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Some Remarks On Alcaeus Fr. 298 (Voigt)

Some Remarks On Alcaeus Fr. 298 (Voigt) SOME REMARKS ON ALCAEUS FR. 298 (VOIGT) BY A. M. VAN ERP TAALMAN KIP The publication of P. Colon. 2021 was greeted with great enthousiasm, the more so as it could be connected with and shed new light on P. Oxy. 2303. The fragment is, according to Lloyd- Jones, "one of the finest pieces of Alcaeus that we possess"' ). Many scholars discussed it and tried to fill in the gaps, to restore the meaning. Nevertheless one sometimes is inclined to ask what exact- ly the fragment does contribute to our understanding of Alcaeus' poetry. Even though we possess two papyri, there is not one line that is really complete and of the many readings that have been proposed, only three or four seem reasonably sure. We do not have the beginning of the poem nor its end. One thing the remnants prove without doubt: Alcaeus used the mythological story as an example, meant to illustrate the events of his own time. But we can- not determine how he brought about the transition from reality to myth (if he did; cf. infra 2) and vice versa; we cannot really detect how the poem was organized. We can follow http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

Some Remarks On Alcaeus Fr. 298 (Voigt)

Mnemosyne , Volume 37 (1-2): 1 – Jan 1, 1984

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Brill
Copyright
© 1984 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0026-7074
eISSN
1568-525X
DOI
10.1163/156852584X00015
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SOME REMARKS ON ALCAEUS FR. 298 (VOIGT) BY A. M. VAN ERP TAALMAN KIP The publication of P. Colon. 2021 was greeted with great enthousiasm, the more so as it could be connected with and shed new light on P. Oxy. 2303. The fragment is, according to Lloyd- Jones, "one of the finest pieces of Alcaeus that we possess"' ). Many scholars discussed it and tried to fill in the gaps, to restore the meaning. Nevertheless one sometimes is inclined to ask what exact- ly the fragment does contribute to our understanding of Alcaeus' poetry. Even though we possess two papyri, there is not one line that is really complete and of the many readings that have been proposed, only three or four seem reasonably sure. We do not have the beginning of the poem nor its end. One thing the remnants prove without doubt: Alcaeus used the mythological story as an example, meant to illustrate the events of his own time. But we can- not determine how he brought about the transition from reality to myth (if he did; cf. infra 2) and vice versa; we cannot really detect how the poem was organized. We can follow

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Published: Jan 1, 1984

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