Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 31577

	※ ἀνθ’ ὧν τὸ πῦρ δέδωκ(ας) ἀν(θρώπ)ων γέν(ει),
	τρύχῃ βία φάραγγι προσπεπηγμένο(ς)
	τὸ πῦρ προμηθεῦ ὃ βροτ(οῖς) ἐχαρίσω
	ὕλη πρὸ(ς) ἀκάμαντον εὑρέθη φλόγα‧
	ὀργ(ῆς) κ(α)τὰ σοῦ πρὸ(ς) θεῶν πυρσουμ(έν)(ης)
	αἰσχύλε τί φ(ῆς) τοὺς θεούς σου προσφέρεις
	πάσχοντ(ας) αἰσχρ(ῶς) ἐκ θεῶν ὁμοτρόπων,
	καὶ π(ῶς) ἄρα λέληθ(ας) αὐτὸν εἰς τέλο(ς),
	θε(οὺς) σεβάζω(ν) τοὺς παθητ(οὺς) τὴν φύσ(ιν),
	(καὶ) μὴ δυνατοὺς ἐκφυγ(εῖν) τιμωρί(ας): +

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	1275-1400
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 31, Cod. 2 [1275-1400]
Place in Manuscript	f. 46v
Palaeographical information	Written in two columns, to be read horizontally.
Contextual information	The epigram, which combines two well-known book epigrams, is written at the end of Aeschylus' 'Prometheus Bound'. It is surrounded by a decorative frame.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Aeschylus Prometheus
Image source(s)	http://mss.bmlonline.it/s.aspx?Id=AWOHzYEaI1A4r7GxMCHb&c=Regulae%20grammaticales,%20et%20Aeschyli%20tragoediae%20III#/oro/102
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: 120-121, 122 L. Spyridonova, A. Kurbanov 2021, The Book Epigrams on Prometheus, Ascribed to John Tzetzes, ΣΧΟΛΗ, 15(2), 524-537: 527-528 Secondary M. Tomadaki, E. van Opstall 2019, The Tragedians from a Byzantine Perspective: Book Epigrams on Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, Medioevo Greco. Rivista di storia e filologia bizantina. (MEG), 19, 193-220: 198
Number of verses	10
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout 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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