Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon Books I–II

298 Pages·2020·1.833 MB·English

by  Tim Whitmarsh

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CAMBRIDGE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS
General Editors
P. E. Easterling
Regius Professor Emeritus of Greek, University of Cambridge
Philip Hardie
Fellow, Trinity College, and Emeritus Honorary Professor of Latin, University of
Cambridge
Neil Hopkinson
Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
Richard Hunter
Regius Professor of Greek, University of Cambridge
†E. J. Kenney
Kennedy Professor Emeritus of Latin, University of Cambridge
S. P. Oakley
Kennedy Professor of Latin, University of Cambridge

ACHILLES TATIUS
L E U C I P P E A N D
C L I TO P H O N
BOOKS I–II
edited by
tim whitmarsh
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title: Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon books I-II / Tim Whitmarsh.
other titles: Leucippe and Clitophon | Cambridge Greek and Latin classics.
description: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020. |
series: Cambridge Greek and Latin classics | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements page vii
References and Abbreviations viii
Introduction
1 Author, Date, Context 1
2 Achilles and his Literary Context 7
3 Books 1 and 2 17
4 Allusion, Rhetoric, Narrative, Language 26
5 Location, Setting, Environment 51
6 Ethics, Philosophy, Culture 60
7 Text 76
SIGLA 79
ΑΧΙΛΛΕΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕΣ ΤΑΤΙΟΥ ΤΑ ΚΑΤΑ
ΛΕΥΚΙΠΠΗΝ ΚΑΙ ΚΛΕΙΤΟΦΝΤΑ Α'–Β' 81
Commentary 117
Works Cited 263
General Index 280
Index of Greek Words and Phrases 284
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This commentary is the culmination of 20 years of reading and thinking
about Achilles Tatius’ wonderful Leucippe and Clitophon. I am grateful to
all those who have shared and debated ideas along the way, including
(but not limited to) Helen Morales, Ian Repath, John Morgan, Karen
ní Mheallaigh, Froma Zeitlin, Simon Goldhill, Ewen Bowie, Consuelo
Ruiz Montero, Aldo Tagliabue, Koen de Temmerman, Claire Jackson,
Lawrence Kim, Richard Hunter and Daniel Jolowicz. I am particularly
grateful to have seen a draft of Jolowicz 2020 shortly before submitting my
final copy. I have learned from innumerable others in the international
community of scholars who work on the ancient novel, and in particular
several generations of brilliant graduate students on the ancient romance
and related areas, among them Anna Lefteratou, Athina Siapera, Estelle
Strazdins, Elodie Turquois, Emma Greensmith, Ben Kruchió and Anna
Athanasopoulou. I am also lucky to have been able to teach Achilles in
Cambridge, not only in lectures and supervisions but also in the Intensive
Greek classes. I am grateful to every undergraduate who has questioned,
prodded and probed over the years. I have happy memories of begin-
ning the work on this commentary in the congenial surroundings of the
University of Chicago in 2015: many thanks to colleagues and friends in
the Department of Classics for inviting and hosting me. My most imme-
diate debt is to Neil Hopkinson and Richard Hunter, whose patience,
acuity and guidance (and attention to linguistic superfluities) have trans-
formed this book beyond measure; and to Michael Sharp at the Press for
his encouragement. Finally, I am very lucky to live in a household that
brims with conversations and ideas. Leucippe and Clitophon is a book about
clever young people who have different ideas about the world from their
parents. My daughter India (who read Achilles as a teenager) and my son
Sol have changed the way I view this text, bringing it alive for me in ways
that I could not have predicted – which is why, incidentally, I occasionally
do use the term ‘teenager’ in the text (an anachronism, but Achilles does
often read to me as a strangely modern text). My greatest debt, however,
is inevitably to Emily Kneebone.
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REFERENCES AND ABBREVIATIONS
The Greek romances and their authors are abbreviated in the commen-
tary as follows:
Xen. Eph., A&H Xenophon of Ephesus, The Ephesian Story of Anthia and
Habrocomes
Char., Call. Chariton, Callirhoe
A., L&C Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon
Long., D&C Longus, Daphnis and Chloe
Hld., Ch&Th Heliodorus, The Ethiopian Story of Charicleia and
Theagenes
References to L&C are by book, chapter and section number only.
Σ indicates ‘scholium’ or ‘scholia’.
Classical journals and Greco-Roman authors are abbreviated accord-
ing to the conventions of OCD5 (http://classics.oxfordre.com/page/
abbreviation-list/). Editions of ancient texts are listed below only when
referred to in the commentary by abbreviation.
ANET J. B. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern texts relating to the
Bible, Princeton 1969
BDAG F. Montanari, Brill’s dictionary of Ancient Greek, Leiden
2015
BNJ I. Worthington, Brill’s New Jacoby, Leiden 2005–
BNP H. Cancik and H. Schneider eds., Brill’s New Pauly.
English translation edited by C. F. Salazar and F. G.
Gentry, Leiden 2010
CA J. U. Powell, Collectanea Alexandrina, Oxford 1925
Chantraine P. Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue
grecque, Paris 1968
CIL Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum, Berlin 1863–
Denniston J. D. Denniston, The Greek particles, 2nd edn, Oxford
1954
FHG K. Müller et al., Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, Paris,
1841–85
GDRK E. Heitsch, Die griechischen Dichterfragmente der römischen
Kaiserzeit, Bd. 1., 2nd edn, Göttingen 1963
GLRBP E. A. Sophocles, Greek lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine
periods (from b.c. 146 to a.d. 1100), Boston 1870
GMT W. W. Goodwin, Syntax of the moods and tenses of the
Greek verb, enlarged edn, London 1889
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