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The Good Poem According to Philodemus The Good Poem According to Philodemus MICHAEL McOSKER 1 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2021 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, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: McOsker, Michael, author. Title: The good poem according to Philodemus / Michael McOsker. Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021016477 (print) | LCCN 2021016478 (ebook) | ISBN 9780190912819 (hardback) | ISBN 9780190912833 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Philodemus, approximately 110 B.C.-approximately 40 B.C. On poems. | Poetics—History—To 1500. | Greek poetry—History and criticism—Theory, etc. | LCGFT: Literary criticism. Classification: LCC PA4271.P4 M36 2021 (print) | LCC PA4271.P4 (ebook) | DDC 808.1—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021016477 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021016478 DOI: 10.1093/ oso/ 9780190912819.001.0001 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Integrated Books International, United States of America To my parents, Liz and Paul. Contents Preface xi Abbreviations xv Introduction: Philodemus and His Prolēpsis of the Good Poem 1 §1 Introduction to Philodemus’ Works 1 §2 The Structure and Content of the On Poems 3 §3 Background and Method of This Study 5 §4 Conclusions 8 §5 Kanonikē and the Canon 11 §6 The Prolēpsis of Poetry and the Possibility of an Epicurean Theory of Poetry 16 §7 The Hypographē of “Poem” 23 §8 The Problem of Meter 31 1. Epicurean Poetics before Philodemus 38 §1 Introduction 38 §2 Epicurus 39 §3 Metrodorus 50 §4 Hermarchus, Polyaenus, and the Other Third- and Second- Century Epicureans 52 §5 Colotes 53 §6 Demetrius Laco 56 §7 Zeno of Sidon 60 §8 Siro 61 §9 Conclusion 61 2. Philodemus’ Terminology and Opponents 64 §1 Introduction 64 §2 A Partial Hellenistic Literary-C ritical Lexicon 65 §3 Crates and the Critics in His Treatise 69 §3a M egaclides 70 §3b Andromenides 71 §3c Heracleodorus 74 §3d Heracleodorus and Philodemus on Cookery and Poetry 77 §3e Pausimachus 84 §3f Crates of Mallos 89 §3g The Kritikoi, the “Philosophers,” and Crates 94 §4 “Critic A” of Book III 97 viii Contents §5 Aristotle 98 §6 Heraclides of Pontus 99 §7 The Critics in Philomelus 102 §7a The Anonymous Critics in Philomelus 103 §7b Praxiphanes of Miletus 103 §7c Demetrius of Byzantium 104 §8 Neoptolemus of Parium 107 §9 The Stoics 110 §9a Diogenes of Babylon 113 §9b The Anonymous Stoic (Formerly Known as Aristo) 117 §10 The Anonymous Doxai in Zeno 120 §11 Conclusion 121 3. Poetry as Technē and the Use of Poetry 123 §1 Introduction 123 §2 The Hypographē of Technē and the “Technicity of Rhetoric” 124 §3 The Technicity of Poetry 130 §4 The Utility of the Technē of Poetry 137 §5 The Utility of Poems 139 §6 Conclusion 149 4. Form and Content 150 §1 Introduction 150 §2 ὑποτεταγμένη διάνοια in Philodemus 151 §3 The Interrelation between Form and Content 157 §4 Form and Content in Practice 164 §5 The Goal for Content 170 §6 The Goal for Form 174 §7 Form and Content in Philodemus’ Poetry 180 §8 Conclusion 186 5. The Judgment of Poems and Their Psychological Effect 188 §1 Introduction 188 §2 Intellectualist Poetics 188 §3 The Judgment of Poems 191 §4 “Further Thoughts” 197 §5 Light from Rhetoric III and the Pleasure of Poetry 202 §6 Psychagōgia and Pleasure in Philodemus’ Epigrams 211 §7 Conclusion 216 Conclusion: Philodemus the Epicurean on the Arts 218 §1 Philodemus’ Poetics: A Look Back 218 §2 What’s Epicurean about Philodemus’ Views on the Fine Arts? 220 Appendix: An Epicurean Critical Miscellany 227 §1 Introduction 227 Contents ix §2 Music and Poetry 227 §3 Rhetoric and Poetry 233 §4 τὸ πρέπον: Characterization, Verisimilitude, and the Suspension of Disbelief 235 §5 The Prolēpsis of the Genres 239 §6 Genre in Philodemus’ Epigrams 245 §7 The Imitation of Things 249 §8 The Imitation of Earlier Poets 254 §9 The “Ban” on Metathesis 257 Bibliography 261 Index Locorum 277 Index Verborum Graecorum Potiorum 289 Subject Index 299
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