Transactions
of the American Philological Association
Vol.
132 (2002)
Contents
I. PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
2002
Kenneth
Reckford, Pueri ludentes: Some Aspects of Play and
Seriousness in Horace's Epistles
II. PAPERS
Maria C.
Pantelia, "Helen and the Last Song for Hector"
This article examines the order of the three
laments in Iliad 24 and especially the
significance of Helen's prominent position as the last
mourner of Hector. The article suggests that Helen's
position in the trio of mourning women is dictated not
by ritual form or by her relation to Hector but by
virtue of her particular understanding of the
importance of heroic kleos and poetry as the
means for conferring it.
John Kirkpatrick
and Francis Dunn, "Heracles, Cercopes, and
Paracomedy"
At Eur. Her. 1380-81 Heracles imagines
his weapons talking to him in direct speech, and
rebuking him for the murder of his wife and children.
Such a conceit is out of place in tragedy. The authors
suggest that it is best explained as an allusion to
the Cercopes, who figure prominently, and utter
stinging rebukes, in one of Heracles' comic exploits.
The anomalous moment in Euripides' play is read as
representing and reevaluating the hero's complex and
unfinished identity. Finally, the authors trace the
effect of this allusion after Euripides, situating the
reassessment of the hero within a larger dialogue
involving sculpture, vase-painting, comedy, and
satyr-drama.
William Tieman,
"Cause in History and the Amnesty at Athens: An
Introduction"
Introduction to a set of papers on the
Athenian Amnesty of 403 B.C.
James M.
Quillin, "Achieving Amnesty: The Role of Events,
Institutions, and Ideas"
This paper offers a causal explanation for
why the democratic majority in Athens for the most
part did not exploit the power it held in the People's
Courts and dokimasia proceedings to drive
former oligarchic collaborators out of public life in
the years following the fall of the Thirty. A model,
based on decision theory, of the decision-making
process under the Athenian democracy is developed. Its
predictions are assessed against the extant speeches
of the period. The author argues that the success of
defendants was made possible by common perceptions of
recent events, by features of Athens' legal
institutions, and by the ingenuity of the
speechwriters
Andrew Wolpert,
"Lysias 18 and Athenian Memory of Civil War"
Attempts to explain the success of the
Athenian reconciliation in 403 B.C.E. are easily
frustrated because the evidence is incomplete and
because the conditions of postwar Athens were not
exceptional. Peace was not imposed on the Athenians
through rules and regulations; rather, it was
constructed in civic discourse. The Athenian
reconciliation can, therefore, be better appreciated
if studied as a cultural construct that was ultimately
negotiated on the plane of ideology. Using Lysias 18
as a case study, the author shows how civil war
confounded the identity of Athenian citizens. Although
discursive analysis cannot explain why the Athenians
avoided further civil war, it does allow us to
contextualize the disputes of the restored democracy,
to appreciate how Athenians remembered defeat and
civil war, and to understand how the past either
united or divided them.
Josiah Ober,
"Social Science History, Cultural History, and the
Amnesty of 403"
Response to a set of papers on the Athenian
Amnesty of 403 B.C.
George W.
Houston, "The Slave and Freedman Personnel of Public
Libraries in Ancient Rome"
The lower-level personnel in Roman public
libraries of the early Empire were part of the
emperor's domestic staff, just as they had been
household slaves in late Republican libraries. This
observation carries important implications. The book
collections, at least in origin, were the emperor's
private possessions, not public services like the
roads, and he might closely control their use. His
slave vilici, not equestrian procurators,
ordinarily directed the daily work of the staff, and
the commissioners of all the libraries (originally
Greek intellectuals, and not always procurators) may
have served primarily as scholarly advisers. No
evidence supports the idea of a centralized library
administration.
III. VICE-PRESIDENTIAL PANEL
2002
Kenneth F.
Kitchell, Jr., Vice President for Education, "Navigating
the Shoals: Teacher Training in our Graduate
Programs"
Robert W. Cape,
Jr., "Teachers at the Helm or Teachers Adrift? Results of
the APA Survey on T.A. Teacher Training"
Miriam R. P.
Pittenger, "Navigating the Shoals at Home: Establishing a
T.A. Training Course"
George W.
Houston, "The Ideal of Teacher Training within the
Reality of the Ph.D. Program"
Kenneth F.
Kitchell, Jr., "Quis docebit doctores? Proposed
Models for Change"
IV. PARAGRAPHOI
Stephen Harrison, "A. E. Housman's
Latin Elegy to Moses Jackson"
TAPA INDEX