More Than Meets the Eye: The Aesthetics of (Non)sense in the Ancient Greek Symposium

Pappas, Alexandra

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“…For a detailed account of Simias' response to Homer, see Di Gregorio 2008. 54 Goldhill 2007 See, e.g., Osborne and Pappas 2007;Pappas 2004;Squire 2009;Pappas 2011;Pappas 2012;Gagné Forthcoming. See also Butz 2010 for the aesthetics of the word-image exchanges of the Hekatompedon inscription.…”

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The Treachery of Verbal Images: Viewing the Greek technopaegnia

Pappas¹

2012

The Muse at Play

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The Treachery of Verbal Images: Viewing the Greek technopaegnia

Pappas¹

2012

The Muse at Play

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“…142, 153, for performative functions of nonsense inscriptions. Pappas (2012) suggests that combined sense and nonsense inscriptions on sympotic vases constituted a kind of aesthetic communication intended to present the audience with an intellectual challenge.…”

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“…153, 155, 160, 163-164, 167-170, 174;Wachter 2001, pp. 153-154;Pappas 2012. For the vases discussed here, we provide, where available, references to ABV, ARV 2 , Paralipomena, and Beazley, Addenda 2 (Add.…”

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Making Sense of Nonsense Inscriptions Associated with Amazons and Scythians on Athenian Vases

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Colarusso²,

Saunders³

2014

Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studi

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More than 1,500 "nonsense" inscriptions appear on ancient Athenian vases. We ask whether some of those inscriptions associated with depictions of Scythians and Amazons might represent meaningful sounds in foreign languages spoken in the Black Sea and Caucasus region. Analysis of the linguistic patterns of nonsense inscriptions on 12 vases of the Late Archaic and Early Classical periods reveals that some can be interpreted as names and other words in ancient formsof Iranian, Abkhazian, Circassian, Ubykh, and Georgian. These inscriptions constitute the earliest written evidence for Caucasian languages, and shed light on questions of Greco-Scythian relations, ethnicity, literacy, bilingualism, and iconography.

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An Iambic Scepter?: The Akhnymenē Skytalē of Archilochus

Pappas¹

2014

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Archilochus issues an iambic challenge to Kerykides through the frame of authoritative speech in Epode 185W; the much-debated phrase akhnymenē skytalē is essential to that attack. I propose a new reading of akhnymenē that allows for its double-valence: it is at once "sorrowful" (as traditionally understood) and "speaking." This double meaning accords precisely with the dual strands of Archilochus' biting poetic mode: his words bring sorrow to their target in their verbal articulation. Such a reading also recommends my view of Archilochus' message stick as an analogue to Hesiod's iconic scepter, that is, as emblematic of Archilochus' authoritative iambic speech.

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More Than Meets the Eye: The Aesthetics of (Non)sense in the Ancient Greek Symposium

Cited by 5 publications

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The Treachery of Verbal Images: Viewing the Greek technopaegnia

The Treachery of Verbal Images: Viewing the Greek technopaegnia

Making Sense of Nonsense Inscriptions Associated with Amazons and Scythians on Athenian Vases

An Iambic Scepter?: The Akhnymenē Skytalē of Archilochus

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