Hipponax Fr. 48 Dg. and the Eleusinian Kykeon

Abstract

Hipponax fr. 48 Dg. has been understood in the past as a statement of the poet's poverty and hunger. 1 More recently, however, scholars have pointed out the humor and ambiguity of the fragment, noting in particular the mock-heroic diction of the first two lines and the bathos that results when this sort of diction is applied to such an apparently trivial subject as one's own hunger. 2

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“…All translations are mine unless otherwise stated. 5Rosen (1988),Brown (1988); cf. Brown (1997) 83-4 Koster (1922).…”

“… 8 If this is a reference by Hipponax to the Eleusinian mysteries it is not the only one: fr. 39 W 2 (48 Dg) has the speaker begging someone to give him barley to make a κυκεών (a ritual beverage drunk during the Eleusinian mysteries among other contexts) as a φάρμακον πονηρίης, or else he will ‘give up his ghost’: Rosen (1987) argues that this is again a reference to the Homeric Hymn to Demeter 198–211. …”