The Hedgehog and the Fox

¹ [Carmina Archilochi: The Fragments of Archilochus (Berkeley, 1964), 64. In transliteration the fragment runs ‘poll’ oid’ alpx, all’ ekhnos hen mega’; in the same order the words mean ‘many [things] knows fox, but hedgehog one big/great [thing]’. The solidity and trickery are entirely plausible, but not literal.]

¹ [A very full account of possible interpretations is now available in the article by Paula Correa cited below (114/1).]

² Lasserre established the text of Archiloque: Fragments (Paris, 1958), but the translations are by André Bonnard, who on p. 54 renders this fragment: ‘Il sait bien des tours, le renard. Le herisson n’en connaît qu’un, mais il est fameux.’

¹ [Ernst Diehl (ed), Anthologia lyrica graeca (Leipzig, 1923–5). IB here omits to mention what he reports elsewhere (e.g. 101 above), that it was Asquith who first drew his attention to the fragment.]

² [Possibly a reference to Herder’s Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit (1784–91), part 3, book 13, chapter 5, ‘The Scientific Practices of the Greeks’, where he writes: ‘Where are the many lost pieces of Archilochus […]?’]

³ In fact ‘Lev Tolstoy’s Historical Scepticism’: see xi above.

⁴ George Weidenfeld of Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

¹ [He did not, however, add it to his translation.]

¹ Personal communication, 2012. See also Paula Correa, ‘The Fox and the Hedgehog’, Phaos 1 (2001), 81–92 (see 90–1), revised as ‘A Raposa e o Porco-Espinho (201)’ in id., Um bestiário arcaico: fábulas e imagens de animais na poesia de Arquíloco (Campinas, 2010), 163–78 (see 175–8); and Luca Bettarini, ‘Archiloco fr. 201 W.: meglio volpe o riccio?’, Philologia antiqua 2 (2009), 45–51 at 49.

¹ West, op. cit. (1/2), fragments 23 and 196A.

² ibid. 91 (178).

INDEX

Douglas Matthews

Aeschylus, 79

Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna, 103

Akhsharumov, Nikolay Dmitrievich, 8, 35, 42

Alembert, Jean le Rond d’, 76

Alexander I, Tsar of Russia, 19, 24–5, 27, 31, 72

Anderson, Perry R., 102

Annenkov, Pavel Vasil′evich: and Turgenev’s view of Tolstoy, 6

Annunzio, Gabriele d’, 54

Aquinas, St Thomas, 76, 86

Archilochus, 1, 91, 101, 104, 106–10, 112–15

Aristotle: as ‘fox’, 2, 91

Asquith, Julian Edward George see Oxford and Asquith, 2nd Earl of

Augustine of Hippo, St, 83

Austerlitz, battle of (1805), 18, 60, 72

authority: Maistre’s belief in, 65–6, 87

Bagration, Prince Petr Ivanovich, 18

Balzac, Honoré de, 2

Barrès, Maurice Auguste, 86

Barsotti, Charles, xv

Bartenev, Petr Ivanovich, 53

Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 27

Belinsky, Vissarion Grigor′evich: friendship with Botkin, 6

Bennett, (Enoch) Arnold, 9n, 22

Bennigsen, General Levin August Gottlieb Theofil, Count, 21

Bergson, Henri, 34, 100

Berthier, Marshal Louis Alexandre, 72

Bettarini, Luca: ‘Archiloco fr. 201 W.: meglio volpe o riccio?’, 114n

Biryukov, Pavel Ivanovich, 8, 61n

Blake, William, 86

Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, 3

Bonnard, André, 110n

Borodino, battle of (1812), 18–19, 29

Botkin, Vasily Petrovich: view of Tolstoy, 7, 10

bourgeoisie: Marx on self-deception, 30

Bowie, Ewen Lyall, 114–15

Bowle, John Edward: ‘The Owl and the Pussy-Cat’, xv, 97–100

Bowman, John S., 107–10, 112–13

Bowra, (Cecil) Maurice, 113; On Greek Margins, 1n

Boyer, Paul, 20n, 52

Büchner, Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig, 82

Buckle, Henry Thomas, 33, 48

Burke, Edmund, 35, 87

Cabanis, Pierre Jean Georges, 73

Carlyle, Thomas, 86

Catherine II (‘the Great’), Empress of Russia, 13

Catholics: counter-revolutionaries, 64; Maistre on, 86, 89

Chateaubriand, François René Auguste, vicomte de, 86

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 3

Cherniss, Joshua Laurence, and Henry Hardy: ‘A Philosophy for Our Time’, 106

Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Gavrilovich: and Tolstoy, 48

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith, 84

choice (individual): freedom of, 30, 51, 77, 82; Tolstoy disbelieves in, 30, 32, 77–8

Cobbett, William, 84

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 86

Comte, Isidore Auguste François Marie Xavier, 16, 48

Correa, Paula: ‘The Fox and the Hedgehog’, 114n, 115

Crimean War (1854–5), 52, 62

Crowder, George: Isaiah Berlin: Liberty and Pluralism, 104n

Danilevsky, Nikolay Yakovlevich, 8

Dante Alighieri: as ‘hedgehog’, 2, 4, 93, 103

Darwin, Charles Robert, 16

Davenport, Guy Mattison, 109–10

Decembrists, 62

Descartes, René, 111

determinism: Tolstoy on, 32, 34, 77–8, 80

dialectic, 100

Dickens, Charles John Huffam, 14

Diderot, Denis, 27, 47, 73

Diehl, Ernst, 112

Distributists, 84

Dodds, Eric Robertson, 113

Dostoevsky, Fedor Mikhailovich: as ‘hedgehog’, 2, 4, 91, 93, 95, 107, 108; speech on Pushkin, 3; contrasted with Tolstoy, 46; and natural sciences, 48; influenced by Proudhon, 66n

Edel, Joseph Leon: letter to, 93

Eikhenbaum, Boris Mikhailovich: on