Ancient Rhetorical Theories of Simile and Comparison

Ziolkowski, Jan M, ed. “Harvard Studies in Classical Philology,” 2023, 113.Abstract

Andrew Merritt	“ἔρυμαι and ἐρύκω”
Georgios Kostopoulos	“Vowel Lengthening in Attic Primary Comparatives”
Christian Vassallo	"Xenophanes on the Soul: Another Chapter of Ancient Physics"
Guy Westwood	"Making a Martyr: Demosthenes and Euphraeus of Oreus (Third Philippic 59–62)"
Peter Osorio	"Trust and Persuasion: Testimony in [Plato] Demodocus"
James J. Clauss and Scott B. Noegel	"Near Eastern Poetics in Callimachus's Hymn to Apollo"
Robert Cowan	"Ucalegon and the Gauls: Aeneid 2 and the Hymn to Delos Revisited"
Christoph Begass	"Aktia and Isaktioi Agones: Greek Contests and Roman Power"
Chiara Meccariello	"Myth and Actuality at the School of Rhetoric: The Encomium on the Flower of Antinous in Its Cultural and Performative Context"

Ziolkowski, Jan M, ed. Solomon and Marcolf: Vernacular Traditions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. Publisher's Version Abstract

The Latin prose Solomon and Marcolf, enigmatic in origins, has been a puzzle from long before the sixteenth-century French author François Rabelais through the twentieth-century Russian critic Bakhtin to today. Though often called a dialogue, the second of its two parts comprises a rudimentary novel with twenty episodes. In 2009 the “original” received at last an edition and translation with commentary as the first volume in the Harvard Studies in Medieval Latin series.

Solomon and Marcolf: Vernacular Traditions, the fourth volume in the series, displays the mysteries of the tradition. Solomon relates to the biblical king, but did Marcolf originate in Germanic or Eastern regions? Here lovers of literature and folklore may explore, in English for the first time, relevant texts, from the twelfth through the early eighteenth century. These astonishingly varied and fascinating pieces, from Iceland in the North and West through Russia in the East and Italy in the South, have been translated from medieval and early modern French, Russian, German, Icelandic, Danish, and Italian. The book opens with snapshots of two nineteenth-century polymaths, the Englishman John M. Kemble and Russian Aleksandr Veselovskii, whose hypotheses can now be evaluated. An appendix documents awareness of Solomon and Marcolf in late medieval and early modern times.

Ziolkowski, Jan M, ed. “Harvard Studies in Classical Philology,” 2022, 112. Publisher's Version Abstract

Olga Levaniouk	"The Dreams of Barčin and Penelope"
Paul K. Hosle	"Bacchylides’ Theseus and Vergil’s Aristaeus"
Vayos Liapis	"Arion and the Dolphin: Apollo Delphinios and Maritime Networks in Herodotus"
Nino Luraghi	"The Peloponnesian Peace: Herodotus, Thucydides, and the Ideology of the Peace of Nikias"
Andrea Capra	"The Staging and Meaning of Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen"
Konstantine Panegyres	"Moses, Pharaoh, and the Waters of the Nile: Artapanus of Alexandria FGrHist 726 F 3"
Roy D. Kotansky	"Underworld and Celestial Eschatologies in the “Orphic” Gold Leaves"
Vittorio Remo Danovi	"New Citations from the Libri Etruscorum and Varro in Vergilian Scholia"
T.H.M. Gellar-Goad	"Tears and Personified Nature in Juvenal 15.131–140 and Lucretius 3.931–962"
Tristan Power	"Textual Conjectures on Catullus 55.9-12"
Francesco Rotiroti	"From Beneficent God to Maddened Bull: The Shepherd of Men in the Works of Virgil"
J.S.C. Eidinow	"The Critic and the Farmer: Horace, Maecenas, and Virgil in Horace Carm. 1.1"
Shirley Werner	"The Rules of the Game: Imitation and Mimesis in Horace Epistles 1.19"
Francis Newton	"Ovid Met. 1: Jupiter’s Plebeians, the Titles of Augustus, and the Poet’s Exile"
Simona Martorana	"Omission and Allusion: When Statius’ Hypsipyle Reads Ovid’s Heroides 6"
Michael Zellmann-Rohrer	"The Chronokratores in Greek Astrology, in Light of a New Papyrus Text: Oxford, Bodl. MS Gr. Class. B 24 (P) 1–2"
Konstantine Panegyres	"ΒΟΜΒΟΣ: Heliodorus Aethiopica 9.17.1"
Andrew C. Johnston	"Aemilius and the Crown: Rome and the Hellenistic World of the Alexander Romance"

Henderson, Jeffrey, and Richard F. Thomas, ed. James Loeb, Collector and Connoisseur: Proceedings of the Second James Loeb Biennial Conference, Munich and Murnau 6–8 June 2019, 2022, 336. Publisher's Version Abstract

James Loeb (1867–1933), one of the great patrons and philanthropists of his time, left many enduring legacies both to America, where he was born and educated, and to his ancestral Germany, where he spent the second half of his life. Organized in celebration of the sesquicentenary of his birth, the James Loeb Biennial Conferences were convened to commemorate his achievements in four areas: the Loeb Classical Library (2017); collection and connoisseurship (2019); and, after pandemic postponement, psychology and medicine (2023); and music (2025).

The subject of the second conference was Loeb’s deep and multifaceted engagement with the material culture of the ancient world as a scholar, connoisseur, collector, and curator. The volume’s contributors range broadly over the manifold connections and contexts, both personal and institutional, of Loeb’s archaeological interests, and consider these in light of the long history of collection and connoisseurship from antiquity to the present. Their essays also reflect on the contemporary significance of Loeb’s work, as the collections he shaped continue to be curated and studied in today’s rapidly evolving environment for the arts.

Curtis, Lauren, and Irene Peirano Garrison, ed. The Lives of Latin Texts: Papers Presented to Richard J. Tarrant. Cambridge, MA: Department of the Classics, Harvard University, 2021. Publisher's Version Abstract

The papers in this volume are based on a 2018 conference in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University in honor of Richard Tarrant, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, on the occasion of his retirement.

The breadth of authors, genres, periods, and topics addressed in The Lives of Latin Texts is testament to Richard Tarrant’s wide-ranging influence on the fields of Latin literary studies and textual criticism. Contributions on stylistic, dramatic, metapoetic, and philosophical issues in Latin literature (including authors from Virgil, Horace, and Seneca to Ovid, Terence, Statius, Caesar, and Martial) sit alongside contributions on the history of textual transmission and textual editing. Other chapters treat the musical reception of Latin literature. Taken together, the volume reflects on the impact of Richard Tarrant’s scholarship by addressing the expressive scope and the long history of the Latin language.

Thomas, Richard F., ed. “Harvard Studies in Classical Philology,” 2021, 111. Publisher's Version Abstract

Daniel Kölligan	"Ὄρθος, The Watchdog"
Richard L. Phillips	"Invisibility and Sight in Homer: Some Aspects of A. S. Pease Reconsidered"
Antonio Tibiletti	"Pondering Pindaric Superlatives in Context"
Matthew Hiscock	"Αὐθέντης: A 'Mot Fort' in the Discourse of Classical Athens"
James T. Clark	"Off-Stage Cries? The Performance of Sophocles’ Philoctetes 201–218, Trachiniae 863–870, and Euripides’ Electra 747–760"
Giuseppe Pezzini	"Terence and the Speculum Vitae: “Realism” and (Roman) Comedy"
Neil O’Sullivan	"Quotations from Epicurean Philosophy and Greek Tragedy in Three Letters of Cicero"
Ernesto Paparazzo	"A Study of Varro’s Account of Roman Civil Theology in the Antiquitates Rerum Divinarum and its Reception by Augustine and Modern Readers"
Joseph P. Dexter and Pramit Chaudhuri	"Dardanio Anchisae: Hiatus, Homer, and Intermetricality in the Aeneid"
Michael A. Tueller	"Dido the Author: Epigram and the Aeneid"
Benjamin Victor, Nancy Duval, and Isabelle Chouinard	"Subordinating si and ni in Virgil: Some Characteristic Uses, with Remarks on Aeneid 6.882–6.883
Richard Gaskin	"On Being Pessimistic about the End of the Aeneid"
Gregory R. Mellen	"Num Delenda est Karthago? Metrical Wordplay and the Text of Horace Odes 4.8"
Kyle Gervais	"Dominoque legere superstes? Epic and Empire at the End of the Thebaid"
D. Clint Burnett	"Temple Sharing and Throne Sharing: A Reconsideration of Σύνναος and Σύνθρονος in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods"
Charles H. Cosgrove	"Semi-Lyrical Reading of Greek Poetry in Late Antiquity"
Byron MacDougall	"Better Recognize: Anagnorisis in Gregory of Nazianzus’s First Invective against Julian"
Alan Cameron	"Jerome and the Historia Augusta"
Jessica H. Clark	"Adfirmare and Appeals to Authority in Servius Danielis"
Jarrett T. Welsh	"Nonius Marcellus and the Source Called 'Gloss. i'"

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The papers in this volume are based on a 2018 conference in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University in honor of Richard Tarrant, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, on the occasion of his retirement.

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