Etymological Explanations of Fish-names in Oppian’s Halieutica: Between Poetry, Philology, and Scholarship

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. List of tables IX
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Etymological Practices and Philosophical Issues
7. Naming the Art, or the Art of Naming: The Etymology of τέχνη (technē) in Plato’s Cratylus 21
8. Etymological Proximities and Onomastics: From Aristotle to Ammonius of Hermeias 37
9. Part II: Linguistic Issues
10. Implicit Elements in Scholiasts’ Etymological Analyses 55
11. On Enantiosemy in Antiquity and its Modern Outcomes 83
12. Ὅτι ἀλαζών ἐστι μάρτυς ἡ ἐτυμολογία: Galen on Etymology, Theory and Practice 125
13. Part III: Poetical Practices of Etymology
14. Etymological Explanations of Fish-names in Oppian’s Halieutica: Between Poetry, Philology, and Scholarship 179
15. Etymology as a Poetic Resource among the Poets of Alexandria 213
16. The Use of Etymology in Apollodorus’ ΠΕΡΙ ΘΕΩΝ and in its Reader Porphyry: Scientific or Ideological? 229
17. Part IV: Etymology and Word-Plays
18. Fallacious Etymology and Puns: Ptolemy Chennus’ Sham Homeric Questions 281
19. To Play (and to Have Fun) with Literature: Comic Wordplay in Greek Poetry 305
20. List of Contributors 321
21. Index Notionum 323
22. Index Nominum 327
23. Index Verborum 329
24. Index Locorum 333