Aeschylus epitaph museum criticum vol di sommerstein alan (1 risultati)

Reprint, stapled. Condizione: Gut. pp. 111-117. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Author's name handwritten on cover, otherwise very good and clean. - From the text: In Gela, rich in wheat, he died, and lies beneath this stone: Aeschylus the Athenian, son of Euphorion. His valour, tried and proved, the mead of Marathon can tell, The long-haired Persian also, who knows it all too well. Athenaios (XIV 627c) and Pausanias (I 14,5) say that Aeschylus composed this epitaph himself; the Life transmitted in the Aeschylean manuscripts says merely that the people of Gela «gave him a costly funeral in their public cemetery and honoured him magnificently, inscribing these verses», without specifying a composer. One is fully entitled to approach such traditions as these with scepticism, knowing what we know about the habits of ancient biographers, especially biographers of poets, and knowing also that this was not the only epitaph of Aeschylus circulating in antiquity. And Aeschylus is certainly not likely to have written an epitaph that specified the place of his death. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550. …