Figures in the Shadows: The Speech of Two Augustan-Age Declaimers, Arellius Fuscus and Papirius Fabianus

396 Pages·2018·1.399 MB·English

by  Huelsenbeck, Bart

BartHuelsenbeck
FiguresintheShadows
Beiträge zur Altertumskunde
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Susanne Daub, Michael Erler, Dorothee Gall,
Ludwig Koenen und Clemens Zintzen
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Bart Huelsenbeck
Figures in the
Shadows
The Speech of Two Augustan-Age Declaimers,
Arellius Fuscus and Papirius Fabianus
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Acknowledgments
Thepresentstudyhasbynowdevelopedaratherlonghistory,certainlylonger
than I would ever have anticipated when it first began. The debts that I have
accrued, both professional and personal, have come at various stages and in
different forms. The most significant of these I wish to acknowledge in this
shortspace.
The work seen here began as a dissertation at Duke University under the
supervisionofMaryT.Boatwright,whohasprovenaconstantchampionofthe
study’s purpose and merits, both during the writing of the dissertation and
eversinceitsacceptance.ChristinaKrausofYaleUniversityservedonthedis-
sertationcommittee,gavecriticalfeedback,andcontinuedtopushforpublica-
tion.ItreasurememoriesoflongconversationswithFrancisNewtonandLarry
Richardson, Jr. (1920–2013) that have informed this study in ways impossible
to pinpoint or quantify. Others at Duke helped in various ways, among them
Diskin Clay (1938–2014), Micaela Janan, Grant Parker, Kent Rigsby, and Clare
Woods.Atalatestage,NeilBernsteindeliveredcommentsandashotofenthu-
siasm.
OverthepastdecadeorsoEuropehasbecometheepicenterofstudieson
declamation.Byaninexplicablestrokeofgoodfortune,Ihavegainedthesup-
port of two leading authorities on the subject, Francesco Citti and Antonio
Stramaglia, without whose consummate expertise and generosity this study
likely would never have been published. Charles Guérin helped more than he
knows, urging publication at a time when I had nearly abandoned the idea
andalsoprovidingfeedback.
A New Faculty Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Socie-
ties (ACLS) was necessary for the opportunity to begin revision. A Research
Fellowship from the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR)
wassimilarlyindispensable,atatimewhenuniversityresourcesarescarceor
inaccessible.
FrankT.Coulson,whohasbeenwithmesincemyinitiationintoacademia,
hasbeenanunfailingsourceofsupportandencouragement.MarcelloLippiello
hasremainedthefaithfulcompanionandatruefriend.
IdonotknowStefanFeddern,butIwanttoexpresssincerethankstohim
for taking seriously the dissertation version of this study, and for graciously
lookingpastitsflaws.
The last word belongs to family, without whom this work is unthinkable:
CherylandBillBrunscheen,BrianHuelsenbeckandfamily,theJaergerfamily,
andfinallymywifeandtwosons—Amy,Willem,andOzzy.
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Abbreviations
C. Controuersia(e)
H EditionofelderSenecabyL.Håkanson.Theabbreviationisalwaysusedwithpage
andlinenumbers,e.g.,H354,8–10=page354,lines8–10ofHåkanson1989a.
H-Sz Hofmann,J.B./Szantyr,A.(1965),LateinischeSyntaxundStilistik,Munich.
K-St Kühner,R./Stegmann,C.(1988),AusführlicheGrammatikderlateinischenSpra-
che:ii.Satzlehre,5thed.revisedbyA.Thierfelder,2vols.,Hannover.
OLD (2012),OxfordLatinDictionary,2nded.,2vols.,Oxford.
S. Suasoria(e)
TLL (1900–),Thesauruslinguaelatinae,Leipzig.
Sigla for the textual tradition of the elder Seneca
V Vaticanuslatinus3872.CopiedatCorbie,850–880.
V2 Ninth-centurycorrectorofV.
B Brussels,Bibl.Royale,9581–9595.Copiedsaec.ix2/2,perhapsinNEFrance.
A Antwerp,ErfgoedbibliotheekHendrikConscience,411.Copiedsaec.x,inFrance.
E Excerptedtradition.TheprincipalmanuscriptwitnessisMontpellier,Bibliothèque
interuniversitaire,SectionMédecine,H126.
Editions of the elder Seneca
Bornecque,H.(1932[orig.1902]),ControversesetSuasoires,2nded.,2vols.,Paris.
Bursian, C. (1857), Annaei Senecae Oratorum et rhetorum sententiae diuisiones colores,
Leipzig.
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Contents
Acknowledgments v
Abbreviation,sigla,editions vii
Introduction 1
1 QuotationsinthecollectionoftheelderSeneca:principles
oforder 9
1 Terminology:thema,sententiae,diuisiones,colores 9
2 Quotations:sequence,sources,reliability 12
3 Sententiaearenon-sequential 20
4 Seneca’scollectionlimitedbysupportingdocuments 28
5 Quotationsconvergeinalimitednumberofsharedloci 37
6 Sharedlociaresignaledthroughkeywords,formulae,and
labels 50
7 Conclusion 59
Appendix 61
2 PapiriusFabianus:voiceofaphilosopher 65
1 Fabianus’reputationinancientsources:are-evaluation 69
2 Questforstrengthofutterance:thephilosopher-preacher 83
3 Traditionalspeech:phoneticarchitecture,parataxis,guttatim
style 86
4 Fabianus’speech:traditional,lofty 91
4.1 Fabianusphilosophusattackswealthitself(C.2.1) 94
4.2 Phoneticstructuringandcivilwar(C.2.1.10–13) 99
4.3 Descriptionsofthetorturedwife(C.2.5) 117
5 Fabianus’speech:simple,didactic(C.2.6,2.2,2.3) 133
5.1 Controuersia2.6 134
5.2 Controuersia2.2 142
5.3 Controuersia2.3 145
6 Conclusion 147
Appendix 149
3 ArelliusFuscus:arhetorreviewed 153
1 Fuscus’biography,andhisallegedAsianism 157
2 Sentencearchitectureandproserhythm 165
x Contents
3 Fuscuscreatesword-groupspossessinghighlydefined
boundaries 170
4 Word-groupsserveasframes:studyofC.2.1.4–8 174
4.1 Sentencearchitecture 174
4.2 Sentencearchitectureandinformationalframes 183
5 Subject-finalwordorder,presentationalsentences,thetic
perspective 197
5.1 Fuscineentriescontainingsubject-finalorder:fulmen
inclausula 201
5.2 Subject-finalorder:otherfactors 204
5.3 V-Sorderanddescriptivesentences 207
5.4 Presentationalsentences,theticity 210
6 Scenicmodeofspeechandtheentry-type‘proposition
andelaboration’ 218
7 Conclusion 229
Appendix 231
4 ArelliusFuscus:presenceintraditions 235
1 Suasoria3 237
1.1 Anorderlyandtraditionaldescriptionofthemoon’s
phases 239
1.2 Impressivelanguageinatechnicalexposition 247
1.3 Fuscusamongthepoets:imageoftheDespairing
Farmer 250
1.4 Fuscusandmoralphilosophy:excessrainandtheDespairing
Farmer 259
2 Suasoria4 264
2.1 Athought-pattern(entries1–3):‘wecandwellamong
theheavenlygods’ 271
2.2 Fuscinemediationinthetraditionoftheplanetarylist
(entry4) 277
2.3 UseofVergilinbuildingloci 286
3 Suasoriae6and7:Ciceronianspeech,declamatoryloci 290
3.1 FuscusbuildslocifromacollectionofCiceropassages 293
3.2 Traditionofthe‘Ciceronianepitaph’ 303
4 Suasoria5 311
4.1 Anobservationonparticiples 316
4.2 Psychologicaldarkness:thegreatmanindefeat 320
5 Conclusion 328