CAMBRIDGE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS A HELLENISTIC ANTHOLOGY SECOND EDITION EDITED BY NEIL HOPKINSON CAMBRIDGE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS GENERAL EDITORS P. E. EASTERLING Regius Professor Emeritus of Greek, University of Cambridge PiuirLiP HARDIE Fellow, Trinity College, and Honorary Professor Emeritus of Latin, University of Cambridge NEIL HOPKINSON Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge RicHARD HUNTER Regius Professor of Greek, University of Cambridge S. P. OAKLEY Kennedy Professor of Latin, University of Cambridge FOUNDING EDITORS P. E. EASTERLING TE. J. KENNEY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS University Printing House, Cambridge cB2 8Bs, United Kingdom One Liberty Plaza, 20th Floor, New York, Nv 10006, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, vic 3207, Australia 314—9321, 3rd Floor, Plot g, Splendor Forum, Jasola District Centre, New Delhi — 110025, India 79 Anson Road, #06-04/06, Singapore 079906 Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. 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A HELLENISTIC ANTHOLOGY SELECTED AND EDITED BY NEIL HOPKINSON Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge SECOND EDITION REVISED AND AUGMENTED Z5 CAMBRIDGE WP UNIVERSITY PRESS In memory of Ted and Anne Kenney CONTENTS List of Abbreviations X Maps xi Introduction 1 The background 1 2 Alexandria 3 3 Hellenistic poetry 6 The Apparatus Criticus 11 A HELLENISTIC ANTHOLOGY 19 I-IV Callimachus 15 V Cleanthes 20 VI-VII Aratus 28 VIII Nicander 30 IX-XIV Theocritus 31 XV imi 51 XVI Phanocles 52 XVII-XX Apollonius 53 XXI Moschus 59 XXII-XXII — Bion 64 XXIV Rhianus 68 XXV Lycophron 69 XXVI Herondas 79 XXVII Machon 72 XXVIII Epigrams 79 XXIX Drinking-song 89 Commentary 85 viii CONTENTS Appendix: Doric dialect Works Cited Indexes PREFACE In 1988, when the first edition of this book appeared, only K. J. Dover's commentary on Theocritus was available for those undergraduate and graduate students who needed basic guidance in reading Hellenistic poetry. Some thirty years later, the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series alone has accrued commentaries on eight poems of Theocritus and on two books of Apollonius, and soon we shall have selections from Callimachus and from the Greek Anthology. Nevertheless, and in spite of some overlap with these more recent volumes, the Editors have felt that there is still a place for an anthology of Hellenistic poetic texts which can stand as a course-book for students while being of some interest to scholars. The book has been thoroughly revised. The bibliographies, which are not exhaustive, have been updated. Many notes have been rewritten. Two poems of Theocritus not included in Richard Hunter's CGLC collection have been added. David Sider's Hellenistic poetry: a selection (Ann Arbor, 2017) comple- ments the present volume with a very broad range of texts edited by var- ious hands. In the first edition I gratefully acknowledged help from Sidney Allen, Peter Callaghan, Bob Coleman, Ian Cunningham, Roger Dawe, Pat Easterling, Harvey Freeman, Simon Goldhill, Eric Handley, Geoff Horrocks, Ted Kenney, Douglas Kidd, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Kevin McKay, Arthur Munday Martin Robertson, Malcolm Schofield and Harry Sandbach. For their help with this second edition I should like to thank Nicholas Denyer, Callum Farnden, Annette Harder, Nicholas Lane, David Sedley, Nigel Spivey, Dorothy Thompson, Rupert Thompson, Hannah Willey, and above all Richard Hunter, whose comments on the first edi- tion have led to many improvements. The volume was copy-edited with exemplary care by Muriel Hall. 1X ABBREVIATIONS Collectanea Alexandrina, ed.J . U. Powell (Oxford, 1925). Early Greek mythography, ed. R. L. Fowler (Oxford, 2000-13). Further Greek epigrams: Epigrams before A.D. 50 from the Greek Anthology and other sources . . . , ed. D. L. Page (Cambridge, 1981). FGrHist Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, ed. F. Jacoby (Berlin, 1923—30, Leiden, 1940-58). GP The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and some contemporary epigrams, eds. A. S. F. Gow and D. L. Page (Cambridge, 1968). HC Hellenistic collection: Philitas, Alexander of Aetolia, Hermesianax, Euphorion, Parthenius, ed. J. L. Lightfoot (Loeb, Cambridge, MA/London, 2009). HE The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic epigrams, eds. A. S. F. Gow and D. L. Page (Cambridge, 1965). K-A Poetae comici Graeci, eds. R. Kassel and C. Austin (Berlin/New York, 1983-2001). LIMC Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (Zurich, 1981-99). LSJ A Greek—English lexicon, eds. H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. Stuart Jones, R. McKenzie (9th edn with Supplement, Oxford, 1968). OCT Epigrammata Graeca, ed. D. L. Page (Oxford, 1975). PMG Poetae melici Graeci, ed. D. L. Page (Oxford, 1962). PMGF Poetarum melicorum Graecorum fragmenta Volumen I, ed. M. Davies (Oxford, 1991). SH Supplementum Hellenisticum, eds. H. Lloyd-Jones and P. Parsons (Berlin/New York, 1983). Smyth Greek grammar, ed. H. W. Smyth, revised by G. M. Messing (Cambridge, MA, 1956). SVF Stoicorum veterum fragmenta, ed. J. von Arnim (Stuttgart, 1905-24). ThesCRA Thesaurus cultus et rituum antiquorum (Los Angeles, 2004-11). TrGF Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta, eds. B. Snell, R. Kannicht, S. Radt (Gottingen, 1971-2004). - 'the source of' or ‘leading to' » « z 'derived from' -- t* 'corresponding to' or 'contrasting with' Italic numbers (1—2039) refer to the continuous numeration printed to the right of the text.