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

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 con...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Beiträge zur Altertumskunde , 370
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 328 p.)
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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