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Archive for the History of Exact Sciences, 77 (2023): 423–441, 2023
The article provides a reconstruction of Eudoxus' approach to simultaneous risings and settings i... more The article provides a reconstruction of Eudoxus' approach to simultaneous risings and settings in his two works dedicated to the issue: the Phaenomena and the Enoptron. This reconstruction is based on the analysis of Eudoxus' fragments transmitted by Hipparchus. These fragments are difficult and problematic, but a close analysis and a comparison with the corresponding passages in Aratus suggests a possible solution.
in A. Kelly and others (eds.), The Ancient Scholia to Homer’s Iliad, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 64.1 (2021): 17-34., 2021
* I would like to thank the editors of this volume for inviting me to contribute to it, even thou... more * I would like to thank the editors of this volume for inviting me to contribute to it, even though I was not able to attend the conference in Oxford in summer 2018; their comments have been very helpful. Monica Negri also made suggestions in connection with a couple of problematic scholia.
in R. Ast, M. Choat, J. Cromwell, J. Lougovaya, R. Yuen-Collingridge, et al. (eds.), Observing the Scribe at Work: Scribal Practice in the Ancient World, 2021
This article examines a rather specialised field, ancient scholarship, and discusses how ancient,... more This article examines a rather specialised field, ancient scholarship, and discusses how ancient, late antique, and Byzantine scribes played a fundamental role in preserving the work carried out in the Alexandrian Library. The focus is mainly on the work of the most famous Alexandrian scholar, Aristarchus of Samothrace (ca. 216-144 BC), whose impact on Homeric scholarship was enormous, such that scribal practice shows many traces of it. I discuss this theme in a reverse order, that is, I start from the later scribes/scholars and go backwards.
in L. Ayers (ed.), The Rise of the Christian Intellectual, Berlin – New York 2020: 193-226., 2020
Anales de filología clásica 32 (2019): 69-88, 2019
El artículo discute la recepción de Homero en la Alejandría helenística, par-ticularmente en la o... more El artículo discute la recepción de Homero en la Alejandría helenística, par-ticularmente en la obra de Aristarco de Samotracia. Después de analizar bre-vemente cómo la edición de Aristarco tuvo un impacto en el texto homérico que todavía leemos en la actualidad, el artículo se enfoca en el método y los principios seguidos por Aristarco en su trabajo sobre la Ilíada. A través del análisis de algunos ejemplos específicos, muestra cómo las propias ideas de Aristarco sobre Homero tuvieron un efecto en el texto homérico que produjo, lo que plantea la cuestión de la recepción de un autor literario por los filólogos y los problemas relacionados con ella.
in C. Pache (ed.), Cambridge Guide to Homer, Cambridge and New York 2020: 112-115., 2020
in C. Pache (ed.), Cambridge Guide to Homer, Cambridge and New York 2020: 155-158., 2020
in M. Foster, L. Kurke, and N. Weiss (eds.), Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models, Leiden-Boston 2019: 109-132., 2019
in A. Willi (ed.), Formes et fonctions des langues littéraires en Grèce ancienne –Forms and Functions of Literary Languages in Ancient Greece, Fondation Hardt – Entretiens sur l’antiquité classique LXV, Vandoeuvres-Genève 2019: 227-278., 2019
This paper discusses the lexical strategies employed by several technical languages to express th... more This paper discusses the lexical strategies employed by several technical languages to express their content. While Greek sciences employ similar strategies and their vocabularies are quite transparent as they are Greek-based and use visual metaphors, there is a fundamental difference between descriptive sciences (especially medicine and biology) and deductive (i.e., mathematical) sciences in the way they 'visualize' their content. This difference also explains the divide between didactic poetry on descriptive sciences and mathematical poetry, which does not employ much technical lexicon and yet is not 'didactic' at all.
CQ 68 (2018), 475-497, 2018
in Ph. Bosman (ed.), Intellectual and Empire in Greco-Roman Antiquity, New York-London 2019: 1-29.
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 57 (2017): 607–630, 2017
in B. van Zyl Smit (ed.), A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden (MA) 2016: 133-153.
The development of neoclassical drama in Europe was a consequence of the "rediscovery" of Classic... more The development of neoclassical drama in Europe was a consequence of the "rediscovery" of Classical literature in humanistic and early Renaissance Italy.
MD 76 (2016): 33-52
Alcman's semi-choruses -in the text … and beyond it * T he famous Louvre papyrus preserving Alcma... more Alcman's semi-choruses -in the text … and beyond it * T he famous Louvre papyrus preserving Alcman's first partheneion (P.Louvre E3320 = P.Paris 71) dates to the first century ce and derives from learned sources, as proven by the critical signs and the scholia with glosses, variant readings, and some sophisticated exegesis. The quotation of authorities such as Aristophanes, Aristarchus, and Pamphilus furthermore suggests an Alexandrian origin for many of these notes. In what follows I will focus on ll. 35-63 of the partheneion, the famous 'beauty contest' between Agido and Hagesichora to show how this papyrus offers important evidence for ancient scholarly practices in dealing with the extratextual realities of choral performances.
International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 2016
BASP 52 (2015): 181-223
P.Grenf.
Archive for the History of Exact Sciences, 77 (2023): 423–441, 2023
The article provides a reconstruction of Eudoxus' approach to simultaneous risings and settings i... more The article provides a reconstruction of Eudoxus' approach to simultaneous risings and settings in his two works dedicated to the issue: the Phaenomena and the Enoptron. This reconstruction is based on the analysis of Eudoxus' fragments transmitted by Hipparchus. These fragments are difficult and problematic, but a close analysis and a comparison with the corresponding passages in Aratus suggests a possible solution.
in A. Kelly and others (eds.), The Ancient Scholia to Homer’s Iliad, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 64.1 (2021): 17-34., 2021
* I would like to thank the editors of this volume for inviting me to contribute to it, even thou... more * I would like to thank the editors of this volume for inviting me to contribute to it, even though I was not able to attend the conference in Oxford in summer 2018; their comments have been very helpful. Monica Negri also made suggestions in connection with a couple of problematic scholia.
in R. Ast, M. Choat, J. Cromwell, J. Lougovaya, R. Yuen-Collingridge, et al. (eds.), Observing the Scribe at Work: Scribal Practice in the Ancient World, 2021
This article examines a rather specialised field, ancient scholarship, and discusses how ancient,... more This article examines a rather specialised field, ancient scholarship, and discusses how ancient, late antique, and Byzantine scribes played a fundamental role in preserving the work carried out in the Alexandrian Library. The focus is mainly on the work of the most famous Alexandrian scholar, Aristarchus of Samothrace (ca. 216-144 BC), whose impact on Homeric scholarship was enormous, such that scribal practice shows many traces of it. I discuss this theme in a reverse order, that is, I start from the later scribes/scholars and go backwards.
in L. Ayers (ed.), The Rise of the Christian Intellectual, Berlin – New York 2020: 193-226., 2020
Anales de filología clásica 32 (2019): 69-88, 2019
El artículo discute la recepción de Homero en la Alejandría helenística, par-ticularmente en la o... more El artículo discute la recepción de Homero en la Alejandría helenística, par-ticularmente en la obra de Aristarco de Samotracia. Después de analizar bre-vemente cómo la edición de Aristarco tuvo un impacto en el texto homérico que todavía leemos en la actualidad, el artículo se enfoca en el método y los principios seguidos por Aristarco en su trabajo sobre la Ilíada. A través del análisis de algunos ejemplos específicos, muestra cómo las propias ideas de Aristarco sobre Homero tuvieron un efecto en el texto homérico que produjo, lo que plantea la cuestión de la recepción de un autor literario por los filólogos y los problemas relacionados con ella.
in C. Pache (ed.), Cambridge Guide to Homer, Cambridge and New York 2020: 112-115., 2020
in C. Pache (ed.), Cambridge Guide to Homer, Cambridge and New York 2020: 155-158., 2020
in M. Foster, L. Kurke, and N. Weiss (eds.), Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models, Leiden-Boston 2019: 109-132., 2019
in A. Willi (ed.), Formes et fonctions des langues littéraires en Grèce ancienne –Forms and Functions of Literary Languages in Ancient Greece, Fondation Hardt – Entretiens sur l’antiquité classique LXV, Vandoeuvres-Genève 2019: 227-278., 2019
This paper discusses the lexical strategies employed by several technical languages to express th... more This paper discusses the lexical strategies employed by several technical languages to express their content. While Greek sciences employ similar strategies and their vocabularies are quite transparent as they are Greek-based and use visual metaphors, there is a fundamental difference between descriptive sciences (especially medicine and biology) and deductive (i.e., mathematical) sciences in the way they 'visualize' their content. This difference also explains the divide between didactic poetry on descriptive sciences and mathematical poetry, which does not employ much technical lexicon and yet is not 'didactic' at all.
CQ 68 (2018), 475-497, 2018
in Ph. Bosman (ed.), Intellectual and Empire in Greco-Roman Antiquity, New York-London 2019: 1-29.
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 57 (2017): 607–630, 2017
in B. van Zyl Smit (ed.), A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden (MA) 2016: 133-153.
The development of neoclassical drama in Europe was a consequence of the "rediscovery" of Classic... more The development of neoclassical drama in Europe was a consequence of the "rediscovery" of Classical literature in humanistic and early Renaissance Italy.
MD 76 (2016): 33-52
Alcman's semi-choruses -in the text … and beyond it * T he famous Louvre papyrus preserving Alcma... more Alcman's semi-choruses -in the text … and beyond it * T he famous Louvre papyrus preserving Alcman's first partheneion (P.Louvre E3320 = P.Paris 71) dates to the first century ce and derives from learned sources, as proven by the critical signs and the scholia with glosses, variant readings, and some sophisticated exegesis. The quotation of authorities such as Aristophanes, Aristarchus, and Pamphilus furthermore suggests an Alexandrian origin for many of these notes. In what follows I will focus on ll. 35-63 of the partheneion, the famous 'beauty contest' between Agido and Hagesichora to show how this papyrus offers important evidence for ancient scholarly practices in dealing with the extratextual realities of choral performances.
International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 2016
BASP 52 (2015): 181-223
P.Grenf.
The article reviews the reception of Ulysses’ last voyage in twentieth- century Italy. Ulysses’ l... more The article reviews the reception of Ulysses’ last voyage in twentieth- century Italy. Ulysses’ last voyage is used by Italian authors to discuss different and often opposing views of the ideal human life as well as the intellectual and exis- tential angsts of the twentieth century. In addition, the Italian twentieth-century Ulysses becomes part of a metapoetic discourse, as going back to the Homeric and Dantesque myths of Ulysses for an artist also means interrogating oneself on the possibility of creating something new within a long tradition. This metaliterary dimension adds to the modern Italian reception of Ulysses, making it a unique case of the intersection of many different layers of reception both in chronological and thematic terms.
I presented this paper at the International Congress of Papyrology in July 2013 and at the Societ... more I presented this paper at the International Congress of Papyrology in July 2013 and at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting in San Diego, on Saturday 22 November 2014. What follows is the abstract I submitted for the SBL meeting. I am writing a full article on the topic, which will be ready soon.