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HYPERIDES AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION AMERICAN CLASSICAL STUDIES VOLUME53 Series Editor Kathryn J. Gutzwiller Studies in Classical History and Society Meyer Reinhold Sextus Empiricus The Transmission and Recovery of Pyrrhonism Luciano Floridi The Augustan Succession An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio’s Roman History Books 55–56 (9 B.C.–A.D.14) Peter Michael Swan Greek Mythography in the Roman World Alan Cameron Virgil Recomposed The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity Scott McGill Representing Agrippina Constructions of Female Power in the Early Roman Empire Judith Ginsburg Figuring Genre in Roman Satire Catherine Keane Homer’s Cosmic Fabrication Choice and Design in theIliad Bruce Heiden Hyperides Funeral Oration Judson Herrman HYPERIDES Funeral Oration Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary by Judson Herrman 2009 Oxford University Press, Inc. publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright © 2009 by the American Philological Association Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hyperides. [Epitaphios. English & Greek] Funeral oration / Hyperides ; edited with introduction, translation, and commentary by Judson Herrman. p. cm.—(American classical studies ; no.53) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN978-0-19-538865-7 1. Hyperides—Translations into English. 2. Funeral orations—Translations into English. 3. Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient—Greek—Athens. I. Herrman, Judson. II. Title. PA4212.A36 2009 885’.01—dc22 2008045141 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Preface Hyperides’ Funeral Oration is arguably the most important surviving exampleofanAthenianepitaphioslogosbothbecauseofitsfinequality asanepideicticcomposition,andbecauseitrevealsthatastatefuneral oration could transform the standard content of the genre and adapt it totheimmediatehistoricalcontext.Thisvolumepresentsanewcritical editionofthetext,accompaniedbyanextensivecommentaryaimedat an audience of scholars and graduate students in classics and ancient history. The commentary is both historical and philological; the notes aredesignedtodemonstratethetimelinessofthespeech,andtoempha- sizethedifferencebetweenitandotherfuneralorations.Ialsoinclude anintroduction,whichsituatesthespeechinitshistoricalandrhetorical context,and a translation. Recent work—now further accelerated by the discovery of extensive and previously unknown fragments of Hyperides in the Archimedes Palimpsest—has reestablished Hyperides’importance as an orator and as a political figure. Most notably, David Whitehead’s excellent commentary on the forensic speeches (Whitehead 2000) has done much to satisfy a long-standing need for a detailed guide to the Hyperidean corpus. I hope that the present book will suitably fill a conspicuous gap arising from Professor Whitehead’s decision to concentrate on the surviving courtroom speeches. This book has grown out of a doctoral dissertation. The revisions havesometimesbeenslowedbyworkonotherprojects,butIhopethe presentvolumehasbenefitedfromthoseparerga.Ihavedesignedand typeset the book myself using open source software. I am grateful to Stephanie Attia at Oxford University Press for expert advice on the design, and to the creators and the community of support for XETEX, v vi Preface a unicode-based version ofTEX, and for theedmacand Eplain macros packages,whichIhaveadaptedandextendedtoproducecamera-ready copy of this volume. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the generous help I’ve received in the course of writing this book. I would like to thank John Duffy,An- drewWolpert, and HarveyYunis for helpful comments on early drafts of this material. I am also grateful to the editorial board of of theAPA Publication Committee and especially to the editor of theAPA Mono- graphSeries,KathrynGutzwiller,forencouragementandconstructive advice on the manuscript at a later stage. The book has benefited im- menselyfromthesuggestionsoftwoanonymousexternalreferees,and from the comments ofAdele Scafuro and DavidWhitehead, who also readthemanuscriptfortheAPA.IamparticularlyindebtedtoProfessor Scafuro for devoting an extraordinary amount of time to reading and commenting on my manuscript. I am also grateful to Peter Hunt and the students in his spring 2008 seminar on Greek oratory at the Uni- versityofColoradofortheirusefulcomments.Thesereadersandthose namedbelowmaynotagreewithallofmyargumentsandconclusions here;theyhavesavedmefrommanymistakesandmisunderstandings, but I have not always followed their advice.Any remaining errors or omissions are entirely my own. Iwouldlikealsotoacknowledgeandthankseveralinstitutionsfor their financial support. Harvard University’s Graduate School ofArts andSciencesawardedmeadissertationcompletionfellowshiptofinish the first full version of this material in spring 1999. A Fletcher Fam- ily Research Grant from Bowdoin College enabled me to study the papyrus for the first time in person during the summer of 2003. Two awards from the academic support committee of Allegheny College, supplemented by an award from the Jonathan E. and Nancy L. Helm- reichResearchandBookGrantFund,supportedstudyattheInstituteof ClassicalStudiesinLondonin2005andatHarvard’sWidenerLibrary in2006.Iamgratefultothelibrariansandstaffatthoseinstitutionsand to the British Library. I completed final revisions of this manuscript at the National Humanities Center, where I held the Robert F. and Mar- garet S. Goheen Fellowship during the academic year 2006/2007. My time at the National Humanities Center was co-funded by a sabbatical grant from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation. I am particularly gratefultoeveryoneattheCenterformakingmytimetheresoproduc- tive and comfortable. My greatest academic debts are to Albert Henrichs, who advised Preface vii the dissertation and has continued to be supportive and inspiring, and toEdwardHarris,who,asanoutsidereaderonthedissertationcommit- tee,essentiallyservedasasecondadvisor,andwhohasbeenselflessly helpfulateverystageofwritingandrevision.Myfinalthanksgotomy wife, Robin Orttung, for all of her love and support as this book was born and matured. This page intentionally left blank Contents Abbreviations 1.General xi 2.Editions of Fragments xii 3. In the CriticalApparatus xii Introduction 1.The Historical Background 3 2.The Rhetorical Background 14 3.Hyperides’ FuneralOration 20 4.TheText andTranslation 27 Text andTranslation 35 Commentary 57 AppendixA: Papyrological Notes 111 Appendix B:CriticalConjectures 115 Bibliography 121 GeneralIndex 141 Index of GreekWords 147
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