Table Of ContentHYPERIDES
AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
AMERICAN CLASSICAL STUDIES
VOLUME53
Series Editor
Kathryn J. Gutzwiller
Studies in Classical History and Society
Meyer Reinhold
Sextus Empiricus
The Transmission and Recovery of Pyrrhonism
Luciano Floridi
The Augustan Succession
An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio’s Roman History Books
55–56 (9 B.C.–A.D.14)
Peter Michael Swan
Greek Mythography in the Roman World
Alan Cameron
Virgil Recomposed
The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity
Scott McGill
Representing Agrippina
Constructions of Female Power in the Early Roman Empire
Judith Ginsburg
Figuring Genre in Roman Satire
Catherine Keane
Homer’s Cosmic Fabrication
Choice and Design in theIliad
Bruce Heiden
Hyperides
Funeral Oration
Judson Herrman
HYPERIDES
Funeral Oration
Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary by
Judson Herrman
2009
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Hyperides.
[Epitaphios. English & Greek]
Funeral oration / Hyperides ; edited with introduction, translation,
and commentary by Judson Herrman.
p. cm.—(American classical studies ; no.53)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN978-0-19-538865-7
1. Hyperides—Translations into English. 2. Funeral orations—Translations
into English. 3. Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient—Greek—Athens.
I. Herrman, Judson. II. Title.
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Preface
Hyperides’ Funeral Oration is arguably the most important surviving
exampleofanAthenianepitaphioslogosbothbecauseofitsfinequality
asanepideicticcomposition,andbecauseitrevealsthatastatefuneral
oration could transform the standard content of the genre and adapt it
totheimmediatehistoricalcontext.Thisvolumepresentsanewcritical
editionofthetext,accompaniedbyanextensivecommentaryaimedat
an audience of scholars and graduate students in classics and ancient
history. The commentary is both historical and philological; the notes
aredesignedtodemonstratethetimelinessofthespeech,andtoempha-
sizethedifferencebetweenitandotherfuneralorations.Ialsoinclude
anintroduction,whichsituatesthespeechinitshistoricalandrhetorical
context,and a translation.
Recent work—now further accelerated by the discovery of
extensive and previously unknown fragments of Hyperides in the
Archimedes Palimpsest—has reestablished Hyperides’importance as
an orator and as a political figure. Most notably, David Whitehead’s
excellent commentary on the forensic speeches (Whitehead 2000)
has done much to satisfy a long-standing need for a detailed guide
to the Hyperidean corpus. I hope that the present book will suitably
fill a conspicuous gap arising from Professor Whitehead’s decision to
concentrate on the surviving courtroom speeches.
This book has grown out of a doctoral dissertation. The revisions
havesometimesbeenslowedbyworkonotherprojects,butIhopethe
presentvolumehasbenefitedfromthoseparerga.Ihavedesignedand
typeset the book myself using open source software. I am grateful to
Stephanie Attia at Oxford University Press for expert advice on the
design, and to the creators and the community of support for XETEX,
v
vi Preface
a unicode-based version ofTEX, and for theedmacand Eplain macros
packages,whichIhaveadaptedandextendedtoproducecamera-ready
copy of this volume.
It is a pleasure to acknowledge the generous help I’ve received in
the course of writing this book. I would like to thank John Duffy,An-
drewWolpert, and HarveyYunis for helpful comments on early drafts
of this material. I am also grateful to the editorial board of of theAPA
Publication Committee and especially to the editor of theAPA Mono-
graphSeries,KathrynGutzwiller,forencouragementandconstructive
advice on the manuscript at a later stage. The book has benefited im-
menselyfromthesuggestionsoftwoanonymousexternalreferees,and
from the comments ofAdele Scafuro and DavidWhitehead, who also
readthemanuscriptfortheAPA.IamparticularlyindebtedtoProfessor
Scafuro for devoting an extraordinary amount of time to reading and
commenting on my manuscript. I am also grateful to Peter Hunt and
the students in his spring 2008 seminar on Greek oratory at the Uni-
versityofColoradofortheirusefulcomments.Thesereadersandthose
namedbelowmaynotagreewithallofmyargumentsandconclusions
here;theyhavesavedmefrommanymistakesandmisunderstandings,
but I have not always followed their advice.Any remaining errors or
omissions are entirely my own.
Iwouldlikealsotoacknowledgeandthankseveralinstitutionsfor
their financial support. Harvard University’s Graduate School ofArts
andSciencesawardedmeadissertationcompletionfellowshiptofinish
the first full version of this material in spring 1999. A Fletcher Fam-
ily Research Grant from Bowdoin College enabled me to study the
papyrus for the first time in person during the summer of 2003. Two
awards from the academic support committee of Allegheny College,
supplemented by an award from the Jonathan E. and Nancy L. Helm-
reichResearchandBookGrantFund,supportedstudyattheInstituteof
ClassicalStudiesinLondonin2005andatHarvard’sWidenerLibrary
in2006.Iamgratefultothelibrariansandstaffatthoseinstitutionsand
to the British Library. I completed final revisions of this manuscript at
the National Humanities Center, where I held the Robert F. and Mar-
garet S. Goheen Fellowship during the academic year 2006/2007. My
time at the National Humanities Center was co-funded by a sabbatical
grant from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation. I am particularly
gratefultoeveryoneattheCenterformakingmytimetheresoproduc-
tive and comfortable.
My greatest academic debts are to Albert Henrichs, who advised
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the dissertation and has continued to be supportive and inspiring, and
toEdwardHarris,who,asanoutsidereaderonthedissertationcommit-
tee,essentiallyservedasasecondadvisor,andwhohasbeenselflessly
helpfulateverystageofwritingandrevision.Myfinalthanksgotomy
wife, Robin Orttung, for all of her love and support as this book was
born and matured.
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Contents
Abbreviations
1.General xi
2.Editions of Fragments xii
3. In the CriticalApparatus xii
Introduction
1.The Historical Background 3
2.The Rhetorical Background 14
3.Hyperides’ FuneralOration 20
4.TheText andTranslation 27
Text andTranslation 35
Commentary 57
AppendixA: Papyrological Notes 111
Appendix B:CriticalConjectures 115
Bibliography 121
GeneralIndex 141
Index of GreekWords 147
