Philologica

Merkelbach, Reinhold; Blümel, Wolfgang

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“…Many scholars have suspected that our Odyssey repeatedly alludes to alternative and competing versions of Odysseus' nostos, including one version which involved a more 'realistic' itinerary that took the hero to real-world locations such as Crete and Thesprotia. 82 The contents of any such alternative traditions are extremely conjectural and often based on little more than late sources and the internal evidence of the Odyssey itself, 83 but they are at least partly presupposed by the Odyssean proem, in which Homer asks the Muse to 'speak to us too from some point in the story' (τῶν ἁμόθεν γε . .…”

Section: Myth In the Makingmentioning

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The Pre-Alexandrian Footnote

2023

Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry

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The Pre-Alexandrian Footnote 24 Σ Theog. 304 notes the parallel. 25 Cf. Σ b Il. 2.783a ex.: εὐφήμως δὲ τὸν τάφον εὐνὰς ἐκάλεσεν ('he euphemistically called the tomb a bed'). 26 Cf. Homeric θέμις-claims, which are often made where the practice so described is not so settled: Scodel (1999) 49-50. For the wider debate and disagreement in antiquity concerning Typhoeus' final resting place,

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The Pre-Alexandrian Footnote

2023

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“…The Old Testament episodes present in succession elements that the two Greek stories present simultaneously. But what Merkelbach 54 has, with reference to the Greek material, called the 'externalization' of the process of making a decision is common to all three narratives. 55…”

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The Judgements of Paris and Solomon

Davies

2003

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υ ξ δ µεα σετλοξ ν0λασεΚ ρεο ε τοσ ψξυεΚ! λµ αι δ υσ ξετλοξ τλοποξ 2σηεϊζ ξυθξ ξρ 4µµοιΚ ν ξ π8τιξ ξδαξεξ! ο δ πορ ' σ ο δ Ποτειδ0ψξ ο δ ηµαφλ πιδι λο σ ! 2µµ γοξ! Κ τζιξ πσ υοξ 2π γρευο µιοΚ σ λα Πσ ανοΚ λα µα Κ`µεω0ξδσοφ ξελ 4υθΚ! Κ ξε λεττε ρε0Κ! υε ο ν τταφµοξ λοξυο! υ ξ δ ιξθτ ο π σε ναγµοτ ξνξ 2µεηειξ ξ In this article I return to a passage, Homer, Iliad 24.23-30, which has long fascinated scholars, myself included, and seek to make better sense of it than has hitherto been achieved. In the longer run I do this by setting the passage, together with the story it presupposes, against a wider background, drawing on analogous (but often overlooked) material not only from Greek, Roman, and later European literature, but also that of the Orient. I begin, however, by adopting what may seem almost the opposite method of approach to this grand sweep, by concentrating the gaze upon a single word in line 29. A single word, but I believe it provides, once it is rightly understood, a key to the original significance of the story of Paris' judgement. I The verb ξειλ ψ in this passage has long been a source of perplexity: as the scholia 1 protested, it does not mean 'judge' but 'insult'. Some scholars have consequently gone so far as to infer a version in which Paris did verbally abuse Hera and Athena. 2 By contrast, the communis opinio at present would seem to be that the verb concentrates on the feelings of the two goddesses in question, who might, it is supposed, feel 'insulted' at Paris' failure to reward them. 3 But the whole logic of the story, and the Iliadic passage's own stress, concentrate upon Paris' guilt. As Macleod's commentary 4 observes ad loc., 'there is a powerful antithesis between the accumulated' reference to sacred Troy and Priam and his people 'and the single' genitive`µεω0ξδσοφ. 'The gods' anger with one citizen and his folly affects the whole city'. Given this, we are bound to be more interested in the verb's subject than its object.

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The Homeric Hymns

Faulkner¹

2011

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This book is the first collection on the Homeric Hymns, a corpus of 33 hexameter poems celebrating gods that were probably recited at religious festivals, among other possible performance venues, and were frequently attributed in antiquity to Homer. After a general introduction to modern scholarship on the Homeric Hymns, the chapters of the first part of the book examine in detail aspects of the longer narrative poems in the collection, while those of the second part give critical attention to the shorter poems and to the collection as a whole. The contributors to the volume offer a wide range of views on questions central to our understanding of the Homeric Hymns, which have attracted much interest in recent years.

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