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Miscellanea

Miscellanea MISCELLANEA AEGISTHUS THE COWARDLY LION: A NOTE ON AESCHYLUS, AGAMEMNON 1224 ¤k tÇnde poin‹w fhmi bouleæein tin‹ , l¡ontƒ nalkin ¤n l¡xei strvfÅmenon oÞkourñn , oämai , tÇi molñnti despñthi . (A. Ag. 1223-5) The Oresteia ’s animal imagery has been intensively scrutinised; its lions, in particular, have received minute attention. 1 ) The increasingly subtle dis- cussion has sedated the unease to which Cassandra’s apparently paradox- ical image of Aegisthus once gave rise. We are in danger of missing its full force. The di Y culty is succinctly and forcefully expressed in Denniston and Page’s note on 1224: l¡onta , applied to Aegisthus, is most unexpected, particularly since the same metaphor is applied to Agamemnon in 1259; and the phrase as a whole, ‘a cowardly lion’, is so unlikely that corruption of the text may well be suspected here ( lækon , l¡ontow for l¡ontƒ nalkin conj. Maas: that is what we need, but there is great di Y culty in accounting for such a corruption). If the text is sound, we must stress the fact that the lion symbolizes savagery (cf. 717, 827, Cho. 938, Eum. 193), not as a rule courage. Fraenkel’s much longer note http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

Miscellanea

Mnemosyne , Volume 56 (4): 480 – Jan 1, 2003
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© 2003 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0026-7074
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MISCELLANEA AEGISTHUS THE COWARDLY LION: A NOTE ON AESCHYLUS, AGAMEMNON 1224 ¤k tÇnde poin‹w fhmi bouleæein tin‹ , l¡ontƒ nalkin ¤n l¡xei strvfÅmenon oÞkourñn , oämai , tÇi molñnti despñthi . (A. Ag. 1223-5) The Oresteia ’s animal imagery has been intensively scrutinised; its lions, in particular, have received minute attention. 1 ) The increasingly subtle dis- cussion has sedated the unease to which Cassandra’s apparently paradox- ical image of Aegisthus once gave rise. We are in danger of missing its full force. The di Y culty is succinctly and forcefully expressed in Denniston and Page’s note on 1224: l¡onta , applied to Aegisthus, is most unexpected, particularly since the same metaphor is applied to Agamemnon in 1259; and the phrase as a whole, ‘a cowardly lion’, is so unlikely that corruption of the text may well be suspected here ( lækon , l¡ontow for l¡ontƒ nalkin conj. Maas: that is what we need, but there is great di Y culty in accounting for such a corruption). If the text is sound, we must stress the fact that the lion symbolizes savagery (cf. 717, 827, Cho. 938, Eum. 193), not as a rule courage. Fraenkel’s much longer note

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