There seems to be no other possible supplement, however. Ever since the papyrus containing Alcman’s Partheneion was first published in 1863, classicists have been faced with one of the hardest riddles of their scholarship. the virgin who has sounded forth to no avail, an owl. Query parameters: { Alcman uses the superlative hadumestaton, “pleasantest” FRAGMENT 153. The racehorses are so exotic as to be otherworldly. This paper discusses lines 60-3 of Alcman's Partheneion 1. Partheneion 1 might be simply due to chance: perhaps the rest of Alcman’s poetry was commented upon just as much, but these commentaries have not reached us. Recorded by John Chriest. The papyrus text of the Partheneion, discovered in 1855 and now in the Louvre, consists of 101 lines in three columns. ἰτωρ and πνων may simply be a continuation of the metaphorical language and point to a resolution that is … well-built, a prize-winner, with thundering hooves. 33 Powell, J. U., Collectanea Alexandrina (Oxford, 1925), p. 35, n. 29.Google Scholar. 44 See Calame ad loc. Vance, Ralph Of a fourth column nothing is legible, though a coronis opposite the fifth line of column iii shows that the poem ended only four lines after our text runs out. Gaps in the papyrus. 8 The inability of commentators to agree, on the basis of the text, which of the two is superior is in the end the most eloquent testimony to this equivalence. 7–9.Google Scholar. Khansur, Tawfiq (n. 14). Feature Flags last update: Tue Dec 08 2020 20:03:33 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) No, even the hair of Nanno is not enough. Garzya (n. 5, ad loc. Semonides 1.4 West. 190. 48 Coronis' story is not unlike that of the Hippocoontidae: in both cases there are rival suitors and punishment. I do not understand this. }. We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. All of Calame's argument for Helen is circumstantial; there is simply nothing in the poem that suggests her. Peter, R. U. 1 The strophe, with its metrical pattern abab abab ccddef, may also be construed as our first example of a triad, with strophe, identical antistrophe, and epode. Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. 1997. I, v. 39–59’, GB 14 (1987), 35–53.Google Scholar. [ back ] 2. } If a full column of 35 lines has been lost before our column i—a pre-eminently reasonable hypothesis—the entire poem will have consisted of 140 lines. let her be a Scythian horse running against a Lydian one. [ back ] 7. 34 See Pausanias 1.18.1, 3.17.3, 3.18.11, 4.31.9. This will be a self-reference on the part of a choir of ten maidens. Identifier: Title: Location: Date: Languages: Translations: 100 BCE - 100 CE: grc: None: None: tm 59084---1 CE - 99 CE: grc: None: None Malamud, Fernando 7th century BC) was an Ancient Greek choral lyric poet from Sparta.He is the earliest representative of the Alexandrian canon of the nine lyric poets.. Fiddle, Rebby Sharp. 32 Hippocoon and Tyndareus were sons of Oebalus and so their own sons are first cousins. co. nz Abstract This paper discusses lines 60-3 of Alcman's Partheneion 1. The Louvre Papyrus, our source for the Partheneion, preserves the first column of its text for this song only in the most fragmentary condition. Sander, R. But it still compares Agido and Hagesichora, the two most important girls, basically to each other. The Center for Hellenic Studies | 3100 Whitehaven Street, NW. 9 Following Puelma we get, ‘She (= Hagesichora), second after Agido (accusative) in beauty, will run [alongside her]’. This construction of the passage is bizarre, and not tied to any view of the poem as a whole. Both kinds of racehorse are so superior that the imagination boggles, in the words of the song, at the very thought of matching them against each other. In what follows, note especially the image of a wondrous horse conjured up in the simile describing the beauty of the maiden Hagesikhora, center of attention in the song-and-dance ensemble: “a horse, well-built, a prize-winner, with thundering hooves, from out of those dreams underneath the rock” (lines 47-49). Alcman's biography and life story.Alcman (7th century BC) was an Ancient Greek choral lyric poet from Sparta. a song performed by a chorus of young unmarried women. The purpose of the comparison is supposed to be suddenly to denigrate Agido, who was earlier praised. I accept West's suggestion (‘Alcmanica’, CQ 15 [1965], 200Google Scholar), further argued by Puelma, that Aenesimbrota is best explained as a local ϕαρμακετρια to whose talents one might appeal in trying to win a love-object. 10.64–5, μγα ἔργον μσαντ᾽ ὠκως/κα πθον δεινν (of the Apharetidae) seems to echo lines 34–5 of the Partheneion, ἄλαστα δ/Ϝργα πσον κακ μησμενοι. In this vein, rivalry is resolved with achievement of the success (or peace) for which the choir strives, and if the choir pleases the goddess it is thanks to the beauty of Hagesichora. you wouldn’t say so even if you went to the house of Ainesimbrota. 2 Campbell, D. A., Greek Lyric Poetry2 (Bristol, 1982), p. 195Google Scholar, maintains that ‘Alcman spent little time on the legend’. Gaps in the papyrus. [ back ] 3. cit. like Sirius the star, to do battle with us. Article. 10 (1982), 127–36Google Scholar. It is through the gods that there is fulfillment. Pavese, pp. THE UNITY OF ALCMAN'S PARTHENEION Alcman'sgreat Partheneion (fr. 15 A traditional metaphor for helplessness: cf. Priestley University of Auckland, Department of Classics and Ancient History, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1001, New Zealand jessica_priestley@yahoo. See also Campbell, D. A., ‘Three Notes on Alcman I P. (= 3 Calame)’, QUCC N.S. [ back ] 13. Although the language was more or less clear, the meaning of many verses and the character of the poem remained elusive. 25 This leaves out Aenesimbrota as a possible member of the choir. The First Partheneion consists of 101 lines, of which more than 30 are severely damaged. [Table of Contents is listed at the end of the review.] Garzya (n. 5) accents αὕτα. Nearly one third of the text is devoted to Alcman's work.) 29 Calame, loc. Alcman's "Partheneion" I Reconsidered Rosenmeyer, Thomas G Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies; Winter 1966; 7, 4; ProQuest pg. The maiden choir, consisting of 10 young women, apparently splits into two competing choirs during the performance of the song/ritual. Similarly there is little current support for the theory of rival half-choirs, though the idea has recently been defended again by Peron, J., ‘Demi-chœurs chez Alcman, Parth. Published: (1998) The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy / Weisman, K. Published: (2010) But this does not exclude its also pointing to a genuine and heartfelt sense that the goddess is beneficent to her devotees. Iliad 7.270, 12.161. the names in the preceding catalogue). 26.2 (1987), 69–71.Google Scholar. Get this from a library! Of golden manes and silvery faces : the Partheneion 1 of Alcman. The scholia appear to be confused here, with one notice maintaining that the chorus does not include Lycaethus among the Hippocoontidae and another saying that not only Lycaethus but the other sons of Derites are named (does this commentator think that all those mentioned were in fact sons of Derites?). "metricsAbstractViews": false, The syntax here is not clear. cit. and 2389, a hypomnema on several of Alcman’s poems (as the coronis in fr. He must posit an unwelcome and unparalleled asyndeton in line 9 in order to get two names in addition to that of Eurytus into lines 8 and 9 (see previous note). [ back ] 10. 13 Ὀρθραι as Artemis Ortheia is very difficult—the intrusive ρ and the short ι militate against this identification. 39.3 (1991), 53Google Scholar: ‘There seems to be no reflection of the poem's context in the first column of the poem….’, 5 Useful discussions and bibliography will be found in Page, Puelma, Pavese, and in Calame, C., Alcman (Rome, 1983)Google Scholar, hereafter Calame; see too Calame's, Les chœurs de jeunes filles en Grèce archaïque II: Alcman (Rome, 1977)Google Scholar. Total loading time: 0.222 [K Tsantsanoglou; Alcman.] 16 E.g., Puelma and Calame: so too Segal, loc. 67–9. 46 In addition Nem. (n. 26), says that the names which the choir declares its intention of omitting are those of the heroes (τὼς ρστως) opposed to the Hippocoontidae (i.e. "peerReview": true, [ back ] 11. If you should have access and can't see this content please, Die Selbstbeschreibung des Chores in Alkmans grossem Partheneion-Fragment, Les chœurs de jeunes filles en Grèce archaïque II: Alcman, Alcman's Louvre-Partheneion vv: 58–9 again, Sinus and the Pleiades in Alcman's Louvre Partheneion, Demi-chœurs chez Alcman, Parth. The ϕαρoς of Alcman's Partheneion 1, Mnemozino 60.2 (2007) 175-195. The occasion and purpose of Alcman's Partheneion (1 PMGF) January 2009; Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica 121(2):27-54 17 Segal, , art. "comments": true, It is hard to resist a pun here in English translation: ‘their valour was bootless’. 4 The most exhaustive studies are those of Page, D. L., Alcman: The Partheneion (Oxford, 1951)Google Scholar, hereafter Page, and Pavese, C. O., Il grande Partenio di Alcmane (Amsterdam, 1992)Google Scholar, hereafter Pavese. Alcman's dates are uncertain, but he was probably active in the late seventh century BC. Oxyrhynchus produced few literary papyri written as early as Ibycus’ encomium of Polycrates and this roll containing the ‘Second’ Partheneion (Maidens’ Song) of Alcman. Kaskel, P. Some assume a missing negative. 24 We find some of the same language in 88–90. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. Of these the first 34 lines (column i) are badly mutilated owing to the disappearance of the left-hand side of the column, whereas lines 35–101 (columns ii and iii) can be restored with almost complete confidence. Buy It Now. The longest is a partheneion (a choral song for girls) discovered on a 1st-century papyrus in Egypt in 1855. 4 proves), including Partheneion 1, For that one [Hagesikhora] appears radiantly to be. with tinted eyelids wear to make themselves fetching. 42 If one is the Morning Star and the other the Evening Star we have a good explanation of the half-life/half-light in which the Dioscuri are condemned to live in Greek myth. Note the use of the word khorēgos ‘chorus-leader’ in the song, as it applies to Hagesikhora. Copyright © The Classical Association 1994, Hostname: page-component-b4dcdd7-jwbp8 It might be more correct to say that there is more of the poem devoted to occasion than we find in the epinician odes of Pindar (though perhaps not in his Partheneia). 38 See Campbell's discussion of the passage, art. 45 A regular weapon in the heroic arsenal: cf. Garzya and Calame take Agido as nominative and render, ‘She, Agido, second in beauty, will run after (πεδ᾽ in tmesis with δραμται) her (= Hagesichora)’. in a tomb near the second pyramid at Saqqâra in Egypt.The fragment, which is now kept at the Louvre in Paris 27 A genitive plural ending in ]ν and preceded by a connective in line 8 is one possibility—this will put the two names in line 9. The name Hagesikhora means the same thing as khorēgos.1. So too Pavese. There is a useful bibliographical article by Vetta, M., ‘Studi recenti sul primo Partenio di Alcmane’, QUCC N.S. It is wrongly, or, rather, meaninglessly accented as αὔτα by Calame, Davies (n. 5), and Campbell (n. 6). Gaps in the papyrus. Eustathius on the Odyssey 1892. 23 The scholiast's ντ is, then, not a lemma but an interpretation in his own prose, in which the word ἄντα does not exist. There may be a shift of speakers here. Sander, C. A. D’Alessandro, I. But it is also I who, most of all, to the Dawn Goddess. The two premier roles are Hagesikhora and Agido, who are to be two competing choral leaders. Render date: 2020-12-08T20:53:34.659Z The lengths of the existing columns are 34 lines (i), 34 lines (ii), 33 lines (iii). [K Tsantsanoglou; Alcman.] Get this from a library! "isLogged": "1", (n. 14), 263–4.Google Scholar. have found their way to a peacefulness that is lovely. The 14-line pattern is curiously anticipatory of the Petrarchan sonnet if the whole is read as an octave with two identical quatrains containing but two metrical patterns (a and b) followed by a sestet that introduces three new ones (c, d, and e). as we bring the sacred veil for the Dawn Goddess, are passing through the ambrosial night, rising up over the horizon. (n. 40), pp. ἰτωρ and πνων may simply be a continuation of the metaphorical language and point to a resolution that is successful accomplishment of a religious ritual. (n. 6), pp. 44 See Calame ad loc. He is the earliest representative of the Alexandrinian canon of the nine lyric poets. 39 That Alcman thought of the name Πωλνδεκης (the ω is anomalous and peculiar to Laconian) as connected with π⋯λος seems to be indicated by fragment 2 (a schema Alcmanicum): Κστωρ τε πώλων ὠκων δματ⋯ρες ἱππται σοϕο/ κα Πωλνδεκης κνδρς. 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