Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
Loading next page...
/lp/brill/c-miralles-j-p-rtulas-archilochus-and-the-iambic-poetry-filologia-e-7qKFRM1v0C
References
References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.
- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 1987 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0026-7074
- eISSN
- 1568-525X
- DOI
- 10.1163/156852587X00616
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
DE NOVIS LIBRIS IUDICIA C. MIRALLES & J. PÒRTULAS, Archilochus and the iambic poetry (Filologia e Critica, 45). Roma, Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1983. 157 p. On the backside of the cover, the authors write in their slightly comical English that they "refuse any kind of formalistic philology and try to combine all the most valuable contributions of other human sciences". I do not know what formalistic philology is, and I fail to perceive the antithesis between philology and "other human sciences": if philology is that branch of scholarship that aims at explaining literary texts, it needs assistance of all kinds of other disciplines, human or otherwise, as long as these provide data that may improve our understanding of the texts. If I am very critical of the authors' use of comparative and Greek religion, it is not because I reject employing these disciplines in the area of literary studies, but because I have no patience with their particular manner of using them in this book. The second chapter is entitled "The iambic poet as a wolf". Tak- ing their cue from the analysis of the name Lycambes as Xux + (cf. iaplfioq, etc.), the authors consider the first part
Journal
Mnemosyne – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1987