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Pierides Series Editors: Philip Hardie and Stratis Kyriakidis PIERIDES Studies in Greek and Latin Literature The series publishes studies on ancient Greek and Latin literature, in the form of monographs, edited collaborative volumes, and commentaries. It is designed particularly for studies of neglected texts and topics, as well as new approaches in more familiar fields. Series Editors: Philip Hardie and Stratis Kyriakidis Philip Hardie is a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Honorary Professor of Latin Literature in the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Virgil’s Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium, Oxford 1986; Virgil’s Epic Successors, Cambridge 1993; Virgil. Aeneid IX, Cambridge 1994; Ovid’s Poetics of Illusion, Cambridge 2002; Lucretian Receptions. History, The Sublime, Knowledge, Cambridge 2009. Prof. Hardie is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Ovid, Cambridge 2002, and of the Paradox and the Marvellous in Augustan Literature and Culture, Oxford, 2009; he is the co-editor (with S. Gillespie) of The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius, Cambridge 2007, and with Helen Moore of the Classical Literary Careers and their Reception, Cambridge, 2010. He is a General Editor of Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Stratis Kyriakidis is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Thessaloniki and Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds. His publications include: Roman Sensitivity: A Contribution to the Study of the Artistic Receptiveness and Creativity of the Romans (146-31B.C.), Thessaloniki 1986 [in Greek]; Narrative Structure and Poetics in the Aeneid: The Frame of Book 6, Bari 1998; Catalogues of Proper Names in Latin Epic Poetry: Lucretius - Virgil - Ovid, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2007. He is the co-editor (with Francesco De Martino) of Middles in Latin Poetry, Bari 2004. His articles are mainly on Latin literature of the late Republican and Augustan periods and on the Latin centos. TITLES IN THE SERIES CATALOGUES OF PROPER NAMES IN LATIN EPIC POETRY: LUCRETIUS ― VIRGIL ― OVID (Pierides I, 2007) Stratis Kyriakidis The book consists of two main parts: a) Structure and Contents, b) Catalogues in Context. In the first part the major subject is how a catalogue is organized internally. A number of structural patterns that had evolved since Homer on the basis of the position the names held within the catalogue (density in the middle – spacing in the middle – ascending/descending mode – internal balance – erratic pattern) was to continue down to the time of Lucretius, Virgil and Ovid. Each pattern carries its own dynamism in the text and has its particular effects in the reading process. The second part deals with the relation of the catalogue to its surrounding text. Catalogue-markers and the way a catalogue is introduced or completed may be indicative of the way the poet views the contents of a catalogue. Review: 'This book is a new and valuable contribution to the understanding of catalogues of proper names in epic, a subject that has exercised scholars since antiquity and drawn considerable interest in recent years. … Kyriakidis has gone a considerable way to illuminating the function and, yes, beauty, of one of the more maligned, yet fundamental, features of classical epic poetry.' —Christopher Francese, Dickinson College in BMCR, 2009.01.08 Stratis Kyriakidis is Professor of Latin Literature in the University of Thessaloniki and Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Roman Sensitivity: A Contribution to the Study of the Artistic Receptiveness and Creativity of the Romans (146-31B.C.), Thessaloniki 1986 [in Greek], and of Narrative Structure and Poetics in the Aeneid: The Frame of Book 6, Bari 1998. He is the co-editor (with Francesco De Martino) of Middles in Latin Poetry, Bari 2004. His articles are mainly on Latin literature of the late Republican and Augustan periods and on the Latin centos. ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW PERSPECTIVES ON POSTCLASSICAL COMEDY (Pierides II, 2010) Antonis K. Petrides and Sophia Papaioannou (eds) The re-emergence of Menander from the landfills of Egypt in the late-19th century and the subsequent discovery of the Bodmer Codex in the 1950s caused a sensation among scholars. After a period in which the primary editing and reconstruction of the substantially preserved plays and fragments was the main line of criticism, scholars were finally in a position to take a deep breath and look at Menander and New Comedy, both Greek and Roman, in wider contexts of interpretation and with fresh perspectives drawn from innovative work both in Classical and more modern studies. This book aims to showcase these new approaches to post-classical comedy. The individual contributions, six in total, approach New Comedy as theatrical performance, but also as a dynamic player in the socio-political discourses of the polis culture that gave birth to it. The chapters highlight continuities as well as discontinuities with the cultural and literary past of Athens and the Greek world, but mostly emphasise the progressiveness of New Comedy as a genre and its importance for the nascent culture of Hellenism and Rome thereafter. Blume’ s introductory chapter tells the story of Menander’ s re-emergence from the tenebrae in full detail. The other five chapters are dual in nature: expositional of a method, but also practical examples of it. They are arranged in a fashion which underlines the major theoretical underpinnings of New Comedy studies, as they are being developed in the present: Cultural Studies (David Konstan and Susan Lape), Intertextuality and Performance (Antonis K. Petrides and Rosanna Omitowoju), and Reception in Rome (Sophia Papaioannou). Contents A. Petrides – S. Papaioannou: Introduction: New Comedy under New Light Horst-Dieter Blume (Münster): The Text and its Restoration David Konstan (New York): New Comedy and Cultural Studies Susan Lape (Univ. of Southern California): Gender in Menander’s Comedy Antonis K. Petrides (Open Univ. of Cyprus): New Performance Rosanna Omitowoju (Cambridge): Performing Traditions: Relations and Relationships in Menander and Tragedy Sophia Papaioannou (Athens): Post-classical Comedy and the Composition of Roman Comedy Antonis K. Petrides (BA in Greek Literature, Thessalloniki; MPhil and PhD in Classics, Trinity College Cambridge) is Lecturer of Classics at the Open University of Cyprus. His publications include articles on Old and New Comedy, Epicharmus, the mime, Hellenistic poetry (mainly in the comic and satirical mode), and physiognomic theories in antiquity, and Byzantium. He is currently preparing a monograph on the visual aspect of New Comedy performance to be included in the series Cambridge Classical Studies, Cambridge Univ. Press. Sophia Papaioannou (BA Crete, MA, PhD Texas-Austin) is Assistant Professor of Latin Literature at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is the author of Epic Succession and Dissension: Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.623-14.582 and the Reinvention of the Aeneid, Berlin and New York, 2005; of Redesigning Achilles: The 'Recycling' of the Epic Cycle in Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.1-13.620, Berlin and New York, 2007; also of Plautus, Miles Gloriosus. Introduction, Translation, and Commentary [Greek title: Ο Καυχησιάρης Στρατιώτης, Εισαγωγή – Μετάφραση – Σχόλια] 2009, the first annotated edition of Plautus’ play since 1963, and the first translation of the play in Greek. Current projects include the edition of the first Greek translation of Ovid’s Amores by Christos Christovassilis in the early 1920s, and a book-length study on Epic Orality in Vergil’s Aeneid. ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- THE PHILOSOPHIZING MUSE: THE INFLUENCE OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY ON ROMAN POETRY 3rd CENT. B.C.-1st CENT. A.D. (Pierides III, forthcoming 2012) Myrto Garani and David Konstan (eds) Although the catalyzing influence of Presocratic and Hellenistic philosophy upon Roman thought and Latin prose texts has been long recognized, there has been little systematic discussion of the intrusion of Greek philosophical ideas into Latin verse ever since its beginnings. The opinions of scholars diverge not only concerning the actual presence and relevance of philosophical echoes in various poetic works, but also the precise identification of their sources and their doctrinal provenance, as well as their ultimate function once assimilated within the new poetic medium. In addition, our knowledge about the reception of Greek philosophy by the Roman world has been greatly deepened and modified by the deciphering of new papyri discovered at Herculaneum as well as by the publication of the Strasbourg papyrus of Empedocles in 1998, both of which caused a revival of studies in this area. The object of this collaborative volume is to draw together several aspects of ‘philosophy embedded’ within major poetic works which were written during the first four centuries of Latin literature (3C B.C.―1C A.D.). Specific questions relating to the philosophical elements in each work will be tackled anew, new interpretative possibilities deriving from recently discovered texts will be taken into account, and comparative conclusions will be offered about the uses of philosophical allusions in a variety of genres, and the implications of specific philosophical concepts within the poetry of this period. Contents M. Garani and D. Konstan: Introduction Dorotha Dutsch (the Univ. of California, Santa Barbara): Paucis Philosophari: Philosophy and Archaic Roman Literature Gordon Campbell (National Univ. of Ireland, Maynooth): Lucretius, Empedocles, and Cleanthes David Armstrong (Univ. of Texas): Tamquam explorator: Horace Joseph Farrell (Univ. of Pennsylvania): Vergil Myrto Garani (Univ. of Athens): “The figure of Numa in Ovid’s Fasti Ilaria Ramelli (Catholic Univ. of Milan): Manilius and Stoicism Claudia Wiener (Univ. of Munich): ‘Stoic tragedy’ – a contradiction in terms? Francesca D’ Alessandro Behr (Univ. of Houston): Consolation, Rebellion, and Philosophy in Lucan’s Bellum Civile Book 8 Shadi Bartsch (Univ. of Chicago): Persius’ Fourth Satire: Socrates and the Failure of Pedagogy Andrew Zissos (Univ. of California, Irvine): Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus Myrto Garani (BA Thessaloniki, MA and PhD London) is Lecturer in Latin Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She has published with Routledge a book entitled Empedocles redivivus: Poetry and Analogy in Lucretius. She is particularly interested in the reception of Empedocles in Latin Literature and the presence of (Neo)pythagoreanism and Orphism in Rome. She is currently working on Ovid's philosophy. She is also translating into Modern Greek Aristotle's Meteorology and writing a commentary on Seneca's Naturales Quaestiones Book 3. David Konstan is Emeritus Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Brown University (until May 2010 he was the John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and the Humanistic Tradition, and Professor of Comparative Literature). As of the summer of 2010 he is joining the Department of Classics at NYU. His publications include Roman Comedy (1983); Greek Comedy and Ideology (1992); Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres (1994); Friendship in the Classical World (1997); Pity Transformed (2001); The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks (2007), and Before Forgiveness: The Origins of a Moral Idea (2010). He has served as President of the American Philological Association (1999), and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- CHARACTERISATION IN APULEIUS’ METAMORPHOSES: NINE STUDIES (forthcoming 2012) S.J. Harrison (ed.) Introduction: S.J. Harrison A: LUCIUS 1. Lucius as human (Books 1-3) (Stelios Panayotakis, Crete) 2. Lucius as ass (Books 3-11) (Stefan Tilg, Zurich/Vienna) 3. Lucius as initiate (Book 11) (Wytse Keulen, Rostock) B: OTHERS 4. Byrrhaena and her household (Stavros Frangoulidis, Thessaloniki) 5. Photis (Regine May, Leeds) 6. The robbers and the old woman (Luca Graverini, Arezzo) 7. Charite and Tlepolemus (Lara Nicolini, Pisa) 8. Characters in Cupid and Psyche (S.J. Harrison, Oxford) 9. The gods as characters (Danielle van Mal-Maeder, Lausanne) Stephen Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature in the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of A Commentary on Vergil, Aeneid 10, Oxford 1991 (repr. 1997, 2002); Apuleius: A Latin Sophist, Oxford 2000 (repr. 2004); Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace, Oxford 2007. Prof. Harrison has also edited a number of volumes: Oxford Readings in Vergil’s Aeneid, Oxford 1990 (repr. 1998, 2001, pb 2002); Homage to Horace: A Bimillenary Celebration, Oxford 1995; Oxford Readings in the Roman Novel, Oxford 1999 (repr. 2004); Texts, Ideas and the Classics: Scholarship, Theory and Classical Literature, Oxford 2001; A Companion to Latin Literature, Blackwell 2005 (pb 2006); (joint ed. with M. Paschalis, S. Frangoulidis, contrib.), Metaphor and the Ancient Novel, Groningen 2005; The Cambridge Companion to Horace, Cambridge 2007; (joint ed. with M. Paschalis, S. Frangloulidis, and M. Zimmerman, contrib.), The Greek and the Roman Novel: Parallel Readings, Groningen 2007; Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English, Oxford 2009. ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOK THREE OF THE CORPUS TIBULLIANUM: INTRODUCTION, TEXT, TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY (forthcoming 2012) Robert Maltby The book will be the first commentary in English on the whole of Book III of the Corpus Tibullianum. It will consist of the establishment of a completely new text, based on the author's own manuscript readings, and provided with an English prose translation. The Introduction will tackle the problems of unity and dating. While a new case has recently been made for the single authorship of the whole work, the present study will support the traditional view that the earliest poems in the collection are those attributed to Sulpicia (3.13-18) (probably late C1 BC), followed by the poems of the Sulpicia Cycle (3.8-12) and the concluding poems (3.19-20) from early in the first century AD. From considerably later, probably in the Flavian period, come the poems of Lygdamus (3.1-6) and the Panegyricus Messallae. The commentary will deal with the detailed linguistic and metrical evidence supporting this thesis and will set the poems in their literary and wider historical context. Robert Maltby (PhD Cantab.) is Emeritus Professor of Latin Philology at the University of Leeds. His books include Latin Love Elegy: Selected and Edited with Introduction and Notes, Bristol 1980; (with A.G. Lee) Tibullus, Elegies: Introduction, Text, Translation and Notes, Leeds 1990; A Lexicon of Ancient Latin Etymologies, Leeds 1991; Tibullus, Elegies: Text, Introduction and Commentary, Cambridge 2002; Terence Phormio, Text, Translation and Commentary, Dove Books, forthcoming 2011 and Tibullus. Introduction, Text and Notes, Oxford World Classics forthcoming Jan. 2012. He is the co-editor (with Joan Booth) of What’s in a Name? The Significance of Proper Names in Classical Latin Literature, Swansea 2006. His articles are mainly on Roman comedy, elegy and the Latin grammarians. ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- EMBEDDED EPIC (forthcoming 2012) Andrew Zissos This study examines the phenomenon of embedded narrative in ancient epic, from the Odyssey to Statius’ Thebaid. Particular focus is placed on instances of narrative embedding that signal their ‘epic’ status in some manner while exploiting the reflexive possibilities of the device to engage, often aggressively, poetic precursors or rivals, or even the broader epic tradition. Andrew Zissos is Associate Professor of Classics and Department Chair at the University of California, Irvine. He has published extensively on imperial Roman epic, including a commentary on Book 1 of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica (Oxford University Press). For Editors' Biographies see above Catalogues of Proper Names in Latin Epic Poetry: Lucretius - Virgil - Ovid
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