Philodemus on Ethos in Music

L. P. Wilkinson

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Philodemus on Ethos in Music

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L. P. Wilkinson

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The fragmentary columns of the Fourth Book of Philodemus' περ μονσικς were the first-fruits of Herculaneum, published in 1793, with venturesome reconstructions and learned notes, by the Academici of Naples. Fragments of the other books occur in four volumes of the Collectio Altera of 1862–5. A. Teubner Text by J. Kemke, a pupil of Bücheler, appeared in 1884, upon which Gomperz made a number of improvements in a pamphlet published in the following year. Otherwise, save for a few pages in H. Abert's Die Lehre vom Ethos in der griechischen Musik published in 1899, the work has attracted very little attention; which is scarcely surprising in view of the state of the text and the peculiar awkwardness of Philodemus' Greek.

Type: Research Article
Information: The Classical Quarterly , Volume 32 , Issue 3-4 , July 1938 , pp. 174 - 181

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^{page 174 note 1} Zu Philodems Büchern von der Musik. 1885.

^{page 174 note 2} Pp. 27–37. To this admirable work any student of the subject must be indebted.

^{page 174 note 3} Greek Literary Criticism, p. XIX.

^{page 174 note 4} This should read ‘middle’, if not ‘first’ half'. Cf. also Abert's, Gesammelte Schriften (Die Stellung der Musik in der Antiken Kultur, 1926)Google Scholar; Wilkinson, L. P., Philodemus and Poetry, pp. 146–7 (Greece and Rome, 05, 1933)Google Scholar.

^{page 174 note 5} Introduction to ‘Arte Poetica di Orazio’ (1930).

^{page 174 note 6} See Stocks, J. L. in New Chapters in Greek Literature, First Series, p. 23Google Scholar.

^{page 175 note 1} See Rostagni, loc, cit.

^{page 175 note 2} Tr. H. S. Macran.

^{page 175 note 3} Abert, , op. cit. pp. 19 ff.Google Scholar; 32 ff.

^{page 175 note 4} Cf. Ps.-Arist. Probl. XIX, 10.

^{page 176 note 1} Cf. Aristotle, , Poetics, I, 2Google Scholar.

^{page 176 note 2} Die herculanischen Rollen. Zeitschrift für d.oesterr. Gymn. 1865, X. Heft. C.A. II, 148–58.

^{page 176 note 3} Cf. περ ποιημάтων II, fr. 2 (Hausrath).

^{page 176 note 4} Cf. Adam, J. on Rep. X, 595cGoogle Scholar;Atkins, J. W. H., Literary Criticism in Antiquity, Vol.I, pp. 51–2Google Scholar; S. H. Butcher, Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art, ch. II.

^{page 177 note 1} Paus, X, 17; Poll. X, 84.

^{page 177 note 2} ‘Diese wenigen Worte enthalten im Kern den ganzen Unterschied der alten und derneuen Musik.’ Stumpf, C.: Die pseudaristotelischen Probleme über Musik, p. 63 (Abhand. d. Berl. Akad. 1896)Google Scholar.

^{page 177 note 3} Pol. VIII, 1340A. But cf. Plato, , Laws 798DGoogle Scholar.

^{page 177 note 4} Cf. Athen. XIV, p. 625; Th. Reinach, , La Musique Grecque, p. 45Google Scholar.

^{page 178 note 1} This depends, however, on the identification with the Lydian Mode with our Major, which is a matter for doubt.

^{page 178 note 2} Abert, , op. cit. p. 48Google Scholar.

^{page 178 note 3} Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art, pp. 131–2.

^{page 178 note 4} The dependence of Philodemus' aesthetics on the Epicurean system as a whole may be illustrated, for instance, by his identification of ʎήθεια and πάντα Compare περ ποιημάτѡν V, col. 5, 29–34, and Sext. Emp. adv. Math. VIII, 9; U. 244. There is an Oxford Papyrus fragment of a work περ αἰσθήσεѡς Philodemus' aesthetics Vol. I, 19 (Scott).

^{page 178 note 5} Col. 3, 12; col. 19, 15; col. 24, 12.

^{page 179 note 1} κα τàς ρμάς … λέγѡν … γνεσθαι … ὑπό τν [μοιω]μτων, γνοεῖ δι [μοιώσ]ɛώς γενομζων ὡς ἒχ[ɛι μλος] ρɛτς τινας γγιω[ομνας]. (It will be seen that it is just the key syllables which are lost here; but in the context the restoration is probable.) Cf. also Book III, fr.27.

^{page 179 note 2} Cf. col. 29, 31, κα[θ' ὃ μν μ]ουσικο ἱλαρ[ωκναι].

^{page 179 note 3} Op. cit. p. 184.

^{page 179 note 4} Cf. Edwards, W. M. in New Chapters on Greek Poetry, Second Series, p. 91 fGoogle Scholar.

^{page 179 note 5} Cf. Abert, H., op. cit. p. 37Google Scholar.

^{page 180 note 1} Non posse suaoiter vivi secundum Epicurum, 13.

^{page 180 note 2} Cf. 1337^B.

^{page 181 note 1} Plutarch, ib. 12.

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