I.1 General introduction §1. The study of ancient Greek particles has been an integral part of the study of the Greek language from its earliest beginnings. Among the first parts of speech to be distinguished in Greek scholarship were the σύνδεσμοι (“combiners”), which include the later category of particles. [1] In the Renaissance, Matthaeus Devarius – a Greek scholar working in Rome – published a… Read more
I.2 From σύνδεσμοι to particulae Mark de Kreij 2.1 Introduction §1. The group of lexical items generally called particles has never been clearly defined. Despite many attempts, no one has yet succeeded in isolating them based either on their form or their function. [1] The ancient grammarians had the same problem, barring the fact that they did not have to wrestle with the term particles,… Read more
24. Grasping Hermeneutics* Peter Szondi was a very important influence, in my personal and intellectual life first of all, but equally in the history of my work, thanks to the discussions we carried on for more than twelve years about literatures—of which he was a marvelous connoisseur and judge—and about the theory of interpretation. His dense and demonstrative essays have surely transformed literary… Read more
25. A Future in the Past: Peter Szondi’s Material Hermeneutics* Peter Szondi’s redefinition of the science of literature challenged the influence that the analysis of Heidegger’s structure of Dasein had exerted in Germany, in university circles, both during and after World War II. [1] Szondi takes aim at the model constituted by Heidegger’s commentaries on the poems of… Read more
26. Reading the Signifier* My essay on the freedom of signifiers in Plato’s Cratylus [1] was written as an extension of work on that dialogue that I had pursued with a group of researchers from the University of Tübingen who were defenders of Plato’s unwritten doctrine. At a colloquium focused on the theory of language, I had… Read more
27. The Mountain of Death: The Meaning of Celan’s Meeting with Heidegger* Todtnauberg Arnica, Augentrost, derTrunk aus dem Brunnen mit demSternwürfel drauf, in derHütte die in das Buch—wessen Namen nahms aufvor dem meinen?—,die in dies Buchgeschriebene Zeile voneiner Hoffnung, heute,auf eines DenkendenkommendesWortim Herzen, Waldwasen, uneingeebnet,Orchis und Orchis, einzeln,… Read more
Preface For Martin West In memoriam Herewith the next installment of my series of commentaries on early epic fragments (for details see the preface to the first volume, The Theban Epics, which appeared in 2014). The following volume, dealing with the Cypria, will be the longest so far, and the present volume easily the shortest, and it will be worth the while briefly to… Read more
Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works ABV = J. D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford 1956). ANRW = H. Temporini, ed., Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt (Berlin 1972– ). ARV2 = J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd ed. (Oxford 1963). CB = L. D. Caskey and J. D. Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston 2 (Oxford 1954); 3 (Boston 1963). Read more
Introduction [In this on-line version, the page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{69|70}” indicates where p. 69 of the printed version ends and p. 70 begins. These indications will be useful to readers who need to look up references made elsewhere to the printed version of this book.] “We know less about this poem than we think we… Read more
Chapter 1. The Aethiopis and the Iliad The plots of many an epic have been reconstituted from alleged references and allusions in Homer (this is particularly true of the Thebais). The Aethiopis, however, occupies a special position among these. An examination of this position must take us into the realms of Neoanalysis—magical name and concept, which has seemed to some scholars to open the doors to important… Read more
