Autopsy and Didactic Authority
Rethinking the Prologue of the Periodos to Nicomedes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9664005 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel R Hanigan (Corpus Christi College, corresponding author), Grant R Kynaston, Grant Kynaston (0000-0002-7132-1288, Westinghouse Electric (United States), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 558-572 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Classical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8388 • E-ISSN: 1471-6844 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0009838822000684 |
| OpenAlex | W4324091181 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
All modern critics have read verses 128–36 of Pseudo-Scymnus’ iambic Periodos to Nicomedes ( c. 133–110/109 b.c.e. ) as a description of the personal autopsies of the author. However, close analysis of both the literary dynamics of the poem and the syntax of the lacunose text that precedes this passage shows that this cannot be the case. This article proposes that Timaeus of Tauromenium ( c. 350–260 b.c.e. ) is a superior candidate for the referent of these lines, and offers a coherent approach to emending the manifestly corrupt text. This reinterpretation makes better sense of the extant text of the Periodos , and allows these verses to be read as a second-century witness to Timaeus’ autoptic prowess
Aesthetics · Art · Extant taxon · Linguistics · Literature · Prologue · Referent · Reinterpretation · Syntax · Witness · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods · Philosophy
Backgrounds to Augustan poetry
Greek
Politics and Belief in Timaeus of Tauromenium
Polybius on ‘Seeing’ and ‘Hearing’
The prologue of the Periodos to Nicomedes (‘Pseudo-Scymnus’)
Geographi Graeci minores
Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic Historiography
The Greek Historians of the West
Not Enduring the Wanderings of Odysseus”
The Nature of History in Ancient Greece and Rome
Ueber die Entwicklung der griechischen Historiographie und den Plan einer neuen Sammlung der griechischen Historikerfragmente
The Authors Named Pausanias
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |