Books by Andreas Bagordo
A commentary on the fragments of four Aristophanic comedies (Georgoi, Geras, Gerytades, Daidalos.)
Dieser Band ist der letzte von drei mit Aristophanes-Fragmenten, die ohne Angabe eines Komödienti... more Dieser Band ist der letzte von drei mit Aristophanes-Fragmenten, die ohne Angabe eines Komödientitels überliefert sind (Incertarum fabularum fragmenta) bzw. deren Echtheit angezweifelt wurde (Dubia). Die zumeist sehr kurzen und in lexikographischen Werken tradierten Fragmente gewähren oft einmalige Einblicke in disparate Themen der griechischen Literatur, Geschichte, Kultur und Gesellschaft, die weit über die rein formale Ebene hinausgehen. Alle Fragmente und auch die Texte der Überlieferungsträger werden textkritisch diskutiert.
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® πο^κιλόθροιν' άθανάτ' Αφρόδιτα, παυ Διύος δολιόπλοκε, λίσσομαί σε, μή^ι'j άσαισι ιμηδ' όνίαισι ... more ® πο^κιλόθροιν' άθανάτ' Αφρόδιτα, παυ Διύος δολιόπλοκε, λίσσομαί σε, μή^ι'j άσαισι ιμηδ' όνίαισι δάμνα, 4 πότνιία, θϋιμον, âXXjà τυίδ ' έλιθ ', αί ποτα κάτέρωτα xàjç έμας αύιδας άίοισαπήλοι εκλυες, πάτροις δέ δόμονλίποισα 8 Xjpúaiov ήλθιες άρ^' ύπασδειύξαισα· κάλοι δέσ' άγον ώϋκεες στροϋιθοι περί γάς μέλαινας πύϋκναδίνινεντες πτέρ' απ' ώράνω αϊθε-12 pojç δια μέσσω· αύψα δ ' έξίκοιντο· σύ δ ', ώ μάκαιρα, μειδιαύσαισ' άθανάτωι προσώπωι ήιρε' ότταδηύτεπέπονθακώττι ιό δηϋύτεκιάλιηιμμι Κϋώττι ιμοι μάλιστα θέλω γένεσθαι μιαινόλαι ιθύμωι· τίνα δηύτε πείθω . J. σάγην ιές σαν ψιλότατα; τις σ', ώ 20 Ϋάιπφ' ,ιάδικήεΐ; KOj i γιάρ αί φεύγει, ταχέως διώξει, αί δέ δώρα μή δέκετ', άλλα δώσει, αί δέ μή φίλει, ταχέως φιλήσει 24 κωΰκ έθέλοισα. von | Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Universitätsbibliothek Angemeldet Heruntergeladen am | 25.10.17 11:57 so I DIE FRAGMENTE έλθε μοι καί νυν, χαλέπαν δέλϋσον έκ μερίμναν, όσσα δέ μοι τέλεσσαι θύμος ίμέρρει,τέλεσον, σύ δ' αϋτα σύμμαχος έσσο. ® Buntthronende, unsterbliche Aphrodite, Kind des Zeus, listflechtende, ich flehe dich an, nicht mit Kummer noch mit Qualen bezähme mir, 4 Ehrwürdige, das Gemüt, sondern komm hierher, solltest du je schon ein andermal, meine Menschenstimme vernehmend, weit entfernt zugehört haben, als du, des Vaters Palast verlassend, 8 kamst, einen goldenen Wagen unterjochend, und schöne Sperlinge führten dich schnell über der schwarzen Erde mit dichtem Flügelschlag aus dem Himmel durch des 12 Äthers Mitte; und sofort kamen sie an und du, o Beglückte, lächelnd in deinem unsterblichen Antlitz, fragtest, was ich wieder gelitten hätte und warum 16 ich dich wiederum riefe und was ich am meisten wünschte, dass es mir sei in meinem wahnsinnigen Gemüt: Wen soll ich wieder überzeugen,zu deiner Liebe zurückführen? Wer, o 20 Sappho, tut dir Unrecht ? Denn wenn sie flieht, bald wird sie dich verfolgen, und wenn sie keine Geschenke annimmt, dann wird sie doch welche geben, von | Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Universitätsbibliothek Angemeldet Heruntergeladen am | 25.10.17 11:57 ι VOIGT [51 und wenn sie nicht liebt, bald wird sie lieben, 24 auch gegen ihren Willen. Komm zu mir nun, und befreie mich vom schweren Kummer, und was, dass es mir zuteil werde, mein Gemüt begehrt, erfülle es und du selbst sei mir Verbündete. Der Hymnus an Aphrodite (Fr.
Papers by Andreas Bagordo
Taking a cue from the presence of a komodoumenos named Aristyllos who appears in two aristophanic... more Taking a cue from the presence of a komodoumenos named Aristyllos who appears in two aristophanic passages (Ar. Eccl. 644–50bis and Plut. 312–5, where he is derided as fellator and coprophile) a complicated theory has been concocted, according to which he can be identified with Plato (Aristyllos was a hypocoristic form of Aristocles, his real name): to show that Aristophanes would have made fun of a first draft of Resp. V (449a–57d), where kallipolis is characterized by the political role played by women, by their sexual freedom, by the community of women and children and by the sharing of goods, the author of this theory is forced to predate books of Politeia, to backdate the Ecclesiazusae and, finally, to subtract fr. 551 K.–A. to the Telemēssēs of Aristophanes. We will try to show how a more economic interpretation of the comic aristophanic mechanisms is sufficient, respecting literary and testimonial evidence, to revise this construction.
A new interpretation of Aristophanes, Knights 436–7.
Some remarks about "waiting" heroes in Iliad and Odyssey.
Compared with tragedy, the phenomenon of interpolation in comedy appears to be absolutely margina... more Compared with tragedy, the phenomenon of interpolation in comedy appears to be absolutely marginal. In this paper I attempt to evaluate its impact in the light of some representative cases of assumed interpolation (Aristoph. Ach. 508, Nub. 653, Pax 744, Thesm. 1187b). A rethinking of the scenic aspects (including actors’ gestures) will often be the deciding factor for the authenticity of a verse, which for different reasons – in most cases, however, precisely because of the presence of deictics either seen as disturbing or not adequately explained – has been considered suspect, with the drastic consequence of having been regarded as spurious.
The Homeric epics, the two earliest surviving literary works of Western culture, document a tradi... more The Homeric epics, the two earliest surviving literary works of Western culture, document a tradition that is oral both in composition and transmission. At a very early date, they were attributed to an authorial figure who is really only a symbol standing for a literature of an entire culture. It matters little to us whether a particular ‘singer’ (aoidós) was called H. Even if a ‘H.’ did exist, we can ascribe to him at most part of the literary activity involved in the creation of the Iliad and Odyssey – perhaps the redactional part. Any search for the intervention of individual personalities, of ‘fingerprints’ in the transmitted text will be in vain. Rather, what is reflected in the text is the entire Greek culture of the Archaic period. That culture found both epics an inexhaustible source for practically all aspects of life. In many respects, writing a comprehensive reception history of H. means writing a literary and cultural history of Greece.
Here we want to focus attention on an interesting and perhaps unique case in which a komodoumenos... more Here we want to focus attention on an interesting and perhaps unique case in which a komodoumenos (character in the mockery of comedy) becomes a crossed target both of poetic-dramaturgical parody and of a type of parody that we could call rhetoric-sophistic: Euripides. His linguistic versatility, his expressive and argumentative ways, evidently perceived by his contemporaries as quite casual, assimilate him more than other poets to the sophists’ rhetoric and to the way of Socratic argument – as Socrates himself was often equated with the sophists – compared to other poets. Naturally, the climax of the representation of Euripides as “the archetypal sophist” will be achieved in the Frogs, but those instances scattered in some of the other Aristophanes’ comedies do not seem accidental (Acharnians, Clouds, Thesmophoriazusae, and fleetingly also Knights and Peace) as well as in fragments of Aristophanes and of other comedians of the archaia, in which the criticism directed towards Euripides moves not on the axis of poetics but on that of rhetoric (and partly of philosophy), which in the second half of the fifth century was still strictly identifiable with the sophistical movement and with the ideas conveyed by it.
In any history of the impact and reception of the early Greek lyric poets, even if it does not pu... more In any history of the impact and reception of the early Greek lyric poets, even if it does not put Archilochus of Paros (c. 680–c. 630 BC) at the same level as, say, Pindar, Sappho or Anacreon, A. the man and his poetry will have unmistakable connotations. As an iambic poet, he is associated with a cantankerous, even warlike mode of poetry. Just as A. presented himself in an elegiac distich (fr. 1 West) that functions as his ‘visiting card’, so to this day he continues to be received as a warrior-poet, or, better, a warlike poet.
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2) there is no reason to consider Ar. fr. 941 [dub.] K.–A. (ἀμφήκη γνάθον) as a misreading or variant of Ar. Nub. 1160 (ἀμφήκει γλώττῃ): it is a further instance of sophistic and/or Euripidean parody;
3) Ar. fr. 900 K.–A. (τετραχίζειν) should be attributed to Aristophanes of Byzantium (or at least be edited among the aristophanic Dubia);
4) in Ar. fr. 969 [dub.] K.–A. (βροτολοιγός) one could read a more pointed (and therefore Aristophanic) βροτολοιχός (the authenticity has not to be questioned: with ὁ κωμικός Eustathius always means Aristophanes).
II. Un po’ musa, un po’ ... (una scena delle Rane).
III. Chi ha mandato per primo Socrate a ...? (una scena delle Nuvole).
IV. Pene (d’amore) di un arciere scita (un verso delle Tesmoforiazuse).