Catulliana

Today's consensus on the text of Ecl. 6. 33-34 may arguably be contested as line 34 will fit the context better when omnis (gen. extracted from P) is read instead of omnia. As to G. 1. 36, the author believes that the consensus on sperant (indicative) is misplaced and that the neglected reading¹1. Among my own latest examples I would mention here: auris (instead of auras) at A. 6. 561), omnes (instead of omnis acc. pl.) at 2. 598, ne (instead of ni) at 3. 686, caelo (instead of caeli) at 5. 851, reliquit instead of relinquit at 746, exiliis (instead of exitiis) at 7. 129, relinquit (instead of reliquit) at 12. 470. See Kraggerud (2011 Kraggerud, E. Marginalia to a New Aeneis recensaSymbolae Osloenses201185210225 doi: 10.1080/00397679.2011.631360[Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). sperent, taken as a potential subjunctive and parallel to veniat (37), ought to be preferred. At A. 1. 458 Seneca's Atriden should replace the plural Atridas transmitted by the codices.     

Folktales

ZEUS : A STUDY IN ANCIENT RELIGION. By ARTHUR BERNARD COOK. Vol. II. Zeus God of the Dark Sky (Thunder and Lightning). Part I, Text and Notes. Pages xliii + 858; xlvii Pl. + 795 text figs. Part II, Appendices and Index. Pp. 859–1397; Figs. 796–1026. Cambridge: University Press, 1925. £8 8s. Reviewed by H. J. Rose.

LES SARACATSANS. UNE TRIBU NOMADE GRECQUE. By CARSTEN HOEG. Tom. I. Etude Linguistique précédée d'un Notice Ethnographique. Pp. xx + 312. Tom. II. Textes, (Contes et Chansons). Vocabulaire Technique. Index Verborum. Pp. 212. Paris: Edouard Champion, 1925–6. 9? x 6?. Reviewed by W. R. Halliday.

JAHRBUCH FÜR HISTORISCHE VOLKSKUNDE. Vol. I. Die Volkskunde und Ihre Grenzgebiete. Pp. 348. Vol. II. Vom wesen der Volkskunst. Pp. 216. Berlin : Herbert Stubenrauch, 1925–6. Sm. 4to. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

SIBERIAN AND OTHER FOLK TALES. Primitive Literature of the Empire of the Tsars, Collected and Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by C. FILLINGHAM COXWELL. The C. W. Daniel Company, 1925. 8? x 5½. Pp. 1056. £2 2s. n. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

CARDIGANSHIRE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. Transactions. Vol. 4. Aberystwyth: “Cambrian News,” Ltd., 1926. 9? x6½. Pp. 96.     

Syriac Sources for Seventh-Century History

Abstract

In view of the paucity of other sources for this century, so momentous in the history of the Near East, the Syriac materials take on a particular importance for both Byzantine and Islamic historians. While some of these sources, such as Michael's Chronicle, are well known to all, others lie as yet unexploited and ignored. The purpose of the present article is to collect together in convenient form details of all the main Syriac sources available for the seventh century, listing standard editions, translations and the more important discussions. Fuller information on authors and secondary literature can readily be found by reference to the following works: A. Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur (Bonn, 1922); I. Ortiz de Urbina, Patrologia Syriaca, 2nd ed. (Rome, 1965); C. Moss, Catalogue of Syriac Printed Books and Related Literature in the British Museum (London, 1962); S. P. Brock, ‘Syriac Studies 1960–1970: a classified bibliography’, Parole de l'Orient, IV (1973), 393–465. For the topographical history ot the area now covered by Iraq, J. M. Fiey's Assyrie chrétienne, 3 vols. (Beirut, 1965–8), is an invaluable compendium.     

Leviathans Old and New: What Collingwood Saw in Hobbes

Summary

R. G. Collingwood presented his major work of political philosophy, The New Leviathan, as an updated version of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan. However, his reasons for taking Hobbes's great work as his inspiration have puzzled and eluded many Collingwood scholars, while those interested in the reception of Hobbes's ideas have largely neglected the New Leviathan. In this essay I reveal what Collingwood saw in Hobbes's political philosophy and show how his reading of Hobbes both diverges from other prominent interpretations of the time and invites us to reassess Hobbes's complex association with the origins of liberalism. In doing so, I focus on Collingwood's science of mind, his ideas on society and authority, and his dialectical theory of politics, in each case showing how he engaged with Hobbes in order to elucidate his own vision of civilisation. That vision is based on the development of social consciousness, which involves people coming to understand the body politic as a joint enterprise whereby they confer authority upon those who rule.     

Some New Vergilian Loci and Second Thoughts on Old Ones*

I. The text of Ecl. 3.100–102 is discussed and evaluated: quam is defended against quom and Cartault’s proposal [1897. Étude sur les Bucoliques de Virgile. Paris: Armand Colin] Hisce cutes – not adopted by editors and hardly visible in later apparatus critici, but recommended as worthy of attention by Heyworth [2015. “Notes on the Text and Interpretation of Vergil’s Eclogues and Georgics.” In Virgilian Studies. A Miscellany Dedicated to the Memory of Mario Geymonat [Studia Classica et Mediaevalia 10], edited by H.-C. Günther, 195–249. Nordhausen: Traugott Bautz] – is both brilliant and necessary. II. Based on grammar and context the abl. risu at Ecl. 4.60 is taken as modal: “Begin, little boy, to recognize (get to know) your mother with your smile”; then the final lines (62–63) must be restored to comply with Quintilian’s figura in numero (9.3.8) as qui risere (plural) followed by hunc “such a one” (singular); this change in number is shown to be in accordance with the use of a generalizing hic to denote quality. – III. At G. 2.22 I propose quos … vias construing reperire with two accusatives. – IV. At G. 2.266–268 I furnish parallels for similem … et as “like to” supporting Heyworth’s mutata … semina. – V. Rejecting my earlier position on A. 9.462–464 I now give a repentant vote in favour of Conte’s punctuation [2009. P. Vergilius Maro. Aeneis [Bibliotheca Teubneriana]. Berlin: De Gruyter] while at the same time adding an argument in its favour.     

Educational

EUROPE

Cannes and its Surroundings. By Amy M. Benecke. London : George Allen and Sons, 1908. Pp. 94. 40 Illustrations. Price 10s. 6d. net.

Highways and Byways in Surrey. By Eric Parkeb. With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1908. Price 6s.

My Life among the Wild Birds in Spain. By Colonel Willoughby Verner. London : John Bale, Sons, and Danielssohn, Ltd., 1909. Many Illustrations. Price 21s. net.

ASIA

La Perse d'aujourd'hui. Par M. Eugène Aubin. Paris : Librairie Armand Colin, 1908. Price 5 fr.

Thirty‐five Years in the Punjab: 1858–1893. By G. K. Elsmie, C.S.I., LL.D. Edinburgh : David Douglas, 1908. Price 9s. net.

AFRICA

The Guide to South Africa, for the Use of Tourists, Sportsmen, Invalids, and Settlers. Edited by A. Samler Brows and G. Gordon Brown. 1908–1909 edition. London : Sampson, Low, Marston and Co. Price 2s. 6d.

AMERICA

Through Southern Mexico. By Hans Gadow, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. London : Witherby and Co., 1908. Price 18s. net.

Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes. By Richard Spruce, Ph.D. Edited and condensed by Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., F.R.S. With a Portrait, Illustrations, and seven Maps. Two volumes. London : Macmillan and Co., 1908. Price 21s. net.

Peru: Its Story, People, and Religion. By Geraldine Guinness. London : Morgan and Scott, Ltd. Price, 7s. 6d. .

Canadian Life as I Found It. By Homesteader. London : Elliot Stock, 1908. Price 1s. 6d. net.

Heaton's Annual: The Commercial Handbook of Canada and Boards of Trade Register. Toronto : Heaton's Agency. Pp. 334. Price $1.

Opportunities in Canada, 1909. Extracts from Heaton's Annual. Toronto : Heaton's Agency. 1909.

The Canada Year‐Booh, 1900. Second Series. Ottawa, 1907.

AUSTRALASIA

New Zealand. By Reginald Horsley. (Romance of Empire Series.) London : T. C. and E. C. Jack, 1908. Price 6s. net.

POLAR

National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–1904. Meteorology. Part I. Published by the Royal Society, London. 1908.

National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–1904. Album of Photographs and Sketches, with a Portfolio of Panoramic Views. London : Royal Society, 1908. Price 31s. 6d.

GENERAL

Handbook of Commercial Geography. By Geo. G. Chisholm, M.A., B.Sc. Seventh Edition. London : Longmans, Green and Co., 1908. Price 15s. net.

Whitaker's Almanack for 1909. By Joseph Whitaker; London, 1908. Price 2s. 6d. net.

Hazell's Annual, 1909. Edited by W. Palmer, B.A. London : Hazel, Watson, and Viney, 1908. Price 3s. 6d. net.

“Daily Mail” Year‐Book for 1909. Edited by Percy L. Parker. London: Associated Newspapers, Ltd. Price 6d. net.

The Englishwoman's Year‐Bool; and Directory, 1909. Edited by G. E. Mitton. London : A. and. C. Black, 1909. Price 2s. 6d. net.

Whititaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage for the Year 1909. London, 1908.

Mathematical Geography. By Willis E. Jonsson, Ph.B. New York : American Book Company. London : George Philip and Sons, Ltd., 1908. Price 5s. net.

Martin Bchain: His Life and His Globe. By E. G. Ravenstein, F.E.G.S. London : George Philip and Son, 1908. Price £3, 3s.     

Book reviews

D. J. Shepherd: Funerary Ritual and Symbolism. An Interdisciplinary Interpretation of Burial Practices in Late Iron Age Finland. BAR International Series 808. Oxford. 1999. ISBN 1 84171 113 6. 133 pages, 19 maps.

Vladimir N. Bulatov, Russkij Sever, Vols. 1–3. Archangel 1997–99. Izdatel'stvo Pomorskogo Universiteta. 352+352+336 pages.     

The Tenco effect. Suicide,San Remo,and the social construction of the canzone d'autore

Abstract

Canzone d'autore is an indigenous expression that has no precise equivalent in other languages. Its social use identifies a genre of popular song that presuppose the existence of an ‘autore’ taken in its most vigorous sense, meaning a ‘creator’, an ‘artist’– but how did this claim to artistry originate? How did it insinuate itself into the world of song, a genre that by definition belongs to the realm of what is traditionally called in Italian ‘musica leggera,’ with unmistakably pejorative connotations? In this essay, I will put forward a sociological interpretation of the genesis of the canzone d'autore, using as a strategic conceptual device the idea of cultural trauma. The traumatic event that I propose to explore, making use of this concept and its analytical machinery, is the suicide of the singer-songwriter Luigi Tenco during the seventeenth San Remo ‘Festival della Canzone’ (‘song festival’) – that is the best-known, most controversial, and most influential single event in the field of Italian ‘musica leggera’, an annual event regularly attended every year – via radio, television, or audience participation – by millions of Italians. Through a reconstruction of that suicide and above all of the public and dramatic events that followed in response to it, the paper examines the social process that transformed an individual tragedy into a collective, social drama, a process that not only produced a new musical classification, but also a new cultural and aesthetic category.     

Reconsidering reputation through patronage: Cardinal Napoleone Orsini and Angelo Clareno at the Avignonese papal court

The changeable politics of Cardinal Napoleone Orsini (c.1262/3–1342), negotiator and pope-maker, have been explained for over a century as the expression of his independent character and antagonistic relationships. Significant moments in his early career are interpreted as deliberate opposition to his own family's policies. This generalisation does his political acumen and familial loyalty a disservice. In particular, the rationale for his political decisions has previously been relied upon in explanations for his support of the Spiritual Franciscans, reformers and sometime separatists within the Franciscan Order. The cardinal's impact on the group has likewise been understated, as scholars have largely focused on their spokesmen's intellectual output, with limited investigation of the political support that enabled their survival. Orsini was connected to the group's spokesmen at the papal court at Avignon, including the prolific author Angelo Clareno (c.1250–c.1337). Close examination of Clareno's letters allows for a reinterpretation of the relationship. Orsini family documents reframe the relationship as part of an established familial tradition of Franciscan patronage. In this larger picture, the impetus for the cardinal's idiosyncratic patronage of the Spirituals becomes, instead, a small strand in the much larger network of familial obligations and patronage responsibilities. This also sheds further light on the fourteenth-century papal curia.     

Seutter,Probst and lotten an eighteenth‐century map publishing house in Germany

Decorative printed maps of the 15Th to 18Th centuries. A revised edition of Old decorative maps and charts by A. L. Humphreys. By R. A. Skelton. London‐New York. 1952. 80 p. 84 plates, of which 12 in colours.

“The World Encompassed”—Catalogue Of An exhibition of the history of maps, held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, October‐November, 1952. Published by the Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, 1952. 60 plates.

Union Géographique Internationale. Rapport de la Commission pour la Bibliographie des cartes Anciennes. Fasc. I. Rapport au XVIIe Congrès International, Washington 1952 par R. Almagià. Contributions pour un Catalogue des Cartes Manuscrites 1200–1500 éditées par M. Destombes. 1952. 63 p. Fasc. II. Catalogue des cartes Gravées au XVe siècle par Marcel Destombes. Mesnil. 1952. 95 p.

The John Carter Brown Library. Providence, Rhode Island. Report to the Corporation of Brown University, July 1, 1951. Providence. 1951. 74 p.

Jan Compagnie in Japan, 1600–1850. An Essay on the cultural, artistic and scientific influence exercised by the Hollanders in Japan from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries by C. R. Boxer. The Hague. 2nd edit. 1950. 198 p., 17 pl.

The Vienna‐Klosterneuburg Map Corpus of the Fifteenth Century. A Study of the transition from medieval to modern science. By Dana Bennet Durand. Leiden 1952. XVI ‐ 510 p. 5 figs. 23 plates.

R. Almagià, Monumenta cartographica Vaticana. Vol. III. Le pitture murali della Galleria delle carte geografiche. Città del Vaticano. Biblioteca Apos‐tolica Vaticana. 1952. In folio. VIII ‐ 90 pp. LIV plates.

Il Padre Vincenzo Coronelli (1650–1718) nel Terzo Centenario della Nascita (= Father Vincenzo Coronelli (1650–1718) in the Third Centenary of his Birth). Roma. 1951–1952. 525 pp., 40 plates.

Bo Bramsen. Gamle Danmarks Kort. An historical review with bibliographic comments for the epoch 1570–1770. Copenhagen. 1952. 159 p. Ills.

Etude historique sur les ingénieurs hydrographes et le service hydrographique de la marine (1814‐1914) par M. Maurice Rollet de L'Isle. Annales hydrographiques. 1950. 4e ser. T.I. (bis). Paris. 1951. 378 p. XXII Pls.

A List of Japanese Maps of the Tokugawa Era. By George H. Beans. Tall Tree Library Publication no. 23; Jenkiniown, Pa., 1951.     

Rhodesia: Report on the Administration of Rhodesia. The British South Africa Company. Impressions of South Africa. James Bryce

EUROPE

A Geography of Europe. Edited by George W. Hoffman. 9×6. Pp. ix+775. 156 figs. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1953. 52s 6d.

Die Landschaften der britischen Inseln. By Johann Sölch. 9 1/2×6 1/2. Erster Band. England und Wales. Pp. xii+1–850. Figs. 1–154. Zweiter Band. Schottland und Irland. Pp. 851–1350. Figs. 155–225. Wien : Springer‐Verlag. Vol. I, 1951. Vol. II, 1952. DM 232, or £19, 17s.

Scottish Industry : An Account of what Scotland makes and where she makes it. Edited by C. A. Oakley. Foreword by The Rt. Hon. Lord Bilsland, M.C., D.L., LL.D. 8 1/2×6. Pp. xvii+332. Plates. Sketch maps. Glasgow: The Scottish Council (Development and Industry). William Collins and Sons Ltd, 1953. 25s.

Orkney Miscellany. 8×6 1/2. Pp. 104. 6 illustrations. Kirkwall: Orkney Record and Antiquarian Society Papers, Vol. 1, 1953. 8s 6d.

The Glasgow Story. By Colm Brogan. 7 3/4×5. Pp. 223. Drawings by Keir. London : Frederick Muller Ltd, 1952. 15s.

Devonshire Studies. By W. G. Hoskins and H. P. R. Finberg. 8 3/4 × 5 6/8. Pp. 470. 8 plates. 11 maps and plans. London : Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1952. 36s.

In Search of Winter Sport. By Monk Gibbon. 8 3/4×5 5/8. Pp. 223. 17 illustrations. End‐paper sketch map. London: Evans Brothers Ltd, 1953. 18s.

Three Rivers of France: Dordogne, Lot, Tarn. By Freda White. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. 232. 49 illustrations. Map. London : Faber and Faber Ltd, 1952. 25s. Reprinted, 1953. 15s.

ASIA

South China in the Sixteenth Century : Being the Narratives of Galeote Pereira ; Fr. Gaspar da Cruz, O.P.; Fr. Martin de Rada, O.E.S.A. (1550–1575). Edited by C. R. Boxer. 8 3/4×5 5/8. Pp. xci+388. 8 figs. 12 plates. [Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. CVL] London. 1953. 40s.

AFRICA

The Suez Canal in World Affairs. By Hugh J. Schonfield. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. x+174. 9 illustrations. 2 sketch maps. [Constellation Books.] London : Vallentine, Mitchell and Co. Ltd, 1952. 15s.

AMERICA

Highland Settler : A Portrait of the Scottish Gael in Nova Scotia. By Charles W. Dunn. 9×6. Pp. xii+180. Frontispiece. 2 sketch maps. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1953. $4.00. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege. 32s.

POLAR REGIONS

John Roe's Correspondence with the Hudson's Bay Company on Arctic Exploration, 1844–1855. Edited by E. E. Rich, M.A., assisted by A. M. Johnson. Introduction by J. M. Wordie, C.B.E., and R. J. Cyriax. 9 1/2×6 1/2. Pp. cvi+401+xiv. 2 illustrations. Sketch map and 2 maps. London : The Publications of The Hudson's Bay Record Society, XVI, 1953.     

The Conjectural Legacy in Editing Horace Exemplified by the First Epode

Addressing three well-known textual issues in Epode 1 (in this order: perdam/ perdat 34, the punctuation of 7–14, superne/superni 29), the author advocates some principles for editors concerning the large legacy of conjectures to Horace: An editor should divide these into four categories according to merit: (I) those adopted in the text itself, with information in the Apparatus criticus, (II) those in the Apparatus criticus only, (III) those in the Appendix critica – the majority, and (IV), if feasible, those found only in a separate repertory/data bank. Whereas the Apparatus criticus should be slim and highly selective, the Appendix critica can be all the more generous. – Strictly philological commentaries accompanying such an edition are seen as a great desideratum in today's classical scholarship.     

In the Land of Olmec Archaeology

Abstract

Michael D. Coe and Richard A. Diehl, In the Land of the Olmec, two volumes plus maps. Volume I, The Archaeology of San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan, 416 pp.; Volume II, The People of the River, 198 pp. The University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas 1980. 100.00.

The recent publication of a comprehensive report describing the excavations at San Lorenzo, Tabasco, Mexico, In the Land of the Olmec by Michael D. Coe and Richard A. Diehl, provides a significant contribution to Mesoamerican archaeology and a suitable opportunity to review the present status of Olmec studies. The development of Olmec archaeology is a relatively recent phenomenon, with the modern era of research beginning with Matthew Stirling's surveys and excavations at several sites in Mexico's Gulf Coast region (1938–1946), and continuing with the University of California at Berkeley's excavations at the site of La Venta in the mid-1950s. The report by Coe and Diehl of the San Lorenzo investigations (1966–1968) adds considerably to our understanding of the origins and other aspects of Olmec civilization. These contributions, together with several continuing gaps in our knowledge, are reviewed by a resume of Olmec chronology, archaeological remains, external connections, and the implications of the Olmec for the evolution of Mesoamerican civilization.     

Book reviews

L'avenir des villes — The Future of Cities. Marc Bonneville (Ed.), Lyon Programme Pluriannuel en Sciences Humaines Rhônes‐Alpes, 1993, 176 pp., 100FF, ISBN 2–909604–03–9.

Spatial Policy in a Divided Nation. Richard T. Harrison and Mark Hart (Eds), London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, with the Regional Studies Association, London, Regional Policy and Development Series 2, 1993, 304 pp., £25.00, ISBN 1–85302–103–2.

Les régions qui gagnent. Georges Benko and Alain Lipietz (Eds), Paris: Presses Unwersitaires de France, 1992, 424 pp..

Rebuilding the City: Property‐led Urban Regeneration. P. Healey, S. HDavoudi, S. Tavsanoglu, M. O'Toole and D. Usher (Eds), London: E & F Spon, 1992, 320 pp., £30.00, ISBN 0 419 17280 7 (hbk).

The Embedded Firm: On the Socio‐economics of Industrial Networks. Gernot Grabher (Ed.), Routledge, 1993, 306 pp., ISBN 0–415–07374‐X.

Inner City Regeneration: The Demise of Regional and Local Government. N. Lewis, Buckingham: Open University Press, 1992, £6.99, ISBN 0335086328.     

Sociability and Hugo Grotius

Summary

Grotius has a rudimentary theory of sociability. Only with hindsight has a remark about appetitus societatis been promoted to the starting point of a theory that flourished in the writings of later natural jurists. In this article, I address the issue of the appearance in Grotius's natural law of sociability [as the 1715/38 English translation of John Morrice renders appetitus societatis, following Barbeyrac's sociabilité]. Writing in the just war tradition, Grotius is first of all interested in finding out the conditions for peace, and although injustice is a condition of war, it is not per se true that injustice is a perversion of society. Apparently, not all societies are perfect and the violence of war and the legal actions of peace are both instruments for achieving a greater modicum of justice in this world. Yet appetitus et custodia societatis is called the foundation of justice. Grotius achieved this context for sociability in phases, through a series of writings from c. 1600 until De iure belli ac pacis of 1625, and its revision of 1631. In this development the notion of fides plays an intriguing role, through which we can obtain a better understanding of the meaning of appetitus societatis in the later work. The present article is a sequel to a previous publication, on fides in De iure praedae (Ms. 1604/5). Analysing the genesis of appetitus societatis in De iure belli ac pacis, I argue that Grotius was changing his strategy over the years, without however arriving at a definitive solution to the question of what commits men to the pursuit of justice.