ALEXANDER DALE
Biographic Data
| ID | 5716878 |
|---|---|
| NAME | ALEXANDER DALE |
| GIVEN NAMES | ALEXANDER |
| FAMILY NAME | DALE |
| SIGNATURE | DALE A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hipponax the Poet
'Hipponax the poet' is an elusive figure. Stories about him abounded already in antiquity, at least in part extrapolated from the stories about himself that abounded in his poems. But what distinguishes him from other Greek lyric poets is the manner in which his corpus suggests a strategy of mischievousness around self-presentation: a deliberate confounding of expectations, the projecting of a pointedly strange and untrustworthy authorial persona…
Gyges and Delphi
Herodotus’ Histories begin in earnest with Lydia and the infamous tale of the fall of Candaules and the rise of the Mermnad dynasty under Gyges. Yet, for all that Gyges was evidently a transformational figure in Lydian history and, through the story of his usurpation of the throne from Candaules, came to occupy a prominent place in the received memory of the Lydian world, Herodotus tells us very little about Gyges himself or his reign. Chapters 1…
Two New Fragments of Anaxandrides in Hesychius
We can first note the obvious, that both glosses are sexual in nature: τὸ βιάζεσθαι γυναῖκας, ‘to rape women’; in τὸ παιδὶ συνεῖναι we obviously have the euphemistic use of συνεῖναι, ‘to have sex with a child’. Hesychius’ entries have the appearance of straightforward dialect glosses, yet Ambraciot never elicited much attention in ancient dialectology and glossography. Furthermore, as ancient glossography consisted mainly in culling unusual vocab…
A Feast Fit for a Eunuch
This paper reexamines Hipponax frs. 26 and 26a West, arguing that the lines describe the fortunes of a cunnilinctor, a reading which I contextualize within the sexual vocabulary of Iambus, Old Comedy, and Latin epigram. I then argue that Martial 3.77 might have been directly modeled on the Hipponax poem as herein reconstructed
Posidippus on the Infamy of Doricha
Δωρίχα, ὀστέα μὲν σὰ πάλαι †κοιμήσατο δεσμῶν χαίτης† ἥ τε μύρων ἔκπνοος ἀμπεχόνη, ᾗ ποτε τὸν χαρίεντα περιστέλλουσα Χάραξον σύγχρους ὀρθρινῶν ἥψαο κισσυβίων· Σαπφῷαι δὲ μένουσι φίλης ἔτι καὶ μενέουσιν 5 ᾠδῆς αἱ λευκαὶ φθεγγόμεναι σελίδες. οὔνομα σὸν μακαριστόν, ὃ Ναύκρατις ὧδε φυλάξει ἔστ’ ἂν ἴῃ Νείλου ναῦς ἐφ’ ἁλὸς πελάγη
Galliambics by Callimachus
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Gyges and Delphi
Herodotus’ Histories begin in earnest with Lydia and the infamous tale of the fall of Candaules and the rise of the Mermnad dynasty under Gyges. Yet, for all that Gyges was evidently a transformational figure in Lydian history and, through the story of his usurpation of the throne from Candaules, came to occupy a prominent place in the received memory of the Lydian world, Herodotus tells us very little about Gyges himself or his reign. Chapters 1…
Galliambics by Callimachus
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Galliambics by Callimachus
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Posidippus on the Infamy of Doricha
Δωρίχα, ὀστέα μὲν σὰ πάλαι †κοιμήσατο δεσμῶν χαίτης† ἥ τε μύρων ἔκπνοος ἀμπεχόνη, ᾗ ποτε τὸν χαρίεντα περιστέλλουσα Χάραξον σύγχρους ὀρθρινῶν ἥψαο κισσυβίων· Σαπφῷαι δὲ μένουσι φίλης ἔτι καὶ μενέουσιν 5 ᾠδῆς αἱ λευκαὶ φθεγγόμεναι σελίδες. οὔνομα σὸν μακαριστόν, ὃ Ναύκρατις ὧδε φυλάξει ἔστ’ ἂν ἴῃ Νείλου ναῦς ἐφ’ ἁλὸς πελάγη
A Feast Fit for a Eunuch
This paper reexamines Hipponax frs. 26 and 26a West, arguing that the lines describe the fortunes of a cunnilinctor, a reading which I contextualize within the sexual vocabulary of Iambus, Old Comedy, and Latin epigram. I then argue that Martial 3.77 might have been directly modeled on the Hipponax poem as herein reconstructed
Two New Fragments of Anaxandrides in Hesychius
We can first note the obvious, that both glosses are sexual in nature: τὸ βιάζεσθαι γυναῖκας, ‘to rape women’; in τὸ παιδὶ συνεῖναι we obviously have the euphemistic use of συνεῖναι, ‘to have sex with a child’. Hesychius’ entries have the appearance of straightforward dialect glosses, yet Ambraciot never elicited much attention in ancient dialectology and glossography. Furthermore, as ancient glossography consisted mainly in culling unusual vocab…
Gyges and Delphi
Herodotus’ Histories begin in earnest with Lydia and the infamous tale of the fall of Candaules and the rise of the Mermnad dynasty under Gyges. Yet, for all that Gyges was evidently a transformational figure in Lydian history and, through the story of his usurpation of the throne from Candaules, came to occupy a prominent place in the received memory of the Lydian world, Herodotus tells us very little about Gyges himself or his reign. Chapters 1…
Hipponax the Poet
'Hipponax the poet' is an elusive figure. Stories about him abounded already in antiquity, at least in part extrapolated from the stories about himself that abounded in his poems. But what distinguishes him from other Greek lyric poets is the manner in which his corpus suggests a strategy of mischievousness around self-presentation: a deliberate confounding of expectations, the projecting of a pointedly strange and untrustworthy authorial persona…
Classical Antiquity Studies (6 works) · Art (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (2 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)