A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Interpreters of Interpreters
Authors: Seppänen Minna, Lampinen Antti
Publisher: Brill
Publication year: 2019
Journal: Mnemosyne
Journal name in source: MNEMOSYNE
Journal acronym: MNEMOSYNE
Volume: 72
Issue: 6
First page : 883
Last page: 907
Number of pages: 25
ISSN: 0026-7074
eISSN: 1568-525X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/1568525X-12342602
Abstract
We discuss analogies between oracular and grammatical interpretation, as reflected in our Greek and Latin sources from the Classical era to the High Empire. The two hermeneutical professions of mu alpha nu iota i zeta and gamma rho alpha mu mu alpha iota i chi o zeta both aim at elucidating the thought (delta i alpha nu oi alpha) involved in the interpretandum. This is a notion quite frequently made at one level or another in ancient literature, as evidenced for example in writings by Plato, Crates of Mallus, Aristarchus, Cicero, Nigidius Figulus, and Sextus Empiricus.
We discuss analogies between oracular and grammatical interpretation, as reflected in our Greek and Latin sources from the Classical era to the High Empire. The two hermeneutical professions of mu alpha nu iota i zeta and gamma rho alpha mu mu alpha iota i chi o zeta both aim at elucidating the thought (delta i alpha nu oi alpha) involved in the interpretandum. This is a notion quite frequently made at one level or another in ancient literature, as evidenced for example in writings by Plato, Crates of Mallus, Aristarchus, Cicero, Nigidius Figulus, and Sextus Empiricus.
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