title: Were Homeric Glosses Part of School Education in Fifth-century Athens? New Interpretation of Aristophanes’ Daitales fr. 233
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metadata.value: Chepel, Elena Yu.
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metadata.value: 2023-02-21T20:15:19Z
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metadata.value: 2023-02-21T20:15:19Z
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metadata.value: 2022-12
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metadata.value: Chepel E. Yu. Were Homeric Glosses Part of School Education in Fifth-century Athens? New Interpretation of Aristophanes’ Daitales fr. 233. Philologia Classica 2022, 17 (2), 244–252. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2022.204
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2022.204
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/39152
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metadata.value: The article revisits Aristophanes’ Daitales fr. 233 which is often taken as (the only) evidence of
  Homeric glosses being drilled by Athenian youth as part of their school education in 5th c. BC.
  The author discusses in detail the context of Aristophanic citation in Galen’s work, the state
  of the text of the fragment and its modern interpretations. In fact, nothing in the text itself
  directly suggests that learning glosses was part of the traditional school education in Athens.
  On the contrary, it can be argued that Aristophanes presented glosses as linguistic innovations
  and intellectuals studying them as sophists. The parallels between Daitales and Clouds, as well
  as Plato’s Kratylos and other fifth-century texts must be taken into account when interpreting
  the dialogue between the Father and his Son in fr. 233. As a conclusion, the author suggests
  that the characters of Daitales should be interpreted differently: the Old Man in this episode
  of the play is not opposing the sophistic teachings, but rather using these in his argument as
  an instrument to demonstrate the Licentious Son his ignorance. The latter is apparently not a
  follower of the sophists and defends himself with his more practical knowledge of legal terms.
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metadata.value: The article was written in the framework of the project “Digital commentaries to ancient texts:
  ancient Greek comedy” financially supported by the grant of the Government of the Russian Federation
  No. 075-15-2021-571. I would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for helpful comments.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 17; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Aristophanes’ Daitales
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: school education
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metadata.value: glosses
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metadata.value: sophists
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metadata.value: ancient linguistic theories
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Were Homeric Glosses Part of School Education in Fifth-century Athens? New Interpretation of Aristophanes’ Daitales fr. 233
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