Heraclitus: Homeric Problems (Writings from the Greco-Roman World, # 14)

175 Pages·2005·0.8 MB·English

by  David Konstan (Editor) Donald A. Russell (Editor)

HERACLITUS: HOMERIC PROBLEMS
Writings from the Greco-Roman World
John T. Fitzgerald, General Editor
Editorial Board
David Armstrong
Elizabeth Asmis
Brian E. Daley, S.J.
David G. Hunter
David Konstan
Margaret M. Mitchell
Michael J. Roberts
Johan C. Thom
James C. VanderKam
Number 14
HERACLITUS: HOMERIC PROBLEMS
Volume Editor
David Konstan
HERACLITUS: HOMERIC PROBLEMS
Edited and Translated by
Donald A. Russell
and
David Konstan
Society of Biblical Literature
Atlanta
HERACLITUS:HOMERIC PROBLEMS
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Heraclitus, 1st cent.
[Allegoriae Homericae. English & Greek]
Heraclitus : Homeric problems / edited and translated by Donald A. Russell and
David Konstan.
p. cm. — (Writings from the Greco-Roman world ; v. 14)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Commentaries in English; texts in Greek with parallel English translation.
ISBN-13: 978-1-58983-122-3 (alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 1-58983-122-5 (alk. paper)
1. Homer—Religion. 2. Gods, Greek, in literature. 3. Heraclitus, 1st cent. Allegoriae
Homericae. I. Title: Homeric problems. II. Russell, D. A. (Donald Andrew) III. Konstan,
David. IV. Title. V. Series.
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CONTENTS
Preface vii
Abbreviations ix
Introduction xi
Name and Date xi
The Beginnings of Allegory xiii
The Authority of Homer xv
The Nature of Allegory xvi
Approaches to Myth xvii
Plato’s Attack on Homer and Its Aftermath xix
The Varieties of Allegory xxi
Allegory and Literary Criticism xxiv
Heraclitus’s Treatise xxvii
Text and Translation xxix
Heraclitus, Homeric Problems:Text and Translation 1
Select Bibliography 133
Index Nominum et Rerum 137
Index Locorum 139

PREFACE
The idea of preparing a translation of Heraclitus, along with Cornutus
and the allegorical scholia to Hesiod, was first proposed in the Society of
Biblical Literature by members of the Section on Hellenistic Moral Philos-
ophy and Early Christianity, an interdisciplinary program unit that
already had produced a translation of Philodemus’s treatise on frankness
of speech. At an early stage in the Heraclitus project, it became known
that a full translation, along with selected notes, already had been pre-
pared by the eminent scholar of ancient literary criticism, Donald A.
Russell. Dr. Russell kindly made his translation available to the SBL
group, and he agreed to its publication in the series, Writings from the
Greco-Roman World. David Konstan, in accord with the practice of the
series, was asked to serve as volume editor, and he worked closely with
Dr. Russell on the final version. He also drafted the introduction, which
was in turn edited by Dr. Russell. Because of their close collaboration in
the preparation of this volume, Dr. Russell asked that Prof. Konstan’s
name be paired with his as the joint authors of this work. As a result of
this happy circumstance, Prof. Konstan’s name appears as both volume
editor and co-author. As General Editor of the series, I am pleased to join
Dr. Russell and Prof. Konstan in expressing our thanks to Ilaria Ramelli,
who made available to us the manuscript of her book (Ramelli 2004) prior
to its publication and who read the whole text through with her unfailing
critical eye.
John T. Fitzgerald
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ABBREVIATIONS
The abbreviations used for the citation of ancient texts and modern schol-
arly literature follow, in general, the guidelines of the Society of Biblical
Literature as published in The SBL Handbook of Style(1999). Those used in
this volume include the following:
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte
und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung.Edited
by Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase. Berlin:
de Gruyter, 1972–.
CP Classical Philology
CQ Classical Quarterly
FGH Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker. Edited by
Felix Jacoby. Leiden: Brill, 1954–1964.
JHS Journal of Hellenic Studies
JRS Journal of Roman Studies
LCL Loeb Classical Library
PGL Patristic Greek Lexicon. Edited by G. W. H. Lampe.
Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1968.
SH Hugh Lloyd-Jones and P. J. Parsons, eds. Supplemen-
tum Hellenisticum. Texte und Kommentare 11. Berlin:
de Gruyter, 1983.
SVF Stoicorum veterum fragmenta.Hans von Arnim. 4 vols.
Leipzig:Teubner, 1903–1924.
TAPA Transactions of the American Philological Association
Theol. Cornutus, Epidromê tôn kata tên Hellênikên theologian
paradedomenôn (Summary of the Traditions concerning
Greek Theology)
Vit. poes. Hom. Pseudo-Plutarch, De vita et poesi Homeri (On the Life
and Poetry of Homer)
ZPE Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik
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