Friday, April 16, 2021

A Gift to Pallas Athena: Greek Anthology vi.10

 Tritogenia, Sospitatrix, Iovis filia lecti-genialis-inimica,

Pallas, puerperii-expertis domina virginitatis,

aram tibi cornibus-instructam posuit hanc Seleucus,

Phoebeam vocem edente ore.


Τριτογενές, Σώτειρα, Διὸς φυγοδέμνιε κούρα,

Παλλάς, ἀπειροτόκου δεσπότι παρθενίης,

βωμόν τοι κεραοῦχον ἐδείματο τόνδε Σέλευκος,

Φοιβείαν ἰαχὰν φθεγγομένου στόματος.

--Antipater of Sidon, Greek Anthology vi.10; Translated into Latin by Friedrich Duebner (1871)

African born, our savior, marriage-shunning daughter of Jupiter,

Pallas Athena, virgin goddess in charge of her virginity,

Seleucus, obedient to Apollo's prophetic words, 

has made this altar adorned with horns for you


ANTIPATER of SIDON

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Name:  Antipater of Sidon

Date:  2nd century BCE

Works:  <fragments>

 

REGION  4

Region 1: Peninsular Italy; Region 2: Western Europe; Region 3: Western Coast of Africa; Region 4: Egypt and Eastern Mediterranean; Region 5: Greece and the Balkans


BIO:

Timeline:

 Antipater of Sidon was a Greek poet who lived during the 2nd century BCE.  Little is known about him, and only a handful of his poetry was preserved in the Greek Anthology.

 HELLENISTIC GREEK

ARCHAIC: (through 6th c. BCE); GOLDEN AGE: (5th - 4th c. BCE); HELLENISTIC: (4th c. BCE - 1st c. BCE); ROMAN: (1st c. BCE - 4th c. CE); POST CONSTANTINOPLE: (4th c. CE - 8th c. CE); BYZANTINE: (post 8th c CE)




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MAP:

Name:  ????

Date: 

Works:  Greek Anthology; Anthologia Graeca; Florilegii Graecii

 

REGION  UNKNOWN

Region 1: Peninsular Italy; Region 2: Western Europe; Region 3: Western Coast of Africa; Region 4: Egypt and Eastern Mediterranean; Region 5: Greece and the Balkans


BIO:

Timeline:

 The Greek Anthology is a modern collection of Greek lyric poetry compiled from various sources over the course of Greco-Roman literature. The current collection was created from two major sources, one from the 10th century CE and one from the 14th century CE. The anthology contains authors spanning the entirety of Greek literature, from archaic poets to Byzantine Christian poets. 

 Byzantine Greek

ARCHAIC: (through 6th c. BCE); GOLDEN AGE: (5th - 4th c. BCE); HELLENISTIC: (4th c. BCE - 1st c. BCE); ROMAN: (1st c. BCE - 4th c. CE); POST CONSTANTINOPLE: (4th c. CE - 8th c. CE); BYZANTINE: (post 8th c CE)



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