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SOME POSSIBLE FRAGMENTS OF EARLY MYTHOGRAPHY IN STEPHANUS OF BYZANTIUM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2019

Robert L. Fowler
Robert L. Fowler*
Affiliation:
University of Bristol
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robert.fowler@bristol.ac.uk
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Extract

In this article I consider five anonymous quotations in Stephanus of Byzantium. The first is very probably an overlooked fragment of early mythography. The other four are much less likely to be early, but theoretically could be and are included for the sake of completeness.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 69 , Issue 2 , December 2019 , pp. 501 - 506
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Copyright © The Classical Association 2019

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1 Eustathius so designates Stephanus in his comment on Il. 2.869, p. 368.26 citing Steph. μ229 (sometimes he writes ὁ Ἐθνικογράφος; more commonly ὁ τὰ Ἐθνικὰ γράψας or an equivalent expression).

2 Billerbeck, M., Stephani Byzantii Ehtnica, 5 vols. (Berlin and New York, 2006–17). Vol. 2Google Scholar was co-edited by C. Zubler, vols. 4–5 by A. Neumann-Hartmann.

3 M.L. West, BMCR 2014.08.38.

4 See the Index fontium in Fowler, R.L., Early Greek Mythography (= EGM), 2 vols. (Oxford, 2000–13), 1.405–6Google Scholar and the Stellenindex in vol. 5 of Billerbeck's Stephanus (n. 2 above).

5 Or ἡ πόλις or (ἡ) πόλις νῦν. Cf. EGM 2.719–20.

6 For the combination toponym or ethnonym + eponym or etymology + verb καλεῖν, see EGM Armen. fr. 6, Hellan. frr. 71a, 74, 77, 79a, Pher. frr. 1, 8, 39, 66, 95, 101, 135, 146, 156, 168, Scyth. fr. 1; with ὀνομάζω, Andr. fr. 7, Hellan. fr. 123 (other, similar expressions of naming listed in the index s.v. καλέω EGM 1.416). Maroneia is polis no. 646 in IACP.

7 On Eustathius’ text, see Billerbeck (n. 2), 1.34*–35*.

8 ‘Near’ is loose, to say the least, but it is on the Thracian coast. For the location, see Vannicelli, P., Erodoto: Le storie. Libro VII. Serse e Leonida (Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, n.p. 2017), 424Google Scholar.

9 See Vannicelli (n. 8), 422 on Hdt. 7.108.1.

10 E.g. BNJ 1 FRR 77, 81, 84 129, 139, 140, 228, 255, 262, 268; sometimes the supplementary information will be Stephanus’, not Hecataeus’, but the pattern is clear. At F 227 the etymology is identified as Hecataeus’.

11 RE 14.2 (1930), 1911–12; IACP p. 879.

12 E.g. Heubeck on Od. 9.197–8.

13 Son of Dionysus: Satyrus of Alexandria BNJ 631 fr. 1 (conj. Müller, FHG 3.165, for the manuscript's Εὐνόος); Porphyry in schol. Od. 9.197; schol. Ap. Rhod. Argon. 3.997–1004a. Son of Oenopion: Hes. fr. 238 (corrected from Eustathius); Ion, fr. 1 EGM. Parentage unclear in Diod. Sic. 5.79.2. Gruppe, O., Griechische Mythologie und Religionsgeschichte 1 (Munich, 1906), 223Google Scholar diagnosed the appropriation.

14 Billerbeck (n. 2) extends it to include ‘And “Zeus Polieus” and “Athena Polias”’, but these words seem to resume the list of examples preceding the quotation. The train of thought has been rendered obscure by epitomizing, but from examples of -eus / -eis Stephanus seems to branch out to discuss various feminine derivations. The quotation documents an occurrence of ‘Athenais’, but its original context was not grammatical.

15 See RE 19.1 (1937), 725–42 for a list.

16 Conon, Narr. 37; Paus. 5.25.12; schol. Eur. Phoen. 217; Nonnus, Dion. 2.684. See Roscher, Lex. s.v.; Frazer on Apollod. Bibl. 3.1.1; EGM 2.348.

17 von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, U., ‘Die Sieben Thoren Thebens’, Hermes 26 (1891), 191–242Google Scholar, at 213 = Kleine Schriften 5.1 (Berlin, 1937), 26–77, at 48 n. 0; E. Jacobs, Thasiaca (Diss., Berlin, 1893), 12 n. 36.

18 See frr. 5, 125 and 169 with EGM 2.447–53, 2.609–10.

19 See also Ottone, G., ‘Strabone e la critica a Timostene di Rodi: un frammento di Polibio (XII.1.5) testimone del Περὶ λιμένων?’, Syngraphae 4 (2002), 153–71, at 168–9Google Scholar.

20 Shipley, G., Pseudo-Skylax's Periplous. The Circumnavigation of the Inhabited World. Text, Translation and Commentary (Exeter, 2011), 15Google Scholar.