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Euripides, Helen 78-88

Euripides, Helen 78-88 MISCELLANEA TWO NOTES ON BACCHYLIDES V 29-30 eXp(yvCù"t'oç cc 'vOp co '7coLq Maehler follows R. J. Walker in deleting and Ss in v. 14. However, although the eagle flies high in the air, he is to be seen 'among men', because the Greeks, just as many other peoples (cf. "he was well in my eye"), did not draw a sharp distinction between the eyes and the field of vision. Cf. Hom. £v op«v (LSJ s.v. I, whose translation 'before one's eyes' is not quite correct) and my note on Callinus 1, 20 in Mnemos. 1972, 8. The present phrase is not "a bit of rather careless writing" (Jebb) but a deliberate attempt at combining two ideas: (I) the poet is superior to his fellow-men, but (2) not foreign to them. Similarly, the eagle is ( ) a heavenly being (v. 24 ff.), but (2) clearly visible from the earth and therefore in a sense belonging to it. The boldness of the phrase may have been caused by the wish to surpass Pindar, from whom the image was probably borrowed (cf. N. 5, 2z). 56. Most editors adopt Wilamowitz's &5v«1, but the asyndeton is awkward. Jebb suggested xai yc'xp http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

Euripides, Helen 78-88

Kessels, A.H.M.
Mnemosyne , Volume 28 (1): 63 – Jan 1, 1975
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© 1975 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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MISCELLANEA TWO NOTES ON BACCHYLIDES V 29-30 eXp(yvCù"t'oç cc 'vOp co '7coLq Maehler follows R. J. Walker in deleting and Ss in v. 14. However, although the eagle flies high in the air, he is to be seen 'among men', because the Greeks, just as many other peoples (cf. "he was well in my eye"), did not draw a sharp distinction between the eyes and the field of vision. Cf. Hom. £v op«v (LSJ s.v. I, whose translation 'before one's eyes' is not quite correct) and my note on Callinus 1, 20 in Mnemos. 1972, 8. The present phrase is not "a bit of rather careless writing" (Jebb) but a deliberate attempt at combining two ideas: (I) the poet is superior to his fellow-men, but (2) not foreign to them. Similarly, the eagle is ( ) a heavenly being (v. 24 ff.), but (2) clearly visible from the earth and therefore in a sense belonging to it. The boldness of the phrase may have been caused by the wish to surpass Pindar, from whom the image was probably borrowed (cf. N. 5, 2z). 56. Most editors adopt Wilamowitz's &5v«1, but the asyndeton is awkward. Jebb suggested xai yc'xp

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Published: Jan 1, 1975

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