Monday, February 25, 2019
The Storeroom
Homer, Odyssey 2.337-343 (tr. Richmond Lattimore):
Carl W. Blegen, "The Palace of Nestor: Excavations of 1955," American Journal of Archaeology 60.2 (April, 1956) 95-101 (plate 45, fig. 13, which well illustrates "lined up in order close to the wall," ἑξείης ποτὶ τοῖχον ἀρηρότες):
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So they spoke, but he went down into his father's high-roofedLines 340-341 would be a good inscription for a wine cellar.
and wide storeroom, where gold and bronze were lying piled up,
and abundant clothing in the bins, and fragrant olive oil,
and in it jars of wine, sweet to drink, aged, 340
were standing, keeping the unmixed divine drink inside them,
lined up in order close to the wall, for the day when Odysseus
might come home even after laboring through many hardships.
ὣς φάν, ὁ δ᾽ ὑψόροφον θάλαμον κατεβήσετο πατρὸς
εὐρύν, ὅθι νητὸς χρυσὸς καὶ χαλκὸς ἔκειτο
ἐσθής τ᾽ ἐν χηλοῖσιν ἅλις τ᾽ ἐυῶδες ἔλαιον·
ἐν δὲ πίθοι οἴνοιο παλαιοῦ ἡδυπότοιο 340
ἕστασαν, ἄκρητον θεῖον ποτὸν ἐντὸς ἔχοντες,
ἑξείης ποτὶ τοῖχον ἀρηρότες, εἴ ποτ᾽ Ὀδυσσεὺς
οἴκαδε νοστήσειε καὶ ἄλγεα πολλὰ μογήσας.
Carl W. Blegen, "The Palace of Nestor: Excavations of 1955," American Journal of Archaeology 60.2 (April, 1956) 95-101 (plate 45, fig. 13, which well illustrates "lined up in order close to the wall," ἑξείης ποτὶ τοῖχον ἀρηρότες):
