Ancient Scholarship and Grammar: Archetypes, Concepts and Contexts (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Book 8)

Ancient Greek scholarship is currently in the centre of a multi-faceted and steadily growing research activity. The volume aims at investigating archetypes, concepts and contexts of the ancient philological discipline from a historical, methodological and ideological perspective. It includes 26 contributions by leading scholars divided into four sections: The ancient scholars at work, The ancient grammarians on Greek language and linguistic correctness, Ancient grammar in historical context and Ancient grammar in interdisciplinary context. The period examined coincides with the establishment of scholarship as an autonomous discipline from the 3rd century BC to its peak in the first centuries AD. Archetypes and paradigms of philological activity during the classical era help investigate the origins of ancient scholarship, and the interdisciplinary discourse between scholarship, philosophy of language and rhetoric is illustrated. Thus, the thematic spectrum of the volume stretches from the 4th century BC to the Byzantine era. Apart from the Greek antiquity, central aspects of the Latin grammatical tradition are also being examined. Contents 5 Introduction 9 I. “Philologia perennis”: History and New Perspectives 17 Ancient Scholarship and Classical Studies 19 II. The Ancient Scholars at Work 33 Plato’s Ion and the Origins of Scholarship 35 Scholarly Panic: πανικὸς φόβος, Homeric Philology and the Beginning of the Rhesus 49 Eratosthenes of Cyrene: Readings of his ‘Grammar’ Definition 63 Ex Homero grammatica 95 Aristarchus and Allegorical Interpretation 113 Portrait of an Unknown Scholiast 127 Homeric Commentaries on Papyrus: A Survey 167 Didymus on Pindar 189 Afterlives of a Tragic Poet: The Hypothesis in the Hellenistic Reception of Euripides 207 Re-writing the Personal Joke: Some Aspects in the Interpretation of ὀνομαστὶ κωμῳδεῖν? in Ancient Scholarship 215 Ancient Scholia and Lost Identities: The Case of Simichidas 233 III. The Ancient Grammarians on the Greek Language and Linguistic Correctness 247 Did the Alexandrian Grammarians have a Sense of History? 249 Apollonius between Homeric and Hellenistic Greek: The Case of the ‘Pre-positive Article’ 259 Attic Irregularities: Their Reinterpretation in the Light of Atticism 277 A Champion of Analogy: Herodian’s On Lexical Singularity 299 IV. Ancient Grammar in Historical Context 319 New Papyri and the History of Ancient Grammar: The ἐπίρρημα Chapter in P. Berol. 9917 321 Quintilian’s ‘Grammar’ (Inst.1.4-8) and its Importance for the History of Roman Grammar 339 Syntax before Syntax: Uses of the Term σύνταξις in Greek Grammarians before Apollonius Dyscolus 355 Syntagms in the Artigraphic Latin Grammars 369 Latin Grammatical Manuals in the Early Middle Ages: Tradition and Adaptation in the Participle Chapter 383 Theodosius and his Byzantine Successors on the Participle: A Didactic Approach 413 The Orus Fragments in the Ethnica of Stephanus of Byzantium 437 V. Ancient Grammar in Interdisciplinary Context 457 Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the Scholia on Thucydides’ Syntax 459 Imposition of Names in Ancient Grammar and Philosophy 487 Neoplatonic Commentators on Aristotle: The ‘Arbitrariness of the Linguistic Sign’ 507 List of Contributors 523 Abbreviations 531 Bibliography 535 General Index 571 Passages Index 581

Ancient Greek scholarship is currently in the centre of a multi-faceted and steadily growing research activity. The volume aims at investigating archetypes, concepts and contexts of the ancient philological discipline from a historical, methodological and ideological perspective. It includes 26 contributions by leading scholarsdivided into four sections: The ancient scholars at work, The ancient grammarians on Greek language and linguistic correctness, Ancient grammar in historical context and Ancient grammar in interdisciplinary context. The period examined coincides with the establishment of scholarship as an autonomous discipline from the 3rd century BC to its peak in the first centuries AD. Archetypes and paradigms of philological activity during the classical era help investigate the origins of ancient scholarship, and the interdisciplinary discourse between scholarship, philosophy of language and rhetoric is illustrated. Thus, the thematic spectrum of the volume stretches from the 4th century BC to the Byzantine era. Apart from the Greek antiquity, central aspects of the Latin grammatical tradition are also being examined.