Τρυφη and υβρις in the Περι Βιων of Clearchus
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Abstract
Current scholarship on Clearchus’ Lives emphasizes a moralizing historiographical schema of pernicious luxury, in which truphē leads to koros, then to hybris, and finally to destruction. Yet all the fragments used to construct this theory are preserved in one late source, the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus. A study of the diction and immediate context of these so-called fragments demonstrates that the moral themes are presented in language that is far more likely to originate in the cover text rather than in the Lives. Furthermore, this moralizing schema that binds together acts both effeminate and hybristic – as if the one followed naturally from the other – cannot be found securely attested elsewhere in Greek thought before the Roman Era. Thus we argue that, based on the evidence that survives, it is anachronistic to suggest that Clearchus espoused this principle. In addition, those who study Hellenistic fragments need to scrutinize more carefully the exact phrasing and framework of the Deipnosophistae, and be more wary about Athenaeus’ attribution of contemporary values to his sources.
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- Streitbeendigung durch Eid. Überlegungen zu Ilias Ψ 579–595
- Ears are not the Subject of Hearing in Aristotle’s On the Soul II 8, 420a3–12
- Τρυφη and υβρις in the Περι Βιων of Clearchus
- Corrupt Passages in the Scholia Vetera to Sophocles’ Trachiniae
- Recentiores non deteriores: Indagine sui manoscritti recenti del Contra Iulianum di Cirillo Alessandrino
- An Exegetical and Critical Note on Cic. Inv. 1, 10
- Der Daedalus der Dichter: Zur poetologischen Selbstdarstellung des didaktischen Ich bei Lukrez
- Gallic War Songs: Furius Bibaculus’ Annales Belli Gallici
- The Second Person Indefinite and the Logic of Horace, Odes 1. 12. 29–36
- Augustinus grammaticus: De Magistro und Augustins Position innerhalb der spätantiken Grammatik
- Hes. Op. 824828: Una nuova proposta
- Congetture al nuovo Galeno
- Il significato della fulva nubes in De rerum natura 6, 461: Intorno ad un’ annosa questione Lucreziana
- Zu Properz I 1,13
- Petronio Sat. 30.9: un testo precario
