Project MUSE®: Helios - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Helios.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 34 (2007) through current issueLatest Articles: HeliosTWOProject MUSE®Helios1935-02280160-0923Latest articles in Helios. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Sympathy with the Spear: Iliadic Tree Similes and Achilles’ Entanglement with the Pelian Spear
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984780
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When Patroclus prepares to come to the aid of the Achaeans in Iliad 16, he follows Achilles’ orders and dons Peleus’s armor, making it appear as if Achilles has rejoined the battle. While the subsequent description follows the typical formula for arming scenes, the narrator innovates when Patroclus curiously fails to take up one piece of Achilles’ equipment: the Pelian spear.1 The narrator explains, “No other of the Achaeans was able to wield it, but Achilles alone knew how to wield it” (Il. 16.141–142: τὸ μὲν οὐ δύνατ᾽ ἄλλος Ἀχαιῶν / πάλλειν, ἀλλά μιν οἶος ἐπίστατο πῆλαι Ἀχιλλεύς).2 According to the scholia, however, the Homeric exegete Megacleides suggests a supplementary explanation in the second book of his On
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/363/image/coversmallSympathy with the Spear: Iliadic Tree Similes and Achilles’ Entanglement with the Pelian Spear2026-03-06text/htmlen-USSympathy with the Spear: Iliadic Tree Similes and Achilles’ Entanglement with the Pelian Spear2026-03-062026TWOProject MUSE®1318362026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-06Hands and Herodotus: Filling Gaps, Probing Boundaries
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984781
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Jan Vansina defined iconatrophy as a process in which oral traditions originate as after-the-fact explanations for remarkable material objects (1985). Over time, these objects have stopped making sense to their viewers. There is a gap between the object and its interpreters, and a story is generated to fill that gap. Vansina offers as an example the legend of a female pope: “In Rome the existence of an ancient statue of a woman seated on what looked like the papal sedia gestatoria gave rise to the legend of Pope Johanna, a woman pope” (1985, 10). Catherine Keesling in her 2005 article “Misunderstood Gestures: Iconatrophy and the Reception of Greek Sculpture in the Roman Imperial Period” offers a general example of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/363/image/coversmallHands and Herodotus: Filling Gaps, Probing Boundaries2026-03-06text/htmlen-USHands and Herodotus: Filling Gaps, Probing Boundaries2026-03-062026TWOProject MUSE®890432026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-06A Stylometric Reassessment of the (Pseudo?) Ovidian Nux
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984782
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In the recent Appendix Ovidiana: Latin Poems Ascribed to Ovid in the Middle Ages, one can find the text and translation of the elegiac poem entitled Nux, otherwise known as De nuce (“[On] The Walnut Tree”) (Hexter, Pfuntner, and Haynes 2020, 32–43). Though the collection is carefully named (as a group of poems ascribed to Ovid rather than invoking the terms genuine, pseudo, or other suggestions of intentionality), it is a volume of Ovidian pseudepigrapha and in at least one case a forgery of Ovid.2 The inclusion of the Nux in a collection of spuriana seems to cement its status as pseudepigraphal,3 after centuries of unquestioning attribution to Ovid, declarations of spuriousness in the nineteenth century, and a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/363/image/coversmallA Stylometric Reassessment of the (Pseudo?) Ovidian Nux2026-03-06text/htmlen-USA Stylometric Reassessment of the (Pseudo?) Ovidian Nux2026-03-062026TWOProject MUSE®1768902026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-06Notes on Contributors
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984783
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Lilah Grace Canevaro is Senior Lecturer in Greek at the University of Edinburgh. She is author of the books Hesiod’s Works and Days: How to Teach Self-Sufficiency (OUP 2015), Women of Substance in Homeric Epic: Objects, Gender, Agency (OUP 2018), and Theocritus and Things: Material Agency in the Idylls (EUP 2023). She is co-editor of the Edinburgh University Press book series Ancient Cultures, New Materialisms, and co-founder of the Network for Working-Class Classicists.Rebecca Menmuir is Darby Fellow in English Literature at Lincoln College, Oxford. She is the author of Medieval Responses to Ovid’s Exile (Cambridge 2025), and the editor of Authenticity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (De Gruyter 2025). Her
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/363/image/coversmallNotes on Contributors2026-03-06text/htmlen-USNotes on Contributors2026-03-062026TWOProject MUSE®31962026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-06