Table Of ContentPHILITAS OF COS
MNEMOSYNE
BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA BATAVA
COLLEGERUNT
H. PINKSTER • H. S. VERSNEL
D.M. SCHENKEVELD • P. H. SCHRIJVERS
S.R. SUNGS
BIBUOTHECAE FASCICULOS EDENDOS CURAVIT
H. PINKSTER, KLASSIEK SEMINARIUM, OUDE TURFMARKT 129, AMSTERDAM
SUPPLEMENTUM DUCENTESIMUM VICESIMUM NONUM
KONSTANTINOS SPANOUDAKIS
PHILITAS OF COS
CORRIGENDA AND ADDENDUM
- p. 92, fr. 21, app. crit.: für 'Snell apo SH l.l.' read 'Snell, Gnomon
25 (1953), 434'
- p. 198, fr. 18, 4th 1ine: tü 'Craik 15' add " R. Parker - D. Obbink,
Chiron 30 (2000), 442f.'
- p. 348, fr. 32, far "nooovt1tTllpa OlVOV" read "noOovt1tTllpa OE1VOV".
Delete the füllüwing parenthesis.
PHILITAS OF COS
BY
KONSTANTINOS SPANOUDAKIS
BRILL
LEIDEN· BOSTON· KÖLN
2002
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Spanoudakis, Konstantinos.
Philitas of Cos / by Konstantinos Spanoudakis.
p. cm. - (Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava.
Supplementum, ISSN 0169-8958; 229)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 9004124284 (alk. paper)
I. Philatas, 330-270 B.C.-Criticism and interpretation. 2. Greek poetry,
Hellenistic-History and criticism. 3. Love poetry, Greek-History and
criticism. 4. Kos Island (Greece)--Biography. I. Tide. H. Series.
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Spanoudakis, Konstantinos:
Philitas of. Cos / by Konstantinos Spanoudakis. - Leiden; Boston; Köln:
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CONTENTS
PREFACE Xl
ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY Xlll
TESTIMONIA ................•.................................................................
ALLEGED TESTIMONIA 12
INTRODUCTION ..............................................•...........................•... 19
I. Name ............................................................................ 19
II. Date, patria and familia ................................................ 23
lIla. 'Pupils': Ptolemy Philadelphus .................................... 26
IIIb. Zenodotus, Hermesianax and Bittis ........ .................... 29
IVa. The Coan Statue ........ ............................ ...................... 34
IVb. Claim for Heroic Honours .......................................... 37
V. Theocritus .................................... .......... ................. ..... 40
VIa. The Aetia-prologue: Mimnermus, Antimachus
and Philitas .................................................................. 42
Vlb. Callimachus' Somnium and fr. 532 (T. 6), the
Pinakes and the Elegiac Canon .......... .......................... 47
VII. Relations with Contemporary Poets .......................... 50
VIII. Treatment of Literary Past: Hesiod, Pindar,
Philoxenus .................................................................... 52
IX. Comic leptotes ................................................................ 54
Xa. Survival ................... ........... ............................................ 55
Xb. Propertius ...................................................................... 59
Xc. Longus .......................................................................... 64
Xd. Virgil .............................................................................. 66
XI. Hellenistic Features and Peripatus .............................. 68
XII. Athens, Argolid and Southern Italy .......................... 72
XIII. Metre ............................................................................ 74
a. Dactyls and Spondees ............................................ 75
b. Spondaic Fifth Foot ................................................ 76
c. Main Caesura and Bucolic Diaeresis .................... 77
Description:This volume is an edition of the poetical and grammatical fragments of Philitas of Cos, the early-Hellenistic scholar and poet who served as an exemplary model for the great Alexandrian poets. His output includes frivolous Hermes and Demeter which both had fundamental impact on later metapoetic imag
