Current scholarship on Clearchus’ Lives emphasizes a moralizing historiographical schema of perni... more Current scholarship on Clearchus’ Lives emphasizes a moralizing historiographical schema of pernicious luxury, in which truphē leads to koros, then to hybris, and finally to destruction. Yet all the fragments used to construct this theory are preserved in one late source, the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus. A study of the diction and immediate context of these so-called fragments demonstrates that the moral themes are presented in language that is far more likely to originate in the cover text rather than in the Lives. Furthermore, this moralizing schema that binds together acts both effeminate and hybristic – as if the one followed naturally from the other – cannot be found securely attested elsewhere in Greek thought before the Roman Era. Thus we argue that, based on the evidence that survives, it is anachronistic to suggest that Clearchus espoused this principle. In addition, those who study Hellenistic fragments need to scrutinize more carefully the exact phrasing and framework of...
' 1nn66ap05 6k E6pu<pQvzoq Mth401.05, 65 ~a i 4 v zQv n6hEov 61aipeav e6pe ~a i 26v netpat& ~azkz... more ' 1nn66ap05 6k E6pu<pQvzoq Mth401.05, 65 ~a i 4 v zQv n6hEov 61aipeav e6pe ~a i 26v netpat& ~azkzepv, y~v 6 p v o~ ~a i nept z6v &hhov Piov neptzz6zepo5 6th cpthonpiav oiizoq Gjoze 6 0~~1~ Bvioy Cfiv mptep$zepov zpt~Qv TE nhfifiet ~a i Historia, Band XLIVl4 (1995) O
Current scholarship on Clearchus’ Lives emphasizes a moralizing historiographical schema of perni... more Current scholarship on Clearchus’ Lives emphasizes a moralizing historiographical schema of pernicious luxury, in which truphē leads to koros, then to hybris, and finally to destruction. Yet all the fragments used to construct this theory are preserved in one late source, the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus. A study of the diction and immediate context of these so-called fragments demonstrates that the moral themes are presented in language that is far more likely to originate in the cover text rather than in the Lives. Furthermore, this moralizing schema that binds together acts both effeminate and hybristic – as if the one followed naturally from the other – cannot be found securely attested elsewhere in Greek thought before the Roman Era. Thus we argue that, based on the evidence that survives, it is anachronistic to suggest that Clearchus espoused this principle. In addition, those who study Hellenistic fragments need to scrutinize more carefully the exact phrasing and framework of...
' 1nn66ap05 6k E6pu<pQvzoq Mth401.05, 65 ~a i 4 v zQv n6hEov 61aipeav e6pe ~a i 26v netpat& ~azkz... more ' 1nn66ap05 6k E6pu<pQvzoq Mth401.05, 65 ~a i 4 v zQv n6hEov 61aipeav e6pe ~a i 26v netpat& ~azkzepv, y~v 6 p v o~ ~a i nept z6v &hhov Piov neptzz6zepo5 6th cpthonpiav oiizoq Gjoze 6 0~~1~ Bvioy Cfiv mptep$zepov zpt~Qv TE nhfifiet ~a i Historia, Band XLIVl4 (1995) O
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