Arktouros (PDF)

I-VI -- Preface -- Contents -- Epic and Lyric Poetry -- Originality and Intentionality -- ¿A Thousand Shapes of Death¿: Heroic Immortality in the Iliad -- Is Hector androphonos? -- Form und Funktion des Weltaltermythos bei Hesiod -- Sappho¿s Circumstances -- Sappho and Acheron -- Kynaithos, Polycrates, and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo -- Pindar¿s Myths: Two Pragmatic Explanations -- ??? ???????: Pindar, Nemean 5.22 -- Poetry as Pharmakon in Theocritus¿ Idyll 2 -- Drama -- O suitably ¿ attired-in-leather-boots. Interpolations in Greek Tragedy -- Attossäs Absence in the Final Scene of the Persae of Aeschylus -- A Problem of Attribution at Aeschylus Supplices 1055: Stephanus¿ Source -- Recognizing what when and why? The Recognition Scene in Aeschylus¿ Choephori -- Yielding to Forethought: Sophocles¿ Ajax -- On the `Eye¿ and the `Phallos¿ and Other Permutabilities, in Oedipus Rex -- Sophocles, Electra 1087; Text and Context -- A Note on Lions and Sophocles, Philoctetes -- Solar Imagery and Tragic Heroism in Euripides¿ Hippolytus -- Helen and Persephone, Sparta and Demeter. The `Demeter Ode¿ in Euripides¿ Helen -- Iphigeneia in Love -- Sacrificial Ritual in the Bacchae -- ¿Let Them Eat Cakes¿ ¿ Three Food Notes to Aristophanes¿ Peace -- Boy Actors in New Comedy -- Optatives of Consent and Refusal -- Society and History -- Hero Cult in the `Age of Homer¿ and Earlier -- The Athenian Law against Hybris -- Polis Tyrannos: Zur Entstehung einer politischen Metapher -- Leonidas the Regicide? Speculations on the death of Kleomenes I -- Imperialism and Stasis in Fifth Century B.C. Ionia. A Frontier Redefined -- Thucydides 2.65.12 -- The Arche of Thucydides¿ War -- Poseidon Hippios am Kolonos und die athenischen Hippeis -- Greek Rhetoric and History: the Case of Isocrates -- Antigonus Surnamed Gonatas -- A Metrical Epitaph from Phrygia -- Philosophy -- ¿Nothing¿ as ¿Not-Being¿: Some Literary Contexts That Bear on Plato -- Stars, Unseen Bodies and the Extent of the Earth in Anaxagoras¿ Cosmogony: Three Problems and Their Simultaneous Solution -- Justice and Temperance in Republic IV -- Socrates¿ Prayer to Pan -- The Acquiring of Philosophical Knowledge According to Plato¿s Seventh Letter -- How Credible are Plato¿s Myths? -- Theophrastus on Fate and Character -- History and Philosophy in Plutarch. Observations on Plutarch¿s Lycurgus -- Plutarch as Molten Bronze: the Comparison at Amatorius 752D -- Themistius, The Last Peripatetic Commentator on Aristotle? -- Xenophon of Ephesus and the Antithesis Historia-Philosophia -- Aftermath -- Some Loose Ends. A Metrical Note on Horace¿s Satires -- Horaz II 13 -- Senecäs Medea: The Elusive Triumph of Civilization -- Kaltblütiges Schnarchen. Zum literarischen Hintergrund der Vesuv-Briefe des jüngeren Plinius -- A New Papyrus Codex of the Sortes Astrampsychi -- Ovid¿s Metamorphoses, Planudes and Ausonians -- Marginalia Utopica. Acht Bemerkungen zur Utopie des Thomas Morus (1478¿1978) -- Plates -- List of Plates -- 470-472