Land of Dreams: Greek And Latin Studies in Honour of A.H.M. Kessels

Land of Dreams Greek and Latin Studies in Honour of A.H.M. Kessels

Professor A.H.M. Kessels

Land of Dreams Greek and Latin Studies in Honour of A.H.M. Kessels

Edited by

A.P.M.H. Lardinois M.G.M. van der Poel V.J.C. Hunink

BRILL LEIDEN • BOSTON 2006

Cover illustration: Sleeping Ariadne, 2nd century Roman copy after Hellenistic original. Rome, Vatican Museums. Photograph by Eric M. Moormann. Frontispiece: Professor A.H.M. Kessels. Photograph by H. van de Sluis.

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Homer, Odyssey 24.11–18

CONTENTS Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii Bibliography of A.H.M. Kessels 1969–2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii PART I. DREAMS IN CLASSICAL LITERATURE

Herodotus and the dream of Cambyses (Hist. 3.30, 61–65) . . . . . . . . . . I.J.F. de Jong

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Dreams in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 V.J.Chr. Hunink Self-killing in Artemidoros’ dream world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 A.J.L. van Hooff Dreams in the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 J. den Boeft The vision of Constantine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 J.N. Bremmer Träume und Visionen in den Dialogen Gregors des Großen . . . . . . . 80 G.J.M. Bartelink PART II. CLASSICAL DRAMA

Aeschylus and the last act of Salamis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 H.T. Wallinga Dubious advice: The Paedagogus in Sophocles’ Electra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 A.P.M.H. Lardinois Future expectations in Sophocles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 G.C. Wakker The λξις ;ρωτικ< in Sophocles’ satyr plays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 W.L.G.M. Slenders Praxithea: a perfect mother? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 M.A. Harder

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Phaedra’s declaration of love to Hippolytus (Seneca, Phaedra 589–719) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 M.G.M. van der Poel Alfred Döblin and Antigone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 A.M. van Erp Taalman Kip PART III. THE RECEPTION OF HOMER

What do we do with Homer? Literary criticism in the Hellenistic age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 D.M. Schenkeveld Homer, Apollonius, Callimachus and the concept of Διηνεκ