| Text source |
H. Beckby, 1965, Anthologia Graeca. I-VI (vol. 1), München: 208-209
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| Text status |
Text completely known |
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Critical text |
| Genre(s) |
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| Person(s) |
- Poet
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Christodoros of Koptos < Egypt
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| Metre(s) |
Dactylic hexameter
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| Subject(s) |
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| Translation(s) |
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'Thucydides was wielding his intellect, weaving, as it seemed, the rhetorical character of his history. His right hand was raised, as he once sang the bitter war of Sparta and the sons of Cecrops - a war that cut down the nurse who had raised Greece to its height'.
- Language
- English
- Source(s)
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W. Paton, M. Tueller, 2014, The Greek Anthology. Books 1-5 (vol. 1), Cambridge: 139
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Thucydide avait l'esprit tendu et en éveil; on eût dit, à le voir, qu'il tissait l' «ithos» des discours qu'il a insérés dans son histoire. Il tenait la main droite levée, comme jadis lorsqu'il chantait l'âpre lutte de Sparte contre les illustres descendants de Cécrops, lutte qui moissonna la jeunesse florissante que nourrissait la Grèce.
- Language
- French
- Source(s)
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P. Waltz, 1928, Anthologie Grecque. Tome I: Anthologie palatine, Livres I-IV (vol. 1), Paris: 77
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'Tief in Sinnen versenkt war Thukydides; deutlich erkennbar
spann er Charakter und Haltung der Reden in seinem Geschichtswerk.
Hob er die Rechte doch hoch wie damals, als er den harten,
bitteren Krieg zwischen Sparta und Kekrops' Bürgern besungen,
der die blühende Jugend der Mutter Hellas gemäht hat'.
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- German
- Source(s)
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H. Beckby, 1965, Anthologia Graeca. I-VI (vol. 1), München: 209
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| Comment |
This epigram is part of a larger poem written by Christodoros of Koptos, but Vassis (2005: 349) cites another author, who possibly excerpted this poem. |
| Bibliography |
Primary
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B. Fonkič 1983, Ancora un manoscritto di Marco Mamuna, Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici (RSBN), 20, 227-228: 227-228
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C. Gallavotti 1985, Note su testi e scrittori di codici greci, Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici (RSBN), 22, 191-207: 193
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K. Hude, 1973, Scholia in Thucydidem ad optimos codices collata, New York: 434
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W. Paton, M. Tueller, 2014, The Greek Anthology. Books 1-5 (vol. 1), Cambridge: 138
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C. Stornajolo, 1895, Codices Urbinates Graeci, Rome: 134
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P. Waltz, 1928, Anthologie Grecque. Tome I: Anthologie palatine, Livres I-IV (vol. 1), Paris: 77
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| Number of verses |
5 |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Permalink |
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