E K Borthwick

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ID3874641
NAMEE K Borthwick
GIVEN NAMESE K
FAMILY NAMEBorthwick
SIGNATUREBORTHWICK E K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Edinburgh
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS26
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT26
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1965
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
H-INDEX2

  • The Cynic and the Statue

    Open AccessE K BorthwickARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2001

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  • Socrates, Socratics, and the Word B e e aim n

    E K BorthwickARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2001

  • Aristophanes and the Trial of Thucydides Son of Melesias ("Acharnians" 717)

    E K BorthwickARTICLEPhoenix2000

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  • Aeschylus vs. Euripides

    Open AccessE K BorthwickARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1999

    The literary contest of the two tragedians in Frogs is introduced by four stanzas redolent of Homeric combat, with their predominantly dactylic metre and a number of high-flown epic words. I am surprised that several editors prefer the reading ὑψὑλøωυ at 818, as íππóλοøος surely has a resonance of íπποκορυστ⋯ς of Iliad 2.1, etc. The readings and sense, however, of both halves of 819 have long been controversial. As Dover suggested in his 1993 edi…

  • Beethoven and Plutarch

    E K BorthwickARTICLEMusic and Letters1998

    Journal Article BEETHOVEN AND PLUTARCH Get access E. KERR BORTHWICK E. KERR BORTHWICK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 2, May 1998, Pages 268–272, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/79.2.268 Published: 01 May 1998

  • New Interpretations of Aristophanes Frogs 1249-1328

    E K BorthwickARTICLEPhoenix1994Cited by: 2

  • "Two Emotional Climaxes in Lysias' "Against Eratosthenes

    E K BorthwickARTICLEThe Classical World1990

  • A Note on Some Unusual Greek Words for Eyes

    Open AccessE K BorthwickARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1980

    In Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society N.S. 14 (1968), 68, D. C. C. Young drew attention to a curious variant in the text of Longus 2.2.1, where, in a description of how, at the vintage, women ‘eyed’ Daphnis, A has concluding that ‘brothers’ must be a colloquial expression for ‘eyes’, he was however unable to cite any other example of this usage, but compared ‘picked men’, in Paulus Silentiarius ( A.P. 5. 270), a locution found in a…

  • Starting a Hare

    Open AccessE K BorthwickARTICLEBulletin of the Institute of…1977

    Journal Article STARTING A HARE: A NOTE ON MACHON, fr. 15 (Gow) Get access E. K. Borthwick E. K. Borthwick University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 24, Issue 1, December 1977, Pages 31–36, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1977.tb00365.x Published: 12 March 2010

  • Zoologica Pindarica

    Open AccessE K BorthwickARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1976Cited by: 3References: 2

    Bowra ( Pindar , p. 270), referring to the image of the , and to the striking impression , states ‘Pindar seems to fuse two unusually disparate images into a single result... While the sheddingof leaves implies that he would have grown old without winning any wide renown, the cock means that such renown as he would have got would have beenof little account in the Greek world at large.’ Gildersleeve's comment ad loc, ‘The thus becomes a flower’, i…

  • Lucretius' Elephant Wall

    Open AccessE K BorthwickARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1973

    In an article1 entitled Lucrèce et les éléphants , Professor Ernout has referred to recent archaeological evidence that in palaeolithic times the skeletons of mammoths were used in the construction of primitive habitations, and observes that the well-known lines of Lucretius. 532 ff. about India being so prolific inelephants that the whole land ‘milibus e multis vallo munitur eburno’ mayrefer not to anything legendary (as Bailey and others had su…

  • Dio Chrysostom on the Mob at Alexandria

    Open AccessE K BorthwickARTICLEThe Classical Review1972Cited by: 1

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  • Nicetes the Rhetorician and Vergil's 'Plena Deo

    E K BorthwickARTICLEMnemosyne1972

  • Emendations and Interpretations in the Greek Anthology

    Open AccessE K BorthwickARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1971Cited by: 1

    Gow and Page are of the opinion that Planudes’ àένναος in the fifth line of this epigram may be not his conjecture but the true reading, and reject Jacobs' commonly received emendation àєί λáνος, with κηρο in the following line. But I have no doubt that for the two words μέν àλανóς (the μέν is unobjectionable but not obligatory) we should read μєμαλαγαγμένος for ó μєμαλαγαγμένος κηρóς is the regular gloss1 on the waxy substance called μàλθα or μà…

  • Aristophanes, Acharnians 709

    Open AccessE K BorthwickARTICLEBulletin of the Institute of…1970

    ARISTOPHANES, ACHARNIANS 709: AN OLD CRUX, AND A NEW SOLUTION Get access E. K. Borthwick E. K. Borthwick University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 17, Issue 1, December 1970, Pages 107–110, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1970.tb00090.x Published: 12 March 2010

  • The Riddle of the Tortoise and the Lyre

    E K BorthwickARTICLEMusic and Letters1970Cited by: 1

    Journal Article THE RIDDLE OF THE TORTOISE AND THE LYRE Get access E. K. BORTHWICK E. K. BORTHWICK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume LI, Issue 4, October 1970, Pages 373–387, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/LI.4.373 Published: 01 October 1970

  • The Verb AYω and its Compounds

    Open AccessE K BorthwickARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1969References: 1

    In a recent article Mr. D. A. West investigated the meaning of haurire, haustus , showing how the primary sense ‘to take by scooping, to draw’ is present in a number of passages which have been incorrectly interpreted in the light of extensions made only later of this usage. He noted in passing that ‘this sense may well survive in , the cognate of haurire ’. In this article I hope to show that the recognition of this as the basic sense of and its…

  • Meleager's Lament

    E K BorthwickARTICLEClassical Philology1969

  • The Dances of Philocleon and the Sond of Carcinus in Aristophanes' Wasps

    Open AccessE K BorthwickARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1968Cited by: 1References: 1

    Philocleon's dance in the exodus of the Wasps , and its allusions to, and caricatures of, contemporary composers or dancers, have often been discussed, and much is bound to remain inconclusive in view of the dubious nature of such scanty material as has survived in explanation of the scene in the scholiastic tradition. It is particularly unfortunate that it is not certain who is the Phrynichus referred to in 1490 ff

  • Two Unnoticed Euripides Fragments

    Open AccessE K BorthwickARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1968

    In my article ‘Two Textual Problems in Euripides’ Antiope , Fr. 188' ( C.Q. N.S. xvii [1967], 41 ff.), in which I compared the debate of Amphion the unpractical musician and his industrious brother Zethus to the fable of the cicada and the ant, I drew attention to a passage of Olympiodorus' commentary on the Gorgias (p. 161, Norvin) which had been overlooked in the testimonia to Euripides' play, and which begins

  • Seeing Weasels

    Open AccessE K BorthwickARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1968Cited by: 3References: 1

    Every Greek scholar knows the celebrated lapsus linguae committed by the tragic actor Hegelochus at the Great Dionysia of 408 B.C., when he faltered in his enunciation of line 279 of Euripides' Orestes and gave the impression to the mirthful audience of having said I am surprised, however, that the commentators on this line (and on Ar. Ran. 303, the most notable of the references in the comic poets to Hegelochus' lapse) have only partially explai…

  • "Three Notes On the "Acharnians

    E K BorthwickARTICLEMnemosyne1967

    THREE NOTES ON THE "ACHARNIANS" BY E. K. BORTHWICK (1) 341-7. Dicaeopolis's ruse with the has succeeded in persuading the Acharnians to drop the stones from their hands, and they are now prevailed upon to demonstrate that they have no others concealed in their cloaks. The word play ÈxaÉaELŒ"t"cxL- is a familiar puzzle, most recently discussed by K. J. Dover 1), who thinks that the TPi(3WV is called aELa't'6ç, a word used in Hellenistic and Byzant…

  • Limed Reeds in Theocritus, Aristophanes, and Propertius

    Open AccessE K BorthwickARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1967

    Both the meaning of and the identity of the are in some doubt here. Gow's view that ‘Lacon thinks of labourers and cicadas vying with one another in the heat’ and that means ‘provoke to further exertions, put him on his mettle’ agrees in general with the scholiast

  • Some Problems in Musical Terminology

    Open AccessE K BorthwickARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1967Cited by: 1References: 3

    In addition to the technical writers on music, a number of ancient authors, notably Plutarch and Athenaeus, have recorded several musical terms, either by way of illustrative material—Plutarch is particularly given to musical similes and metaphors—or in the course of anecdotes about music and musicians. As musical terminology in different ages contains words or phrases not only of general acceptance and familiarity, but other more ephemeral expre…

  • A Grasshopper's Diet—Notes on an Epigram of Meleager and a Fragment of Eubulus

    Open AccessE K BorthwickARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1966References: 1

    ‘Quid vero fit, quod poeta hanc plantam, tanquam munus locustae inprimis gratum, commemoret, nemo dixit; nee ego dicere possum ’—so Jacobs in his note on the seventh line of this epigram (vol. 6, p. 123). Among later commentators, Mackail thinks ‘can hardly mean “leek” here’ and he assumes it to be ‘groundsel’; Dain in the Budé edition is satisfied with the rather prosaic explanation that it is an ‘observation très juste ... la cigale ne se nourr…