Dr Francesco Lupi, who was a postdoctoral student in Classics from 2013 – 2015 at UKZN and is currently on a postdoctoral scholarship at the University of Verona in Italy, will visit the Classics Department from 29 October to 7 November 2017. He will present the following two papers: FIRST PAPER: DATE: Tuesday, 31 October 2017 TIME: 10:30 - 12:00 VENUE: Committee Room, Classics Department, Room GO 12A, Ground Floor, MTB, Howard College Campus TOPIC: To belong or not to belong: a few remarks on the lyrical fragments of Sophocles’ Tereus and other indirectly transmitted fragments ABSTRACT: This paper aims to analyse a few indirectly transmitted fragments of Sophocles. In particular, it will focus on the surviving lyrical fragments of the Tereus (frr. 591, 592, 593 R.2), which are all preserved by late antique anthologist Iohannes Stobaeus (Flor. 4.29a.12 [V 706.4 H.], 4.34.39 [V 837.8 H.], 4.34.40 [V 837.12 H.]). These fragments have puzzled Sophoclean scholars as to the way they should - or should not - be joined together. The editor’s task of reconstructing the original context of the ode (or, perhaps, the odes) that the Tereus’ fragments belonged to is a complex one: although all the fragments show significant metrical affinities, there is no further evidence for the placement of the ode in the play, its relation to the dramatic action, etc. In fact, no information on their context is provided by Stobaeus; the only other source available, Favorinus of Arles’ treatise On exile (col. IX, 25s. [p. 385, 25 Barigazzi = p. 80 Tepedino Guerra]), only quotes fr. 591 R.2 partially and does not throw any significant light on its original context either. It is the purpose of this paper, then, to critically assess the evidence we have by focusing, once again, on the manuscript data and by prioritizing the evidence of the quoting author before the quoted text. In particular, the paper will assess what ecdotic contribution - if any - may be provided by Stobaeus, through an analysis of specific inner characteristics of the anthologist’s work (such as excerpting practice and arrangement of quotations, use of paratextual elements throughout the Florilegium), which may act as useful evidence in editing the Tereus’ fragments (as well as other fragments). In doing so, the paper will then seek to reassert the methodological necessity that any attempt at studying, let alone editing, fragments preserved in the indirect tradition be adequately grounded in the textual evidence. That such fragments ought not to be treated separately from the textual history of their source will be further demonstrated by another case drawn from the Sophoclean corpus and for which Stobaeus is, again, the only source. SECOND PAPER (in the framework of the Classics Research Colloquium): DATE: Thursday, 2 November 2017 TIME: 14:10 - 15:45 VENUE: Committee Room, Classics Department, Room GO 12A, Ground Floor, MTB, Howard College Campus TOPIC: General reflections on poverty and wealth in Greek tragedy and their presence in the indirect tradition ABSTRACT: Greek tragedy is rich in general reflections on poverty and wealth, which tend to appear in the spoken parts of the plays. These reflections often show proper ‘gnomic’ features: in keeping with Aristotle’s definition of γνώμη (Rh. 1394a21-25), they suggest a practical way of conduct. The practical maxims conveyed by gnomic utterances are made all the more pointed and remarkable through the employment of specific lexical, syntactical, and stylistic features, which provide such maxims with a more general validity. Due to their gnomic content, many lines concerned with poverty and wealth from now lost tragedies were indirectly preserved and transmitted by both gnomic anthologies and the works of individual authors, such as Plutarch. In particular, collections of gnomai on the theme of poverty and wealth, dated as far back as the 3rd century BC, are found in thematic collections on papyrus, as well as in late-antique compilations, of which the most relevant is Stobaeus’ Anthologion. This paper aims to evaluate the contribution of the indirect tradition to our understanding of Greek tragedy’s concern with the theme of poverty and wealth. It will consist of three sections: in the first one, I will discuss the ‘fortune’ in the indirect tradition of reflections on poverty and wealth from both tragedy and (to a lesser extent) comedy, through an overhaul of the relevant evidence. In section two, a close comparison between gnomai from lost plays and those found in fully preserved plays will aim to determine what patterns commonly apply to gnomic utterances on poverty and wealth in tragic drama. In section three, I will focus on gnomai from select lost tragedies, with particular focus on Sophocles. Considering the results achieved in section two and resorting to specific case-studies, I will try to answer the following questions: how do remarks on poverty and wealth fit in the lost plays’ plot/structure? Do these remarks only have a self-contained gnomic function, or do they also impinge on the dramatic action? ALL STAFF AND GRADUATE STUDENTS ARE WELCOME! For further information please contact: Dr Elke Steinmeyer Classics Programme University of KwaZulu-Natal 4041 Durban South Africa Tel: +27 31 260 1306 Fax: +27 31 260 7286 Email: steinmeyere1@ukzn.ac.za