Filippomaria Pontani
Biographic Data
| ID | 1075127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Filippomaria Pontani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Filippomaria |
| FAMILY NAME | Pontani |
| SIGNATURE | PONTANI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ca' Foscari University of Venice |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8420-9287 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Euripidean Scholia Online - Donald Mastronarde, Euripides Scholia
This is a discussion of Donald Mastronarde's comprehensive online edition of the scholia to Euripides' Orestes
Gems, Ambers and Plaquettes. Cyriac’s Gifts and Theodore Gaza’s Verse
A metal plaquette with the image of Scylla and a mosquito in amber: these two objects, owned and given as gifts by Cyriac of Ancona, elicited in the 1440s several poetic attempts in Latin (Angelo de Grassis) and Greek (Theodore Gaza), which deserve new editions based on neglected or previously unknown manuscript witnesses. This leads to considerations on the history of Italian plaquettes cast from classical gems, on the humanist Nachleben of Mart…
Valeria Fontanella
Ithaca and love
Cavafy’s Ithaca, probably his best-known poem, has been praised and criticised for its peculiar literary texture. By highlighting its relationship with Cavafy’s 1894 poem Second Odyssey, as well as with the ancient and Byzantine tradition of Homeric allegory, this paper attempts to unravel the meaning of the «high thoughts» and the «elect emotion» advocated by the author as the key to a wise life. If the new Odysseus’ real ‹enemy› is the irration…
Diodorus’ last manuscript ? A tantalising clue
Pontani Filippomaria. Diodorus’ last manuscript ? A tantalising clue. In: Revue des Études Grecques, tome 136, fascicule 1, Janvier-juin 2023. pp. 185-192
A new Herodianic treatise on dichrona and a new fragment of Hipponax
Cet article propose l’ editio princeps (avec apparat critique et apparat des sources) d’un traité grammatical grec portant sur la quantité des voyelles ancipites ou dichrona (α, ι, υ): le texte n’est transmis que par un seul manuscrit datant du xiv e siècle ( Par. gr. 2646). Sa paternité demeure incertaine, mais la plupart des doctrines qu’il présente montrent des affinités frappantes avec celles du grand Hérodien ( ii e siècle ap. J.-C.). L’intr…
Translating Homeric scholia
Translating the fragments of ancient exegesis to classical poets might seem to many scholars an idle task. In philological studies of the nineteenth and twentieth century, this kind of material was almost always presented in the original, in the assumption that linguistic, stylistic, or rhetorical (let alone etymological or grammatical) observations could not be understood and would anyway be of no use whatsoever unless the reader could perfectly…
New Poetic Fragments From a Neglected Witness of Ps.-Trypho's De Tropis
A treatise on rhetorical tropes is attributed in manuscripts to the first-century grammarian Trypho: this article considers for the first time a fifteenth-century manuscript of this work (Leiden, BPG 74G), which turns out to be the only complete witness of its hitherto unknown original version; this version (very fragmentarily transmitted by a fifth-century papyrus scrap) is also partly found in another fifteenth-century manuscript now kept in Ol…
Approaches to Greek Poetry
In the last decades the field of research on ancient Greek scholarship has been the object of a remarkable surge of interest, with the publication of handbooks, reference works, and new editions of texts. This partly unexpected revival is very promising and it continues to enhance and modify both our knowledge of ancient scholarship and the way in which we are accustomed to discuss these texts and tackle the editorial and exegetical challenges th…
Cavafy and Niketas Choniates
This article suggests that a possible source of inspiration for Cavafy's poem ‘Waiting for the barbarians’ can be identified in a passage of the Byzantine historian Niketas Choniates concerning the arrival of German ambassadors at the court of Alexios III in Constantinople in 1196. The context of diplomacy, the city's decadent atmosphere, the emperor's self-humiliation and the unsuccessful ostentation of luxury and royal attire are prominent feat…
Hellenic Verse and Christian Humanism
“Captain of Homer’s guard”
Captain of Homer's guard": the reception of Eustathius in Modern Europe 1 Eustathius from Politian to Politi (1489Politi ( -1730) ) In the fantastic battle between ancient and modern authors envisaged by the French scholar François de Callières in 1688 (a story that inspired Jonathan Swift's Battle of the Books, published twelve years later), Eustathius of Thessalonica plays a conspicuous role1.Initially enrolled among the orators (and thus on th…
Reading Eustathios of Thessalonike
Despite the relevance of Eustathios to both Classical and Byzantine studies, no monograph and no collective volume in English has yet been devoted to his figure. This book attempts to fill in this gap by addressing the various facets of his output - above all his commentaries on Homer, Dionysius the Periegete, Pindar, and the Iambic Canon on the Pentecost; but also his historiographical work, his speeches and his theological production receive du…
Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices
In this collection of richly documented case studies, experts in many textual traditions examine the ways in which important texts were preserved, explicated, corrected, and used for a variety of purposes. The authors describe the multiple ways in which scholars in different cultures have addressed some of the same tasks, revealing both radical differences and striking similarities in textual practices across space, time and linguistic borders. T…
“Your first commitments tangible again” – Alexandrianism as an aesthetic category?
Proclus the Successor on Poetics and the Homeric Poems
Reviewed by: Proclus the Successor on Poetics and the Homeric Poems: Essays 5 and 6 of His Commentary on the Republic of Plato Filippomaria Pontani Robert Lamberton (tr.). Proclus the Successor on Poetics and the Homeric Poems: Essays 5 and 6 of His Commentary on the Republic of Plato . Writings from the Greco-Roman World, 34 . Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature , 2012 . Pp. xlii, 322 . $43.95 (pb.). ISBN 978–1-58983–711–9 . Anyone interest…
Noblest Charis
In a certain sense, this might be seen as the last link in that chain of giftexchange culture which, as an important book by Leslie Kurke has shown in detail, inspires many of Pindar’s epinician odes. Charis, in Kurke’s view, is the bond of mutual gratitude and commerce in beauty securing the genealogical and moral continuity of the aristocratic oikos; it is the mechanism by which, in the course of joyous festivals pervaded by charis, the poet, b…
Pindar's Liberal Songs
In 2012, London will welcome the notes of the official Olympic Anthem, composed by Spyros Samaras in 1895 to the lyrics of the well-known Greek poet Kostìs Palamàs. This short hymn, officially adopted in Tokyo 1955, is largely reminiscent of Pindar and Pindaric imagery, like so much of Palamàs’ poetry, and like so much of the Olympic celebratory paraphernalia; in a certain way, it represents one station (but by no means the last one) in \nthe tra…
«El universo es, como tú, Proteo»
Callimachus Cited
Most of Callimachus’ fragments have come down to us as brief quotations by other literary authors or in grammatical works and lexica: this paper attempts a brief survey of the ways and forms of Callimachus’ indirect tradition, a vital topic for scholars and editors from Angelo Poliziano to Rudolf Pfeiffer, and one that has dramatically affected (all the more so before the papyri came to light) their ability to construct an adequate image of the p…
The Ancient Critic at Work
Reviewed by: The Ancient Critic at Work: Terms and Concepts of Literary Criticism in Greek Scholia Filippomaria Pontani René Nünlist. The Ancient Critic at Work: Terms and Concepts of Literary Criticism in Greek Scholia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. x, 447. $108.00. ISBN 978-0-521-85058-2. In the preface to his pathbreaking essay of 1933 on Die typischen Scenen bei Homer, W. Arend claimed that our understanding of the Homeric …
Bronze Heaven in Archaic Greek Poetry
Bronze Heaven in Archaic Greek Poetry
Pontani Filippomaria. Bronze Heaven in Archaic Greek Poetry. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 80, 2011. pp. 157-162
Demosthenes, Parody and the Frogs
The present paper attempts to show a textual contact between Demosthenes and Old Comedy in Or. 18.267 and 19.245: discussion of the two passages (the latter one plays an important role in the frame of the ancient rhetorical theory of parody) will be followed by the suggestion of a deeper link between a section of the False Embassy and Aristophanes' Frogs , in terms not only of verbal echoes but also of common rhetorical motifs and strategy
Homer, the Bible and Beyond
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Reading Eustathios of Thessalonike
Despite the relevance of Eustathios to both Classical and Byzantine studies, no monograph and no collective volume in English has yet been devoted to his figure. This book attempts to fill in this gap by addressing the various facets of his output - above all his commentaries on Homer, Dionysius the Periegete, Pindar, and the Iambic Canon on the Pentecost; but also his historiographical work, his speeches and his theological production receive du…
Translating Homeric scholia
Translating the fragments of ancient exegesis to classical poets might seem to many scholars an idle task. In philological studies of the nineteenth and twentieth century, this kind of material was almost always presented in the original, in the assumption that linguistic, stylistic, or rhetorical (let alone etymological or grammatical) observations could not be understood and would anyway be of no use whatsoever unless the reader could perfectly…
Demosthenes, Parody and the Frogs
The present paper attempts to show a textual contact between Demosthenes and Old Comedy in Or. 18.267 and 19.245: discussion of the two passages (the latter one plays an important role in the frame of the ancient rhetorical theory of parody) will be followed by the suggestion of a deeper link between a section of the False Embassy and Aristophanes' Frogs , in terms not only of verbal echoes but also of common rhetorical motifs and strategy
Catullus 64 a N D the Hesiodic Catalogue
Catullus 64 a N D the Hesiodic Catalogue
Sguardi su Ulisse
Il libro ripercorre le tappe dell'esegesi antica, medievale e umanistica all'Odissea di Omero, discutendo dapprima le testimonianze sui commentatori antichi, quindi catalogando i papiri annotati o di hypomnemata, infine lanciandosi in un ampio catalogo ragionato dei manoscritti conservati del poema e dei suoi apparati esegetici, con descrizione più o meno ampia di ciascuno, e il tentativo di contestualizzarli storicamente nell'età bizantina o nel…
Homer, the Bible and Beyond
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Demosthenes, Parody and the Frogs
The present paper attempts to show a textual contact between Demosthenes and Old Comedy in Or. 18.267 and 19.245: discussion of the two passages (the latter one plays an important role in the frame of the ancient rhetorical theory of parody) will be followed by the suggestion of a deeper link between a section of the False Embassy and Aristophanes' Frogs , in terms not only of verbal echoes but also of common rhetorical motifs and strategy
«El universo es, como tú, Proteo»
Callimachus Cited
Most of Callimachus’ fragments have come down to us as brief quotations by other literary authors or in grammatical works and lexica: this paper attempts a brief survey of the ways and forms of Callimachus’ indirect tradition, a vital topic for scholars and editors from Angelo Poliziano to Rudolf Pfeiffer, and one that has dramatically affected (all the more so before the papyri came to light) their ability to construct an adequate image of the p…
The Ancient Critic at Work
Reviewed by: The Ancient Critic at Work: Terms and Concepts of Literary Criticism in Greek Scholia Filippomaria Pontani René Nünlist. The Ancient Critic at Work: Terms and Concepts of Literary Criticism in Greek Scholia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. x, 447. $108.00. ISBN 978-0-521-85058-2. In the preface to his pathbreaking essay of 1933 on Die typischen Scenen bei Homer, W. Arend claimed that our understanding of the Homeric …
Bronze Heaven in Archaic Greek Poetry
Bronze Heaven in Archaic Greek Poetry
Pontani Filippomaria. Bronze Heaven in Archaic Greek Poetry. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 80, 2011. pp. 157-162
Pindar's Liberal Songs
In 2012, London will welcome the notes of the official Olympic Anthem, composed by Spyros Samaras in 1895 to the lyrics of the well-known Greek poet Kostìs Palamàs. This short hymn, officially adopted in Tokyo 1955, is largely reminiscent of Pindar and Pindaric imagery, like so much of Palamàs’ poetry, and like so much of the Olympic celebratory paraphernalia; in a certain way, it represents one station (but by no means the last one) in \nthe tra…
Noblest Charis
In a certain sense, this might be seen as the last link in that chain of giftexchange culture which, as an important book by Leslie Kurke has shown in detail, inspires many of Pindar’s epinician odes. Charis, in Kurke’s view, is the bond of mutual gratitude and commerce in beauty securing the genealogical and moral continuity of the aristocratic oikos; it is the mechanism by which, in the course of joyous festivals pervaded by charis, the poet, b…
“Your first commitments tangible again” – Alexandrianism as an aesthetic category?
Proclus the Successor on Poetics and the Homeric Poems
Reviewed by: Proclus the Successor on Poetics and the Homeric Poems: Essays 5 and 6 of His Commentary on the Republic of Plato Filippomaria Pontani Robert Lamberton (tr.). Proclus the Successor on Poetics and the Homeric Poems: Essays 5 and 6 of His Commentary on the Republic of Plato . Writings from the Greco-Roman World, 34 . Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature , 2012 . Pp. xlii, 322 . $43.95 (pb.). ISBN 978–1-58983–711–9 . Anyone interest…
Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices
In this collection of richly documented case studies, experts in many textual traditions examine the ways in which important texts were preserved, explicated, corrected, and used for a variety of purposes. The authors describe the multiple ways in which scholars in different cultures have addressed some of the same tasks, revealing both radical differences and striking similarities in textual practices across space, time and linguistic borders. T…
“Captain of Homer’s guard”
Captain of Homer's guard": the reception of Eustathius in Modern Europe 1 Eustathius from Politian to Politi (1489Politi ( -1730) ) In the fantastic battle between ancient and modern authors envisaged by the French scholar François de Callières in 1688 (a story that inspired Jonathan Swift's Battle of the Books, published twelve years later), Eustathius of Thessalonica plays a conspicuous role1.Initially enrolled among the orators (and thus on th…
Reading Eustathios of Thessalonike
Despite the relevance of Eustathios to both Classical and Byzantine studies, no monograph and no collective volume in English has yet been devoted to his figure. This book attempts to fill in this gap by addressing the various facets of his output - above all his commentaries on Homer, Dionysius the Periegete, Pindar, and the Iambic Canon on the Pentecost; but also his historiographical work, his speeches and his theological production receive du…
Cavafy and Niketas Choniates
This article suggests that a possible source of inspiration for Cavafy's poem ‘Waiting for the barbarians’ can be identified in a passage of the Byzantine historian Niketas Choniates concerning the arrival of German ambassadors at the court of Alexios III in Constantinople in 1196. The context of diplomacy, the city's decadent atmosphere, the emperor's self-humiliation and the unsuccessful ostentation of luxury and royal attire are prominent feat…
Hellenic Verse and Christian Humanism
Approaches to Greek Poetry
In the last decades the field of research on ancient Greek scholarship has been the object of a remarkable surge of interest, with the publication of handbooks, reference works, and new editions of texts. This partly unexpected revival is very promising and it continues to enhance and modify both our knowledge of ancient scholarship and the way in which we are accustomed to discuss these texts and tackle the editorial and exegetical challenges th…
Translating Homeric scholia
Translating the fragments of ancient exegesis to classical poets might seem to many scholars an idle task. In philological studies of the nineteenth and twentieth century, this kind of material was almost always presented in the original, in the assumption that linguistic, stylistic, or rhetorical (let alone etymological or grammatical) observations could not be understood and would anyway be of no use whatsoever unless the reader could perfectly…
New Poetic Fragments From a Neglected Witness of Ps.-Trypho's De Tropis
A treatise on rhetorical tropes is attributed in manuscripts to the first-century grammarian Trypho: this article considers for the first time a fifteenth-century manuscript of this work (Leiden, BPG 74G), which turns out to be the only complete witness of its hitherto unknown original version; this version (very fragmentarily transmitted by a fifth-century papyrus scrap) is also partly found in another fifteenth-century manuscript now kept in Ol…
A new Herodianic treatise on dichrona and a new fragment of Hipponax
Cet article propose l’ editio princeps (avec apparat critique et apparat des sources) d’un traité grammatical grec portant sur la quantité des voyelles ancipites ou dichrona (α, ι, υ): le texte n’est transmis que par un seul manuscrit datant du xiv e siècle ( Par. gr. 2646). Sa paternité demeure incertaine, mais la plupart des doctrines qu’il présente montrent des affinités frappantes avec celles du grand Hérodien ( ii e siècle ap. J.-C.). L’intr…
Diodorus’ last manuscript ? A tantalising clue
Pontani Filippomaria. Diodorus’ last manuscript ? A tantalising clue. In: Revue des Études Grecques, tome 136, fascicule 1, Janvier-juin 2023. pp. 185-192
Ithaca and love
Cavafy’s Ithaca, probably his best-known poem, has been praised and criticised for its peculiar literary texture. By highlighting its relationship with Cavafy’s 1894 poem Second Odyssey, as well as with the ancient and Byzantine tradition of Homeric allegory, this paper attempts to unravel the meaning of the «high thoughts» and the «elect emotion» advocated by the author as the key to a wise life. If the new Odysseus’ real ‹enemy› is the irration…
Gems, Ambers and Plaquettes. Cyriac’s Gifts and Theodore Gaza’s Verse
A metal plaquette with the image of Scylla and a mosquito in amber: these two objects, owned and given as gifts by Cyriac of Ancona, elicited in the 1440s several poetic attempts in Latin (Angelo de Grassis) and Greek (Theodore Gaza), which deserve new editions based on neglected or previously unknown manuscript witnesses. This leads to considerations on the history of Italian plaquettes cast from classical gems, on the humanist Nachleben of Mart…
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