Euphrosyne : : Studies in Ancient Philosophy, History, and Literature / / ed. by Peter Burian, Jenny Strauss Clay, Gregson Davis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Atkins, Jed W.,; Burian, Peter,; Carson, Jeffrey,; Davis, Gregson,; Erler, Michael,; Ferguson Smith, Martin,; Hatzichronoglou, Lena,; Kosman, Aryeh,; Laks, André,; Lesher, James,; Miller, John F.,; Obbink, Dirk,; Romer, Frank,; Russo, Joseph,; Sedley, David,; Sinos, Rebecca,; Strauss Clay, Jenny,; Tsantsanoglou, Kyriakos,; Warren, Rosanna,
• HerausgeberIn: Burian, Peter,; Davis, Gregson,; Strauss Clay, Jenny,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde , 370
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 328 p.)

This book collects essays and other contributions by colleagues, students, and friends of the late Diskin Clay, reflecting the unusually broad range of his interests. Clay’s work in ancient philosophy, and particularly in Epicurus and Epicureanism and in Plato, is reflected chapters on Epicurean concerns by André Laks, David Sedley and Martin Ferguson Smith, as well as Jed Atkins on Lucretius and Leo Strauss; Michael Erler contributes a chapter on Plato. James Lesher discusses Xenophanes and Sophocles, and Aryeh Kosman contributes a jeu d’esprit on the obscure Pythagorean Ameinias. Greek cultural history finds multidisciplinary treatment in Rebecca Sinos’s study of Archilochus’ Heros and the Parian Relief, Frank Romer’s mythographic essay on Aphrodite’s origins and archaic mythopoieia more generally, and Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou’s explication of Callimachus’s kenning of Mt. Athos as "ox-piercing spit of your mother Arsinoe." More purely literary interests are pursued in chapters on ancient Greek (Joseph Russo on Homer, Dirk Obbink on Sappho), Latin (Jenny Strauss Clay and Gregson Davis on Horace), and post-classical poetry (Helen Hadzichronoglou on Cavafy, John Miller on Robert Pinsky and Ovid). Peter Burian contributes an essay on the possibility and impossibility of translating Aeschylus. In addition to these essays, two original poems (Rosanna Warren and Jeffrey Carson) and two pairs of translations (from Horace by Davis and from Foscolo by Burian) recognize Clay’s own activity as poet and translator. The volume begins with an Introduction discussing Clay’s life and work, and concludes with a bibliography of Clay’s publications.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Philosophy -- An Empedoclean Allusion in Lucretius (2.1081–3) -- Leo Strauss’s Lucretius and the Art of Writing -- An Encounter in Lille: Epicurus’ Language as a Hermeneutical Problem -- Misjudge Yourself: Plato’s Dialogues and the Comical -- Fragmenta Hactenus Inedita Ameiniae Pythagorici: Ameinias the Pythagorean, a Little-Known Pre-Socratic Dualist -- Xenophanes’ Theory of Knowledge and Sophocles’ Oedipus the King -- Part II. Archaeology, Topography, Epigraphy -- Tribute to Diskin Clay and His Work on Diogenes of Oinoanda -- Archilochos Heros and the Parian Relief -- Arsinoe and Mount Athos -- Part III. Poetry: Interpretation -- Aphrodite Φιλομμηδής and Radical Gender Differentiation in an Ethnographic Myth -- The Ghost of Patroclus and the Language of Achilles -- Kypri Despoina: Sappho’s “Kypris Poem” Reconsidered -- Horace C. 2.6: The Intertextual Poetics of Friendship -- Robert Pinsky’s Ovidian Creation -- Cavafy’s “Interruption”: The Ancient Myth, the Modern Poem and their Meaning for Us -- Just on the Far Side of Language: On the Possibility (and Impossibility) of Translating Aeschylus -- Part IV. Poems (original and translation) -- Rodin Commands -- Diskin on Paros: A Remembrance and a Poem -- Two Sonnets of Ugo Foscolo -- Two Horatian Odes on Epicurean themes: Translations/interpretations -- The Publications of Diskin Clay