Anales de Filología Clásica

Presentación del volumen temático de las II Jornadas de Literatura Helenística del Instituto de Filología Clásica - I Jornadas de Cultura Helenística e Imperial Griega del Instituto de Filología Clásic

2024-06-14T21:00:19+00:00

“Among foreign people” (A.R. I.17): We, You & the Others in Apollonius of Rhodes´ Argonautica

2024-06-21T16:03:32+00:00

The journey that the Argonauts start at Hellas to Colchis is risky due to the geographical obstacles that they have to overcome and to the social interaction that they have to settle with people from non-Greek regions. The aim of this article is to analyze in what way the distinction between “we” and the “others” solves in the encounters of the Minyans with two foreign societies from the Back Sea: the Bebryces and the Mariandyni.

La Bestial and sub-human Greek violence in Lycophron’s Alenxandra

2024-06-14T21:00:20+00:00

The use of animal metaphors in the Alexandra of Lycophron has been studied by several critics. This article analyzes the construction of Greeks’ figure from its animalization. This process includes both the use of metaphors and animal comparisons, as well as the vocabulary used to describe states and actions of the characters. In this sense, this study will develop on the assimilation of the Greeks to animals and, therefore, their degradation to barbaric and sub-human creatures.

Contributions of the Garland of Philip to the development of Skoptic Epigram: Antiphilus and the problem of the 'Middle Ages' in Epigram History

2024-06-14T21:00:21+00:00

The epigrams collected in Philip’s Garland are often regarded as mere rhetorical exercises lacking originality. However, many of their themes and features reappear in the imperial skoptic epigrams of the second century A.D. This connection has been overlooked due to the arrangement of the Palatine Anthology, since many epigrams gathered by Philip that could be interpreted as skoptic are located in Book 9, under the category of epideictic epigrams. This paper aims to demonstrate that numerous characteristics of Lucillius's epigrams can be identified in Antiphilus, an author included in Philip's Garland, but who has received little scholarly attention.

Autocensura en el lenguaje de la biblia griega. Huellas de formas lingüísticas afroasiáticas que afectaron el lenguaje bíblico.

2024-06-14T21:00:21+00:00

During the Hellenistic period, the Jewish community of Alexandria translated their sacred texts into Greek. This work known as the Septuagint (LXX) that was both a religious text to be read at the synagogue liturgy and a source of foreign jurisprudence for Egyptian courts shows the challenges the translators had to face during the process. They developed a cryptic language for the profane Greek audience although intelligible for the Judeo-Hellenized one that probably stems from a self-censorship process trying to minimize the confrontations between the Jewish communities residing in Egypt and their generous patrons but implacable sovereigns.

“Destroyers of one another”: Narrative Strategies in Oppian, Halieutica 2.253-421

2024-06-14T21:00:22+00:00

The aim of this paper is to analyse one of the most recognised passages of the Halieutica of Oppianus of Cilicia, the fight between the moray eel, the lobster and the octopus, in order to identify the author's narrative strategies and their function in the passage. After a general introduction to the poem and to the theme of the encounter between these animals, I will explore, first, the larger structure of the episode, specifically the organisation of the events that compose it, and, second, I will study the descriptions of the actual fights between the moray eel, the lobster and the octopus.

An analysis of the configuration of the collectiveness in the λαοί of The Iliad and The Taking of Ilios

2024-06-14T21:00:22+00:00

This article proposes an analysis of the configuration of the collectiveness in the actions performed by the λαοί. Some collective similes from The Iliad and The Taking of Ilios will be compared in order to study their vehicles and tenors. They allow the Achaean side to be seen as a homogeneous group of warriors. These characteristics will be analysed on the basis of the similes' thematic, syntactic and structural content. Although the configuration of the collectiveness in the λαοί of each work is not analogous, it is to be expected that the analysis illustrates how the collectiveness is configured as a group of unified warriors at critical moments of the war.