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… 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. 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
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… Read more
Chapter 2. The Aethiopis and Art Under the rubric of art, of course, fall a vast number of books and articles covering a wide range of aspects. From the long list of works that deal with more than one category and are rich in bibliography I select… Read more
Chapter 3. Commentary on Proclus’ Summary of the Aethiopis The question of a dating of the composition relative to the Iliad has been considered above (pages 3–24), where it was seen to be an exceedingly complex issue. As for an absolute dating, the epic has a traditional… Read more
Chapter 4. Commentary on the “Fragments” of the Aethiopis F1 ὁ γὰρ τὴν Αἰθιοπίδα γράφων περὶ τὸν ὄρθρον φησὶ τὸν Αἴαντα ἑαυτὸν ἀνελεῖν. The author of the Aethiopis says that Ajax killed himself around the time of dawn. … Read more
Appendix. The Tabulae Iliacae In dealing with the possibility that artifacts such as Greek vases reflect and preserve versions of myths that feature in now-lost epics, one must sedulously avoid (as I have in chapter 2) using the word “illustration,” with its host of anachronistic and misleading… Read more
Bibliography of Frequently Cited Works Allan, W. 2005. “Arms and the Man: Euphorbus, Hector, and the Death of Patroclus.“ Classical Quarterly 55:1–16. Andersen, Øivind. 1978. Die Diomedesgestalt in der Ilias. Symbolae Osloenses Suppl. 25. Oslo. ——. 1982. “Thersites… Read more
