Comparative Studies in Greek and Indic Meter

Nagy, Gregory

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“…22) Th e link between poetry and κλέος is commonplace now. See Nagy 1974, 246-52 and 1979, 16-8, passim. Kyriakou (2004 [ (fr.…”

Section: Th E Epilogue and Simon Fr 11 Wmentioning

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A Competition in Praise: An Allusion to Simon. fr. 11 W2 in Theoc. Id. 22.214-23

Kowerski

2008

Mnemosyne

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In the epilogue to Idyll 22, the hymn to the Dioscuri, Th eocritus makes poetic claims concerning the reciprocity between poets and their laudandi. In making these claims, he compares himself with Homer, a comparison which has puzzled readers. Th is paper suggests that we can understand this comparison by recognizing how this epilogue engages with the elegiac poem by Simonides represented by fr. 11 W 2 , which belongs to the so-called new Simonides. Alexander Sens (1997) has observed that both passages contain a programmatic comparison with Homer. Pushing this observation, I argue that these parallels constitute an allusion to Simonides' composition which serves two purposes. First, it provides a parallel for Th eocritus' comparison with Homer. Second, it introduces the anecdotal tradition concerning Simonides and the Dioscuri at a disastrous banquet in Th essaly, known most fully from Cicero and Quintilian, but also found in the Hellenistic era. By introducing this anecdote, Th eocritus shows that his comparison with Homer is part of a literary game concerned with praising the Dioscuri. Th rough the allusion to Simonides, Th eocritus positions himself as the winner in this game by reminding his laudandi that he has praised them better than either Homer or Simonides.

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“…22) Th e link between poetry and κλέος is commonplace now. See Nagy 1974, 246-52 and 1979, 16-8, passim. Kyriakou (2004 [ (fr.…”

Section: Th E Epilogue and Simon Fr 11 Wmentioning

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A Competition in Praise: An Allusion to Simon. fr. 11 W2 in Theoc. Id. 22.214-23

Kowerski

2008

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“…The cumulative evidence to be gleaned from these cognate metrical contexts and from others like it can be used to demonstrate that Greek and Indic meters themselves are cognate, stemming from Indo-European prototypes. I offered such a demonstration, on the basis of phraseological and metrical evidence combined, in a book on Greek and Indic meters (Nagy 1974). It should be added that a similar demonstration can be made on the basis of metrical evidence alone (W 45-50).…”

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The Origins of Greek Poetic Language - (M.L.) West Indo-European Poetry and Myth. Pp. xiv + 525. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Cased, £80. ISBN: 978-0-19-928075-9.

Nagy¹

2010

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The original page-numbers of the printed version are embedded within brackets in this electronic version: for example, {333|334} marks where p. 333 stops and p. 334 begins.] West's book is most useful for researchers in the Classics and in the newer academic discipline of Indo-European studies. I have produced two different and mutually complementary reviews of it, one for Classicists and one for Indo-Europeanists, with the collegial permission of the book-review editors of Classical Review and Indo-European Studies Bulletin. In the review for IESB (published in 2008, vol. 13 no. 1, pp. 60-65), I concentrate on the usefulness of West's book for those who are already well-versed in Indo-European studies. In the present review for CR, I concentrate on its usefulness for Classicists. The greatest accomplishment of this book is to make readily available for Classicists a wealth of insights that have up to now been unrecognized or at best only barely recognized in the field of Classics. These insights, gleaned from the field of Indo-European linguistics, now need to be integrated into the ongoing work of Classicists. In the interest of promoting such integration, this review highlights page by page some salient points made by West, which I will summarize, with comments, in the style of an inventory. West's pages will be cited with a prefixed "W"; occasionally, I will refer to relevant points to be found in some of my own works,

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“…Hemacandra has reproduced Bhoja's comment, although he takes Sarvasena to task for including pointless descriptions in the galitaka verses of Hari's Victory, so we may assume that he did not subscribe to the view that the galitakas were interpolated. See Raghavan 1963: 802-803 Meillet 1923, Kurylowicz 1970, and Nagy 1974 31. Some authors counted 81,920,000 "surface forms" of the gāthā (Definition of the Gāthā 51; Mirror for Poets 2.6); others rightly disputed this number, because it did not take co-occurrence constraints into account (Govinda on Virahāṅka's Collection of .…”

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Language of the Snakes: Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India

Ollett¹

2017

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Comparative Studies in Greek and Indic Meter

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A Competition in Praise: An Allusion to Simon. fr. 11 W2 in Theoc. Id. 22.214-23

A Competition in Praise: An Allusion to Simon. fr. 11 W2 in Theoc. Id. 22.214-23

The Origins of Greek Poetic Language - (M.L.) West Indo-European Poetry and Myth. Pp. xiv + 525. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Cased, £80. ISBN: 978-0-19-928075-9.

Language of the Snakes: Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India

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