Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ucciardello, Giuseppe

Titel

40. P.Berol. 17071: frammenti esametrici su Eracle?

Ist Teil von

• Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 2009-12, Vol.55 (2), p.478-486

Ort / Verlag

Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• P.Berol. 17071, published by W. Müller in 1974, comes from a papyrus codex which may be assigned to the fifth cent. AD. It is commonly believed that the fragment contains post-classical hexameters mentioning Hero. Nevertheless, a re-examination of this papyrus allows us to improve the text of the editio princeps in some points of detail and to argue for a new interpretation of the content. → l. 10 can be compared with Theocritus 17.31 (a description of Herakles' club); in the catalogue of mythical names at ↓ ll. 8-11 we can identify some Heraklides and people linked with Eurystheus (his son Eurybios and his herald Kopreus). If this scenario is correct, I would suggest that this scrap contains parts of a hexameter poem on Herakles (and perhaps on his offspring). Authorship remains uncertain: however, if the Theocritean resemblance in → l. 10 was deliberate, this fact might be a terminus post quem for assigning this poem to the Hellenistic or Roman period.