Among the very few papyri devoted to the work of the Attic orator Lysias, one of the most interesting is certainly P. Oxy. XXXI 2537. Dated palaeographically to the late 2nd-early 3rd century CE, it ...contains the summaries of 22 Lysianic speeches, 18 of which were formerly unknown or known just by the title and brief quotations in lexicographers. And yet, despite the undeniable richness of this collection, the papyrus has generally received little attention from modern scholarship, and no complete survey of its many aspects of significance has been yet produced. This work aims to fill this gap: along with a new transcription and critical edition based on autopsy of the papyrus, this book provides a translation and the first exhaustive commentary of the text. Through careful textual and juridical analysis, the author examines both the relationship between summaries and speeches, with a discussion of the significant legal features of each procedure, and the overall importance of this papyrus for the history of the corpus of Lysias. The book will thus be of interest for papyrologists, legal historians, students of Attic oratory, and researchers in the field of the history of the material culture of Graeco-Roman Egypt alike.
Berardi discusses the underexplored aspect of Lysias' production, the fragments dealing with erotic matters, which have so far been considered as belonging to the (lost) letters attributed to him. ...The literary works attributed to the Attic orators went far beyond public speeches and orations on legal cases. For instance, despite scholars' wariness about the letters attributed to Attic orators (and, indeed, towards all ancient epistolary collections), the documentation available for them is extensive. Four short passages are discussed, those of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ps.-Plutarch and Photius, Hermias, and Psellus, which are not now included as testimonia of Lysias' epistles and erotic works, raise new questions about a relatively underappreciated aspect of Lysias' literary production.
Luis Gil, traductor Melero Bellido, Antonio
Cuadernos de filología clásica. Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos,
01/2024, Letnik:
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Journal Article
Recenzirano
El presente trabajo pretende rendir el reconocimiento debido a la labor de traducción del Profesor Luis Gil Fernández. Sobre la base de sus ideas sobre la traducción y sobre la de sus traducciones ...mismas creemos que sus versiones del griego, del latín, del alemán, del inglés o del francés se caracterizan todas por su rigor filológico, su exactitud terminológica, su fluidez, elegancia y adecuación al estilo de la obra traducida, cualidades todas ellas que sólo encontramos en quien posee un profundo conocimiento de las lenguas de salida y de llegada. Por ello hemos examinado en primer lugar sus ideas sobre la traducción. Hemos pretendido trazar también un perfil biográfico y bibliográfico que dé cuenta suficiente de sus elecciones en sus trabajos como traductor. También hemos querido mostrar que las traducciones de Luis Gil se encuadran fácilmente dentro de su obra filológica e historiográfica, ya que obedecen a los mismos estímulos y tendencias intelectuales. Finalmente hemos elaborado una lista de sus traducciones acompañándolas de algunas observaciones sobre su oportunidad, características y originalidad. En todo caso este sencillo trabajo quiere, como ya he dicho, rendir homenaje a Luis Gil por su obra, magisterio y amistad inolvidables.
The theory of post-dialectics maintains that dialectical perspectives cannot account for the persuasive force of arguments which transgress dialectical norms. One particularly consequential form of ...post-dialectical argument, called "fascistic argument" by Paliewicz and McHendry, seeks to dominate its discursive space rather than to test claims and give reasons within the terms of that discourse. In this essay I affirm that pragma-dialectics can perceive and explain post-dialectical persuasive forces while retaining a fundamental commitment to dialectical norms. I support this claim with an analysis of the argumentative features of Lysias XII Against Eratosthenes, an instance of forensic oratory from fifth-century BCE Athens. The rhetorical analysis of Lysias XII identifies manifestations of each of Paliewicz and McHendry's five elements of fascistic argument and describes these manifestations of fascistic argument using the pragma-dialectical terminology of strategic maneuvering. The argument practices of Lysias XII diverge from the theory of fascistic argument by negating disinterested choice instead of choice per se, so they are identified with the distinct but related concept of democratic argument. I further affirm that explaining post-dialectical forces from a dialectical perspective can be enabled by enhancing the generative partnership of rhetoric and dialectics in argumentation studies.
Trends in Classics, a new series and journal to be edited by Franco Montanari and Antonios Rengakos, will publish innovative, interdisciplinary work which brings to the study of Greek and Latin texts ...the insights and methods of related disciplines such as narratology, intertextuality, reader-response criticism, and oral poetics. Both publications will seek to publish research across the full range of classical antiquity. The series Trends in Classics Studies welcomes monographs, edited volumes, conference proceedings and collections of papers; it will provide an important forum for the ongoing debate about where Classics fits in modern cultural and historical studies. The journal Trends in Classics will be published twice a year with approx. 160 pp. per issue. Each year one issue will be devoted to a specific subject with articles edited by a guest editor.
This paper deals with the problem of determining Phaedrus’ age in the eponymous dialogue. The vocatives ὦ νεανία and ὦ παῖ, in Pl. Phdr. 257c8 and 267c6, could suggest that Plato depicts him as a ...teenager. However, most scholars believe that Phaedrus is an adult and that the vocatives point at his passive and childish character. I will first summarize the evidence given for supporting the latter thesis. Then, I offer complementary evidence, showing that those vocatives mockingly compare his passiveness with that of a young beloved in a homoerotic context.
In his paper on Lysias, Dionysius of Halicarnassus characterizes the effect of Lysias’
as the power through which the listener “seems to see the things shown and to be almost in the company of the ...characters whom the orator introduces”. The capacity to give the audience a sense of being present at the narrated scene, vividly imagining the people, places, and actions, is one the most powerful instruments in Lysias’ persuasive toolbox. The ‘sense of presence’ created by Lysias’ narrative style will be approached as a form of what in cognitive literary studies has become known as
, a concept that is defined by in terms that are remarkably similar to Dionysius’ characterization of Lysias’ style, as “the experience through which a fictional world acquires the presence of an autonomous, language-independent reality populated by live human beings” (Ryan 2015, 9). Analyzing Lysias’ narrative techniques through the lens of their immersive power is interesting for several reasons. Psychological research has found evidence that highly immersed readers are more likely to be persuaded by the point of view implicit in a narrative than readers who are less immersed. Approaching Lysias’ style in terms of its immersive qualities also allows us analyze the text in terms of a wide and diverse range of linguistic and narratological devices: not only the strategic use of graphic (“vivid”) details, but also the use of verbal tense and aspect, vocatives, direct speech, the narrator’s visibility, and the narrative’s spatial and temporal organization, handling of perspective (focalization), and its capacity to raise suspense and to engage the audience’s attention and emotions.
In this article, I examine the exegetical issues of Lys. 2.59, recently analyzed by Bearzot and Todd. I argue that there is no problem in identifying in the Persians the subject of the phrase ...ἐνίκησαν µὲν ναυµαχοῦντες τοὺς Ἕλληνας οἱ πρότερον εἰς τὴν θάλατταν οὐκ ἐµβαίνοντες, and that the expression µετὰ τὴν νίκην τῶν βαρβάρων undoubtedly alludes, pace Bearzot, to the battle of Cnidus. Finally, I propose to reconsider the question concerning the chronology of Lysias’ funeral oration, generally dated to 392/1 BC.
Presentamos un estudio de los adverbios temporales εἶτα, ἔπειτα, ἔτι y προσέτι y de los adjetivos adverbializados (τό) πρῶτον y (τό) τελευταῖον en los discursos de Lisias. Nuestro propósito es ...mostrar cómo todos ellos desarrollan, a partir de su valor temporal inicial, usos discursivos que influyen en la organización del discurso.
Lysias argues in XII 36 that if the Athenians condemned the Arginousai generals it would be right to condemn the Thirty. This argument implies that the generals were guilty and asserts that there was ...a strong conviction on the part of the Athenians that they should punish the generals. This is a clever rhetorical argument, which conformed to the Athenian ideology according to which the demos was blameless. However, Lysias avoids mentioning that the Athenians violated their law and tried the generals without a proper trial. This happens because the orator comments on the trial retrospectively. If he had to admit that the procedure was illegal, this would clearly have weakened his case; so he does not make this mistake.
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