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Some Notes On Euripides' Cyclops1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Richard Seaford
Affiliation:
Brasenose College,Oxford

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L has …, P … Paley wanted to delete Subsequent editors did not take up the suggestion. J. Diggle on the other hand has proposed that was originally a gloss on ‘It would be no cause for surprise that a scribe who had never seen the like of Homer's (Il. 4. 189) should fuse the two versions by distributing the two in what he thought a fair and impartial manner.’ Diggle arrives at The metre is tidied up, the corruption explained. But would be unique in Euripides. is the Euripidean Greek for ‘O dear one’. For ‘O dear Hector’ he writes (Tro. 673). If he did want to create here by repetition a sense of there is no reason why he should not have written what is in L; compare Tro. 1081 , Su. 278 and Andr. 530

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page 193 note 2 I quote Murray's text throughout.

page 193 note 3 C.Q. xxi (1971), 44.Google Scholar

page 193 note 4 Though cf. Or. 1246 El. 167 Hel. 1451

page 193 note 5 Andr. 510, 530, 1204; Su. 278; Tro. 267, 1081; I.T. 830; R.hes. 367; cf. also A. DicOulci 807; and M. L. West in Glotta xliv (1967), 143.

page 193 note 6 An Inquiry into the Transmission of the Plays of Euripides (Cambridge, 1965), 194. He adds the important qualification that ‘actually there are authoritative readings as well as sheer inventions among every type and stage of Triclinius' alterations’. Even so, a probability can be established.

page 194 note 1 Zunt z, op. cit. 146.

page 194 note 2 See Pearson ad S. fr. 255.

page 194 note 3 9, 38, 143, 156, 429, 446, 454, 519, 521, 575, 709. Cf. also Ba. 528

page 194 note 4 Cf. Ar. Thesm. 988 f.

page 194 note 5 Op. cit. 35.

page 194 note 6 i.e. L before any correction.

page 194 note 7 After such a dactylic colon one would expect the following colon to be dactylic; see Dale, A. M., The Lyric Metres of Greek Drama (Cambridge, 1968), 35. Ibyceans are not very common in Drama; but another example (not entirely certain; cf. Wilamowitz, Gr. Vers. 258) of an Ibycean in an Aeolo-choriambic context is E. I.T. 1098; (cf. also E. Alc. 244–248).Google Scholar

page 194 note 8 For the postponed interrogative cf. Cyc. 155, 129, 538, 502, 549, 675; and Thomson, George, ‘The Postponement of Interrogatives in Attic Drama ', C.Q. xxxiii (1939), 147–52.Google Scholar

page 194 note 9 Cf. Denniston, Greek Particles, 173 ff.

page 194 note 10 The others are A. fr. 207 Nauck (Kassel, v. R., Rhein. Mus. cxvi [1973], 109–12) and S. Ichn. 285 Page.Google Scholar

page 195 note 1 (a) was propounded by W. Schmid (Philologus N.F. ix [1896], 47 ff.), K. W ernicke (Hermes xxxii [1897], 307 f.), Wilamowitz (Griech. Trag. Uebersetzt. iii [1906], 19), and P. Guggisberg (Das Satyrspiel [Zürich, 1947], 21). Recent advocates of (b) have been H. Patzer (Die Anfänge der griechischen Tragödie [1962], 61) and A. Lesky (Greek Tragedy [1965], 38).Google Scholar

page 195 note 2 Onom. 4.118.

page 195 note 3 Beazley A.R.V. 2 p. 1336; Pickard-Cambridge, Dramatic Festivals of Athens, fig. 49; Arias-Hirmer, History of Greek Vase Painting, pls. 218–19; E. Simon, Das Antike Theater, Taf. 7.

page 195 note 4 M. Bieber, History of the Greek and Roman Theatre (1961), 155, 217, 239 f., Sifakis, Hellenistic Drama, 53, 124–6.

page 195 note 5 Athenaeus 198 b 197 f, 200 e; Dionys. Hal. 7. 72. 10. Cf. also the satyrs in the Villa of the Mysteries at Pompeii (J.R.S. [1913], plates IX, X, XI).

page 195 note 6 Loc. cit.

page 195 note 7 i.e. Euripides.

page 195 note 8 Saggio critico (1933), 23.

page 195 note 9 3. 25; 5. 2, 10, 15; 7. 15f. and see Gomme and Sandbach ad Men. Epitrepontes 229.

page 196 note 1 Or wearing nothing at all.

page 196 note 2 Beazley, A.R.V. 2 70 f.; E. Buschor, Satyränze and Frühes Drama (Munich, 1943), figs. 49–50.

page 196 note 3 Beazley, A.R.V. 2 776; F. Brommer, Satyrspiele2 (Berlin, 1959), fig. 29.

page 196 note 4 Beazley, A.R.V. 2 835. Brommer, op. cit., fig. 63.

page 196 note 5 Brornmer, op. cit., figs. 59–60. Buschor, op. cit., fig. 47.

page 196 note 6 Beazley, A.R.V. 2 221.

page 196 note 7 Brommer, op. cit., fig. 69.

page 196 note 8 e.g. as in Aeschylus' play of that name, or as Oriental sorcerers in Python's There may well have been a satyric see Walz, P. in Acropole vi (1931), 278–95.Google Scholar

page 196 note 9 Beazley, A.R.V. 2 121. Buschor, op. cit., fig. 53.

page 196 note 10 e.g. on the Pronomos Vase. Some form of seems a certain restoration at A. Dictyulci 790, and probably refers to the satyrs (Werre-de Haas, Papyrologica LugdunoBatava x [1961], 56–8); cf. E. Ba. III, 249 f.; also S. Ichn. 172 Page. Some fifth-century stage satyrs wear a spotted e.g. Beazley, A.R.V. 2 475 n. 267 (by Makron); Pickard-Cambridge, D.F.A. 2, fig. 38.Google Scholar

page 196 note 11 Cf. Hel. 416, 1079; El. 50t; Alc. 818; Andr. 147 f.

page 196 note 12 e.g. 41 f., 256 f., 218.

page 197 note 1 In ‘The Overworked Playwright’, G. & R. viii (1961), 128.Google Scholar

page 197 note 2 See R. G. Kent in T.A.P.A. xxxvi (1906), 3952.Google Scholar

page 197 note 3 54 cf. E. Andromeda fr. 114 Nauck.

page 197 note 4 279; cf. 588. Also in S. Ant., E. Ion Phaethon (v. Diggle ad Phaethon 63).

page 197 note 5 L. Campbell in C.R. iv (1890), 304; also Kent, art. cit.Google Scholar

page 197 note 6 Cf. 710-I I

page 197 note 7 Where, as at Cyc. 542, one imagines the sun shining on to the theatre.

page 197 note 8 Kent, art. cit. 41.

page 197 note 9 A.G.W.G. 1881, 1–3.

page 197 note 10 Kent, art. cit. 43; cf. Butcher, S. H.Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art (4th edn., 1927), 293.Google Scholar

page 197 note 11 In a reply to Arnott, G. & R. x (1963), 128.

page 197 note 12 In Homer the incident is explicitly spread over more than twenty-four hours: Polyphemus returns with his flocks in the evening (9.233 ff.) and eats two of the Greeks for his supper, two more for his breakfast the next morning (307 ff.—this may have suggested Cyc. 214), and two more for his supper that evening (344). On the same evening he is blinded, and Odysseus and his companions escape on the morning of the next day (437 ff.).

page 197 note 13 Art. cit. 128.

page 198 note 1 Xen. Mem. 3. I I. 8; Kyn. 6. 13; 12. 7; P. Pyth. 9. 20–5.

page 198 note 2 Hesiod fr. 148 Merkelbach-West.

page 198 note 3 Prof. Kassel has brought to my notice the remark of G. Ammendola ad loc. (comm. 1952): ‘non a caso è scelta questa, e non altra costellazione; Orione era stato l'appassionato cacciatore …il Ciclope è cacciatore anch'esso.’

page 198 note 4 Beazley, A.B.V. 168. It was in fact normal for a Greek to carry a club when hunting hare.

page 198 note 5 Cf. H. Od. 5. 121–4.

page 198 note 6 Beazley, A.R.V. 2 261. For some later representations of Orion with club or sword, or both together, see G. Thiele, Antike Himmelsbilder (Berlin, 1898), 30, 39, 120; also Roscher, iii, 1023.

page 198 note 7 According to J. Diggle that is the point of at 360 (C.Q. xxi [1971] 46).Google Scholar

page 198 note 8 Beazley, A.R.V. 2 188 (probably by the Kleophrades Painter); Buschor, Sctyrtänze und Früte Drama, fig. 58.

page 198 note 9 Op. cit. 95.

page 199 note 1 Fr. 148 Merkelbach-West, who list later references.

page 199 note 2 Comm. in Verg. Ant. 10. 763.

page 199 note 3 For the play in question a powerful candidate is Sophocles' Kedalion: so Kuenzle iii Roscher, iii. 1038, and Schmid, Gr. L. G. i. 2. 426; for another suggestion for the theme of the Kedalion see Wilamowitz in N.G.G. 1895, 237.

page 199 note 4 3 f., 5 ff., 38 ff.; see Walz, P. in Acropole vi (1931), 154–80.Google Scholar

page 199 note 5 655 P.M.G. 14 ff.; for Herakles', fifty sons by the daughters of Thespios seg. e.g., Apollodorus, Bibl. 2. 4. 10; 2. 7. 8

page 199 note 6 Schol. Nik. Ther. 15 (pp. 40–2 Crugnola); cf. Parthenius 20 Martini.

page 199 note 7 See also Wilamowitz in Berliner Klassikertexte, V. 2. 53.

page 199 note 8 Parthenius 20; Arat. Phaen. 640.

page 199 note 9 Cf. Alc. 760 with Cyc. 425–6.

page 199 note 10 Orion with Merope, and with Artemis: Kallim. Hymn. Artem. 265; Arat. loc. cit.; Hor. C. 3. 4. 70 f.; for Herakles see, e.g., E. fr. 693 Nauck: —from the Satyr Play Syleus and almost certainly spoken by Herakles.

page 199 note 11 Od. 9. 373 f.

page 199 note 12 130, 210f., 583 ff.

page 200 note 1 E. Hipp. 108

page 200 note 2 Cf. Cyc. 27 f. with, e.g., Od. 9. 237, Cyc 207 ff. with, e.g., Od. 9. 244.

page 200 note 3 Cf. Cyc. 214 with, e.g., Od. 9. 311, Cyc 241 ff. with Od. 9. 251.

page 200 note 4 Cf. Cyc. 29 with Od. 9. 330.

page 200 note 5 In Homer P. has no sexuality. But E.': (326–8) (to which Heath rightly compared Cat. 32. 10) may have been partially suggested by Od. 9. 371

page 200 note 6 Od. 9. 292.

page 200 note 7 With 215 cf. 356 and Epicharmus fr 21 Kaibel (of Herakles), Ar. Ran. 571, Pherecrates fr. 69 Kock. 2, Telecleides fr. Kock. 12, Heniochos fr. i Kock. 3; also Cyc. 325 ff.

page 200 note 8 Hermann explains: ‘sine coquis et diribitoribus, hoc est sine ambagibus se homines assatos devoraturum dicit.’

page 200 note 9 i.e. as opposed to what is described in v. 246.

page 201 note 1 Moral. 696 e.

page 201 note 2 I.G. 22. 334.

page 201 note 3 1062; cf., e.g., Alexis fr. 173 Kock. ii, Anaxippus fr. Kock. 23.

page 201 note 4 Dittenb. Syll. iii (3rd edn., 1920) ii. 1024 (Pp. 172 ff.).

page 201 note 5 1. 14.

page 201 note 6 Also AC. Pax. 1017, Pollux Onom. 6. 34. The evidence, literary, inscriptional, and etymological, for the origin of the in sacrifice has been set out in the exhaustive treatment of the in comedy by Giannini, A. (Acme xiii [1964] 135216,Google Scholar esp.,35 n. 1), and by Dohm, H. (Zekmata, Heft xxxii [1964]).Google Scholar

page 201 note 7 Kolax fr. I Koerte.

page 201 note 8 Fr. 24 West.

page 201 note 9 Cf. Fraenkel ad A. Ag. 1235.

page 201 note 10 Alex. 203 (quoted below) 481, 762.

page 201 note 11 . CL Il. 24.626; Od. 15. 140.

page 201 note 12 F. Puttkammer, Quo Modo Graeci Carnes Victimarum Distribuerint (Diss. Königsberg, 1912), passim.

page 201 note 13 I.G. 22 334. 1. 25.

page 201 note 14 e.g. the at Sparta (Plut. Moral. 644 b; Pollux Onom. 6. 34). For similarly named officials elsewhere see Puttkammer, op. cit. 56 f.

page 201 note 15 Protrept. 1. p. 84. 10 f. Stählin.

page 201 note 16 Ad Theocr. 26. 24.

page 202 note 1 Od. 9. 291–3.

page 202 note 2 246–9.

page 202 note 3 The distinction between these three qualities is important. combined though they are in the person of Polyphemus, may appear to be at opposite extremes on the scale of civilization; but they are both perversions of the sacrificial meal. For what Plutarch makes Lamprias say at Moral. 644 b is simplistic, no doubt, but may well be fundamentally

page 202 note 5 Cf., e.g., the at E. H.F. 892.

page 202 note 6 LSJ s.v. II.

page 202 note 7 Similarly P. is dissuaded from (531).

page 202 note 8 Another and more curious perversion of is at Lycophr. Alex. 203: (of the snake at the Aulian altar) cf. also ibid.. 762.

page 203 note 1 An intermediate stage in the corruption may have been, as Duchemin suggests, (to be taken with ).

page 203 note 2 Murray's text but with Kassel's in 292.

page 203 note 3 S. Ajax 460

page 203 note 4 It is true that Poseidon numbers among his titles (h. Hom. 22. 5), (P. Pyth. 4. 207) and (Lycophr. Alex. 157). But Odysseus wishes to claim that the Greeks have benefited the god, not the ships under his protection. And cf. (318) with here.

page 204 note 1 Pers. 810 is guaranteed by the metre. Confusion between the forms of , on the other hand, is common: e.g. E. El. 1348: Triclinius, Murray).

page 204 note 2 Su. 545, 926, 1206; H.F. 37; Tro. 952; fr. 865 Nauck.

page 204 note 3 Loeb Library, Select Papyri, iii. 125.

page 204 note 4 Cf. 480, where means much the same as as at Hel. 424.

page 204 note 5 Poseidon is associated with in S. fr. 371 Pearson, quoted below.

page 204 note 6 6. 83. 2.

page 205 note 1 Compare also 297 with Nikias' words to the allies before Syracuse (Thuc. 7. 63. 4): For another aspect of Odysseus the fifth-century Athenian see line 160.

page 205 note 2 8. 5. i (p. 363): cf. Pomponius Mela 2. 3. 51 ‘in ipso Taenaro Neptuni templum et specus’.

page 205 note 3 3. 25. 4.

page 205 note 4 B.S.A. xiii (19071908), 249 ff.Google Scholar

page 205 note 5 Woodward's observations on the site of the temple have been confirmed by Waterhouse and Hope Simpson in B.S.A. lvi (1961), 123–4.

page 205 note 6 e.g. Hes. Theog. 158 Cf. E. Hec. 1.

page 205 note 7 H. Od. 13.367; at Od. so. 283 it means Pigsty.

page 205 note 8 P. Pyth. 9. 34; Orac. ap. Hdt. 7. 141. v. 5; E. Hel. 24.

page 205 note 9 (292) and (295); also, there was a harbour at Sunium.

page 205 note 10 Cf. S. fr. 371 Pearson: for which Pearson offers as a translation ‘who holdest sway on lofty crags over the entrance to the blue waters of the sheltered cove’.

page 205 note 11 Still less is Duchemin's citation of Hipp. 255 as an example of meaning ‘pro-fond’.

page 205 note 12 3. 23. 2.

page 206 note 1 As far as I know no archaeological traces of the worship of Poseidon have survived here or anywhere else in Malea.

page 206 note 2 For the association of Poseidon with springs see, e.g.. Paus. 2. 2. 8; 8. 7. 2, 8. 2, M. 4; cf. I. 26. 5; also R.E. s.n. Poseidon 504, 511 and Roscher's Lexik. Mythol. s.n. Poseidon 2818 f., 2832 ff.

page 206 note 3 Cf. P. Pyth. 4. 174 also S. Track. 788 Diog. Laert. 10. 37 (cod. F); codd. Soph. et Diog. cet. codd.); E. El. 442 (Orelli; L; cf. versum praecedentem; see Denniston ad loc.). At 318 f. Polyphemus replies

page 206 note 4 For the extremely rare opening choriamb v. V. Schmidt, Sprachliche Unter suchungen zu Herondas (Berlin, 1968), 6g ff.

page 206 note 5 Hermann's alternative solution, a lacuna after 295, was printed by Paley. Conradt placed the lacuna before But Murray's observation on this point ‘et videtur sane aliquid de fulmine Iovis dictum fuisse: cf. v. 320 seq.' underestimates Polyphemus’ sophistication (and v. Kassel, Rhein. Mus. xcviii [1955], 286). It is anyway dangerous to resort to a lacuna when what does survive is clearly in itself nonsense. Scaliger placed 296 before 285; Kock placed it after 282 (with a lacuna after 295 and Musgrave's ). Similarly Mancini, who deletes 292–5!

page 206 note 6 C.Q. ix (1915), 245; he imagines an intermediate stage ΔΥΣΦPONEIΔHΦPYΞ INOΥΔΩKAMEN caused by ‘double parablepsia’, and reads

page 207 note 1 Hrcld. 301 Andr. 621 f.

page 207 note 2 is indeed a curious phrase. But cf. Musgrave's certain restoration of E.

El. 1077 .

page 207 note 3 Cf. Hdt. 9. 7:

page 207 note 4 Hermathena xiii (1887), 231.Google Scholar

page 207 note 5 Except that Hesychius has .

page 207 note 6 Cf. my remarks above on what P. says two lines later (346).

page 207 note 7 Cf. my remarks above on 245.

page 208 note 1 Cf. Ar. Thesm. 565: .

page 208 note 2 Cf. It. 3. 57 f.: , Also P. Nem. 11. 16; A. Ag. 872; A.R.I. 691, 1326.

page 208 note 3 Marginalia Scaenica, 91 f.

page 208 note 4 The ‘split anapaest’ occurs occasionally in comedy, and in the Cyclops at 235 and 334; but in both those places there is, as here, an independent reason for suspecting the text.

page 208 note 5 To which add the beginning of Od. 13, where Alcinous suggests additional gifts for Odysseus (v. 13):