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Polybian Temporalities
Abstract
Polybius’ Histories employ several overlapping conceptions of time. The main narrative follows a linear, sequential temporality, in which Rome’s conquest of the oikoumenē provides a direct telos. The disquisition on constitutions follows a more cyclical form of time. The focus on exemplarity blends past, present, and future so as to display a “timeless” temporality. Whereas earlier scholarship has mostly focused on the contradictions and conflicts in Polybius’ various temporalities, the present study argues that all of them are deliberate, and all contribute to Polybius’ desire to write a “universal” history.
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Abstract
Polybius’ Histories employ several overlapping conceptions of time. The main narrative follows a linear, sequential temporality, in which Rome’s conquest of the oikoumenē provides a direct telos. The disquisition on constitutions follows a more cyclical form of time. The focus on exemplarity blends past, present, and future so as to display a “timeless” temporality. Whereas earlier scholarship has mostly focused on the contradictions and conflicts in Polybius’ various temporalities, the present study argues that all of them are deliberate, and all contribute to Polybius’ desire to write a “universal” history.
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Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgments V
- Contents VII
- Abbreviations XIII
- List of Figures XVII
- Introduction: Lucia Athanassaki, φαεννὸν ἄστρον 1
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Part I: Greek Epic and Lyric
- Three Homeric Puzzles 9
- Sappho and the Ethereal: A Reading of Sappho fr. 2 27
- Choruses of Young Women and (Homo)erotic Ritual Poetry: Sappho Again 51
- Geryon, Stesichoros, and the Vase-Painters Revisited 67
- Sympotic Gazes, eros, and Commitment: Ibycus 287 PMG 105
- Two Ancient Greek Babies: Simonides 543 PMG, Iliad 6.466–473 123
- Singing into Being 139
- The Archilochus Diet: Comedy and Empty Calories in Pythian 2 155
- Pausanias on Corinna and Pindar 175
- The Good Old Days: Pederastic Nostalgia from Theognis to Theocritus 181
- How Real is Sympotic Prayer? 199
- Penis or Phanes? Αἰδοῖον in OF 8 (P. Derv. xiii.4) 215
- Saint Gregory of Nazianzus on the Difficulty of Being Good (Carm. I.2.9, ed. Migne) 251
- Eros, Love Elegy, and Epic Artistic Contests in the Subtext of Cadmus’ Pastoral Singing in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca 1 263
- A Tree Named for Friendship: Reading Homer’s phylia through Nonnus 275
- Pindar’s Poetic Art and George of Pisidia’s Bellum Avaricum 291
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Part II: Greek Drama
- The Sleep of the Furies in Aeschylus’ Eumenides as a Dramatic Device 313
- Torture’s Untruths: Tragic Visions of Testimony under Duress 329
- Towards a Renewed Panhellenism: Iliadic Resonances and Epinician Panegyric in Euripides’ Andromache 351
- Myth and Supplication: Thetis in Euripides’ Andromache 381
- Happy Citizens in Euripides 399
- “What Shall I Do?”: Choice-making and Sophocles’ Philoctetes 411
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Part III: Greek Prose
- Shaping Female Ritual Leadership in Greek Literature 427
- The Language of Same-sex Love in Ancient Greece 445
- Rhetorical Portrayals of Metics in Lysias 471
- On Fourth-century Demagogues: Demosthenes and Others 493
- A Missing Person at the Banquet? A New Emendation (Xen. Symp. 1.4) 509
- The Construction of Space in Plato’s Phaedrus: A Phenomenological Approach 521
- “Those Whom Zeus Does Not Love”: Plato and Pindar on the Concept of Poikilia 539
- “Correcting” Pindar in the Laws: A Platonic Defense of νόμος πάντων βασιλεύς 559
- Put the Blame on Her: The Case of Nanis and the Fall of Sardis 577
- Polybian Temporalities 595
- A Man for All Genres: Alexander in Plutarch 611
- Emotions Related to Vices and Diseases in Plutarch 627
- Fragments of Wisdom? The Manipulated Use of the Citations by the Authors of the Second Sophistic 647
- What Does Ixion Represent? The Treatment of His Story from Pindar to Julian 661
- A Hippopotamus is a Horse Designed by a Committee 671
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Part IV: Latin Literature
- The Price of Desire: Narrative Conflict in Plautus’ Casina 709
- Horace’s Roman Odes: A Book within a Book? 727
- The Poetics of the Roman Triumph 745
- Fatum, Memory, and Gender in Roman Epic 763
- The Fallibility of the Human Condition in Petronius’ Satyricon 75.1 and 130.1 779
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Epilogue
- An Appreciation of Lucia Athanassaki from the International Plutarch Society 797
- List of Contributors 799
- General Index 807
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgments V
- Contents VII
- Abbreviations XIII
- List of Figures XVII
- Introduction: Lucia Athanassaki, φαεννὸν ἄστρον 1
-
Part I: Greek Epic and Lyric
- Three Homeric Puzzles 9
- Sappho and the Ethereal: A Reading of Sappho fr. 2 27
- Choruses of Young Women and (Homo)erotic Ritual Poetry: Sappho Again 51
- Geryon, Stesichoros, and the Vase-Painters Revisited 67
- Sympotic Gazes, eros, and Commitment: Ibycus 287 PMG 105
- Two Ancient Greek Babies: Simonides 543 PMG, Iliad 6.466–473 123
- Singing into Being 139
- The Archilochus Diet: Comedy and Empty Calories in Pythian 2 155
- Pausanias on Corinna and Pindar 175
- The Good Old Days: Pederastic Nostalgia from Theognis to Theocritus 181
- How Real is Sympotic Prayer? 199
- Penis or Phanes? Αἰδοῖον in OF 8 (P. Derv. xiii.4) 215
- Saint Gregory of Nazianzus on the Difficulty of Being Good (Carm. I.2.9, ed. Migne) 251
- Eros, Love Elegy, and Epic Artistic Contests in the Subtext of Cadmus’ Pastoral Singing in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca 1 263
- A Tree Named for Friendship: Reading Homer’s phylia through Nonnus 275
- Pindar’s Poetic Art and George of Pisidia’s Bellum Avaricum 291
-
Part II: Greek Drama
- The Sleep of the Furies in Aeschylus’ Eumenides as a Dramatic Device 313
- Torture’s Untruths: Tragic Visions of Testimony under Duress 329
- Towards a Renewed Panhellenism: Iliadic Resonances and Epinician Panegyric in Euripides’ Andromache 351
- Myth and Supplication: Thetis in Euripides’ Andromache 381
- Happy Citizens in Euripides 399
- “What Shall I Do?”: Choice-making and Sophocles’ Philoctetes 411
-
Part III: Greek Prose
- Shaping Female Ritual Leadership in Greek Literature 427
- The Language of Same-sex Love in Ancient Greece 445
- Rhetorical Portrayals of Metics in Lysias 471
- On Fourth-century Demagogues: Demosthenes and Others 493
- A Missing Person at the Banquet? A New Emendation (Xen. Symp. 1.4) 509
- The Construction of Space in Plato’s Phaedrus: A Phenomenological Approach 521
- “Those Whom Zeus Does Not Love”: Plato and Pindar on the Concept of Poikilia 539
- “Correcting” Pindar in the Laws: A Platonic Defense of νόμος πάντων βασιλεύς 559
- Put the Blame on Her: The Case of Nanis and the Fall of Sardis 577
- Polybian Temporalities 595
- A Man for All Genres: Alexander in Plutarch 611
- Emotions Related to Vices and Diseases in Plutarch 627
- Fragments of Wisdom? The Manipulated Use of the Citations by the Authors of the Second Sophistic 647
- What Does Ixion Represent? The Treatment of His Story from Pindar to Julian 661
- A Hippopotamus is a Horse Designed by a Committee 671
-
Part IV: Latin Literature
- The Price of Desire: Narrative Conflict in Plautus’ Casina 709
- Horace’s Roman Odes: A Book within a Book? 727
- The Poetics of the Roman Triumph 745
- Fatum, Memory, and Gender in Roman Epic 763
- The Fallibility of the Human Condition in Petronius’ Satyricon 75.1 and 130.1 779
-
Epilogue
- An Appreciation of Lucia Athanassaki from the International Plutarch Society 797
- List of Contributors 799
- General Index 807
