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The AJP Best Article Prize for 2022 Has Been Presented by the American Journal of Philology to Rosa Andújar King's College London American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Alain Gowing, Matthew Farmer, Jackie Murray
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The AJP Best Article Prize for 2022 Has Been Presented by the American Journal of Philology to Rosa Andújar King’s College London Alain Gowing, Matthew Farmer, and Jackie Murray for her contribution to scholarship in “Philological Reception and the Repeating Odyssey in the Caribbean: Francisco Chofre’s La Odilea” AJP 143.2 (Summer 2022):
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The Principle of Decay, or: Why are there Four Bad Regimes in Platon's Politeia? American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Cătalin Enache
Abstract: The paper examines the four-step degeneration of the ideal state in Books 8 and 9 of Platon’s Politeia (timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, tyranny) and addresses the question of the number, choice, and succession of bad regimes. Against the common view which considers this part of the Politeia a confusing and structureless narrative, it is argued that the four steps of the devolution represent
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Revealed and Concealed: Carrying and the Sinus in Ancient Rome American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Melissa Bailey Kutner
Abstract: This paper uses literary sources to investigate how Romans carried objects. Carrying took place openly, in purses, and in clothing, especially the sinus, a fold of cloth created by togas or tunics. While open carrying is portrayed as reinforcing social hierarchies, carrying things in the sinus escaped hierarchies and was closely associated with the individual: with intimacy, character, and
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On (Not) Reading Inscribed Objects in Latin Comedy American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Hans Bork
Abstract: This paper examines the performance dynamics of onstage texts in Plautus’ comedies and, in the process, argues that an audience-level viewpoint is essential to understanding Latin stage comedy. Examples of rare epigraphic texts are compared with the more common motif of in-play “perishable texts.” The perishable type were performed by actors as though verbatim and transmit novel information
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The Misadventures of Latona in Ovid, Metamorphoses 6 American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Ellen Oliensis
Abstract: Latona enters the Ovidian spotlight in two episodes in Metamorphoses 6, confronting first Niobe and then some rude Lycian farmers. This essay begins by drawing attention to two features of these episodes: first, Ovid’s reshaping of the tradition to highlight Latona’s peculiar susceptibility to eviction, and second, the way the Lycian story in particular not only reenacts the disrespect the
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Re-Imagining Euripides' Medea: Pre-Colonial Indigenous Elements in Alfaro's Mojada American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Laurialan Reitzammer
Abstract: This essay examines pre-colonial Mesoamerican elements in Luis Alfaro’s Mojada, highlighting significant differences between the recently published script of the play and a version produced at the Public Theater in New York City, which I attended in summer 2019, to argue that the Public Theater production questions whether Indigenous myth and ritual can persist and function effectively in
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Disappearing into Thick Aēr: The Function of Aēr in homer and Anaximenes American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Benjamin Folit-Weinberg
Abstract: Aēr in Homer has rarely been discussed; the few studies that do exist focus on the word's semantics and scope of reference. This article proposes that we focus instead on how aēr works and what aēr does, both to characters within the Iliad and the Odyssey and, especially, for the poet responsible for composing them. First, I argue that aēr offers the poet a stratagem for navigating complex
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Cicero and the Mirage of the Tirocinium Fori American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Peter White
Abstract: Assumptions about the tirocinium fori are based on claims by Joachim Marquardt that it was a form of training for young elite Romans at about the age of 16, that it lasted for one year, and that it consisted of mentorship by a distinguished elder. Though there is little evidence to support these claims, the theory of a tirocinium fori continues to influence discussions of oratory in the age
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Horace-as-Alcaeus (Odes 3.6) Impersonates Horace-as-Archilochus (Epodes 7 And 16): Persona And Poetic Autobiography In Horace American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Shirley Werner
Abstract: A reader's enjoyment of Odes 3.6 and Epodes 7 and 16 is deepened by an awareness of the interplay between two relationships in Horace's poetry: the relationship of the speaker within the poem to an internal audience; and the interpretive relationship between the reader and the unstable persona of the implied author, Horace. The Archilochean authorial persona of Horace's Epodes and the Alcaic
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Perhaps a Fish, Surely an Ostrich, and Definitely a Fool: The Ontology of Insults at De Constantia Sapientis 17.1 American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Tommaso Gazzarri
Abstract: De Constantia Sapientis 17.1 contains two animal-based insults, the interpretation of which has heretofore proven controversial because of the difficulties in pinpointing the exact nature/identity of comparandum and comparatum. An adequate appreciation of the passage requires assessing the function of these contumeliae within Seneca's philosophical strategy. Their ontological vacuity reflects
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Subeunt Amazones: Tracing the Amazons in Statius' Achilleid American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Julene Abad Del Vecchio
Abstract: This article investigates the presence of Amazonian imagery in Statius' Achilleid. It begins by uncovering intertexts to Aeneid 1 in the arrival of Ulysses and Diomedes on Scyros (Ach. 1.726–58), which create a layer of erotic tension that is vital for the interpretation of the ensuing simile comparing Achilles, Deidamia, and Lycomedes' daughters with Amazons (Ach. 1.758–60). A comprehensive
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"More Useful and More Trustworthy": The Reception of the Greek Epic Cycle in Scholia to Homer, Pindar, and Euripides American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Jennifer Weintritt
Abstract: This article examines the citation context of fragments from the Epic Cycle in scholia in order to re-assess its ancient reception. In contrast to negative comments like Callimachus', literary criticism in practice demonstrates that the Cycle held great authority among readers and critics. In the Homeric scholia, commentators vigorously debated whether Cyclical epics should aid in the interpretation
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Meta-Literature and Mimesis in the Rhetorica ad Herennium 4.1–10 American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Luca Grillo
Abstract: In the prologue to the Rhetorica ad Herennium Book 4, the author boldly departs from tradition and explains that he will create his own examples, rather than drawing from poets and orators. This methodological discussion portrays itself as an exemplum and hence carries a meta-literary and mimetic dimension. In particular, this prologue anticipates and illustrates the precept propounded in
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My Angry Muse: The Metapoetic Interplay Between Juno and Vergil American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Špela Tomažinčič
Abstract: This paper explores the poetic interplay between the poet and angry goddess Juno, the two metacharacters in the Aeneid, that is central to the composition of Vergil's epic poem. In addition to the conflicting characterization that links both figures with the epic as well as elegiac genres, their agonistic relationship evokes a typically elegiac discourse between the poet-lover and his dura
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The Pleasures of Flattery and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion in Seneca's Natural Questions (4a Praef.) American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Chiara Graf
Abstract: In many of his works, Seneca puts a philosophical premium on the ability to see through the deceptive appearances of words and things, identifying the hidden truths that underlie these appearances. In this paper, I turn to a passage that casts doubt upon the efficacy of this interpretive method: Seneca's excursus on flattery in the preface to Book 4a of the Natural Questions. Seneca locates
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Herodian and Severan Historiography American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Andrew G. Scott
Abstract: This paper examines the historiographic controversies and disagreements surrounding the figure of Septimius Severus and highlighted by Herodian in his Roman History as a means of investigating the development of history writing during and in the aftermath of that emperor's reign. Herodian cites Severus' transition to power and reign as a locus for historical and historiographical controversy
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Commentary on Augustine City of God, Books 1–5 by Gillian Clark (review) American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2023-06-14 James J. O'Donnell
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Commentary on Augustine City of God, Books 1–5 by Gillian Clark James J. O'Donnell Commentary on Augustine City of God, Books 1–5. By Gillian Clark. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 281. ISBN: 978-0-19-887007-4. Pierre Bayard's masterful How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read offers soothing balm for readers
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Metal and Mettle: Odyssean Elements of the Racialized Body and Oddsee's Hybridity in Suzan-Lori Parks' Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) (2015) American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Sasha-Mae Eccleston
Abstract: This article compares the idealism underwriting both the survival of Odysseus' family in Homer's Odyssey and hybridity in Suzan-Lori Parks' Father Comes Home from the Wars (2015). Building upon an instance of indirect transmission from Homer to Fagles to Parks, it argues that Parks' creation of a hybrid human canine figure not only queries hybridity's role as the telos of Black liberation
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What Do They Know of Cricket, Who Only Cricket Know?": Classical and Colonial Knowledge in C. L. R. James' Beyond a Boundary American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Katherine Harloe, Mathura Umachandran
Abstract: Part sociological analysis of race and class in colonial Trinidad, part autobiographical Bildungsroman, Beyond a Boundary is the cricketing memoir of Trinidadian intellectual and anticolonial activist C. L. R. James (1901–1989). We argue that it offers a good site for thinking through the position of the racially minoritized intellectual entangled in neocolonial logics of cultural hierarchy
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The Tower of the Past in Polybius, Bede, and Fanon American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Adam Lecznar
Abstract: Frantz Fanon uses the metaphor of the Tower of the Past in his conclusion to Peau noire, masques blancs (Black Skin, White Masks) to argue that racialized historical narratives alienate and imprison their readers. In the first part of this article I read excerpts from Polybius and Bede to isolate the metaphors that both authors use to describe and explain the phenomenon of empire and its
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African American Travelers Encounter Greece, ca. 1850–1900 American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2023-04-04 John W. I. Lee
Abstract: This essay examines the experiences of three 19th-century African American travelers to Greece—David Dorr (1852), Frederick Douglass (1887), and John Wesley Gilbert (1890–1)—using evidence from their letters, diaries, and published writings. The essay shows that although each traveler's unique personal perspective shaped his response to seeing the ancient sites and monuments of Greece, all
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Felling the Canon: Classical Roots and Anti-Genealogies in Monica Youn's Blackacre American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Erynn Kim
Abstract: This article analyzes the use of classical references in Monica Youn's collection Blackacre. Inspired by rhizomatic models of classical reception studies, my reading focuses on the relationship between classical references in the body of the poems, on the one hand, and classical references in the paratexts on the other hand. I argue that Youn's oblique engagement with classical material exposes
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The AJP Best Article Prize Winner American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2023-01-18 William M. Breichner
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The AJP Best Article Prize Winner William M. Breichner, Journals Publisher THE AJP BEST ARTICLE PRIZE FOR 2021 HAS BEEN PRESENTED BY THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY TO ERIKA VALDIVIESO YALE UNIVERSITY for her contribution to scholarship in “Dissecting a Forgery,” AJP 142.3 (Fall 2021): 493–533. Valdivieso conclusively demonstrates that
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Harshing Zeus' Μέλω: Reassessing The Sympathy of Zeus at Iliad 20.21 American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Bill Beck
Abstract: The dominant interpretation of Zeus' words at Iliad 20.21, which regards μέλουσί μοι ὀλλύμενοί περ as an expression of sympathy for dying warriors, poses a number of serious contextual and lexical problems. This article argues that Il. 20.21 is not an expression of compassion, but attention. Zeus is not concerned for dying warriors, but attentive to them, as indeed his deadly βουλή (Il. 20
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Comic Echopoetics in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazousai American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Alyson Melzer
Abstract: The Thesmophoriazousai brims with themes of imitation, from its broader tragic parodies to its finer sonic textures. This study uncovers the functions and effects of imitation on the dramatically crucial (but often neglected) verbal level by means of Echo—a bizarre metatheatrical character who embodies the dynamics of mimicking speech and parody. The aural echo is provided as a conceptual
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Nostalgia for Paradise: The Escape from Time in Horace's Epode 16 American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Jeffrey P. Ulrich
Abstract: Epode 16, Horace's famous decline poem about Rome before Actium, has long been viewed as a cynical response to Vergil's prophecy of a returning Golden Age in Eclogue 4. In this article, I argue that there is another, unrecognized intertext for Epode 16—Pindar's Olympian 2—to which Horace's bleak poem alludes in a "window reference" refracted through Vergil's bucolic. As such, Horace's cynicism
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Lucian's Fatherland Encomium and the Meaning of Samosata American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Stephen E. Kidd
Abstract: Lucian's Fatherland Encomium is thought to have been delivered at Samosata, Lucian's hometown. Although he never mentions "Samosata" in this speech, he repeatedly toys with the "name of the fatherland" as the speech's theme. But what is the name of his native city? The Greeks called it "Samosata" but this is clearly a transliteration. I consider the Aramaic, Persian, and Armenian versions
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Senecan Trimeter and Humanist Tragedy American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Aleksandr Fedchin, Patrick J. Burns, Pramit Chaudhuri, Joseph P. Dexter
Abstract: The lack of extant contemporary comparanda obscures the workings of iambic trimeter in Senecan tragedy. This article offers a quantitative analysis of the reception of Senecan trimeter in four early works of Italian Humanist Tragedy, which illuminates the creative possibilities afforded by the basic structure of the meter and identifies specific features important to questions of style and
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Global Empires and The Roman Imperium American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Brent D. Shaw
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Global Empires and The Roman Imperium Brent D. Shaw P. Fibiger Bang, C. A. Bayly, and W. Scheidel, eds. The Oxford World History of Empire. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021; xxviii + 552 pp.; xxxiv + 1,318 pp. The volumes under review are an impressive if unequal diptych. The first, the slimmer of the two, entitled "The Imperial
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The Ethics of Revenge and the Meanings of the Odyssey by Alexander C. Loney (review) American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Emily P. Austin
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Ethics of Revenge and the Meanings of the Odyssey by Alexander C. Loney Emily P. Austin Alexander C. Loney. The Ethics of Revenge and the Meanings of the Odyssey. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xii +265. Hardcover, $78.00. ISBN 978-0-190-90967-3. The Ethics of Revenge and the Meanings of the Odyssey places
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Editor's Letter American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Joseph Farrell
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editor's Letter Joseph Farrell, Editor, AJP In issue number 140.1 of this journal, I wrote about the editorial board's commitment that AJP "should play its part in helping to transform the practice and the identity of our discipline so that it both reflects and engenders greater intellectual diversity and becomes an exciting venue for
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Introduction: Classical Philology, Otherhow American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Emily Greenwood
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction:Classical Philology, Otherhow Emily Greenwood Philology is restless. It travels in the wake of the languages that are its subject, object, and medium, it travels as history moves, and it travels with theory.1 Sometimes, as Victor Klemperer put it, it goes into exile.2 Our branch of philology, classical philology, also shifts
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Racing The Classics: Ethos and Praxis American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Dan-El Padilla Peralta
Abstract: In 2017, we founded the international conference series Racing the Classics to challenge foundational assumptions about knowledge production and race within the discipline. The inaugural event invited participants to unabashedly center race and ethnicity in their research in order to counter the dangerously universalizing pretensions of "Western Civilization" and other white supremacist ideologies
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The Latin Language and Native Survivance in North America American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Craig Williams
Abstract: This article discusses a representative sampling of texts from the 17th century to today in which indigenous writers of North America reflect on or make use of the Latin language, simultaneously no one's native language and marker of that European antiquity which has played a distinct role in colonizing processes on a continent which has its own still-living antiquity. With varying emphases
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Basil Gildersleeve and John Scott: Race and the Rise of American Classical Philology American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Denise Eileen McCoskey
Abstract: In this paper, I expose some of the ways contemporary ideas about race permeated the rise of American classical philology during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. More specifically, I identify places where ideas about race, slavery, skin color, and "race suicide" surface in the writings of Basil Gildersleeve and John Scott, then show how those concepts can be traced to the rise of racial
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Beyond Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic: Black Elocutionary Education in Post-Emancipation America American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Heidi Morse
Abstract: At the close of the U.S. Civil War, the future of Black citizenship remained an open question. Schoolrooms and peer-taught extracurricular lessons became critical training grounds for learning to speak, recite, and proclaim—the building blocks of 19th-century American citizenship. Lessons derived from Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria (95 C.E.), preserved in early American schoolbooks and
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Philological Reception and the Repeating Odyssey in the Caribbean: Francisco Chofre's La Odilea American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Rosa Andújar
Abstract: This article discusses La Odilea, Francisco Chofre's prose adaptation of the Odyssey, which refigures both Homer's heroes as guajiros (peasants) and the ancient epic itself through the adoption of an oral Cuban dialect. My examination first highlights Chofre's linguistic transformations, which I consider a model of "philological" reception, as well as the ambiguous and complex relationship
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Reconstructing Classical Philology: Reading Aristotle Politics 1.4 After Toni Morrison American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Emily Greenwood
Abstract: In the course of his discussion of the role of slavery in the domestic economy of the ancient Greek city, Aristotle makes the claim that "the slave is a kind of animate piece of property" (Pol. 1253b32). This article reexamines Aristotle's choice of language through the lens of the Black radical philology of Toni Morrison, Hortense Spillers, and Christina Sharpe. In particular, it uses Sharpe's
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Literary Reflections on the Dithyrambic Genre American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Theodora A. Hadjimichael
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Literary Reflections on the Dithyrambic Genre Theodora A. Hadjimichael Abstract This article addresses the question of how the dithyramb was classified in antiquity, examining in detail two fragmentary papyri (P.Graec.Vindob. 19996a–b; P.Berol. 9671 verso) alongside other testimonia which comment on the nature and development of the dithyrambic
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Victim of Eros: The Poetics of Sex in Theocritus' First Idyll American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Elsa Bouchard
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Victim of Eros:The Poetics of Sex in Theocritus' First Idyll Elsa Bouchard Abstract This article proposes a new interpretation of the "sufferings of Daphnis" as they are sung by the shepherd Thyrsis in Theocritus' first Idyll. While the common view is that Daphnis' wasting was caused by a stubborn commitment to fidelity or to chastity
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Horace's Ode 1.12: Subterranean Lyrics American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Elena Giusti
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Horace's Ode 1.12:Subterranean Lyrics Elena Giusti Abstract Horace's Ode 1.12 is commonly thought to be alluding to the wedding between Augustus' nephew C. Claudius Marcellus and Augustus' daughter Julia in 25 b.c.e., but there are equally good poetic reasons for reading the poem instead as alluding to the young Marcellus' demise in the
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Going Through the Mill: Sites of Passage in Apuleius' Metamorphoses American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Julia Doroszewska
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Going Through the Mill:Sites of Passage in Apuleius' Metamorphoses Julia Doroszewska Abstract This paper aims to analyze four topographical elements featured in Apuleius' Metamorphoses: the marshes, the door, the seashore, and the mill. It will be argued that in their literary representations, these spots, familiar and ordinary as they
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The Wondrous Journey of Cicero's Head to Sardis: Hellenic Identity and Biculturalism in a Greek Imperial Epigram American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Regina Höschele
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Wondrous Journey of Cicero's Head to Sardis:Hellenic Identity and Biculturalism in a Greek Imperial Epigram Regina Höschele Abstract This paper examines an inscriptional epigram from Sardis (04/02/05 Merkelbach-Stauber), which was designed to accompany a bust of Cicero set up by a Greek named Polybios in the 2nd century c.e. The epigram
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The Metamorphosis of an Ass American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Shadi Bartsch
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Metamorphosis of an Ass Shadi Bartsch Peter Singer, ed. and Ellen Finkelpearl, trans. Apuleius: The Golden Ass. London: Norton, 2021. ix + 219 pp. $19.95. 1. IN WHICH THE AUTHOR MUST DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT TO WRITE A REVIEW The Lucius of Apuleius' The Golden Ass is not delighted at his transformation into an ass, but the many juicy
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The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics by Jessie Hock (review) American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Philip Hardie
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics by Jessie Hock Philip Hardie Jessie Hock. The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 234 pp. Cloth, $59.95. LCCN: 2020019209. ISBN: 9780812252729. This reworking of a 2015 Berkeley thesis
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Horace's Ode 1.12: Subterranean Lyrics American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Elena Giusti
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Victim of Eros: The Poetics of Sex in Theocritus' First Idyll American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Elsa Bouchard
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The Wondrous Journey of Cicero's Head to Sardis: Hellenic Identity and Biculturalism in a Greek Imperial Epigram American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Regina Höschele
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Literary Reflections on the Dithyrambic Genre American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Theodora A. Hadjimichael
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The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics by Jessie Hock American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Philip Hardie
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Going Through the Mill: Sites of Passage in Apuleius' Metamorphoses American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Julia Doroszewska
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About the Journal American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-02-07
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: About the Journal The American Journal of Philology (AJP) was one of two foundational publications responsible for launching Johns Hopkins University Press. Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve founded AJP in 1880, two years before the Press would publish its first book. He would edit the Journal for forty years. Gildersleeve is generally considered
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Divine Resonance in Early Greek Epic: Space, Knowledge, Affect American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Stephen A. Sansom
Abstract: This article reframes the cultic prohibition of sound in Homeric Hymn to Demeter 478–9 as an emic model for understanding sonic encounter with the divine in early Greek epic. It argues that these lines represent divine resonance, that is, the experience of divine sound, according to the themes of space, knowledge, and affect. This framework guides three close readings: Penelope and the eidôlon
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Athenians, Amazons, and Solecisms: Language Contact in Herodotus American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Edward Nolan
Abstract: This article examines the relationship between Herodotus' observations about languages that change through contact with each other and modern understandings of these phenomena. Concepts invoked include imperfect learning, diglossia, linguistic convergence, mixed languages, borrowing, and language death. Not only does Herodotus appear to describe (if sometimes vaguely) real phenomena, but
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Gesture, Metaphor and the Body in Trojan Women American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Afroditi Angelopoulou
Abstract: This paper evaluates the centrality of the body in Euripides' Trojan Women, arguing that physical and metaphorical movement is a constituent element of the dramatic narrative. My analysis seeks to promote the convergence between the "page" and the "stage" by demonstrating the close interrelation between visual and verbal meaning, and how embodied experience decidedly shapes both the language
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Fabula Muta: Petronius, Poetry, and Rape American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Debra Freas
Abstract: Petronian scholars have long recognized that Encolpius' erotic experiences in the Croton episode are influenced by Ovid's amatory works, yet three of his poems in this section—Sat. 126.18, 131.8, 137.9—are more indebted to Ovid in style and substance than previously realized on account of their engagement with mythological rape and metamorphosis. This article argues that Petronius critiques
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Born Roman Between a Beet and a Cabbage American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Caroline Cheung
Abstract: A graffito (CIL 4.4533) from a Pompeian carpentry workshop (VI.14.37) describes a knight as born Roman between a beet and a cabbage. This paper explores the graffito's possible meanings by reviewing the ways these vegetables have been featured in discourse regarding agriculture, dining, parties, and metaphors or characters and posits that they were initially featured in a positive light.
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The AJP Best Article Prize for 2020 has been Presented by the American Journal of Philology to James Uden Boston University American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2021-09-30 William M. Breichner
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The AJP Best Article Prize for 2020 has been Presented by the American Journal of Philology to James Uden Boston University William M. Breichner, Journals Publisher for his contribution to scholarship in "The Margins of Satire: Suetonius, Satura, and Scholarly Outsiders in Ancient Rome," AJP 141.4 (Winter 2020): 575–601. In this article
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Courtship and its Discontents in Greek Literature American Journal of Philology Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Rebecca Laemmle
Abstract: A number of foundational narratives of archaic Greek culture revolve around courtship competitions in which a multitude of suitors subject themselves to a fierce, often deadly, competition for the hand of one woman. Most retellings of these stories focus on the competition and its outcome, a marriage that typically confirms, and occasionally upsets, the dynastic ambitions and power alliances