Classical Philology

10/22/2024

CP's October 2024 issue (119.4) is available online:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cp/2024/119/4

ARTICLES

How the Mind Is Affected in Homer and The Sanskrit Epics. Part I: Negative Mental Changes
Maria Marcinkowska-Rosół and Sven Sellmer

Silence as Defeat and Reversal in Euripides’ Alcestis
Bridget Martin

Aristotle on Perfect and Imperfect Sense Activities
Mika Perälä

The Life Cycles of Counterfactual Modal Verbs in Ancient Greek: Temporal Reference Shift, Language Ecology, and Analogy
Ezra la Roi

Corydon’s Incondita Carmina in Eclogue 2
Matthew W. Sherry

NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS

Hesiod Theogony 823
Athanassios Vergados

Unapproachable for Goats: Some Notes to Lucilius 113 M
Agustín Rafael Avila

Figuring Out Fama: An Intertextual Reading of Valerius Flaccus Argonautica 6.1–30
Melissande Tomcik

Internal Rhyme in Latin Lyric: Statius Silvae 4.5 and 4.7
Maxwell Hardy

BOOK REVIEWS

Homer in Wittenberg: Rhetoric, Scholarship, Prayer. By William P. Weaver
Richard Calis

Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Classics and Cosmopolitanism in the Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois. By David Withun
Dominic Machado

07/29/2024

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05/08/2024

CP's April 2024 issue (CP 119.2) is now available online:

Special Issue: Philology Transfigured
Guest Editors: Shane Butler and Sarah Nooter

Introduction: Philology Transfigured
Shane Butler and Sarah Nooter

ARTICLES

Q***r Philology and Luis Alfaro’s Oedipus El Rey
Mario Telò

Bacchae’s Q***r Hyperchorality: Becoming-Wild, Becoming-Choral
Ella Haselswerdt

The Androgyny of Wonder: A Reading of Plato’s First Alcibiades
Noushin Ahdoot

Nature Is a Tr*******al Woman: Lucretian Metaphysics Reconsidered
Luce DeLire

A. B. Yehoshua’s Q***r Orpheus: Overcoming the Israeli Ashkenazi-Sephardi Fracture
Giacomo Loi

“The Ones Who Bloom in the Bitter Snow”: Hadestown and the Q***r Afterlives of Orpheus
Kathryn H. Stutz

Looking Back: Ancient Greek Poetry in the Age of AIDS
Sarah Nooter

POETRY

My Greek Anthology
Richie Hofmann

In this analysis of Luis Alfaro’s Oedipus El Rey, Oedipality becomes “philological” and “queer” because it confronts the reader with an Oedipus unable to become Oedipal. The lack of a “straight” Oedipus—a fully Oedipal Oedipus—becomes a philological crux, which, as I argue, is prov...

09/29/2023

Classical Philology's October 2023 issue (CP 118.4) is now available online: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cp/2023/118/4

ARTICLES

Facts as Fiction in the Early Career of Aristophanes
Zachary P. Biles

Alcidamas and the Idea of Literary History: P. Mich. Inv. 2754
Henry L. Spelman

The Path of the Sun: Pindar Olympian 2.61–62
David Goodfellow

Epigram Reading Epigram: Antipater of Sidon “Coming Second” (Anth. Pal. 9.25)
Simon Zuenelli

The Earliest Peripatetic Commentators in the First Century BCE and the Old Academy: A Neglected Antiochean Legacy
Tianqin Ge

NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS

Chronos the Master Craftsman in the Sisyphus Fragment (Critias TRGF 1 [43] F 19)
John Henry

Meleager and Catullus at Vergil Eclogue 1.55
Taylor S. Coughlan

Sus and Mus in Lucretius (De rerum natura 5.25), Vergil (Georgics 1.181), and Horace (Ars poetica 139)
T. H. M. Gellar-Goad

Lucian Verae historiae 2.20 and the Relative Chronology of the Homeric Poems
Ruggiero Lionetti

New Perspectives on the Meaning of cm galeare ursici (Char. Gramm. 1.80 = GL I 80.9 = Barwick 101.5–6)
Umberto Verdura

BOOK REVIEW

Choral Constructions in Greek Culture: The Idea of the Chorus in the Poetry, Art and Social Practices of the Archaic and Early Classical Period. By Deborah Tarn Steiner
Giovanni Fanfani

Aristophanic parabases regularly pose an interpretive challenge due to the competing objectives of historical inquiry and literary sensitivity, with the former often taking precedence. This article seeks a more balanced analysis in appraising Aristophanes’ representation of his early career in the...

08/04/2023

The July 2023 issue of CP is available online and in print.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cp/2023/118/3

Death, Memory, Intertextuality: Warrior Catalogues in Aeschylus’ Persians
Davide Napoli

Laughing Waves in Ancient Greek
Giordano Lipari and Francesco Giuseppe Sirna
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Viewing Jerusalem in the Letter of Aristeas: Aesthetics, Experience, and Empire
Max Leventhal

NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS

Life, Death, and Lightning: An Alternative Edition of Empedocles B 9 DK with Commentary
Alberto Corrado

Protagoras on How Political Communities Come to Be
Jan Maximilian Robitzsch

A New Satyric or Comic Fragment from Praeneste?
Jan Kwapisz

The Shadow of the Bellum Perusinum in the Ending of Vergil’s Eclogues
Nicola Piacenza

BOOK REVIEWS

Teresa Morgan: Education in Late Antiquity: Challenges, Dynamism, and Reinterpretation, 300–550 CE (by Jan R. Stenger)

Leslie Brubaker: Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm: Patrons, Politics and Saints (by Óscar Prieto Domínguez)

When analyzed as an ensemble, the three warrior catalogues found in Aeschylus’ Persians reveal a striking multiplicity of intertexts operating under their surface. These intertexts, drawn from both literary and epigraphic sources, encourage the audience to understand the Persian warriors in two co...

05/03/2023

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cp/2023/118/2

ARTICLES

The Phaedo as an Alternative to Tragedy
David Ebrey

The Good or the Wild at Aristotle Eudemian Ethics 8.3?
Christopher Bobonich

Greek Solutions to Problems in Catullus 1 and 84
Neil O’Sullivan

Translatio fortunae: Curtius Rufus’ Alexander, Livy’s Hannibal, and Intertextuality
Dylan James

Helios or Jesus? The Last Words of the Emperor Julian
Moysés Marcos

NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS

Callimachus Hymn to Artemis 26–29: A Textual Note
Gary P. Vos

Virgil’s melior … sed Construction
Jonathan Nathan

Cum patuit lecto: A Double Entendre at Propertius 4.4.42
Joshua M. Paul

Ovid Metamorphoses 14.81–83 and 15.464–66
Konstantine Panegyres

Styx Dipping: Revisiting a Mother’s Nightmares (Achil. 1.133–34)
Julene Abad Del Vecchio

Elements and Matter in Diogenes Laertius 7.137
Ian Hensley

BOOK REVIEWS

Athens at the Margins: Pottery and People in the Early Mediterranean World. By Nathan T. Arrington
Catherine Kearns

Latin Elegy and the Space of Empire. By Sara H. Lindheim
Andrew M. Riggsby

12/09/2022

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cp/2022/117/4

MAJOR ARTICLES

The Roots of Divination in Archaic Poetry
Amit Baratz

Sappho’s Second Book
Mark de Kreij

Hesychia in Thucydides
Martha C. Taylor

The Case for the 399 BCE Dramatic Date of Plato’s Cratylus
Colin C. Smith

The Aesthetics of Disgust in Lucretius’ De rerum natura
Rebecca Moorman

Hollow Love: Discourses of Desire and Delusion in Turnus’ Pursuit of the Phantom in Aeneid 10
Kenneth Draper

Doorways and Diegesis: Spatial and Narrative Boundaries in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
Bill Beck

NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS

The River Oeroe on the Battlefield of Plataea (Hdt. 9.51 and Paus. 9.4.4)
Jordi Pàmias

Varro and the Romulean Tribes
J. H. Richardson

Scattering Seeds: The Lyncus and Triptolemus Episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Hannah Sorscher

Moretvm 45: An Emendation
Boris Kayachev

Foaming Cups: A Textual Note on Valerius Flaccus Argonautica 1.815

BOOK REVIEWS

Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy. By Mario Telò
Erika L. Weiberg

Juno’s “Aeneid”: A Battle for Heroic Identity. By Joseph Farrell
Shadi Bartsch

This article offers an analysis of a neglected aspect of divination in Archaic Greek literature. It aims to demonstrate that often divination stems from a self-contained ability to obtain hidden knowledge irrespective of the gods. In the human realm, seers prophesy not by divine inspiration or throu...

08/22/2022

Two terrific book reviews are available online ahead of the print edition of CP 117.4 (October 2022):

Shadi Bartsch, review of Joseph Farrell's /Juno’s “Aeneid”: A Battle for Heroic Identity/
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/721011

Erika L. Weiberg, review of Mario Telò's /Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy/
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/721161

07/27/2022

CP 117.3 (July 2022) is now available online:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cp/2022/117/3

ARTICLES

The Secondary Incipit of the Odyssey (Od. 9.39): Quotation, Translation, and Adaptation in the Ancient Reception of Homer
Massimo Cè

Death, Immortality, and the Value of Human Existence in Aristotle’s Eudemus Fragment 6 Ross
Mor Segev

Servius and Virgil: Lessons in Gender Agreement
Jaana Vaahtera

Plants Full of Signs: Herbal Lore in the Sacred Book of Hermes to Asclepius II
Spyros Piperakis

Spiritual Exercise in Plotinus: The Deictic Method
Mateusz Stróżyński

NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS

Athenian Documentary Language in Aristophanic Comedy: A Note on Lysistrata 528
Hans Kopp

The Soul-Turning Metaphor in Plato’s Republic Book 7
Damien Storey

Bed Head: A Note on the Durability (and Subsequent Potential “Reuse”) of Women’s Hairstyles in Antiquity
Callie Callon

Some Notes and Observations on the Tbilisi Hymn to Dionysus (P. Ross. Georg. 1.11)
Bartłomiej Bednarek

BOOK REVIEWS

Bill Beck: The Ethics of Revenge and the Meanings of the “Odyssey” (by Alexander C. Loney)

Edward Harris: Control of the Laws in the Ancient Democracy at Athens (by Edwin Carawan)

Thomas Figueira: The Greek Superpower: Sparta in the Self-Definitions of Athenians (edited by Paul Cartledge and Anton Powell)

Although recent scholarship has studied the incipit as a privileged intertextual locus in Latin poetry, the comparable role of work-internal beginnings in classical literature has been largely overlooked. This article argues that the opening sentence of Odysseus’ Apologue functions as the Odyssey....

10/05/2021

CP 116.4 (October 2021) is now available online:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cp/2021/116/4

ARTICLES

Cosmogonies of the Bound: Titans, Giants, and Early Greek Binding Spells
Jessica L. Lamont

Political Prisoners in Democratic Athens, 490–318 BCE
Part II: Narrating Incarceration in Athenian Historiography and Oratory
Marcus Folch

Sailors, Soldiers, and Market Exchanges in the Classical Greek World: The Constraints on Opportunism
Stephen O’Connor

Licentia: Cicero on the Su***de of Political Communities
René de Nicolay

No Cock-Up: Sophisticated Classical Allusion in the Medieval Pseudo-Ovidian Metamorphosis Flaminis in Gallum
Kyle Gervais

NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS

Ismene’s Hat: Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus 313–14
Laurialan Reitzammer

Holding the Baby: A Parody of Euripides’ Auge at Philyllius Fragment 4
Gwendolyn Compton-Engle

Capitolium Vetus: A New Street in Rome?
Jakub Gruchalski

Irrumator/Imperator: A Political Joke in Catullus 10?
Steven Brandwood

Moral Sententiae and Progressor Emotions in Seneca’s Philosophical Works
Bart Van Wassenhove

Lactantius’ Adaptation and Rejection of Lucretius De rerum natura 1.936–50
Matthew A. Keil

BOOK REVIEW

The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence. By Mathias Hanses
Erica Bexley

07/29/2021

Erica Bexley's review of "The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence" (by Mathias Hanses) is now available online ahead of print:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cp/0/0

Classical Philology (CP) has been an internationally respected journal for the study of the life, languages, and thought of the ancient Greek and Roman world since 1906. CP covers a broad range of topics, including studies that illuminate aspects of the languages, literatures, history, art, philosop...

07/21/2021

CP's July 2021 issue (116.3) is now available online:
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cp/2021/116/3

Staging Literary History in Old Comedy
Henry Spelman

Political Prisoners in Democratic Athens, 490–318 BCE
Part I: The Athenian Inmate Population
Marcus Folch

Ekphrastic Games: Ovid, the Gorgoneion, and the Invisible Shield
Chiara Torre

Revisiting the Authenticity of Porphyry’s Introduction to Ptolemy’s “Apotelesmatics”
Levente László

NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS

What a Feeling! Painting and the Origin of “Nothing to do With Dionysus”
Scott T. Farrington

Getting Bronze in the Sun: Making Sense of the Remains of Plautus’ Vidularia
David Youd

Epigraphy and Collective Memory: Cicero and the War B***y Inscriptions
Borja Díaz Ariño

Statius’ Silvae 4.8 and 4.9: The Poet’s Anger and Patronage
Francesco Cannizzaro

BOOK REVIEWS

Alexander S. W. Forte: Achilles beside Gilgamesh: Mortality and Wisdom in Early Epic Poetry, by Michael Clarke

Matthew A. Sears: States of Memory: The Polis, Panhellenism, and the Persian War, by David C. Yates

Leonardo Costantini: Apuleius’ Invisible Ass: Encounters with the Unseen in the “Metamorphoses,” by Geoffrey C. Benson

This article comprehensively examines one early chapter in the history of literary history which has not previously been studied as such. Setting aside issues of seriousness, accuracy, and consistency, I consider how characters and authors in Old Comedy organize the poetic past and position new work...

06/21/2021

CP's July 2021 (116.3) book reviews are available online ahead of print:

Alexander S. W. Forte: Achilles beside Gilgamesh: Mortality and Wisdom in Early Epic Poetry, by Michael Clarke

Leonardo Costantini: Apuleius’ Invisible Ass: Encounters with the Unseen in the “Metamorphoses,” by Geoffrey C. Benson

Matthew A. Sears: States of Memory: The Polis, Panhellenism, and the Persian War, by David C. Yates

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cp/0/0

Classical Philology (CP) has been an internationally respected journal for the study of the life, languages, and thought of the ancient Greek and Roman world since 1906. CP covers a broad range of topics, including studies that illuminate aspects of the languages, literatures, history, art, philosop...

11/16/2020

We've posted our January 2021 book reviews online ahead of print:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cp/0/0

Jane Heath: The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature: Methodius of Olympus’ “Symposium” and the Crisis of the Third Century (by Dawn LaValle Norman)

Stephen Sansom: Achilles Unbound: Multiformity and Tradition in the Homeric Epics (by Casey Dué)

Alison Sharrock: I, the Poet: First-Person Form in Horace, Catullus, and Propertius (by Kathleen McCarthy)

Regine May: Laughter on the Fringes: The Reception of Old Comedy in the Imperial Greek World (by Anna Peterson)

10/19/2020

CP's October issue (115.4) is now available online:

ARTICLES

The Poetics of Dialect in the Self-Epitaphs of Nossis and Leonidas of Tarentum
Taylor S. Coughlan

Men among Monuments: Roman Topography and Roman Memory in Plautus’ Curculio
Mathias Hanses

Statius’ Argonautic Background
Paolo Asso

Hermeneutic Recollections: Apuleius’ Use of Platonic Myth in the Metamorphoses
Jeffrey P. Ulrich

Callicles after the Gorgias: Platonic Heroism in the Lives of Moses, Basil of Caesarea, and Emperor Julian
Byron MacDougall

NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS

Os columnatum Again: Plautus Miles Gloriosus 211
Andrew Gallia

Callimachus, Lucretius, and Didactic Elements in Vergil’s Aeneid-Proem
Jason S. Nethercut

Glossing the Georgics: Valerius Flaccus on labor improbus
Robert Cowan

BOOK REVIEWS

Carole E. Newlands: The Fragility of Power: Statius, Domitian and the Politics of the “Thebaid” (by Stefano Rebeggiani)

Randall Souza: Urbanism and Empire in Roman Sicily (by Laura Pfuntner)

Christopher Trinacty: Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (by Emily Pillinger)

Sandra Jaeggi-Richoz: Infancy and Earliest Childhood in the Roman World: A Fragment of Time (by Maureen Carroll)

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cp/current

08/20/2020

A new batch of book reviews has been posted online ahead of print on CP's website:

Sandra Jaeggi-Richoz: Infancy and Earliest Childhood in the Roman World: A Fragment of Time, by Maureen Carroll

Carole E. Newlands: The Fragility of Power: Statius, Domitian and the Politics of the “Thebaid,” by Stefano Rebeggiani

Randall Souza: Urbanism and Empire in Roman Sicily, by Laura Pfuntner

Christopher Trinacty: Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature, by Emily Pillinger

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cp/0/0

06/16/2020

Duncan E. MacRae's review of Roman Republican Augury: Freedom and Control (Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy) is now available online ahead of print:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cp/0/0

05/07/2020

Four new book reviews for CP 115.3 have posted online ahead of print:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cp/0/0

Robert de Brose: Simonides the Poet: Intertextuality and Reception (by Richard Rawles)

Anthony Kaldellis: Greek Epigram and Byzantine Culture: Gender, Desire, and Denial in the Age of Justinian (by Steven D. Smith)

James E. G. Zetzel: Cicero, Greek Learning, and the Making of a Roman Classic (by Caroline Bishop)

Catherine Grandjean: The Hellenistic Peloponnese: Interstate Relations; A Narrative and Analytic History, from the Fourth Century to 146 BC (by Ioanna Kralli)