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Cosmetic Alterations: Religion and the Emergence of Behavioural Modernity
Author: Peter Jackson Rova
Type:
Chapter
In: Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: A New Synthesis
Editors:
Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Gilhus Ingvild Sælid, Luther H. Martin, Jeppe Sinding Jensen, and Jesper Sørensen
E-Book ISBN:
9789004385375
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 2018
The Secret of the Untrembling Heart
Author: Peter Jackson Rova

Abstract

The poem by Parmenides is widely recognized as having a decisive influence on Greek philosophy. The text is also notorious for its interpretative problems owing to its obscure poetic style. Among the discordant quotes from the proem, Simplicius uniquely preserves a verse with the unparalleled genitive εὐκυκλέος (literally ‘of [the] well-wheeled’). Contrary to a recent editorial trend in opting for the lectio facilior εὐπειθέος (‘of [the] well-persuasive’), I argue in this paper that the lectio difficilior is genuine testimony to a poetic device designed by Parmenides to perform a pivotal role in the proemial structure as a whole, and to redeploy a key concept in archaic verbal art by means of paronomasia: the ‘glory’ (κλέος) conveyed through the costly medium of song. The proem thus gives characteristic voice to the experimental spirit of inquiry in which Parmenides variously challenged and took his cue from the conceptual framework of encomiastic performance.

Type:
Journal Article
In: Mnemosyne
ISSN:
0026-7074
Publication Date:
11 Sep 2020
In:
Volume 74: Issue 5