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Artemon Transvestitus ? a Query

Artemon Transvestitus ? a Query ARTEMON TRANSVESTITUS ? A QUERY BY MALCOLM DAVIES . In a recent article in Phoenix 32 (1978), 185 ff. entitled 'Artemon and Anacreon: No Text without Context' Professor W. J. Slater has advanced a most remarkable thesis. The famous fragment of Anacreon (388 P) which Bowra, Beazley, and indeed most critics have assumed to be a hostile piece of satire directed against a personal enemy, is instead revealed as a piece of good-humoured abuse on the part of Artemon's "friend and perhaps admirer Anacreon" (193). Whenever an interpretation of an ancient (or, I suppose, any) work of literature reaches a conclusion which is so diametrically the opposite of all previous views, the sensible man will prick up his ears. There are clearly important methodological issues at stake. If the new approach is right, we must make a rigorous note of what collective aberration led to the old orthodoxy, exterminate it, and do our best to prevent its resuscitation. If, however, the new approach is wrong, then it must suffer the same fate, carried out with perhaps a greater sense of urgency and address to prevent any lasting disorientation (one thinks of the sinister repercussions of Verrall's perverse misreadings of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

Artemon Transvestitus ? a Query

Davies, Malcolm
Mnemosyne , Volume 34 (3-4): 12 – Jan 1, 1981
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ARTEMON TRANSVESTITUS ? A QUERY BY MALCOLM DAVIES . In a recent article in Phoenix 32 (1978), 185 ff. entitled 'Artemon and Anacreon: No Text without Context' Professor W. J. Slater has advanced a most remarkable thesis. The famous fragment of Anacreon (388 P) which Bowra, Beazley, and indeed most critics have assumed to be a hostile piece of satire directed against a personal enemy, is instead revealed as a piece of good-humoured abuse on the part of Artemon's "friend and perhaps admirer Anacreon" (193). Whenever an interpretation of an ancient (or, I suppose, any) work of literature reaches a conclusion which is so diametrically the opposite of all previous views, the sensible man will prick up his ears. There are clearly important methodological issues at stake. If the new approach is right, we must make a rigorous note of what collective aberration led to the old orthodoxy, exterminate it, and do our best to prevent its resuscitation. If, however, the new approach is wrong, then it must suffer the same fate, carried out with perhaps a greater sense of urgency and address to prevent any lasting disorientation (one thinks of the sinister repercussions of Verrall's perverse misreadings of

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Published: Jan 1, 1981

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