Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 24112
(formerly occ/8074)

	εἰς εἰκόνα ὁμήρου·

	Εἰς αἰῶνας ὅμηρε καὶ ἐξ αἰώνος ἀείδη·
	οὐρανίης μούσης δόξαν ἀειράμενος·
	μῆνιν μὲν γὰρ ἄεισας ἀχιλλέος· αὐτὰρ ἀχαιῶν
	στρομβηδὸν νηῶν σύγχυσιν ἐν πελάγει·
	τειρόμενον τε πλάνησιν ὀδησσέα ποικιλόβουλον,
	τοῦ λέχος ἀσπασίως εἴσιδε πηνελόπη;

Type(s)	[4631] Εἰς αἰῶνας, Ὅμηρε, καὶ ἐξ αἰῶνος ἀείδῃ (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1466
Manuscript	LONDON - British Library - Harley 5600 [1466]
Place in Manuscript	f. 13v
Person(s)	Scribe Ioannes Rhosos of Crete < Greece - RGK: I.178, II.237, III.298 - VGH: 187.B - PLP: X.24574 (presbyteros)
Palaeographical information	The first letter and the title are written in red ink.
Contextual information	This poem is the seventh in a series of twelve epigrams on Homer.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Achilleus Homer (8th c. BC) Nine Muses Odysseus Penelope
Image source(s)	http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=harley_ms_5600_f013v
Bibliography	Primary F. Maltomini 2015, Una silloge di epigrammi su Omero (e alcuni inediti bizantini), Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici, 75, 151-175: 172 F. Valerio 2016, Analecta Byzantina, Medioevo Greco. Rivista di storia e filologia bizantina. (MEG), 16, 255-302: 269
Number of verses	6
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, 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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