BACCH. FR. 63 M. – COMMENTARY

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https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-0319.18.03

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Bacchylides, Muses, Olympia, Pelops and Oenomaus

Abstract

This paper provides a commentary to Bacchylides’ fragmentum dubium 63 M. and off some further considerations about its interpretation. 1) The Muses, daughters of Mnemosyne, are the patrons of chant and present their sweet song to mankind. But few men have ever been gifted poetical knowledge, and the poet’s duty is to be their servant, herald and prophet: he must give their words voice and disclose, through Memory’s intervention, the past, present and future events. 2) Few other words are still readable: they seem to delineate a mythical conflict on horse or chariot. Which one?

Author Biography

Antonio Tibiletti, University of Bern

Mgr Antonio Tibiletti – Universität Bern, Institut für Klassische Philologie Länggassstrasse 49 – CH-3000 Bern 9; he studied at Liceo Ginnasio “E. Cairoli” – Varese from 2003 to 2008. He continued his classical studies at the Università degli Studi di Milano, where in 2011 he pursued the Bachelor (Scienze dell’Antichità, L-10) with a dissertation on „Euripides’ Phaethon”, then in 2014 the MA (Filologia, Letterature e Storia dell’Antichità, LM-15) summa cum laude, with a thesis on „Studi su frammenti adespoti di poesia melica greca”, supervisor Prof. Luigi Lehnus. From Sept. 2015 he will be Ph.D. student at the Universität Bern, tutor Prof. Dr. Arnd Kerkhecker.

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2015-01-01

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Tibiletti, A. (2015). BACCH. FR. 63 M. – COMMENTARY. Collectanea Philologica, 18, 25–36. https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-0319.18.03

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Vol. 18 (2015)

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