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Chapter 1. The Comic Chorus in the Thesmophoriazusae of Aristophanes

Chapter 1. The Comic Chorus in the Thesmophoriazusae of Aristophanes Using the approach demonstrated in the introduction I should now like to analyze the Thesmophoriazusae, a work that has been relatively little discussed. This comedy is particularly well-suited for showing the non-Aristotelian, pre-dramatic, and ritual character of the comic chorus. The deliberate, “ulterior” plot, or sujet, is not only overlaid by comic episodes on the part of… Read more

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2. Homer the Classic in the Age of Callimachus

Chapter Two. Homer the Classic in the Age of Callimachus 2ⓢ1. An esthetics of fluidity 2§1 Homeric poetry imagines itself as rigid – that is, unchanging like the petrified serpent in Iliad II. That is what I was arguing in Chapter 1. But there is more to it. As I will now argue in Chapter 2, this three-dimensional vision of arrested motion is being expressed by… Read more

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3. Homer the Classic in the Age of Plato

Chapter Three. Homer the Classic in the Age of Plato 3ⓢ1. The Koine of Homer as a model of stability 3§1 The Koine of Homer, as approximated by the base text of Aristarchus in the second century BCE, was more rigid and less fluid than the Homerus Auctus, as approximated by the base text of Zenodotus in the age of Callimachus in the third century BCE. Read more

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4. Homer the Classic in the Age of Pheidias

Chapter Four. Homer the Classic in the Age of Pheidias 4ⓢ1. Homer as a spokesman for the Athenian empire 4§1 In Chapter 3, my argumentation was limited to showing that Plato’s Homer, as reflected in such virtual dialogues as the Ion and the Hippias Minor, was the Panathenaic Homer of his day, in the fourth century BCE. I used the internal evidence provided by Plato’s precise… Read more

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8. Joel Lidov, The Meter and Metrical Style of the New Poem

Chapter 8. The Meter and Metrical Style of the New Poem Joel Lidov POxy. 1787, including Sappho 58 V—and so the “New Poem”—has been assigned to Book Four of the Alexandrian edition of her works since its first publication (Ox. Pap. XV:26; cf. Lobel 1925:xii). Because the assignment is a conjecture, this is a good moment to review the status of the question, and at the… Read more

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9. Eva Stehle, “Once” and “Now”: Temporal Markers and Sappho’s Self-Representation

Chapter 9. “Once” and “Now”: Temporal Markers and Sappho’s Self-Representation Eva Stehle It is well known that memory plays an important role in Sappho’s poetry. As scholars have emphasized, Sappho vividly evokes the past, even “blurs” past and present, through her poetic recall. [1] But the fragment and the apparently complete poem yielded by the new Cologne papyri call attention to… Read more