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Rhea in Callimachus' Hymn to Zeus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

N. Hopkinson
N. Hopkinson
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Peterhouse, Cambridge
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Von Jan first drew attention to the etymological play in 14, an allusion to the derivation of Ἀπιδανῆες from ἀ-πίνειν: at the birth of Zeus Arcadia was yet waterless, as we learn from 18 ff. The play gains added point from 40 f., where the Peloponnesians thirst no longer: παλαιότατον δέ μιν (Neda) ὕδωρ/νἱωνοὶ πίνουσι Λυκαονίης ἄρκτοιο.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 104 , November 1984 , pp. 176 - 177
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1984

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References

1 von Jan, F. (de Ian), De Callimacho Homeri interprete (diss. Strasburg 1893) 80Google Scholar n. 1, cl. Eustath. ad Dion. Perieg. 414 (Geog. Gr. min., ed. Müiller, ii 293).Google Scholar

2 In itself the drinking = inhabiting expression is of course a topos: cf. Norden, E., Sitz. d. kön. preuss. Akad. d. Wiss. 1917, 673–4Google Scholar, cl. (in addition to the examples given by McLennan, G. L., Callimachus. Hymn to Zeus [Rome 1977]Google Scholarad loc.) Crinag. AP ix 291.2 = Garland of Philip 1924 Gow—page, id., AP ix 430. 1–2 = 1987–98 Gow-Page, id., API 61.5–6 = 1933–4 Gow-Page, Nemes.Cyn. 67–8.

3 For a full collection of evidence see Gruppe, O., Griechische Mythologie und Religionsgeschichte (Munich 1906) 1524Google Scholar n. 2.

4 Thus McLennan: cf. A. PV 837 κέλευθον ᾖξας πρὸς μέγαν κόλπον ῾Pέας (N.B. μέγαν ̴ μεγάλων κόλπων,15) Σ ad loc. ὅτι ῾Pέας Κόλπος ὁ Ἰόνιος πρώην ἐκαλεῖτο.

5 I find no comment by Nikiprowetzky, V., La troisième Sibylle, Études juives ix (Paris/La Haye 1970).Google Scholar

6 See Cahen, E., Les hymnes de Callimaque (Paris 1930) 23.Google Scholar

7 McLennan makes the interesting suggestion that we should see in ἐλαϕραί allusion to adverbial ῥεῖα, with implicit contrast of Rhea and Gaia.

I am indebted to Dr F. J. Williams for useful criticism.