The Motif of the Lamp in Book V of the "Palatine Anthology"

• Authors: Winiarska Rita
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In the present paper I focus on the occurrences of the motif of the lamp (λύχνος) in the fifth book of the Palatine Anthology. It turns out on numerous oc­casions the lamp is not merely an element of night scenery but it also performs functions typical of people or gods. An analysis of twelve epigrams from Book V shall demonstrate the variety of contexts in which the lamp appears and give a few remarks about the language used in the poems in which this motif occurs.

Keywords

EN

Agathias Scholasticus; Asclepiades; erotic epigram; Greek epigram; lamp; Marcus Argentarius; Meleager; Palatine Anthology; Paulus Silentiarius; Philodemus; Statilius Flaccus

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: Classica Cracoviensia
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 20
• Pages: 227-236

Contributors

author

Winiarska Rita

References

• The Greek Anthology I (books I–VI), 1916, transl. W. R. Paton, London.
• Epitalamia antyczne czyli antyczne pieśni weselne, 1999, transl. M. Brożek, J. Da­nielewicz (ed.), Warszawa–Poznań.
• Cameron A., 1968, ‘The Garlands of Meleager and Philip’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 9/3, pp. 323–349.
• Cameron A., 1980, ‘The Garland of Philip’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 21/1, pp. 43–62.
• Cameron A., 1993, The Greek Anthology from Meleager to Planudes, Oxford.
• Daly L. W., 1943, ‘Interpretations of Meleager’, Classical Philology 38/3, pp. 200–202.
• Gutzwiller K., 1997, ‘The Poetics of Editing in Meleager’s Garland’, Transactions of the American Philological Association 127, pp. 169–200.
• Rodríguez Alonso C., 1999, Poemas de amor y muerte en la Antología Palatina. Libro V y selección del libro VII, Madrid.
• Tarán S. L., 1979, ‘The Art of Variation in the Hellenistic Epigram’, Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 9, Leyden.
• Ypsilanti M., 2005, ‘Literary Loves as Cycles: From Meleager to Ovid’, L’antiqu­ité classique 74, pp. 83-110.

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.12797/CC.20.2017.20.12