To Tamar Acknowledgements I never dreamt of writing a book on the Parian Marble, but intellectual adventures are not always foreseen. It was on the very soil of Paros, at a conference on Archilochus in 2005, that the inscription beckoned and the fields of poetry and chronology converged in my mind. […]
Bibliography of Frequently Cited Works Allan, W. 2005. “Arms and the Man: Euphorbus, Hector, and the Death of Patroclus.“ Classical Quarterly 55:1–16. Andersen, Øivind. 1978. Die Diomedesgestalt in der Ilias. Symbolae Osloenses Suppl. 25. Oslo. ——. 1982. “Thersites und Thoas vor Troia.” Symbolae Osloenses 57:7–34. […]
Appendix. The Tabulae Iliacae In dealing with the possibility that artifacts such as Greek vases reflect and preserve versions of myths that feature in now-lost epics, one must sedulously avoid (as I have in chapter 2) using the word “illustration,” with its host of anachronistic and misleading associations. But there does exist […]
Chapter 4. Commentary on the “Fragments” of the Aethiopis F1 ὁ γὰρ τὴν Αἰθιοπίδα γράφων περὶ τὸν ὄρθρον φησὶ τὸν Αἴαντα ἑαυτὸν ἀνελεῖν. The author of the Aethiopis says that Ajax killed himself around the time of dawn. Σ Pindar Isthmian IV 58b […]
Chapter 3. Commentary on Proclus’ Summary of the Aethiopis The question of a dating of the composition relative to the Iliad has been considered above (pages 3–24), where it was seen to be an exceedingly complex issue. As for an absolute dating, the epic has a traditional author (Arctinus) who in turn […]
Chapter 2. The Aethiopis and Art Under the rubric of art, of course, fall a vast number of books and articles covering a wide range of aspects. From the long list of works that deal with more than one category and are rich in bibliography I select for mention G. E. Lung, Memnon: […]
Chapter 1. The Aethiopis and the Iliad The plots of many an epic have been reconstituted from alleged references and allusions in Homer (this is particularly true of the Thebais). The Aethiopis, however, occupies a special position among these. An examination of this position must take us into the realms of Neoanalysis—magical […]
Introduction [In this on-line version, the page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{69|70}” indicates where p. 69 of the printed version ends and p. 70 begins. These indications will be useful to readers who need to look up references made elsewhere to the printed […]
Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works ABV = J. D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford 1956). ANRW = H. Temporini, ed., Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt (Berlin 1972– ). ARV2 = J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd ed. (Oxford 1963). CB = L. D. Caskey and J. D. Beazley, Attic […]
Preface For Martin West In memoriam Herewith the next installment of my series of commentaries on early epic fragments (for details see the preface to the first volume, The Theban Epics, which appeared in 2014). The following volume, dealing with the Cypria, will be the longest so far, and the present […]