Eingegrabener Wein, gewinnbringende Syrinx. Zum Humor des Longos und einem Übersetzungsproblem (I,19 und III,29)

• Authors: Cikán Ondřej

Title variants

EN

BURIED VINE, LUCRATIVE SYRINX: ON LONGUS’ HUMOR AND A TRANSLATION PROBLEM IN I,19 AND III,29

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

This paper argues that futa katoruttein in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe I,19 and III,29 does not mean „to plant trees“, but „to plant (to dig in) seedlings of vine“. The thoughts suggest that the established conjecture by Antoine Kaïris therizein for surizein (III,29,2) is unnecessary. This is discussed together with an analysis of some aspects of Longus’ humor, consisting in the repetition of signal words, whose meaning is ironized or changed by the changing context.

Keywords

EN

Longus; Daphnis and Chloe; humor; textual criticism; oenology

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Listy filologické (Folia philologica)
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 140
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 315-341

Contributors

author

Cikán Ondřej

• Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik der Universität Wien, Postgasse 7/1/3, 1010 Wien