Afterword. Old Habits Die Hard or New Customs Follow Old Paths? The sophisticated burial rites and customs presented above are obviously not unique to ancient Greece. The burial–coins, the wreaths, and the gold lamellae and epistomia, incised or unincised, are items ingeniously devised by humans to help them face the… Read more
Appendix 1 Group A Texts A1 Thourioi, Italy, Timpone Piccolo: eight hexameters, and the last line in prose (indicated by a vertical line). Bibliography: Zuntz 1971, 281–305, 328–329, 333, 344–364; Riedweg 1998, 389–398, and 2002; Pugliese Carratelli 2001, 102–103, no. IIB1; Bernabé and Jiménez San Cristóbal 2001, 270–271 no. L9;… Read more
Appendix 2 Long- or Short-Text Epistomia, and Provenance Epistomia Engraved with Long Texts Group Provenance Date BCE Leaves/Coins 1 A1 Thourioi, Italy IV c. 2 A2 Thourioi, Italy IV c. 3 A3 Thourioi, Italy IV c. 4 A4 Thourioi, Italy IV c. 5 C1 Thourioi,… Read more
Bibliography Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin, Kosmetatou, Elizabeth, and Baumbach, Manuel, eds. 2004. Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309). Center for Hellenic Studies, Hellenic Studies Series 2. Washington, DC and Cambridge, MA. Adam-Veleni, Polyxeni. 2000. “Απολλωνία η Μυγδονική.” Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στη Μακεδονία και… Read more
Hippota Nestor To the memory of John H. Finley, Jr.,an inspiring teacher and friend τοῦ καὶ ἀπὸ γλώσσης μέλιτος γλυκίων ῥέεν αὐδή Acknowledgments This study has been supported by a number of sources in the course of its progress. 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… Read more
Part 1. Nestor’s Indo-European Background Chapter 1. The Problem {5|9} §1.1 There is a discrepancy between the Iliad and the Odyssey as to the number of sons that Nestor’s father Neleus is said to have had: twelve sons in the Iliad versus three sons in the… Read more
Chapter 2. Greek {21|23} §1.13 As an agent noun with the suffix –tōr Nestor’s name belongs to a class of Greek names that are particularly clear in meaning. The suffix –tor was inherited from Indo-European (compare Greek dṓtōr, Sanskrit dā́tar-, Latin dator, “giver”), but Greek is unusual… Read more
Chapter 4. Epistolary Reliability According to Herodotus’ story of Cyrus’ accession, the Median general Harpagus is tricked by Astyages into cannibalizing his own son (1.119). Harpagus seeks revenge (123.1) by preparing the Median aristocracy for a revolt against Astyages. He then transmits a letter to Cyrus in the… Read more
Chapter 5. Conclusion Now that we have explored various aspects of the poetics of embedded letters in Josephus and in other Greek authors, we have left to ask, why does Josephus use all of these letters? Such a question is another important element of epistolary poetics, since… Read more
