Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 19349
(formerly occ/2822)

	στίχοι εἰς τὸν προμηθέα: +

	ἀνθ᾽ ὧν τὸ πῦρ δέδωκας ἀν(θρώπ)ων γένει,
	τρύχῃ βία φάραγγι προσπεπηγμ(έν)ο(ς)
	τὸ πῦρ προμηθεῦ ὃ βροτοῖς ἐχαρίσω
	[ὕλη πρὸς ἀκά]ματον εὑρέθη φλόγα·
	ὀργ(ῆς) κατά σε πρὸ(ς) θεῶν πυρσουμ(ένης):-

Type(s)	[3434] Ἀνθ’ ὧν τὸ πῦρ δέδωκας ἀνθρώπων γένει (5 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1276-1400
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 28, Cod. 25 [1276-1300]
Place in Manuscript	f. 67v
Palaeographical information	Title in red ink. Written in three columns, to be read horizontally.
Contextual information	The epigram forms a long composition together with two more poems, inc. 'Αἰσχύλε, τί φῇς; τοὺς θεοὺς σου προσφέρεις' and 'Οὐαὶ Προμηθεῦ κρώζων, οὐαί σοι μέγα'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Prometheus
Image source(s)	http://teca.bmlonline.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=TECA0000620310&keyworks=plut.28.25#page/150/mode/1up
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1768, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 2), Florence: 45 D. Rasljic 2022, Two Greek Paratext Poems from the Manuscript Q No. 2 of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Philologia Classica, 17(1), 113-124: 120-121, 122 L. Spyridonova, A. Kurbanov 2021, The Book Epigrams on Prometheus, Ascribed to John Tzetzes, ΣΧΟΛΗ, 15(2), 524-537: 527-528
Number of verses	5
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri, Maria Tomadaki, Lotte van Olmen The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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