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  • CAQ volume 14 issue 2 Front matter

  • Journal:
    The Classical Quarterly / Volume 14 / Issue 2 / December 1964
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 February 2009, pp. f1-f4
    Print publication:
    December 1964
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  • Structure and Content in Epic Formulae: The Question of the Unique Expression

  • J. B. Hainsworth
  • Journal:
    The Classical Quarterly / Volume 14 / Issue 2 / December 1964
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 February 2009, pp. 155-164
    Print publication:
    December 1964

  • The contention that the Homeric epics, and perhaps also the Hesiodic poems and the Homeric Hymns, are the products, directly or at a very short remove, of a tradition of orally improvised poetry is widely accepted as a basic premiss in Homeric criticism. The cogency of the argument depends on the frequency and characteristic use of formulae in the early hexameter poetry, and their rarity in the literature of Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman times, which is known or assumed to have been composed in the study. The reasoning appears to me valid, but in some respects overstated or ambiguously stated in recent publications, and the first fault arises out of the second.

  • Notes on Gavia and Mergvs in Latin Authors

  • W. G. Arnott
  • Journal:
    The Classical Quarterly / Volume 14 / Issue 2 / December 1964
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 February 2009, pp. 249-262
    Print publication:
    December 1964

  • There is a touch of foolhardiness in the attempts to establish a precise identification for the great majority of birds mentioned by the authors of classical antiquity. Only a small minority of the ancient references and descriptions contains features which are indisputably diagnostic, while a probably not much bigger minority of the Mediterranean avifauna possesses characteristics of appearance, behaviour, or voice that would have enabled an ordinary Greek or Roman immediately to distinguish a member of one species from absolutely all others, using the sole aids of his eyes, ears, and the largely inaccurate medley of lore handed down from one generation to the next. Thus any modern attempt to pin down the identity of this or that bird in an ancient author is fraught with many dangers and difficulties which must be recognized at the outset

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