Harvard University Department of the Classics

This book explores diverse but complementary interdisciplinary approaches to the poetics, intertexts, and influence of the work of C. P. Cavafy (Konstantinos Kavafis), one of the most important twentieth-century European poets. Contributors include Eve Sedgwick, Helen Vendler, Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, Richard Dellamora, Mark Doty, James Faubion, Diana Haas, John Chioles, Albert Henrichs, Kathleen Coleman, Michael Paschalis, Peter Jeffreys, and Panagiotis Roilos.

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 105 includes Carolyn Higbie, “Divide and Edit: A Brief History of Book Divisions”; Ho Kim, “Aristotle’s Hamartia Reconsidered”; Andrew Faulkner, “Callimachus and His Allusive Virgins: Delos, Hestia, and the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite”; and other essays.

C.P. Cavafy (Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis) is one of the most important Greek poets since antiquity. He set in motion the most powerful modernism in early twentieth-century European poetry, exhibiting simple truths about eroticism, history, and philosophy. Based on a fifty-year interaction with Cavafy’s poetry and its Greek and western European intertexts, John Chioles has produced an authoritative and exceptionally nuanced translation of the complex linguistic registers of Cavafy’s Canon into English.

Volume 97 of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology is a special issue, entitled “Greece in Rome,” comprising revised versions of papers presented at a Loeb Classical Conference on the question of the Greek influence on Roman culture, with a particular though not exclusive emphasis on the Augustan period. The papers reflect the complexity of the relationship between the cultures involved—Greek, Roman, and Italic—and span many fields: history, literature, philosophy, linguistics, religion, and the visual arts.

This volume of nineteen articles includes, among others, “The Jewish Donor Inscriptions from Aphrodisias: Are They Both Third-Century, and Who Are the Theosebeis?” by Marianne Palmer Bonz; “Where Ion Stood, What Ion Sang,” by Timothy W. Boyd; and “Can Tacitus’ Dialogus Be Dated? Evidence and Historical Conclusions,” by C. O. Brink.

This volume includes “Iliad 4.384 Tudê, Iliad 15.339 Mêkistê, and Odyssey 19.136 Odysê” by Jeremy Rau; “Craft Similes and the Construction of Heroes in the Iliad” by Naomi Rood; and other essays.

This volume of eighteen articles offers, among others: “The Fragments of Heliodorus Homericus,” by Andrew R. Dyck; “Aeschylus, Eumenides 64–88 and the Ex Cathedra Language of Apollo,” by Hayden Pelliccia; “Aeschyli Prometheus,” by G. Zuntz; and “Medicine, Music, and Magic: The Healing Grace of Pindar’s Fourth Nemean,” by Georgia Ann Machemer.

This volume of fifteen essays includes, among others, “The Case of the Door’s Marriage (Catullus 67.6),” by E. Badian; “The Date of Tacitus’ Dialogus,” by Charles E. Murgia; and “Poetae Novelli,” by Alan Cameron.

This volume of sixteen essays includes, among others, “Sequence and Simultaneity in Iliad N, Ξ, and O,” by Cedric H. Whitman and Ruth Scodel; “Two Inscriptions from Aphrodisias,” by Christopher Jones; and “The Authenticity of the Letter of Sappho to Phaon (Heroides XV),” by R. J. Tarrant.

This volume of fifteen essays includes, among others, “The Early Greek Poets: Some Interpretations,” by Robert Renehan; “The ‘Sobriety’ of Oedipus: Sophocles OC 100 Misunderstood,” by Albert Henrichs; and “Virgil’s Ecphrastic Centerpieces,” by Richard F. Thomas.

This volume of thirteen essays includes, among others, “Tantalus and Anaxagoras,” by Ruth Scodel; “Notes on Seneca ‘Rhetor,’” by W. S. Watt; and “More on Pseudo-Quintilian’s Longer Declamations,” by D. R. Shackleton Bailey.

This volume of sixteen articles includes, among others, T. D. Barnes, “The Significance of Tacitus’ Dialogus de oratoribus”; Wendell Clausen, “Cicero and the New Poetry”; and Gregory Crane, “Three Notes on Herodas 8.”

This volume of twenty articles includes, among others: “An Ethnic Joke in Homer?” by T. Corey Brennan; “The Laughter of Aphrodite in Theocritus, Idyll 1,” by Gregory Crane; “The Glossographoi,” by Andrew R. Dyck; and “The Rhetoric of Desperation,” by R. L. Fowler.

This volume of twenty-two articles includes, among others: “Daedalus and Icarus in the Ars Amatoria,” by Charles F. Ahern, Jr.; “Structure and Chronology in Ammianus, Book 14,” by T. D. Barnes; and “Lucretius, Epicurus, and Prehistory,” by Daniel R. Blickman.

This volume celebrates 100 years of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. It contains essays by Harvard faculty, emeriti, currently enrolled graduate students and most recent Ph.D.s. It displays the range and diversity of the study of the Classics at Harvard at the beginning of the 21st century.

This volume includes: Lucia Athanassaki, "Transformations of Colonial Disruption into Narrative Continuity in Pindar’s Epinician Odes"; Christina Clark, "Minos’ Touch and Theseus’ Glare: Gestures in Bakkhylides 17"; James J. Clauss, "Once upon a Time on Cos: A Banquet with Pan on the Side in Theocritus Idyll 7"; David M. Engel, "Women’s Role in the Home and the State: Stoic Theory Reconsidered"; John Gibert, "Apollo’s Sacrifice: The Limits of a Metaphor in Greek Tragedy"; Peter Grossardt, "The Title of Aeschylus’ Ostologoi"; D. R. Shackleton Bailey, "New Readings in Valerius Maximus"; and many others.

The Nobel Prize was awarded to Elytis in 1979 “for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man’s struggle for freedom and creativeness.” This volume contains translations of two late collections, the second published months before his death in 1995.

Music and Cultural Politics in Greek and Chinese Societies, Volume 1: Greek Antiquity is the first part of a three-volume set focused on the intriguing interaction between music and song-making and practices of cultural politics. Volume I investigates major aspects of this intricate sociocultural phenomenon exclusively in ancient Greek societies.

C. P. Cavafy is one of the most important and influential Greek poets since antiquity. Based on a thirty-year scholarly and literary interaction with Cavafy’s poetry and its Greek and Western European intertexts, Chioles has produced a most authoritative and nuanced translation of the complex linguistic registers of Cavafy’s Canon into English.

Yatromanolakis examines the complex, at times contradictory, responses to ancient Greece in Greek and broader Western European modernism. Exploring the dynamics of ruination and the reconfiguration of fundamental icons of ancient mythology in surrealism, the author shows that Greek antiquity was an integral constituent of avant-garde myth-making.

Solomon and Marcolf pits wise Solomon, famous from the Bible, against a wily peasant named Marcolf. Cited by Bakhtin in Rabelais and His World, Solomon and Marcolf is widely known by name. But until now it has not been translated into any modern language. The present volume offers an introduction, followed by the Latin and English, detailed commentary, and reproductions of woodcut illustrations from the 1514 edition.

The topics offered in East and West range throughout the ancient world from the second century bce to late antiquity, from Hellenistic Greece and Republican Rome to Egypt and Arabia, from the Second Sophistic to Roman imperial discourse, from Sulla’s self-presentation in his memoirs to charitable giving among the Manichaeans in Egypt.