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Proceedings a Fri Can Classical Associations THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE AFRI CAN CLASSICAL ASSOCIATIONS Vol. 8 1965 THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE AFRICAN CLASSICAL ASSOCIATIONS, a journal for original contributions in any aspect of Greek or Roman studies, will accept such contributions primarily, but not exclusively, from scholars within Africa. Material submitted for publication must be type-written, double spaced, and have ample margins. Contributors of articles are entitled to receive 25 copies of their respective contributions free; reviewers receive 10 copies of their reviews. Proceedings of the African Classical Associations is published annually towards the end of the year. Articles for publication must reach the Managing Editor not later than April 30th. Advertising copy should be submitted to him by June 1st. The yearly subscription rate and/or the price for individual volumes is 16 shillings (numbers of volumes available are limited). Individual off-prints will be sold at cost prices. Cheques etc. should be made payable to: The Treasurer, Classical Association of Central Africa, Private Bag 167 H, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. Articles intended for publication, books for review, subscrip­ tions, remittances and other editorial communications should be addres,sed to the Assistant Editor: MR. A. M. G. McLEOD, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, P. Bag 167 H, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE AFRICAN CLASSICAL ASSOCIATIONS Vol. 8 1965 CONTENTS Page Editorial 3 E. BADIAN The date of Clitarchus 5 University of Leeds G. T. GRIFFITH Alexander and Antipater in 323 B.c. 12 Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge L. A. THOMPSON Foreign furiosi 18 University of Ibadan L. G. POCOCK On Iliad XXIII, 71-6 22 Christchurch, New Zealand J. FERGUSON Some Catullan Problems 28 University of Ibadan A. W ASSERSTEIN The Development of Aristotle's Thought 35 University of Leicester P.H. CANHAM Ad discipulos meos philoscarabaeos 11 Letter to the Editor 21 Notes and Proceedings 38 Reviews. 42 A. S. F. Gow (ed.), Machon, The Fragments (W. G. Arnott, Newcastle-upon-Tyne); L. R. PAL­ MER, The Interpretation of Mycenaean Greek T exts (P. Considine, Salisbury); P. MAAS, Greek Metre, trans. H . Lloyd-Jones (D.S. Raven, Oxford); J. G. WARRY, Greek Aesthetic Theory (J. B. Skemp, Dur­ ham); W. S. ALLEN, Vox Latina (P. Considine, Salisbury); R. D. DAWE, The Co llation and Investiga­ tion of Manuscripts of Aeschylus (R. G. Tanner, Newcas tle, New South Wales); R. HANSLIK, Anzeiger fur die A ltertumswissenschaft XVII, 2 (1 964 ): Der Forschungsbericht II: Plinius der Jiltere (W. J. Ri­ chards, Pretoria); MARGARET M. PHILLIPS, The Adages of Erasmus (M. D. D. Newitt, Salisbury); D. A. E. GARROD and J. G.D. CLARK, Primitive Man in Egypt, Western Asia and Europe (P. S. Garlake, Salisbury); M. WILSON, Latin Syntax (E. M. Slatter, Salisbury) ; G. M. CowAN, Latin Translation (V. I. Falconer, S.J., Salisbury); G. M. SINGLETON, Latin at Eleven (P. Considine, Salisbury). EDITORIAL BOARD Dr. E. BADIAN, Durham Colleges, University of Durham (British Editor); Prof. T. B. L. WEBSTER, University College, London; Prof. G. VAN. N. VILJOEN, University of South Africa, Pretoria; Prof. H.F. GUI!E, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Managing Editor); Mr. L. M. LAMBIRIS (Technical Editor); Miss P. FORDER, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Auistant Editor); Mr. A. M. G. McLEOD, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Auistant Editor) . EDITORIAL AMONG the books that we review in this number is W. Sidney Allen's Vox Latina, published this year by the Cambridge University Press, at once a reward and a stimulus for those of us who believe that there is no such thing as Latin apart from the sounds of Latin. It is, of course, quite possible to read Latin without uttering it, even inwardly. But if we do read it like that we are treating it as a mere code, which being decoded yields information, not as a tongue that spoke and whispered and shouted and sang though the whole range of human passion. Very few of us do in fact read Latin without making some inward sound, and what historian can reconstruct a character without at least beginning to wonder how he spoke ? And if we do make some sort of inward utter­ ance, if we do hear Cicero's quo usque tandem abutere, if we listen with Octavian to Virgil reading Aeneid VI, then we owe our best thanks to a scholar who sharpens, confirms and disciplines the imaginative ear. THE DATE OF CLITARCHUS Every student of the history of Alexander are clearly not in chronological- if indeed 4 6 the Great - and many others - cannot help in any- order.( ) Cicero in the Brutus( ) knowing the uncertainty that surrounds the puts Stratocles and Clitarchus together as date of the historian Clitarchus, who is a pair of liars - clearly without a thought undoubtedly an important source of some or as to which of them lied first. Quintilian all of our surviving accounts of Alexander. merely tells us(6) that Timagenes was born The relationship between Clitarchus and a long time after Clitarchus. Since Tima­ 7 the first-generation writers ( especially Ari­ genes lived in Cicero's day,( ) this helps us stobulus) has often been discussed, and only against the paradox-mongers who widely differing conclusions have been would put Clitarchus in the first century 8 arrived at.(1) It is not the purpose of this B.C.( ) The author On the Sublime( 9 ) men­ note to survey the problems of Quellenfor­ tions Clitarchus after Callisthenes and be­ schung: perhaps enough has been said on fore Amphicrates, Hegesias and Matris. this, at least for some time to come. It is Jacoby at one time thought that the order rather to point out that considerations of of the first two could be accepted as method would suggest that, before literary chronological; later he rightly withdrew· this interrelationship is investigated, the external and described the whole passage as 'nicht evidence on the date of Clitarchus should zeitlich genau'.(10) There is, indeed, no first be carefully scrutinised and interpreted. more to be said about it. Amphicrates fled Though this will not in itself help to resolve from Athens when it was captured by 11 the literary problem, it may at le~st rid Sulla:( ) the authors range from the fourth us of some hypotheses which - however century to the first. ingenious - should never have been ad­ Not much remains: four passages out of vanced. fourteen. One of these is another list; and The testirrwnia bearing on the date of being by now somewhat familiar with the Clitarchus are very limited in number. habits of ancient authors in giving such 2 J acoby( ) lists fourteen testimonia in all. Of lists, we must approach it with a certain these, six(3) are obviously irrelevant to our amount of suspicion. Philodemus the Epi­ question and may be ignored. Most of the curean, in his treatise on rhetoric, mentions others - those in the form of lists - melt Clitarchus in a list after Alcidamas and away on closer scrutiny. The lists of authors Hegesias and (apparently) before a De- in the first book of Pliny's Natural History (4) Pliny, n.h. i 6, 7, 12, 13 (T 14). (1) See, recently, L. Pearson, The lost histories of Alexan­ (5) Cic. Brut. 42 (T 7). der the Great (1960), ch. VIII. (Cf. my review of Pearson, (6) Quint. inst. x I, 74 (T 6). now in Studies in Greek and Roman history (1964), 258 f.) (7) RE, s.v. 'Timagenes' 2, init. The most recent special discussion known to me is (8) Against this view see Hamilton, op. cit. (n. 1) 455 f. J. R. Hamilton, H i'storia 1961, 448 f. Earlier bibliography It needs no further refutation. will be found in both these works. (9) Anon. sub/. 3, 2 (T 9). (2) F gr Hist ii, no. 137. (10) RE, s.v. 'Kleitarchos' 1, init.; F gr Hist ii 2, 485. (3) T I, 2, 8, 10, 11, 13. (ll) RE, s.v. 'Amphikrates' 4. 5 E . BADIAN 12 (usually restored 'Demetrius'). Jacoby( ) and Demosthenes, Lycurgus, Hyperides, said that Philodemus has here made an Callistratus (in no recognisable order: three exception to his rule ('im allgemeinen') of of them were roughly contemporary).(17) listing in chronological order. Tarn rejected More interesting still: the one mixed list this as unscientific - as indeed it is. But (not confined to Athenians, or philosophers the real question is, of course,(13) whether of one school) is in hopeless disarray: Pisi­ Philodemus does usually list chronologically. stratus, Cleisthenes, Themistocles, Pericles, Anyone approaching Sudhaus's edition ex­ Pausanias (the victor of Plataea- as is pecting to find lists on every other page fortunately specified), Cimon, Alcibiades.(18) will be sadly disappointed. In fact, in the One wonders what could have been made whole of the first volume (from which the of this, if the dates of Pericles had been testimonium is taken) I can only find three as obscure as those of late fourth-century instances strictly comparable: one is the historians and rhetors. canonical order of Epicurus, Metrodorus It follows that the list in Philodemus and Hermarchus (repeated elsewhere), which cannot be used to determine the date he an eminent Epicurean was not likely to assigned to Clitarchus. Not that it would vary;(14) one is the order Pericles, Callistra­ help much if it could. Alcidamas is firmly 15 tus, Demosthenes - duly chronological;( ) fixed as the first of the men named.(19) the last is a list of four rhetors, only one After this things become difficult. Hegesias 16 of whom (Hegesias) is known at all.( ) was probably active at the end of the fourth Volume ii yields a few more, usually and early in the third century B.C.(20) The canonical, lists of Athenian statesmen.
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