliadic passage, XX 246–256, which rivals the passage about Thersites in its wealth of information relating to the poetry of blame. For a proper understanding, however, we must begin with an Iliadic passage found earlier on in the action. … Read more
