Reading the signs: The arrangement of the new Posidippus roll

Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik

Volumn 146, Issue , 2004, Pages 13-24

  Lavigne, Donald E ^a   Romano, Allen J ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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References (39)

1. For a convenient summary, see Baumbach, M. and Trampedach, K., 'Winged Words': Poetry and Divination in Posidippus' Oionoskopika, in B. Acosta-Hughes, M. Baumbach, E. Kosmetatou, Labored in Papyrus Leaves - Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309), (forthcoming 2003)
2. See O'Hara, J., True Names: Vergil and the Alexandrian Tradition of Etymological Word-Play (1996), 7-42 (with citations) for a general overview of Greek traditions of wordplay. Significant wordplay has often been adduced in studies of the Hellenistic poets
3. Aratus, Phaenomena 783-787 and 2
4. [see Bing, P., A Pun on Aratus' Name in Verse 2 of the Phainomena, HSCP 93 (1990)]) and numerous puns on names in epigrams
5. On titles in general see Turner, E. G., Greek Manuscripts of the Ancient World (1971), 16-17
6. also Oliver, R. P., The First Medicean MS of Tacitus and the Titulature of Ancient Books, TAPA (1951), 232-61 (especially 243-8: "the papyrus roll appears invariably to have borne a title which . . . had the simplest possible form . . . [and] titles within the roll were even more laconic" 248)
7. Luppe, W., Rückseitentitel auf Papyrusrollen, ZPE 127 (1977), 89-99
8. Nachmanson, E., Der griechische Buchtitel (1941)
9. Schmalzriedt, E., Peri physeos. Zur Frühgeschichte der Buchtitel (1970)
10. Bastianini, G., Tipologie dei rotoli e problemi di ricostruzione, V seminario internazionale di papirologia (1996), 25-7. The Callimachean diegesis (P. Mil. 1.18) contains similarly positioned titles (X.18: 'Εκα ́λης)
11. On epigram rolls specifically see Cameron, A., The Greek Anthology from Meleager to Planudes (1993)
12. Gutzwiller, K., Poetic Garlands: Hellenistic Epigrams in Context (1998)
13. Argentieri, L., Epigramma e libro, ZPE 121 (1998), 1-20
14. Stobaeus cites Φιλήτα 'Επιγραμμάτων (13 CA). On the name of the epigrammatist in the title: P. Köln. 204 preserves Μ[ν]ασάλκου (M. Gronewald, in Kölner Papyri v (1985), 22-32
15. For example, the book rolls of Herodas' Mimiamboi and Theocritus' Idylls preserve titles for individual poems and divisions for the reader but do not group them in the same way because the titles identify only a single poem. Further, the titles are much more transparent as descriptions of single poems of Herodas and Theocritus. See Gutzwiller, K., The Evidence for Theocritean Poetry Books, in M. A. Harder et al. (edd.), Theocritus, Hellenistica Groningana 2 (1996), 119-48
16. Cassius Dio, Roman Histories 170.8
17. Manetho, Apotelesmatica 4.212 (οιcombining comma aboveωνοcκοπικου ́c)
18. Hephaestion, Apotelesmatica 147.6
19. The word itself can thus have a meaning broader than augury. On the connection of birds and augury, see Aristophanes, Birds 719 and Dunbar's commentary ad loc.
20. Alexander Phil., De anima libri mantissa 102.2
21. Plotinus, Enneads 5.9.5.38
22. BGA ad loc. On birds in divination generally, see Halliday, W., Greek Divination (1913), 246-71
23. Pollard, J., Birds in Greek Life and Myth (1977), 110-29
24. Morton, J., The Role of the Physical Environment in Ancient Greek Seafaring (2001), 284-309
25. Thompson, D., A Glossary of Greek Birds (1936), 27-29
26. See also Sider, D., On On Signs in On the Opuscula of Theophrastus (2002), 99-111 and 99 n. 3 for a list of extant ancient texts on signs
27. Theophrastus, Sign. 2.28
28. See also Keller, O., Die Antike Tierwelt (1913), II, 19-20
29. Gronewald, M., Bemerkungen zum neuen Poseidippos, ZPE 137 (2002), 2. Editors give λcombining dot belowηcombining dot beloẃπ combining dot belowηcombining dot belowc
30. See Acosta-Hughes, B. and Stephens. S., Rereading Callimachus' Aetia Fragment 1, CP 97 (2002), 247-48
31. Wachsmuth, D., ΠΟΜΠΙΜΟΣ Ο ΔΑΙΜΟΝ: Untersuchung zu den antiken Sakralhandlungen bei Seereisen (1967), 191 notes this constant connection in ancient thought between natural behavior and divination
32. See Elkins, N., Weather and Bird Behavior (1983), 163-69 on the behavior of migrating birds and 190-213 on seabirds
33. On the latter parts of this epigram and emendations to the last line, see most recentlyv Lapini, W., Sul nuovo Posidippo (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309, Col IV.30-35), ZPE 140 (2002), 13-14
34. Cf. Petrain, D., Presbus. A Note on the New Posidippus (V.6-11), ZPE 140 (2002), 9-12
35. See Forbes-Irving, P. M. C., Metamorphosis in Greek Myths (1990), 96-127 and 223-60
36. See discussion below. Cf. Lehnus, L., Posidippean and Callimachean Queries, ZPE 138 (2002), 11
37. and Selden, D., Alibis, CA 17.2 (1998), 307-313
38. Gutzwiller (above n. 8) and Bing, P., Posidippus on Stones: The First Section of the New Posidippus Papyrus, APA 2002 have made some similar observations
39. and Hunter, R., Osservazioni sui Lithika di Posidippo, in the same volume, 109-119