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CAMBRIDGE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS

General Editors

P. E. Easterling Regius Professor Emeritus of Greek, University of Cambridge Philip 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

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P. E. Easterling †E. J. Kenney

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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

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In memory of Ted and Anne Kenney

CONTENTS

Preface page ix 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 13 I–IV Callimachus 15 V Cleanthes 26 VI–VII Aratus 28 VIII Nicander 30 IX–XIV Theocritus 31 XV Simias 51 XVI Phanocles 52 XVII–XX Apollonius 53 XXI Moschus 59 XXII–XXIII Bion 64 XXIV Rhianus 68 XXV Lycophron 69 XXVI Herondas 70 XXVII Machon 72 XXVIII Epigrams 73 XXIX Drinking-song 83

Commentary 85

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Appendix: Doric dialect 320 Works Cited 323 Indexes 336

PREFACE

In 1988, when the irst 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 irst 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 Schoield 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 irst edition have led to many improvements. The volume was copy-edited with exemplary care by Muriel Hall.

ABBREVIATIONS

CA Collectanea Alexandrina, ed. J. U. Powell (Oxford, 1925). EGM Early Greek mythography, ed. R. L. Fowler (Oxford, 2000–13). FGE 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 (Göttingen, 1971–2004). > = ‘the source of’ or ‘leading to’ < = ‘derived from’ ~ = ‘corresponding to’ or ‘contrasting with’ Italic numbers (1–2039) refer to the continuous numeration printed to the right of the text.

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