Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 23995
(formerly occ/7946)

	οὐαὶ προμηθεῦ κράζων οὐαί σοι μέγα·
	χάριν βροτῶν γὰρ ἠπάτησας τ(ὸν) δία:
	καὶ λάθρα τούτου, πῶς τὸ πῦρ ἐκεκλόφεις:
	εἰτ’ οὐδ’ ἐπείσθεις ὧνπερ ἐσταυρωμένος
	τὸν ἐκβαλόντα τῶν θρόν(ων) εἰπεῖν δία·
	τῶ τοι κεραυνὸ(ς) ἐκ πολλοῦ κατηγμένος·
	ἔργον τίθησι συντριβῆς σε τὸν τάλαν·
	αἴαζε τοίνυν, τοῦτο γὰρ πάρεστί σοι:-

Type(s)	[3439] Οὐαί, Προμηθεῦ, κρᾶξον, οὐαί σοι μέγα (8 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1276-1300
Manuscript	HEIDELBERG - Universitätsbibliothek - Palat. gr. 18 [1276-1300]
Place in Manuscript	f. 111r
Palaeographical information	Written in three columns, to be read horizontally.
Contextual information	The epigram is written at the end of Aeschylus' 'Prometheus Bound'. It is the last in a series of three book epigrams.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Prometheus Zeus
Image source(s)	https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpgraec18/0225/image
Bibliography	Primary 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: 121 L. Spyridonova, A. Kurbanov 2021, The Book Epigrams on Prometheus, Ascribed to John Tzetzes, ΣΧΟΛΗ, 15(2), 524-537: 527-528
Number of verses	8
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) 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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