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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 1999 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0026-7074
- eISSN
- 1568-525X
- DOI
- 10.1163/1568525991528941
- Publisher site
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Abstract
MISCELLANEA THE HOMERIC HYMN TO DEMETER 403-4 AND CHIASMUS IN CONVERSATION In the Hymn to Demeter we are concerned with Demeter’s speech to Perse- phone and Persephone’s reply (393-433). The two speeches are too long to quote in full. In the manuscripts, and also in the papyrus (P. Oxy. 2379) of the 3rd century A.D., lines 403-4 appear as aÔtiw ênei m°ga yaËma yeo›w ynhto›w tÉ ényr≈poiw. / ka‹ t¤ni sÉ §japãthse dÒlƒ kraterÚw polud°gmvn; How- ever this sequence has raised doubts, as ka¤ is not a natural connection here, and Ruhnken proposed a lacuna after 403. This was accepted by Allen - Halliday - Sikes, who comment “The construction is broken and a lacuna necessary”. However N.J. Richardson rejects the lacuna, in his com- ment ad loc.: “If there was a lacuna after 403 ... it existed already when the papyrus was written. But more probably the text is sound, and there is an abrupt break in the sense. Demeter’s question in 404 refers to the rape, not to Persephone’s having eaten in Hades, and Persephone answers her in 414ff” 1 ). However a consideration of Persephone’s reply to Demeter may give some support to Ruhnken’s suggestion.
Journal
Mnemosyne – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1999