Philitas of Cos / / by Konstantinos Spanoudakis.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 229
• VerfasserIn: Spanoudakis, Konstantinos,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston ;, Köln : : Brill,, [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 229.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 454 pages)
• Notes: Errata slip inserted.

This volume is an edition of the poetical and grammatical fragments of Philitas of Cos, the early-Hellenistic scholar and poet who served as an exemplary model for the great Alexandrian poets. His output includes frivolous Hermes and Demeter which both had fundamental impact on later metapoetic imagery, and the Ataktoi Glossai , a glossary interpreting mainly Homeric idiom in pre-Aristarchean fashion. The body of the book consists of an Introduction discussing life, literary affiliations and metre; an edition of testimonies and fragments along with a commentary elucidating matters of language and influence on the scholar-poets, Propertius and Longus. The study of Philitas is brought up to date with new testimonies and new neglected sources for the fragments. Recent papyrological findings, verse inscriptions, lexicographic sources and inscriptions from Cos are taken into consideration. Passages dubiously ascribed to Philitas are discussed. The book closes with three Appendices and comprehensive Indexes.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY -- TESTIMONIA -- ALLEGED TESTIMONIA -- INTRODUCTION -- POETICAL FRAGMENTS -- GRAMMATICAL FRAGMENTS -- FOUR VERSE CITATIONS IN HESYCHIUS -- A NEW EPIC FRAGMENT? -- A HYPOTHESIS ON SOROS -- INDEX VERBORUM OF THE POETICAL FRAGMENTS -- INDEX VERBORUM OF THE GRAMMATICAL FRAGMENTS -- INDEX FONTIUM OF THE POETICAL FRAGMENTS -- INDEX FONTIUM OF THE GRAMMATICAL FRAGMENTS -- INDEX FONTIUM OF THE TESTIMONIA -- INDEX OF PASSAGES DISCUSSED -- GENERAL INDEX -- INDEX OF GREEK WORDS, PHRASES OR TERMS DISCUSSED -- CONCORDANCES -- SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE by H. PINKSTER , H.S. VERSNEL , D.M. SCHENKEVELD , P.H. SCHRIJVERS and S.R. SLINGS.