DOCSLIB.ORG

Illinois Classical Studies

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Illinois Classical Studies immmmmu NOTICE: Return or renew alt Library Materials! The Minimum Fee for each Lost Book Is $50.00. The person charging this material is responsible for its return to the library from which it was withdrawn on or before the Latest Date stamped below. Theft, mutilation, and underlining of books are reasons for discipli- nary action and may result In dismissal from the University. To renew call Telephone Center, 333-8400 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN m •' 2m MAR1 m ' 9. 2011 m nt ^AR 2 8 7002 H«ro 2002 - JUL 2 2ii^ APR . -.^ art Ll( S~tH ^ v^ a ILLINOIS CLASSICAL STUDIES VOLUME XIX 1994 ISSN 0363-1923 ILLINOIS CLASSICAL STUDIES VOLUME XIX 1994 SCHOLARS PRESS ISSN 0363-1923 ILLINOIS CLASSICAL STUDIES VOLUME XIX Studies in Honor of Mirosiav Marcovich Volume 2 The Board of Trustees University of Illinois Copies of the journal may be ordered from: Scholars Press Membership Services P.O. Box 15399 Aaanta,GA 30333-0399 Printed in the U.S.A. EDITOR David Sansone ADVISORY EDITORIAL COMMITTEE William M. Calder IH J. K. Newman Eric Hostetter S. Douglas Olson Howard Jacobson Maryline G. Parca CAMERA-READY COPY PRODUCED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MARY ELLEN FRYER Illinois Classical Studies is published annually by Scholars Press. Camera- ready copy is edited and produced in the Department of the Classics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Each contributor receives fifty offprints free of charge. Contributions should be addressed to: The Editor, Illinois Classical Studies Department of the Classics 4072 Foreign Languages Building 707 South Mathews Avenue Urbana, Illinois 61801 Miroslav Marcovich Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa The University of Illinois 15 May 1994 . Contents Miroslav Marcovich: Addenda to List of Publications 1 1 The Name of Achilles: Questions of Etymology and "Folk-Etymology" 3 GREGORY NAGY, Harvard University 2. Heraclitus on Old and New Months: T'.Ojty. 3710 11 DAVID SIDER, Fordham University 3. A propos d'Iphigdnie dans VAgamemnon d'Eschyle 19 JACQUELINE DE ROMILLY, College de France 4. Anonymity and Polarity: Unknown Gods and Nameless Altars at the Areopagos 27 ALBERT HENRICHS, Harvard University 5. Bride or Concubine? lole and Heracles' Motives in the Trachiniae 59 CHARLES SEGAL Harvard University 6. Conjectures on Oedipus at Colonus 65 R. D. DAWE. Trinity College, Cambridge 7. Euripides Outside Athens: A Speculative Note 73 P. E. EASTERLING, Newnham College, Cambridge 8. E\)7i6pa>5 e'xeiv and Antiphon, De cflede //ero^w 76 81 JAMES DIGGLE, Queens' College. Cambridge 9. Style, Genre and Author 83 KENNETH DOVER. University of St. Andrews 10. "Opening Socrates": The Eikcov of Alcibiades 89 HELEN F. NORTH, Swarthmore College 11. Philip II, The Greeks, and The King 346-336 B.C. 99 JOHN BUCKLER, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 12. Reflexe hellenistischer Dichtungstheorie im griechischen Epigramm 123 CHRISTOPH RIEDWEG. Johannes Gutenberg-UniversitSt Mainz . 1 13. La Ruse de Bacchis et le Chant du Rossignol (Plaute, Bacchides 37-38) 151 HUBERT ZEHNACKER. University de Paris-Sorbonne 14. On the Training of the Agrimensores in Republican Rome and Related Problems: Some Preliminary Observations 161 C. JOACHIM CLASSEN, Georg-August-Universitat, Gottingen 15. Virgil's Danaid Ekphrasis 171 MICHAEL C. J. PUTNAM, Brown University 16. How to be Philosophical about the End of the Aeneid 191 KARL GAUNSKY, The University of Texas at Austin 17. Zu Appuleius, Mefam<9r/7/i(9.se/i 1. 15 203 REINHOLD MERKELBACH, Universitat Koln 18. Babrius, Fa^. 78: A New MS 205 JOHN VAIO, University of Illinois at Chicago 19. Some Manuscripts of Dionysius the Periegete 209 MICHAEL REEVE, Pembroke College, Cambridge 20. Notes on the Second Sophistic in Palestine 221 JOSEPH GEIGER, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 21 Singing Without an Instrument: Plotinus on Suicide 23 JOHN DILLON, Trinity College, Dublin 22. Quintilian, Tyconius and Augustine 239 CHARLES KANNENGIESSER. Concordia University, Montreal 23. Verkannte Genitive bei Prudentius 253 CH. GNILKA, Westfalische Wilhehns-Universitat Milnster 24. Das Schrifttum des Oriens Christianus als Bestandteil der spatantiken Literatur 261 JOHANNES IRMSCHER. Berlin 25. Der Humanist und das Buch: Heinrich Rantzaus Liebeserklarung an seine Biicher 265 WALTHER LUDWIG, Universitat Hamburg Miroslav Marcovich: Addenda to List of Publications {ICS 18 [1993] 1-17) I. BOOKS 24. lustini Martyris Dialogus cum Tryphone. Ed. M. M., Patristische Texte und Studien (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 1995) sub prelo 25. dementis Alexandrini Protrepticus. Ed. M. M. (Leiden- E J Brill 1995) sub prelo The Name of Achilles: Questions of Etymology and "Folk-Etymology' GREGORY NAGY In his book on the language of the Linear B tablets, Leonard R. Palmer explained the etymology of the name of Achilles, 'AxvX(X)£U(;, as a shortened variant of a compound formation *Akhi-lauos, built from the roots of axoq, "grief," and of Xaoq, "host of fighting men, folk," morphologically parallel to such "Caland" compounds as Homeric ia)5i- dveipa and Oi6i-7i65ri(;. ' The posited morphological shortening from Akhflauos to 'AxiA.(?i)eTJ<;, with optional doubhng of the last consonant in the shortened variant, is paralleled by such forms as Xapi-^aoq and Xdpi>.A.oq (cf. also ^iXevc, vs. OiXXexx;)? What follows is a brief reassessment of Palmer's explanation, in the wake of over thirty years of intermittent debate. In my own work on the name of Achilles, I agreed with Palmer's reconstruction of *Akhilauos, offering further evidence on the two distinct levels of linguistics and poetics.^ The linguistic evidence was primarily morphological, with a few additions to the examples already adduced by Palmer."* The poetic evidence came mainly from the formulaic system attested in the Dickersprache of the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey. ' L. R. Palmer, The Interpretation of Mycenaean Greek Texts (Oxford 1963) 78-79. The original formulation for this kind of compound: W. Caland, "Beitrage zur kennlnis des Avesla: Adjectiva auf -ra in der composition," Zeitschrift fiir vergleichende Sprachforschung 32 (1893) 592; cf. E. Risch, Wortbildung der homerischen Sprache, 2nd ed. (Berlin 1974) 218-19. ^ Palmer (previous note) 79. On the morphology of -eiiq, as in 'AxiX(X)e\)<;, see Palmer 78; cf. J.-L. Perpillou, Les substantifs grecs en -fdq (Paris 1973) 167-299. See also in general J. Schindler, "On the Greek Type ijrjtDiq," in A. Morpurgo Davies and W. Meid (eds.). Studies in Greek, Italic, and Indo-European Linguistics Offered to Leonard R. Palmer on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday, Innsbrucker Beitrage zur Sprachwissenschaft 16 (Innsbruck 1976) 349-52, who demonstrates that this type of suffix is not a borrowing from a non-Indo-European language and that ev)-stems are in general secondary fomiations derived from o-stems. ^G. Nagy, The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry (Baltimore 1979) 69-93; for the original fomiulation of the argument, see Nagy, "The Name of Achilles: Etymology and Epic," in Morpurgo Davies and Meid (previous note) 209-37. "* Nagy, Best of the Achaeans (previous note) 70; cf. "The Name of Achilles" (previous note) 209-10. 4 Illinois Classical Studies 19 (1994) First of all, we may note that the noun axoq, "grief," is a functional synonym of nevGoq, "grief," in the Homeric Dichtersprache; for example, the personal grief of Achilles over Briseis is axo<; at//. 1. 188, 16. 52, 55 and nevGoc; at 1. 362; his grief over Patroklos is axoq at 18. 22, 23. 47 and TiEvGoc; at 18. 73; likewise, the collective grief of the Achaeans is axoq at 16. 22 and nhQoc, at 9. 3.^ This thematic parallelism between axo<; and nEvGoq is pertinent, I argued, to the morphological parallelism between Palmer's reconstructed "Caland" compounds *Akhi-lauos and *Penthi- lauos, matching respectively the shortened "Caland" forms 'AxiX(X)et)(; and nevGiXoq.^ Second, I argued at length that the poetic evidence of the Homeric Dichtersprache reveals "a pervasive nexus" between a^oq and 'AxiX(>.)£t)(;, which is "integrated in the inherited formulaic system and hence deeply rooted in the epic tradition."'' This statement is quoted, with approval, by Gary B. Holland, who then goes on to summarize my overall interpretation of the Iliad along the lines of this etymology: It also seems clear that Achilles' actions (or lack of action) lead to axoi; for the host of fighting men. In Nagy's formula, Achilles' axoq leads to Achilles' |ifivi(; leads to olxoc, of the Achaeans. Furthennore, while the Trojans appear to be winning, that is, while they have the KpdTO(; "power," the Achaeans have axoc,. Thus, the thematic associations of axoq and Xaoq with the name of Achilles provide further corroboration for the etymology proposed by Palmer.* Despite his agreement on the level of poetics, Holland has two objections on the level of linguistics. First, he suggests that the thematic nexus between axoc, and 'AxvA.(X)ev»<; may be a matter of "folk-etymology," not etymology: "The preponderance of axoq and its derivatives may simply be due to a folk-etymological association of the word with the name of Achilles on the part of the epic poet(s), and not to an actual etymological connection" (emphasis mine).' Second, he suggests that my translation of the "Caland" compound Akhi-lauos, "whose Xaoq has axo<;," "seems wrong for this compound type," because "dependent noun compounds are ' Nagy, Best of the Achaeans (above, note 3) 94; cf. "The Name of Achilles" (above, note 3)221. ^ Nagy, Best of the Achaeans (above, note 3) 72; cf. "The Name of Achilles" (above, note 3)210. ' Nagy, Best of the Achaeans (above, note 3) 79. * G. B. Holland, "The Name of Achilles: A Revised Etymology," Glottal \ (1993) 17-27, at 22. For the original version of the formulation paraphrased here, see Nagy, "The Name of Achilles" (above, note 3) 216.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • The Morals, Vol. 2 [1878]
    The Online Library of Liberty A Project Of Liberty Fund, Inc. Plutarch, The Morals, vol. 2 [1878] The Online Library Of Liberty This E-Book (PDF format) is published by Liberty Fund, Inc., a private, non-profit, educational foundation established in 1960 to encourage study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. 2010 was the 50th anniversary year of the founding of Liberty Fund. It is part of the Online Library of Liberty web site http://oll.libertyfund.org, which was established in 2004 in order to further the educational goals of Liberty Fund, Inc. To find out more about the author or title, to use the site's powerful search engine, to see other titles in other formats (HTML, facsimile PDF), or to make use of the hundreds of essays, educational aids, and study guides, please visit the OLL web site. This title is also part of the Portable Library of Liberty DVD which contains over 1,000 books and quotes about liberty and power, and is available free of charge upon request. The cuneiform inscription that appears in the logo and serves as a design element in all Liberty Fund books and web sites is the earliest-known written appearance of the word “freedom” (amagi), or “liberty.” It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash, in present day Iraq. To find out more about Liberty Fund, Inc., or the Online Library of Liberty Project, please contact the Director at [email protected]. LIBERTY FUND, INC.
    [Show full text]
  • ROMAN POLITICS DURING the JUGURTHINE WAR by PATRICIA EPPERSON WINGATE Bachelor of Arts in Education Northeastern Oklahoma State
    ROMAN POLITICS DURING THE JUGURTHINE WAR By PATRICIA EPPERSON ,WINGATE Bachelor of Arts in Education Northeastern Oklahoma State University Tahlequah, Oklahoma 1971 Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate College of the Oklahoma State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS May, 1975 SEP Ji ·J75 ROMAN POLITICS DURING THE JUGURTHINE WAR Thesis Approved: . Dean of the Graduate College 91648 ~31 ii PREFACE The Jugurthine War occurred within the transitional period of Roman politics between the Gracchi and the rise of military dictators~ The era of the Numidian conflict is significant, for during that inter­ val the equites gained political strength, and the Roman army was transformed into a personal, professional army which no longer served the state, but dedicated itself to its commander. The primary o~jec­ tive of this study is to illustrate the role that political events in Rome during the Jugurthine War played in transforming the Republic into the Principate. I would like to thank my adviser, Dr. Neil Hackett, for his patient guidance and scholarly assistance, and to also acknowledge the aid of the other members of my counnittee, Dr. George Jewsbury and Dr. Michael Smith, in preparing my final draft. Important financial aid to my degree came from the Dr. Courtney W. Shropshire Memorial Scholarship. The Muskogee Civitan Club offered my name to the Civitan International Scholarship Selection Committee, and I am grateful for their ass.istance. A note of thanks is given to the staff of the Oklahoma State Uni­ versity Library, especially Ms. Vicki Withers, for their overall assis­ tance, particularly in securing material from other libraries.
    [Show full text]
  • The Ptolemies: an Unloved and Unknown Dynasty. Contributions to a Different Perspective and Approach
    THE PTOLEMIES: AN UNLOVED AND UNKNOWN DYNASTY. CONTRIBUTIONS TO A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE AND APPROACH JOSÉ DAS CANDEIAS SALES Universidade Aberta. Centro de História (University of Lisbon). Abstract: The fifteen Ptolemies that sat on the throne of Egypt between 305 B.C. (the date of assumption of basileia by Ptolemy I) and 30 B.C. (death of Cleopatra VII) are in most cases little known and, even in its most recognised bibliography, their work has been somewhat overlooked, unappreciated. Although boisterous and sometimes unloved, with the tumultuous and dissolute lives, their unbridled and unrepressed ambitions, the intrigues, the betrayals, the fratricides and the crimes that the members of this dynasty encouraged and practiced, the Ptolemies changed the Egyptian life in some aspects and were responsible for the last Pharaonic monuments which were left us, some of them still considered true masterpieces of Egyptian greatness. The Ptolemaic Period was indeed a paradoxical moment in the History of ancient Egypt, as it was with a genetically foreign dynasty (traditions, language, religion and culture) that the country, with its capital in Alexandria, met a considerable economic prosperity, a significant political and military power and an intense intellectual activity, and finally became part of the world and Mediterranean culture. The fifteen Ptolemies that succeeded to the throne of Egypt between 305 B.C. (date of assumption of basileia by Ptolemy I) and 30 B.C. (death of Cleopatra VII), after Alexander’s death and the division of his empire, are, in most cases, very poorly understood by the public and even in the literature on the topic.
    [Show full text]
  • As Guest, Some Pages Are Restricted
    RELIG IONS ' ANCIENT AND MODERN B EDWARD GLODD au h o The Stor o Crea t o i n . Animism . y , t r of y f P B 'AMES ALLANSON PI CTON au h o f The li ion o the anth eism. y , t or Re g f Th li fAn en China . B P s G ILES LL . D . P s e Re g ions o ci t y rofes or , rofe sor f h e iv am d o Ch inese in t U n ersit o f C bri ge. B ' E H R R ISO u at Th e l i n f An i n . L Re ig o o c e t reece y AN A N , ect rer Ne vnha m C ll Camb d a u h o of Prole omm a. t o Stud o Greek v o ege, ri ge, t r g y f Rel igion . h e R H on. AMBER AL I SYED f h ud l m f His I B t t . o t e ' a C m e o slam. y , ici o itt e ’ s C un l au h o of The S it o slam and E hics o Isla m. Maje ty s Privy o ci , t r pir f I t f M i and Fe i hism . B Dr. A. C . H ADDON L u o n ag e t s y , ect rer hnolo a Ca m d e n s gt gy t bri g U iver ity .
    [Show full text]
  • HCS — History of Classical Scholarship
    ISSN: 2632-4091 History of Classical Scholarship www.hcsjournal.org ISSUE 1 (2019) Dedication page for the Historiae by Herodotus, printed at Venice, 1494 The publication of this journal has been co-funded by the Department of Humanities of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the School of History, Classics and Archaeology of Newcastle University Editors Lorenzo CALVELLI Federico SANTANGELO (Venezia) (Newcastle) Editorial Board Luciano CANFORA Marc MAYER (Bari) (Barcelona) Jo-Marie CLAASSEN Laura MECELLA (Stellenbosch) (Milano) Massimiliano DI FAZIO Leandro POLVERINI (Pavia) (Roma) Patricia FORTINI BROWN Stefan REBENICH (Princeton) (Bern) Helena GIMENO PASCUAL Ronald RIDLEY (Alcalá de Henares) (Melbourne) Anthony GRAFTON Michael SQUIRE (Princeton) (London) Judith P. HALLETT William STENHOUSE (College Park, Maryland) (New York) Katherine HARLOE Christopher STRAY (Reading) (Swansea) Jill KRAYE Daniela SUMMA (London) (Berlin) Arnaldo MARCONE Ginette VAGENHEIM (Roma) (Rouen) Copy-editing & Design Thilo RISING (Newcastle) History of Classical Scholarship Issue () TABLE OF CONTENTS LORENZO CALVELLI, FEDERICO SANTANGELO A New Journal: Contents, Methods, Perspectives i–iv GERARD GONZÁLEZ GERMAIN Conrad Peutinger, Reader of Inscriptions: A Note on the Rediscovery of His Copy of the Epigrammata Antiquae Urbis (Rome, ) – GINETTE VAGENHEIM L’épitaphe comme exemplum virtutis dans les macrobies des Antichi eroi et huomini illustri de Pirro Ligorio ( c.–) – MASSIMILIANO DI FAZIO Gli Etruschi nella cultura popolare italiana del XIX secolo. Le indagini di Charles G. Leland – JUDITH P. HALLETT The Legacy of the Drunken Duchess: Grace Harriet Macurdy, Barbara McManus and Classics at Vassar College, – – LUCIANO CANFORA La lettera di Catilina: Norden, Marchesi, Syme – CHRISTOPHER STRAY The Glory and the Grandeur: John Clarke Stobart and the Defence of High Culture in a Democratic Age – ILSE HILBOLD Jules Marouzeau and L’Année philologique: The Genesis of a Reform in Classical Bibliography – BEN CARTLIDGE E.R.
    [Show full text]
  • Title Page Echoes of the Salpinx: the Trumpet in Ancient Greek Culture
    Title Page Echoes of the salpinx: the trumpet in ancient Greek culture. Carolyn Susan Bowyer. Royal Holloway, University of London. MPhil. 1 Declaration of Authorship I Carolyn Susan Bowyer hereby declare that this thesis and the work presented in it is entirely my own. Where I have consulted the work of others, this is always clearly stated. Signed: ______________________ Date: ________________________ 2 Echoes of the salpinx : the trumpet in ancient Greek culture. Abstract The trumpet from the 5th century BC in ancient Greece, the salpinx, has been largely ignored in modern scholarship. My thesis begins with the origins and physical characteristics of the Greek trumpet, comparing trumpets from other ancient cultures. I then analyse the sounds made by the trumpet, and the emotions caused by these sounds, noting the growing sophistication of the language used by Greek authors. In particular, I highlight its distinctively Greek association with the human voice. I discuss the range of signals and instructions given by the trumpet on the battlefield, demonstrating a developing technical vocabulary in Greek historiography. In my final chapter, I examine the role of the trumpet in peacetime, playing its part in athletic competitions, sacrifice, ceremonies, entertainment and ritual. The thesis re-assesses and illustrates the significant and varied roles played by the trumpet in Greek culture. 3 Echoes of the salpinx : the trumpet in ancient Greek culture Title page page 1 Declaration of Authorship page 2 Abstract page 3 Table of Contents pages
    [Show full text]
  • Περίληψη : Demetrius Poliorcetes (337 B.C.-283 B.C.) Was One of the Diadochi (Successors) of Alexander the Great
    IΔΡΥΜA ΜΕΙΖΟΝΟΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ Συγγραφή : Παναγοπούλου Κατερίνα Μετάφραση : Βελέντζας Γεώργιος Για παραπομπή : Παναγοπούλου Κατερίνα , "Demetrius Poliorcetes", Εγκυκλοπαίδεια Μείζονος Ελληνισμού, Κωνσταντινούπολη URL: <http://www.ehw.gr/l.aspx?id=7727> Περίληψη : Demetrius Poliorcetes (337 B.C.-283 B.C.) was one of the Diadochi (Successors) of Alexander the Great. He initially co-ruled with his father, Antigonus I Monophthalmos, in western Asia Minor and participated in campaigns to Asia and mainland Greece. After the heavy defeat and death of Monophthalmos in Ipsus (301 B.C.), he managed to increase his few dominions and ascended to the Macedonian throne (294-287 B.C.). He spent the last years of his life captured by Seleucus I in Asia Minor. Άλλα Ονόματα Poliorcetes Τόπος και Χρόνος Γέννησης 337/336 BC – Macedonia Τόπος και Χρόνος Θανάτου 283 BC – Asia Minor Κύρια Ιδιότητα Hellenistic king 1. Youth Son of Antigonus I Monophthalmos and (much younger) Stratonice, daughter of the notable Macedonian Corrhaeus, Demetrius I Poliorcetes was born in 337/6 B.C. in Macedonia and died in 283 B.C. in Asia Minor. His younger brother, Philip, was born in Kelainai, the capital of Phrygia Major, as Stratonice had followed her husband in the Asia Minor campaign. Demetrius spent his childhood in Kelainai and is supposed to have received mainly military education.1 At the age of seventeen he married Phila, daughter of the Macedonian general and supervisor of Macedonia, Antipater, and widow of Antipater’s expectant successor, Craterus. The marriage must have served political purposes, as Antipater had been appointed commander of the Macedonian district towards the end of the First War of the Succesors (321-320 B.C.).
    [Show full text]
  • Kansas City and the Great Western Migration, 1840-1865
    SEIZING THE ELEPHANT: KANSAS CITY AND THE GREAT WESTERN MIGRATION, 1840-1865 ___________________________________ A Dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School at the University of Missouri-Columbia _______________________________________________________________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy _______________________________________________________________ By DARIN TUCK John H. Wigger JULY 2018 © Copyright by Darin Tuck 2018 All Rights Reserved The undersigned, appointed by the dean of the Graduate School, have examined the dissertation entitled SEIZING THE ELEPHANT: KANSAS CITY AND THE GREAT WESTERN MIGRATION, 1840-1865 Presented by Darin Tuck, a candidate for the degree of doctor of philosophy, and hereby certify that, in their opinion, it is worthy of acceptance. __________________________________________________ Professor John Wigger __________________________________________________ Assoc. Professor Catherine Rymph __________________________________________________ Assoc. Professor Robert Smale __________________________________________________ Assoc. Professor Rebecca Meisenbach __________________________________________________ Assoc. Professor Carli Conklin To my mother and father, Ronald and Lynn Tuck My inspiration ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This dissertation was only possible because of the financial and scholarly support of the National Park Service’s National Trails Intermountain Region office. Frank Norris in particular served as encourager, editor, and sage throughout
    [Show full text]
  • The Impossible Dream W. W. Tarn's Alexander in Retrospect*
    F LASHBACKS Karanos 2, 2019 77-95 The Impossible Dream W. W. Tarn’s Alexander in Retrospect* by A. Brian Bosworth The University of Western Australia First published in 1948, Tarn’s Alexander the Great was soon out of print. In 1956 the first volume was republished in paperback under the auspices of Beacon Press in Boston, but the more substantial second volume remained inaccessible and was a collector’s item for decades. I myself had a standing order with Blackwell’s from 1967, but it was at the end of a long list and eventually after much persuasion I received personal permission to make my own photocopy of the work. At long last in 1979 both volumes were reissued in matching format, exact and uncorrected reprints of the original, and they are now available in Australia**. It must be said at once that it is twenty years too late. Virtually every major statement made by Tarn has been critically examined over the last two and a half decades and in almost every case rejected. His work on Alexander is now a historical curiosity, valuable as a document illustrating his own emotional and intellectual make-up but practically worthless as a serious history of the Macedonian conqueror. As will be seen, Tarn’s attitudes and methods are interesting in their own right, but they are not interesting enough to justify the outrageous and exorbitant price that is demanded of the Australian market. Hard pressed school librarians would make a far better investment by acquiring a range of more recent publications.
    [Show full text]
  • The Theory of Pleasure According to Epicurus 4 7
    The Theory of Pleasure According to Epicurus 4 7 The Theory of Pleasure According to Epicurus Victor Brochard Translated and edited by Eve Grace Colorado College [email protected] Note: Victor Brochard (1848-1907) was a French scholar whose work was praised very highly by, among others, Friedrich Nietzsche and Leo Strauss. In Ecce Homo, Nietzsche described Brochard’s The Greek Skeptics as a “superb study” (1967, 243). During a course on Cicero given in the spring quarter at the University of Chicago in 1959, Strauss praised Brochard as among the greatest students of Greek philosophy prior to the First World War, and described this article as one of the rare cases in which, in his view, a problem has been properly solved. “La théorie du plaisir d’après Épicure” was first published in Journal des Savants (1904, 156-70, 205-13, 284-90), then reprinted in a collection of Brochard’s articles entitled Études de Philosophie Ancienne et de Philosophie Moderne (Paris: Vrin, 1954). It is here translated into English for the first time and reprinted by kind permission of Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin. I All those who have studied the moral philosophy of Epicu- rus with some care know that while the philosopher defines the sovereign good as pleasure, he gives to this word a very particular meaning which is not that of ordinary speech or of common opinion (Schiller 1902; cf. Guyau 1878; Usener 1887; Natorp 1893).1 But what exactly is this meaning? How did Epicurus conceive of pleasure? Here the difficulty begins. Most historians, perhaps excepting only Guyau, accept that according to Epicurus pleasure © 2009 Interpretation, Inc.
    [Show full text]
  • ERNST BADIAN Ernst Badian 1925–2011
    ERNST BADIAN Ernst Badian 1925–2011 THE ANCIENT HISTORIAN ERNST BADIAN was born in Vienna on 8 August 1925 to Josef Badian, a bank employee, and Salka née Horinger, and he died after a fall at his home in Quincy, Massachusetts, on 1 February 2011. He was an only child. The family was Jewish but not Zionist, and not strongly religious. Ernst became more observant in his later years, and received a Jewish funeral. He witnessed his father being maltreated by Nazis on the occasion of the Reichskristallnacht in November 1938; Josef was imprisoned for a time at Dachau. Later, so it appears, two of Ernst’s grandparents perished in the Holocaust, a fact that almost no professional colleague, I believe, ever heard of from Badian himself. Thanks in part, however, to the help of the young Karl Popper, who had moved to New Zealand from Vienna in 1937, Josef Badian and his family had by then migrated to New Zealand too, leaving through Genoa in April 1939.1 This was the first of Ernst’s two great strokes of good fortune. His Viennese schooling evidently served Badian very well. In spite of knowing little English at first, he so much excelled at Christchurch Boys’ High School that he earned a scholarship to Canterbury University College at the age of fifteen. There he took a BA in Classics (1944) and MAs in French and Latin (1945, 1946). After a year’s teaching at Victoria University in Wellington he moved to Oxford (University College), where 1 K. R. Popper, Unended Quest: an Intellectual Autobiography (La Salle, IL, 1976), p.
    [Show full text]
  • The Public Are Invited
    1.4. * ,1'J-. ^.; ^'k liltl iR »>J %> ^: > ^/ V * ^ ^ -' N # I P J- -b£;3iSSi*££3&=S»=: VOL. XXXIII SUMMIT. N, J.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, I 9 I ts NO. 47 j-rivrt eded Tuesday nigh". 5 Xaniara hud paid the lawyer ijiLi, ;t!-;i PROAOHNCE' BOTE GUILTI ly the intention of thoK? expected Kerrigan and Leslie to r% - the charges to impress on fiUtd half that sum. CouneiIui;;,r the idea that Leslie was? reiownsibU Phraner tangled him some on a sta.t-- OUNCIL EXPELS TWO FIREMAN FOR for the false alarm. KemgailMold o.. nient rhat he had gone right homo a- Leslie leaving the rcoiii as,p of not ter returning from the alarm wldr1. FALSE ALARM CHARGE, returning before the aluriu sounded, failed to jibe with his story that hn and later DuUin and McNnmara with had llrst heard that it was a fills" Charlos Dukin ami Andrew McNamara considerable detail corroborated this alarm from Chief Wilson at the Hot i. story, Kerrigan's cool admission of and-Ladder building that same nigl ;. Are Given Formal Trial and it De­ perjury amaaed the council, ai. i he City Clerk Kentz before whom Ker­ was subjected to a gruelling examin­ velops Some Amazing Testimony — rigan and Leslie made their origin;; 1 ation. He at first declared that he did affidavits, testified to administonuy- One Witness Called Dy the Council not remember any oath when he made the oath, aml—iljOrbert Long told ::•!; the statement embodied in the affi­ Caimiv Repudiates on Affidavit He Kerrigan's statement to him lhat cc;- davit.
    [Show full text]