Papers by Elisa Nuria Merisio
Incontri di Filologia Classica, 2021
This paper deals with a neglected Greek metrical in- scription from Phrygia dated to the Imperial... more This paper deals with a neglected Greek metrical in- scription from Phrygia dated to the Imperial period, highlighting its originality and suggesting a new textual reconstruction of its final part.
Lingue Antiche e Moderne, 2021
The relevance of epigraphic documents in the study of plurilingualism in Antiquity is highlighte... more The relevance of epigraphic documents in the study of plurilingualism in Antiquity is highlighted through the analysis of two case studies from Asia Minor: a bilingual Lycian and Greek funerary inscription dated to the 4th century BC and a bilingual Greek and Phrygian funerary inscription dated to the 3rd century AD. When attempting to reconstruct the sociolinguistic context where the above inscriptions originated the inherent limitations of such documents will be discussed as well as the issues they raise in the field of ancient linguistics.
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 2021
M. Leiwo, M. Vierros, S. Dahlgren (eds.), Papers on Ancient Greek Linguistics. Proceedings of the Ninth International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics (ICAGL 9) – 30 August-1 September 2018, Helsinki (Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum, 139), 157-175, 2020
R. Berardi, M. Filosa, D. Massimo (eds.), Defining Authorship, Debating Authenticity. Problems of Authority from Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance (BZA 385), De Gruyter, Berlin – Boston., 2020
In Stobaeus’ Anthologium an elegiac poem having the lemma Σιμωνίδου (4.34.28) is quoted under the... more In Stobaeus’ Anthologium an elegiac poem having the lemma Σιμωνίδου (4.34.28) is quoted under the rubric περὶ τοῦ βίου, ὅτι βραχὺς καὶ εὐτελὴς καὶ φροντίδων ἀνάμεστος. The poem was included by West in the first edition of Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati as fr. 8 by Simonides in the section dubia. This fragment has been assigned to many different poets, leading to a century-long authorship controversy. Iotacism caused the names of the two archaic Greek poets Semonides and Simonides to overlap. No distinction was made between them until the 19th century. Since the distinction in spelling was adopted, the fragment has been ascribed either to Semonides (Bergk, Wilamowitz, Jaeger) or to Simonides (Oates, whereas Fränkel e Lloyd Jones assume that it is an epitaph assigned to Simonides along with many others back in Antiquity) or to a poet contemporary to Simonides (West). In 1992 a papyrus (POxy 3965) was published that contains a few elegiac poems whose Simonidean authorship has been firmly established. They include a fragment that partially overlaps fr. 8 W, which seems to have settled the authorship controversy. The poem has been included accordingly as frr. 19 and 20 in the new edition by West, although some scholars still disagree. The history of this disputed elegiac fragment could serve as a starting point for some considerations about the issues related to the authorship and attribution of archaic Greek lyric fragments. In particular, criteria based on the topics dealt with in such poems, which are very often true literary topoi within the same poetic genre, and on the poetic style will be discussed. These aspects are very hard to assess considering the fragmentary nature of handed-down texts and the central role played by performance settings and occasions in archaic Greek poetry.
Bollettino di Studi Latini, 50, pp. 288-291, 2020
A norma del codice civile italiano, è vietata la riproduzione, totale o parziale (compresi estrat... more A norma del codice civile italiano, è vietata la riproduzione, totale o parziale (compresi estratti, ecc.), di questa pubblicazione in qualsiasi forma e versione (comprese bozze, ecc.), originale o derivata, e con qualsiasi mezzo a stampa o internet (compresi siti web personali e istituzionali, academia.edu, ecc.), elettronico, digitale, meccanico, per mezzo di fotocopie, pdf, microfilm, film, scanner o altro, senza il permesso scritto della casa editrice.
Eisodos - Zeitschrift für Literatur und Theorie, 2017
The narrative art of Bacchylides of Ceos has already been investigated in several studies and art... more The narrative art of Bacchylides of Ceos has already been investigated in several studies and articles 1 . His tendency to insert ample narratives of mythical tales by adding a wealth of details, his taste for vivid descriptions and the liveliness of the scenes bear reminiscence of Stesichorus' poetry 2 . Both poets have been defined as 'epic-like' with regard to their ways of developing mythical contents. One of the most important features in Bacchylides' narrative style is undoubtedly his peculiar use of direct speech. Using mimesis instead of pure narrative 3 , the poet achieves a greater 'expressivity', meaning the degree of involvement of the speaker 4 , with the effect of increasing the pathos of the scene, as shown by the despair conveyed by the words of Croesus in ode 3 (ll. 37-47 5 ). Direct speech is also designed to make the episodes more lively, as in the speech by Menelaus in ode 15 (ll. 50-63) or in the tense dialogue between Minos and Theseus in ode 17 (ll. 20-80). This paper is aimed at analysing Bacchylides' narrative choices and the role played by and the effects of direct speech in two poems of his, namely ode 5 and ode 18. These odes are among the best conserved poems in the Bacchylidean corpus, and all their features have been deeply investigated 6 . Despite wide differences in terms of genre, content and structure, the use of direct speech makes them comparable. The use of direct speech in these odes allows the poet to achieve narrative effects that would be unthinkable by resorting only to an extradiegetic narrator and to pure narrative. These effects rely on a 'narrative' similar to the one used by drama's authors, by which the primary narrator and the primary narratees, that is the poet and the spectators 7 , know more than the characters who are speaking 8 . Actually, the audience knows the fabula of the whole narrated myth,
Conference Presentations by Elisa Nuria Merisio
La presentazione si propone di indagare cosa significasse morire in terra straniera nella cultura... more La presentazione si propone di indagare cosa significasse morire in terra straniera nella cultura greca di età ellenistica e imperiale e, al tempo stesso, quale fosse la rappresentazione poetica di tale dolorosa circostanza tramite l’esame di alcuni epigrammi funerari iscritti su cenotafi. Nel libro VII dell’Antologia Palatina sono contenuti numerosi epigrammi letterari per cenotafi legati a una determinata circostanza, ovvero la morte in mare a seguito di naufragio; in ambito epigrafico la casistica è molto più varia e spesso si tratta di cenotafi che ricordano persone care che hanno comunque avuto sepoltura lontano dalla propria terra. Si sono esaminati in particolare due aspetti: da una parte, il ricorrere di strutture espressive che evidenziano il contrasto tra la presenza di un monumento funebre e la mancanza delle spoglie del defunto e dall’altra, nei casi di un corpo disperso senza esequie, il riferimento alla credenza secondo la quale l’anima del defunto insepolto continua a vagare sulla terra, espresso in due epigrammi rinvenuti in Frigia. L’analisi degli epigrammi trattati consente anche di far emergere le motivazioni legate allo studio o ai commerci che spingevano in particolare molti giovani a recarsi in terra straniera dove trovavano la morte. Diversamente dal carattere pubblico delle iscrizioni dell’epoca classica dedicate ai caduti in guerra, questi epigrammi si collocano in una prospettiva privata, nella quale la presenza di un cenotafio rispondeva a esigenze cultuali, di consolazione e di perpetuazione della memoria.
The workshop is generously sponsored by the Classical Association and by the School of Humanities... more The workshop is generously sponsored by the Classical Association and by the School of Humanities of the University of Reading
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Talks by Elisa Nuria Merisio
Ricerche di filologia latina intorno al progetto ERC PAGES (AdG 2019 n. 882588), Apr 12, 2022
Presentazione degli aspetti informatico-umanistici del progetto ERC PAGES - Priscian’s Ars Gramma... more Presentazione degli aspetti informatico-umanistici del progetto ERC PAGES - Priscian’s Ars Grammatica in European Scriptoria (AdG 2019 n° 882588), costruiti intorno al software Cadmus. Sezioni del seminario: (A) I progetti: A1. Tre progetti che coinvolgono Sapienza sulla tradizione grammaticale latina; A2. Il progetto PAGES; (B) Il trattamento computazionale: B1. Formalizzazione/modellizzazione; B2. Tecnologie: XML-TEI vs Cadmus; B3. Cadmus in pratica; (C) Riflessioni: C1. Riflessioni teoriche e metodologiche; C2. Cosa vuol dire “pubblicare” in digitale? C3. …e poi? Sostenibilità delle "pubblicazioni" digitali.
Organised events by Elisa Nuria Merisio
E. DICKEY (Reading), Re-evaluating the role of sixth-century scholarship in the development of La... more E. DICKEY (Reading), Re-evaluating the role of sixth-century scholarship in the development of Latin lexicography M. ROSELLINI (Sapienza), Il progetto PAGES nell'ambito degli studi sulla linguistica antica A. GIOFFREDA-C. ROSSO (Sapienza), Leggere manoscritti (testo e margini) A. C. FELICI (Sapienza), Lettura di palinsesti A. DOROFEEVA (Göttingen), The Physiologus. Manuscript compilation practices and conversations about authority and nature in the Early Middle Ages M. DE NONNO (Roma Tre), Critica del testo di Prisciano A. BRAMANTI-I. MORRESI-E. SPANGENBERG YANES (Sapienza), Collazionare e definire uno stemma A. CONSALVI (Sapienza)-E. MERISIO (Firenze)-P. MONELLA (Sapienza), Aspetti digitali innovativi nel progetto PAGES: Cadmus 11 gennaio, ore 15, aula V
Books by Elisa Nuria Merisio
This book presents an edition of Greek metrical inscriptions from eastern Phrygia (modern Turkey)... more This book presents an edition of Greek metrical inscriptions from eastern Phrygia (modern Turkey), accompanied by a translation and commentary. It is a corpus of ca. 100 funerary, honorary and votive epigrams from the 2nd- 5th c. CE. The commentary is centered on their linguistic, philological and literary features.
It analyses several phenomena related to the late stage of Greek language development and to the spoken language. As regards the literary tradition, even though the Homeric poems are the primary models for most epigrams, the commentary highlights the occurrence of several terms and expressions found in later (epic and non-epic) works, often reflecting a Christian background.
The book shows the relevance of the study of metrical inscriptions from Asia Minor as a means to enhance our knowledge of the spread of education and literary culture in the area even in the late Roman Empire. The inscriptions analyzed are not only invaluable linguistic documents, but also play an important role both as pioneering texts reflecting the emergence of a new literary style and as reliable and enduring testimonies to the cultural influence of the Greek literary tradition in places and periods very remote from its original context.
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It analyses several phenomena related to the late stage of Greek language development and to the spoken language. As regards the literary tradition, even though the Homeric poems are the primary models for most epigrams, the commentary highlights the occurrence of several terms and expressions found in later (epic and non-epic) works, often reflecting a Christian background.
The book shows the relevance of the study of metrical inscriptions from Asia Minor as a means to enhance our knowledge of the spread of education and literary culture in the area even in the late Roman Empire. The inscriptions analyzed are not only invaluable linguistic documents, but also play an important role both as pioneering texts reflecting the emergence of a new literary style and as reliable and enduring testimonies to the cultural influence of the Greek literary tradition in places and periods very remote from its original context.
It analyses several phenomena related to the late stage of Greek language development and to the spoken language. As regards the literary tradition, even though the Homeric poems are the primary models for most epigrams, the commentary highlights the occurrence of several terms and expressions found in later (epic and non-epic) works, often reflecting a Christian background.
The book shows the relevance of the study of metrical inscriptions from Asia Minor as a means to enhance our knowledge of the spread of education and literary culture in the area even in the late Roman Empire. The inscriptions analyzed are not only invaluable linguistic documents, but also play an important role both as pioneering texts reflecting the emergence of a new literary style and as reliable and enduring testimonies to the cultural influence of the Greek literary tradition in places and periods very remote from its original context.