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- Studies in Greek Literature
- Frontispiece
- Volume 2: Early Greek Literature, Reception, Ancient and Modern Scholarship
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Bibliography of Pat Easterling (Excluding Reviews)
- Introduction
- Part I The Iliad and Early Greek Literature
- Chapter 1 Agamemnon’s skēptron in the Iliad
- Chapter 2 Men’s κλέος and Women’s γόος
- Chapter 3 Holy Thebe
- Chapter 4 Alcman 58 and Simonides 542
- Chapter 5 Looking for Omphale
- Chapter 6 Friendship and the Greeks
- Part II Actors
- Part III Manuscripts and Transmission
- Part IV Scholia
- Part V Reception and History of Scholarship
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- General Index
Chapter 4 - Alcman 58 and Simonides 542
from Part I - The Iliad and Early Greek Literature
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2026
Book contents
- Studies in Greek Literature
- Frontispiece
- Volume 2: Early Greek Literature, Reception, Ancient and Modern Scholarship
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Bibliography of Pat Easterling (Excluding Reviews)
- Introduction
- Part I The Iliad and Early Greek Literature
- Chapter 1 Agamemnon’s skēptron in the Iliad
- Chapter 2 Men’s κλέος and Women’s γόος
- Chapter 3 Holy Thebe
- Chapter 4 Alcman 58 and Simonides 542
- Chapter 5 Looking for Omphale
- Chapter 6 Friendship and the Greeks
- Part II Actors
- Part III Manuscripts and Transmission
- Part IV Scholia
- Part V Reception and History of Scholarship
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- General Index
Summary
There are no serious textual variants; Bentley’s παῖς looks a certain supplement. The context in which the fragment is quoted (Hephaestion 13.6, p. 42 Consbr.) is a discussion of the cretic; the lines are cited as a metrical example, without reference to their meaning.
Meineke’s comment on the passage was sensus non plane liquet, but it is tempting to go further, because this is the earliest extant reference to Eros at play, an idea that was to be interestingly influential in later poetry.
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