A Hellenistic Anthology

361 Pages·2020·7.317 MB·English

by  Neil Hopkinson (editor)

CAMBRIDGE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS
A HELLENISTIC
ANTHOLOGY
SECOND EDITION
EDITED BY NEIL HOPKINSON
CAMBRIDGE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS
GENERAL EDITORS
P. E. EASTERLING
Regius Professor Emeritus of Greek, University of Cambridge
PiuirLiP HARDIE
Fellow, Trinity College, and Honorary Professor Emeritus of Latin,
University of Cambridge
NEIL HOPKINSON
Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
RicHARD HUNTER
Regius Professor of Greek, University of Cambridge
S. P. OAKLEY
Kennedy Professor of Latin, University of Cambridge
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P. E. EASTERLING
TE. J. KENNEY
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A HELLENISTIC
ANTHOLOGY
SELECTED AND EDITED BY
NEIL HOPKINSON
Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge
SECOND EDITION
REVISED AND AUGMENTED
Z5 CAMBRIDGE
WP UNIVERSITY PRESS
In memory of
Ted and Anne Kenney
CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations X
Maps xi
Introduction
1 The background 1
2 Alexandria 3
3 Hellenistic poetry 6
The Apparatus Criticus 11
A HELLENISTIC ANTHOLOGY 19
I-IV Callimachus 15
V Cleanthes 20
VI-VII Aratus 28
VIII Nicander 30
IX-XIV Theocritus 31
XV imi 51
XVI Phanocles 52
XVII-XX Apollonius 53
XXI Moschus 59
XXII-XXII — Bion 64
XXIV Rhianus 68
XXV Lycophron 69
XXVI Herondas 79
XXVII Machon 72
XXVIII Epigrams 79
XXIX Drinking-song 89
Commentary 85
viii CONTENTS
Appendix: Doric dialect
Works Cited
Indexes
PREFACE
In 1988, when the first edition of this book appeared, only K. J. Dover's
commentary on Theocritus was available for those undergraduate and
graduate students who needed basic guidance in reading Hellenistic
poetry. Some thirty years later, the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
series alone has accrued commentaries on eight poems of Theocritus
and on two books of Apollonius, and soon we shall have selections from
Callimachus and from the Greek Anthology. Nevertheless, and in spite of
some overlap with these more recent volumes, the Editors have felt that
there is still a place for an anthology of Hellenistic poetic texts which
can stand as a course-book for students while being of some interest to
scholars.
The book has been thoroughly revised. The bibliographies, which are
not exhaustive, have been updated. Many notes have been rewritten. Two
poems of Theocritus not included in Richard Hunter's CGLC collection
have been added.
David Sider's Hellenistic poetry: a selection (Ann Arbor, 2017) comple-
ments the present volume with a very broad range of texts edited by var-
ious hands.
In the first edition I gratefully acknowledged help from Sidney
Allen, Peter Callaghan, Bob Coleman, Ian Cunningham, Roger Dawe,
Pat Easterling, Harvey Freeman, Simon Goldhill, Eric Handley, Geoff
Horrocks, Ted Kenney, Douglas Kidd, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Kevin McKay,
Arthur Munday Martin Robertson, Malcolm Schofield and Harry
Sandbach. For their help with this second edition I should like to thank
Nicholas Denyer, Callum Farnden, Annette Harder, Nicholas Lane, David
Sedley, Nigel Spivey, Dorothy Thompson, Rupert Thompson, Hannah
Willey, and above all Richard Hunter, whose comments on the first edi-
tion have led to many improvements. The volume was copy-edited with
exemplary care by Muriel Hall.
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ABBREVIATIONS
Collectanea Alexandrina, ed.J . U. Powell (Oxford, 1925).
Early Greek mythography, ed. R. L. Fowler (Oxford, 2000-13).
Further Greek epigrams: Epigrams before A.D. 50 from the Greek
Anthology and other sources . . . , ed. D. L. Page (Cambridge,
1981).
FGrHist Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, ed. F. Jacoby (Berlin,
1923—30, Leiden, 1940-58).
GP The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and some contemporary
epigrams, eds. A. S. F. Gow and D. L. Page (Cambridge, 1968).
HC Hellenistic collection: Philitas, Alexander of Aetolia, Hermesianax,
Euphorion, Parthenius, ed. J. L. Lightfoot (Loeb, Cambridge,
MA/London, 2009).
HE The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic epigrams, eds. A. S. F. Gow and
D. L. Page (Cambridge, 1965).
K-A Poetae comici Graeci, eds. R. Kassel and C. Austin (Berlin/New
York, 1983-2001).
LIMC
Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (Zurich, 1981-99).
LSJ
A Greek—English lexicon, eds. H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. Stuart
Jones, R. McKenzie (9th edn with Supplement, Oxford, 1968).
OCT Epigrammata Graeca, ed. D. L. Page (Oxford, 1975).
PMG Poetae melici Graeci, ed. D. L. Page (Oxford, 1962).
PMGF Poetarum melicorum Graecorum fragmenta Volumen I, ed. M.
Davies (Oxford, 1991).
SH Supplementum Hellenisticum, eds. H. Lloyd-Jones and P. Parsons
(Berlin/New York, 1983).
Smyth Greek grammar, ed. H. W. Smyth, revised by G. M. Messing
(Cambridge, MA, 1956).
SVF Stoicorum veterum fragmenta, ed. J. von Arnim (Stuttgart,
1905-24).
ThesCRA Thesaurus cultus et rituum antiquorum (Los Angeles, 2004-11).
TrGF Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta, eds. B. Snell, R. Kannicht, S.
Radt (Gottingen, 1971-2004).
- 'the source of' or ‘leading to'
»
« z 'derived from'
-- t* 'corresponding to' or 'contrasting with'
Italic numbers (1—2039) refer to the continuous numeration printed to
the right of the text.