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Greek Wisdom — I - Giorgio Colli: La sapienza greca, i: Dioniso, Apollo, Eleusi, Orfeo, Museo, Iperborei, Enigma. Pp. 469. Milan: Adelphi, 1977. L. 38,000.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

Fritz Graf
Affiliation:
Zürich

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References

1 See my Eleusis und die orphische Dichtung Athens, Berlin/New York, 1974.Google Scholar

2 One bad mistake may be pointed out in 4 A 18, and a questionable translation in 4 A 24.

3 ‘Mangel an historischem Sinn ist der Erbfehler aller Philosophen’, says Nietzsche, Menschliches Allzumenschliches 1.1.12.

4 See the account of Zuntz, G., Persephone (Oxford, 1971), pp. 288289Google Scholar, and the surprising conclusions of Burkert, W., Magna Graecia 10: 1/2 (1975), 5/7.Google Scholar

5 ‘una maggiore o minore presunzione di antichità sapienziale’ (p. 10).

6 In Harrison, J. E., Themis (Cambridge2, 1927), pp. 342 f.Google Scholar

7 Partly published in Deltion 19 (1964), 1725Google Scholar. ZPE 1 (1967), 2132Google Scholar. To be exact, C. mentions the papyrus once, in the apparatus of 4 A 71 (!).

8 Henrichs, A., GRBS 13 (1972), 6798Google Scholar; the new text is Phil. piet. 963.

9 Id., Cron. Erc. 5 (1975), 35Google Scholar: hitherto, the earliest reference was K.frg.70 (? third cent. A.D.). Even earlier is a fifth-century (?) graffito from Olbia, Vest. Drev. 1st. 1978: 1. 87 f., brought to my knowledge by W. Burkert: it is scratched into a plaque of bone, of enigmatic use: could it be the token of a religious community?