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Ryan S. Olson, Tragedy, Authority, and Trickery: Chapter 2. Toward a Poetics of Embedded Letters

Chapter 2. Toward a Poetics of Embedded Letters Josephus’ competent readers would have been familiar with the practice of embedding letters, as discussed in Chapter One. By describing epistolary embedding in detail, this chapter will argue that Josephus’ readers would have been quite prepared to apprehend the various ways in which embedded letters interact with their surrounding narratives. Josephus’ portrayal of Herod’s use of letters to convict his sons before a Roman… Read more

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Ryan S. Olson, Tragedy, Authority, and Trickery: Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 1. Introduction: Tragedy, Authority, and Trickery; A Greeting [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.] Book 6 of the Iliad presents one… Read more

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Ryan S. Olson, Tragedy, Authority, and Trickery: Abbreviations

Abbreviations AJC Meshorer, Y. 1982. Ancient Jewish Coinage. Dix Hills, NY. AJP American Journal of Philology ANRW Temporini, H., and W. Haase, eds. 1972–. Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt. Berlin. BMCR Bryn Mawr Classical Review BNP Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopedia of the Ancient World . 2002–. Leiden. CPJ Tcherikover, V. et al., eds. 1957–1964. Read more

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Ryan S. Olson, Tragedy, Authority, and Trickery: Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments This book began as my D.Phil. thesis at Oxford, where I had the rigorous and pleasant experience of being supervised by Professor Martin Goodman and Professor Chris Pelling. They taught me much and continued to be generous with their help even after I took my degree. I especially thank Professor Pelling for reading the entire book manuscript and providing wise advice. Professor Steve Mason of York… Read more

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Bibliography

Bibliography Note: In the notes and essays of this volume we have used the abbreviation MHV (= The Making of Homeric Verse) for Adam Parry’s 1971 edition of the collected works of Milman Parry. Ahlberg-Cornell, G. 1992. Myth and Epos in Early Greek Art: Representation and Interpretation. Jonsered. Aitken, E. B., and J. K. B. Maclean, eds. 2001. Flavius Philostratus: Heroikos. Read more

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Part III. Commentary

Commentary 10.1ff. The opening lines of this book follow what seems to be a traditional pattern in which a pressing situation causes an inability to sleep, which in turn results in the formulation of a plan of action. We can compare 10.1ff. to the beginnings of Books 2 and 9 for a more complete understanding of the workings and traditional structure of this theme. Iliad 2 begins: ἄλλοι… Read more

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Part II. Texts. Venetus A: Marcianus Graecus Z. 545 (= 822)

Venetus A (Marcianus Graecus Z. 454 [= 822]) Marcianus Gr. Z. 454 (= 822) is the earliest extant, complete manuscript of the Iliad, and it is the one on which modern printed texts are primarily based. (The few medieval manuscripts that predate it contain commentary and paraphrases or portions of the poem, but not a complete text.) It was hand copied and assembled by Byzantine Greek scribes… Read more

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Part II. Texts. Iliad p46

Iliad p46 (Mertens-Pack 658; P. Cairo Maspero inv. 67172-4 + P. Berol. inv. 10570 + P. Strasb. inv. G 1654 + P. Rein. 2.70) Text based on the edition of Alexander Loney, after the edition of J.-L. Fournet (1999) [1] This papyrus codex from the sixth century CE exists in pieces belonging to four separate collections (the Cairo Museum in Egypt,… Read more

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Part II. Texts. Iliad p425

Iliad p425 (Mertens-Pack 855.1; P. Berol. inv. 11911 + 17038 + 17048 + 21155) Text based on the edition of Bart Huelsenbeck and Alexander Loney, after the edition of H. Maehler; W. Müller; G. Poethke (1976) [1] The fragments of this early-third-century CE papyrus scroll found in Hermoupolis Magna in Egypt reside in the Königlischen Museum, Berlin and were joined and… Read more