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Chapter 10. Anton Bierl, “Riddles over Riddles”: “Mysterious” and “Symbolic” (Inter)textual Strategies: The Problem of Language in the Derveni Papyrus

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

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Chapter 11. Evina Sistakou, Reading the Authorial Strategies in the Derveni Papyrus

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

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Chapter 13. Richard Hunter, The Garland of Hippolytus

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

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Acknowledgments

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

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Abbreviations

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

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12. Sarah Ferrario, The Tools of Memory: Crafting Historical Legacy in Fourth-Century Greece

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

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13. Lucio Bertelli, Aristotle and History

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

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Preface

Everything is in a way less deep and deeper than you think. You want a long explanation, but in the end your explanation repeats what you knew at the start. You said yourself it was like remembering. Socrates to Plato Iris Murdoch “Art and Eros: A Dialogue About Art” Amongst the unhappy delusions of mankind is the belief that a… Read more

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Introduction

Introduction This book is about a particular form of writing by Christians in late antiquity, sometimes referred to as “the philosophical dialogue”—although by no means all the dialogues in question can be regarded as philosophical. The subject is central to the much wider question of the development of a specifically Christian rhetoric, especially in Perelman’s sense in which “the realm of rhetoric” constitutes “the entire universe of… Read more