Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 19534
(formerly occ/3032)

	+ ἀνθ’ ὧν τὸ πῦρ δέδωκας ἀν(θρώπ)ων γένει,
	τρύχει βία φάραγγι προσπεπηγμένος·
	τὸ πῦρ προμηθεῦ ὃ βροτοῖς ἐχαρίσω,
	ὕλη πρὸ(ς) ἀκάματον εὑρέθη φλόγα,
	ὀργῆς κατὰ σοῦ πρὸ(ς) θεῶν πυργουμένης·
	αἰσχύλ(ε) τὶ φὴς τοὺς θεούς σου προσφέρεις,
	πάσχοντας αἰσχρῶς ἐκ θεῶν ὁμοτρόπων,
	καὶ πῶς ἄρα λέληθας αὐτὸν εἰς τέλος.
	θεοὺς σεβάζων, τοὺς παθητοὺς τ(ὴν) φύσιν,
	καὶ μὴ δυνατοὺς ἐκφυγ(εῖν) τιμωρίας:-

Type(s)	[3434] Ἀνθ’ ὧν τὸ πῦρ δέδωκας ἀνθρώπων γένει (5 verses) [3436] Αἰσχύλε, τί φῇς; τοὺς θεούς σου προσφέρεις (5 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th c.
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 91, Sup. 5 [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 40r
Palaeographical information	Written by the same hand as the main text.
Contextual information	The epigram, which combines two well-known book epigrams, is written at the end of Aeschylus' 'Prometheus Bound'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Aeschylus Prometheus
Comment	Bandini (1770: 421) gives only the incipit and the desinit, which is different from the one of the well-known type.
Image source(s)	http://teca.bmlonline.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=TECA0001161702&keyworks=aeschylus#page/83/mode/1up
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1770, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 3), Florence: 421 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	10
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Julián Bértola, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Julián Bértola, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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