Open AccessAsclepiades, <i>Ap.</i> V 210
Author(s) -
Barry Baldwin
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
emérita/emerita
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1988-8384
pISSN - 0013-6662
DOI - 10.3989/emerita.1982.v50.i1.784
Subject(s) - poetry , meaning (existential) , feeling , phallic stage , literature , noun , philosophy , linguistics , word (group theory) , art , psychology , psychoanalysis , epistemology
The much suspected opening words of this poem, τῷ θαλλῷ, may in fact be correct. They could, in spite of Gow-Page, stand for the flower of youth. A second possibility is that the noun means 'wand', comporting a phallic double-entendre. Or else it may mean 'gift', a rare and neglected, but papyrologically attested meaning of the word. If emendation is still preferred, τῷ θαλπει seems the best bet, given the frequency of heat metaphors for erotic feeling in classical poetry