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- Title
VERSES ATTRIBUTED TO THE TELEGONY.
- Authors
Tsagalis, Christos
- Abstract
The huge differences characterizing the main editions of the Greek epic poets of the Archaic period are well known. The sparse amount of information available poses serious problems; so too does the lack of unanimous acceptance of the same methodological principles with respect to the attribution of a citation to a given author and poem. The case of the Telegony is typical: Bernabé lists five fragments, Davies two (only one in common with Bernabé), and West six (four in common with Bernabé, one in common with Davies, and one published by Livrea ten years after the appearance of the editions of Bernabé and Davies). To alert the reader that the attribution of fragments 1 and 2 to the Telegony is conjectural and not based on ancient evidence, West attaches an asterisk to them. My aim is to discuss both what certain scholars have taken as one (and, for exactly 110 years, the only) of the two surviving lines from Eugammon's Telegony, that is fr. 1 (PEG 1, Bernabé = *1 West) = fr. 2 (Allen), and also what appears as fr. *2 in West's Loeb edition.
- Subjects
GREEK epic poetry; GREEK poetry; CLASSICAL epic poetry; ARCHAIC Period, Greece, ca. 800 B.C.-480 B.C.; GREEK poets
- Publication
Classical Quarterly, 2014, Vol 64, Issue 2, p448
- ISSN
0009-8388
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0009838814000445