W Geoffrey Arnott
Biographic Data
| ID | 3875011 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W Geoffrey Arnott |
| GIVEN NAMES | W Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Arnott |
| SIGNATURE | ARNOTT W G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Middle Comedy
Some Orthographical Variants in the Papyri of Later Greek Comedy
Comic poets such as Menander may not have been consistent in their choices, and the papyri, which range in date from the 3rd century BC down to at least the 5th century AD, may at times reflect the spellings accepted at the time of the copying scribes rather than those of the original authors. In order to consider the need to cite apparently minor orthographical variants when editing and translating later Greek comedy this chapter looks at readin…
Alexis
Introduction Part I. Alexis' Career Part II. Sources of the Fragments Commentary False or doubtful attributions Appendices
J. Michael Walton and Peter D. Arnott
This study is published as one of a series (‘Lives of the Theatre’) designed to provide scholarly introductions to major playwrights and others associated with the theatre, and Peter Arnott (no relation to the reviewer, incidentally1) was commissioned to write one on Menander. He had produced an outline plan, several pages of detailed notes and a first draft of 67 pages, roughly equivalent to the book’s two opening chapters, when he died in Novem…
A Study in Relationships
Thirty years ago, when I was a young assistant lecturer in the Uni versity of London, I was privileged to take part in one of the most excit ing projects that have ever been available to classicists *. The papyrus of Menander's Dyskolos had just been discovered, and Victor Martin was entrusted with the task of producing the first edition. Before publishing it, he was kind enough to send a diplomatic transcription of the papyrus to London, so that…
MEλIλΩOmtoΣ, Melilotus
Journal Article MEλIλΩOMTOΣ, MELILOTUS Get access W. Geoffrey Arnott W. Geoffrey Arnott University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 32, Issue 1, December 1985, Pages 79–82, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1985.tb00167.x Published: 12 March 2010
Pastiche, pleasantry, prudish eroticism
Più volte Amor m'avea già detto: ‘Scrivi, Scrivi quel che vedesti in lettre d'oro.’ With the substitution of some less precious metal for Petrarch's gold, these lines, which open his 93rd sonnet, would provide an appropriate motto for the curious collection of fifty fictitious letters contained in a single Greek manuscript copied in the south of Italy about a.d. 1200 and now preserved (cod. phil. graec. 310) in the Austrian National Library at Vi…
"The Mound of Brasilas in Theocritus' Seventh "Idyll
The Eagle Portent in the Agamemnon an Ornithological Footnote
Professor Martin West's paper, titled ‘The Parodos of the Agamemnon ’’, argues with characteristic learning and insight that Archilochus’’ fable of the fox and the eagle (frs. 174-81 West) was a major source for Aeschylus’’ description of the portent of the eagles and the pregnant hare in the parodos of the Agamemnon (108 ff.). The portent is vividly described by the chorus: two eagles, one black and one white behind feed upon a pregnant hare. Po…
Targets, Techniques, and Tradition in Plautus'stichus
Journal Article TARGETS, TECHNIQUES, AND TRADITION IN PLAUTUS'STICHUS Get access W. Geoffrey Arnott W. Geoffrey Arnott University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 19, Issue 1, December 1972, Pages 54–79, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1972.tb00306.x Published: 12 March 2010
Some Passages in Aristaenetus
Journal Article SOME PASSAGES IN ARISTAENETUS Get access W. Geoffrey Arnott W. Geoffrey Arnott University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 15, Issue 1, December 1968, Pages 119–124, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1968.tb00068.x Published: 12 March 2010
Some Textual Reassessments in the Teubner Menander
Sixty years have now passed since Lefebvre first published the Cairo papyrus of Menander ( Fragments d'un manuscrit de Menandre , Cairo, 1907), and Körte's still authoritative third Teubner edition ( Menandri quae supersunt, pars prior , Leipzig, 1938, reprinted in 1955 with addenda by Thierfelder) appeared almost exactly halfway between then and now. It laid the coping-stone on the labours of many scholars, of whom four rose head and shoulders a…
Observations On Menander's Dyskolos
Notes on Gavia and Mergvs in Latin Authors
There is a touch of foolhardiness in the attempts to establish a precise identification for the great majority of birds mentioned by the authors of classical antiquity. Only a small minority of the ancient references and descriptions contains features which are indisputably diagnostic, while a probably not much bigger minority of the Mediterranean avifauna possesses characteristics of appearance, behaviour, or voice that would have enabled an ord…
A Note on the Parallels between Menander's "Dyskolos" and Plautus' "Aulularia
THERE ALREADY EXIST several good surveys of the striking parallels between the Dyskolos and the Aulularia,1 and it is not my intention here either to repeat or even to challenge what previous scholars have said, and often said excellently, about those similarities, which embrace the scenic background, the choice and management of the prologue, the organisation of parts of the plot, the relationship, social and economic milieu, and even characteri…
The Confrontation of Sostratos and Gorgias
THERE HAS BEEN no agreement about the merits of the Dyskolos, and praise or (more generally) blame' has been awarded in direct proportion to the impression that the play's obvious weaknesses and its just as obvious charms have made on its assessors. The irrelevant ghost of Aristophanes, furthermore, haunts the background.2 Perhaps more reliable criteria might be afforded by a careful analysis of some of the important dramatic features in various …
Split Anapaests, with Special Reference to Some Passages of Alexis
The aim of this paper is the discussion, and in some cases also, it is hoped, the clarification, of several passages in the fragments of the comic poet Alexis, where either the traditional text has been attacked because there occurred in it an allegedly objectionable split anapaest, or alternatively an excellent emendation has been rejected because laws framed by modern scholars have wrongly been applied to the passage being emended
The Asotodidaskalos Attributed To Alexis
From these words of Athenaeus, the majority of scholars have come to the Dnclusion that the Asotodidaskalos was not, despite what Sotion says, composed by Alexis, but is a forgery; and some even go so far as to attribute the forgery to Sotion himself. Yet nowhere do they support their views with sufficient rguments; nowhere has the question, in the light of all the evidence, both sternal and internal, been fully considered. Meineke ( Fragmenta Co…
Targets, Techniques, and Tradition in Plautus'stichus
Journal Article TARGETS, TECHNIQUES, AND TRADITION IN PLAUTUS'STICHUS Get access W. Geoffrey Arnott W. Geoffrey Arnott University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 19, Issue 1, December 1972, Pages 54–79, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1972.tb00306.x Published: 12 March 2010
The Confrontation of Sostratos and Gorgias
THERE HAS BEEN no agreement about the merits of the Dyskolos, and praise or (more generally) blame' has been awarded in direct proportion to the impression that the play's obvious weaknesses and its just as obvious charms have made on its assessors. The irrelevant ghost of Aristophanes, furthermore, haunts the background.2 Perhaps more reliable criteria might be afforded by a careful analysis of some of the important dramatic features in various …
A Note on the Parallels between Menander's "Dyskolos" and Plautus' "Aulularia
THERE ALREADY EXIST several good surveys of the striking parallels between the Dyskolos and the Aulularia,1 and it is not my intention here either to repeat or even to challenge what previous scholars have said, and often said excellently, about those similarities, which embrace the scenic background, the choice and management of the prologue, the organisation of parts of the plot, the relationship, social and economic milieu, and even characteri…
MEλIλΩOmtoΣ, Melilotus
Journal Article MEλIλΩOMTOΣ, MELILOTUS Get access W. Geoffrey Arnott W. Geoffrey Arnott University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 32, Issue 1, December 1985, Pages 79–82, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1985.tb00167.x Published: 12 March 2010
Notes on Gavia and Mergvs in Latin Authors
There is a touch of foolhardiness in the attempts to establish a precise identification for the great majority of birds mentioned by the authors of classical antiquity. Only a small minority of the ancient references and descriptions contains features which are indisputably diagnostic, while a probably not much bigger minority of the Mediterranean avifauna possesses characteristics of appearance, behaviour, or voice that would have enabled an ord…
Split Anapaests, with Special Reference to Some Passages of Alexis
The aim of this paper is the discussion, and in some cases also, it is hoped, the clarification, of several passages in the fragments of the comic poet Alexis, where either the traditional text has been attacked because there occurred in it an allegedly objectionable split anapaest, or alternatively an excellent emendation has been rejected because laws framed by modern scholars have wrongly been applied to the passage being emended
The Asotodidaskalos Attributed To Alexis
From these words of Athenaeus, the majority of scholars have come to the Dnclusion that the Asotodidaskalos was not, despite what Sotion says, composed by Alexis, but is a forgery; and some even go so far as to attribute the forgery to Sotion himself. Yet nowhere do they support their views with sufficient rguments; nowhere has the question, in the light of all the evidence, both sternal and internal, been fully considered. Meineke ( Fragmenta Co…
Split Anapaests, with Special Reference to Some Passages of Alexis
The aim of this paper is the discussion, and in some cases also, it is hoped, the clarification, of several passages in the fragments of the comic poet Alexis, where either the traditional text has been attacked because there occurred in it an allegedly objectionable split anapaest, or alternatively an excellent emendation has been rejected because laws framed by modern scholars have wrongly been applied to the passage being emended
Notes on Gavia and Mergvs in Latin Authors
There is a touch of foolhardiness in the attempts to establish a precise identification for the great majority of birds mentioned by the authors of classical antiquity. Only a small minority of the ancient references and descriptions contains features which are indisputably diagnostic, while a probably not much bigger minority of the Mediterranean avifauna possesses characteristics of appearance, behaviour, or voice that would have enabled an ord…
A Note on the Parallels between Menander's "Dyskolos" and Plautus' "Aulularia
THERE ALREADY EXIST several good surveys of the striking parallels between the Dyskolos and the Aulularia,1 and it is not my intention here either to repeat or even to challenge what previous scholars have said, and often said excellently, about those similarities, which embrace the scenic background, the choice and management of the prologue, the organisation of parts of the plot, the relationship, social and economic milieu, and even characteri…
The Confrontation of Sostratos and Gorgias
THERE HAS BEEN no agreement about the merits of the Dyskolos, and praise or (more generally) blame' has been awarded in direct proportion to the impression that the play's obvious weaknesses and its just as obvious charms have made on its assessors. The irrelevant ghost of Aristophanes, furthermore, haunts the background.2 Perhaps more reliable criteria might be afforded by a careful analysis of some of the important dramatic features in various …
Observations On Menander's Dyskolos
Some Passages in Aristaenetus
Journal Article SOME PASSAGES IN ARISTAENETUS Get access W. Geoffrey Arnott W. Geoffrey Arnott University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 15, Issue 1, December 1968, Pages 119–124, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1968.tb00068.x Published: 12 March 2010
Some Textual Reassessments in the Teubner Menander
Sixty years have now passed since Lefebvre first published the Cairo papyrus of Menander ( Fragments d'un manuscrit de Menandre , Cairo, 1907), and Körte's still authoritative third Teubner edition ( Menandri quae supersunt, pars prior , Leipzig, 1938, reprinted in 1955 with addenda by Thierfelder) appeared almost exactly halfway between then and now. It laid the coping-stone on the labours of many scholars, of whom four rose head and shoulders a…
Targets, Techniques, and Tradition in Plautus'stichus
Journal Article TARGETS, TECHNIQUES, AND TRADITION IN PLAUTUS'STICHUS Get access W. Geoffrey Arnott W. Geoffrey Arnott University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 19, Issue 1, December 1972, Pages 54–79, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1972.tb00306.x Published: 12 March 2010
"The Mound of Brasilas in Theocritus' Seventh "Idyll
The Eagle Portent in the Agamemnon an Ornithological Footnote
Professor Martin West's paper, titled ‘The Parodos of the Agamemnon ’’, argues with characteristic learning and insight that Archilochus’’ fable of the fox and the eagle (frs. 174-81 West) was a major source for Aeschylus’’ description of the portent of the eagles and the pregnant hare in the parodos of the Agamemnon (108 ff.). The portent is vividly described by the chorus: two eagles, one black and one white behind feed upon a pregnant hare. Po…
Pastiche, pleasantry, prudish eroticism
Più volte Amor m'avea già detto: ‘Scrivi, Scrivi quel che vedesti in lettre d'oro.’ With the substitution of some less precious metal for Petrarch's gold, these lines, which open his 93rd sonnet, would provide an appropriate motto for the curious collection of fifty fictitious letters contained in a single Greek manuscript copied in the south of Italy about a.d. 1200 and now preserved (cod. phil. graec. 310) in the Austrian National Library at Vi…
MEλIλΩOmtoΣ, Melilotus
Journal Article MEλIλΩOMTOΣ, MELILOTUS Get access W. Geoffrey Arnott W. Geoffrey Arnott University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 32, Issue 1, December 1985, Pages 79–82, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1985.tb00167.x Published: 12 March 2010
A Study in Relationships
Thirty years ago, when I was a young assistant lecturer in the Uni versity of London, I was privileged to take part in one of the most excit ing projects that have ever been available to classicists *. The papyrus of Menander's Dyskolos had just been discovered, and Victor Martin was entrusted with the task of producing the first edition. Before publishing it, he was kind enough to send a diplomatic transcription of the papyrus to London, so that…
J. Michael Walton and Peter D. Arnott
This study is published as one of a series (‘Lives of the Theatre’) designed to provide scholarly introductions to major playwrights and others associated with the theatre, and Peter Arnott (no relation to the reviewer, incidentally1) was commissioned to write one on Menander. He had produced an outline plan, several pages of detailed notes and a first draft of 67 pages, roughly equivalent to the book’s two opening chapters, when he died in Novem…
Alexis
Introduction Part I. Alexis' Career Part II. Sources of the Fragments Commentary False or doubtful attributions Appendices
Some Orthographical Variants in the Papyri of Later Greek Comedy
Comic poets such as Menander may not have been consistent in their choices, and the papyri, which range in date from the 3rd century BC down to at least the 5th century AD, may at times reflect the spellings accepted at the time of the copying scribes rather than those of the original authors. In order to consider the need to cite apparently minor orthographical variants when editing and translating later Greek comedy this chapter looks at readin…
Middle Comedy
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