Alessandro Vatri
Biographic Data
| ID | 5635592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alessandro Vatri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alessandro |
| FAMILY NAME | Vatri |
| SIGNATURE | VATRI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3190-5593 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Name your enemy
The speech Against Eratosthenes was composed for a private case in which Lysias sought retribution for the killing of his brother Polemarchus at the hands of the Thirty. Eratosthenes, Lysias’ target, belonged to the moderate faction of the regime at the time of the events, but was one of the two surviving members who had remained in Athens, where he was not particularly unpopular. Lysias thus needed to portray the Thirty as a close-knit, corporat…
The Name of the Organon
This article discusses the question whether the use of ὄργανον as a title to designate Aristotle’s logical treatises as a unitary bibliographical entity can be traced back to the ancient commentators or emerged as late as in the Renaissance. A review of the ancient and medieval evidence locates the earliest certain traces of this use in the eleventh or twelfth century
Beyond the sophisms
This study is an exploration of the beginnings of characterization in one of the earliest extant examples of Greek forensic oratory. In particular, it examines how an image of the behaviour of the young protagonists of the imaginary homicide case debated in Antiphon’s Second Tetralogy is constructed through the arguments brought forward by the speakers (their fathers), in the absence of a fully fledged narrative and overt attempts at character po…
Pinpointing Linguistic Emphasis in Classical Greek
Emphasis is a ubiquitous notion in classical scholarship, but its vagueness has repeatedly been criticized (and its usefulness, consequently, questioned) by Greek linguists. This brief study seeks to identify (and secure) a place for this notion in the analytical toolbox for the description of Classical Greek by applying the strict but nuanced definition of emphasis in Functional Discourse Grammar (Hengeveld and Mackenzie 2008) to the identificat…
How Style Met the City
The modern concept of style is a complex one and is difficult to map fully onto a corresponding notion in ancient Greek thinking and vocabulary. This paper sets out to examine both the common understandings of this term in contemporary scholarship and the ancient sensitivities to what we may call stylistic phenomena – the multi-levelled features that may be conceptualized as characterizing the ‘how’ as opposed to the ‘what’. The paper moves on to…
Κακὸν κακῶς σε in Demosthenes, De corona 267
The words κακὸν κακῶς σε at D. 18.267 are printed in quotation marks in many modern editions of the speech. This sequence scans as the beginning of an iambic trimeter and is connected by καί with two quotations from tragedy. This article questions the idea that the sequence should be interpreted as the start of an interrupted quotation by showing that (1) these words are part of a standard, vernacular Greek curse formula, (2) initial καί may be i…
The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature
This volume, comprising 24 essays, aims to contribute to a developing appreciation of the capacity of rhetoric to reinforce affiliation or disaffiliation to groups. To this end, the essays span a variety of ancient literary genres (i.e. oratory, historical and technical prose, drama and poetry) and themes (i.e. audience-speaker, laughter, emotions, language, gender, identity, and religion)
David Goldstein
The Nature and Perception of Attic Prose Rhythm
This article investigates the ancient theoretical discussions and critical analyses of rhythm in Attic prose in order to reconstruct its native perception as a psychoacoustic and cognitive phenomenon. In particular, the article examines the inventories of rhythmic feet identified by the ancient Greek rhetoricians and concludes that the earliest reconstructible one is most likely to include the minimal durational patterns perceivable as rhythmical…
Lemmatization for Ancient Greek
This article presents the result of accuracy tests for currently available Ancient Greek lemmatizers and recently published lemmatized corpora. We ran a blinded experiment in which three highly proficient readers of Ancient Greek evaluated the output of the CLTK lemmatizer, of the CLTK backoff lemmatizer, and of GLEM , together with the lemmatizations offered by the Diorisis corpus and the Lemmatized Ancient Greek Texts repository. The texts chos…
Poetry in the Attic Lawcourt
Early Dactylic Prose in the History of Greek Prose Rhythm
6th- and 5th-century Ionic prose fragments contain a remarkable number of sequences that modern scholars have identified as snippets of dactylic rhythm. Such rhythms are more likely to have been deliberate in texts that were primarily meant for oral recitation, and stylistic and metrical considerations suggest that at least some patterns must not have been accidental. At the same time, it is striking that virtually no ancient discussion of Greek …
Implicit, Explicit, and ‘Paraphrased’ Irony in Attic Oratory
Orality and Performance in Classical Attic Prose
This study discusses the question of whether there is a linguistic difference between classical Attic prose texts intended for public oral delivery and those intended for written circulation and private performance. Identifying such a difference which exclusively reflects these disparities in modes of reception has proven to be a difficult challenge for both literary scholars and cultural historians of the ancient world, with answers not always s…
Between Song and Prose
This study examines the uses of the term harmonia in Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics and aims at identifying a consistent meaning of this word when applied to the literary arts. A difficulty arises from the fact that harmonia commonly denotes the melodic component of music and speech, but is mentioned in connection with the hexametric rhythm in two parallel passages from the Poetics and the Rhetoric, the latter of which is textually problematic.…
Ancient Greek Writing for Memory
Throughout antiquity memory played a central role in the production, publication, and transmission of texts. Greek mnemotechnics started developing as early as the 6th century bc and by the 2nd century bc memory established itself as a formal division of rhetoric. Techniques of memorization are described at length in ancient rhetorical or scientific works (such as Aristotle’s De memoria ), or alluded to in literary works. The theory of mnemotechn…
The Physiology of Ancient Greek Reading
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Orality and Performance in Classical Attic Prose
This study discusses the question of whether there is a linguistic difference between classical Attic prose texts intended for public oral delivery and those intended for written circulation and private performance. Identifying such a difference which exclusively reflects these disparities in modes of reception has proven to be a difficult challenge for both literary scholars and cultural historians of the ancient world, with answers not always s…
Ancient Greek Writing for Memory
Throughout antiquity memory played a central role in the production, publication, and transmission of texts. Greek mnemotechnics started developing as early as the 6th century bc and by the 2nd century bc memory established itself as a formal division of rhetoric. Techniques of memorization are described at length in ancient rhetorical or scientific works (such as Aristotle’s De memoria ), or alluded to in literary works. The theory of mnemotechn…
The Physiology of Ancient Greek Reading
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
Ancient Greek Writing for Memory
Throughout antiquity memory played a central role in the production, publication, and transmission of texts. Greek mnemotechnics started developing as early as the 6th century bc and by the 2nd century bc memory established itself as a formal division of rhetoric. Techniques of memorization are described at length in ancient rhetorical or scientific works (such as Aristotle’s De memoria ), or alluded to in literary works. The theory of mnemotechn…
Between Song and Prose
This study examines the uses of the term harmonia in Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics and aims at identifying a consistent meaning of this word when applied to the literary arts. A difficulty arises from the fact that harmonia commonly denotes the melodic component of music and speech, but is mentioned in connection with the hexametric rhythm in two parallel passages from the Poetics and the Rhetoric, the latter of which is textually problematic.…
Orality and Performance in Classical Attic Prose
This study discusses the question of whether there is a linguistic difference between classical Attic prose texts intended for public oral delivery and those intended for written circulation and private performance. Identifying such a difference which exclusively reflects these disparities in modes of reception has proven to be a difficult challenge for both literary scholars and cultural historians of the ancient world, with answers not always s…
Implicit, Explicit, and ‘Paraphrased’ Irony in Attic Oratory
Poetry in the Attic Lawcourt
Early Dactylic Prose in the History of Greek Prose Rhythm
6th- and 5th-century Ionic prose fragments contain a remarkable number of sequences that modern scholars have identified as snippets of dactylic rhythm. Such rhythms are more likely to have been deliberate in texts that were primarily meant for oral recitation, and stylistic and metrical considerations suggest that at least some patterns must not have been accidental. At the same time, it is striking that virtually no ancient discussion of Greek …
David Goldstein
The Nature and Perception of Attic Prose Rhythm
This article investigates the ancient theoretical discussions and critical analyses of rhythm in Attic prose in order to reconstruct its native perception as a psychoacoustic and cognitive phenomenon. In particular, the article examines the inventories of rhythmic feet identified by the ancient Greek rhetoricians and concludes that the earliest reconstructible one is most likely to include the minimal durational patterns perceivable as rhythmical…
Lemmatization for Ancient Greek
This article presents the result of accuracy tests for currently available Ancient Greek lemmatizers and recently published lemmatized corpora. We ran a blinded experiment in which three highly proficient readers of Ancient Greek evaluated the output of the CLTK lemmatizer, of the CLTK backoff lemmatizer, and of GLEM , together with the lemmatizations offered by the Diorisis corpus and the Lemmatized Ancient Greek Texts repository. The texts chos…
The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature
This volume, comprising 24 essays, aims to contribute to a developing appreciation of the capacity of rhetoric to reinforce affiliation or disaffiliation to groups. To this end, the essays span a variety of ancient literary genres (i.e. oratory, historical and technical prose, drama and poetry) and themes (i.e. audience-speaker, laughter, emotions, language, gender, identity, and religion)
How Style Met the City
The modern concept of style is a complex one and is difficult to map fully onto a corresponding notion in ancient Greek thinking and vocabulary. This paper sets out to examine both the common understandings of this term in contemporary scholarship and the ancient sensitivities to what we may call stylistic phenomena – the multi-levelled features that may be conceptualized as characterizing the ‘how’ as opposed to the ‘what’. The paper moves on to…
Κακὸν κακῶς σε in Demosthenes, De corona 267
The words κακὸν κακῶς σε at D. 18.267 are printed in quotation marks in many modern editions of the speech. This sequence scans as the beginning of an iambic trimeter and is connected by καί with two quotations from tragedy. This article questions the idea that the sequence should be interpreted as the start of an interrupted quotation by showing that (1) these words are part of a standard, vernacular Greek curse formula, (2) initial καί may be i…
Pinpointing Linguistic Emphasis in Classical Greek
Emphasis is a ubiquitous notion in classical scholarship, but its vagueness has repeatedly been criticized (and its usefulness, consequently, questioned) by Greek linguists. This brief study seeks to identify (and secure) a place for this notion in the analytical toolbox for the description of Classical Greek by applying the strict but nuanced definition of emphasis in Functional Discourse Grammar (Hengeveld and Mackenzie 2008) to the identificat…
Beyond the sophisms
This study is an exploration of the beginnings of characterization in one of the earliest extant examples of Greek forensic oratory. In particular, it examines how an image of the behaviour of the young protagonists of the imaginary homicide case debated in Antiphon’s Second Tetralogy is constructed through the arguments brought forward by the speakers (their fathers), in the absence of a fully fledged narrative and overt attempts at character po…
Name your enemy
The speech Against Eratosthenes was composed for a private case in which Lysias sought retribution for the killing of his brother Polemarchus at the hands of the Thirty. Eratosthenes, Lysias’ target, belonged to the moderate faction of the regime at the time of the events, but was one of the two surviving members who had remained in Athens, where he was not particularly unpopular. Lysias thus needed to portray the Thirty as a close-knit, corporat…
The Name of the Organon
This article discusses the question whether the use of ὄργανον as a title to designate Aristotle’s logical treatises as a unitary bibliographical entity can be traced back to the ancient commentators or emerged as late as in the Renaissance. A review of the ancient and medieval evidence locates the earliest certain traces of this use in the eleventh or twelfth century
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