Foreword Leonard Muellner Brandeis University Center for Hellenic Studies This volume has both a history and a future. The conference in July 2008 that produced the papers appearing here was a consequence of the permission granted to the Center for Hellenic Studies in 2006 by Leo S. Olschki Editore in Florence to publish online the text of the Derveni Papyrus as presented in its… 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.] Testing Our Tools: Open Questions on the… Read more
Chapter 1. Some Desiderata in the Study of the Derveni Papyrus Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki In the present paper, which I hope will be my last on this subject, I do not intend to deal with the reconstruction of the first three columns of the papyrus, the joining of whose fragments has provoked so many rows among scholars. I accept some of the… Read more
Chapter 2. On the Rites Described and Commented Upon in the Derveni Papyrus, Columns I–VI Alberto Bernabé Universidad Complutense 1. Introduction In this paper, I intend to discuss a number of issues concerning the rituals described and commented upon in the first six columns of the Derveni Papyrus, and to propose a few suggestions regarding two specific aspects: first, the nature of the rituals… Read more
Bibliography Classical Sources Greek Aelian Dilts, Mervin R., ed. 1974. Claudii Aeliani Varia Historia. Leipzig. Herodotus Hude, Karl, ed. 1927. Herodoti Historiae. 3rd ed. 2 vols. Oxford. Hesiod West, M. L., ed. 1966. Hesiod. Theogony. Oxford. Repr., 1997. Homer Allen, Thomas W., ed. 1917–1919. Odyssey. 2nd ed. Vols. Read more
Acknowledgments The papers collected in this volume originate from two conferences held at Harvard University and at the University of Bologna in 2007 and organized by Nino Luraghi and Riccardo Vattuone. Support for the events and for a particularly long editorial process has been provided by the Loeb Fund of the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, the Magie Fund of the Department of Classics, Princeton University,… Read more
1. 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.] Giovanni Parmeggiani In the modern reception of ancient… Read more
2. Looking for the Invisible: Theopompus and the Roots of Historiography Riccardo Vattuone 1. Theopompus and the Historiography of the IVth Century BCE It is not only the fragmentary nature of his work that hinders a critical evaluation of Theopompus. The idiosyncratic interests of one of his most important witnesses, Athenaeus, and the deep-seated ambiguity of Polybius’ interpretation have done much to affect modern judgement,… Read more
3. Rethinking Isocrates and Historiography [1] John Marincola 1. It is a truism often expressed when studying classical historiography that we are hampered by an absence of theoretical writings on the subject. Although we know the names of several works written “On History” in antiquity, [2] only three essays have come down to us with… Read more
4. At the Boundary of Historiography: Xenophon and his Corpus Roberto Nicolai 1. Historians and Sophists The terms sophist and sophistic are commonly applied to a diverse group of people, united by a broad range of interests, areas of expertise, and a preference for disseminating their works by way of public recitations (ἀκροάσεις). [1] If to an Athenian of the… Read more
