Ordia Prima

Prólogo al dossier "Gramáticos latinos fragmentarios. Cinco estudios de metodología, atribución y edición"

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Grammatici disiecti: continuidad y discontinuidad del pensamiento lingüístico antiguo en la nueva edición en curso de los fragmentos gramaticales latinos

2024-02-21T11:53:42+00:00

This contribution is the Spanish updated version of an article written by A. Garcea outlining the evolution of Roman linguistic thought as reflected by fragmentary authors from the time of Aelius Stilo to Quintilian’s, with a special focus on authors such as Caesar and Pliny. In a new section, J. Uría adds a brief review of some minor figures of the 1st century A.D. From this study we can infer that the history of ancient linguistics should not focus exclusively on the works preserved by direct transmission while bypassing the relevant fragmentary material.

Erudición griega y romana en Schol. Veron. Aen. 3, 705: los límites de la atribución de fragmentos

2024-02-21T11:53:10+00:00

Abstract: Drawing on a poorly transmitted passage (Schol. Veron. Aen. 3, 705) that has been attributed to several Greek and Latin authors, this work reflects, in general, on the risks posed by the ascription of fragments transmitted by sources with textual difficulties, and reviews, in particular, the different proposals for the authorship of the passage in question. The excerpt discusses the forms taken by the demonyms of Greek toponyms –such as Selinus and Amathus– and contributes a piece of evidence about Olympic champions. This contribution tries to explain all this within the context, including a proposal for the reconstruction of the original text.

La recepción textual de los nombres propios y la atribución de fragmentos gramaticales: el caso de Aufidio Modesto

2024-02-21T11:54:05+00:00

This work foregrounds the difficulties that editors of fragments experience in attributing authorship due to the often deficient transmission of proper names in the sources. Aufidius Modestus is a clear example, as he was only cited with his nomen in one occasion, while the name of Iulius Modestus –also a grammarian from the 1st century A.D., but earlier– is given in full in several passages. As a result, editors not only have attributed Iulius those fragments lacking nomen, they have also doubted the existence of Aufidius. This work lends consistency to the figure of Aufidius and offers keys to attribute authorship of the doubtful passages to one grammarian or the other.

La Vita Sallustii de Asconio (frg. 3 GRFM): un fantasma literario

2024-02-21T11:53:22+00:00

This contribution reviews a fragment of the pseudo–Acronian scholia on Horace. The author states that in a biography of Sallust, Asconius, the renowned commentator on Cicero, mentioned the episode –known from other sources– of the whipping the historian received from Milo after being caught in adultery with Fausta, Milo’s wife. No other source cites said biography of Sallust and several authors have questioned its existence, although other critics accept it without reservations. Thanks to a plausible text amendment we can definitively rule out that Asconius wrote a Vita Sallustii.

La importancia de la fijación cronológica en la atribución de fragmentos gramaticales: el caso de Asconio Pediano

2024-02-21T11:53:55+00:00

The importance of a prior prosopographical study for an editor of grammatical fragments should not be dismissed, as it helps in placing the author in a specific historical, literary and doctrinal context, thus facilitating the correct interpretation of the fragments based on the relationships with the contemporaries, the influences of the predecessors and the impact on the later grammatical literature. This task is particularly difficult when dealing with grammarians of whom little or often contradictory or ambiguous information is preserved. This work analyzes the various testimonies about Cicero’s commentator Asconius Pedianus, in order to place in time the 85–year period attributed to him by Saint Jerome in Chronicon.

Prefacio al número 2 de Ordia Prima

2024-02-21T11:52:05+00:00

Subjetividad, memoria y verdad: Safo en una «historia política de las veridicciones»

2024-02-21T11:52:59+00:00

This article offers an interpretation of fr. 94 (Neri) of Sappho in connection with the genealogy of the subject developed by Michel Foucault. In the Dartmouth conferences of 1980, Foucault distinguishes two modes of constitution of the self, based on the relationship between subjectivity and truth. The first, «gnomic self», corresponds to the practice of Stoic veridiction; the second, «gnoseological self», is the effect of Christian confessional techniques. The first part of this article describes this opposition. The second part is devoted to the study of the «poetic I» in fragment 94 by highlighting three dimensions considered constitutive of it: temporality, rituality, and intersubjectivity. This analysis intends to argue in favor of an interpretation of the Sapphic «poetic I» in terms of a «mnemic self» in order to extend the Foucauldian inquiry to a poetic corpus unexplored by the author. The proposed «mnemic self» will be understood in terms of restitution of a common experience, through poetic memory.

La parresía de Aquiles. Libertad de expresión entre Homero y Luciano de Samosata

2024-02-21T11:53:33+00:00

Parrhesia, freedom of thought and freedom of speech, is one of the foundations, first of all, of the idea of democracy. It was born from the first experiments of democracy in Athens in the 5th century BC. For us there is no freedom, there is no equality, if there are not these freedoms to think and say everything in front of everyone. Free speech, critical speech, the multiplicity of thoughts and voices are essential principles. No one can say that he possesses the truth, no one can impose his unique thought, his dogma. It is the first antidote to autocracy. Here then parrhesia serves to discuss the conventions, inertia and encrustations of every society. It can unmask any propaganda, any mystification, any illusion. Achilles, between the Iliad, the Odyssey and Lucian's Dialogues of the Dead, is perhaps our first archetype, against the errors and power of Agamemnon, but also against the illusions and conventions of heroic ethics.

Michael von Albrecht (2022). Ad scriptores Latinos. Epistulae et colloquia. Traduzione poetica e prefazione di Aldo Setaioli. Perugia. Graphe.it Edizioni. 185 pp.

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