An Encounter in Lille: Epicurus’ Language as a Hermeneutical Problem

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Philosophy
5. An Empedoclean Allusion in Lucretius (2.1081–3) 15
6. Leo Strauss’s Lucretius and the Art of Writing 29
7. An Encounter in Lille: Epicurus’ Language as a Hermeneutical Problem 56
8. Misjudge Yourself: Plato’s Dialogues and the Comical 77
9. Fragmenta Hactenus Inedita Ameiniae Pythagorici: Ameinias the Pythagorean, a Little-Known Pre-Socratic Dualist 90
10. Xenophanes’ Theory of Knowledge and Sophocles’ Oedipus the King 95
11. Part II. Archaeology, Topography, Epigraphy
12. Tribute to Diskin Clay and His Work on Diogenes of Oinoanda 109
13. Archilochos Heros and the Parian Relief 112
14. Arsinoe and Mount Athos 170
15. Part III. Poetry: Interpretation
16. Aphrodite Φιλομμηδής and Radical Gender Differentiation in an Ethnographic Myth 183
17. The Ghost of Patroclus and the Language of Achilles 209
18. Kypri Despoina: Sappho’s “Kypris Poem” Reconsidered 223
19. Horace C. 2.6: The Intertextual Poetics of Friendship 236
20. Robert Pinsky’s Ovidian Creation 246
21. Cavafy’s “Interruption”: The Ancient Myth, the Modern Poem and their Meaning for Us 253
22. Just on the Far Side of Language: On the Possibility (and Impossibility) of Translating Aeschylus 270
23. Part IV. Poems (original and translation)
24. Rodin Commands 295
25. Diskin on Paros: A Remembrance and a Poem 297
26. Two Sonnets of Ugo Foscolo 301
27. Two Horatian Odes on Epicurean themes: Translations/interpretations 304
28. The Publications of Diskin Clay 317