The text of Iliad 18.603-6 and the presence of an AoiΔoΣ on the shield of Achilles

Classical Quarterly

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 29-38

  Revermann, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1093/cq/48.1.29     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. See M. J. Apthorp, The Manuscript Evidence for Interpolation in Homer (Heidelberg, 1980), p. 160
2. cf. also Apthorp, 'New evidence from the Syriac Palimpsest on the Numerus Versuum of the Iliad', ZPE 110 (1996), 103-14, esp. 110f. on another papyrus (sixth century A.D.) which probably had this text, too
3. F. A. Wolf, Prolegomena ad Homerum (Halle, 1795), ch. 49, n. 49
4. To the discussions quoted by H. Erbse, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem vol. IV (Berlin, 1975), p. 569 in the apparatus add Zs
5. Ritoók, 'Anmerkungen zu Homer', Acta Antiqua 19 (1971), 201-15, esp 201-7
6. O. Andersen, 'Some thoughts on the Shield of Achilles', SO 51 (1976), 5-18, esp. 16
7. O. Taplin, "The Shield of Achilles within the Iliad', G&R 27 (1980), 1-21, esp. p. 9, n. 27 (aptly remarking: 'The case for the line must stand or fall without Athenaeus')
8. H. van Thiel, Iliaden und Ilias (Basel/Stuttgart, 1982), p. 472
9. K. Stanley, The Shield of Homer. Narrative Structure in the Iliad (Princeton, 1993), pp. 4 and 13
10. A. S. Becker, A Rhetoric and Poetics of Early Greek Ecphrasis. Theory. Philology and the Shield of Achilles (New York, 1995), p. 146
11. I. J. F. de Jong, 'Silent characters in the Iliad', in J. M. Bremer et al. (edd.), Homer Beyond Oral Poetry (Amsterdam, 1987), pp. 105-21
12. M. Wegner, Musik und Tanz. Archaeologia Homerica vol. Ill (Göttingen, 1968; catalogue finished in 1966)
13. ch. U. Also R. Tōlle, Frühgriechische Reigentänze (Waldsassen, 1964), pp. 54-73, esp. pu 62-5
14. R. Crowhurst, Representations of Performance of Choral Lyric on the Greek Monuments, 800-350 B.C. (Ph.D. thesis, London, 1963), pp. 1-86, 226-38
15. T. B. L. Webster, The Greek Chorus (London, 1970), pp. 1-11
16. K. Fittschen, Der Schild des Achilleus. Archaeologia Homerica vol. II (Göttingen, 1973), ch. N, part 1
17. M. Maas and J. M. Snyder, Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece (New Haven/London, 1989), pp. 2f. and 11f
18. M. L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford, 1992), pp. 328f
19. S. H. Lonsdale, Ritual Play in Greek Religion (Baltimore, 1993)
20. W. D. Anderson, Music and Musicians in Ancient Greece (Ithaca, 1994), pp. 20-6
21. Most recently by Crielaard, 'Homer, history and archaeology', in J. P. Crielaard (ed.), Homeric Questions (Amsterdam, 1995), pp. 217-24
22. and M. L. West, 'The date of the Iliad', MH 52 (1995), 203-19, at 210
23. Both objections are raised by E. Simon, 'Der Schild des Achilleus', in G. Boehm and H. Pfotenhauer (edd.), Beschreibungskunst-Kunstbeschreibung (Munich, 1995), pp. 129f
24. G. Markoe, Phoenician Bronze and Silver Bowls from Cyprus and the Mediterranean (Berkeley, 1985), esp. pp. 56-9 on iconography
25. S. West, The Ptolemaic Papyri of Homer (Köln, 1967), pp. 132-6 and pi. 4
26. See also the important contribution by M. Haslam, 'Homeric papyri and transmission of the text', in I. Morris and B. Powell (edd.), A New Companion to Homer (Leiden, 1997), pp. 55-100, esp. pp. 64-9 with n. 20
27. H. van Thiel, Homeri Ilias (Hildesheim, 1996)
28. see also G. M. Boiling, The External Evidence for Interpolation in Homer (Oxford, 1925), pp. 47f
29. The quest for Aristarchus' principles of textual criticism is a notorious Grundfrage der Homerkritik. As regards athetesis, they are to some extent recoverable. See e.g. R. Janko, in the Iliad commentary vol. IV (Cambridge, 1992), pp. 27f
30. and R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship vol. 1 (Oxford, 1968), pp. 225-31
31. and Iliad edition (n. 16), pp. Vf., but above all in his article 'Zenodot, Aristarch und andere', ZPE 90 (1992), 1-32
32. Responses from specialists in the field are mixed; see most recently M. Schmidt's article and van Thiel's reply in ZPE 115 (1997), 1-36
33. Thus G. Murray, The Rise of the Greek Epic, 4th edn (Oxford, 1934), pp. 287-9
34. G. Nagy, Poetry as Performance. Homer and Beyond (Cambridge, 1996), esp. part II
35. and idem, Homeric Questions (Austin, 1996), esp. ch. 3
36. Reviews of the former: S. West, TLS 2.8 (1996), 27
37. and M. Heath, CR 47 (1997), 241f.