Od. 3, 392 and Theoc. 7, 147: a case of interpretatio Homerica
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Sabina Castellaneta
Abstract: This paper aims to demonstrate that in Id. 7, 147 Theocritus is employing the term ἄλειφαρ to translate the unusual use of κρήδεμνον in Od. 3, 392 and, thus, at the same time both to recall and to interpret a Homeric passage that is particularly rich from a semantic and expressive point of view. In line with Theocritus’s interpretatio Homerica (and with the evidence of a new scholium on Od. 3, 392), it is possible to translate in Od. 3, 392 κρήδεμνον as ‘seal’ and thus explain it, not in relation to the position or to a specific form of the garment (and thus as the ‘head’, ‘cap’ or ‘binding’ of a jar), but rather in relation to its function, which is to preserve female honor from the gaze of men and, metaphorically, the purity of the wine away from damaging contact with the air.
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- List of Contributors
- Statement
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelseiten
- Coordinated sequences of analogous topics in the Delian and Pythian segments of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo
- Od. 3, 392 and Theoc. 7, 147: a case of interpretatio Homerica
- Typhon and Eumelus’ Titanomachy
- Oracles and etymologies or when Aeschylus goes to extremes
- Divine names in the Derveni papyrus and Mesopotamian hermeneutics
- Victory, Mythology and the Poetics of Intercultural Praise in Callimachus’ Victoria Berenices
- Aristotle, Eratosthenes and the beginnings of Alexandrian scholarship on the Archaia
- Levels of authorial presence in Anonymus Londiniensis (P.Brit. Libr. inv. 137)
- Beyond Impotence Some unexplored Ovidian dynamics in Petronius’s sketch of the Croton episode (Satyrica 126. 1–140. 12)
- List of Contributors
- Statement
