The interconnectedness of two linguistic registers, the 'vernacular' and the 'more-than-local' or... more The interconnectedness of two linguistic registers, the 'vernacular' and the 'more-than-local' or 'pan-Hellenic', is a well-known characteristic of the Kunstsprache of Greek lyric. The two case-studies considered in this paper, Pindar's Olympian 1 and a roughly contemporary Boeotian stone epigram of local production (CEG 114), exemplify opposite poles within the spectrum of linguistic possibilities available to the poets of archaic and classical Greece.
ΦΑΙΔΙΜΟΣ ΕΚΤΩΡ Studi in onore di Willy Cingano per il suo 70° compleanno a cura di Enrico Emanuele Prodi e Stefano Vecchiato, 2021
Since Coppola's 1931 proecdosis of PSI 1174 = PMG 690 (Boeot. inc. auct.), scholars have almost e... more Since Coppola's 1931 proecdosis of PSI 1174 = PMG 690 (Boeot. inc. auct.), scholars have almost exclusively focused on the Orestas poem transmitted at ll. 8-13, neglecting the more lacunose seven lines at the beginning of the papyrus fragment. This contribution provides a new transcription based on autopsy of the whole papyrus and offers a new detailed study of the remains of the first poem (ll. 1-7). Among the various possible scenarios that can be envisaged, the hypothesis of a poem on Iphigenia's sacrifice in Aulis deserves serious consideration.
‘New Musical’ gestures were still an active force that contributed to defining poetic (and at tim... more ‘New Musical’ gestures were still an active force that contributed to defining poetic (and at times ideological if not overtly political) allegiances in Ptolemaic Alexandria. This paper investigates if and how Callimachus ever engaged with this strand of the poetic legacy. A close reading of some programmatic passages (Ia. 13.43–5, Aetia fr. 1. 35–8) suggests that approaching Callimachus from the side of a ‘Dionysian poetics’ may present some surprises. To investigate some of the ways in which Callimachus negotiates his own Apollo by exploiting the musical/literary tradition of rivalry between Apollo and Dionysus may help us to understand better, within a historically oriented perspective, some features of the few surviving occurrences of Dionysus in Callimachus’ poetry (especially the Delphic Dionysus). Confrontation with Plato’s theorizing on chorality and its cultic affiliations (particularly in the Laws) will also prove to be an important critical tool to interpret Callimachus’ own choices.
The interconnectedness of two linguistic registers, the 'vernacular' and the 'more-than-local' or... more The interconnectedness of two linguistic registers, the 'vernacular' and the 'more-than-local' or 'pan-Hellenic', is a well-known characteristic of the Kunstsprache of Greek lyric. The two case-studies considered in this paper, Pindar's Olympian 1 and a roughly contemporary Boeotian stone epigram of local production (CEG 114), exemplify opposite poles within the spectrum of linguistic possibilities available to the poets of archaic and classical Greece.
ΦΑΙΔΙΜΟΣ ΕΚΤΩΡ Studi in onore di Willy Cingano per il suo 70° compleanno a cura di Enrico Emanuele Prodi e Stefano Vecchiato, 2021
Since Coppola's 1931 proecdosis of PSI 1174 = PMG 690 (Boeot. inc. auct.), scholars have almost e... more Since Coppola's 1931 proecdosis of PSI 1174 = PMG 690 (Boeot. inc. auct.), scholars have almost exclusively focused on the Orestas poem transmitted at ll. 8-13, neglecting the more lacunose seven lines at the beginning of the papyrus fragment. This contribution provides a new transcription based on autopsy of the whole papyrus and offers a new detailed study of the remains of the first poem (ll. 1-7). Among the various possible scenarios that can be envisaged, the hypothesis of a poem on Iphigenia's sacrifice in Aulis deserves serious consideration.
‘New Musical’ gestures were still an active force that contributed to defining poetic (and at tim... more ‘New Musical’ gestures were still an active force that contributed to defining poetic (and at times ideological if not overtly political) allegiances in Ptolemaic Alexandria. This paper investigates if and how Callimachus ever engaged with this strand of the poetic legacy. A close reading of some programmatic passages (Ia. 13.43–5, Aetia fr. 1. 35–8) suggests that approaching Callimachus from the side of a ‘Dionysian poetics’ may present some surprises. To investigate some of the ways in which Callimachus negotiates his own Apollo by exploiting the musical/literary tradition of rivalry between Apollo and Dionysus may help us to understand better, within a historically oriented perspective, some features of the few surviving occurrences of Dionysus in Callimachus’ poetry (especially the Delphic Dionysus). Confrontation with Plato’s theorizing on chorality and its cultic affiliations (particularly in the Laws) will also prove to be an important critical tool to interpret Callimachus’ own choices.
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