Herodotus – The Most Homeric Historian?

The edited book explores the relationship between Herodotus and Homer and the reason why Herodotus was considered Homeric in antiquity

Enoch Powell's The History of Herodotus and Three Letters from Felix Jacoby: A Rude Preface, Nazi Germany, and Antisemitism

This paper discusses three unpublished letters from Felix Jacoby (1876–1959) to J. Enoch Powell (1912–98). They met in Germany in December 1938 and corresponded in 1939. Jacoby took offence at the way Powell treated him in his book The History of Herodotus. The conversation veered quickly from scholarship to antisemitism. In the third letter Jacoby questioned Powell on his ‘strong antisemitic bias’ and declared himself ‘no friend of the Jews on the whole’, which raises questions about his own self-identification as a non-Jewish baptised German and his nationalistic views. It also allows to reconsider the long-standing issue of his alleged support of Nazism in a lecture in spring 1933 reported by Georg Picht in a controversial article published in 1977. Finally, Jacoby’s personal tragedies and political opinions come out in his discussion of Pericles’ citizenship law in the commentary on the fragments of Philochorus published in English in 1954

LGBTQ music majors’ experiences of social climates and developing identities in music education settings

The purpose of this study was to identify roles that music education plays in the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) music majors. Using a collective case study design, the researcher conducted semi-structured interviews with five undergraduate LGBTQ music majors. Participants spoke about their experiences in music education settings, the social atmosphere associated with such settings and their identities as LGBTQ persons and musicians. Music education settings may include high school and college ensembles as well as extracurricular ensembles and private lessons. The researcher sought to explore: a) ways in which peers and teachers in music ensembles create a social climate for LGBTQ students, b) effects of such climates on LGBTQ students, c) developing musical and sexual identities of LGBTQ college music majors and d) possible interaction or disconnection of those identities. Results show that participants negotiated musical and sexual identities in order to reflect the social values of their music ensemble. They described ways in which peers and teachers created climates of acceptance, silence or homonegativity. Overall, participants viewed high schools as places of varying levels of acceptance, while college musical environments were seen as welcoming places for LGBTQ people. Participants drew connections between their developing sexual identities and quality of musicianship, especially in regard to musical expression

Scylax of Caryanda, Pseudo-Scylax, and the Paris Periplus: Reconsidering the Ancient Tradition of a Geographical Text

The Periplus preserved in the manuscript Parisinus suppl. gr. 443, and erroneously ascribed to Scylax of Caryanda (sixth century BC), is the oldest extant specimen of ancient Greek periplography: it belongs to the second half of the fourth century. In the present article, all the testimonies on the ancient tradition of both Scylax and the Paris Periplus are carefully evaluated. The aim is to determine when and why the Paris Periplus was mistakenly ascribed to Scylax and to clear any doubts on the alleged authorship of this ancient geographic work. The confusion, or the wilful falsification, is evident in Strabo: he knew of Scylax’s voyage in the East and at the same time was acquainted with the text of the Paris Periplus, which he ascribed to this famous ancient seafarer. Greek and Latin authors of the Roman Imperial age knew the Paris Periplus, but many followed slavishly the erroneous ascription to Scylax of Caryanda. When Marcianus of Heraclea in the early Byzantine age collected his corpus of ancient Greek geographers he also ascribed the Paris Periplus to Scylax, thus handing down the error to the copyist of the Paris. suppl. gr. 443

Thucydides in the 'Age of Extremes' and Beyond. Academia and Politics

The essays collected in this volume explore over a century of readings of Thucydides, from the years immediately preceding the First World War up to the present day. Our purpose is to reflect on some underexplored areas of Thucydidean reception within different academic traditions and political contexts, as well as reconsidering the more recent and controversial developments in the Fortleben of the Athenian historian in the fields of Strategic Studies and International Relations. The interaction between politics and academic practice is the thread that connects our collective efforts. We seek to adopt an approach that is less confined to the reuse of an ancient text in a merely political vein, but opens up to investigate wider issues concerning the history of classical scholarship and the process of consolidation of the social sciences in the academic systems

The reception of Thucydides in the theory and practice of Hellenistic historiography

Review of Marcin Kurpios, The reception of Thucydides in the theory and practice of Hellenistic historiography (Tyche supplement, 14), Wien: Verlag Holzhausen, 202