Philitas of Cos

487 Pages·2002·18.58 MB·English

by  Spanoudakis

PHILITAS OF COS
MNEMOSYNE
BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA BATAVA
COLLEGERUNT
H. PINKSTER • H. S. VERSNEL
D.M. SCHENKEVELD • P. H. SCHRIJVERS
S.R. SUNGS
BIBUOTHECAE FASCICULOS EDENDOS CURAVIT
H. PINKSTER, KLASSIEK SEMINARIUM, OUDE TURFMARKT 129, AMSTERDAM
SUPPLEMENTUM DUCENTESIMUM VICESIMUM NONUM
KONSTANTINOS SPANOUDAKIS
PHILITAS OF COS
CORRIGENDA AND ADDENDUM
- p. 92, fr. 21, app. crit.: für 'Snell apo SH l.l.' read 'Snell, Gnomon
25 (1953), 434'
- p. 198, fr. 18, 4th 1ine: tü 'Craik 15' add " R. Parker - D. Obbink,
Chiron 30 (2000), 442f.'
- p. 348, fr. 32, far "nooovt1tTllpa OlVOV" read "noOovt1tTllpa OE1VOV".
Delete the füllüwing parenthesis.

PHILITAS OF COS
BY
KONSTANTINOS SPANOUDAKIS
BRILL
LEIDEN· BOSTON· KÖLN
2002
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Spanoudakis, Konstantinos.
Philitas of Cos / by Konstantinos Spanoudakis.
p. cm. - (Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava.
Supplementum, ISSN 0169-8958; 229)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 9004124284 (alk. paper)
I. Philatas, 330-270 B.C.-Criticism and interpretation. 2. Greek poetry,
Hellenistic-History and criticism. 3. Love poetry, Greek-History and
criticism. 4. Kos Island (Greece)--Biography. I. Tide. H. Series.
PA4267.P67 Z85 2001
881'.01-dc21 2001052445
Die Deutsche Bibliothek -CIP-Einheitsaufnahm.e
Spanoudakis, Konstantinos:
Philitas of. Cos / by Konstantinos Spanoudakis. - Leiden; Boston; Köln:
Brill,2002
(Mnemosyne : Supplementum ; Vol. 229)
ISBN 90-04-12428-4
ISSN 0169-8958
ISBN 90 04 12428 4
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CONTENTS
PREFACE Xl
ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY Xlll
TESTIMONIA ................•.................................................................
ALLEGED TESTIMONIA 12
INTRODUCTION ..............................................•...........................•... 19
I. Name ............................................................................ 19
II. Date, patria and familia ................................................ 23
lIla. 'Pupils': Ptolemy Philadelphus .................................... 26
IIIb. Zenodotus, Hermesianax and Bittis ........ .................... 29
IVa. The Coan Statue ........ ............................ ...................... 34
IVb. Claim for Heroic Honours .......................................... 37
V. Theocritus .................................... .......... ................. ..... 40
VIa. The Aetia-prologue: Mimnermus, Antimachus
and Philitas .................................................................. 42
Vlb. Callimachus' Somnium and fr. 532 (T. 6), the
Pinakes and the Elegiac Canon .......... .......................... 47
VII. Relations with Contemporary Poets .......................... 50
VIII. Treatment of Literary Past: Hesiod, Pindar,
Philoxenus .................................................................... 52
IX. Comic leptotes ................................................................ 54
Xa. Survival ................... ........... ............................................ 55
Xb. Propertius ...................................................................... 59
Xc. Longus .......................................................................... 64
Xd. Virgil .............................................................................. 66
XI. Hellenistic Features and Peripatus .............................. 68
XII. Athens, Argolid and Southern Italy .......................... 72
XIII. Metre ............................................................................ 74
a. Dactyls and Spondees ............................................ 75
b. Spondaic Fifth Foot ................................................ 76
c. Main Caesura and Bucolic Diaeresis .................... 77
CONTENTS
Vlll
d. Word-end in Other Positions ...................................... 79
e. Pentameters . ...... ............... ...... ...... .................................. 80
f. Prosodiea ........................................................................ 81
POETICAL FRAGMENTS (frr. 1-28) .......... .......................... ............ 85
·Ep~fl~ ...................................................................................... 85
ßT\~lJ'tT\P .................................................................................... 87
TlJAE<pO~? .............................. '" ......... ......................... ......... ...... 92
'E1ttypa~~a'ta and Ilaiyvta ...................................................... 92
Fragmenta ineertae se dis ........................................................ 93
Hermes .................................................................................... 95
I. Commentary (frr. 1-5) ................................................ 95
Ha. Parthenius Erot. path. 2 and Philitas Hermes .............. 126
Hb. Tide and Content .................................................. .... 131
IIe. Influenee ...................................................................... 137
Demeter .................................................................................. 142
I. Commentary (frr. 5a-21) ............................................ 142
H. Reeonstruetion of Demeter ............................................ 223
IH. Influenee of Demeter .................................................... 244
a. Theoeritus 7 .............................. ............................ 244
b l. Callimaehus, Hymn to Apollo ................................ 273
b2. Callimaehus, Hymn to Demeter .............................. 293
e. Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica .. ........................ 299
d. Nieander ........... ...... ................................... ............ 303
e. Philieus, Hymn to Demeter ...................................... 307
Telephus (?, fr. 22) ................................................................ 309
Epigrams and Paegnia ............................................................ 313
I. Commentary (frr. 23-25) ......................................... ;.. 313
H. Phi1itas' Epigrams Colleetion ...................................... 327
Fragmenta ineertae sedis ........................................................ 329
Commentary (frr. 26-28) .................................................. 329
Al1eged Poetieal Aseriptions .................................................. 335
GRAMMATICAL FRAGMENTS (FRR. 29-56) .................................... 347
"A'taK'tOt yArocrcrat and 'Ep~T\vda ............................................ 347
Ataktoi Glossai and Hermeneia ............................ ...................... 356
I. Commentary (frr. 29-58) .............................. .............. 356
H. Tide, Content and Form of Ataktoi Glossai ................ 384
III. Sourees ........................................................................ 388
IV. Range and Methods .................................................... 390