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Page xxi
... poet Nonnus writes of Actaeon μύθους μὲν προέηκεν ἐχέφρονας , ἀντὶ δὲ φωνῆς | ἀνδρομέης κελάδησεν ἀσημάντου θρόος ἠχοῦς ( Dionysiaca v . 368-9 ) ; it is not clear , however , whether he is using a Hel- lenistic source , or Ovid ( cf ...
... poet Nonnus writes of Actaeon μύθους μὲν προέηκεν ἐχέφρονας , ἀντὶ δὲ φωνῆς | ἀνδρομέης κελάδησεν ἀσημάντου θρόος ἠχοῦς ( Dionysiaca v . 368-9 ) ; it is not clear , however , whether he is using a Hel- lenistic source , or Ovid ( cf ...
Page xxiv
... poet seems to have used the Thyestean banquet in Accius ' Atreus for a parallel situation in the myth of Philomela ; vi . 665 ' seque vocat bustum miserabile nati ' clearly recalls Atreus 190 W. ' natis sepulcro ipse est parens ' . It ...
... poet seems to have used the Thyestean banquet in Accius ' Atreus for a parallel situation in the myth of Philomela ; vi . 665 ' seque vocat bustum miserabile nati ' clearly recalls Atreus 190 W. ' natis sepulcro ipse est parens ' . It ...
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... poet could find other Hellenistic models besides Parthenius and Callimachus . Some have thought that the paraphrase of Dionysius ( De Avibus ii . 14 ) may go back to the Ornithogonia of Boeus or Boeo ( see Introduction p . xxi and on ...
... poet could find other Hellenistic models besides Parthenius and Callimachus . Some have thought that the paraphrase of Dionysius ( De Avibus ii . 14 ) may go back to the Ornithogonia of Boeus or Boeo ( see Introduction p . xxi and on ...
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