Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 25355
(formerly occ/9390)

	στίχοι εἰς τ(ὸν) προμηθέα αὐτοῦ τζέτζου (...)

	+ αἰσχύλε τί φὴς τοὺς θεούς σου προσφέρεις,
	θεοὺς σεβάζων τοὺς παθητοὺς τὴν φύσ(ιν),
	χάριν βροτῶν γ(ὰ)ρ ἠπάτησας τὸν Δίαν,
	τὸν ἐκβαλόντα τὸν, θρόν(ον) εἰπεῖν Δία,
	αἴαζε τοίνυν τοῦτο γ(ὰ)ρ πάρεστί σοι:+

Type(s)	[3436] Αἰσχύλε, τί φῇς; τοὺς θεούς σου προσφέρεις (5 verses) [3439] Οὐαί, Προμηθεῦ, κρᾶξον, οὐαί σοι μέγα (8 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	13th-14th c.
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1332 [13th-14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 88v
Palaeographical information	The title is written in red ink and is not easily readable.
Contextual information	The occurrence is written at the end of Aeschylus' 'Prometheus Bound'. It is the second in a series of five book epigrams.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Aeschylus Prometheus
Comment	The epigram combines verses of two poems, inc. 'Αἰσχύλε, τί φῄς; τοὺς θεούς σου προσφέρεις' and 'Οὐαί, Προμηθεῦ, κρᾶξον, οὐαί σοι μέγα'.
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, 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) 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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