Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22368
(formerly occ/6248)

	στίχοι

	Ἀνθ’ ὧν τὸ πῦρ δέδωκας ἀν(θρώπ)ων γένει,
	Τρύχῃ βίᾳ φάραγγι προσπεπηγμένος·
	Τὸ πῦρ προμηθεῦ ὃ βροτοῖς ἐχαρίσω,
	Ὕλη πρὸς ἀκάμαντον εὑρέθη φλόγα·
	Ὀργῆς κ(α)τ(ὰ) σοῦ πρὸς θεῶν πυρσουμέν(ης):-

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 unknown
Date	1413
Manuscript	VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - phil. gr. 197 [1413]
Place in Manuscript	f. 180r
Person(s)	Scribe Konstantinos Ketzas - PLP: V.11666
Palaeographical information	The initials and the title are written in red ink. Written in two columns, to be read horizontally.
Contextual information	The epigram is the first in a series of four epigrams, written at the end of Aeschylus' 'Prometheus Bound'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Prometheus
Image source(s)	https://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_8699212
Bibliography	Secondary H. Hunger, 1961, Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Codices Historici. Codices Philosophici et Philologici (vol. 1), Vienna: 309
Number of verses	5
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Dimitrios Skrekas Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, 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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