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Scholars on Comedians on Lyric Poets: Ar. Nub. 967 from Stesichorus to Didymus

  • Andreas Willi
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Abstract

In a passage from Aristophanes’ Clouds, Just Argument evokes a golden past when boys still learned to sing traditional songs; the incipits of two of these are cited verbatim (Ar. Nub. 967). As the pertinent scholia show, ancient scholars including Eratosthenes of Cyrene then sought to identify the exact sources alluded to. In this connection, they clearly made mention of compositions by Stesichorus, Lamprocles, and/or Phrynichus; but due to the poor state of the transmission of the individual pieces of evidence we have (which also include P.Oxy. 1611), the exact connections and interactions between the various players are difficult to disentangle. However, if appropriate attention is paid to the likely role of each of them within the entire web, much less editorial intervention on the scholiastic text may actually be required than has hitherto been assumed. According to the new reconstruction proposed here, one of the ‘old’ songs referenced by Aristophanes was in fact also mentioned, but parodically transformed and arguably misascribed, in a comedy by Phrynichus.

Abstract

In a passage from Aristophanes’ Clouds, Just Argument evokes a golden past when boys still learned to sing traditional songs; the incipits of two of these are cited verbatim (Ar. Nub. 967). As the pertinent scholia show, ancient scholars including Eratosthenes of Cyrene then sought to identify the exact sources alluded to. In this connection, they clearly made mention of compositions by Stesichorus, Lamprocles, and/or Phrynichus; but due to the poor state of the transmission of the individual pieces of evidence we have (which also include P.Oxy. 1611), the exact connections and interactions between the various players are difficult to disentangle. However, if appropriate attention is paid to the likely role of each of them within the entire web, much less editorial intervention on the scholiastic text may actually be required than has hitherto been assumed. According to the new reconstruction proposed here, one of the ‘old’ songs referenced by Aristophanes was in fact also mentioned, but parodically transformed and arguably misascribed, in a comedy by Phrynichus.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface V
  3. Contents VII
  4. List of Illustrations XI
  5. Introduction XII
  6. Part I: Dramatic Texts: Form, Music, Narrative
  7. Bacchylides’ Ode 5 and Sophocles’ Trachiniae: Lyric Poetry and Tragedy 3
  8. On Misunderstanding Apollo: The Oracle and Its Consequences in Soph. O.R. 13
  9. “And They Lived Happily Ever After”? A Tentative Taxonomy of (More or Less) Happy Endings in Euripides 21
  10. Fantastic Beasts and How to Use Them: Animal Characters and Choruses in Old Comedy 45
  11. Juxtaposing and Contrasting Modes of Speech Presentation in Aristophanes’ Knights 624–690: Narrative Techniques, Performance, and Plot 81
  12. A ‘Metic’ Prometheus in Aristophanes’ Birds 101
  13. Ein neues Fragment des Komödiendichters Aristomenes 121
  14. “Is Your Roof Leaking Anywhere?” Euripides’ Danae Transformed Into Menander’s Samia 137
  15. Osservazioni sull’uso delle soluzioni anapestiche nei trimetri giambici di Filemone 147
  16. Part II: Theatre, Society, Perception
  17. The Audience in the Time of the Athenian Theatrocracy 171
  18. Tür, Bühnenkran, Ekkyklema: Zu Aristophanes’ Technik der Evokation des Imaginativen 199
  19. Remarks on the Ancient Theatre in Aegina 219
  20. Dikaiopolis’ Spatiotemporal Coordinates in Aristophanes’ Acharnians 235
  21. Spielen und Tanzen für die Demokratie. Zur politischen Funktion des Theaters in den „Fröschen“ des Aristophanes 257
  22. On Comedy, Football and (Once Again) the Impact of Theatre on Spectators’ Reactions 287
  23. Clio Smiles: Greek Comedy As and For Historiography 307
  24. Meditation und Panegyrik in Brixen: Joseph Reschs Pastor bonus (1748) 321
  25. “I Had a Little Nut-Tree” 338
  26. Part III: Dramatic Texts and Theatre Through the Eyes of Ancient Scholars
  27. Un teatro per l’impero. Le citazioni drammatiche in Plinio il Vecchio e Svetonio 347
  28. Julius Pollux on the Theatre (4.99–154) 371
  29. Taking it on Trust?: Euripides and the Epistemological Tradition 389
  30. Scholars on Comedians on Lyric Poets: Ar. Nub. 967 from Stesichorus to Didymus 407
  31. Citazioni di Eschilo negli scholia all’Iliade 431
  32. Where Narrative Meets Drama: argumentum as a Term for (Realistic) Fiction 439
  33. Poetae comici satyrographi. Euanthius’ griechische Komödiengeschichte in bikulturellem Kontext 455
  34. List of Contributors 473
  35. General Index
  36. Index of Passages
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111594804-022

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface V
  3. Contents VII
  4. List of Illustrations XI
  5. Introduction XII
  6. Part I: Dramatic Texts: Form, Music, Narrative
  7. Bacchylides’ Ode 5 and Sophocles’ Trachiniae: Lyric Poetry and Tragedy 3
  8. On Misunderstanding Apollo: The Oracle and Its Consequences in Soph. O.R. 13
  9. “And They Lived Happily Ever After”? A Tentative Taxonomy of (More or Less) Happy Endings in Euripides 21
  10. Fantastic Beasts and How to Use Them: Animal Characters and Choruses in Old Comedy 45
  11. Juxtaposing and Contrasting Modes of Speech Presentation in Aristophanes’ Knights 624–690: Narrative Techniques, Performance, and Plot 81
  12. A ‘Metic’ Prometheus in Aristophanes’ Birds 101
  13. Ein neues Fragment des Komödiendichters Aristomenes 121
  14. “Is Your Roof Leaking Anywhere?” Euripides’ Danae Transformed Into Menander’s Samia 137
  15. Osservazioni sull’uso delle soluzioni anapestiche nei trimetri giambici di Filemone 147
  16. Part II: Theatre, Society, Perception
  17. The Audience in the Time of the Athenian Theatrocracy 171
  18. Tür, Bühnenkran, Ekkyklema: Zu Aristophanes’ Technik der Evokation des Imaginativen 199
  19. Remarks on the Ancient Theatre in Aegina 219
  20. Dikaiopolis’ Spatiotemporal Coordinates in Aristophanes’ Acharnians 235
  21. Spielen und Tanzen für die Demokratie. Zur politischen Funktion des Theaters in den „Fröschen“ des Aristophanes 257
  22. On Comedy, Football and (Once Again) the Impact of Theatre on Spectators’ Reactions 287
  23. Clio Smiles: Greek Comedy As and For Historiography 307
  24. Meditation und Panegyrik in Brixen: Joseph Reschs Pastor bonus (1748) 321
  25. “I Had a Little Nut-Tree” 338
  26. Part III: Dramatic Texts and Theatre Through the Eyes of Ancient Scholars
  27. Un teatro per l’impero. Le citazioni drammatiche in Plinio il Vecchio e Svetonio 347
  28. Julius Pollux on the Theatre (4.99–154) 371
  29. Taking it on Trust?: Euripides and the Epistemological Tradition 389
  30. Scholars on Comedians on Lyric Poets: Ar. Nub. 967 from Stesichorus to Didymus 407
  31. Citazioni di Eschilo negli scholia all’Iliade 431
  32. Where Narrative Meets Drama: argumentum as a Term for (Realistic) Fiction 439
  33. Poetae comici satyrographi. Euanthius’ griechische Komödiengeschichte in bikulturellem Kontext 455
  34. List of Contributors 473
  35. General Index
  36. Index of Passages
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