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Die Götter des Martianus Capella und der Bronzeleber von Piacenza. Von Carl Thulin. Giessen: Topelmann, 1906. 8vo. Pp. iv + 92. Two Illustrations in Text and one Plate. M. 2.80.

F. Granger

The Classical Review / Volume 22 / Issue 04 / June 1908, pp 132 - 133 DOI: 10.1017/S0009840X00001566, Published online: 27 October 2009

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Downloaded from http://journals.cambridge.org/CAR, IP address: 138.251.14.35 on 03 Apr 2015 132 THE CLASSICAL REVIEW article on donkeys. Why 'Esel,' by Olck, Die Gb'tter des Martianus Capella und der should be spread over 50 columns, while Bronzeleber von Piacenza. Von CARL ' Euripides' is content.with less than 40, and THULIN. Giessen: Topelmann, 1906. ' Epikuros' with 23, it is hard to say; but 8vo. Pp. iv + 92. Two Illustrations in the articles on agricultural economy, as we Text and one Plate. M. 2.80. have pointed out before now, certainly tend MR. THULIN begins by referring the list of to excessive length, even when we consider gods in Martianus Capella (i. 41-61) to an that such information is not easily accessible Etruscan origin, herein following Deecke. elsewhere. Another criticism which requires For the sixteen regions over which the gods repetition concerns a number of articles on are distributed point clearly to the Etruscan small cities such as Epiphaneia, Eriza, theory of lightning. By comparing Mar- , Eucarpia, . The references tianus' list with the inscriptions upon the to the numismatic literature under these and bronze liver which was found at Piacenza in some other headings are quite inadequate 1877, it is possible to interpret the Etruscan and misleading. One would not, for instance, inscriptions upon the bronze, and to identify learn from this volume that the Cilician Epi- the deities to whom they refer. Thus the phaneia was called Trajanopolis, or Eumeneia two parts of the Etruscan doctrine, namely, called Fulvia, or that Eurymenai struck coins the inspection of entrails and the augury by at all. Some articles on cities, signed by lightning, are brought together and associated Biirchner, on the other hand, betray a proper with certain gods. Mr. Thulin makes some sense that a reference to Head's Historia advance upon the results which have Numorum (now twenty years old) does not already been attained by Deecke (pp. 22 ff.). absolve a topographical writer from consult- ing later publications, even though they be Although the name of Minerva is probably in English. A few small points, which will Italian, it is interesting to trace certain perhaps receive attention in the next supple- Etruscan traits in her cult at Rome and to ment, may be relegated to a footnote.1 understand a little better the trinity of the Capitoline temple (p. 40). G. F. HILL. Astrology is also brought in to explain the 1 Epimeletcs: this title is also found at Mastaura. distribution of the deities in the schemes of On it, and on the verbal form tvL/ie\ri$els, see H. von Martianus and of the bronze. Here however Fritze in Nomisma i. p. 2 f. Epiphanes: the religious the identifications and the comparisons are significance of this regal title might have procured it more than the five words in which it is dismissed. less convincing. But it seems more than King Epiphanes of Commagene (72 A.D.) is omitted. probable from the evidence adduced that the Epiphora: in the sense of an extraordinary contribu- Roman Calendar was largely influenced by tion (/. G. i. 37) this word requires explanation. So does Etruscan ideas and ' that the Etruscans here, Epinikia, in the sense of an agonistic festival (as on the coins of and ). Episemon (shield- as in other cases, were the first intermediaries device) is quite inadequately dealt with. See especi- of the wisdom springing from the East' ally Chase's article on the subject in Harvard Studies, (p. 78). Some current ideas about primitive xiii. Eppittus : son of Commius, king of the Kentish Roman religion will undoubtedly require district, is omitted. Erchomenos: the epigraphic form modification in the light of all this. of the city-name Orchomenos, was worth a cross refer- ence. Ergetium : the numismatic question of Erge- Lastly Mr. Thulin, tracing the sources of -Sergentium (raised long ago by de Luynes) should Martianus Capella, refers the list of the gods have been touched upon, although the recent dis- through Pliny the Elder to Nigidius (p. 88). cussions by de Foville (Rev. Num. 1907), and Pais Mr. Thulin is not original in postulating a (in his 'Ancient Italy') were not available. Prof. Pais' book should also be consulted on Eryx and masculine Ceres (p. 47). He is anticipated Euthymos. Erion: the Thelpusian name for the by Preller's Rb'mische Mythologies i. 81. horse Arion, requires an entry: so does the title Again (p. 50) it seems dangerous to refer a Ethnarchos. The most serious omission we have noticed is in the case of Euelthon, the well-known king of Salamis. Other less famous Cypriote rulers, Salamis, have also escaped. Finally, Eurea, a known only from their coins, such as Epipalos of Thessalian city which issued some pretty coins; the Amathus (?), Eteandros of Paphos, and Euanthes of nymph Eurymedusa of , and Etipator, king of Bosporos about 155-171 A.D., find no mention. THE CLASSICAL REVIEW 133 positive and complex religion to a primitive the mainland, Archimedes would have sent to Britain, philosophy of nature, as the author does, supposing that there was any timber trade at that early date between Britain and Italy. Has this when he conjectures 'that according to the legend found its way into any other works bearing on Etruscan belief the rose colour of the dawnr the early trade of the British Isles with the Continent, as forerunner of the light, was mother of the and is there any other authority besides the various sun.' However the author has made an reading in Athenaeus for the statement made by interesting and valuable contribution to Mr. Aiton ? Etruscan studies. F. GRANGER. H. T. FRANCIS.

The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria. By G. Kenyon and Belts British A/useum Pupyri: Facsimiles. DENNIS. London: J. M. Dent. 2 vols. n.d. Vol. iii. London : H. Froude and Others, 1907. (1907?). (Everyman's Library.) Cloth, 4s. Folio. With 100 collotypes. £3 3.?. A REISSUE of this well-known work in so handy a THE third volume of the Catalogue of Greek Papyri form would be most acceptable were it not for the in the British Museum, of which a notice appeared in fact that it is reprinted from the first edition of 1848, the Classical Quarterly for October, is accompanied, and not from the thoroughly revised second edition, which appeared thirty years later, and which is still, as were its predecessors, by a splendid series of 1 facsimiles. These are issued separately in a portfolio, no doubt, protected by the Copyright Acts. It thus and consist of one hundred admirably executed collo- does not embody the results of Mr. Dennis' latest type reproductions, whjch leave but few decades researches, and omits the descriptions, e.g., of several unrepresented between the middle of the second tombs at Corneto which were discovered in the inter- century B.C. and the end of the sixth A.D., and vening thirty years, and one or two chapters which include also a few specimens of seventh and early were added to the second edition. Of this fact, eighth century writing. The most serious lacuna is however, no hint, so far as I have been able to dis- to be found in the fifth century, which is illustrated cover, is given, either by Professor W. M. Lindsay in by a solitary example. For some obscure reason the editor's preface, which he contributes (at the end documents of that period have until recently been of which both the editions are cited), or elsewhere in remarkably scarce; fortunately the discoveries at the course of the work. Such a proceeding is hardly Oxyrhynchus will make good this deficiency. To the fair either to the author himself nor to the public, who student of early Greek palaeography the new series of may (as happened to the present writer) meet with plates supplies material of the utmost value. The unpleasant surprises when they attempt to use it as a authorities of the British Museum have in this direc- guide on the spot. Professor Lindsay's remark that tion set an excellent example, which in view of the ' since it was written a good deal has been added to growing importance of papyrological research might our knowledge of the subject' is true in a sense which with advantage be more widely imitated. he can hardly have intended. 1. A. A. S. HUNT.

A STATEMENT is made by WILLIAM AITON in his NEW EDITIONS. • Treatise on the origin, aualities, and cultivation of moss earth' (Glasgow, 1805) that Archimedes in WE are glad to see that Miss Harrison's Prolegomena building his big ship had to send to Britain for to the Study of Greek Religion (Cambridge University one of his masts. Press) has appeared in a second edition. A cheap edition of Munro's translation of Lucretius has been Now in Athenaeus, vol. i. Bk. E, marginal page published by Bell (5*.), and the Greek text of Prof. 208 (Dindorf edition, 1827), we read that ' The first Mackail's Selections from the Anthology has been and second masts were (easily) procured, but the printed separately in a pocket edition (Longmans, third mast was found with difficulty by a swineherd in 2s. cl., 3-r. lthr. net). Prof. Burrows's Crete has also the mountains of the Bruttii (Bperrlas, v.l. "Bperravlas, gone into a second edition, or rather a reprint with a hperarlas), and an engineer of Tauromenium brought few pages added to bring in the latest results. Appa- it down to the sea.' rently scholars are not content with the Cnossian No good text (Teubner's last edition included) palace as labyrinth, for another labyrinth is here retains the reading BprraWoj, and it is clear from the suggested in a large tholos or ' underground Bull context that the mast was found on the mainland of temple' (p. 245). The appendix contains some new South Italy, (where a tall species of pine called the evidence as to dating the remains, and a comparison Calabrian pine still grows, I am informed, in Calabria of ancient Servian pottery with Cretan. and the Bruttii country,) and was brought down to the sea-shore and thence carried across the Strait of Messina. It is highly improbable that, if trees of 1 The third edition of 1883 is, as far as I am aware, the requisite height grew so close to Syracuse on a reissue of that of 1878.