Vertis in Usum: Studies in Honor of Edward Courtney

296 Pages·2002·4.908 MB·English

by  John F. Miller

Vertís in usum
Studies in Honor of
Edward Courtney
Beiträge zur Altertumskunde
Herausgegeben von
Michael Erler, Dorothee Gall, Ernst Heitsch,
Ludwig Koenen, Reinhold Merkelbach,
Clemens Zintzen
Band 161
Κ · G · Saur München · Leipzig
Vertís in usum
Studies in Honor of Edward Courtney
Edited by
John F. Miller Cynthia Damon
K. Sara Myers
Κ · G · Saur München · Leipzig 2002
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Photograph of Edward Courtney
at Trinity College, Dublin, 1954
PREFACE
This volume honors Edward Courtney on the occasion of his retire-
ment. Born in Belfast and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and at
Oxford, Ted first taught at King's College, London, where he was Pro-
fessor of Latin. In 1982 he moved to the United States, where he has
held two distinguished chairs, the Shirley R. and Leonard W. Ely, Jr.
Professorship of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, and
then at the University of Virginia the (first) Basil L. Gildersleeve Pro-
fessorship of Classics. Most of the contributors to the present
book—colleagues, students and friends—got to know Ted in one or
more of those various places. All twenty-three of us, like many others
in the community of classical scholars, have benefited from his great
erudition and generous collegiality.
We would like to express our gratitude to Melvyn Leffler, Dean of
the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia, for fi-
nancial support of the publication. Special thanks go to Brenda
Courtney, Ted's wife, who shared in planning this clandestine project
from the start, and who through the years has been an unfailing source
of kindness and practical assistance to Ted's students and colleagues.
The title, Vertís in usum, is taken from Statius. In Siluae 3.1.166-70
Hercules felicitates Pollius Felix on achievements rivaling his own,
among them the conversion of a wild and barren landscape into pro-
ductive terrain. The phrase is equally appropriate to Ted's labors, which
have made so many rough places plain. Thanks to his efforts, students
of all degrees can use with confidence and enjoy with understanding
Latin texts ranging from early poetic fragments to late inscribed verses,
from Ovid's calendar to Petronian poems to the Siluae of Statius and
the Satires of Juvenal. And like Hercules' praise, ours is expressed in
the present tense, in the expectation that Ted is far from finished with
the lustra habitata feris.
C. D., K. S. M., J. F. M.

CONTENTS
1. QUINTUS FABIUS PICTOR AND GRECO-ROMAN
HISTORIOGRAPHY AT ROME
JOHN DILLERY L
2. BELIEVING THE PRO MARCELLO
MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM 24
3. THE STOIC PARADOXES ACCORDING TO CICERO
DAVID MEHL 39
4. HORATIAN JOTTINGS
NIALL RUDD 47
5. SERA VINDEMIA: MARGINAL NOTES ON THE
TEXT OF HORACE AND JUVENAL
•R. G. M. NISBET 56
6. CRITICA VARIA
CHARLES E. MURGIA 67
7. HYPERMETER AND ELISION IN VIRGIL
G. P. GOOLD 76
8. VERGIL, PHILODEMUS, AND THE LAMENT
OF IUTURNA
DIRK OBBINK 90
9. THE AUTHENTICITY OF AMORES 3.5
J. C. MCKEOWN 114
10. OVID ON THE AUGUSTAN PALATINE
('TRISTIA 3.1)
JOHN F. MILLER 129
11. OVID AND AUGUSTUS
D. E. HILL 140
12. (MIS)USES OF MYTHOLOGY IN PETRONIUS
GARETH SCHMELING 152
Χ CONTENTS
13. STRUCTURE AND HISTORY IN THE GERMANIA
OF TACITUS
JAMES B. RIVES 164
14. THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES, OR,
ON FLATTERY AND ENCOMIUM IN THE SILVAE
CYNTHIA DAMON 174
15. PSITTACUS REDUX: IMITATION AND LITERARY
POLEMIC IN STATIUS, SILVAE 2.4
K. SARA MYERS 189
16. THE PSEUDO-FULGENTI AN SUPER THEBAIDEN
GREGORY HAYS 200
17. AT PLAY WITH ADONIS
JAY REED 219
18. STIGMATA AETERNA: A HUSBAND'S CURSE
JUDITH EVANS GRUBBS 230
19. CAUGHT IN THE ACT: "IN FILIA DEPREHENDERE"
IN THE LEX JULIA DE ADULTERIIS
SUSAN TREGGIARI 243
20. THE DAIMON OF EUDAIMONIA
JON D. MIKALSON 250
21. A DRINK FROM THE DAUGHTERS OF MNEMOSYNE:
POETRY, ESCHATOLOGY AND MEMORY AT THE END
OF PINDAR'S ISTHMIAN 6
CHRISTOPHER A. FARAONE 259
22. ROWING FOR ATHENS
JENNY STRAUSS CLAY 271
23. RATIONALISM, NAIVE AND MALIGN IN
EURIPIDES' ORESTES
DAVID KOVACS 277