Arktouros: Hellenic studies presented to Bernard M.W. Knox on the occasion of his 65. birthday

470 Pages·1979·9.213 MB·German, English

by  Glen W. Bowersock et al. (eds/)

ARKTOUROS
Hellenic Studies

ARKTOUROS
Hellenic Studies presented to
Bernard M.W. Knox
on the occasion
of his 65 th birthday
Edited by
Glen W. Bowersock · Walter Burkert
Michael C. J. Putnam
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Walter de Gruyter · Berlin · New York
1979
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
Arktouros : Hellenic studies presented to Bernard M. W. Knox on
the occasion of his 65th birthday.
1. Greek literature — History and criticism — Addresses, essays,
lectures. 2. Civilization, Greek — Addresses, essays, lectures.
3. Knox, BernardMacGregor Walker. I. Knox, Bernard MacGregor
Walker. II. Bowersock, Glen Warren. III. Burkert, Walter, 1931-
IV. Putnam, Michael C. J.
PA26.K58A7 1980 880'.9'001 80-396
ISBN 3-11-007798-1
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Arktouros: Hellenic studies presented to Bernard M. W. Knox
on the occasion of his 65. birthday / ed. by Glen W. Bowersock . . .
- Berlin, New York : de Gruyter, 1979.
ISBN 3-11-007798-1
NE: Bowersock, Glen W. [Hrsg.]; Knox, Bernard M. W.:
Festschrift
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εύτ' άν δ' Άρκτοΰρον προσίδη ροδοδάκτυλος Ήώς,
ώ Πέρση, τότε πάντας άποδρέπειν οικαδε βότρυς
Hesiod

Preface
'Bernard hates festschriften', somebody said, and this may well be true.
Yet there is an argument for the defense, worn out by frequent use and
misuse but simply true for once: this is a special case. For there exists at
Washington, D.C., a very special, nay unique institution, the Center for
Hellenic Studies, where year after year eight Hellenic scholars of various
nationalities, beyond the level of doctorate but not yet fully installed and
absorbed in the university system, are offered an opportunity to pursue a
research project of their own choice in an atmosphere of serene schole, with
a magnificent library right at hand and a chance for talks and discussions of
all sorts. Thus, ever since the Center's beginnings in 1961, an ever growing
community of former junior fellows has been spreading all over the
world — ex-centrics they might be called —, cherishing memories of the
year at 'The Center' and drawing on the stimulating experience and the
progress achieved in this place. Many recent publications can be seen to
contain an introductory remark acknowledging the importance of the
year at the Center for the growth and final outcome of the work. But it is
not the stipend, the housing, the library that could have these
itself, were there not the all-pervading presence of a unique personality to
animate the institution, a man of indisputable authority and competence
yet known to all just by his first name: Bernard. And this has been the most
special fact in all these years.
The idea to pay tribute to the Center and its director by bringing to-
gether studies of former fellows has been put forth repeatedly. It is at the
same time a formidable undertaking, as it means to expose various seeds
that germinated in the sheltered abodes at Whitehaven Street to the gusty
winds of international criticism, which might turn honest intentions of
doing honor to its very contrary. Yet 'the risk is beautiful', while the
wisdom of silence is questionable; it seemed worth while after all to take a
chance now and not to delay plans indefinitely, since, in the words of
Sophocles, 'All things long uncounted time brings forth from obscurity and
buries once they have appeared'.
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The result is nothing like an encyclopaedia or a systematic layout of
Hellenic studies, but still a fairly extensive survey of the field, a suggestive
indication of its complexity and variety as to subjects and methods. It
ranges from Homer to Planudes and to Thomas Morus, not to forget the
Roman offshoots; it comprises literary studies as well as history and
philosophy, touching at the same time on archaeology, law, epigraphy, and
papyrology. If drama stands out as a central topic, this is an immediate
result of the gravitational force exerted by the work of Bernard Knox. Yet
there is nothing like conformity in method or approach. There are the old
philological and historical problems of establishing and dating a text, with
manuscripts, conjectures, interpolations; there are new materials provided
by inscriptions and papyri; there is the novel stimulus of modern
philosophical or hermeneutical positions, including structuralism; and
there is the all-embracing fascination of the Greek phenomenon that should
hold together these studies, as it brought together the people who pursue
them.
This book has no aspirations of being a monumentum aere perennius,
but a testimony here and now to an institution, to a man, and to the
Hellenic spirit.
The publication was made possible through the combined efforts of
senior and junior fellows, and through a generous grant by the Loeb
Classical Library Foundation. Besides the authors of the papers printed in
this volume, the following have provided active support: Apostolos N.
Athanassakis, Ann Bergren, Anna Morpurgo Davies, John K. Davies,
Robert H. Drews, J. P. Elder, Gerald F. Else, David J. Furley, John
Glucker, N. C. Hourmouziades, Henry R. Immerwahr, John Keaney,
Ernst R. Sandvoss, Dirk M. Schenkeveld, Hans-Peter Stahl, Leonardo
Taran, Erich Thummer, Daniel B. Tompkins, John Van Sickle, Nicholas
P. White. The editors were joined in their work by David J. Furley and
Henry R. Immerwahr. Frances S. Eisenhauer from the Department of
Classics at Brown University, and Marco Danieli from the Klassisch-Philo-
logisches Seminar at Zürich have spent much time and energy in taking care
of the correspondence and the manuscript. The editors wish to express their
gratitude to all of them.
The invitation for contributions was sent out early in 1977. There had to
be an artificial deadline: the junior fellows of 1975/6 were the last to join.
New crops from the Center have matured since then. It is to be hoped that
there will be no limit to the future of Hellenic studies.
Contents
Preface VII
Epic and Lyric Poetry:
J. PERADOTTO (State University of New York at Buffalo): Originality
and Intentionality 3
C. A. RUBINO (University of Texas at Austin): "A Thousand Shapes
of Death": Heroic Immortality in the Iliad 12
W. WHALLON (Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan):
Is Hector androphonos? 19
K. MATTHIESSEN (Universität Münster): Form und Funktion des Welt-
altermythos bei Hesiod 25
J. FINLEY (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts): Sappho's
Circumstances 33
D. D. BOEDEKER (Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts):
Sappho and Acheron 40
W. BURKERT (Universität Zürich): Kynaithos, Polycrates, and the
Homeric Hymn to Apollo 53
W. J. SLATER (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario): Pindar's
Myths: Two Pragmatic Explanations ..." 63
S. FOGELMARK (University of Lund): και κείνοις: Pindar, Nemean 5.22 71
F. T. GRIFFITHS (Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts): Poetry
as Pharmakon in Theocritus' Idyll 2 81
Drama
M. W. HASLAM (University of California at Los Angeles): Ο suitably -
attired-in-leather-boots. Interpolations in Greek Tragedy 91
X Contents
S. DWORACKI (University of Poznan): Attossa's Absence in the Final
Scene of the Persea of Aeschylus 101
Μ. H. MCCALL (Stanford University, Stanford, California): A
Problem of Attribution at Aeschylus Supplices 1055: Stephanus' Source 109
J. MEJER (University of Copenhagen): Recognizing what when and
why? The Recognition Scene in Aeschylus' Choephori 115
O. TAPLIN (Magdalen College, Oxford): Yielding to Forethought:
Sophocles' Ajax 122
P. Pucci (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York): On the 'Eye' and
the 'Phallos' and Other Permutabilities, in Oedipus Rex 130
M. C. STOKES (University of Durham): Sophocles, Electra 1087;
Text and Context 134
CH. WOLFF (Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire): A
Note on Lions and Sophocles, Philoctetes 1436 144
CH. P. SEGAL (Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island): Solar
Imagery and Tragic Heroism in Euripides' Hippolytus 151
D. B. ROBINSON (University of Edinburgh): Helen and Persephone,
Sparta and Demeter. The 'Demeter Ode' in Euripides'/Ze/ew 162
W. D. SMITH (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia): Iphigeneia
in Love 173
B. SEIDENSTICKER (Universität Hamburg): Sacrificial Ritual in the
Bacchae 181
K. J. RECKFORD (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): "Let
Them Eat Cakes" — Three Food Notes to Aristophanes' Peace . . .. 191
G. M. SIFAKIS (University of Thessaloniki): Boy Actors in New
Comedy 199
R. LATTIMORE (Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania):
Optatives of Consent and Refusal 209
Society and History:
T. HADZISTELIOU PRICE (Naperville, Illinois): Hero Cult in the
'Age of Homer' and Earlier 219