Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "Sandin, Pär Ola"
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Aeschylus' Supplices: Introduction and Commentary on vv. 1-523
Sandin, Pär Ola (Book, 2005)Aeschylus’ (525–456 B.C.) drama the Suppliant women (Greek Hikétides, Lat. Supplices) is all certain to be the first in a trilogy of tragedies with appurtenant comic epilogue, ‘satyr-play’. The other two tragedies and the ... -
Aeschylus, Supplices 86–95, 843–910, and the early transmission of antistrophic lyrical texts
Sandin, Pär Ola (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2007)The symmetrical inter-displacements of corresponding blocks of text between strophes and antistrophes in lyrical odes, earlier proposed for A. Supp. 88–90 ~ 93–95, 872–75 ~ 882–84, and 906–7 ~ 909–10, have affected all ... -
Aetiology and Justice in the Danaid Trilogy
Sandin, Pär Ola (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The Danaid trilogy showcased the aition of the birth of the Danaans, the heroic Greeks of epic poetry. In the Suppliant maidens, Danaus and his daughters are staged as basically positive characters, in particular through ... -
CARLES MIRALLES†, VITTORIO CITTI, LIANA LOMIENTO, Eschilo: Supplici, Supplemento al Bollettino dei Classici 33, Roma: Bardi Edizioni, 2019, €40.00, 500 pp., ISBN: 978-88-218-1188-3
Sandin, Pär Ola (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)A vindication of the case of the Danaids as one of justice and self-defence is a more attractive reading of the tragedy and reconstruction of the trilogy than an assumption of error in the actions of the girls and their ... -
Critical notes on Aeschylus
Sandin, Pär Ola (Journal article, 2002)In Sept. 915 read δόμων μὰν (Schneider) ἀχώ -
The Emblems of Excellence in Pindar’s First and Third Olympian Odes and Bacchylides’ Third Epinician
Sandin, Pär Ola (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014) -
An emendation in Hippolytus 1014
Sandin, Pär Ola (Journal article, 1998)In Eur. Hipp. 1014 read ἥδιστά γ’, εἰ μὴ πᾶς φρένας διεφθάρη. -
Famous Hyperboreans
Sandin, Pär Ola (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)The individual Hyperboreans appearing in ancient literature are presented with a review of the Greek and Latin sources and collections of references. Most of the mythological characters are briefly discussed, but the ... -
Gemina nox: Pornographic allusion in Catullus 51
Sandin, Pär Ola (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Catullus 51 may be read as a description of the sexual act of mutual oral-to-genital stimulation popularly known as ‘69’, suggesting a facetious misreading of Sappho 31. In v. 8, supply <tum nisi cunnus>. -
Gotisk affaradag jul vid det bysantinska hovet: Ur Konstantin Porphyogennetos De ceremoniis, med anmärkningar av Nils Sjöberg, Johann Jakob Reiske, Martin P:n Nilsson och Pär Sandin
Porphyrogennetos, Konstantin; Sandin, Pär Ola; Reiske, Johann Jacob; Nilsson, Martin P:son (Journal article, 2009)The description of the "Gothic play" in Constantin Porphyrogennetus, De ceremoniis (vol. II pp. 181ff. Voigt) may ultimately go back to the Scandinavian custom "Affaradag jóla", during which Yule was driven out violently ... -
A Greek delocutive noun? Some notes on ποίφυγμα and its alleged cognates
Sandin, Pär Ola (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2001)Delocutives are formed with an utterance (x) as a radical. Common in Greek are verbs meaning "say x" (e.g., πατερίζω); nominal formations denote for instance a person saying x or the utterance x per se. The latter type ... -
Herodotus, Dionysus, and the Greek death taboo. The Homeric hymn to Demeter and the construction of the "chthonic" in Greek literary tradition
Sandin, Pär Ola (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009)Herodotus’ explicit avoidance of the mentioning of divine names and matters in the second book of the Histories counts in most cases as instances of the Greek taboo concerning the relation of gods to the impurity of death, ... -
Life and Death on the East Frieze of the Parthenon
Sandin, Pär Ola (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The gods on the Parthenon frieze are represented as looking out on the real world from the position of their material image on the Acropolis, displaying the contemporary imperial self-awareness of Athens. Poseidon’s gaze ... -
The Man of authority: images of power in Virgil’s Aeneid 1.50–156
Sandin, Pär Ola (Chapter, 2000)In Aen. 1.50-156, Aeolus, king of winds, enforces his will by /imperium/, /vincla/ ('fetters') and /carcer/ ('imprisonment'), but his vanquisher, Neptune, lord of the sea, by /dictis/ ('words'), hence relying on natural ... -
Norsk litterär filhellenism 1821–1832 och dess svenska kontrast
Sandin, Pär Ola (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011)Philhellenism in literature denotes written support for the insurrection against Osman sovereignity during the Greek war of liberation (1821–1830). Of Norwegian writers only Henrik Wergeland counts as a philhellene during ... -
On Sappho 1: vv. 7–15 and Rigveda 1.118; an emendation in v. 18
Sandin, Pär Ola (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012)The literary image in Sappho 1.7–15 of a goddess ascending on and travelling by a chariot which is yoked to birds occurs also of the Daughter of the Sun in hymn 1.118 of the Rigveda. Apart from the image as such, the shared ... -
Scythia or Elysium? The Land of the Hyperboreans in Early Greek Literature
Sandin, Pär Ola (Cursor Mundi; 31, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018)In Ionic literary tradition, the Hyperborean people are more or less consistently portrayed as ethnically and geographically Scythian. Several details in the tenth Pythian and third Olympian odes, including the location ... -
Tre studier i Vergilius' Aeneid: Ideologi och litterär påverkan i skildringen av Neptunus, Aeolus, Aeneas och Iulus
Sandin, Pär Ola (Others, 2010-08-12)(1) In Aen. 1.50-156, Aeolus, king of winds, enforces his will by imperium, vincla ('fetters') and carcer ('imprisonment'), but his vanquisher, Neptune, lord of the sea, by dictis ('words'), hence relying on natural authority ... -
Two fragments and an epigram (Pind. fr. 52A, Eur. fr. 898 K., AP 7.77)
Sandin, Pär Ola (Journal article, 2008)In Pind. fr. 52a 1 read στένεα; Eur. fr. 898 is mostly spurious; in AP 7.77.2 read ζῆν. -
Verbal repetition in Sappho: two wedding song fragments (114, 104a V.)
Sandin, Pär Ola (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)