Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 31607

	(...)ὐαὶ προμηθεῦ κράξον οὐαί σοι μέγα·
	χάριν βροτῶν γὰρ ἠπάτησας τ(ὸν) δία.
	(καὶ) λάθρα τούτου, π(ῶς) τὸ πῦρ ἐκεκλόφεις
	εἰ δ’ οὐκ ἐπείσθης ὤν περ ἐσ(ταυ)ρωμένος
	τὸν ἐκβαλοῦντα τὸν θρόν(ον) εἰπεῖν δία
	τῶ τοι κεραυνὸς ἐκ πόλου κατηγμένος.
	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	1344
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Conv. Soppr. 7 [1344]
Place in Manuscript	f. 39v
Palaeographical information	The initial of verse 1 is missing.
Contextual information	The text is found at the end of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound. It is part of a cycle of epigrams on this tragedy.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Prometheus Zeus
Bibliography	Primary L. Spyridonova, A. Kurbanov 2021, The Book Epigrams on Prometheus, Ascribed to John Tzetzes, ΣΧΟΛΗ, 15(2), 524-537: 527-528 Secondary S. Allegrini 1971-1972, Note di Giovanni Tzetzes ad Eschilo, Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università di Perugia, 9, 221-233: 227 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
Number of verses	7
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Juan Bautista Juan López 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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