Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Symposium
Red-figure krater by Euphronios, now in Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek 8935 (click once or twice to enlarge):
The letters ΟΠΟΛΛΟΝΣΕΓΕΚΑΙΜΑΚΑΙ (retrograde) come out of the mouth of the figure on the far right, whose name is Ekphantides.
See Emily Vermeule, "Fragments of a Symposion by Euphronios," Antike Kunst 8.1 (1965) 34-39 (at 38-39):
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See Emily Vermeule, "Fragments of a Symposion by Euphronios," Antike Kunst 8.1 (1965) 34-39 (at 38-39):
Sir John Beazley, who prefers the poem-fragment as a skolion, suggests filling in the first verse along these lines:ὤπολλον σέ τε καὶ μάκαιραν αἰτῶwith a mention of Artemis and Leto in the second verse22. There are, of course, various possibilities to play with; one might also considerὤπολλον σέ γε καὶ μάκαιραν ἁγνάνusing scraps of Anakreon which have no context; or, for a glyconic hymn,
Λάτω τὰν δίτοκον κάσιν τε χρύσανὤπολλον σέ τε καὶ μάκαι-22 Beazley ARV2 1619. Professor D.L. Page is quite sure that no line with this beginning is preserved in the literary tradition; see his Poetae Melici Graeci (1962) 622. The line does read ΓE, not TE.
ραν κάσιν πότνι' Ἄρτεμι.
