West · Studies in Greek Elegy and Iambus Iwl DE G Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte Herausgegeben von Heinrich Dörrie und Paul Moraux Band 14 Walter de Gruyter · Berlin · New York 1974 Studies in Greek Elegy and Iambus by Martin L. West Walter de Gruyter · Berlin · New York 1974 ISBN 3 11 004585 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 73-93168 © 1974 by Walter de Gruyter & Co., vormals G. J. Göschen'sche Verlagshandlung · J. Guttentag, Verlagsbuchhandlung Georg Reimer · Karl J. Trübner · Veit & Comp., Berlin 30, Genthiner Straße 13 Printed in Germany Alle Rechte, insbesondere das der Übersetzung in fremde Sprachen, vorbehalten. Ohne ausdrückliche Genehmigung des Verlages ist es auch nicht gestattet, dieses Buch oder Teile daraus auf photomechanischem Wege (Photokopie, Mikrokopie) zu vervielfältigen. Satz und Druck: Rheingold-Druckerei, Mainz Bindearbeiten: Wübben&Co., Berlin Preface In Iambi et E legt Graeci (Oxford, 1971-2) I have collected the remains of pre-Alexandrian elegy and iambus. The present Studies are a by-product of the edition and intended to be read in conjunction with it. To some extent they are an apologia for it, in that they serve to explain many of the choices I made, in respect of inclusion or ex- clusion of material, arrangement, and textual questions. To some ex- tent they require an apologia themselves. They flagrantly lack homo- geneity and formal unity: the unity is in the field of study. I might perhaps have written a more encyclopaedic book or commentary on these poets, which would have been better proportioned and more widely purchased, only I had not the stomach for it. All I wanted was to publish what I had to say that was new. I could have done so in a series of articles; but besides adding to congestion in periodicals, that would surely have been less convenient for those who are interested in these matters. I am conscious, especially since reading the proofs, that I have sometimes stated my views in a rather compressed and elliptical way. I can only hope that this has not resulted in real obscurity. The reader who finds it trying may find it a comfort to reflect how much he or his library might have had to pay for the book if I had written more spaciously. I would have been more ashamed of the opposite fault. I must thank the publishers and their editors for accepting the work for this series, and for the care they have taken over its pro- duction. Oxford, March 1974 M. L. West Contents Preface V Abbreviations IX I. Elegy ι II. Iambus 22 III. On the History of the Theognidean Sylloge 40 The origin of the second book 43 Triple origin of the sylloge 45 The symbiosis of the three anthologies 55 The stages of development 55 The editor's task 59 Excursus. Erasures in A: an unsolved crime 61 IV. The Life and Times of Theognis 65 V. Mimnermus 72 'Smyrnaeus, s. vii pars post.' 72 The nature of Mimnermus' poetry 74 Nanno 75 VI. Language and Metre 77 Phonology 77 Vowels 77 Consonants 87 Morphology and Syntax 92 Nouns and Adjectives 92 Comparison of Adjectives 99 Numerals 99 Pronouns 100 Prepositions 102 Conjunctions 102 Verbs 104 Tmesis 108 Periphrastic constructions 108 Use of the perfect 109 VIII Contents Word formation 109 Word Order in Metre 112 Prosody, miscellaneous 116 VII. Commentary on Selected Passages 118 Archilochus 118 Hipponax 140 Theognidea 149 Adespota Elegiaca 167 Adespota lambica 168 Aeschylus 169 Ananius 169 Antimachus 169 Callinus 170 Critias 170 Demodocus 171 Euenus 171 'Homer', Margites 172 Ion 172 Mimnermus 174 Scythinus 176 Semonides 177 Simonides 179 Solon 180 Sophocles 182 Susarion 183 Timocreon 184 Tyrtaeus 184 Xenophanes 188 VIII. Addenda and Corrigenda to Iambi et Elegi Graeci Vol. II . . 190 General Index 191 Index of Passages 194 Greek Index 197 Works cited in abbreviated form von Blumenthal A. von Blumenthal, Ion von Chios, Stuttgart 1939. Campbell D.A. Campbell, Greek Lyric Poetry, London & New York 1967. van Groningen B.A. van Groningen, Theognis, Le premier livre Amsterdam 1966. GVI W. Peek, Griechische Vers-Inschriften, Bd. I, Berlin 1955. Hes. Th. M.L. West, Hesiod, Theogony, Oxford 1966. R. Kühner, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechi- Kühner - Blass I schen Sprache, 1. Teil besorgt von F. Blass; 2. Teil Kühner - Gerth J besorgt von B. Gerth, Hannover 1890-1904. Lasserre (- Bonnard) F. Lasserre & A. Bonnard, Archiloque, Les frag- ments, Paris 1958. Masson O. Masson, Les Fragments du poete Hipponax, Paris 1962. Mel., M did D.L. Page, Poetae Melici Graeci, Oxford 1962. Prato C. Prato, Tyrtaeus, Rome 1968. Reitzenstein R. Reitzenstein, Epigramm und Skolion, Gießen 1893. Wilamowitz, SS U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Sappho und, Si- monides, Berlin 1913. Young D.C.C. Young, Theognis, Leipzig 11961, 21971. In line-references to the Theognidea I have used italic type, as in the word- index of the edition, to distinguish verses which there is no reason to ascribe to Theognis himself - except in chapter III where the question of authorship is discussed. In chapter VI I have further used the abbreviation Th. (as distinct from Th.) to mean 'the anonymous parts of the Theognidea'. For the new fragment of Archilochus which I have referred to as the Co- logne epode, see Zeitschr. f. Pap. u. Epigr. 14, 1974, 97 ff.