This volume celebrates 100 years of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. It contains essays by Harvard faculty, emeriti, currently enrolled graduate students and most recent Ph.D.s. It displays the range and diversity of the study of the Classics at Harvard at the beginning of the 21st century.Contributors to volume 100 include: Ernst Badian, "Darius III" * Brian Breed, "Silenus and the Imago Vocis in Eclogue 6" * Wendell Clausen, "Prop. 2.32.35-36" * Kathleen Coleman, "Missio at Halicarnassus" * Stamatia Dova, "Who Is makãrtatow in the Odyssey?" * Casey Dué, "Tragic History and Barbarian Speech in Sallust's Jugurtha" * John Duffy and Dimiter Angelov, "Observations on a Byzantine MS in Harvard College Library" * Mary Ebbott, "The List of the War Dead in Aeschylus' Persians" * José Gonz7aacute;lez, "Musai Hypophetores: Apollonius of Rhodes on Inspiration and Interpretation" * Albert Henrichs, "Drama and Dromena: Bloodshed, Violence, and Sacrificial Metaphor in Euripides" * Alexander Hollmann, "Epos as Authoritative Speech in Herodotos' Histories" * Thomas Jenkins, "The Writing in (and of) Ovid's Byblis Episode" * Christopher Jones, "Nero Speaking" * Prudence Jones, "Juvenal, the Niphates and Trajan's Column (Satire 6.407-412)" * Leah J. Kronenberg, "The Poet's Fiction: Virgil's Praises of the Farmer, Philosopher, and Poet at the End of Georgics 2" * Olga Levaniouk, "aithôn, Aithon, and Odysseus" * Nino Luraghi, "Author and Audience in Thucydides' Archaeology. Some Reflections" * Gregory Nagy, "'Dream of a Shade': Refractions of Epic Vision in Pindar's Pythian 8 and Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes" * Corinne Pache, "War Games: Odysseus at Troy" * David Petrain, "Hylas and Silva: Etymological Wordplay in Prop. 1.20" * Gloria Pinney, "The Ilioupersis in Athens" * Tim Power, "A Chorus of Parthenoi in Bacchylides 13" * Eric W. Robinson, "Democracy in Syracuse, 466-412 BC" * Charles Segal, "The Oracles of Sophocles' Trachiniae: Convergence or Confusion?" * D.R. Shackleton Bailey, "On Statius' Thebaid" * Zeph Stewart, "Plautus' Amphitruo: Three Problems" * Sarolta Takàcs, "A Note on the Bacchanalian Affair of 186 B.C.E." * Richard Tarrant, "The Soldier in the Garden and Other Intruders in Ovid's Metamorphoses" * Richard Thomas, "A Trope by Any Other Name. 'Polysemy', Ambiguity and Significatio in Virgil" * Michael Tueller, "Well-Read Heroes. Quoting the Aetia in Aeneid 8" * Calvert Watkins, "A Distant Anatolian Echo in Pindar: the Origin of the Aegis Again."

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Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Harvard University Department of the Classics

Solomon and Marcolf (Harvard Studies in Medieval Latin)

Solomon and Marcolf is known for being both important and mysterious. It pits wise Solomon, famous from the Bible, against a wily peasant named Marcolf. One of its two parts is a dialogue, in which the king and jester, sage and fool, prophet and blasphemer bandy back and forth questions and comments. Whereas Solomon is solemn and pompous, Marcolf resorts to low language and earthy topics. The other part comprises twenty short chapters in which Marcolf tricks Solomon time and again. These episodes are as impudent and scatological as is the dialogue. Together, the two parts constitute a rudimental prose novel or “rogue biography.”   Cited by Bakhtin in Rabelais and His World, Solomon and Marcolf is widely known by name. But until now it has not been translated into any modern language. The present volume offers an introduction, followed by the Latin and English, detailed commentary, and reproductions of woodcut illustrations from the 1514 edition. Appendixes help readers understand the origins and influence of a work that was composed around 1200, that attained its greatest popularity in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and that has the potential still today to delight and instruct.

Dramas & Plays

Solomon and Marcolf is known for being both important and mysterious. It pits wise Solomon, famous from the Bible, against a wily peasant named Marcolf. One of its two parts is a dialogue, in which the king and jester, sage and fool, prophet and blasphemer bandy back and forth questions and comments. Whereas Solomon is solemn and pompous, Marcolf resorts to low language and earthy topics. The other part comprises twenty short chapters in which Marcolf tricks Solomon time and again. These episodes are as impudent and scatological as is the dialogue. Together, the two parts constitute a rudimental prose novel or “rogue biography.” 
 Cited by Bakhtin in Rabelais and His World, Solomon and Marcolf is widely known by name. But until now it has not been translated into any modern language. The present volume offers an introduction, followed by the Latin and English, detailed commentary, and reproductions of woodcut illustrations from the 1514 edition. Appendixes help readers understand the origins and influence of a work that was composed around 1200, that attained its greatest popularity in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and that has the potential still today to delight and instruct.

This volume includes Iliad 4.384 Tudê, Iliad 15.339 Mêkistê, and Odyssey 19.136 Odysê by Jeremy Rau; “Craft Similes and the Construction of Heroes in the Iliad” by Naomi Rood; “The Tragic Pattern of the Iliad” by Yoav Rinon; “Herodotus and His Descendants: Numbers in Ancient and Modern Narratives of Xerxes’ Campaigns” by Catherine Rubincam; “Personal Pronouns as Identity Terms in Ancient Greek: The Surviving Tragedies and Euripides’ Bacchae” by Chiara Thumiger; “Epicurus’ Letter to Herodotus: Some Textual Notes” by Luis Andrés Bredlow Wenda; “Cultural Differences and Cross-Cultural Contact: Greek and Roman Concepts of ‘Power’” by Ulrich Gotter; “Hebescere virtus (Sallust bc 12.1): Metaphorical Ambiguity” by Christopher Krebs; “Aeneas’ Generic Wandering and the Construction of the Latin Literary Past: Ennian Epic vs. Ennian Tragedy in the Language of the Aeneid” by Jackie Elliott; “Virgil Aeneid 6.445–446: A Critical Note” by Luis Rivero García; “The Poet’s Mirror: Horace’s Carmen 4.10” by Monika Asztalos; “The City and Its Territory in the Province of Achaea and ‘Roman Greece’” by Denis Rousset; “Further to Ps.-Quintilian’s Longer Declamations” by D. R. Shackleton Bailey; and “Satire, Propaganda, and the Pleasure of Reading: Apuleius’ Stories of Curiosity in Context” by Alexander Kirichenko.

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The papers in this volume are based on a 2006 Princeton University symposium in honor of Glen W. Bowersock on the occasion of his retirement from the faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study. Here a distinguished international group of ancient historians explores the classical antiquity that Bowersock has given us over a scholarly career of almost fifty years.
The topics offered in East and West range throughout the ancient world from the second century bce to late antiquity, from Hellenistic Greece and Republican Rome to Egypt and Arabia, from the Second Sophistic to Roman imperial discourse, from Sulla’s self-presentation in his memoirs to charitable giving among the Manichaeans in Egypt.
This collection of essays represents the first attempt to take in Glen Bowersock’s well-developed scholarly interests as a whole. The contributors open up new avenues that often run well beyond the conventional geographical and temporal boundaries of the Greco-Roman Mediterranean, leading to a host of fresh insights into antique thought and life.

East & West: Papers in Ancient History Presented to Glen W. Bowersock (Loeb Classical Monographs)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

C.P. Cavafy (Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis) is one of the most important Greek poets since antiquity. He was born, lived, and died in Alexandria (1863-1933), with brief periods spent in England, Constantinople, and Athens. Cavafy set in motion the most powerful modernism in early twentieth-century European poetry, exhibiting simple truths about eroticism, history, and philosophy-an inscrutable triumvirate that informs the Greek language and culture in all their diachrony. The Cavafy Canon plays with the complexities of ironic Socratic thought, suffused with the honesty of unadorned iambic verse. Based on a fifty-year continuous scholarly and literary interaction with Cavafy's poetry and its Greek and western European intertexts, John Chioles has produced an authoritative and exceptionally nuanced translation of the complex linguistic registers of Cavafy's Canon into English.

Poems: The Canon (Harvard Early Modern and Modern Greek Library)

Cavafy, C.P.

This volume includes “Divide and Edit: A Brief History of Book Divisions” by Carolyn Higbie; “Aristotle’s Hamartia Reconsidered” by Ho Kim; “Callimachus and his Allusive Virgins” by Andrew Faulkner; “Theokritos’ Idyll 16: The Kharites and Civic Poetry” by José González; “Boxing and Sacrifice in Epic: Apollonius, Vergil, and Valerius” by Matthew Leigh; “The Rhodian Loss of Caunus and Stratonicea in the 160s” by Sviatoslav Dmitriev; “Trina tempestas (Carmina Einsidlensia 2.33)” by Radoslaw Pietka; “The Vanishing Gardens of Priapus” by James Uden; “Trimalchio and Fortunata as Zeus and Hera” by Maria Ypsilanti; “Ps.-Dionysius on Epideictic Rhetoric: Seven Chapters, or One Complete Treatise?” by Martin Korenjak; “The Grammarian C. Iulius Romanus and the Fabula Togata” by Jarrett T. Welsh; “Quintus of Smyrna and the Second Sophistic” by Silvio Bär; and “The Conversion of A. D. Nock in the Context of His Life, Scholarship, and Religious View” by Simon Price.

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This volume contains translations of two late collections by Odysseas Elytis (Nobel Prize for literature, 1979). According to the official announcement of the Swedish Academy, the Nobel Prize was awarded to Elytis “for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness.” The Oxopetra Elegies, which he published in November 1991 at the age of eighty, was immediately hailed as one of his finest works. Far from being a dialogue with death, as many critics hastily concluded, these elegies are laments for what is seen and perceived in certain “timeless moments” that, like the Oxopetra headland, project into the beyond, into another reality, revealing truths that, to the poet’s constant dismay, remain “unverifiable” and “unutterable.” The poems here function as a “contemporary form of magic,” a key opening the portals to this other reality, at least for those who speak Elytis’ language: the language of the Secret Sun. In West of Sorrow, published in November 1995, only months before his death, it becomes even clearer that his poetry remains, as it always was, a paean to life and love and beauty.

The Oxopetra Elegies and West of Sorrow (Harvard Early Modern and Modern Greek Library)

Elytis, Odysseas

Poetry

Nikos Engonopoulos (1907–1985) was one of the most prominent representatives of Greek Surrealist poetry and painting. Closely associated with Andreas Embeirikos, the “patriarch” of Surrealism in Greece, and with Nicolas Calas, an influential figure of the European and American avant-garde, Engonopoulos developed highly experimental pictorial and poetic aesthetics. In both his paintings and poems, he engaged in a critical, often ironic dialogue with Greek history and cultural traditions and their ideological appropriations in established cultural and political discourses. Engonopoulos was arguably the keenest advocate of Surrealist black humor and irony in Greece. His overall approach to the Greek past, informed as it was by the socio-aesthetic principles of French Surrealism, constitutes one of the most ingenious and provocative cases of artistic mythogenesis in the European avant-garde.
This volume offers a collection of his most representative poems, including his long poem Bolivár, which was written in the winter of 1942–1943 and soon acquired the status of an emblematic act of resistance against the Nazis and their allies (Italians and Bulgarians), who had occupied Greece in 1941.

Selected Poems (Harvard Early Modern and Modern Greek Library)

Engonopoulos, Nikos

This volume includes Natasha Bershadsky, “A Picnic, a Tomb, and a Crow: Hesiod’s Cult in the Works and Days”; Alexander Dale, “Sapphica”; Andrew Faulkner, “Fast, Famine, and Feast: Food for Thought in Callimachus’ Hymn to Demeter”; Guillermo Galán Vioque, “A New Manuscript of Classical Authors in Spain”; Jarrett T. Welsh, “The Dates of the Dramatists of the Fabula Togata”; Andrea Cucchiarelli, “Ivy and Laurel: Divine Models in Virgil’s Eclogues”; John Henkel, “Nighttime Labor: A Metapoetic Vignette Alluding to Aratus at Georgics 1.291–296”; Salvatore Monda, “The Coroebus Episode in Virgil’s Aeneid”; Mark Toher, “Herod’s Last Days”; Bart Huelsenbeck, “The Rhetorical Collection of the Elder Seneca: Textual Tradition and Traditional Text”; Robert Cowan, “Lucan’s Thunder-Box: Scatology, Epic, and Satire in Suetonius’ Vita Lucani”; Erin Sebo, “Symphosius 93.2: A New Interpretation”; Christopher P. Jones, “Imaginary Athletics in Two Followers of John Chrysostom”; and William T. Loomis and Stephen V. Tracy, “The Sterling Dow Archive: Publications, Unfinished Scholarly Work, and Epigraphical Squeezes.”

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Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 100

Solomon and Marcolf (Harvard Studies in Medieval Latin)

Solomon and Marcolf (Harvard Studies in Medieval Latin)

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 104

East & West: Papers in Ancient History Presented to Glen W. Bowersock (Loeb Classical Monographs)

Poems: The Canon (Harvard Early Modern and Modern Greek Library)

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 105

The Oxopetra Elegies and West of Sorrow (Harvard Early Modern and Modern Greek Library)

Selected Poems (Harvard Early Modern and Modern Greek Library)

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 106