Chapter 8. The Derveni Papyrus and the Bacchic-Orphic Epistomia [1] Yannis Z. TzifopoulosAristotle University of Thessaloniki The entire corpus of the epistomia [2] and the Derveni Papyrus (P.Derv.) betray certain similarities—to state the most obvious ones: both are {135|136} associated, one way or another, with Orpheus; both are discovered in a burial context;… Read more
Chapter 9. The Derveni Papyrus between the Power of Spoken Language and Written Practice: Pragmatics of Initiation in an Orpheus Poem and Its Commentary [1] Claude Calame École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris Translated by Nicholas Snead For us, ever since the second quarter of the sixth century BCE, Orpheus sings. Indeed, in its depiction of the… Read more
Chapter 10. “Riddles over Riddles”: “Mysterious” and “Symbolic” (Inter)textual Strategies: The Problem of Language in the Derveni Papyrus Anton Bierl University of Basel 1. Introduction The official and authoritative editio princeps of the Derveni Papyrus by Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou and George M. Parássoglou, with translation, papyrological apparatus, and photographs, and the first full commentary in English by Theokritos Kouremenos, has given our knowledge a secure… Read more
Chapter 11. Reading the Authorial Strategies in the Derveni Papyrus [1] Evina Sistakou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki If the commentary included in the Derveni Papyrus were a literary text, one could legitimately read it from a formalistic viewpoint. As this is not the case, scholars have justly focused on the religious-initiatory and the exegetical-allegorical aspects of this peculiar commentary on… Read more
Chapter 12. The Orphic Poem of the Derveni Papyrus David Sider New York University Although there are some few places where I argue for something new, the chief aim of this essay is to present a text and provisional commentary on the Orphic poem (OP) contained within the Derveni Papyrus. [1] I draw my knowledge of the readings of the… Read more
Chapter 13. The Garland of Hippolytus [1] Richard Hunter Trinity College, University of Cambridge One of the most celebrated euripidean passages is the dedicatory address and prayer which Hippolytus offers to Artemis as he places a garland at her statue, immediately after the hymn which he and his fellow-huntsmen have sung to her as they enter. σοὶ τόνδε πλεκτὸν στέφανον… Read more
Acknowledgments The editors wish to thank the members of the press, especially Scott F. Johnson and Jill Curry Robbins for enthusiasm, perceptiveness, and diligence. We are also most grateful to the contributors of this volume for providing intellectual energy, attentive insights, and new ideas both in the original presentation of the papers as well as in the print versions contained herein, as well as patience and good… Read more
Abbreviations C. Hier. Eusebius, Contra Hieroclem (Against Hierocles) C. Marc. Eusebius, Contra Marcellum (Against Marcellus)CCSL Corpus Christianorum Series Latina Chron. Eusebius, Chronicon (Chronicle)Chron. Can. Eusebius, Chronici Canones (Chronological Canons)CI Eusebius, Commentarius in Isaiam (Commentary on Isaiah)CPG Clavis Patrum Graecorum CPs Eusebius, Commentaria in Psalmos (Commentary on the Psalms) DE Eusebius, Demonstratio Evangelica (Gospel Demonstration/Demonstration of the Gospel)Eccl. Read more
12. The Tools of Memory: Crafting Historical Legacy in Fourth-Century Greece Sarah Ferrario 1. Introduction Can individuals control the ways in which they are remembered? Achilles saw κλέος ἄφθιτον, ‘undying fame’, as a possible outcome of his own decisions; [1] Alexander undertook a complex campaign of self-promotion that was imitated by the Hellenistic monarchs [2]… Read more
13. Aristotle and History Lucio Bertelli The title of my paper may wrongly suggest that I am going to discuss Aristotle’s famous—I should perhaps say infamous—comparison in the Poetics between tragedy and history (Poetics 9). In fact, this passage from the Poetics, one of the rare occasions where Aristotle uses the word historia to refer to historiography, is perhaps so famous precisely because of the tendency… Read more
