Lost at Sea: Pythermus as an Anti-Odysseus?

The original thematic features displayed by 93 A.-B. find an explanation in the comparison with "Odyssey" 24.290-96, its hypotext. Posidippus, however, is not only trying to fulfil the typical Hellenistic demand for originality. The imperative περίστειλον represents a Homeric gloss through...

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Published in:American journal of philology 2009-04, Vol.130 (1), p.47-65
Main Author: Di Nino, Margherita Maria
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bones
Cenotaphs
Death & dying
Destiny
Epigrams
Epitaphs
Homeland
Homeric epics
Intertextuality
Poetry
Prayer
Sons
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Summary:The original thematic features displayed by 93 A.-B. find an explanation in the comparison with "Odyssey" 24.290-96, its hypotext. Posidippus, however, is not only trying to fulfil the typical Hellenistic demand for originality. The imperative περίστειλον represents a Homeric gloss through which the learned epigrammatist explains the hapax περιστέλλω that puzzled Homer's commentators. Such intertextuality provides new evidence of the reception of Homer in the Hellenistic Age, revealing that Posidippus, too, was ποιητὴϛ ἅμα καὶ κριτικόϛ.
ISSN:0002-9475
1086-3168
1086-3168
DOI:10.1353/ajp.0.0042