Το εικοστό πρώτο Ανακρεόντειο : ερμηνεία και διερεύνηση της λειτουργίας του στη δομή της συλλογής των Ανακρεόντειων
Part of : Αρχαιογνωσία ; Vol.11, No.1-2, 2001, pages 87-112
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87-112
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The twenty-first Anacreontic : its meaning in the corpus of the Anacreontics
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Μελέτες-Articles
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The twenty-first Anacreontic is the first poem of the second part of the Anacreontic corpus. It speaks about wine and drinking, defending the act of drinking against imaginary opposers, while the rest of the poems of the same (second) part of the corpus are nearly all about love.The interpretation of the poem in this paper is based mainly on related Ancient Greek texts. It is also noted that the poem, which consists of a “catalogue”, a “chain” of things, with intense repetitio, forms a priamel, and its argument is based on “analogy”. A Modern Greek folk-song has the same “chain’of things (river, sea, sun, moon) in its imagery, but in a clearly erotic context. The twenty-first Anacreontic, then, celebrates not only wine and drinking but also love. This dimension becomes evident not only from the position of the poem in the collection (it is the first poem in a series of love poems, its “title” is “άλλο”, at the same place that the 19th poem bears the title “άλλο εις ’Έρωτα, του αυτου”; also, at the corresponding place the 22nd s title is “άλλο εις κόρην”), but from the ambiguity in the use of the verb πίνω as well.
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αρχαία ελληνική ποίηση, λυρική ποίηση
