Add to ORKGThe article deals with three epigrams found in the Anthologia Palatina relating to the Orpheus myth. The historical and literary development of the topoi and motifs of the Orpheus myth up to the Hellenistic period are critically assessed and the poems are contextually interpreted. Starting with other Hellenistic treatments of the Orpheus myth (Phanocles, Apollonios of Rhodes), a selected interpretative commentary to each of the poems by Damagetos (AP 7, 9), Antipatros of Sidon (AP 7, 8) and the anonymous AP 7, 10 is given, followed by conclusions for the literary and mythographical development of the Orpheus myth. The anonymous epigram AP 7, 10 is then shown to be very likely another work by Antipatros of Sidon. An Appendix critically exami...
Although absent from early Archaic sources by the sixth century BCE Orpheus the poet had become syno...
Δε διατίθεται περίληψη.This report proposes a reading of the last episode of the Orpheus myth in the...
Ovid’s representation of Orpheus is strictly related to Virgil’s texts. A wide range of studies have...
Although absent from early Archaic sources by the sixth century BCE Orpheus the poet had become syno...
The Greek Anthology, a compilation of epigrams from the Classical, Hellenistic and Byzantine periods...
The Greek Anthology, a compilation of epigrams from the Classical, Hellenistic and Byzantine periods...
Of the eighty-five known Roman mosaics that depict Orpheus charming the animals, or the theatrum, ei...
The paper gives a short comparison of three dramatic versions of the Orpheus-myth in Modern Greek dr...
poet Ibykos in our earliest literary source on this mysterious figure, whose most famous accomplishm...
A series of remarkable images on mosaics from sepulchral buildings or ritual halls, textile works of...
This chapter will deal with Greek literary epigram from Palladas (second half of the 4th century CE:...
Who says there is only one Orpheus, the mythical singer, poet, lover, musician, tragedian? The pivot...
The myth of Orpheus experienced a great popularity in ancient world, covering the path from a mythic...
This dissertation presents the edition and commentary of an unpublished papyrus belonging to Cologne...
Starting from the analysis of The Testament of Orpheus as it is preserved by Aristobulus-Eusebius, t...
Although absent from early Archaic sources by the sixth century BCE Orpheus the poet had become syno...
Δε διατίθεται περίληψη.This report proposes a reading of the last episode of the Orpheus myth in the...
Ovid’s representation of Orpheus is strictly related to Virgil’s texts. A wide range of studies have...
Although absent from early Archaic sources by the sixth century BCE Orpheus the poet had become syno...
The Greek Anthology, a compilation of epigrams from the Classical, Hellenistic and Byzantine periods...
The Greek Anthology, a compilation of epigrams from the Classical, Hellenistic and Byzantine periods...
Of the eighty-five known Roman mosaics that depict Orpheus charming the animals, or the theatrum, ei...
The paper gives a short comparison of three dramatic versions of the Orpheus-myth in Modern Greek dr...
poet Ibykos in our earliest literary source on this mysterious figure, whose most famous accomplishm...
A series of remarkable images on mosaics from sepulchral buildings or ritual halls, textile works of...
This chapter will deal with Greek literary epigram from Palladas (second half of the 4th century CE:...
Who says there is only one Orpheus, the mythical singer, poet, lover, musician, tragedian? The pivot...
The myth of Orpheus experienced a great popularity in ancient world, covering the path from a mythic...
This dissertation presents the edition and commentary of an unpublished papyrus belonging to Cologne...
Starting from the analysis of The Testament of Orpheus as it is preserved by Aristobulus-Eusebius, t...
Although absent from early Archaic sources by the sixth century BCE Orpheus the poet had become syno...
Δε διατίθεται περίληψη.This report proposes a reading of the last episode of the Orpheus myth in the...
Ovid’s representation of Orpheus is strictly related to Virgil’s texts. A wide range of studies have...