Books by Stephen M Trzaskoma
This collection of essays brings innovative perspectives to the study of ancient mythography, tha... more This collection of essays brings innovative perspectives to the study of ancient mythography, that is, the writings of Greeks and Romans about their own mythical traditions. It treats a range of sources from the beginnings of myth criticism in the 5th century BCE to the end of antiquity in the 5th century CE, highlighting mythography's centrality to ancient views of myth and moving beyond seeing mythographic texts as valuable primarily for the preservation of details about traditional stories. Important individual mythographers are treated (e.g., Ps.-Apollodorus and Hyginus), but throughout there is an emphasis on the connections of mythography with more literary genres, such as epic, and more prestigious prose genres, such as historiography and geography. This makes the volume of interest for those who work on myth in Greek and Roman society, but also for anyone working on ancient intellectual history more broadly, including those who study rhetoric, education, literary composition, art and ancient scholarly traditions.
Papers by Stephen M Trzaskoma
Ancient Narrative, 2011
Scholars have long acknowledged that there is an intertextual relationship between Chariton's Cal... more Scholars have long acknowledged that there is an intertextual relationship between Chariton's Callirhoe and the works of Xenophon, including the Anabasis. 1 The journey of the novel's heroine to Babylon (begun in 4,7,5) has even occasionally been referred to as her 'anabasis', 2 and the hero's military adventures and their outcome in Books 7 and 8 bear a rather obvious general resemblance to the action of the Anabasis. 3 Scholars have also identified a few verbal reminiscences of the Anabasis in the last four books of-1 Already in D'Orville 1750 there are numerous parallels noted between the language of Callirhoe and Xenophon's works, and acknowledgment of the relationship runs through much modern scholarship concerned with Chariton's literary antecedents. Cobet 1859, 234: Neminem ex omnibus Chariton frequentius imitatur quam Xenophontem, praesertim Anabasin et Cyropaediam. Zimmermann 1961, 329: 'Er kennt seinen Thukydides und von Xenophon besonders die Kyrupaideia sowie die Anabasis.' Schmeling 1974, 24: 'Few pages go by without Chariton imitating the three great Greek historians, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon.' 2 Mostly in passing. It is her 'erotic anabasis' in Alvares 1997, 620 and her '"anabasis" towards Babylon' in Schmidt 2002, 61. Compare the title of Chapter 2 of Anderson 1982: 'New Comic Melodrama, Anabasis Erotos: Chariton.' Holzberg 1996, 20-21: '[T]he motifs he uses and his narrative technique are a deliberate allusion to [Xenophon's] works. However, when Chariton too writes about an anabasis, it is here no more a political and military operation, but instead an expedition of a more delicate nature: its end is a courtroom hearing to decide who shall be the lawful husband of the story's beautiful female protagonist.' The subtitle at Schwartz 2003, 380, 'Chariton's Persia: The Anabasis to the Capital', refers to the general idea of a Greek's going up to the king (she analyzes Chariton in light of the career of Themistocles) without any special connection to Xenophon. 3 Perry 1930, 100 n. 11: 'At the same time, however, the military career of Chaereas is full of echoes from Xenophon's Anabasis.' Most recently, see Smith 2007, 172.
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The Classical Quarterly, 2016
Recently in the pages of The Classical Quarterly Mathias Hanses convincingly demonstrated the exi... more Recently in the pages of The Classical Quarterly Mathias Hanses convincingly demonstrated the existence of a fourth occurrence of the programmatic adjective λεπτός in Aratus, Phaen. 783–7. This new example occurs in the form of a diagonal acrostic alongside the known ‘gamma-acrostic’ (formed by the λεπτή that is the first word of the passage and the vertical acrostic λεπτή made up of the first letters of each line) and the occurrence of the same form of the adjective in line 784. Jerzy Danielewicz has now proposed yet a fifth instance of λεπτή in the form of an acronym spread over two lines and meant to be read anticlockwise.
Exemplaria Classica Journal of Classical Philology, 2014
Oxford Bibliographies Online Datasets, 2000
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine …, 2005
The Classical Quarterly, 2008
American Journal of Philology, 2010
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
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Books by Stephen M Trzaskoma
Papers by Stephen M Trzaskoma
After delineating the parallels of situation, characterisation, and plot, I will lay out evidence that Achilles Tatius has at least one quite specific paradigm in mind, Chariton’s Callirhoe—an influence that can be traced through distinct verbal intertextuality.