Literature, scholarship, philosophy, and history : classical studies in memory of Ioannis Taifacos

This is a rich collection of twenty-seven essays to mark the memory of Ioannis Taifacos. For two decades (1993–2013) Ioannis Taifacos worked hard to establish the Department of Classics and Philosophy as an autonomous administrative unit at the newly-founded University of Cyprus and to integrate it into the wider academic community. All the essays are original, and are written by an international group of established scholars, some of whom are among the most respected names in the field of Classics. The eleven papers of Part I deal with Greek and Latin literature: epic poetry, Polybius, Lucian, Tatian, Gregory of Nazianzus, the reception of Greek epigram in nineteenth-century Greece; Cicero, Caesar, Atellane Comedy, Ovid, and the bilingual poetry of Late Antiquity. Part II features five papers on Greek and Latin scholarship, and three on papyrological, rhetorical and linguistic topics: Valerius Probus, Priscian, John of Alexandria (Aelius Herodian), the Greek Etymologica, 'prototypon/absolutum' in Latin grammatical terminology; the papyrus rolls of the Aristotelian Constitution of Athens and Herodas' Mimiambs ; George of Trebizond; a graecism in Latin syntax. Part III , made up of seven papers, is devoted to Anaximander, Plato, Aristotle, Clearchus, Stoics, Cynics, Galen, and Nicolaus Cusanus. Finally, Part IV contains a paper on the Arabian policy of Trajan. CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CONTRIBUTORS IN MEMORIAM: IOANNIS TAIFACOS (1948–2013) PUBLICATIONS OF IOANNIS TAIFACOS PART I: LITERATURE 1 EARLY POETRY IN CYPRUS 2 POLYBIUS BETWEEN LINGUISTICS AND NARRATOLOGY. AN ANALYSIS OF 1.6–12 3 CATILINE AS ATREUS IN CICERO’S FIRST CATILINARIAN 4 SOME OBSERVATIONS ON VIRTUTES AND VITIA IN CAESAR’S BELLA 5 EDITING THE FRAGMENTS OF ATELLANE COMEDY 6 WRITING AND DYING IN OVID’S HEROIDES: A CIXOUSEAN READING 7 CASES OF LINK BETWEEN HYPSIPYLE’S AND MEDEA’S EPISTLES TO JASON (OV. EPIST. 6 AND 12) 8 TWO SYRIANS AND GREEK PAIDEIA: LUCIAN AND TATIAN 9 IL CARME 1.1.33 DI GREGORIO DI NAZIANZO 10 UTRIUSQUE LINGUAE DOCTUS ET PERITUS 11 ΕΠΙΔΡΑΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΥ ΕΠΙΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΟΣ ΣΕ ΛΟΓΙΟΥΣ-ΠΟΙΗΤΕΣ ΤΟΥ 19ΟΥ ΑІΩΝΑ PART II: SCHOLARSHIP 12 LA SCUOLA DI VALERIO PROBO 13 A NOTE ON ‘PROTOTYPON’ AND ‘ABSOLUTUM’ IN ANCIENT LATIN GRAMMAR 14 UN CASO DISCUSSO DI GRECISMO: ALCUNE CONSIDERAZIONI SULLA COSIDDETTA “PARA-IPOTASSI” LATINA 15 RANDNOTIZEN ZU EINEM FUND GRIECHISCHER BUCHROLLEN 16 PRISCIAN ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN ADVERBS AND CONJUNCTIONS 17 ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕΩΣ ΤΟΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΡΑΓΓΕΛΜΑΤΑ: ΔΙΟΡΘΩΤΙΚΑ ΚΑΙ ΜΕΘΟΔΟΛΟΓΙΚΑ 18 DIFFICULT PROBLEMS IN THE TRANSMISSION AND INTERRELATION OF THE GREEK ETYMOLOGICA 19 PERFORMING A SPEECH: THE SUITABLE INTRODUCTION IN GEORGE OF TREBIZOND’S RHETORICORUM LIBRI V PART III: PHILOSOPHY 20 METAPHYSICS, POLITICS AND POETIC LANGUAGE IN ANAXIMANDER 21 ΤΕΤΑΓΜΕΝΟΝ ΤΕ ΚΑI ΚΕΚΟΣΜΗΜΕΝΟΝ ΠΡΑΓΜΑ: DIE SUCHE NACH ORDNUNG IN PLATONS GORGIAS 22 “CET ÉTANT N’A PAS ÉTÉ GÉNÉRÉ EN TANT QU’ÉTANT”? 23 LA NOTION DE LUXE (POLUTELEIA) 24 DUE NOTE A CLEARCO E GALENO 25 LE EKPHRASEIS DI ZENONE, CLEANTE E CRISIPPO 26 CUSANUS’ LEHRE DER DOCTA IGNORANTIA IN IHREN PHILOSOPHISCHEN KONSEQUENZEN PART IV: HISTORY 27 THE ROMAN TEMPLES OF KOURION AND AMATHUS IN CYPRUS: A CHAPTER ON THE ARABIAN POLICY OF TRAJAN LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS