Chapter 4. Epigoni The Relationship of the Epigoni to the Thebais Just as several scholars have supposed the Iliupersis to be part of a larger epic called the Ilias Parva and have sought thereby to resolve a number of apparent anomalies, so some critics would have the Epigoni be the latter portion of a more general work entitled the Thebais. [1]… Read more
Chapter 3. Ἀµφιάρεω ἐξελασία [1] The third chapter of Bethe’s Thebanische Heldenlieder, bearing the title “Des Amphiaraos Ausfahrt,” is a plump and succulent item which, like many other reference works and similar studies of the time, gives the misleading impression that the epic that passed under this title in antiquity is an oft-attested composition of which numerous fragments survive. Building on… Read more
Chapter 2. Thebais If it were possible to choose a lost work of Greek literature for recovery, the epic Thebais would come high on a preference list. It would answer more questions about Homer than all the deciphering of Mycenaean tablets and excavating of tholos tombs. Willcock 1964:144 = 440 Dass es der Dichter der Thebais war, d. h. der… Read more
Chapter 1. Oedipodeia Title ἡ Οἰδιποδ(ε)ία (Tabula Borgiana [T: see page 133 for text] and Σ Euripides Phoenician Women [F1: see page 133 for text]), meaning “the poem about Oedipus” (for the variation in spelling and [perhaps] the principle see Stesichorus’ Εὐρωπ(ε)ία fragment 96 with Davies and Finglass ad loc.); or τὰ Οἰδιπόδια (scil. ἔπη) by analogy with the Cypria and Naupactica as Pausanias (F2: see… Read more
Abbreviations of Most Frequently Cited Works ARV 2 = J. Beazley, Attic Red – Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd ed. (Oxford 1963) EM = Enzyklopädie des Märchens (Berlin and New York 1977–2014) FGrHist = F. Jacoby, Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (1923–) GGL = L. Schmid, Geschichte der griechischen Literatur, vol. 1.1 (Munich 1929) GP 2 = J. D. Denniston, Greek Particles, 2nd ed. (Oxford 1954) LfgrE… Read more
Preface [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.] This book is the first in a planned series of… Read more
Bibliography Abramowicz, S. 1938. “De Homeri cum Hesiodo certamine.” Eos 39:477–492. Accame, S. 1963. “L’invocazione alla Musa e la ‘verità’ in Omero e in Esiodo.” Rivista di filologia e di istruzione classica 91:257–281, 385–415. Adiego, I. J. 2007. The Carian Language. Leiden. Adkins, A. W. H. 1972. “Truth, ΚΟΣΜΟΣ, and ΑΡΕΤΗ in the Homeric Poems.” Classical Quarterly 22:5–18. … Read more
Appendix. The Origin of the Term hypokritēs If one accepts that the Panathenaia was reorganized ca. 560 BC—as seems likely not only from later reports but also from the material record of Athenian vases [1] —it is not unreasonable to assume that the rules instituted at the time for the rhapsodic competition may have sought deliberately to enhance the challenging artistry of hypoleptic performance. Read more
Conclusion The study of Homeric poetry, Milman Parry and A. B. Lord have taught us, [1] must necessarily consider its performance, for it was in performance that it was orally composed. And yet the times between Hellenistic Greece and our own were bridged not by sound recordings of recitations but by written artifacts like papyri and codices. How then are we to reconstruct and… Read more
14. The Aristotelian tekhnē of hypokrisis 14.1 Technical hypokrisis We come at last to Rhetoric 1404a12–19, the section where Aristotle makes clear what approach to λέξις and ὑπόκρισις he intends to take in the rest of the treatise: ἐκείνη μὲν οὖν ὅταν ἔλθῃ ταὐτὸ ποιήσει τῇ ὑποκριτικῇ, ἐγκεχειρήκασι δὲ ἐπ’ ὀλίγον περὶ αὐτῆς εἰπεῖν τινες, οἷον Θρασύμαχος ἐν τοῖς Ἐλέοις· καὶ ἔστι φύσεως τὸ ὑποκριτικὸν εἶναι,… Read more
