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Illinoisclassica31978univ Bw.Pdf CLASSICS The person charging this material is re- sponsible for its return to the library from which it was withdrawn on or before the Latest Date stamped below.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 disciplinary action and may result in dismissal from the University. To renew call Telephone Center, 333-8400 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN L161— O-1096 ILLINOIS CLASSICAL STUDIES, VOLUME III ILLINOIS CLASSICAL STUDIES VOLUME III 1978 Miroslav Marcovich, Editor UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Urbana Chicago London by the 1978 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Manufactured in the United States of America ISBN: 0-252-00654-2 xU'0 by 1/.3 MARK NAOUMIDES (1931-1977) Professor of Classics in the University of Illinois at Urbana (1962- 197 7) N MEM O R I AM Preface In addition to regular contributions, Volume III (1978) of Illinois Classical Studies contains enlarged versions of papers presented at the First Illinois Classical Symposium, held at Urbana 29-30 April 1976 and dedicated to problems in Papyrology. Hence the predominant emphasis, in this volume, is on Greek topics rather than on Latin. I am indebted to the papyrologist Professor Gerald M. Browne, who served as assistant to the editor for the volume. The publication of this volume was possible thanks to a substantial grant by an extremely generous private donor who prefers to remain anonymous. My gratitude to the donor is sincere and immense. The volume is dedicated to the memory of Mark Naoumides (1931- 1977), Professor of Classics in the University of Illinois at Urbana (1962- 1977)- Opinions expressed by contributors are not necessarily shared by the editor. Urbana, 4 July 1977 Miroslav Marcovich, Editor Contents 1. Xenophanes on Drinking- Parties and Olympic Games i MIROSLAV MARCOVICH 2. Philoctetes and Modern Criticism 27 p. E. EASTERLING 3. The Bacchae as Satyr-Play? 40 DAVID SANSONE 4. Apollonius Rhodius and the Papyri 47 MICHAEL W. HASLAM 5. The Third-Century B.C. Land-Leases from Tholthis 74 JEAN BINGEN 6. More of Nemesion's Notes: P. Corn. inv. 18 81 JOHN F. GATES 7. Grenfell's Gift to Lumbroso 90 HERBERT G. YOUTIE 8. Two Greek Documents from Provincia Arabia lOO NAPHTALI LEWIS 9. Some Roman Elements in Roman Egypt 115 J. F. GILLIAM 10. Rules for Musical Contests 132 ORSAMUS PEARL 11. Two Literary Papyri in an Archive from Panopolis 140 WILLIAM H. WILLIS 12. Augustine and Manichaeism in Light of the Cologne Mani Codex t54 LUDWIG KOENEN X Contents 13. The Sahidic Version of Kingdoms IV 196 GERALD M. BROWNE 14. The Role of the Papyri in Etymological Reconstruction 207 HENRY AND RENEE KAHANE 15. Juvenal, Satire 12: On Friendship True and False 22 1 EDWIN S. RAMAGE 16. Tacitean Nobilitas 238 REVILO P. OLIVER 17. Three Textual Notes 262 CHAUNCEY E. FINCH Mark Naoumides (1931-1977): List of Publications 273 1 Xenophanes on Drinking-Parties and Olympic Games^ MIROSLAV MARCOVICH Unlike the early Presocratics (Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes) , the thinkers between 550 and 450 B.C. (Pythagoras, Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles) all had the ambition of being enlighteners. In their endeavors, some even invoked divine assistance and authority (Pythagoras, Parmenides, Empedocles). The traveling sage Xenophanes of Colophon lived a long life of at least ninety-five years (ca. 570-475). He himself attests to his writing elegiac poetry at the age of ninety-two (B 8 Diels-Kranz). Of his rich harvest, however, only 120 lines survive. They fall into three categories, (i) A philosophical poem in hexameters, probably called Tlepl cpvaios andvTwv ("On the essence of all things"), dealing with God, with human know- ledge, and with natural phenomena (only 28 lines are extant). (2) At least four or five books of UlWoi, short parodies in hexameters and iambics, ridiculing almost everybody: Homer and Hesiod, Epimenides (B 20), Pythagoras (B 7), Simonides (B 21), Lasos of Hermione (A 16), and others (only 24 lines survive). (3) The lion's share, however, belongs to Xenophanes' elegiac poetry (with 68 extant lines). This is a poetry of exhortation and good advice, and I think it is this TrapaiveriKov yevos which enabled the wandering sage to keep soul and body together, while traveling from one Greek city to another and reciting his practical philosophy in verse-form, all the way from Colophon and Paros to Zancle, Catana, and the rich court of Hieron of Syracuse in Sicily. Thanks to Athenaeus two of his elegies survive complete (or almost complete). But for some reason 1 This is an enlarged version of a lecture delivered at the Johns Hopkins University, at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, and at the University of Illinois at Urbana. I am indebted to Professors Bernard M. W. Knox, Georg Luck, James H. Oliver, and James W. Poultney for kindly giving me the opportunity for delivering this lecture. 2 Illinois Classical Studies, III scholars have not hitherto attempted to assess their literary and philo- sophical impact. I. Xenophanes on Drinking-Parties : b i dk (ap. Athen. 462 c)^ A Nvv yap 8rj ^aweSov Kadapov Kal xetpe? uTrdvTtxJV B Kol kvXlk€S' ttXcktovs S' ap.<pLTL9ei, arecpavovs , R C aXXos 8' eucDSe? pLvpov e'v cpidXiqi Trapareiver D ^ E ^ 4 Kparrjp S' €OT7]K€v p-earos ivcppoovvrjg- D ^ ,,^ , aAAo? S' olvog iroLp-os, 09 ovvore (pr^oL Trpohojaeiv, B C _ pieiXixos iv Kepdpiois, dvOeos 611,6fX€vos' R ? F C^ ^ , « €v 8e pLcaois dyvTjv o8p,r)v Xi^avojTOs t-qaiVy A 8 i/jvypov B' ioTLV vScop Kal yXvKV Kal Kadapov F TTapKearat, 8' dproi ^avOol yepap-q re rpccTre^a D Tvpov Kal fxeXiTos -niovos dx0op.€V7]- 2 aix<piTi9€L Dindorf: -rcdels A 4 k-jot^ttj/j Hermann 5 a'AAos S' olvos eanv codd.: a'AAo? S' OLVOS Eustathius, Musurus: {a'AAo?} olvos S' iarlv Hermann, Ludwig 6 d^o/xeVotj ci. Ziegler 9 TrapKearai Wackernagel: Trap/ceivrat codd.: 77ce/D/<-eiTai (schema Pindaricum) ci. West 2 Here is a selective working literature on B i and/or B 2 : K. Reinhardt, Parmenides und die Geschichte der griechischen Philosophie (Bonn, 1916; reprint 1959) 126-135. C. M. Bowra, "Xenophanes on songs at feasts," Class. Philol. 33 (1938) 353-367, and "Xenophanes and the Olympian Games," Amer. Journ. of Philol. 59 (1938) 257-279, = Problems in Greek Poetry (Oxford, 1953) 1-14 and 15-37. E. Diehl, Anthologia Lyrica Graeca (rev. R. Beutler, Leipzig, 1949). H. Diels-W. Kranz, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (6th ed., Berlin, 1951), I, 1 13-139 plus Nachtrage (i6th reprint 1972). M. Untersteiner, Senofane: Tesiimonianze e Frammenti (Florence, 1956). H. Herter, "Das Symposion des Xenophanes," Wiener Studien 69 (1956) 33-48 (= Festschrift Albin Lesky) . H. Frankel, Hermes 60 (1925) 177-178, = Wege und Formen friihgriechischen Denkens (2nd ed., Munich, i960) 335-337. J. Defradas, Les Elegiaques Grecs (Paris, Collection firasme, 1962) 74-81. /rfe/n, "Le banquet de Xenophane," Revue des Etudes Grecques 75 (1962) 344-365. H. Frankel, Dichtung und Philosophie desfriihen Griechentums (2nd ed., Munich, 1962) 372-376 = Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy (transl. von by M. Hadas and J. Willis, New York, 1975) 326-330. K. Ziegler, "Xenophanes Kolophon, ein Revolutionar des Geistes," Gymnasium 72 (1965) 289-302. D. A. Campbell, Greek Lyric Poetry (London, 1967) 74-76 and 331-339. D. E. Gerber, Euterpe (Amsterdam, 1970) 238-239 and 243-249. M. Eisenstadt, The Philosophy of Xenophanes of Colophon (Diss U. Texas at Austin, 1970) 37-78 and 186-195. M. L. West, Iambi et Elegi Graeci, H (Oxford, 1972) 163-165. Idem, Studies in Greek Elegy and Iambus (Berlin, 1974) 189. 6 Miroslav Marcovich F ^ B ^ , P ^ojjjLos S' avOeaiv av to fxeaov ttccvttji TrerrvKaoTaL, ^ , , , , ,, / . ^ , 12 ixoXvrj S' dfj-fpls e';^ei Stu/xara /cat BoXltj. R H G E J^/dt) Se TTpwTov fxev deov VfJLvelv evcppovas avSpa? ] F A ^ ^ ^ ^ eixfnjixois fivOois kol Kadapolai Aoyot?, R aTTeiaavTccs re /cat ev^a/ievovs to. St'/cata hvvaodai 1 TTp-qaa^iv ('raura yap cSv eart Trpox^ipoTepov, R ou;f v^peis)' TTiveiv 8' OTrdaov /cev e';^a;v a(pLKOL(T}o OLKaS avev TrponoXov firj ttccvv yTqpaXios' avBpcov S' atvetv rovrov o? eoOX' iiriajv avacpatvei, 20 to? Tjt ixvrjpioavvrj /cat rdvo? a/i,9?' dperrji, R ou Ti iid-)(as SteVcov T'tTTjvtov ouSe FiyavTcov ouSe <^Ti)> Kevravpojv, TTXa.apLa(^Ta) ruiv TTporepajv, R •^ CTTttCTtas' a^JeSava? ('rot? ouSev XP'H^'^^^ eveariv)- H 24 ^ecSv <^S€)> 7TpoiJL.7]6€L7)v ulkv ^^^iv d.yaQr\v . ® R 13 817 ci. Bergk, ft. recte u/ivev A, v^ivev epitome, corr. C 17 wjSpets A (om. epitome), def. West: i5/Spt? Musurus cett. atpiKoiTo ci. West: a93i'/coto /4: a^iVijai Wilam- owitz 19 la^A' eTTidiv Untersteiner (conl. Xenophan. B 7): iaOXa ttlw A [mwv E): iaOX' eiTT(l)v H. Fraenkel avatpaiv-qi Hermann 20 f^i Ahrens: tj A (17 E): ol Koraes: oJ? ol fivTjuoavv' rji Bergk rovog Koraes [cf. Pind. Pytk. 11.54 "/^"p' oiperal? Terafxai,]: tov o? codd.: TTovos Schneidewin: voos Hermann aperiji Wilamowitz: aperTj? codd. 21 ov ti codd.: ovSe ci. West Sie-rrajv Fraenkel: SieTreiv A, SteTrei E 22 n add. Meineke nXaay.aT(j}v codd., corr. Schweighaeuser 23 a(pihavas Osann: cpevhovas A 24 Sc add. Casaubon dyadov Fr. Franke, Hermann Translation For now the floor is swept clean; clean are the hands of every man, clean are their cups. A servant sets fresh-woven garlands around everyone's head, another hands around sweet-scented unguent in a saucer. The mixing-bowl stands waiting, brimful of good cheer. And another wine is ready, which promises never to run out—a soft-tasting one, redolent of its flower-bouquet in the jars.
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