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- Title
Named Satyrs in Sophocles' Ichneutai.
- Authors
Antonopoulos, Andreas P.
- Abstract
In Sophocles' Ichneutai 176-202 someone (most likely Silenos) is calling by name several Satyrs of the Chorus. This is the only passage in surviving Satyr Play that provides names of individual Satyrs-Choreuts, but the practice of naming Satyrs is common in vase-paintings. The article describes and contextualizes this practice, and goes on to investigate each of the Satyric names that occur in the Ichneutai. The scene in question is a parody of ancient hunting, in which the Satyrs assume the role of tracking hounds. For this reason the names of the Satyrs have been merged with names of hounds. The article, as well as including a thorough introduction and up-to-date bibliography, elucidates the etymology of problematic cases, offers new insight into the reference of some names, contributes important details on all of them, gives a rough translation of each name, and generally displays the links that these names have with both the Satyric and the canine nomenclatures.
- Subjects
SATYRS (Greek mythology); SATYR plays; GREEK names; SOPHOCLES, ca. 497 B.C.-406 B.C.; HOUNDS
- Publication
Philologus -- Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur und Ihre Rezeption, 2014, Vol 158, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
0031-7985
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/phil-2014-0004