Open AccessOn Drinking Wine in Anacreon fr. 356 PMG (= 33 Gent.)
Author(s) -
Riccardo Palmisciano
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
a.i.o.n. annali dell'istituto universitario orientale di napoli. dipartimento di studi del mondo classico e del mediterraneo antico. sezione filologico-letteraria/a.i.o.n. annali dell'istituto universitario orientale di napoli. sezione filologico-letteraria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1724-6172
pISSN - 1128-7209
DOI - 10.1163/17246172-40010021
Subject(s) - enthusiasm , rite , political science , law , theology , humanities , philosophy , art
The A. supports with new arguments von der Mühll’s idea that in Anacreon fr. 356 PMG (=33 Gentili) Athenaeus has joined two distinct short poems. The first (fr. a) is an invitation to drink heavily in order to provoke Dionysiac enthusiasm; the second (fr. b) is an admonition against the degeneration of the symposium and a reminder of the rules of a well-ordered rite. The performance of the two poems must be placed in the same symposium at some distance of time, or, more probably, in different symposia: both could be performed whenever similar circumstances occurred. Some arguments are proposed in defence of Pauw’s amendment ἀνυβρίστως in fr. (a).