Ancient and Medieval Greek Etymology: Theory and Practice I

353 Pages·2021·3.301 MB·English

by  Arnaud Zucker, Claire Le Feuvre

Ancient and Medieval Greek Etymology
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Volume 111
Ancient and
Medieval Greek
Etymology
Theory and Practice I
Edited by
Arnaud Zucker and Claire Le Feuvre
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Preface
In this volume are collected papers presented at a conference held in Beaulieu-
sur-mer, France, in March 2016. The conference was made possible thanks to gen-
erous funding by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation; it was supported by the Uni-
versité Nice Côte d’Azur and the CNRS and hosted by the Villa Kerylos (National
monuments centre). We thank those institutions for their support, and the editors
of the Trends in Classics series for accepting the proceedings for publication, as
well as the experts who provided the authors with valuable feedback. From this
conference was born the association Etygram, which aims at federating scholars
with an interest in Ancient Greek etymology and is working on an open-access
online dictionary of Ancient etymologies, either transmitted by technical sources
or found in Greek literature in general, provided with translation and analysis
(ETYGRAM-D, Ancient and Medieval Greek Etymology): http://appsweb-cepam.
unice.fr/etygram.
Arnaud Zucker and Claire Le Feuvre
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Contents
Preface  V
List of Tables  IX
Arnaud Zucker and Claire Le Feuvre
Introduction  1
Part I: Etymological Practices and Philosophical Issues
Marco Romani Mistretta
Naming the Art, or the Art of Naming: The Etymology of τέχνη (technē)
in Plato’s Cratylus  21
Maria Chriti
Etymological Proximities and Onomastics: From Aristotle to Ammonius
of Hermeias  37
Part II: Linguistic Issues
Claire Le Feuvre
Implicit Elements in Scholiasts’ Etymological Analyses  55
Daniel Petit
On Enantiosemy in Antiquity and its Modern Outcomes  83
Nathalie Rousseau
Ὅτι ἀλαζών ἐστι μάρτυς ἡ ἐτυμολογία: Galen on Etymology, Theory
and Practice  125
Part III: Poetical Practices of Etymology
Athanassios Vergados
Etymological Explanations of Fish-names in Oppian’s Halieutica:
Between Poetry, Philology, and Scholarship  179
Christophe Cusset
Etymology as a Poetic Resource among the Poets of Alexandria  213
VIII  Contents
Andrea Filoni
The Use of Etymology in Apollodorus’ ΠΕΡΙ ΘΕΩΝ and in its Reader Porphyry:
Scientific of Ideological?  229
Part IV: Etymology and Word-Plays
Valentin Decloquement
Fallacious Etymology and Puns: Ptolemy Chennus’ Sham Homeric
Questions  281
Simone Beta
To Play (and to Have Fun) with Literature: Comic Wordplay in Greek
Poetry  305
List of Contributors  321
Index Notionum  323
Index Nominum  327
Index Verborum  329
Index Locorum  333
List of tables
Tab. 1: Etymology and perception in Augustine and Diogenes Laertius.  87
Tab. 2: Latin additions in Macrobius and Lydus.  232
Tab. 3: Structure of the ‘solar theology’.  233
Tab. 4: Quaestiones Homericae.  236
Tab. 5: On the Styx (Περὶ Στυγός).  237
Tab. 6: On the Images (Περὶ ἀγαλμάτων: fr. 8 Gabriele = 359 Smith).  237
Tab. 7: De Abstinentia.  237
Tab. 8: Male gods.  238
Tab. 9: Female goddesses.  239
Tab. 10: Gods which are solar in both treatises.  239
Tab. 11: Gods which become solar in the ‘solar theology’.  240
Tab. 12: Non-solar goddesses in the ‘solar theology’.  240
Tab. 13: Exegetical scholia on Iliad Φ 448.  247
Tab. 14: Apollodorus about Apollo νόμιος: a general survey.  254
Tab. 15: Apollodorus on Apollo λυκηγενής: a general survey.  265
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