Katherine Clarke
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199291083
- eISBN:
- 9780191710582
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199291083.003.0002
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter focuses on chronography, that is, the scholarly field which concerns the organization and articulation of time. It examines the extant fragments of the ancient chronographic tradition, ...
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This chapter focuses on chronography, that is, the scholarly field which concerns the organization and articulation of time. It examines the extant fragments of the ancient chronographic tradition, which was initially dominated by competitive culture of Hellenistic scholarship, and by figures such as Eratosthenes of Cyrene and Apollodorus of Athens. Methodological problems, such as that of generic classification, are addressed throughout. The chapter deals first with works concerning Greek city-calendars, especially the festival calendars, before moving on to those which focus on the articulation and expression of linear, historical time. Here are treated issues of synchronism; the establishment of important dates, such as that of the fall of Troy and the acme of Homer; the correlation of fixed chronological markers with continuous systems, such as lists of eponymous magistrates, kings, or Olympic victors; the development of universal chronologies; and the notion of literary time-frames.Less
This chapter focuses on chronography, that is, the scholarly field which concerns the organization and articulation of time. It examines the extant fragments of the ancient chronographic tradition, which was initially dominated by competitive culture of Hellenistic scholarship, and by figures such as Eratosthenes of Cyrene and Apollodorus of Athens. Methodological problems, such as that of generic classification, are addressed throughout. The chapter deals first with works concerning Greek city-calendars, especially the festival calendars, before moving on to those which focus on the articulation and expression of linear, historical time. Here are treated issues of synchronism; the establishment of important dates, such as that of the fall of Troy and the acme of Homer; the correlation of fixed chronological markers with continuous systems, such as lists of eponymous magistrates, kings, or Olympic victors; the development of universal chronologies; and the notion of literary time-frames.
José B. Torres
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- December 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198728788
- eISBN:
- 9780191795510
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198728788.003.0010
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This study deals with the possibility that Lucius Annaeus Cornutus may have known and alluded to some major Homeric Hymns (Hymn to Demeter, Hymn to Hermes, and the fragmentary Hymn to Dionysus) in ...
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This study deals with the possibility that Lucius Annaeus Cornutus may have known and alluded to some major Homeric Hymns (Hymn to Demeter, Hymn to Hermes, and the fragmentary Hymn to Dionysus) in his allegorical Compendium of the Theological Traditions of the Greeks. This possibility is analysed through a close reading of the texts. It is also considered whether Cornutus’ knowledge of the Homeric Hymns derives from his direct reading of a corpus or if we should assume his knowledge of the Hymns was gained through an intermediary. Although it is not easy to find a definitive answer for this question, it must be taken into account that Cornutus’ explanations of theonyms and divine epithets bear the etymological mark of the grammarian Apollodorus of Athens and his fragmentary On the Gods: what the former may have added would be then the allegorical interpretation.Less
This study deals with the possibility that Lucius Annaeus Cornutus may have known and alluded to some major Homeric Hymns (Hymn to Demeter, Hymn to Hermes, and the fragmentary Hymn to Dionysus) in his allegorical Compendium of the Theological Traditions of the Greeks. This possibility is analysed through a close reading of the texts. It is also considered whether Cornutus’ knowledge of the Homeric Hymns derives from his direct reading of a corpus or if we should assume his knowledge of the Hymns was gained through an intermediary. Although it is not easy to find a definitive answer for this question, it must be taken into account that Cornutus’ explanations of theonyms and divine epithets bear the etymological mark of the grammarian Apollodorus of Athens and his fragmentary On the Gods: what the former may have added would be then the allegorical interpretation.
