James Diggle
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5655421 |
|---|---|
| NOME | James Diggle |
| PRENOMES | James |
| SOBRENOME | Diggle |
| ASSINATURA | DIGGLE J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Queens College, CUNY |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-0628-2990 |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1966 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Murder in the Wicker Market
This article discusses a passage in the speech of Lycurgus against Leocrates, and argues that a phrase usually interpreted as ‘in the willows’ should be emended to a phrase meaning ‘in the wicker market’
Two Conjectures in Xenophon
Conjectures in the Cynegetica and the Cyropaideia of Xenophon
Aristophanes, Birds 786–8
A conjecture in Birds 786–8
Euripides, Hecuba 1045
An emendation in Euripides, Hecuba 1045
The Cambridge Greek Lexicon
The Cambridge Greek Lexicon is based upon principles differing from those of existing Greek lexica. Entries are organised according to meaning, with a view to showing the developing senses of words and the relationships between those senses. Other contextual and explanatory information, all expressed in contemporary English, is included, such as the typical circumstances in which a word may be used, thus giving fresh insights into aspects of Gree…
Notes on Seven Passages of Plutarch's Lives
This article discusses the text and interpretation of passages in Plutarch's Lives of Romulus, Agis and Cleomenes, Pericles, Brutus, Marcellus, Alexander and Marius
Two Conjectures in Apollonius Rhodius (1.723, 2.165)
Ucalegon (Verg. Aen. 2.311–12) and Other Burning Neighbours
Verg. Aen . 2.311–12 iam proximus ardet | Vcalegon . This striking phrase is twice echoed, as commentators observe. The burning neighbour Ucalegon reappears in Juv. 3.198–201 iam poscit aquam, iam friuola transfert | Vcalegon ... | ultimus ardebit quem ... . And the words proximus ardet reappear in Hor. Epist. 1.18.84 paries cum proximus ardet
Housman’s Greek
This chapter considers Housman's writings in Greek. Before his election to the Chair of Latin at University College, London, in 1892, Housman wrote as much on Greek as on Latin. In his candidature for the Latin Chair he offered himself, if he were unsuccessful, as a candidate for the Chair of Greek, which was also vacant. After 1892 he wrote little on Greek, and, when asked why, he replied ‘I found that I could not attain to excellence in both’. …
Tibullus 2.1.45–6 and ‘Amplificatory Pleonasm’
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Aelian, Varia Historia 5.5
This translation of καì αὐτɂυ ῥυπŵυτα ('and a dirty one at that’) gives the sense we need. But the words mean something different: ‘and it too was dirty (like Epaminondas)’. Cf. VH 12.1 πευομέυη δέ ༐καì τρεøομέυη ὑπɂ πατρì καì αὐτŵι πέυητι (‘she was poor and was looked after by her father who was poor too’). See LSJ αὐτóc 1.8, KG 1.653 (f)
Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta Selecta
The lost plays of the Greek tragic poets are preserved in fragmentary form only. This volume presents the texts of their most interesting and substantial parts with full apparatus criticus. For the larger part it consists of fragments of Euripides, including the extensive remains of such plays as Antiope, Erechtheus, Phaethon, and Hypsipyle. Also included are fragments from twelve plays of Aeschylus and thirteen of Sophocles -- there is a complet…
Oxford Classical Texts
Euripides
Notes on fragments of Euripides
This is Snell's text
Euripidea
James Diggle is one of the foremost Euripidean scholars of our time. His ground-breaking Studies on the Text of Euripides, culminating in his new edition of the complete plays in the Oxford Classical Texts series, have won him a world-wide reputation. This collection comprises forty-one papers and reviews (including five papers not previously published), designed as a companion to the new Oxford text. The published papers and reviews have been li…
The Textual Tradition of Euripides' Orestes
Conspectus Siglorum preliminaries the manuscripts the veteres the papyri testimonia colometry conjectures in the medieval tradition truth preserved in a minority
The Textual Tradition of Euripides’ Orestes
Orestes, produced in 408 BC towards the end of Euripides' life, was one of the most popular Greek tragedies in antiquity, and was consequently preserved in a large number of medieval manuscripts. Having investigated about sixty of the most important, James Diggle explains the complicated relationships which exist among them. He also examines afresh the contribution of the papyri and quotations which preserve parts of the play. In the course of th…
On the Orestes of Euripides
I cite manuscripts from my own collations. Information about most of these manuscripts, and explanation of the symbols by which I designate them, may be found in A. Turyn, The Byzantine Manuscript Tradition of the Tragedies of Euripides (Urbana, 1953), K. Matthiessen, Studien zur Textüberlieferung der Euripideischen Hekabe (Heidelberg, 1974), and D. J. Mastronarde and J. M. Bremer, The Textual Tradition of Euripides' Phoinissai (Berkeley, 1982). …
On the Manuscripts and Text of Euripides, Medea
νδνουςα μν Φυγι πολιτν ὧν Φκετο κθόνα, αὐτ τε πάνταξυμΦέρους' 'Iάςονι. 12 πολιτν Π 1 codd. et Σ bv : πολίταις V 3 , sicut coni. Barnes κθονος Π 1 gE; δ Stob. 4. 22. 30 The two Sophoclean passages by which Page supports his plea that 'πολιτν stands for πολίταις..., being attracted by the following ὧν into the genitive case’ do not inspire much confidence, since both (as he acknowledges) are capable of being explained differently. Further, as a rec…
Five Late Manuscripts of Euripides, Hippolytus
Barrett has given a brief account of the affiliations of Hn with the manuscripts which he has collated. He derives his information about the readings of Hn from the reports of nineteenth-century editors, and he does not report this manuscript in his apparatus criticus. He concludes that ‘In three instances (72, 641, 817) Haun. has the truth, or an approximation to it, where the rest of our tradition is at fault (though in two of them there are tr…
On the Manuscripts and Text of Euripides, Medea
Murray's edition of Medea (1902) made use of five manuscripts: BAVLP. Page (1938) added a sixth, the Jerusalem palimpsest, H. But Medea is preserved in six more manuscripts (I do not count apographs), which Murray and Page cite rarely or never. I investigate here the value and affiliations of these six and of a fragmentary seventh (F), which they do cite. The seven manuscripts are: O (Florence, Bibl. Laurenziana, 31. 10), late twelfth century 2 C…
Studies on the text of Euripides
A discussion of the text or interpretation of passages from six plays by Euripides edited by the author for Oxford Classical Texts: Supplices, Electra, Heracles, Troades, Iphigenia in Tauris, Ion. In addition, if James Diggle has already discussed a passage from these plays in a published article, he has incorporated a reference to that discussion at the appropriate place, often adding new material. But the book is designed not only as a contribu…
Notes on Ovid's Tristia , Books I–II
When I refer to ‘modern editors’ I mean the following: (i) S. G. Owen, who edited the Tristia thrice ( Tristium libri v , Oxford, 1889; in Postgate's Corpus poetarum Latinorum , 1894; Oxford Classical Text, 1915) and produced a small commentary on the first book (Oxford, 1885) and a large one on the second (Oxford, 1924); (ii) C. Landi (Corpus Paravianum, 1917); (iii) R. Ehwald-Fr. W. Levy (Teubner, 1922); (iv) A. L. Wheeler (Loeb edn., 1924); (v…
Euripides, Heraclidae 147–50
The Argive herald is dissuading the king from championing the cause of his petitioners. ‘It is either because they have detected some stupidity that they have come here to you, or because, being in a hopeless position, they are just chancing their arm to see whether or not . For I doubt if they expect that, in your right senses, you would, etc’ For the alleged impersonal use of (‘employed in a sense similar to that of our colloquial to come off, …
Notes on the Heraclidae of Euripides
I start at the end. Iolaus appeals to Demophon (229–31): ‘become their kinsman, friend, father, brother, master: all this is better than falling into the hands of the Argives.’ One should hope so. When Pearson comments ‘ : i.e. submission to Demophon is better than subjection by the Argives. The remark is prompted by , the climax of the preceding appeal’, he is unconsciously repeating what had been said by Herwerden, R.Ph. N.S. xvii (1893), 236: …
Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta Selecta
The lost plays of the Greek tragic poets are preserved in fragmentary form only. This volume presents the texts of their most interesting and substantial parts with full apparatus criticus. For the larger part it consists of fragments of Euripides, including the extensive remains of such plays as Antiope, Erechtheus, Phaethon, and Hypsipyle. Also included are fragments from twelve plays of Aeschylus and thirteen of Sophocles -- there is a complet…
On the Manuscripts and Text of Euripides, Medea
νδνουςα μν Φυγι πολιτν ὧν Φκετο κθόνα, αὐτ τε πάνταξυμΦέρους' 'Iάςονι. 12 πολιτν Π 1 codd. et Σ bv : πολίταις V 3 , sicut coni. Barnes κθονος Π 1 gE; δ Stob. 4. 22. 30 The two Sophoclean passages by which Page supports his plea that 'πολιτν stands for πολίταις..., being attracted by the following ὧν into the genitive case’ do not inspire much confidence, since both (as he acknowledges) are capable of being explained differently. Further, as a rec…
On the Manuscripts and Text of Euripides, Medea
Murray's edition of Medea (1902) made use of five manuscripts: BAVLP. Page (1938) added a sixth, the Jerusalem palimpsest, H. But Medea is preserved in six more manuscripts (I do not count apographs), which Murray and Page cite rarely or never. I investigate here the value and affiliations of these six and of a fragmentary seventh (F), which they do cite. The seven manuscripts are: O (Florence, Bibl. Laurenziana, 31. 10), late twelfth century 2 C…
Notes on Ovid's Tristia , Books I–II
When I refer to ‘modern editors’ I mean the following: (i) S. G. Owen, who edited the Tristia thrice ( Tristium libri v , Oxford, 1889; in Postgate's Corpus poetarum Latinorum , 1894; Oxford Classical Text, 1915) and produced a small commentary on the first book (Oxford, 1885) and a large one on the second (Oxford, 1924); (ii) C. Landi (Corpus Paravianum, 1917); (iii) R. Ehwald-Fr. W. Levy (Teubner, 1922); (iv) A. L. Wheeler (Loeb edn., 1924); (v…
On the ‘Heracles’ and ‘Ion’ of Euripides
(i) Heracles 64 ὃς l , ὡς L οὓνεκ ̓ ὄλβου Canter, οὐκ ἐν ὄλβω L Megara's father was boasted a great man because of his ὄλβος, possessing as he did a tyranny ‘about which long spears are launched, through desire of it, at the bodies of the fortunate’ (Paley's translation). The sentiment and the language are alike absurd. We can scarcely disagree with the verdict of Wilamowitz: ‘Sinnlose Worte, deren Heilung unmöglich scheint, da sowohl die “Lanzen…
Notes on the text of Sophocles' Philoctetes
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Notes on the Text of Ovid, Heroides
This couplet has escaped critical attention, even though it contains two anomalies. First the combination ut iam has lost its normal meaning ‘even granted that’ (e.g. Ars 1. 346 ut iam fallaris tuta repulsa tua est ) and must be split into its two elements and iam translated as though it were tandem . Second, the reflexive adjective is used in a dependent clause to refer to the subject of the main-clause verb: though there is no reason why Ovid s…
Notes on The Iohannis of Corippus
It has been the fate of Corippus' Iohannis to survive in one manuscript, the fourteenth-century Trivultianus, and to find one competent editor. The first edition of the Iohannis was published in 1820 by P. Mazzucchelli. It contained a few notes, in content mainly geographical and ethnographical and useless for the interpretation of the text; it remains the only commentary in existence
More Notes on Corippus
MORE NOTES ON CORIPPUS Get access F. R. D. Goodyear, F. R. D. Goodyear Bedford College, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James Diggle James Diggle Queens' College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 16, Issue 1, December 1969, Pages 16–28, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1969.tb00656.x Published…
The Transmission of Euripides - André Tuilier
The Transmission of Euripides - André Tuilier: Recherches critiques sur la tradition du texte d'Euripide. (Études et Commentaires, lxviii.) Pp. 303. Paris: Klincksieck, 1968. Paper, 84fr. - Volume 21 Issue 1
Notes on the Cyclops of Euripides
The plural is inapposite, since ωμος applied to a band of revellers is a collective noun and, however many times the band accompanied Dionysus, it is still the same ωμος and not a plurality of ωμοι. Dobree's and Bothe's κώμοις must face the same objection, unless it is understood as ‘songs’ (as at 492–3 ), in which case it becomes a feeble anticipation of οιδᾶις in 40. Florens Christianus' κμοί is negligible. Porson suggested κώμωι but left it un…
Notes on the Heraclidae of Euripides
I start at the end. Iolaus appeals to Demophon (229–31): ‘become their kinsman, friend, father, brother, master: all this is better than falling into the hands of the Argives.’ One should hope so. When Pearson comments ‘ : i.e. submission to Demophon is better than subjection by the Argives. The remark is prompted by , the climax of the preceding appeal’, he is unconsciously repeating what had been said by Herwerden, R.Ph. N.S. xvii (1893), 236: …
On the ‘Heracles’ and ‘Ion’ of Euripides
(i) Heracles 64 ὃς l , ὡς L οὓνεκ ̓ ὄλβου Canter, οὐκ ἐν ὄλβω L Megara's father was boasted a great man because of his ὄλβος, possessing as he did a tyranny ‘about which long spears are launched, through desire of it, at the bodies of the fortunate’ (Paley's translation). The sentiment and the language are alike absurd. We can scarcely disagree with the verdict of Wilamowitz: ‘Sinnlose Worte, deren Heilung unmöglich scheint, da sowohl die “Lanzen…
Euripides, Heraclidae 147–50
The Argive herald is dissuading the king from championing the cause of his petitioners. ‘It is either because they have detected some stupidity that they have come here to you, or because, being in a hopeless position, they are just chancing their arm to see whether or not . For I doubt if they expect that, in your right senses, you would, etc’ For the alleged impersonal use of (‘employed in a sense similar to that of our colloquial to come off, …
Notes on Ovid's Tristia , Books I–II
When I refer to ‘modern editors’ I mean the following: (i) S. G. Owen, who edited the Tristia thrice ( Tristium libri v , Oxford, 1889; in Postgate's Corpus poetarum Latinorum , 1894; Oxford Classical Text, 1915) and produced a small commentary on the first book (Oxford, 1885) and a large one on the second (Oxford, 1924); (ii) C. Landi (Corpus Paravianum, 1917); (iii) R. Ehwald-Fr. W. Levy (Teubner, 1922); (iv) A. L. Wheeler (Loeb edn., 1924); (v…
Studies on the text of Euripides
A discussion of the text or interpretation of passages from six plays by Euripides edited by the author for Oxford Classical Texts: Supplices, Electra, Heracles, Troades, Iphigenia in Tauris, Ion. In addition, if James Diggle has already discussed a passage from these plays in a published article, he has incorporated a reference to that discussion at the appropriate place, often adding new material. But the book is designed not only as a contribu…
Five Late Manuscripts of Euripides, Hippolytus
Barrett has given a brief account of the affiliations of Hn with the manuscripts which he has collated. He derives his information about the readings of Hn from the reports of nineteenth-century editors, and he does not report this manuscript in his apparatus criticus. He concludes that ‘In three instances (72, 641, 817) Haun. has the truth, or an approximation to it, where the rest of our tradition is at fault (though in two of them there are tr…
On the Manuscripts and Text of Euripides, Medea
Murray's edition of Medea (1902) made use of five manuscripts: BAVLP. Page (1938) added a sixth, the Jerusalem palimpsest, H. But Medea is preserved in six more manuscripts (I do not count apographs), which Murray and Page cite rarely or never. I investigate here the value and affiliations of these six and of a fragmentary seventh (F), which they do cite. The seven manuscripts are: O (Florence, Bibl. Laurenziana, 31. 10), late twelfth century 2 C…
On the Manuscripts and Text of Euripides, Medea
νδνουςα μν Φυγι πολιτν ὧν Φκετο κθόνα, αὐτ τε πάνταξυμΦέρους' 'Iάςονι. 12 πολιτν Π 1 codd. et Σ bv : πολίταις V 3 , sicut coni. Barnes κθονος Π 1 gE; δ Stob. 4. 22. 30 The two Sophoclean passages by which Page supports his plea that 'πολιτν stands for πολίταις..., being attracted by the following ὧν into the genitive case’ do not inspire much confidence, since both (as he acknowledges) are capable of being explained differently. Further, as a rec…
The Textual Tradition of Euripides’ Orestes
Orestes, produced in 408 BC towards the end of Euripides' life, was one of the most popular Greek tragedies in antiquity, and was consequently preserved in a large number of medieval manuscripts. Having investigated about sixty of the most important, James Diggle explains the complicated relationships which exist among them. He also examines afresh the contribution of the papyri and quotations which preserve parts of the play. In the course of th…
On the Orestes of Euripides
I cite manuscripts from my own collations. Information about most of these manuscripts, and explanation of the symbols by which I designate them, may be found in A. Turyn, The Byzantine Manuscript Tradition of the Tragedies of Euripides (Urbana, 1953), K. Matthiessen, Studien zur Textüberlieferung der Euripideischen Hekabe (Heidelberg, 1974), and D. J. Mastronarde and J. M. Bremer, The Textual Tradition of Euripides' Phoinissai (Berkeley, 1982). …
The Textual Tradition of Euripides' Orestes
Conspectus Siglorum preliminaries the manuscripts the veteres the papyri testimonia colometry conjectures in the medieval tradition truth preserved in a minority
Euripidea
James Diggle is one of the foremost Euripidean scholars of our time. His ground-breaking Studies on the Text of Euripides, culminating in his new edition of the complete plays in the Oxford Classical Texts series, have won him a world-wide reputation. This collection comprises forty-one papers and reviews (including five papers not previously published), designed as a companion to the new Oxford text. The published papers and reviews have been li…
Notes on fragments of Euripides
This is Snell's text
Oxford Classical Texts
Euripides
Aelian, Varia Historia 5.5
This translation of καì αὐτɂυ ῥυπŵυτα ('and a dirty one at that’) gives the sense we need. But the words mean something different: ‘and it too was dirty (like Epaminondas)’. Cf. VH 12.1 πευομέυη δέ ༐καì τρεøομέυη ὑπɂ πατρì καì αὐτŵι πέυητι (‘she was poor and was looked after by her father who was poor too’). See LSJ αὐτóc 1.8, KG 1.653 (f)
Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta Selecta
The lost plays of the Greek tragic poets are preserved in fragmentary form only. This volume presents the texts of their most interesting and substantial parts with full apparatus criticus. For the larger part it consists of fragments of Euripides, including the extensive remains of such plays as Antiope, Erechtheus, Phaethon, and Hypsipyle. Also included are fragments from twelve plays of Aeschylus and thirteen of Sophocles -- there is a complet…
Tibullus 2.1.45–6 and ‘Amplificatory Pleonasm’
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Housman’s Greek
This chapter considers Housman's writings in Greek. Before his election to the Chair of Latin at University College, London, in 1892, Housman wrote as much on Greek as on Latin. In his candidature for the Latin Chair he offered himself, if he were unsuccessful, as a candidate for the Chair of Greek, which was also vacant. After 1892 he wrote little on Greek, and, when asked why, he replied ‘I found that I could not attain to excellence in both’. …
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