Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Aristophanes in Stone
Aristophanes, Frogs 454-459 (tr. Jeffrey Henderson):
See Nigel G. Wilson, "The Transmission of Aristophanes," in Michael Fontaine and Adele C. Scafuro, edd., The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 655–666 (at 656-657), and Ivan Matijašić, "Base di statua da Rodi con citazione di Aristofane," Axon 1.2 (December, 2017) 215-223.
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For us alone is there sunThese lines appear (preceded by Aristophanes' name in the genitive) on a 1st century BC inscription from Rhodes published by G. Pugliese Carratelli, "Versi di un coro delle Rane in un'epigrafe rodia," Dioniso 8.4 (1940) 119-123 (non vidi). The inscription is now in the Archaeological Museum of Rhodes. I haven't been able to find a photograph of the stone on the World Wide Web.
and sacred daylight,
for we are initiated
and righteous was our behavior
toward strangers
and ordinary people.
μόνοις γὰρ ἡμῖν ἥλιος
καὶ φέγγος ἱερόν ἐστιν, 455
ὅσοι μεμυήμεθ᾿ εὐ-
σεβῆ τε διήγομεν
τρόπον περὶ τοὺς ξένους
καὶ τοὺς ἰδιώτας.
See Nigel G. Wilson, "The Transmission of Aristophanes," in Michael Fontaine and Adele C. Scafuro, edd., The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 655–666 (at 656-657), and Ivan Matijašić, "Base di statua da Rodi con citazione di Aristofane," Axon 1.2 (December, 2017) 215-223.
