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One aspect of the Greek epic that has yet to be thoroughly explored is the possibility of differentiating, in the midst of formulaic wording, the different genres that from the point of view of Greek literature comprise, for example, the telling of heroic deeds (Iliad, Odyssey), gnomic-paraenetic poetry (Works and Days), or the stories of genealogies, be they divine (Theogony), or heroic (Ehoiai). However, each of these forms of poetic expression had available a specific formulaic apparatus apart from the other much more abundant and more visible, the epic one, shared among the different genres. Thus has it been pointed out on some occasions, although the critics have scarcely pursued the consequences. Here my proposal consists of investigating the dynamics of the formulaic diction of oral poetry of the genealogical type, based on information provided in this regard by the Hesiodic poems of the Theogony, and above all, of the Catalogue of Women.

This note consists of a critical review of the book of J.-M. Schenck zu Schweinsberg, Der pseudohomerische Hermes-Hymnus. Ein interpretierender Kommentar (Heidelberg 2017), which, edited after an important commentary of this hymn by A. Vergados, The Homeric Hymn to Hermes. Introduction, Text and Commentary (Berlin-Boston 2013), could at first seem redundant and at the end reveals itself as a useful complement to the former, excepted its most controversial points, the date assigned to the hymn and the Hesiodic component of its formular diction among others.

Two of the basic tools of rhetorical theory, ekphrasis and diegema, usually applied to the visual, are used by Longus also in descriptions of music.

Agoni poetico-musicali nella Grecia antica: MariaElenadellaBonaI pythia di Delfi, Pisa-Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2017, 305 pp., ISBN 978-88-6227-983-3; Flavio Massaro, Sparta, Pisa-Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2018, ISBN 978-88-6227-994-9

Anton Bierl - Andre Lardinois (edd.). The newest Sappho: P. Sapph. Obbink and P. GC inv. 105, Frs. 1-4 . Studies in archaic and classical Greek song, vol. 2. Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 392. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2016, xv+ 543 pp. $223.00. ISBN 978-90-04-31162-6.

Among the plethora of citations of different authors and genres that help to embellish Plutarch’s learned prose, passages by the choral poets Alcman, Stesichorus, Ibycus and Bacchylides make an interesting group, albeit far fewer than the citations of Pindar and Simonides, which have been dealt with extensively. This paper aims to highlight the modest but significant contribution Plutarch makes to the constitutio textus, reception history, and the very image of these important, but deficiently transmitted authors. At the same time, it addresses the form of the quotations, their distribution and function in the Plutarchan corpus, and their possible sources, including the school.

Corpus Rhetoricum. Anonyme, Préambule à la rhétorique. Aphthonios, Progymnasmata. En annexe: Pseudo-Hermogène, Progymnasmata. Textes établis et traduits par Michel Patillon. Paris: Les Belles Lettres 2008. LXXVI, 263 z.T. Doppels. (Collection des Universités de France.) 52 €.

El presente trabajo se propone analizar el contraste existente, en lo que al tratamiento de la figura de Apolo se refiere, entre las dos monodias con que respectivamente se abre y en cierta medida se cierra el Ión de Eurípides, la una puesta en boca del joven protagonista y la otra pronunciada por su augusta madre. La conclusión es que el juego intertextual entre tan peculiares exponentes del género hímnico contribuye a limar sus rasgos más exacerbados para una solución conciliatoria del papel de la divinidad., The present work aims to analyze the contrast, as far as the characterization of Apollo is concerned, between the two monodies with which the Ion of Euripides respectively opens and to some extent closes, the former placed in the mouth of the young protagonist and the second delivered by his august mother. The conclusion is that the intertextual play between these two peculiar examples of the hymnic genre contributes to smoothing their most exacerbated features, providing a conciliatory solution to the god’s role.

Entre el abundante material exegético del texto homérico que los papiros y otros tipos de soporte escriturario transmiten, reflejo de aquellos papiros que en muchísimo mayor número transmiten porciones del propio texto, un lugar muy significativo ocupan las paráfrasis o versiones homéricas en prosa de su propia época, distintas de los llamados scholia minora y de las hypotheseis, y de las cuales se echaba en falta un estudio de conjunto. Las muestras aquí reunidas se distribuyen a lo largo de un lapso de tiempo que va al menos del s. I al VI-VII d. C., ilustran los diversos métodos de la paráfrasis llamada gramatical (versión a partir de glosas) y de la paráfrasis de tipo retorizante, unas y otras muestras pertenecen en gran parte al ámbito escolar o bien están destinadas a un público más amplio, y adoptan distintas modalidades de ejecución y distintos formatos en su afán de hacer llegar el texto del poeta por excelencia a lectores cada vez menos eruditos., Among the abundant exegetic material on the Homeric text which has been transmitted on papyri and similar materials –a reflection of those which in a considerably higher number convey Homeric passages– paraphrases or prose versions of the Homeric text take a very significant place. This is a different genre from the so-called scholia minora or the hypotheseis, and it has not yet been comprehensively studied. The items which I gather here range at least from the first to the seventh century AD and illustrate different methods of the so-called grammatical paraphrasis (taking glossae as its starting point) and the rhetorical paraphrasis, both closely related to the school or aimed at a wider public. Different forms and patterns are chosen to bring the text of the poet par excellence closer to readers who are less and less learned as time passes by.

Como colofón a dos trabajos anteriores sobre los proverbios en Herodas, en esta ocasión nos ocupamos de otras expresiones proverbiales igualmente discutidas, al margen de las estudiadas, siendo el principal objeto del trabajo intentar esclarecer el significado y el sentido de la aplicación de dichas expresiones., A s a conclusion to two previous papers on Herodas' proverbs, this time we deal with other proverbial expressions which are equally controversial and have not been properly discussed yet. Our main objective is to clarify their meaning and usage.