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.
Dedication: For my parents, Panagiotis and Vasiliki. O. Rossbach, Bemerkungen zu griechischen Papyri, BPhW 32, 1912, 1460–1461.
Acknowledgement
The present article is based on my Doctoral Thesis (Antonopoulos, 2010), from which I have used the Ichn. text cited (cf. Radt, 1999, fr. 314). Its preparation has been made possible with funding from a fellowship awarded to me by the University of Patras, Greece (C. Carathéodory Programme for Postdoctoral Research), in order to complete my edition and full-scale commentary of Sophocles’ Ichneutai. I would like to thank the University of Patras for their kind support.
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