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HERACLITUS: HOMERIC PROBLEMS Writings from the Greco-Roman World John T. Fitzgerald, General Editor Editorial Board David Armstrong Elizabeth Asmis Brian E. Daley, S.J. David G. Hunter David Konstan Margaret M. Mitchell Michael J. Roberts Johan C. Thom James C. VanderKam Number 14 HERACLITUS: HOMERIC PROBLEMS Volume Editor David Konstan HERACLITUS: HOMERIC PROBLEMS Edited and Translated by Donald A. Russell and David Konstan Society of Biblical Literature Atlanta HERACLITUS:HOMERIC PROBLEMS Copyright © 2005 by the Society of Biblical Literature All rights reserved.No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by means of any information storage or retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted by the 1976 Copyright Act or in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission should be addressed in writing to the Rights and Permissions Office, Society of Biblical Literature, 825 Houston Mill Road, Atlanta, GA 30329 USA. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Heraclitus, 1st cent. [Allegoriae Homericae. English & Greek] Heraclitus : Homeric problems / edited and translated by Donald A. Russell and David Konstan. p. cm. — (Writings from the Greco-Roman world ; v. 14) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Commentaries in English; texts in Greek with parallel English translation. ISBN-13: 978-1-58983-122-3 (alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-58983-122-5 (alk. paper) 1. Homer—Religion. 2. Gods, Greek, in literature. 3. Heraclitus, 1st cent. Allegoriae Homericae. I. Title: Homeric problems. II. Russell, D. A. (Donald Andrew) III. Konstan, David. IV. Title. V. Series. PA4035.H4 2005 883'.01—dc22 2005013284 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, recycled paper conforming to ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R1997) and ISO 9706:1994 standards for paper permanence. CONTENTS Preface vii Abbreviations ix Introduction xi Name and Date xi The Beginnings of Allegory xiii The Authority of Homer xv The Nature of Allegory xvi Approaches to Myth xvii Plato’s Attack on Homer and Its Aftermath xix The Varieties of Allegory xxi Allegory and Literary Criticism xxiv Heraclitus’s Treatise xxvii Text and Translation xxix Heraclitus, Homeric Problems:Text and Translation 1 Select Bibliography 133 Index Nominum et Rerum 137 Index Locorum 139 PREFACE The idea of preparing a translation of Heraclitus, along with Cornutus and the allegorical scholia to Hesiod, was first proposed in the Society of Biblical Literature by members of the Section on Hellenistic Moral Philos- ophy and Early Christianity, an interdisciplinary program unit that already had produced a translation of Philodemus’s treatise on frankness of speech. At an early stage in the Heraclitus project, it became known that a full translation, along with selected notes, already had been pre- pared by the eminent scholar of ancient literary criticism, Donald A. Russell. Dr. Russell kindly made his translation available to the SBL group, and he agreed to its publication in the series, Writings from the Greco-Roman World. David Konstan, in accord with the practice of the series, was asked to serve as volume editor, and he worked closely with Dr. Russell on the final version. He also drafted the introduction, which was in turn edited by Dr. Russell. Because of their close collaboration in the preparation of this volume, Dr. Russell asked that Prof. Konstan’s name be paired with his as the joint authors of this work. As a result of this happy circumstance, Prof. Konstan’s name appears as both volume editor and co-author. As General Editor of the series, I am pleased to join Dr. Russell and Prof. Konstan in expressing our thanks to Ilaria Ramelli, who made available to us the manuscript of her book (Ramelli 2004) prior to its publication and who read the whole text through with her unfailing critical eye. John T. Fitzgerald -vii- ABBREVIATIONS The abbreviations used for the citation of ancient texts and modern schol- arly literature follow, in general, the guidelines of the Society of Biblical Literature as published in The SBL Handbook of Style(1999). Those used in this volume include the following: ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung.Edited by Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1972–. CP Classical Philology CQ Classical Quarterly FGH Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker. Edited by Felix Jacoby. Leiden: Brill, 1954–1964. JHS Journal of Hellenic Studies JRS Journal of Roman Studies LCL Loeb Classical Library PGL Patristic Greek Lexicon. Edited by G. W. H. Lampe. Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1968. SH Hugh Lloyd-Jones and P. J. Parsons, eds. Supplemen- tum Hellenisticum. Texte und Kommentare 11. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1983. SVF Stoicorum veterum fragmenta.Hans von Arnim. 4 vols. Leipzig:Teubner, 1903–1924. TAPA Transactions of the American Philological Association Theol. Cornutus, Epidromê tôn kata tên Hellênikên theologian paradedomenôn (Summary of the Traditions concerning Greek Theology) Vit. poes. Hom. Pseudo-Plutarch, De vita et poesi Homeri (On the Life and Poetry of Homer) ZPE Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik -ix-
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