Ancient Scholarship and Grammar: Archetypes, Concepts and Contexts

Ancient Scholarship and Grammar (2011)
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Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes - Volume 8......Page 3
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--> Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 10
I. "Philologia perennis": History and New Perspectives......Page 18
Ancient Scholarship and Classical Studies (Franco Montanari)......Page 20
II. The Ancient Scholars at Work......Page 34
Plato's Ion and the Origins of Scholarship (Richard Hunter)......Page 36
Scholarly Panic: panikos phobos, Homeric Philology and the Beginning of the Rhesus (Marco Fantuzzi)......Page 50
Eratosthenes of Cyrene: Readings of his 'Grammar' Definition (Stephanos Matthaios)......Page 64
1. The Historical Preconditions for Eratosthenes' Definition......Page 69
2. The Theoretical Background of Eratosthenes' Definition......Page 77
3. The Ideological and Cultural Background of Eratosthenes' Definition......Page 88
1. Introduction......Page 96
2. Homer as Foundational Text......Page 97
3. Homer and the Kuran......Page 98
4.1. Was Homer an Athenian?......Page 100
4.2. Is Homer a Good Model for speaking Greek?......Page 101
4.3 Matters of Identity......Page 102
5. Hellenismos = The Language of Homeric Heroes......Page 105
6. Apollonius Dyscolus: in grammatica Homerus......Page 107
Excursus: On The tradition of Ps.-Herodian's De soloecismo et barbarismo......Page 111
Aristarchus and Allegorical Interpretation (René Nünlist)......Page 114
Portrait of an Unknown Scholiast (Martin Schmidt)......Page 128
The Research Record......Page 129
1. Homer is a Friend of the Greeks......Page 132
2. The Trojans are Barbarians......Page 138
3. Before the teichomachia and the battle at the ships, all the Greek leaders have to be injured to prepare Patroclus' aristeia......Page 146
4. The Greeks only loose when the Trojans are helped by the gods......Page 152
5. The aristeia of Agamemnon takes place at the right moment......Page 156
6.1. Atheteses......Page 162
6.2. Everyday Life......Page 165
6.3. Didactic Explanations......Page 166
7. The Scholiast or 'what's the point'?......Page 167
Homeric Commentaries on Papyrus: A Survey (John Lundon)......Page 168
Appendix - Table of Homeric Commentaries on Papyrus......Page 186
Charts......Page 188
Didymus on Pindar (Bruce Karl Braswell)......Page 190
1. Citation of Historians......Page 191
2. Citation of Earlier Poets......Page 197
3. Relevance of the Myth to the Victor celebrated......Page 200
4.2 Defence of Manuscript Readings......Page 202
5. Misplaced Ingenuity in Exegesis......Page 203
6. Aesthetic Criticism......Page 204
7. Conclusion......Page 205
Afterlives of a Tragic Poet: The Hypothesis in the Hellenistic Reception of Euripides (Peter Bing)......Page 208
Re-writing the Personal Joke: Some Aspects in the Interpretation of onomasti komodein in Ancient Scholarship (Stelios Chronopoulos)......Page 216
1. The Comic Poet as Censor, the komodoumenoi as Historical Personalities......Page 217
2. Re-writing Personal Jokes......Page 219
3. Beyond the Biographical Approach: Personal Jokes seen in their Textual Context......Page 223
1. Simichidas of Orchomenos......Page 234
2. 'Simichidas' and Theocritus......Page 239
III. The Ancient Grammarians on the Greek Language and Linguistic Correctness......Page 248
1. Introduction......Page 250
2. The Techne: not History......Page 252
3. Apollonius: A Historian by Accident......Page 256
4. Conclusion......Page 257
Apollonius between Homeric and Hellenistic Greek: The Case of the 'Pre-positive Article' (Louis Basset)......Page 260
1.1. 'Article Ellipsis'......Page 261
1.2. Article Anastrophe......Page 264
1.3. Missing Article explained according to the Theory......Page 265
1.5. When the Word ho, he, to becomes a Pronoun......Page 266
2.1. Anaphora to what is previously known or mentioned......Page 268
2.3. 'Side Meaning of Plurality'......Page 270
2.5. The Pronominal Use as Prototypical......Page 272
3. Theory: How Apollonius analyses Complex Noun Phrases, with Article and Attribute......Page 274
4. Conclusion......Page 276
1. Introduction......Page 278
2. Linguistic Correctness before Linguistic Atticism......Page 279
3. Linguistic Atticism......Page 282
4. Attic before, and outside, Linguistic Atticism......Page 284
5. poleon and Similar Genitive Plural Forms: Atticist Re-evaluation of Attic Forms as Correct......Page 286
6. Herodian and Later Grammarians on the Accent of trieron......Page 289
7. Herodian and the Etymologicum Magnumon the Accentuation of phoriamos 'box'......Page 291
8. [Arcadius] on the Accentuation of pagetos 'frost', papai and at(t)atai......Page 293
9. Conclusions......Page 299
1. Introduction......Page 300
2. What is moneres lexis?......Page 302
3. What is Analogy?......Page 305
4. Analogy personified......Page 308
5. Analogy and the Grammarian......Page 311
6. 'What is a Singularity' revisited: The Criterion of Frequent Usage......Page 312
7. The Rhetoric of the Singularity......Page 314
8. The Triumph of Analogy......Page 318
IV. Ancient Grammar in Historical Context......Page 320
1. Introduction......Page 322
2. A Case-study: P. Berol. 9917......Page 324
3. The Adverb in the P. Berol. 9917......Page 325
4. Conclusion......Page 338
Quintilian's 'Grammar' (Inst. 1 .4-8) and its Importance for the History of Roman Grammar (Wolfram Ax)......Page 340
Table 1......Page 353
Table 2......Page 354
Table 3......Page 355
1. Introduction......Page 356
2. Non-grammatical Uses of syntaxis......Page 357
3. The Term syntaxis in Trypho......Page 358
4.1. Combination and Condition of Adjacency......Page 360
4.2 Syntaxis and synthesis
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5. The Philosophical Origins of syntaxis: Chrysippus......Page 364
6. Conclusion: Apollonius' Dyscolus Synthesis......Page 367
Syntagms in the Artigraphic Latin Grammars (Guillaume Bonnet)......Page 370
1.1 Definition of partes orationis......Page 371
1.2. Identification of Single Words......Page 372
1.3. Syntagm and Standard......Page 374
2.1. An Orthographic Problem?......Page 375
2.2. Syntagms and Morphological Analysis......Page 376
2.2.1. How to acccentuate Syntagms?......Page 378
2.2.2. Separablity of Syntagms?......Page 379
2.2.3. Tmesis and Syntagms......Page 380
2.3.1. Usus and Grammar......Page 381
2.3.2. Usus and Paedagogical Necessity......Page 382
Introduction......Page 384
1.1. Definition of the Participle......Page 388
1.2. Demarcation of the Participle......Page 390
1.3. Participles and Verbs......Page 393
2. The Formal Description of the Participle: Endings, Paradigms, and Rules......Page 399
3. Conclusions......Page 406
Appendix......Page 407
Theodosius and his Byzantine Successors on the Participle: A Didactic Approach (Valerie Van Elst)......Page 414
1. The Participle in the Ancient Greek Grammatical Tradition......Page 415
2. The Contents of Theodosius' Kanones......Page 418
3.1. Theodosius......Page 423
3.2.1. Ioannes Charax......Page 430
3.2.2. Choeroboscus......Page 432
3.2.3. Theodorus Prodromus (?)......Page 434
4. Conclusion......Page 437
The Orus Fragments in the Ethnica of Stephanus of Byzantium (Margarethe Billerbeck)......Page 438
V. Ancient Grammar in Interdisciplinary Context......Page 458
1. Introduction......Page 460
2. Dionysius and Ancient Scholarship on Thucydides......Page 462
3. Thucydides in Rome: Cicero and Dionysius......Page 465
4. Dionysius' Second Letter to Ammaeus: Thucydides' 'Variations'......Page 469
5.1. Nouns and Verbs......Page 474
5.2. The Syntax of Gender and Case: Thucydides' Solecism......Page 477
5.3. A Syntactic Analogy......Page 479
5.4. Grammatical Agreement: to katallelon
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6. Dionysius, Trypho and the History of Syntax......Page 484
7. Conclusion......Page 486
1. Introduction......Page 488
2.1. Plato: the Cratylus and the Sophist......Page 489
2.2. Aristode: the Categories and the Peri Hermeneias......Page 490
3. The Philosophers' versus Grammarians' Parts of Speech......Page 492
4. Apollonius on the Ordering of the Parts of Speech......Page 493
5. Other Natural Orders......Page 501
6. Conclusions......Page 506
Neoplatonic Commentators on Aristode: The 'Arbitrariness of the Linguistic Sign' (Maria Chriti)......Page 508
List of Contributors......Page 524
Abbreviations......Page 532
Bibliography......Page 536
General Index......Page 572
Passages Index......Page 582