Stesicoro Ὁμηρικώτατος e i frammenti della Gerioneide

Overview & Synopsis

Stesicoro Ὁμηρικώτατος e i frammenti della “Gerioneide” is a commented edition including Introduction, Critical Note, Critical Text and Translation, Commentary and Index locorum. The Introduction clarifies the methodological assumption on which the research is based: this study aims to rethink the relationship of the lyric poet with the presumed Homeric model, and to investigate the Stesichorean reception in Athens first under the Philaids, then in classical theatre and in Hellenistic and Virgilian poetry. The Critical Note explains the differences from the reference edition by Davies and Finglass under three different points of view: the distinction between fragmenta and fragmenta incertae sedis; the order of the reasonably placeable fragments; some specific textual choices. The Critical Text, with apparatus and translation, features fragments 8b F. (= S17), 9 F. (= 184 PMGF), 10 F. (= S8), 7 F. (= S16a), 13 F. (= S10), 17 F. (= S13), 15 F. (= S11 + S31), 18 F. (= S14), 19 F. (= S15 + S21) and 8a F. (= S17) under the heading Fragmenta, and fr. 5 F. (= S87), 6 F. (= S86), 21 F. (= S85), 22a F. (= S19) and 22b F. under the heading Fragmenta incertae sedis. The Commentary is divided into 72 notes, grouped fragment by fragment: the first note for each fragment discusses its placement within the poem, its content and its characters; the following ones deal with its main textual and exegetical problems. Cross references within the notes, or between a given note and the Introduction, allow a more unitarian understanding of recurrent themes such as Stesichorus’ relation with Homer, tragedy and Hellenistic poetry, the Stesichorean tendency to redundare and effundi, the personal reworking on Homeric diction and the possible existence of an idiomatic formularity. The book is completed by a Bibliography of critical editions, commented editions and translations and of other studies, and by an Index locorum.