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PARTHENIUS AND ERUCIUS BY ALVAN SETH-SMITH Erucius AP VII 377 = Garl. 2274 ff.i) 'Even though he lies beneath the earth, nevertheless still pour pitch on Parthenius the foul-mouthed, because he vomited on the Muses those myriad phlegms and the staining filth of his abomin- able elegies; he even drove to such a point of insanity that he declared the Odyssey was mud and the Iliad was craptrack. That is why he is held by the dark Furies in the middle of Cocytus, his throat choked by a dog-collar'. Instead of complimenting the dead as in most epitaphs Erucius calls for further punishment of Parthenius since he has grossly insulted the Muses and, even worse, abused Homer. It is now widely recognised that this Parthenius is Parthenius of Nicaea, the Greek poet who in the middle of the first century BC taught Rome the Callimachean approach to poetry 2). Erucius would 1) For a commentary on the poem, see A. S. F. Gow and D. L. Page, The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip, II (Cambridge 1968), 287. 2) See W. V. Clausen, Callimachus and Latin Poetry, GRBS 5 (1964), 181 ff. and N. B. Crowther, Parthenius and
Mnemosyne – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1981
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