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CAMBRIDGE CLASSICAL TEXTS A N D C O M M E N TA R I E S
J. D I G G L E N. H O P K I N S O N M . D. R E E V E D. N. S E D L E Y
J. G. F. P O W E L L R . J. TA R R A N T
P I N DA R : P Y T H I A N E L E V E N
P I N DA R PYTHIAN ELEVEN E D I T E D W I T H I N T RO D U C T I O N, T R A N S L AT I O N, A N D C O M M E N TA RY BY
P. J. F I N G L A S S Lecturer in Classical Studies, University of Nottingham Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
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CONTENTS Preface
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Thrasydaeus’ victory Date i The scholia ii Can Aeschylus help? iii Contemporary politics and style iv Other methods of dating Appendix: The Pythian chronological system Performance context i Thrasydaeus daphnephoros? ii Corinna’s Orestas Myth i Structure ii Function Metrical analysis Text
Testimonia Synopsis of readings Index siglorum
Abbreviations: standard reference works Editions of Pindar’s Pythian Eleven Works cited by author’s name Works cited by author’s name with date vii
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Indexes Index of subjects Index of Greek Index locorum
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P R E FA C E I am grateful to Malcolm Davies, James Diggle, Michael Reeve, Alan Sommerstein, and Martin West for reading the completed typescript and recommending improvements. Professor West also allowed me to see some unpublished work of the late W. S. Barrett which he is preparing for publication; while Almut Fries examined microfilms of the manuscript G in G¨ottingen, and Ranja Kn¨obl and Helmut Hofbauer made accessible other material available only in Germany. Malcolm Davies and Barbara Kowalzig gave me permission to cite their unpublished Oxford DPhil theses. My commissioning editor, Michael Sharp, and my copy-editor, Muriel Hall, have been of invaluable assistance in bringing the book to publication. I would also like to thank the staff of the Bodleian, Sackler, and Taylorian libraries in Oxford, the British Library in London, the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana in Rome, and the Biblioteca Laurenziana and Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence. Once again, it is a pleasure to record my gratitude to All Souls College, Oxford, where this book was written, for providing me with excellent working conditions and stimulating colleagues. Scribebam in urbe Snotengaham Die Cinerum, Anno Domini MMVII
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I N T RO D U C T I O N THRASYDAEUS’ VICTORY Pindar’s Pythian Eleven celebrates the victory of Thrasydaeus of Thebes at the Pythian games. The contest in which he was successful must, if possible, be recovered from the ode. The key passage is at lines –. Having just mentioned Thrasydaeus and his father Pythonicus, the poet says:
! "#$% & % '( ) " * + , -. )* / # 0 1 2 3 /- 4/#5 672 89 .
Three different sets of honours are mentioned: (i) chariot victories ‘of old’ or ‘in the past’ ( ), (ii) victories involving horses at Olympia, and (iii) victories at Pytho in the ‘naked stadion’. The victory celebrated by Pindar was neither ‘in the past’ nor at Olympia, so it cannot be denoted by either (i) or (ii). That leaves (iii), which is conveniently specified as a Pythian victory. Rhetoric also supports the idea that (iii) is the subject of the ode: it comes climactically at the end of the catalogue of victories, and is accorded the lengthiest, most impressive description. The reference to Thrasydaeus’ victory as the ‘third crown’ cast on his ancestral hearth () clinches the argument. Thrasydaeus won the # 0 2, a fact which would have been as apparent to ancient commentators as it is to us. Could 2 refer not to the stadion event, but to any running contest? Farnell (his edition, ii. ) believed that it could: but Pindar’s usage tells strongly against such an idea. He
I deliberately exclude the scholia from consideration at this point, as information which they contain may have been taken from the ode rather than from external evidence.
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distinguishes between the stadion and the diaulos at O. . )* '(/ 2 29 ) :%; "& <, where he uses the appropriate terms. At N. . the diaulos is denoted by the expression 2= 2% (cf. N. . = iii. .– Drachmann): significantly, the poet adds the adjective 2>- to secure this identification. Farnell ii. and Theiler ( ) (= ) claim that at I. . ' / # * 2- . . . ' " ? 229 @ - 2>- there is a contrast between races in armour and races without armour, the latter being denoted by the phrase # * 2- without a distinction between the stadion and the diaulos. But in this passage the poet refers to a succession of different, discrete contests (despite the plurals, which continue throughout): the hoplitodromos, the javelin, the discus. The default hypothesis must be that the # 2 denote a single kind of contest too. The stadion, then – but was it in the boys’ or the men’s competition? Here too the evidence of the ode must be carefully sifted. Nowhere is Thrasydaeus explicitly said to be a boy, or to be young. There is quite an emphasis on his father, however. This is foreshadowed at –, where Thrasydaeus '/ < |
1 A& 3$ (with as ambiguous between ‘ancestral’ and ‘of his father’), and culminates at –, where the poet urges the Muse to move B 1 )%; | > #A B 2 !%;. | = /C&9 / 1 2>5 &A#/. The poem spends little time on the victor: the stress on his paternity is thus all the more noticeable. This is significant because odes for victorious boys and youths typically emphasise their father. We often hear the father’s name before that of the son (O. ., . –, N. ., ., I. .), or
The other poems for boys in the epinician corpus are O. , , , P. , N. , , Bacchyl. , , , , . There are two poems for adolescents: N. , Bacchyl. . Six further odes are of disputed status: O. , P. , N. , I. , , . For boy victors in antiquity more generally see Papalas ( ). Cf. Most (b) ‘niemals wird Thrasydaios ohne seinen Vater erw¨ahnt’; Gaspar () – ‘la fa¸con intime dont Pindare unit les succ`es du fils et du p`ere [in – and –] indique un vainqueur tout jeune qui n’a pas encore quitt´e la maison de son p`ere’.
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else shortly after it (I. .–). At P. .– the victorious son follows in his father’s footsteps. When the father is dead, the poet imagines him in the underworld receiving the news of his son’s success (cf. O. . –, .–), or celebrating the victory on the lyre as if alive (N. .–). Odes to young victors can suggest the joy which a son brings to a father (O. .–), the courage which is a son’s paternal inheritance (P. .–), or the wise advice which a father gives his son (I. .–). Fathers are sometimes mentioned in poems for success in the adult competitions (cf. Mader on O. .–, pp. –), but with nothing like the frequency and emphasis which we find in odes for younger victors. In our case we can deduce that the father probably had no athletic successes to his credit (see further below). His mention is thus especially remarkable, and it is fair to conclude that he is present because he commissioned the ode in honour of his young son. The myth may also reflect this, celebrating as it does the success of the young Orestes who acts on behalf of his father Agamemnon (see section (ii) below). Pfeijffer () – claims that Thrasydaeus was not a boy victor. He believes that a scholium stating that he was is based on a false inference from –, which (he presumes) an ancient commentator took as the statement of a young victor. That would be a wild inference indeed; but as we have seen, the view that Thrasydaeus was a boy victor does not rely on the scholium. Pfeijffer’s one substantive argument (p. ) is that ‘conventions of the genre demand that Pindar and Bacchylides make clear explicitly if the victory they celebrate was won in any category other than the D2/-’. But as he notes, P.Oxy. tells us that O. and Bacchyl. were written for boy victors, even though no internal evidence suggests this. Pfeijffer () is thus forced to formulate an exception to his rule, according to which ‘epinician
For first-person statements in Pindar taken by ancient commentators as the statements of the victor see P. . (ii. . Drachmann), D’Alessio () – with n. , Currie () n. .
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poets need not refer to the age category in short odes’. But the sample is not large enough to prove this, even if we could define ‘short’ in this context. The ode also offers information about other victories in Thrasydaeus’ family. Van Groningen’s seminal account of this () proceeds as follows. Thrasydaeus’ victory is described as the third of the house (line ); the ode speaks of previous victories at –; the scholia provide no information beyond what is contained in the ode. The information at – vaguely associates victories (with chariots , with horses at Olympia, in the stadion at Delphi) with Thrasydaeus and his father Pythonicus, but without directly attributing any specific victory to either. Pindar is vague because Pythonicus did not win any victories: if he had, Pindar would have been only too glad to make this clear. Rather, his father (Thrasydaeus’ grandfather) won a chariot victory at the Pythian games, leading him to name his new-born son Pythonicus. The grandfather then won a hippic victory at Olympia. Pindar needed to bring in these victories to glorify Thrasydaeus’ house; but he could not directly attribute them to the grandfather without making it clear that Pythonicus, who in all likelihood commissioned the ode, had been unsuccessful.
Von der M¨uhll () n. = () n. claims that line shows that Pythonicus won a competition. This line associates Pythonicus with his son’s success: it tells us nothing about his own athletic victories. Cole () – assumes that the first and second victories were won by Pythonicus and Thrasydaeus, thus neglecting and the significance of the father’s name, as well as the vagueness of the reference to his alleged victory. For the practice of naming a son after a victory (sporting or otherwise) cf. Hdt. .., Hirzel () , West () , Hornblower on Thuc. .. )>-; also Proclus, In Platonis Cratylum Comment. ( Pasquali) E # A/- 0- FG B 2 4 H 3A /- I>
)/ *- (cited by Sulzberger () ); Kurke ( b) ‘in myth and epic a child is often named after a salient characteristic of one of his parents or grandparents’. According to Von der M¨uhll () = () , the victor after whom Pythonicus was named is more likely to have been his grandfather or great-grandfather than his father, ‘da wir uns den Besitzer eines Rennstalls nicht als jung und ohne Kinder vorstellen’. He may be right: but sons are sometimes born to fathers well into maturity (cf. O. .–).
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He thus introduced the father’s name while describing some of these successes. The above analysis needs qualification as follows: we cannot tell that it was the grandfather who won the hippic victory at Olympia, nor that his Pythian victory was the chariot race described in . Occam’s Razor gives some slight support to van Groningen’s assertions. But it is not improbable that the family had more than one successful contestant before Thrasydaeus; and the vagueness of the reference in suggests that the victory was in a minor competition rather than in one of the crown games. Moreover, van Groningen’s ‘grandfather’ could have been a more distant relative still (n. ). DAT E i The scholia A pair of scholia present two possible dates for Pythian Eleven: the th Pythiad () or the rd (). Each has found its supporters. Unfortunately, neither scholium has a secure text. They read as follows: A ( Inscr. a = ii. . – Drachmann): #A# J 2K 2%; 21 F GL ) 2 () 1 #L () 2 B 2 D2-.
The conversion of Pythiads into the Julian calendar is discussed in an appendix to this section. The th is supported by Wilamowitz () , Dornseiff ( ) , Norwood () , Von der M¨uhll () = () –, Bergmann () ; see further P´eron (–) n. . The rd is supported by D¨uring (), Mommsen () –, Christ () –, Farnell ii. –, Finley () , Bowra () –, () –, Hubbard () n. . For the triple accusative in A, where the participle F governs three different objects (GL ) 2 1 #L (the occasion of the victories), 2 B 2 (the races in which the victories may have been won), and D2- (the competitors whom the victor defeated – in this case, presumably ‘adult men rather than boys’)) cf. Ant. Thess. A.P. ..– = – GP D2- J | # &= 9 (Gow
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B ( Inscr. b = ii. .– Drachmann): D%-· 2%; G3%; 2/*. #A# J 2K /A%; F K #L ) 2 () 29%;. C /M- K H 29 2 G # &/. " /M- K H 2 .
In A the prominent placing of 2 after Thrasydaeus’ name (and before the participle F ) means that we must translate ‘The ode was written for the boy Thrasydaeus, victorious in . . .’, and not ‘The ode was written for Thrasydaeus, victorious in . . . as a boy . . .’. In other words, 2 so placed goes with both the victories mentioned. Yet as pointed out above, they are twenty years apart. Even apart from the physical impossibility of such a prolonged career as boy athlete, there is a further problem in the apparent claim that the ode was written for two victories. The only possible parallel for the ambiguity is P. Inscr. (ii. .– Drachmann) #A# J 2K N2! # %;. O - G/ K 2L ) 2 1 /L. But here the commentator first informs us that the ode was written for Midas, and then in a separate statement announces that he was successful in two different sets of games. In our case, the closeness of the participle to the victor’s name means that, according to the transmitted scholium, the ode was written for Thrasydaeus’ victory in the games in and . This is a further sign of corruption. Bulle ( ) n. provides a possible solution to these problems by suggesting that <G/ 2A> has fallen out before in the scholium. This would make it clear that the later
and Page ad loc. remark ‘After P accusatives of the opponent, the festival, and the competition are separately common, and two in conjunction occur elsewhere . . . We do not know all three together elsewhere.’). After 2 A has G3%; 2/* /A%; in a single manuscript (B). This will be an interpolation from B. A supposed third scholium can be found in Laurentianus conv. sopp. (noted by Mommsen () ; this manuscript (dated c. : cf. Irigoin () ) then bore the number Laurentianus .): #A# J 2K 2%; G3%; 21 F GL ) 2 1 #L 2 1 2. C /M- K H 29 2 G # &/, " /M- K H 2 . This is a conflation of A and B.
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victory is not the occasion of the ode. The supplement parallels the language of the scholia, where we find a similar expression (G/ A ) in P. Inscr. a (ii. . Drachmann) used for this very purpose; cf. also O. Inscr. a (i. . Drachmann) and O. Inscr. b (i. .– Drachmann). This would give #A# J 2K 2%; 21 F GL ) 2 ()· <G/ 2> 1 #L () 2 B 2 D2-.
Such a supplement is hardly a radical change, as G/ could easily have dropped out after F . It yields a text which makes sense and corresponds to idioms found elsewhere in the Pindaric scholia. It also has the effect of clearly dating Pindar’s poem to . It could be objected that we ought not to rely on emendations in our attempts to solve this problem. On the other hand, for all its incoherence, the unemended scholium does appear to claim that the ode was written for Thrasydaeus’ victory as a boy in , and that the same athlete won a further victory as a man twenty years later. The two words added to the text aim to show how this may actually have been expressed: they do not interfere with the basic sense. The phrase 2 B 2 also requires comment. According to Bowra () , the order of the phrase indicates that the victory was in the diaulos, and the one in the stadion. But such a view is not permitted by the syntax; nor does it agree with one of the few clear pieces of information in B, which states that the victory was in the diaulos. Before we can understand the phrase, we must take account of this second scholium. B begins by saying that the ode was written ‘For Thrasydaeus of Thebes, winner of the stadion’. It then contradicts itself, declaring instead that the honorand was the victor in the diaulos in the games of . It then goes back on itself once more, protesting that Pindar is celebrating the victory not in the diaulos, but in the stadion (cf. Bowra () ). Such
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confusion means that the text of this scholium must also be unsound. Bulle’s response to this (( ) ) is a further supplement. By inserting < K GL ) 2 2%; 1> between F and F, he removed the two contradictions described above. Although ingenious, this does not command the same assent as his supplement in A. It yields the sense ‘the ode was written for the honorand when he was victorious in the stadion in and in the diaulos in . But he writes for the victory not in the diaulos, but in the stadion’. This is a convoluted way of saying ‘the ode was written for Thrasydaeus’ victory in the stadion of . He also won in the diaulos of ’. There was no need for the ancient commentator to begin with a sentence apparently stating that the ode was written for two victories twenty years apart, only to go on to make it clear that it was written for the first and not the second. No other supplement commends itself, and only extreme textual alteration would remove the contradictions. This leads me to believe that none of the sentences is itself corrupt: what is unsound is the connexion between them. The first sentence originally stood alone. The second was written by someone with a different view of the victory. The third was tagged on to contradict the second. Such a combination of different viewpoints in a single unit is regular in scholia, which frequently rely on more than one ancient source. Perhaps the third sentence was originally a comment added in the margin of a working copy of a Pindaric commentary; perhaps a scholar quoted the second sentence and added C . . . 2 to express his reaction to it. When the contents of such volumes were transferred to the margins of Pindaric manuscripts, it would be easy for distinctions of authorship to be neglected. There is some linguistic evidence for this analysis: the shift from #A# ?
to # &/ is uncomfortable, especially given that the subject of the latter (@ 2-) is unexpressed. The presence of a A in the second sentence and a 2A in the third, on the other hand, is not evidence against it: such particles could have
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been added after the original two sentences had erroneously coalesced. B thus gives two possible occasions for the ode: (i) an undated victory in the stadion and (ii) a victory in the diaulos of . It also contains an explicit rejection of (ii) in favour of (i); the rejection only refers to the race, however, and leaves open the possibility that the stadion victory was also in . At this point we may reconsider 2 B 2 in A. In more recent manuscripts 4 is emended to , an easy alteration (cf. my note on Soph. El. n.). This would mean that Thrasydaeus won both these contests in , as Xenophanes of Corinth did in the Pythian games sometime before (cf. O. .), a possibility which, as just noted, is left open by the wording of B. But a double victory seems unlikely on other grounds. If the ode were from , Pindar would have pointed to this remarkable double success (as he had for Xenophon, even though those victories were not the formal occasion for the ode). Hence the poem would have to date from the alternative year, . This point would have been as apparent to ancient scholars as it is to us, and so there would never have been a controversy over the date. The second sentence of B makes it clear that the victory was in the diaulos, not the stadion. Hence we would do better to delete B 2 in A with Schroeder ( ed., p. ), as supported by Von der M¨uhll () n. = () n. . The insertion of the offending phrase may have arisen from the apparent confusion between diaulos and stadion in the third sentence of B. When we add this to the previous change proposed above, we get #A# J 2K 2%; 21 F GL ) 2 ()· <G/ 2> 1 #L () 2 [B 2] D2-.
According to Farnell ii. and Von der M¨uhll () = () , the second and third sentences make up a single unit. Its author is supposed to be saying that Pindar wrote the ode for Thrasydaeus’ diaulos victory of , but that he wrote with reference to his success in the stadion rather than in the diaulos. It would be unfair to foist this absurdity on an ancient commentator when an alternative explanation is available.
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What, then, can we conclude from the scholia? A points towards an ode written in for a victory in a boys’ competition, while also mentioning a victory in the men’s diaulos of . B contains contrasting views: one supports a stadion victory (not in ), the other a diaulos victory in . Putting A and B together, we have a choice between wins in the boys’ stadion of and the men’s diaulos of . It should be clear by now that the victory corresponds to the facts deduced earlier from the ode itself. An ancient scholar made the same deductions and looked in the lists of Pythian victors (first composed by Aristotle with the assistance of Callisthenes: cf. S. G. Miller () –, Hornblower () ) for a victory by a Thrasydaeus of Thebes in the boys’ stadion. The only year with such a victory was , and so he assigned that date to the ode. But whence the confusion over the victory? This was in the diaulos (as explicitly stated in B and probably also in A), most likely the men’s diaulos (as implied in A and not denied in B). Given the evidence of the poem, why was there room for error? A possible solution to this problem runs as follows. Pythian Eleven does not explicitly declare that Thrasydaeus’ victory was in the stadion and not the diaulos, or that he took part in the boys’ competition and not the men’s. It contains the evidence
Whether the Thrasydaeus who won in as a boy could also win again in as a man is unprovable and, for our purposes, irrelevant. The balance of probabilities suggests that he could not: as Bergmann () notes, ‘es ist unwahrscheinlich, daß ein -j¨ahriger Mann noch eine a¨ hnlich athletische Kraft besitzt wie als -j¨ahriger Knabe’. Von der M¨uhll () = () counters by pointing to Philinus of Cos, a third-century sprinter who won Olympic victories, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian (cf. Paus. .., Knab () ). But if we assume that Philinus competed in both the stadion and the diaulos, his Olympic career (for example) need not be longer than eight years (cf. Moretti () ). Hippocleas of Pelinna, who won the boys’ diaulos at the Pythian games in , and then the men’s competition in and ( P. inscr. = ii. .–. Drachmann), provides a more reasonable career chronology. For athletes with a documented career of ten years or more see S. G. Miller () – n. .
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for these assertions; but to tease them out we must pay careful attention to the text and to Pindar’s general usage. Otherwise, it would be possible to connect the poem with an attested victory in the men’s diaulos in by a Thrasydaeus of Thebes, whether or not this was the same Thrasydaeus who won the stadion in . Crucially, the motive for preferring over was also present, as we shall see below. ii Can Aeschylus help? Aeschylus’ Oresteia was first performed in . This fact gives the question of the date of Pindar’s ode a special significance: did it come before or after the tragedian’s famous handling of the same myth? But some scholars go further, and claim that the relationship between the two works can illuminate their relative dating. Herington () goes so far as to claim that ‘our best hope of determining with a fair certainty the date of the Eleventh Pythian ode’ lies in its relationship with Aeschylus’ Oresteia. The most frequently cited modern comparison of the Oresteia and Pythian Eleven is D¨uring (), which lists many motifs supposedly shared by the two works (pp. –; cf. also Herington () ). These include the praise of /> G- (– / Eum. –), criticism of tyranny ( / Ag. ), the complaints of the people against their leaders ( / Ag. –), and the link between &)>- and Q3- ( / Ag. , –). On the basis of these similarities D¨uring asserts priority for the Oresteia. But many are conventional and not proof of imitation, as Herington ()
Von der M¨uhll () = () fails to take account of the possible ambiguities, and attempts to account for the confusion of the scholia by saying that a Thrasydaeus of Thebes won the boys’ stadion in and . But the scholia indicate that the victory was in the men’s diaulos, not the boys’ stadion. On this link see further Theiler ( ) (= ) and Bagordo () –.
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n. acknowledges. A small number are more impressive: in particular, GK- # and Cho. 29)/- # , each referring to Clytemnestra and each coming as a final, taut phrase at the end of a much longer sense unit, seem too similar to be the product of chance. But there is no indication of which came first. Herington () gives a more focussed case in favour of the later date, with two specific arguments. First, he claims (p. ) that the alternative questions in lines – of the ode are ‘unique not merely in Pindar, but also in all Greek non-dramatic poetry’ (cf. Farnell ii. –, F¨ollinger () ), and (p. ) that ‘non-dramatic poetry seem[s] nowhere to contain an unanswered question about the motive for a given individual’s action; still less, two such questions juxtaposed, each of them implying a motive which, at least on the surface, was irreconcilable with that implied in the other’. His second argument is that the two motives for the killing of Agamemnon which Pindar mentions, the ‘Iphigenia-motive’ and the ‘adultery-motive’, taken in this order, ‘constitute a major structural principle of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon’ (p. ). This, he maintains, implies that Pindar came second, as ‘the possibility that Aeschylus might have structured his greatest masterpiece around a couple of totally uncharacteristic lines thrown out for some inexplicable reason by Pindar in or shortly after seems, to put it temperately, remote’ (p. ). The first point would be interesting if true, although it would hardly prove Herington’s case. Such innovation on the part of a poet may be a sign of originality rather than dependence on another source. But it is not even clear that Herington’s premise is correct. Pavese () compares Bacchyl.
Cf. D. C. Young () n. ‘the many parallels collected by Duering, while interesting, are not sufficiently close or unusual to prove borrowing of any kind or to exclude a common source; surely they will not prove any choice of priority, such as Duering forces from them’. Fraccaroli’s argument (() –) that Pindar’s poem must have predated the Oresteia on the basis of parallel passages meets with the same objection.
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.–, where the narrator wonders who was responsible for overcoming Argos: was it Hermes, or the Muses? In his English commentary on this passage Maehler suggests that ‘by offering alternative speculative explanations of Argos’ death, the dithyrambic chorus in B. seem to adopt the attitude of ignorance often displayed by choruses in tragedy’ (on .–). Yet there is no reason to suppose a tragic source for this passage in Bacchylides. We may conclude that while we are more familiar with such features in a tragic context, they are also acceptable in lyric. Herington’s other argument is also unsatisfactory. His view that there is a progression in the Oresteia from the sacrifice of Iphigenia to Clytemnestra’s adultery with Aegisthus as reasons for the killing of Agamemnon fails to take account of the continuing importance of the former motive (cf. Ag. –, –), as well as other reasons for his death (e.g. Agamemnon’s adultery with Cassandra and Chryseis (Ag. –), or the quarrel between his father and Thyestes (–)). But even if he were right about the Oresteia, he would still be wrong to claim that this ordering has no relevance in Pindar’s poem. Rather, by placing the adultery motive second and spending more time describing it, Pindar gives it greater emphasis (–n.). To have concluded with the sacrifice of Iphigenia might have created too much sympathy for Clytemnestra, and, correspondingly, a negative portrayal of Orestes, which the poet is keen to avoid. As we might have expected from a great poet, Pindar places the possibilities in an order which makes sense within the context of his poem and its representation of the myth. It might still have been influenced by Aeschylus or another source. But we do not need to postulate such influence to explain this passage if there are no other grounds to support it. Pindar’s decision to include more than one possible reason for Clytemnestra’s action can also be explained within the context of the poem. The narrator has described the horrific killing of Agamemnon and Cassandra, culminating in the memorable and terrible phrase GK- # . Pindar presents the narrator as so overcome by the crime that he must search for motives to
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account for it. Instead of authoritatively stating a single cause, he clutches at possibilities that might go some way towards an explanation. His questioning thus underlines the gravity of the killings. Herington’s approach tends to denigrate Pindar’s artistry. He argues that elements of his poem are strange, unexplained, or just plain inferior (cf. his description above of .– as ‘a couple of totally uncharacteristic lines thrown out for some inexplicable reason’, () ), and concludes that they must have been taken from another source, in this case Aeschylus (cf. Christ () ). His argument requires such severe judgments – a subtle Pindar who skilfully employed elements of other works would not have left such clear signs of incompetence to be exploited by modern scholars. D¨uring goes even further, saying that in Pindar ‘we meet the saga as a paradeigm [sic] wholly irrelevant to the ode in which it is occasionally inserted’ (() ; for ‘occasionally’ read ‘casually’). Yet many will not be convinced by an approach which relies on the claim that Pindar was a bungler and his Pythian Eleven a failure. More generally, scholarship over the past few decades has stressed how classical poets show considerable creativity and artistry as they interact with the work of their predecessors. Why, then, should we regard incompetence as a secure indication of imitation? Our focus on similarities should not distract us from the significant differences between the myth in Pindar and Aeschylus. The name of the Nurse (–n.), the presence of Orestes at the killing of his father (n.), and the location of the Atreids in Laconia (n.) all go against Aeschylus’ version (cf. Von der M¨uhll () with n. = () with n. , Lesky () –, Davies () ii. , Robbins () –). In each of these cases the account preferred by Aeschylus may be an innovation. Pindar’s failure to use the same innovations does not prove that he must
Cf. Sevieri’s criticism of scholars who seek to assimilate Pindar’s work to that of Aeschylus, ‘forzandolo proprio nella direzione dalla quale l’autore tende invece costantemente ad allontanarsi’ (() ).
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have preceded Aeschylus. But it should finally debunk the idea that Pythian Eleven contains passages which are simple reflexes of elements in the Oresteia. It is hard to see how Pindar could have unthinkingly copied complicated aspects of the Oresteia, such as motivation and structure, while displaying independence on relatively unimportant matters such as the name of the Nurse. Behind the arguments for Aeschylean priority lurks the feeling that the great tragedian’s greatest work must have influenced Pindar’s much smaller, less famous poem, and not vice versa. So D¨uring () argues that ‘to the unprejudiced reader it is nearest at hand to believe, that these lines [–] were written by Pindar under the dominating and immediate influence of the Aeschylean drama’. But who are these ‘unprejudiced readers’? Most classicists are highly prejudiced on this question. We become familiar with the Oresteia long before we read Pindar’s ode. Our instinct is to see the epinician in the light of its bigger, more impressive, and more familiar counterpart. Even the nomenclature of the two works is revealing. Pythian Eleven is sometimes called the ‘Little Oresteia’ (Race), ‘Pindar’s Oresteia’ (Robbins ()), or ‘Pindar’s miniature “Oresteia”’ (Hornblower () ): but the Oresteia could never be referred to as ‘Aeschylus’ Pythian Eleven’. In other words, we start from a position which already regards Aeschylus as primary, Pindar as secondary. Far from overcoming that prejudice, D¨uring exalts it into the status of an argument. Yet its intellectual underpinning is weak, as in general terms there is no reason to suppose that Aeschylus could not have been influenced by Pindar. As Robbins () points out, ‘the art of the tragedians is the legatee of choral lyric, without which it is inconceivable. Aeschylus . . . will surely have known the work of the supreme practitioner of the choral art.’ In a different context, Hubbard () notes that ‘it is entirely possible that Aeschylus could have been familiar with at least some of Pindar’s odes and was inspired by the dramatic possibilities of the lyric poet’s mythical variations’. Even Bowra, who prefers on other grounds, stresses that ‘in principle
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either poet might learn something from the other’ (() ). In Pindar is familiar enough to an Athenian audience for Aristophanes to satirise the style of a fictitious epigone (Av. – ): it seems unlikely that only fifty years earlier Aeschylus could so have lacked intellectual and creative curiosity that he did not take note of his poetry. But even if we persist in the baseless belief that Pythian Eleven could not have influenced Aeschylus, it still does not follow that the tragedian must have come first. The great unknown in any discussion of the Atreid myth is Stesichorus’ Oresteia. Its exiguous fragments provide the earliest occurrences of several motifs which feature prominently in later accounts, such as Clytemnestra’s dream (Soph. El. –n.) and the recognition of Orestes by a lock of his hair (ibid. n.). Hence elements common to Aeschylus and Pindar, such as the sacrifice of Iphigenia as a motive for Agamemnon’s killing, may go back to Stesichorus (whose poem featured Iphigenia: –n.). This can only be speculation, since Pindar’s handling of the myth shows little, if anything, which we can connect with Stesichorus. But the possibility remains open, and further weakens the position of those who support a late date for Pindar’s poem on the grounds that Aeschylus could not have imitated it. We may thus conclude, with Bernardini (Gentili’s edition, p. ), that we cannot date the ode by its relationship with Aeschylus. But the very fact that some modern scholars have attempted to do so may possibly shed light on an earlier problem.
Finley () is surprisingly unhelpful on this topic, given the title of the book. For the familiarity of Pindar in Athens (despite Eupolis fr. PCG) see Currie () n. ; also Kugelmeier (). Both Stesichorus and Pindar put Agamemnon’s home in Laconia (n.), but as Davies () ii. points out, the latter may well have ‘independently adapted the same local tradition which S[tesichorus] had plundered’. The name of the Nurse (n.) and the absence of Erinyes (n.) also differentiate Pindar’s poem from his predecessor’s (Davies p. ). Fraenkel () argues that the choice of Clytemnestra as the killer goes back to Stesichorus. But she is involved in the homicide as early as Hom. Od. .–, and we cannot tell that it was Stesichorus who first made her the main killer.
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As noted above, an important part of the emotional, if not the intellectual, support for the dating is the feeling that Aeschylus could not have imitated Pindar in his treatment of the Atreid myth. Such a feeling could have occurred to an ancient scholar too: especially, perhaps, a scholar with Athenian connexions, unwilling to accept that the great Attic tragedian should have drawn aspects of his finest opus from the work of a Boeotian pig. Someone so determined to place Pindar’s poem after Aeschylus could have exploited the apparent ambiguities regarding the occasion of the ode so as to tie it to the victory of another Thrasydaeus in the men’s diaulos of . Such a motive is speculative: but at least it explains economically why someone could do this when, all other things being equal, the date was so much more attractive. iii Contemporary politics and style Some scholars have believed that lines – of the ode are a condemnation of a specific tyranny, and can thus be used to date the ode. According to Wilamowitz, Pindar became an object of suspicion to his fellow Thebans as a result of his sojourn at the court of Hieron in Sicily in the early s. In , therefore, he states his political credo: = # " > /R% A A%; | Q3%; /)> . A& S 2%. The M T3- of line denotes the envy felt for Pindar’s success by the Thebans, represented by the ># * of line . The lines thus refer specifically to Pindar and his position within the city: ‘wie er steht und in Theben stehen will, sollen die B¨urger h¨oren’ (() ; cf. his earlier discussion at ( ) – = (–) vi. –). Others prefer the earlier date, but take the reference to tyranny as something closer to home. They point to Thuc.
For ancient comments on the alleged stupidity of the Boeotians see Vott´ero () –. Pindar himself refers to this tradition at O. .–. This idea was first put forward by Rauchenstein (); cf. Burton () , M´eautis () .
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.., where the Thebans claim that at the time of the Persian invasion Thebes was under an oligarchy, which is of all systems ## % . . . . The idea that Pindar is referring here to an earlier Theban tyranny was common before Wilamowitz (see below, section (ii)), but has also found favour more recently (cf. Gentili (), Robbins () ). The evidence for such a tyranny is remarkably slim, however (see below, n. ). Bowra () sets out objections to this approach. The key problem is that the poem itself gives no indication of these hidden meanings. Such an interpretation turns the ode into a po`eme a` cl´e, a work whose meaning would not have been apparent even to a contemporary Theban audience, unless they had been primed before its performance as to its real significance. But Bowra’s own attempts (() – and () –; cf. also Farnell ii. –) to use the same argument from political context to arrive at the later date are equally unsuccessful. Noting the stress on Iolaus and the Dioscuri, he concludes that ‘the obvious assumption is that Sparta may yet come to the help of Boeotia’ (() ), which suits (when Boeotia was under Athenian occupation). If the ode was performed at the earlier date, however, ‘the final words . . . have no very clear purpose’ (() ; cf. () –). Moreover, ‘in the myth of a just vengeance would be entirely appropriate in Thebes which had recently been defeated by Athens, and might well put its hopes in some coming deliverance through force’ (() ; cf. () –). But there is no indication that these mythological descriptions are coded references to politics. Moreover, our scepticism about this method may be heightened by the fact that ‘the two supreme exponents of this method of dating, Wilamowitz and Bowra, are led by it to opposite conclusions about the date of the ode’ (Herington () n. ). iv Other methods of dating These can be passed over more quickly. Mac´ıa () – puts the poem in , on the grounds that it ‘est´a construida con la
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sencillez de los poemas m´as tempranos, pero con la seguridad que proporcionan al poeta el paso del tiempo y su dominio de la t´ecnica’ (p. ). This approach is too subjective to need refutation. Alsina () – prefers on the grounds that Pindaric priority is required by ‘el desarrollo interno de la evoluci´on de Clitemestra’ (p. ). But why should we expect a linear development in Clytemnestra’s character, even supposing that we could identify one? Bergmann () argues for on the grounds of similarities with P. and ; Theiler ( ) (= ) prefers on the grounds of parallels with I. , which he dates to (in fact, the ode is of unknown date). But even if we accept the similarities for which these and other scholars argue, there is no reason to suppose that they can help us to place an ode in time. ‘Little faith can be placed in the dating by means of stylistic criteria: these tend to be highly subjective’ (Currie () ). K¨ohnken ( ) – notes interesting connexions with P. , but sensibly refuses to use them as chronological evidence.
Appendix: The Pythian chronological system The scholia use Pythiad numbers, not years, for dating the ode. Rather than repeat ‘th Pythiad’ and ‘rd Pythiad’ throughout, I have referred to and . This requires justification. The earliest modern accounts placed the first Pythiad used for chronological calculations in (the third year of the th Olympiad). Hence the date of the th and rd Pythiads in and respectively. They did this largely on the basis of the scholia. So in his Opus Novum de Emendatione Temporum, Scaliger () pointed to evidence provided by P. and P. , which, because they used both the Olympic and Pythiad chronologies, allow us to draw conclusions about the value of the latter. By the third edition of this book (() , published after his death
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in ), he had added references to Eusebius and O. . Scaliger’s work led to a consensus which lasted almost unchallenged until , when Boeckh (in his commentary, vol. ii/, pp. –) argued that the dating should begin in (or the third year of the th Olympiad). He took this date from a passage in Pausanias (..–), who explicitly says that was the first Pythiad. Other passages in the same author (e.g. ..) confirm that Pausanias does indeed begin counting from . According to this system, the th and rd Pythiads fall in and respectively. Boeckh’s view was generally accepted, although a number of scholars argued on the basis of connexions between Pindar’s poems and contemporary history that these dates were four years too early. This debate came to a head in . That year saw the publication of P.Oxy. , which, among other important contributions to Pindaric chronology, appeared to support the Scaligerian chronology, which put the first Pythiad in (cf. Grenfell and Hunt () –). This publication was followed up and expanded by Gaspar (), which provided influential
The text of Georgius Syncellus, which contains the relevant reference from Eusebius, was discovered in : see the preface to Mosshammer’s edition. Cf. Lloyd () (no page number; on the second side of the section headed ‘Notae quaedam chronologicae de ludis’), Dodwell ( ) , Corsinus () –, ( ) , Gedike p. , Clinton () (writing just after Boeckh, but showing no knowledge of his work). Meursius () (II.ix) adopts as the starting date, but without argument or indeed acknowledgment of Scaliger’s dating. He may simply have taken the year from Pausanias without further investigation. Boeckh mentions his new chronology in a letter to Dissen dated st December : see Hoffmann () –. Cf. e.g. Dissen (his edition, vol. ii. p. ), Donaldson (his first edition, p. ), Cookesley (his edition, p. ), Mommsen () , , Paley p. , Schmidt (), Mezger () –, Gildersleeve, L¨ubbert () . Cf. especially Wilamowitz () ii. ; also Bergk () and in his third edition (), pp. –, Bornemann ( ) –, Fraccaroli (), () . Fraccaroli ( ) was also written in response to the papyrus and supported the dating (as Fraccaroli had done before the papyrus was discovered: see the previous footnote).
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support for the new dating. It remained largely unquestioned for some time (cf. Farnell ii. ), until Bennett (), Simpson () n. and S. G. Miller () claimed that the papyrus evidence supporting was not compelling, and that Pausanias’ date of should be trusted after all. Subsequent studies have argued on both sides, with Mosshammer () supporting and Brodersen () supporting . The most recent account is non-committal, albeit with a mild preference: ‘[] at least has the unambiguous support of Pausanias . . . , while the support for the later date is more ambiguous. The issue cannot yet be said to have been finally resolved’ (Currie () ). Historical sources for the beginning of the Pythian games do not give a clear or consistent picture. According to Paus. ..–, the first games in involved the awarding of U) to the competitors, who included athletes, citharodes, aulodes, and auletes. saw the first ‘stephanitic’ games, or games for which crowns (of laurel) were awarded. An earlier source, the Marmor Parium (IG xii./ , with IG xii. suppl. p. = FGrHist B ), agrees in putting the first stephanitic games in . But it dates an earlier set of games, involving a # 0- "#$, to . These, it says, were ‘chrematitic’ competitions, or games involving prizes of monetary value. The Pindaric scholia give yet another account of the early Pythiads (cf. Mosshammer () –). According to them, the chrematitic games fell in , at the end of what we call the First Sacred War, and the first
As well as considering the papyrus, Gaspar attempted to determine at which date the contents of an ode better fitted contemporary historical circumstances. So with reference to our poem, he believed that would be too soon after Plataea (where Sparta and Thebes were on opposite sides) for Iolaus to be associated with the Dioscuri, and for the Spartan colouring of the poem more generally (p. ). There may be something in this argument, although I would not want to place much weight upon it. Mommsen () , Rauchenstein () and Watkiss Lloyd () advanced a similar case, although since they did not question the Boeckhian dating of Pythiads this led them to prefer , rather than , over . For more on the history of the question up to the end of the nineteenth century see Gaspar () –. On this conflict and its historicity see J. K. Davies (), V. Parker ().
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stephanitic games followed six years later, which by inclusive counting brings us to . What can we make of this confusion? The coincidence of Pausanias and the Marmor Parium over the first stephanitic contests, despite their disagreement over the preceding games, suggests that is a correct date (cf. Gebhard () n. ). As for their disagreement, there are two possible solutions: either there was one set of chrematitic games in or , or there were games in both of these years. Brodersen () supports the latter view, pointing to the different accounts of the and games in the Marmor and Pausanias. The differences are not significant, however: for while the Marmor does not specifically mention the musical contests, there is no reason why it should have mentioned this detail. What is important is that both games involve the awarding of prizes of value. In the absence of evidence saying that there were two such chrematitic games (and there is none), we should assume that the two sources are describing the same event. This is in general sound historical method when dealing with similar events from the ancient world which are assigned two different dates. Our presumption should be that a single event has been double-dated, rather than that our sources are blameless and the same event occurred twice. Of the two possible dates it is which has the ring of authenticity. As Mosshammer () points out (citing Jacoby), ‘the fact that the two dates [i.e. and ] are not related by the four- or eight-year cycle of repetition is in itself an argument for their historicity’. Mosshammer () claims that Pausanias arrived at for the date of the chrematitic games since ‘most likely, this was Callisthenes’ date for the end of the Sacred War’. This assumes too much, however. It is easier to suppose that Pausanias was aware of the existence of the chrematitic games before the stephanitic ones in , and simply counted four years back to . The practice of dating by Pythiads was so rare that he was then free to claim that the first Pythiad for chronological purposes took place in . The accounts of the founding of the games in the Pindaric scholia reflect a situation in which both
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and have been established as the date of the very first Pythiad. They apply to this the known fact that the first games were chrematitic, and the second stephanitic, and they end up with stephanitic games four years earlier than they should be. The first Pythiad took place in and involved prizes of value; the first stephanitic Pythiad took place in . But even if Pausanias was wrong about dating a set of games to , it is still possible that the scholia were using his dating system. As Bennett () – notes, the issue in hand is not when the games began, but when the scholiasts’ chronology says they began. Our only way of determining this is to look at scholia which date events or clusters of events by both Pythiad numbers and some other system, such as Olympiads. Some scholars have despaired of such a task: J. K. Davies () refers to ‘repeated, but I suspect unavailing, attempts to wrest consistent chronological sense out of the Pindaric scholia’. We shall see whether or not such an attitude is too pessimistic. The key discussions are found in Miller () – and Mosshammer (). Miller cites all the relevant scholiastic texts and attempts to show that collectively they point to a chronology beginning in . Mosshammer denies this, but does not believe that the scholia supply positive evidence in favour of the later date. I will discuss the passages which provide the most telling information on the question. The other passages all provide information consistent with my eventual conclusion, but with a certain amount of goodwill could be consistent with the alternative too. I have chosen to focus on three passages because I believe that they fit only my preferred dating. (i) O. .c (i. .–.) tells us G/ 2 @ ’7& ? - 1 9 V- /* 1 9) <32G W; I#2>G; [Hermann; G; codd.] 2. Hermann’s emendation, printed by Drachmann, is confirmed by P.Oxy.
Brodersen () does not attempt to discuss most of the scholia analysed by Miller and Mosshammer, dismissing the evidence offered by O. without argument (p. ).
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(ap. Grenfell and Hunt () ), which shows that Epharmostus won in the th Olympics (), not the rd. This scholium says that Epharmostus also won in the Pythian games which fell within the th Olympiad, that is, the games of . These would be the th or st games, depending on whether the starting date is or respectively. O. .b (i. .) says that Epharmostus won the th games, which supports a starting date of . O. .a (i. .) erroneously dates the Pythian victory to the rd games, but this is an easy corruption: #L instead of L. In his analysis (pp. –) Miller is forced to use a highly artificial punctuation to claim that Epharmostus’ Pythian victory did not fall within the th Olympiad. He does this by following Drachmann in punctuating after 9 , /* , and 9). In this he persuades Mosshammer (p. ), who is led to conclude that ‘the evidence of c is moot’. In fact, his interpretation is linguistically impossible. The position of <32G W; I#2>G; 2 shows that it must be taken either with both victories, or with the Pythian victory alone. To give an English parallel, in the sentence ‘He was elected to Parliament and became a Cabinet Minister in the s’ it would not be possible to separate off the words ‘and became a Cabinet Minister’ with commas and so detach it from the temporal phrase which follows. However we punctuate, the entry into the Cabinet must have occurred in the s. Miller’s commas give unnatural sense to the Greek, and must be rejected. (ii) O. inscr. b (i. .–) says of the victor Ergoteles X#% <32G K <32>G 2 1 K <5W ) 2 /M K G. P.Oxy. confirms that Ergoteles won in the th Olympiad (cf. Grenfell and Hunt () ), which was in . The following Pythiad (cf. K <5W-) was in . If the th Pythiad was in , the first Pythiad for chronological purposes was in . This is clear enough. Boeckh (in his commentary, vol. ii/ pp. –) and Miller (p. ) attempt to counter the evidence by noting that the ode refers to a Pythian victory already won by
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Ergoteles (.; perhaps two victories, depending on whether 2- means ‘twice each at Pytho and the Isthmus’ or ‘twice, at Pytho and the Isthmus’). Hence the Pythian victory mentioned in the scholia must have occurred before the Olympian victory, and so should be dated to . K <5W- will then refer to a victory at the following Olympic games. Yet we know from P.Oxy. that Ergoteles did not win at the th games. Moreover, Ergoteles’ victory at the Pythian games in does not mean that he could not have won at an earlier competition. And even if it did, the ode could still have been written more than two years after the Olympic victory of . Miller objects to this, but as Mosshammer points out (p. ), we know little about the time gap between a victory and the ode which celebrates it (except that some odes were described as ‘late’ even by Pindar himself, such as O. ). This poem may have been commissioned in honour of all Ergoteles’ victories, rather than simply his Olympic one. Finally, the text of the scholia is against Miller’s view. Taking K <5W- to refer to an Olympic victory would require the insertion of a 2 after ) 2 (so ‘Mommsen suppl. p. ’, according to Drachmann), although Miller does not mention this. It is hardly a drastic emendation, but still involves the change of a text which makes good sense as it stands. (iii) Pythian Seven, composed in honour of Megacles of Athens, dates to the th Pythiad ( P. Inscr. a = ii. .–; hence or ). The ode is unique because of its climactic reference to the &)>- which has afflicted the victor (lines –), after which the poem ends almost immediately with no further reflection to cheer us. Megacles was ostracised in ([Arist.] Ath. Pol. .). Many commentators have seen the prominent &)>- theme as
Cf. Currie () ‘we will perhaps do better to regard the victory as supplying a terminus post quem, not the actual date of the ode, even if most of the time the athletic victory will be the best chronological anchor for an ode’. This assumes that the Megacles in Pindar and in the Ath. Pol. are the same person, a safe assumption (cf. Mann ( ) with n. ). He would be recalled to Athens with the other victims of ostracism in , only to suffer the same fate again a little later, probably in (cf. Forsdyke () with
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a reflection of this recent ostracism, and hence as evidence for a dating. Miller challenges this, claiming that ‘the &)>motif requires no specific stimulus, for the lyric poets abound with it’ (p. ; examples in n. ). This fails to acknowledge the unique manner with which the motif is handled here. Not only is it right at the end, it is expressed not in the form ‘beware of envy’ but ‘I am sorry that envy has occluded your fine deeds.’ This is too specific a reference to be merely an unthinking reflex of a common motif. It can only refer to an event, and this event must be Megacles’ ostracism. The vote of cannot be at issue, as Megacles was not ostracised then, and would hardly want a poem in his honour to draw attention to his close shave. In , however, his succumbing to ostracism simply could not be ignored. Nor do the praises of Athens at the start of the poem tell against a date. Whatever their feelings about the events of that year, Megacles and the Alcmeonids had everything to gain from continuing to emphasise their loyalty and lack of bitterness towards the Athenian people. The above evidence indicates that the Pindaric scholia began their Pythiad chronologies in . Some support for this position comes from Eusebius (ap. Georg. Syncell. = p. . Mosshammer), who placed the start of the chronological Pythiads in the third or fourth year of the th Olympiad (–).
n. ). More than , ostraka cast against him have been discovered, more than in any other case. They sometimes specify the reason(s) for which he was disliked, and these include his E & (cf. Brenne ( ) with nn. –, Siewart () –, Forsdyke () –). But Forsdyke () n. goes too far in claiming that ‘Pind. Pyth. .– attributes Megacles’ ostracism to envy of Alcmeonid victories in chariot racing’. Cf. Wilamowitz () ii. ‘wer m¨ochte leugnen, dass der ostrakismos, an den a¨ ltere erkl¨arer auch gedacht haben, auf das trefflichste passt, zumal er die tyrannenvertreiber als tyrannenfreunde traf, wie wir jetzt aus der chronik wissen?’ Cf. Mann ( ) ‘im Unterschied zu anderen Stellen bei Pindar dient hier der Neid nicht einfach als Gradmesser des Erfolgs, sondern ist ein echtes Problem, kenntlich gemacht durch die Betr¨ubnis des Dichters’. Cf. Wilamowitz () ii. ‘allein auch als landfl¨uchtiger verl¨augnet der Alkmeonide sein Vaterland nicht: sie geh¨oren zu einander’.
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The date of this evidence should not concern us: as Mosshammer (p. n. ) points out, ‘the lateness of Eusebius is in fact an argument in favor of his evidence in this case, since such information as reached him can be regarded as representing the chronographic vulgate of antiquity’. We may thus confidently place Pythian Eleven in rather than . PE R F O R M A N C E C O N T E X T i Thrasydaeus daphnephoros? Some scholars have connected the occasion of Pythian Eleven with the Theban rite of Daphnephoria. Our chief source for the latter ceremony is Proclus, Chrest. – (i. – Severyns; cf. Schachter () –). According to him, the Daphnephoria took place every eight years (2 // G2-), and involved the bringing of laurels to the Theban sanctuaries of Apollo at the Ismenium and Galaxium (or, less likely, the Chalazium (v.l.); Proclus = i. ; cf. Schachter () –). The procession was led by a *- "&)F-, followed by @ C M/*- (probably his nearest male relative) carrying a % $ ( = i. ). This was a log of olive adorned with laurel, flowers,
The association is as old as Boeckh (in his commentary, p. ), although his argument is hardly convincing. He begins by claiming that (line ) means 9, or ‘paris iuris’, and that as a consequence the subject of /* in the following line must be Melia rather than Apollo. He goes on to argue ‘at Melia cur heroinas Cadmi filias convocet, intellegi non potest, nisi apud Meliam illis in Ismenio sollemnes epulas et lectisternium statis temporibus fuisse putemus, credo tum quum Daphnephoria celebrabantur’. But having brought in the Daphnephoria in this implausible fashion, he denies that the ode itself was written for this festival or that Thrasydaeus should be seen as a daphnephoros. The accentuation is disputed: Sch¨onberger () argues in favour of the oxytone. Schachter () suggests a connexion between the name and the Boeotian lake Y% Z-, comparing also the settlement named Y= on the lake. Cf. Kowalzig () –, according to whom the ritual reflects Theban attempts to integrate the Copais area, the ‘namesake of the plant escorted’ (p. ), under their hegemony.
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bronze balls, purple bands, and saffron ( = i. ). After the bearer of the % $ came the daphnephoros, who W- 2 &G& / (presumably referring to the laurel attached to the log) and had his hair let down, a golden crown, and a bright costume down to his feet ( = i. ). He was followed by a chorus of maidens with suppliant branches ( = i. ; we are not told the tree from which the branches were taken). Pausanias .. does not describe a rite, but informs us that every year a boy who was noble, handsome, and strong was chosen as priest of Ismenian Apollo. He was called the daphnephoros because he wore a crown of laurel. Some of these daphnephoroi, including Heracles, dedicated a tripod to Apollo. Further evidence associating daphnephoroi with tripods is found on a relief from the Tabula Albani (Inv. , Sadurska () pl. ; Rome, nd c. ), the lower part of which is set in a temple (unnamed) and contains a tripod; on the tripod’s base is an inscription stating that the tripod was dedicated by Amphitryon to mark the daphnephoria of Heracles (text at FGrHist = i. , Sadurska () ; cf. Schachter () –). Although Pausanias is chronologically the earlier witness, it is likely that Proclus’ source originates from some considerably earlier time (cf. Schachter ( –) i. –). Schachter () – identifies several elements of Proclus’ ritual which are unlikely to date before the fourth century at the earliest, and concludes that Proclus is describing a rite reconstituted in that century after a lapse, which underwent various other changes in succeeding years. The Theban Daphnephoria features twice elsewhere in Pindar. The Second Partheneion (fr. b S–M) has its narrator (a member of a female chorus) holding a [ "#> | 2 &- (lines –) and singing. Later in the poem we learn that the procession is being led by the son or father of one Damaena (–), who is followed by his daughter [@2H] 2 &- /C / (/2[>] |
Cf. Brelich () –. For further bibliography on the Daphnephoria see Brelich () n. , Sevieri () n. , () n. , Schachter () passim.
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3 /2- (–). The presence of a female in second position does not correspond with either Proclus’ or Pausanias’ account of the ritual. Nevertheless, the emphasis on the carrying of laurel makes it overwhelmingly likely that the poem is describing the ritual of Daphnephoria (see further Lehnus (); also Brelich () –). Pindar also wrote a Daphnephorikon for his son Da¨ıphantus, of which only a line survives (fr. c S–M). As noted above, it was Boeckh who first connected Pythian Eleven with the Theban ritual. Mezger () says that it is possible that Thrasydaeus was a daphnephoros (cf. Burton () ), while the discussion following a paper by Vivante also suggested this link (ap. Vivante () , although no details are given). More recently the connexion has been supported and elaborated by Pavese (), Bernardini (), and Sevieri (). This is now the dominant view, and is accepted (without argument) by the most recent substantial monograph on Pindar (Currie () with nn. , ). Bernardini sets out the case most fully, as follows: (i) Thrasydaeus ‘potrebbe . . . essere identificato come il protagonista della seconda fase della cerimonia, cio`e il destinatario del dafneforico’ (her commentary, p. ). This ‘protagonista’ she defines as ‘un ragazzo di nobile famiglia, bello e forte (daphnephoros)’: that is, the priest from Pausanias’ account. At () – she identifies this daphnephoros with the *- "&)F- (a figure taken from Proclus), even though Proclus distinguishes the two (cf. Schachter () with n. ). Her account is thus a conflation of the two sources, although she does not point this out in so many words.
See further Schachter () –, Anastase () –. Grenfell and Hunt () , , suggested that fr. (Paean = D Rutherford) and fr. l (Paean = A– Rutherford) were written for the Daphnephoria, but there are no good grounds for this in either case (cf. Rutherford ( ) and –).
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(ii) The tripods in the treasury mentioned in lines – are taken to support her case: ‘si tratta della cella pi`u impenetrabile del tempio dove erano conservati i tripodi dedicati dai daphnephoroi’ (() ; cf. Pavese () ‘sono nominati i tripodi che i daphnephoroi dedicavano’, Sevieri () ). (iii) She identifies the Theban heroines with the chorus of the Daphnephoria: ‘le eroine non sono altro che la proiezione mitica di queste ragazze che intoneranno il loro canto in onore di Apollo, del daphnephoros e della sua famiglia’ (() ; cf. her commentary, p. , Pavese () , Sevieri () ). (iv) She acknowledges that there is no evidence for the time of day when the Theban Daphnephoria was performed, but argues on the basis of other, similar ceremonies that it took place at nightfall, which is the dramatic time of Pindar’s poem (() –). None of these arguments stands up to scrutiny. (i) Thrasydaeus has no connexion with the daphnephoros. Nothing in the poem associates him with logs or with laurel. We cannot even be sure whether or not he is a *- "&)F-, as we do not know if his mother was still alive: pace Bernardini () , the argumentum ex silentio tells us nothing on this point. Sevieri () with n. claims that during the performance of the poem Thrasydaeus would be about to dedicate to Apollo the crown of laurel which he won at Delphi; this crown was cut by a *- "&)F- in the valley of Tempe (cf. Hyp. P. c = ii. .– Drachmann). But there is no mention of laurel in the poem (despite the opportunity presented by –), nor of the manufacture of the Delphic crown. We cannot interpret the ode in terms of things to which it makes no reference. (ii) The reference to tripods is also unhelpful: daphnephoroi were not the only people who dedicated them (n.). Moreover, there is no reference to the dedication of tripods in Proclus’
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account: only in Pausanias and the Tabula Albani. Both mention a tripod dedicated by Amphitryon on the occasion of Heracles’ daphnephoria: it may be significant that when Herodotus tells of a tripod dedicated by the same man in the same shrine (.), he associates it not with the daphnephoria, but with spoils taken from the Teleboans. The version offered by Pausanias and the Tabula ‘might reflect a true tradition, or it might have resulted from an attempt to account for the presence of tripods in the sanctuary after the practice of dedicating them had died out’ (Schachter ( –) i. ; cf. () , where he is still more sceptical). (iii) The alleged connexion between the group of heroines of the early part of the ode and the daphnephoric chorus is arbitrary. They have nothing in common beyond the fact that both consist of a plurality of singing females: for example, nothing suggests that the heroines are to be imagined as carrying suppliant branches. (iv) It is not licit to argue from other, foreign, festivals as to the time of day at which the Theban Daphnephoria was performed. Bernardini assumes from the beginning that this poem must be set in a ritual context. This is not a compelling assumption. Pindar sometimes sets his epinicia at the performance of a festival (cf. Currie () – n. , () nn. , , Loscalzo () –). But there is no reason to suppose that he does so in every ode. The scholars who would connect this ode with the Theban Daphnephoria have failed to demonstrate that their hypothesis is worth taking seriously. The ode may well have been first performed in the Ismenium (cf. Currie () n. for Pindaric
Cf. her questions at () ‘quali le modalit`a della festa cui il poeta allude? . . . Quale, infine, il ruolo di Trasideo nel corso di questa cerimonia?’ Nothing so far in her article has shown that a festival or ceremony is at issue, and yet the reference is to ‘la festa’, ‘questa cerimonia’.
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odes set in a sanctuary); then again, it may not. Indeed, the very vividness of the description of the Ismenium at the opening may suggest that the ode was sung elsewhere. Guillon () n. points out how ‘dans . . . une s´erie de br`eves et saisissantes allusions concr`etes . . . Pindare e´ voque l`a . . . la splendeur et le caract`ere sacr´e de l’Hism´enion, l’autorit´e de son oracle et la richesse de ses tr´epieds’. But why would the poet need to evoke the place with such insistence if his audience could see it for themselves? ii Corinna’s Orestas The story of the house of Atreus is not an obviously suitable myth for a poem performed at Thebes for a Theban victor. But a papyrus discovered early in the twentieth century seemed to provide evidence for a connexion between myth and performance context. A fragment in the Boeotian dialect plausibly attributed to Corinna was published by Coppola ( ) – . After seven (incomplete) lines from the end of a poem, it contained the title 7 \ followed by five further lines of Greek. Given Corinna’s fondness for writing about myths with a Theban connexion, and given that (0- " < [ in the fifth line (fr. . PMG) suggests that the poem was written for a Theban chorus, scholars were quick to draw a connexion with Pythian Eleven. Moreover, both poems appeared to have been performed at the same time of day, at nightfall (cf. Bowra () ); and an Apolline association was asserted for the Corinna fragment which would provide yet another link with Pindar’s poem (ibid. –). These similarities of context and myth in two poems by Boeotians from the late archaic period made it
In PMG Page puts the fragment among the Boeotica incerti auctoris (fr. ), but West () – cogently claims this poem for Corinna (as well as the other fragments included in this section). His arguments are accepted by Campbell in his edition (p. ).
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tempting to conclude that Orestes had some kind of Theban resonance which is now lost. Unfortunately, many of these associations are not as strong as they first appeared. Most importantly, Corinna is no longer generally regarded as an archaic poet. Coppola and Bowra agreed with the ancient sources (none of them predating the first century ) in making her a contemporary of Pindar. But Lobel () showed how the language of the fragments suggests that she came from the third century . His arguments were supported and strengthened by West (). Davies’ attempt in to show that the case for a third-century date was unsafe was refuted by West two years later; Clayman () has also defended the later date. The shift in the general scholarly position is exemplified by Campbell, who supported the earlier date in (Greek Lyric Poetry, p. ), but had changed his mind by his edition of Corinna (pp. –). If Corinna was born more than two hundred years after Pindar, she can hardly be used as a source for Theban myth and ritual of the fifth century. According to Sevieri () n. , however, her date does not matter: whenever the fragment was written, it shows a lasting connexion between Thebes and Orestes (‘il frammento dell’7 \ di Corinna . . . conferma (al di l`a delle discussioni relative alla cronologia) che la storia di Oreste poteva rappresentare una scelta adeguata per una celebrazione tebana in onore di Apollo’). This is too sanguine. Corinna may well have taken the idea of telling the story of Orestes in a Theban context from Pythian Eleven, in which case her poem ‘confirms’ nothing. The onus is on those who would assert a lasting importance for Orestes at Thebes to prove their case. Some of the alleged connexions between Pindar and Corinna also turn out to be illusory. Pythian Eleven takes place at the end
Cf. Coppola ( ) ‘il confronto della pitica undecima col nostro frammento giova . . . ad assicurarci che il mito di Oreste interessava direttamente i Tebani’.
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of the evening, at nightfall (D! + < A!, n.); and Bowra () – argues that the Orestas began with the appearance of the moon. But the first editor of the Corinna fragment believed that it began with the light of the moon being dimmed by the advent of the dawn (Coppola ( ) –), a position also adopted in his supplements by West () and by Campbell in his edition. This would put the putative performance time of the poem in the morning, not the evening: and although West’s supplements are not certain, too much doubt now occludes the original interpretation for it to be used as a point of contact with Pindar’s ode. The supposed Apolline link is even more tenuous. He is not mentioned in Pindar’s account of the myth, while the only indication that he played a part in Corinna’s poem is the reference to the coming of the ]. These are indeed sometimes associated with Apollo (cf. Rutherford ( ) –), but do not necessitate a reference to him. In short, a fragment which initially appeared to shed light on this problematic ode turns out in the end to be a red herring. MYTH D @ 2- 0 #$ /M# 2 *- <5W- &>2 "%; /3 / (F ( a = ii. .– Drachmann).
i Structure The story of Agamemnon’s death and Orestes’ revenge would provide Aeschylus with material for three tragedies lasting almost
For the rising of the moon at the beginning of evening cf. Crinagoras A.P. .. = GP, where the moon is described as "A /- " A? . For other criticisms of mythological irrelevance in Pindar by the scholia see Lefkowitz () – = ( ) –, Instone () , Heath () –. On this particular criticism see further Most (b) .
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four thousand lines. Pindar compresses the same myth into little more than a hundred words. The very smallness of the account is itself a source of pleasure: if Aeschylus’ trilogy is a Colossus cut from a rock, Pindar’s myth is a finely carved head on a cherry-stone. So much is contained in so small a space. But it is not simply the scale of the work which should provoke our admiration. It is a carefully crafted piece whose organisation repays attentive analysis. Pindar mentions the following aspects of the legend (here listed according to the chronology of the myth, not of the poem): . . . . . . . . . .
Helen commits adultery Iphigenia is sacrificed Clytemnestra commits adultery Troy is sacked Agamemnon returns Agamemnon is killed Cassandra is killed The Nurse rescues Orestes Orestes arrives at Strophius in Phocis Orestes kills Clytemnestra and Aegisthus
Avoiding strict temporal sequence, Pindar’s account refers to these events in the following order: . . . .
Agamemnon is killed The Nurse rescues Orestes Cassandra is killed Iphigenia is sacrificed
Cf. Herington () ‘it would be hard to express more, or more vividly, in so few words’; Burton () ‘Pindar’s art is seen in this myth at its greatest: it is hard to find in Greek poetry a passage of comparable length which can match these lines for energy and pathos’; K¨ohnken ( ) ‘Pindars Darstellungen sind im allgemeinen sehr knapp; nur die ihm wesentlichen Handlungsmomente hebt er hervor, alle sonstigen Einzelheiten deutet er nur an’. For a simpler sequence see Bergmann () .
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. . . . . . . .
Clytemnestra commits adultery Agamemnon is killed Agamemnon returns Cassandra is killed Troy is sacked Helen commits adultery Orestes arrives at Strophius in Phocis Orestes kills Clytemnestra and Aegisthus
Pindar’s decision to plunge in medias res with the killings of Agamemnon and Cassandra and the rescue of Orestes gives a dramatic opening to the myth. But instead of narrating the consequences of these actions, that is, the return and revenge of Orestes, Pindar goes back in time, and directs our attention towards Clytemnestra’s possible motives: the sacrifice of Iphigenia, and her own adultery. After reflecting on the rumours provoked by her immorality, he returns to the killing of Agamemnon. This time the account is more elaborate. Previously his death was described with the bare statement &/ A >-; now he is the ^%- /Z2-, who has come at last (,% (>%;) to his homeland after sacking Troy. The fuller description adds to the pathos by accentuating Agamemnon’s stature. Moreover, the phrase . . . Q// > ascribes to Agamemnon a responsibility for Cassandra’s death which was only present implicitly, if at all, in the earlier account (n.). We are thus encouraged to see Agamemnon as both more glorious and more reprehensible. Far from merely repeating material by way of recapitulation, Pindar expands his earlier account to good effect: the breakneck speed of the first version gives way to the more expansive, thought-provoking nature of the second. It is only at the end of the myth that we see the consequences for the perpetrators of the killing. With masterly compression, the whole plan to overcome Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, so important in Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles, is summed up in
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the curt (%; + _/. Again, the description of Orestes’ escape has a different emphasis from the earlier account. There he was rescued by his Nurse: here she is not mentioned, while the verb 5/ (rather than e.g. A&)G) predicated of the child almost suggests that he takes the initiative himself. This leads more smoothly into the subsequent description of the revenge, in which he is the only participant: Pylades, despite being mentioned earlier in the transition to the myth (–), is given no place here. The construction of the story is thus highly involved. Beginning in the middle, it moves backwards in time before returning to the place where it started, only now to move forward to the conclusion of the tale. The deftness and swiftness of this movement, contrasting with the simpler, linear style of the rest of the ode, adds to the intensity. ii Function ‘The problem of unity, which dogs Pindaric criticism, resolves itself ultimately into the problem of the relationship between the myth and the rest of the ode.’ (Carey’s commentary, p. ) ‘Ma chi riuscir`a mai a scoprire un rapporto, nella Pitica undecima, tra le lodi dell’atleta tebano Trasideo e il mito d’Oreste?’ (Perrotta () )
What do the travails of the house of Atreus have to do with a victory in the boys’ stadion at the Pythian Games in ? Even Pindar appears to have no answer to this question, and rebukes himself as he completes the myth for straying from his proper subject. Some scholars have been content to take him
‘The myth is treated with the freedom and economy familiar from exempla in lyric poetry, all irrelevant details . . . being ignored’ (Carey on P. .– b). ‘Il racconto si snoda attraverso una serie continua di scarti cronologici e di mutamenti di scena, creando cos`ı un insieme vivace e movimentato’ (Sevieri () ).
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at his word. Such remarks, however, constitute a literary device rather than an admission of incompetence (cf. –n.), and we should at least begin from the assumption that the myth has a purpose. In his influential commentary of Boeckh suggested that the myth refers to a specific historical scenario, which ran as follows. A relative of Thrasydaeus was killed by another relative in political turbulence before the battle of Plataea. His was the life of J ( praised by Pindar in –. The dead man’s relative left Thebes, perhaps to go to Phocis. After the Greek victory at Plataea, the Spartan general Pausanias restored the family to their home and enabled them to gain vengeance on their enemies. As often in his interpretations of Pindar, Boeckh ‘[assumes] that the myth is an allegory of something in the victor’s life’ (D. C. Young () ≈ Calder and Stern () ). But as usual with such interpretations, the scenario which he imagines is far-fetched and unsupported by other evidence. Other explanations along these lines are possible. According to Hermann, ‘nihil, si quid ego video, aliud probabiliter sumi potest, quam aliquem ex gente victoris per insidias periisse propter suspicionem adulterii cum nobili muliere, affectataeque per eius consuetudinis opportunitatem dominationis’ (() = () ); while for Donaldson (his edition, p. ; cited by Most (b) ), ‘the only conclusion that can be drawn, with any degree of safety, is that some one of the victor’s friends or relatives had been accused by calumnious citizens of adultery with some lady of rank (v. and following), and that this had probably been made an excuse for putting him to death by the then tyrants of Thebes; but that his death had been avenged by the family of Thrasydaeus after the restoration of freedom’. Mommsen () – claimed that the myth was an allegory for the Third Messenian War, that is, the rebellion of the Helots
For the problems of Boeckh’s historical allegories see D. C. Young () – = Calder and Stern () –, Heath () –, –.
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against their Spartan masters in the s. In his scheme, Orestes represents the Spartans, Pylades their Dorian allies, Aegisthus the Helots, and Clytemnestra the Perioeci: he confesses (p. ) that he cannot discern functions for Cassandra and Arsinoe. Watkiss Lloyd () – saw the career of Agamemnon in the myth as an allegory for the rise and fall of the Spartan general Pausanias. But according to Mezger () –, it is Clytemnestra who is equivalent to Pausanias, while Agamemnon corresponds to Mardonius, Aegisthus to Athens, and Iphigenia to Leonidas. The biographical approach lives on, at least in Urbino. Arguing that lines – are no mere ‘insignificante luogo comune’ (() ), Gentili () ≈ () – claims that ‘extratextual considerations . . . offer the only possible explanation for the rapid allusions to hatred of tyranny and the condition of the just mean’ (my italics). He believes that Pindar is distancing himself from the tyranny which ruled Thebes before the Persian Wars. Once we decide that the ode is to be interpreted in terms of a historical background to which it does not refer and for which we have no other evidence, the number of possible scenarios is theoretically infinite. Dissen in his commentary is sceptical of the idea that the myth portrays recent historical events. He rather believes that
Many of the above interpretations assume that such a tyranny existed, an assumption based solely on Thuc. ... Yet the context of that remark (a speech given by Thebans attempting to deflect Plataean charges of Medism) means that it can hardly be taken at face value (pace Gentili’s confident ‘sappiamo’ at () ). As Hornblower () (= his commentary on Thucydides, ii. ) points out, ‘the respectful treatment given in modern textbooks about Theban history to this forensic claim is surprising . . . I wonder if it is not a fiction, conditioned by the rhetorical need of the Theban speaker to say “non sum qualis eram”’. See further his n. ad loc., where he points to Hdt. .. and says that ‘[its] implication . . . is that the city’s medism was not the work of a few men’ (his italics). Hence these interpretations are doubtful even as history, let alone as interpretations of Pindar. Cf. (in another context) Griffin (b) n. ‘One is repeatedly struck by the arbitrariness of these political interpretations: how – on what principle – are we to choose between such contradictory assertions?’
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Pindar’s odes can be summed up in a general idea, summa sententia, or Grundgedanke (p. xii), which thereby provides its unity. For Pythian Eleven this Grundgedanke consists of the praise of the virtue and athletic success of the victor’s house, and the discouragement of attempts at establishing a tyranny. Such a reductive approach to Pindar, or ancient literature in general, rightly meets with no favour today (cf. D. C. Young () – = Calder and Stern () –). But for our purposes, the second part of the Grundgedanke needs more comment. Dissen believed that the purpose of the myth was ‘ut dissuadeatur superbia et tyrannis’ (vol. ii. p. ): after the recent travails of the city (Dissen dates the ode to ), the poet describes the wretched lot of tyrants, with a view to discouraging either his fellow citizens or (especially) the family of Thrasydaeus from attempting to become one. In this aspect of his interpretation Dissen is nearer to Boeckh, who saw a close connexion between the reference to tyranny in – and the presentation of the house of Atreus. Pindar’s criticism of tyranny, Boeckh believed, was designed to warn both sides in the warring family of Thrasydaeus that excessive
‘quodsi Pindaricorum carminum analogiam sequimur ducem, simplicissima carminis explicatio fuerit haec: Laudatur virtus et gloria gymnica domus victricis, dissuadetur affectatio tyrannidis’ (vol. ii. pp. –). ‘poeta feliciter restituto aequo iure civitatis, prima oblata occasione utitur, credo, de tyrannidis infausta ratione dicendi, idque facit optime, ut mihi videtur, ostendens per caedes Cassandrae, Agamemnonis, Clytaemnestrae, Aegisthi, et adulteria ante commissa minime optabilem esse potentium sortem, scelera ex sceleribus oriri in domibus dominatricibus, extra vero invidia et maledicentia gravari civium calumniantium. Etsi vero etiam ceteris civibus haec scripta est, si qui tyrannidem ament, primum tamen ad victricem domum verba pertinent et ad puerum victorem, natum ex opulenta et nobili familia, quam probabile est paucorum dominationi magis quam aequo iuri favisse’ (vol. ii. p. ). Boeckh’s commentary, vol. ii. p. : ‘quod sortem tyrannidis Pindarus improbat, id infelicibus Atridarum casibus, sive Agamemnonis, sive Clytaemnestrae et Aegisthi, manifeste aptatum est’.
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power was undesirable. The idea that the myth has an admonitory function has retained some support down to the present day. There is no external evidence for such a view. But the case is weak enough on a priori grounds. If Pindar had felt the need to give the young Thrasydaeus moral guidance, were there not easier ways of doing so than encoding it in an epinician poem? If his family (or any other) had been plotting a coup, did he think he could change their minds through the power of poetry? The na¨ıvet´e of such an approach is extraordinary. More recent scholarship has generally preferred to see a subtler, less didactic connexion between the myth and the criticism of tyranny. According to this view, the myth is employed not to discourage Thrasydaeus’ family from attempting to set up a tyranny, but to juxtapose the unhappy state of the tyrant and the fortunate condition of the victor. The ode is thus not a political pamphlet, but (in best Bundyan style) a poem aimed at glorifying the laudandus, and the myth contributes to this purpose by means of contrast. It presents the evil effects of tyranny in the house of Atreus, whereas the rest of the poem, through its praise for the middle estate and condemnation of tyranny (–), clearly but unobtrusively suggests the way of life preferred by Thrasydaeus and his family.
ibid. vol. ii. p. : ‘tyrannidis autem reprehensio eo commodissime referetur, ut poeta nimiam potentiam, quae utrique parti perniciosa fuerit, non appetendam esse doceat, et sibi aequum ius, quod post Thebarum deditionem abolita paucorum dominatione institutum est, maxime probari declaret’. Cf. Heimsoeth () –; F. S. Newman () ‘As might be expected in an ode addressed to a fellow-Theban at a time of political unrest, Pindar is deeply concerned that no misleading solution to his city’s problems should be sought in the time-honored escapism of tyranny’; Erbse () = () ‘Hier soll der Mythos, die Erz¨ahlung von den grauenvollen Vorg¨angen im Atridenhaus, abschrecken und folgerichtig das Bekenntnis zu maßvoller Lebensf¨uhrung erm¨oglichen’; Bernardini () ‘Pindaro . . . [ha] voluto impartire un insegnamento al giovane Trasideo’: that is, to tell him through the myth that success carried with it risks of envy and ‘maldicenza’.
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This is probably the dominant modern interpretation. So for A. M. Miller () , the myth ‘sets forth the dangers of the S 2% as a negative counterpart to the moderation of condition and temper that characterizes the laudandus and his family’; while for Hubbard () , line constitutes ‘a reflection upon the modest prosperity of Thrasydaeus and his family . . . , and an attempt to contrast it with the foil of greed and corruption . . . embodied in the myth of the Pelopidae’. Bergmann () goes further, drawing a specific contrast between the successful Thrasydaeus and the cursed Orestes: ‘w¨ahrend Thrasydaios mit Gl¨uck gesegnet ist, war Orest mit Fluch beladen’. All these scholars are united in seeing the myth as a negative exemplum, something which highlights by contrast the distinctive characteristics of the victor and his family. We find this function of myth in several other odes (cf. D. C. Young ( ) –). In Pythian Two the description of the Locrian maiden’s gratitude to Hieron is followed by the myth of Ixion, the mythological character who perhaps most obviously abuses the generosity of others. Hieron protected the Locrian maiden from rape; Ixion attempts to rape Hera. Hieron can cope with his prosperity; Ixion’s prosperity leads to arrogance and disaster. At the end the poet declares that God humbles the proud and
Cf. Rauchenstein () ; van Groningen () ‘si le mythe nous a montr´e a` l’exemple le plus fameux de la tradition nationale les mis`eres qui menacent les princes, la confession personnelle du po`ete nous d´ecrit ici le bonheur constant d’un sort plus modeste’; Neschke () –; Most (b) –; and (for a bibliography of such approaches) Sevieri () n. . Cf. Steiner () ‘the actual significance of the tale lies in the contrast it promotes between the troubled life of Orestes, and his conflict with his family, and the life of the athlete, marked by civic devotion and loyalty to family and friends’. Cf. Most (b) ‘die Atreiden sind ein typisch pindarisches Gegenbeispiel, d. h., sie versuchen ihr Leben im Gegensatz zu g¨ultigen Moralprinzipien zu ordnen und beweisen durch ihr kl¨agliches Scheitern gerade deren B¨undigkeit’.
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exalts ‘others’ (–): by this stage we do not need to ask who the ‘others’ could be. So too in the myths of Typhos in Pythian One or Asclepius in Pythian Three (both described by Race (b) as negative exempla) the central character is punished by Zeus for his crimes. In each case there is a contrast with the honorand. There are problems in applying this model to Pythian Eleven. Despite many opportunities to do so, at no point in the myth does Pindar describe any of the Atreids as a tyrant. In contrast to the handling of the myth in, say, Aeschylus and Sophocles, there is no interest in the wider political or constitutional ramifications of the killings. The nearest we get to tyranny is a reference to Q3- and its potential to create &)>- in –. But while Q3- is indeed a characteristic of tyrants, tyranny is not necessarily a consequence of Q3-. A simple reference to Q3- is not in itself enough to bring out a putative theme of tyranny. Indeed, an audience would not even have been predisposed to see the myth in such terms. The part of the ode which precedes the myth does not mention tyranny, for which we must wait until near the end of the poem. Moreover, we do Pindar a disservice by lumping together everything in his myth as ‘the sins of the Pelopids’. The killing of Agamemnon is painted in grim colours (–n.), while the discussion of Clytemnestra’s likely motive emphasises the second, more disreputable reason: her adultery with Aegisthus (– n.). But Orestes’ subsequent vengeance has no such negative tones. Emphasis falls not on the moral complications of matri
See further Carey’s commentary, pp. –. For this topic in tragedy see Finglass (b). All that we are told about the * in Pindar is that they are >#, which hardly counts as an interest in political consequences. Cf. Heath’s caution against simplistic attempts to link up the different parts of a poem: ‘some of [Pindar’s] victory odes present no problem, even prima facie, to thematically integrated interpretation, while others are recalcitrant; we should not feel obliged, or indeed licensed, to force the latter into the same mould as the former’ (() n. ).
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cide (n.), but on the merited response to a terrible crime. The ode depicts ‘non l’ossessivo ricorrere di delitti fra consanguinei, che costituisce uno dei punti focali della trilogia eschilea, ma la giusta vendetta di un figlio coraggioso’ (Sevieri () ); and its hero is ‘non Oreste il matricida, ma Oreste il restauratore della casa paterna’ (ibid. p. ). We must therefore be more precise in our references to the myth as a ‘negative exemplum’. Orestes does not correspond to the Ixion, Typhos, or Asclepius of the odes mentioned above, but rather to the Zeus who punishes them. Just as Zeus’ punishment is righteous, so too Orestes’ vengeance on the killers of his father is richly deserved. It is Clytemnestra, not her son, who stands in parallel to the offenders. Seen in this light, Orestes
Pindar chooses which aspects of the myth he wishes to bring to our attention, and we must respect that choice. So pace Bergmann () (cited above), there is no reference to a curse on Orestes. Gildersleeve on O. notes (p. ) that Pindar ‘drops [the myth] just as Bellerophon is dismissed (O. ) when his further fortunes would be ominous’. But in that poem Pindar alludes to Bellerophon’s fate by commenting (line ) 2% ? E > #$. There is nothing comparable in Pythian Eleven. Cf. O. .–, where in a mythological catalogue in praise of Corinth Sisyphus is > - V- )/>, while Medea is the ` $ / #* 1 >-. Both these figures have some considerably less salubrious accomplishments in their mythological CVs: but Pindar does not expect his audience to fill in details to which he does not allude and which would frustrate his efforts to praise the victor. Cf. also Burnett () – on the myth in another ode: ‘those who write about Nemean report, almost to a man, that in the Phokos passage Pindar . . . treats a supremely reprehensible crime which must elicit horror and moral indignation from any listener. Yet . . . the sung words contain no syllable that condemns Peleus or Telamon, nor any that supplies Phokos with a positive aspect’. For the malleability of myth in Pindar see further Huxley () –, K¨ohnken ( ) . Cf. Crotty () , for whom Orestes in P. and Perseus in P. both figure as ‘a savior, the one who restores society; the violence is used for “just” purposes’. But he later declares (p. ) that ‘Orestes returns home to murder his mother Clytaemnestra’, in contrast to the noble actions of Perseus. But if it is murder, it is not just (nor even ‘just’). Hubbard () makes a similar connexion when he states that ‘Coronis’ desire, like that of Ixion in P. or Clytemnestra in P. , is an overreaching lust which sunders the bonds of marriage’.
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is no negative exemplum for Thrasydaeus, but a remarkably effective mythological parallel for him. Almost the only thing which we are told about the victor before the myth is that he has caused his paternal (or ancestral) hearth to be remembered. This image leads fittingly into a myth closely concerned with the relationship of a father and son. At its beginning the young Orestes is almost destroyed alongside his father; at its end the mature Orestes achieves just vengeance on the killers of his father. Some scholars have looked for further parallels between Thrasydaeus and Orestes. Both, they claim, have a significant > - which is connected with their greatest deed: Thrasydaeus returns home in triumph from his victory at the Games, while Orestes returns home to exact vengeance for his father’s murder. Thrasydaeus, it is argued, enjoys the hospitality of the Delphians just as Orestes does that of Strophius in Phocis. The same god, Apollo, who leads the celebration of Thrasydaeus’ victory is traditionally instrumental in guiding Orestes’ mission to a successful end. And Thrasydaeus’ athletic success may be paralleled by similar triumphs by Orestes in other versions of the myth. Unfortunately, these are all topics which the poem resolutely refuses to mention. There is no stress on Orestes’ >
Cf. Sevieri () –; Robbins () ; Instone () ‘Orestes, by killing Aigisthos and Clytemnestra, his father’s murderers, renewed the honour of his father and his father’s < ’. Contrast D. C. Young’s view that ‘the only common ground of Orestes and Thrasydaios . . . is literal and geographic’ (() ). Cf. Pavese () –, Most (b) –. For the importance of the > - in Pindar see Crotty () –. Cf. Slater () . Cf. Wilamowitz () , Pavese () –, Egan () , Robbins () , Steiner () , Bernardini () n. . Cf. Egan (); also Kayser () ‘domum suam victoriarum admonuit, quae olim matricida Orestes in campis Pyladae reportavit amici’. Cf. Slater () ‘we must beware in considering myth of finding relevance beyond the true account, in order to integrate the myth into the ode in a way satisfying to modern critical tastes’.
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as such, which is implied rather than narrated: we may contrast the emphasis on Agamemnon’s return in – and –. Nor is there a reference to hospitality shown to Thrasydaeus at Delphi. Apollo is altogether absent from the myth: at the crucial moment the hero receives help not from him, but from Ares. Lastly, Orestes’ supposed association with athletics is at best tenuous, and in any case there is no reference to such a link here. Pindar could easily have exploited any of these potential connexions had he wished to do so. By stressing Orestes’ return home, the rˆole of Apollo, or his athletic prowess he could have provided us with a myth tightly integrated with the rest of the ode. But he did not do this. Rather than seek a one-to-one correspondence, Pindar instead points to a likeness between the two which does not depend on similarity in every detail. Indeed, too many correspondences would only cause Pindar problems. What analogues could be found for Cassandra, for Iphigenia – not to mention Clytemnestra? Pindar’s use of myth elsewhere suggests that his audiences were not expecting such exactness. For example, there are obvious parallels between Hieron and Pelops in Olympian One: but Pindar does not attempt to make
Slater () cites P. . T2 Y - 5/%)/- for hospitality shown to the victor (or in this case, his charioteer). But if the theme was so important, why did Pindar fail to use a similar phrase of Thrasydaeus in this ode? So correctly Farnell ii. , Burton () , Neschke () . For the absence of Apolline oracles contrast the prominence of prophecy in O. (Polyidus to Bellerophon) and P. (Chiron to Apollo). Wilamowitz’s claim (in his edition of Choephori, p. ) that ‘des gottes gebot folgert man von selbst’ is too sanguine. Cf. Most (b) (after noting similarities between Orestes and Thrasydaeus): ‘Aber w¨are nicht eine solche Gleichsetzung skandal¨os? Was h¨atte Thrasydaios’ Mutter dazu gesagt?’ He concludes (pp. –) that ‘Orest spielt in diesem Gedicht zwei verschiedene Rollen. Bei seiner Reise, beim delphischen Empfang und bei der R¨uckkehr gleicht er Thrasydaios und ist ein positives Beispiel; aber in seiner Verstrickung ins Unheil seiner Familie, in seinem Muttermord, geh¨ort er durchaus zu den u¨ brigen Atreiden und funktioniert zusammen mit ihnen als ein negatives Gegenbeispiel.’ His solution to the problem is over-subtle, but at least his general approach is along the right lines.
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every detail of the account of Pelops in the myth correspond to Hieron’s life. Details, such as Poseidon’s love for the young Pelops, may glorify the mythological character who corresponds to the victor, even though they do not themselves map onto the victor’s experiences. So in Pythian Eleven, Pindar uses elements of the myth in order to magnify Orestes’ achievement. His enemy is the formidable Clytemnestra, who strikes down Agamemnon at the moment of what seems his greatest triumph. The description of her act and the narrator’s desperate attempt to account for it emphasise the blackness of her crime. Orestes himself is a mere boy, with only a nurse (Arsinoa) and an old man (Strophius) to help him. Yet despite all this he overcomes his difficulties and avenges his father. This is not only a gripping narrative: it powerfully conveys the greatness of Orestes and the scope of his achievement, and in so doing lends a reflected glory to Thrasydaeus. METRICAL ANALYSIS The practice of dividing up a written poetic text into its constituent metrical units was unknown in Pindar’s day. The first attempts to introduce line-division (or colometry) did not occur until the Hellenistic period, more than two hundred years after the poet’s death. The scholars responsible for the edition of Pindar drawn up then are most unlikely to have possessed information going back to Pindar’s time which could help them identify where the metrical pauses fell. As a result, the ancient colometry preserved in our mediaeval manuscripts does not provide authoritative information for the metrical division known and appreciated by Pindar’s audiences. Since nothing in it goes back to Pindar, we cannot use it as evidence for his colometry. Consequently, as we attempt to describe the metrical shape of Pythian Eleven, we must be guided not by ancient scholarship, but by the contents and shaping of the ode itself.
See further Parker ( ).
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The key advance in our understanding of Pindar’s colometry took place with Boeckh’s edition. Boeckh identified the period (or verse), ‘the fundamental self-contained unit in metrical composition’ (West () ). Its basic characteristics, set out by West () –, are as follows. (i) It begins and ends with the boundary of a word, and often with a syntactic break. (ii) Its contents are all in synapheia: that is, they make up a single unit when determining prosody, without regard for word breaks. (iii) There is no synapheia between periods. As a result, the juncture between two periods may involve hiatus, brevis in longo or anceps iuxta anceps, none of which is normally acceptable within periods. The periods of Pythian Eleven are arranged in two repeated metrical patterns: one in the strophe and antistrophe, occurring eight times in all, and the other in the epode, which we encounter four times. Below I print my preferred colometry, and in what follows attempt to justify it. Strophic pair H S –– – – ˘ ˘˘ ˘˘–˘˘–˘– ––|| H S –– – – | – – – – –|| ˘– ˘˘ ˘– ˘˘˘˘˘ ˘ S –|| ˘˘˘ ˘˘˘˘ ˘˘ H S – ˘˘˘˘˘–– –˘˘˘–˘˘–|| H S –– – – –– – –|||
˘ ˘˘
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tel.. tel ∧ ia∧ tel.. glyc ∧ ia .. ∧ ia tel pher tel.. tel.. ia∧ ia
˘˘
Epode E – – –– | – ––||H ˘˘ ˘ ˘˘˘ –˘˘–|| E –– – |–– ˘˘ ˘ ˘˘ E – – – – –||H ˘ ˘˘ ˘˘ ˘ ˘ E – – ˘ ˘ ˘–– ˘˘˘–|| – ––||| E ˘– –
˘
ar pher hag ia glyc ∧ ia ia ia∧ ∧ ia ia reiz
˘ ˘˘
The surest guide in our case to the placing of period boundaries is the presence of hiatus at a given point in one or more of the stanzas. We find hiatus at the end of lines , , , , and , which gives us period end at the end of S, E, S,
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E, and S. In addition, the text which I adopt gives hiatus at the end of (S), although this is the result of a supplement which itself is not certain. The transmitted text also gives hiatus at the end of (S), but the conjecture which I adopt does not. The hiatus has no bearing on the textual question; nor does the textual question affect the colometry, since as we have seen S contains hiatus in line . The evidence of synapheia is less certain. At first sight we need a metrical pause at the end of line (S), so that the final syllable of "# P - can be long as required by the metre. But final sigma sometimes possesses the same lengthening power as a double consonant. Twice elsewhere in Pindar (O. ., P. .) a short-vowel final-word syllable, ending in sigma and followed by a word beginning in a vowel, is scanned long within a period. In each instance the following word is a proper name, as it is in our case ( $). The same may hold for 2 /)A- at the end of line (S), although there the vowel-initial word which follows is not a proper name. Word-final nu can display the same lengthening properties (n.). Hence we do not need to posit period end at the end of line (E) to account for the fact that the second syllable of &)> is long. The same applies at the end of lines , , , , , , , and (S, S, S, S, S, S, S, E). Fortunately, there are enough instances of hiatus to give a secure framework for the colometry even without the evidence of synapheia. This still leaves us with three posited period ends which are not shown up by hiatus (excluding the end of E, which must mark period end as it concludes the epode and, at , the poem). Snell does not accept period end between S and S, which he regards instead as a single long period of up to syllables. Barrett (b) n. cites parallels for periods of this length: but neither he nor West () – accepts such a long period here. I have printed two periods because of the strong syntactic
Snell’s metrical scheme is taken over unchanged by Maehler in his revisions of Snell. I thus refer to it under Snell’s name alone.
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break in and (cf. also the weaker breaks at and ), coupled with the relative rarity of such long periods in Pindar. But the evidence does not allow a definite conclusion. The other two posited periods ends, E and E, coincide with only one syntactic break between them (at line , for E). We can thus be even less certain that metrical pauses occurred here. But a break at the end of E means that the opening three periods of the epode all begin with an aeolo-choriambic colon. In E the dodrans (– – –) is extended by one long syllable; in E we ˘˘ ˘ find the same extended dodrans, this time with an aeolic base of one long syllable on the front. Then in E the dodrans loses its extension, but its base grows from one long to three shorts. We can thus identify a patterned progression which suggests that period end did indeed occur between E and E. The posited pause between E and E gives a less immediately apparent pattern. It leaves us with two successive periods beginning with a full iambic metron (E–) and ending with a syncopated one (E–). It also means that the length of the periods in the epode stays within certain limits (– syllables), rather than creating a monster of or syllables. The metrical patterning of the resulting colometry is eloquently analysed by West () , who sees the ode as ‘a kind of meditation on the phrase tel.. ’. Each of the five periods in the strophe contain this phrase: S, , and at the beginning, S and at the end. S and follow their tel.. with another aeolo-choriambic colon, and then a syncopated iambic metron. Syncopated iambics are also found in S and , before an unsyncopated metron marks the conclusion of the strophe. The opening colon of the epode, ar, is a tel.. in reverse. This is then followed by the patterning which we identified earlier, when considering what colometry to adopt. The organisation of the strophe, where each colon is carefully chosen and positioned, may support our previous decision to use structural criteria in deciding on the likely period breaks in the epode.
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Inthis ode strictness of patterning is accompanied by strictness of responsion, as is normally the case in Pindar (cf. West () –). We find resolution in the same nine places throughout, with a single exception. This is the pherecratean which opens S, whose third element is resolved four times and unresolved four times (, , , ). Two of the unresolved instances involve proper names, however ( Y 2, ? H), which frequently cause metrical rules to be bent so that they can be accommodated (cf. West () –). Having allowed himself this licence, Pindar must have decided that he could afford it at least once more in the same position (reading in place of at would regularise that period, but there is no easy emendation at ). A further possible irregularity in S (line ) is removed by a small emendation which also significantly improves the sense: see below, in my discussion of s of Gentili’s analysis. Corresponding anceps syllables are all either long or short throughout, with two exceptions: in E, we find a short syllable in place of a long in first position in line , and a long in place of a short in fifth position in line . In both cases the text is certain. There is a further possible exception in S, where at line transmitted ' /&/ gives an initial short in place of a long. In common with most editors, I accept Moschopulus’ emendation A&/ / (V’s ' /&A / may have preserved a trace of this): for a Pindaric parallel for the corruption see ad loc. Given that there are two certain exceptions to the metrical rule we cannot be sure that this was not an exception too. But the emendation is so small that the balance of probabilities suggests that it is right. The names given to the individual cola in my scheme are the same as those found in West () –, with one exception. West refers to the first colon of the epode as .. pher: but while it is aeolo-choriambic, it has no especial affinity to the pherecratean, and indeed it contains the phrase – – –, which is never found ˘˘ ˘ in that colon. Snell’s description of the cola is more at variance with mine, but some differences are only superficial. Throughout
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he prefers ∧ cho dim rather than tel.. , but this is largely a matter of preference. My choice is influenced by the desire to indicate that this colon is related to the other aeolo-choriambic metra of which the ode is made up. I have preferred ∧ ia∧ , ∧ ia and ia∧ to Snell’s sp, cr and ba (spondee, cretic, and bacchiac) for the same reason: to make it visually apparent that these metra are forms of ia. Snell interprets E as cho ba pher: I prefer ar pher, as we also find an aeolo-choriambic metron extended by a long syllable in the following line (hag). This next period (E) is taken by Snell as ∧ gl (pher): his ∧ gl is simply another way of writing tel, while (pher) means a colon related to a pherecratean, in this case – – –. But ˘˘ it is hard to see why – – – should be taken as an independent ˘˘ colon when an alternative division is available; and harder still to see what such a shape has to do with a pherecratean. For E Snell offers the interpretation (∧ gl) ia, but again – – – does not ˘˘˘ appear particularly close to a telesillean, or indeed particularly attractive as an independent colon. Gentili’s edition (p. ) prefers a quite different metrical scheme. Rather than refer to it piecemeal, I reproduce it in full below. In the discussion which follows, s and e (etc.) refer to Gentili’s colometry, S and E (etc.) to mine. Strophic pair s –– – – – – – –˘||H ˘ ˘˘ ˘˘ ˘˘ ˘ s ˘– – –| ˘ ˘˘ s – – – – ˘||H ˘ ˘ ˘˘˘˘ ˘ s ˘˘˘– ˘˘˘˘–˘˘˘|| H s – ˘˘˘˘˘– –– ˘˘˘–˘˘–|| s ˘– – – –– – ˘|||
˘ ˘˘
˘
˘˘
pros (∧ dimp ) glyc sp pros (∧ dimp ) tr cho cr cr ∧ cho hemiascl dimp pros (∧ dimp ) ba ia
Epode e – – ––| ˘˘ ˘ H e – –˘||
˘˘˘ ˘˘
ar (dimp ∧ ) pher
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e –– – |– – – ˘|| ˘˘ ˘ ˘˘ e – – – – –||H ˘˘˘ ˘˘ ˘ ˘–| e – – –– ˘ ˘ ˘ ˘˘˘ e ˘– – – ––||
˘
˘ ˘˘
tel h2 (or reiz prosdo ) glyc cr ia ia∧ cr ia reiz
Gentili’s ∧ dimp (‘dimeter polyschematistos’: see p. of his edition) is another way of representing the colon –– – – or tel.. . ˘ ˘˘ After such a colon in s, Gentili identifies the following colon – – – as a glyconic. This is a simple mistake. In Sappho and ˘˘ ˘˘ ˘ Alcaeus Aeolic base may consist of two shorts (though rarely: cf. Itsumi () n. ). In Pindar and the tragedians, however, this is not possible (cf. West () , Itsumi () ). If it were, we would expect to find in a base corresponding with ˘˘ ˘–, –˘, or ––. Since we do not, it is better to take ˘˘–˘˘–˘– as a telesillean with resolved base (cf. L. P. E. Parker () –). At e Gentili’s scheme incorrectly states that the final syllable is ˘. In fact, it is long each time in this position ("# P -, )=, Y F -, 7C %;, %)A - (or –% in his text), 2 )G, 4/#5, "9 ). Perhaps Gentili believes that syllables made up of a short syllable followed by a consonant should be regarded as short even when not immediately followed by a syllable beginning with a vowel. They should in fact be classed as long: as West () points out, ‘such syllables are admitted in certain places where short open syllables are avoided’ (with a cross-reference to p. , which deals with Pindaric examples). See further n. In s Gentili retains the manuscript reading (/= in line and so believes that the first syllable of this colon is short in this one place. Most editors print Schmid’s (/=, which gives the expected long syllable. Pindar would have written a7 for both forms, and hence neither has greater ancient authority than the other. Everywhere else in the ode the first syllable of this period is long, and so (/= is preferable. As we have a free choice, it would be senseless to adopt the alternative which gives even a slight metrical irregularity without any compensating
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gain. Cf. D. C. C. Young () = Calder and Stern () : ‘it is of little interest to detail such variants as those at P. . A%, /*, /%, representing different attempts to interpret Pindar’s original Y7
’; Christ () p. vi: ‘his . . . in rebus qui ullam codicibus auctoritatem tribuit, is fortunae temeritati scribarumque inscitiae plus quam rationis lumini se confidere fatetur’ (see further his article, especially pp. –, ). Gentili makes a similar error in his analysis at the end of s, s, s, and e. Gentili prints a colon break between s and s, and between e and e. I do not understand his reasons. In the latter case (but not the former) there is a line break at that point in the manuscripts. If that is Gentili’s reason for his colometry, it cannot hold, since, as noted above, the manuscripts have no authority on such questions. The colon breaks posited by Gentili wreck the careful balance which we observed above in the cola S – and E –, without any compensating benefit. We should therefore reject them. In s Gentili is determined to retain the H of the manuscripts in line rather than print , apparently unaware that accentuation in Pindaric manuscripts has no authority and is not part of the paradosis. He is thus forced to abandon the ∧ ia tel.. analysis which accords so well with the surrounding cola, and introduces instead a lonely trochaic metron with no fellows to support it. See further my n. ad loc. In s, at line , Gentili prints A- 2 ( where most editors print A- b ( . This gives us the metrical shape –– –, whereas everywhere else we find – – in ˘˘ ˘˘ ˘˘˘˘ ˘˘ this position. Gentili interprets the metre as two choriambs, with the first ( ˘˘˘˘) as a choriamb with its first longum missing and its second resolved. But as Parker () points out, ‘resolution in a choriamb is a rarity anywhere’. Gentili (p. ) compares the resolved choriamb in s, but even if we accepted his analysis in that place (and there is no good reason to do so), that still does not account for the missing initial longum in this instance. Moreover, his decision renders the meaning of the sentence more difficult.
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Instead of A- . . . $ making up the apodosis to the protasis <" > /c - . . . " A& #/ (a structure common in Pindar in this context: see –n.), Gentili takes everything from /c - to $ as a massive protasis preceded by the apodosis &)/1 2 "9 | D !. This is extremely clumsy; in addition, the reference to the &)/ properly belongs with what precedes, not with what follows. Omitting 2 (an easy change: cf. n.) restores sense and metre; omitting D (which is present in almost all manuscripts) forces Gentili into an artificial and unpersuasive interpretation. Gentili interprets s as a ‘hemiasclepiad’ followed by a ‘dimeter polyschematistos’. His hemiasclepiad is a fiction: cola cannot be randomly chopped into bits at the whim of a metrician. His dimeter (–– – –, a wilamowitzianus or anaclastic glyconic), ˘˘˘ ˘˘ while inoffensive in itself, is vitiated by two problematic textual decisions. In line Gentili prints 2F as transmitted by the manuscripts, where most editors print 2A. Together with Ascanned as a single syllable (for the synizesis see n.), this gives a colon of the form –– –– –, which is not an acceptable variant on ˘ ˘˘ the wilamowitzianus: long and short syllables cannot randomly swap places like this. Yet 2A, as preferred by most editors, gives the expected metrical shape. Since Pindar would have written 7 to represent 2A and 2F, both forms enjoy equal authority: 2A is not an emendation, but a reinterpretation of the paradosis. Given a free choice, our only choice is 2A. At Gentili prints (>%; with most manuscripts rather than Triclinius’ emendation (%;. Together with the prosody " (| >%;, this gives the metrical form ––– – –. Although this is a wilamowitzianus, ˘ ˘˘ all the other instances show a resolved pair of short syllables in the third element, so we would prefer to have the same in this line too. Moreover, the phrase (%; + _/ (‘with Ares’ eventual help’) gives more powerful sense than the lame (>%; + _/ (‘after a time, with Ares’ help’). Such a slight emendation, which gives better sense and better metre, should not be resisted even against a unanimous manuscript tradition. It is neverthe
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less pleasing that (% (with raised omega) is found in G (not B, as some editors report). At s Gentili keeps ' /&/ in , while most editors accept Moschopulus’ emendation A&/ /. As I have already acknowledged (above), he may be right about this, but the balance of probabilities suggests that he is not. In his analysis of e Gentili has recourse to the hypodochmiac (which is also countenanced by West () ). This colon is found in Pindar (cf. West () ), though normally in association with iambic metra. It is odd to include an isolated colon such as this here, surrounded by aeolo-choriambic metra, when the block of iambics does not begin until the following period, and when there are no other dochmiacs to go with it. His alternative analysis involves what he calls a prosdo and what I would call a dochmius kaibelianus (i.e. ×– – –). This is problematic for the same ˘˘ reason: it introduces an unnecessary and isolated dochmiac. As we have seen, Gentili is hostile to conjectures aimed at eliminating metrical irregularities, and he says as much in the preface to his edition (pp. xciii–xciv). Unfortunately, he is often unaware what constitutes a conjecture as opposed to a reinterpretation of the paradosis. It is senseless to prefer metrically problematic forms when other, unproblematic forms enjoy exactly the same authority. But it is only slightly less senseless to prefer grossly problematic forms when a small, simple emendation will remove them, especially when that emendation can be supported on other grounds. Gentili’s approach involves him in ever more complicated and undignified metrical contortions, as he desperately attempts to come up with something, anything, which will account for accents, vowel combinations, and line breaks which Pindar never wrote. TEXT The manuscripts reported are listed in the Index Siglorum. Reports of B, D, E, F, H, Q , T, and Laurentianus conv. sopp.
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are taken from autopsy. Reports of G were kindly conveyed to me by Miss Almut Fries, who inspected microfilms of the manuscript in August . Other reports are taken from previous editors, especially Snell and Mommsen; readings of I. are taken from Gentili. Turyn () (supported by Irigoin () –) argues that D is a twin of G in the Pythians, and my collation was consistent with this. I have thus cited it only when it differs from G (at line ). Brillante () – doubts Gentili’s decision (pp. lxxxvi– lxxxvii of his edition) to cite F consistently as well as E. But although these manuscripts are related, they differ enough for Gentili’s policy to make sense. I do not normally specify absence of iota subscript in the apparatus. I have been sparing with reports of conjectures, since those in need of more may consult Gerber (), supplemented by Gerber (). For conjectures attributed to Byzantine scholars see G¨unther ().
TEXT AND CRITICAL APPARATUS
TESTIMONIA Tz. Lyc. Alex. = ii. . Scheer 5 &#//- 1 (A%- #/F)G @ / >/-. / 2 K 7C %; &#//- ) d- &G 2- * &#A/ 7C %; &()/** A)/ . d- * /-* &. (/+- 0 *2 G!2/! 9%; W; F%;. The asterisks are added by Scheer to denote material not found in the main manuscript for Tzetzes (Parisinus : see p. ix of his second volume). This does not mean that it must be spurious. In this case, however, the Pindaric quotation in asterisks is very likely a later addition. There is little point in Tzetzes citing part of Pindar’s phrase ( 7C %;) and alluding to another part () reflects the sacrificial terminology in &()/*), only then to go on and cite the same phrase verbatim from Pindar. Gentili also cites Pseudo-Eudocia Violarium (p. . – Flach), which quotes the same passage in the same context. This work is a Renaissance forgery and can be ignored. Eust. Prooem. Pind. (.– Kambylis = iii. . Drachmann) Tzetzes Hist. . e e, . d- &G1 1 2- (pp. – Leone).
SYNOPSIS OF READINGS
Finglass
Snell-Maehler
Gentili
"# P 6F )A 1 (/= >/ 2 %)A f
& A /& (%; A&/ / g /M <" > b < /(> /
"# P F )A ' (/= >/ 2 %)A @
& A /& (%; A&/ / h <" > b < /(> /
"# P F 1 H A 1 (/= >/ 2K %)A % @
>& A! /&P! (>%; ' /&/ . D ! 2 5/H/ /
This table does not include differences in colometry, for which see the Metrical Analysis.
I N D E X S I G L O RU M Codicum sigla B D E F G H I. Q T U V Tric. Mos. Byz.
Vaticanus gr. , saec. xii ex. Laurentianus ., saec. xiv in. Laurentianus ., ca. Laurentianus ., saec. xiii ex. Gottingensis phil. , saec. xiii med. Vaticanus gr. , saec. xiv in. Marcianus gr. , saec. xiv in. Laurentianus ., saec. xiv in. Vaticanus gr. , saec. xiii ex. Vindobonensis gr. , saec. xiv in. Parisinus gr. , saec. xiii ex. Triclinius in Laurentiano conv. sopp. , saec. xiv in. (vide Irigoin () –) Moschopulus (vide Irigoin () –) nescioquis Byzantinus
Textus et apparatus sigla cetera Q Qac , Qpc Qs Qgl [Q] [] <> coni. schol.
lectio in Q a scriba scholiorumque scriba aliena Q ante / post correctionem lectio in Q supra lineam scripta glossema in Q , vel lectio quasi glossema adscripta Q non legitur delenda censeo inserenda censeo coniecit scholium
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Canticorum sigla syllaba brevis syllaba longa syllaba anceps duae syllabae ancipites, quarum una minime longa est duae syllabae breves ex resolutione in loco principi syllaba longa, aliquando brevis syllaba brevis, aliquando longa syllaba longa, aliquando duae breves duae syllabae breves, aliquando syllaba longa hiatus finis vocabuli finis periodi finis strophae
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˘˘ ˘ ˘ ˘˘ ˘˘ H | || ||| ar cho cho dim cr ∧ dim
p
glyc hag h2 hemiascl ia ∧ ia ia∧ ∧ ia∧ pher reiz sp tr tel tel
versus aristophaneus (– – ––) ˘˘ ˘ choriambus (– –) ˘˘ versus ––×–– – quem alii ‘choriambic dimeter’, alii ˘˘ alii ‘polyschematist’ vocant ‘wilamowitzianum’, creticus (– –) ˘ ‘dimeter polyschematistos’ (= tel) versus glyconeus ( – – –) ˘˘ ˘ versus hagesichoreus (×– – ––) ˘˘ ˘ hypodochmius (– – –) ˘ ˘ metrum hemiasclepiadeum a Gentili fictum (××– –) ˘˘ metrum iambicum (×– –) ˘ – – pro metro iambico ˘ pro metro iambico ˘––––pro metro iambico versus pherecrateus ( – ––) ˘˘ versus reizianus (×– ––) ˘˘ metrum spondeum (––) metrum trochaicum (– –×) ˘ versus telesilleus (×– – –) ˘˘ ˘ versus telesilleus cum anaclasi (×–×– –)
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i i \7 Y 2 >. /A 2% "# P -. j 2 k/ )A P @) / GGZ2%. c / + 6 A- " #>%; 1 N/ ( A% - D2 >2% )G >. f / / k5-. 6F 2 I95/. ")A % )=. l *2/- m-. ') J%Z2% 0 @#/A /* /. Q& )A E/ )= / 1 I)2 #P- I&0 /2F/ D! + < A! < 9 F3- ( "#= / Y-. 2P!- '/ <
1 A& 3$. "&/*- "9 2 = 5A k %- A .
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0 2K &/ A 0- > Y F [ ] (/= T /P 2> &0- D// 2 /)A-. @ > / 22 > Y 2 ( + #/! n (P! >/ (A - " /o ––– GK- # . > /> D &#A/ 7C %; "# P -] – Christ 2] / Boeckh GGZ2% Byz.: G/Z2% codd. " #>%;] –> Mommsene schol. - Tric.: /M- codd. 6F ? Schroeder: F BFGHUV: F/ EI.QT I95/] I>– Hpc pc ac
% Hermann: –/% BFGH QU: –/* EH TV: –/= fort. schol. Schmid: 1 H codd.: H 1 Tric. @#/A Mommsen: @G#/A BEF: @G# A GHQTU: @ #/A V: @# A Boeckh /2F/ Heyne: /2W / codd. 2P!- Schroeder: –*- codd. – < . . . ] –P . . . –%;P Mommsen Y F - Schroeder: Y – codd. (/= Schmid: (/= codd. /P GH. fort. Q: /P BFV: /= I.TU: /= E Y() 2] – Eac F >/ EFV: >/ B: >/ / GQTU # ] –F F
Pindar For Thrasydaeus of Thebes, victor in the boys’ stadion Daughters of Cadmus – Semele, neighbour of the Olympian goddesses, and Ino Leucothea, you who share the chambers of the sea Nereids – come with the mother of Heracles, with her who gave birth to the best of offspring, to join Melia at the inviolate treasury of gold tripods, which Loxias has especially honoured, and named the Ismenium, the true seat of prophets. O children of Harmonia, there even now he calls the local host of heroines to gather together in assembly, so that you may celebrate holy righteousness, Pytho, and the straight-judging navel of the earth at the end of evening, in honour of seven-gated Thebes and the competition at Cirrha, in which Thrasydaeus caused his ancestral hearth to be remembered by casting a third wreath upon it, as a victor in the rich fields of Pylades, guestfriend of Laconian Orestes.
As his father was being slaughtered by the mighty hands of Clytemnestra, the nurse Arsinoa snatched him away from her baneful treachery, when with the grey bronze Clytemnestra dispatched Dardanid Priam’s daughter, the girl Cassandra, to the shady shore of Acheron along with the soul of Agamemnon – the pitiless woman. So was it that the sacrifice of Iphigenia at the Euripus
i i
&()/* W/ - '/ 3 Q (>g B < A%; A(/p 2qA ' ( # * g 0 2 A- ">( '() " 9n " ( ––– " #$-h ># 2 * . / c(/ / # Q3- C / &)>h @ 2 (G A% D& 3A/. ) / C 0- ^%- /Z2,% (>%; *- 9-. Q// >. /1 "& 67A! %)A [r] \$% ' / 2> - :3> -. f 2 D #A 5A
& 5/ . A /& . H >2 h " (%; + _/ A&/ / A )WA c#) &*-. ––– e . l &. "/ 2 2 )G. I) A/ ) Mj 0 g 4 A - D/- '5% > '3/. V- [ D /Mg N*. 0 2 />. /M )* A)/ A(/ &% R # . D D! A/ ––– B 1 )%; > #A B 2P!%;. /
= /C&9 / 1 2>5 &A#/.
'/ Byz. et Tric.: '/ codd.: '5/ Schroeder (>] >( V A(/p Tric.: A(/ codd. 2qA BEF: 2qA GHQTUV ' (] 9( B, coni. Schmid: ' ( V 0 2 Byz.: 0 2K codd.: >2/ Tric. 2] / G ) / Tric.: ) / codd. " /Z2- Byz. et Tric.: " /2- codd. ,% codd. plerique et schol.: ^% U et Tric. *- FQTV: / *- BEGH ] 2 Hartung Q//] s// I.QV 67A!] –G! B: – Q %)A - Bergk: –A % codd. et schol. #A 5A Byz. et Tric.: inverso ordine codd.
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>& cett. A /& Heyne: A! /&P! codd. sic interpunxit Heyne %; (%; Tric.: ( G: (>%; cett. (etiam B) A&/ / Mos.: ' /&A / V: ' /&/ cett.: ' /&/ Tric. "/ 2] – > - –>2 - Hermann 2 )G] 2F)G B /M Byz. et Tric.: – codd.: – Schroeder
0 2 A Mos.: 0 2 /> codd. et schol. )* Christ (noluit Bergk): – codd.: )* Bothe R # ] – Schneider D! G, coni. Heyne: D cett.
A/ schol. et Schmid: (K A/ codd. )%; Tric.: )– codd. #A Schmid, #/ Tric.: #/ H codd. 2!L%; Schroeder: –%; codd.
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far from her fatherland, provoked her to raise her heavyhanded anger? Or were her nightly couplings leading her astray, enthralled as she was to another man’s bed? That offence is most hateful in young wives and impossible to conceal because of other people’s tongues: one’s fellow-townsmen are scandalmongers. For wealth incurs an envy no less than itself, whereas the lowly man blusters unheard. The very son of Atreus, the warrior, was killed in famous Amyclae when at last he returned, and he brought destruction on the prophetic maiden, when he despoiled the houses of the Trojans of their luxury, set on fire because of Helen. But Orestes, the young lad, came to the old man Strophius, his family friend, who dwelt at the foot of Parnassus. With Ares’ eventual help, he slew his mother and laid Aegisthus in gore. My friends, did I become confused at the place where three roads meet, despite travelling on a straight path beforehand? Or did some wind throw me off course, as if I were a small boat at sea? Muse, it is your task, since you have contracted to provide your mercenary voice for a price, to stir it this way and that, either now for his father Pythonicus, or for Thrasydaeus, whose celebration and glory blaze forth.
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<> ! "#$% & % '( ) " * + , -. )* / # 0 1 2 3 /- 4/#5 [] 672 89 . )/>)/ =. 2 >/- :!.
= # " > /R% A A%; Q3%; /)> . A& S 2%h ––– 5 * 2 "& "/ *- A h &)/1 2 "9 . <" > /c - D <j J (P! / />/- M T3 " A& #/. A- b ( ) < /(> # ! #//P! /C$ / % ( $h ––– / 0 &/2 2&A/ > / RG 0 > . 1 Y - 3. A /. D5 92/ /-. E1 )/=.
0 U t2 / -.
0 2 MA - '2 9 .
<> Tric.:
H´oman ! ] )’ Maas A%; BV: – %; cett. Q3%; Tric.: + Q3%; codd. 5 * 2 ] 5 * Byz.: 5 * V et schol. V "9 Byz.: "9 codd. et Tric. <" > Boeckh: D ! codd.: U Hermann: U !. - ( . . . " A& #/g) H´oman: idem nisi quod U van Groningen: < P> Thiersch J (P! Mommsen post Hermann: –! codd.: J9(%- Tric. " A& #/ Tric.: –/ codd. [B] A- Schmid: A2 codd.: A 2 Hermann b] om. B ) B, Egl : ) cett. < /(> Wilamowitz: codd.: '(/ D: '(/ Hs : '(/ Tric.: # '(/ Boeckh: (F/ Thiersch: (/ Hartung ] B / sic scribendum monuit Ruijgh: aut hoc aut / codd. / D5 Tric.: D5 codd.
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Gloriously victorious with chariots of old, at Olympia they captured swift radiance from the much-famed games with their horses, and at Pytho they entered the naked foot-race and put the Greek host to shame with their speed. May I desire good things from the gods, as I seek what is possible for my age. For since among the people of the city I find the middle estate flourishing with more enduring prosperity, I find fault with the lot of tyrannies. I am enthusiastic about achievements which benefit the community, while the envious are warded off. But if someone obtains the peak, lives there in peace and avoids committing dread violence, he would go to a fairer bourn of black death, having given his sweetest offspring the best of possessions, the grace of a good name. That is what marks out Iolaus, son of Iphicles, as the subject of hymns, and mighty Castor and you, lord Polydeuces, sons of the gods, you who dwell one day in your seats at Therapne, and the next in Olympus.
COMMENTARY
C O M M E N TA RY – Pindar’s odes often begin with an apostrophe, which ‘generally . . . has a clearly perceptible relationship to the victor or to the poet’s celebration of the victory’ (Henry on N. . –, providing an annotated list). In this case the poet calls upon local divinities from the victor’s homeland, as at O. , where he invokes the Charites for a victor from Orchomenus. We hear of Cadmus, Semele, Ino, Alcmene, Heracles, and Ismenus (or rather, the Ismenium). Several of these are also found in the two other Pindaric poems which open with a strongly Theban theme: fr. S–M (Hymn ), which suggests Ismenus, Melia, Cadmus, the Spartoi, Thebe, Heracles, Dionysus, and Harmonia as possible subjects for song; and I. , which asks Thebe whether she delighted most in Dionysus, Alcmena, Heracles, Tiresias, Iolaus, the Spartoi, the defeat of the Seven against Thebes, or the Theban colonisation of part of the Peloponnese. But Pythian Eleven avoids the list effect found in these other openings, owing to the greater variety with which it introduces these Theban figures (see further below). The invocation shows various features of a cletic hymn, or one which summons a divinity to come to the worshipper (cf. n. bis, n., –n.). This too is often found at the beginning of Pindaric odes (cf. Meyer () –, Race () – n. , () n. , Sevieri () –). But here the form is applied with only a light touch. There is no elaborate praise of Semele and Ino, and only the barest recollection of their attributes. Nor are the heroines asked to give assistance to Thrasydaeus (or the poet), but simply to celebrate his victory. The nod to hymnic form lends grandeur to the opening; but its brevity and unobtrusiveness allow the focus to move quickly to Thrasydaeus himself. The opening as a whole is carefully organised. The three invocations in – gradually increase in length, before we reach the climactic c / (n.), which itself begins a still longer fourth clause containing the actual request. As often, Pindar here ‘welds together syntactical units with ever-increasing weight and emphasis’ (Race (a) ). This fourth clause introduces a further figure, Alcmene, but in the dative rather than through another vocative: cf. how elsewhere ‘characteristically, Pindar avoids a list-effect by introducing the third god in a participial clause’ (Carey on P. .). Lines – describe the Ismenium, thereby stressing its importance and sanctity (n.), while also delaying the revelation of the reason for this gathering of heroines. For that we must wait until –, where the purpose clause is split into three parts, the longest last; and even then it is not until that we learn the name of the victor. At this point the pace accelerates, and there is barely any retardation as the poet effects a swift transition from Thrasydaeus to Orestes (–). The introduction is thus
C O M M E N TA RY: – a grand and elaborate way of conveying simple information, which nevertheless manages to appear at times almost breathlessly quick. For more on the structure of the opening see Greengard () – ; for a visual guide to its phrasing and articulation see Sulzer ( ) . Some scholars see special significance in the mythological background of the Theban heroines who open the poem. Most (b) points to O. .– , where the terrible fates of Semele and Ino are cancelled out by their deification after death (cf. Prop. ..–): hence (he argues) in our poem they represent the gods’ ability to bring good from ill, the ‘g¨ottliche Gunst’ conspicuously absent from the subsequent story of the Atreids. Most admits that this is not mentioned (‘dieser d¨ustere Hintergrund wird hier nicht direkt angesprochen, schwingt aber f¨ur Pindars Zuh¨orer mit und wirft ein anderes Licht auf den Mythos’). But if the darker side of the history of Semele and Ino were relevant here, Pindar would have included it, just as he does in O. .– or P. .–. We cannot interpret the poem in terms of matters which lie outside it and to which no allusion is made. A less subtle variant of Most’s argument, according to which the evil fates of daughters of Cadmus lead into the story of Clytemnestra (so M´eautis () –), meets with the same objection. What is relevant for the poem is their status as mortals (Y 2 >) who now live among immortals ( 2% "# P -, @) / GGZ2%). This will be taken up and balanced by the figures of Castor and Pollux at the poem’s end (–n.). And as pointed out above, their Theban origin (again, stressed in the opening two words) allows a parallel with the Theban Thrasydaeus, who, although not undergoing apotheosis, has nevertheless gained the kind of glory which sets him apart from his fellow men. In Bernardini’s words, ‘Ino, Semele, Alcmena non sono viste come le protagoniste delle loro storie dai risvolti tragici, ma nella loro gloriosa dimensione tebana’ (() ; cf. Vivante () ). For more on Theban heroes in Pindar see Currie () –; for his portrayal of mortals who become immortal see ibid. –. According to Sevieri () , Semele and Alcmene are chosen in part for their topographical associations (for a convenient plan of ancient Thebes see e.g. Krummen () ). In her view, the poem moves from the Cadmeia (where the G>- of Semele was located, in the sanctuary of Dionysus: cf. Schachter ( –) iii. ), to the Heracleum (outside the Electran gate), to the Ismenium (to the south-east of the city). But there is no mention of any of these locations in the ode except the last. Moreover, Semele and Ino (the latter of whom does not fit Sevieri’s schema) are expressly invoked from their dwellings on Olympus and in the sea, not from their Theban sanctuaries. : picked up in (n.) by l *2/- m-. Hes. Th. – lists the daughters of Cadmus and Harmonia as Ino, Semele, Agaue, and Autonoe. For Cadmus’ family in Pindar see further Fehr () – and
C O M M E N TA RY: – Giannini () –; for Cadmus’ marriage to Harmonia see Rocchi (); for Harmonia see Hutchinson on Aesch. Sept. –, Mastronarde on Eur. Phoen. . Pindar uses both > and 9 as metre dictates: see Braswell on P. .(d). : the apotheosis of Semele, mother of Dionysus by Zeus, is first alluded to at Hes. Th. (H 2 "&> / )/ /M, of Semele and Dionysus). According to the most common account, her apotheosis followed on from the bolt of lightning which killed her, while another version had her taken up into heaven by her grown son Dionysus (see West on Hes., ibid.). At O. .– Pindar says of her q$/ - " )* 3>%; | / H A)/
/A. &/* 2A - M/ | 1 u/+- F. &/* 2 *- @ &>-. For the early mention of the name of the divinity in a hymn cf. Furley and Bremer ( ) i. . : many editors have adopted Christ’s "# P , presumably out of a desire to parallel the vocative adjective @) / in the following line. But Pindar is extremely reluctant to end a period with a short open vowel (cf. Barrett (b) , referred to by West () ). For the nominative in –- used as a vocative cf. O. ., Theodoridas A.P. .. = HE (both metrically guaranteed; cited by Loewe () n. ); in general see West on Hes. Th. , Richardson on Hom. Hym. .. "# P - is also read by the scholia ( Inscr. a() = ii. .– Drachmann). Hymns often refer to the location of the divinity addressed (cf. Furley and Bremer ( ) i. –). Moreover, ‘it is a common usage in hymns and prayers to combine the vocative with an attribute in apposition’ (Nisbet and Hubbard on Hor. C. ..). Usually this attribute gives the ancestry of the divinity (cf. Norden () ≈ () ), but given the preceding Y 2 > that would be unnecessary here. . . . : Ino’s transformation into a goddess is first found at Hom. Od. .– 0 2 c2/ Y 2 ) # G. & - $. | k/ )AG. v 1 'G 3 0- C2F/. | H 2 :0- / #/ )/= w5 '/ W(where see Hainsworth). The apotheosis is not mentioned in Hesiod’s Theogony (although Ino herself appears at , simply as a daughter of Cadmus), but [Hes.] fr. .– M–W could refer to it if we adopt Merkelbach’s supplements; [Hes.] fr. may also deal with the apotheosis (see West () n. ). Alcman fr. b PMGF = Calame refers to Ino as j A2. At O. .– Pindar says of her A# 2 1 ) ! | / > GW- :3 D&) | * / () 0 [ "&1 (>. Although fragmentary, fr. d.– S–M = a.– Cannat`a Fera refers to Ino snatching her [son] from a fire and casting [him, together with herself] into the sea; the subsequent mention of the ‘fifty daughters of Doris’ suggests that she is turned into a
C O M M E N TA RY: – Nereid. Her son Melicertes is also mentioned at fr. ; while fr. e(c). = . Cannat`a Fera refers to k/ )[A]. Her sufferings were proverbial (see Cannat`a Fera p. n. ), but they are not at issue here. See further Burkert () n. ≈ () n. , Barringer () n. , n. . There is no good evidence for a Theban cult of Ino-Leucothea (cf. Schachter ( –) ii. –). Hainsworth on Hom. Od. .– claims that Paus. .. mentions one: in fact this passage refers to a Laconian cult. : Boeckh conjectured /, on the grounds that / should be used ‘ubi orationis articuli coniunguntur, 2 vero, ubi disiunguntur et opponuntur’; for . . . / see Denniston –, while for the corruption see Diggle ( a) , D. C. C. Young () = Calder and Stern () . But as Denniston notes (), ‘the strength of the antithesis [conveyed by . . . 2A] varies within wide limits. Sometimes . . . 2A conveys little more than / . . . .’ In this case there is an antithesis between Semele in heaven and Ino in the sea. !" "# : for the Nereids, the sea-nymph daughters of Nereus and Doris, see West on Hes. Th. – and Barringer (). For Ino and the Nereids cf. Philip A.P. .. – = – GP. GGZ2% corresponds with J%Z2% in line , a word of similar shape and termination. For other such correspondences in the ode see Brennan () . There are enough to suggest that Pindar may have deliberately aimed for such an effect, but (as here) individual combinations are not significant for the interpretation of the poems. $: for the command ‘come’ (cf. )A vel sim.) in a cletic hymn see Norden () ≈ () . For ‘examples of climactic items introduced at the beginning of a line and preceded by two rising elements linked at mid-line’ see Race (a) n. (also () n. ); his ‘rising elements’ denotes two clauses of increasing length. For the cletic hymn in general see Pfister () –, Meyer () n. , Tarrant’s edition of Seneca’s Agamemnon, p. . % : ‘often in prayers a god is asked to bring his retinue’ (Nisbet and Hubbard on Hor. C. ..); cf. Fraenkel () n. . Malcolm Davies (per litteras) compares Milton, L’Allegro and Il Penseroso . – & ' . . . | : rather than being invoked by name like Semele and Ino, Alcmene makes her entrance in a dative periphrasis. She appears elsewhere in Pindar in N. (cf. Davidson ()). She was worshipped in Thebes in the form of a stone, supposedly placed in her coffin by Hermes when he stole her away to the Isles of the Blessed as wife to Rhadamanthys (Pher. Ath. FGrHist F = fr. EGM). Schachter ( –) i. suggests that her heroon was in the Heracleum. For Heracles in Pindar see Fehr () –, Nieto Hern´andez () –; for his cult in Thebes see Schachter ( –) ii. –.
C O M M E N TA RY: – (: ‘she who has given birth to the best of men’, not ‘most nobly born’ (Race) or @ R 0 H " )/H #/G)/- (Mommsen , p. ). The adjective may be modelled on Thetis’ 2 >/ at Hom. Il. . (‘unhappy in having given birth to the best of men’); cf. also Gow on Theocr. . " >/. For " – compounds in Pindar see Hummel () –. : apocope is common in Pindar: see Gerber on O. .. For the metrical irregularity see the Metrical Analysis (under S). ) : the myth of Melia, at least as second-century Thebes knew it, is found in Paus. ... The daughter of Oceanus, she was abducted by Apollo and taken to what was to become the Ismenium. Her father ordered her brother Caanthus to find her; on doing so, he attempted to rescue her, but without success. He then set fire to the sanctuary, and was killed by Apollo with an arrow. The god and Melia had two children: Tenerus, who became a prophet (cf. Paus. ..), and Ismenus, who gave his name to the river Ismenus and thus to the sanctuary. Schachter ( –) i. n. tentatively suggests that Melia was the original presiding deity of the Ismenium; in that case she would later have been reduced to the status of a consort of Apollo. According to (ii. . Drachmann) there was a spring at the Ismenium named after her (' 2 1 G#K @$ - W; J%Z2). Apart from the present passage, Pindar mentions Melia three times. (i) At fr. S–M (Hymn ) she is second (after her son Ismenus) in a list of Theban topics which the poet contemplates as possible subjects of his song. (ii) In fr. k.– S–M (Paean = A Rutherford) Pindar declares that he is singing A(/ A"3%; N/- () in celebration of the (G F of Apollo, where Melia, daughter of Oceanus, gave birth to Apollo’s son Tenerus. A scholium above line declares [ ]G%; A#/. (iii) Fr. g. S–M (Paean = D Rutherford) mentions N/- followed by >% in the following line. The text is fragmentary, but it appears that a summons is being issued to the )/H D2 . . . "# - C (). Later in the text the poet declares ^% \F/ A#/ (), while a (G F is also mentioned (). The apparent references to mountains (, ) have led some scholars to assume that the D2 in question here is the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoeus (for which see Schachter ( –) i. –, Paus. ..), which was in a rocky area (frr. a, b) and was associated with Tenerus (cf. fr. b S–M, Strabo .., Schachter ( –) i. ). He may have been exported from the Ismenium to the Ptoean sanctuary as a means of demonstrating Theban control over the region to the north of the city by lake Copais (cf. Schachter () ). On the other hand, the Ismenium was on a >&- (n.), and could still be the temple meant here (cf. Rutherford ( ) –): Tenerus is said to have had a /* there too ( = ii. .– Drachmann). Moreover, nothing outside this passage
C O M M E N TA RY: – associates Melia with the Ptoean sanctuary. She is, however, closely associated with the Ismenium (cf. (i) and (ii), as well as P. ). Other traditions about Melia can be stated briefly. P.Oxy. col. iv. – (nd c. ) says that fratricide first took place in Thebes, when Ismenus and Claaetus, sons of Oceanus, fought over their sister Melia. Another account, probably from the Epic Cycle, features Melia as the daughter of Oceanus, while also making her the mother of Mycene by the river-god Inachus (fr. incert. loc. (p. ) EGF = Nostoi fr. PEG = fr. GEF). Pher. Ath. FGrHist F = fr. EGM lists a Melia among the daughters of Amphion and Niobe. See further Kruse ( ) , Anastase () –. – ‘The hymnist often seeks to entice the god to come to a place or community by describing its amenities and assuring the god of a friendly reception’ (Race () –; cf. especially Sappho fr. Voigt = PLF). So here the wealth of the shrine (( A% . . . >2%), the special divine favour which it enjoys (f / / k5-), and the veracity of its prophecies (")A % )=) all suggest a location which is well worth a visit. Defradas () notes that these attributes also apply to the more famous oracle of Apollo at Delphi: they thus lead into the subsequent mention of Pytho in line . Pindar fr. g.– S–M (Paean = D Rutherford) )/H D2 [ ] "#
- C | /* [ ] N/- | >% # [ ] contains a similar request at the beginning of the poem for an unknown addressee to come to a Theban shrine (D2 ) of Apollo, either the Ptoeum or the Ismenium (n., above). * . . . : in a commentary on the Paeans of Pindar, Didymus referred to the sending of golden tripods to the Ismenium by Thebageneis (1
0 2 " 0 9 G3#//*- A 0 (9/ /M- F = , pp. – Schmidt (ap. [Ammon.] Diff. = p. – Nickau) = Pindar fr. S–M; cf. = ii. . Drachmann E # G3#//*- 2? &> /*/ (sc. to the Ismenium)). This suggests that Pindar’s paean (now lost) may have referred to golden tripods at the Ismenium as well. According to Hdt. .. Croesus dedicated a - (9/- to Ismenian Apollo. More generally, gold is often associated with the gods (cf. Soph. El. n.), and often found near the beginning of epinicia (cf. O. ., ., ., P. ., I. .). Hdt. .– also mentions tripods at the Ismenium (though without specifying their material), which purport to be from the heroic age (including one from Amphitryon), and are inscribed with Y2Fp # . Pausanias saw tripods at the shrine, supposedly dedicated by daphnephoroi (including Amphitryon on behalf of Heracles), although he was surprised that they were so few in number (..). IG xiv b is inscribed on a tripod purporting to have been set up by Amphitryon on behalf of his son Heracles when the latter was a daphnephoros, but its provenance is unknown. Cf. also the Tabula Albani cited in the Introduction, section /i. For tripods at the other Apolline shrine at
C O M M E N TA RY: – Thebes, the Ptoeon (n., above, s.v. N/), see Guillon (); in general, ‘Boiotia was the place where tripods were most at home’ (Kowalzig () with n. ). ( A% is scanned as two long syllables: for the synizesis of adjectives ending in –A- in Pindar see Peter () . + ‘inviolate’ (Rutherford ( ) ; cf. DGE I , LSJ I s.v. D2 -, which compare Strab. ..). Race translates it as a noun, giving ‘the treasury of the golden tripods, the sanctuary which Loxias especially honored’; for D2 (or D2 -) in this sense see Lehnus () n. . But the word order makes it impossible to take D2 and )G > in apposition. The preferred interpretation is more natural, and gives a pleasing word order: Adjective Adjective Noun Noun . , - . /: cf. fr. k.– S–M (Paean = A Rutherford) @ > - [ ] | / 3 = /. The form / is found elsewhere in classical Greek at Soph. OR , fr. . TrGF, Hom. Hym. ., Ar. Thesm. , Eur. fr. . TrGF; cf. also the name /- (Hdt. .., , LGPN i. , iii/a ), used as the title of a play by Epicharmus (PCG i. ), and Gow on Theocr. .. 60 : the Ismenium was one of two shrines of Apollo at Thebes, the other being the Ptoeon. It was located on the right of the Electran gates, on a hill, beside the river Ismenus, south-east of the Cadmeia (Paus. ..–). The first temple on the site was burned down in about ; this was then replaced by a seventh-century temple which would have been there in Pindar’s day (Schachter ( –) i. ). For the Ismenian oracle in literature cf. Soph. OR & 6GH . . . /! 2 and Hdt. .. (where we learn that it worked in the same way as the oracle at Olympia). Pindar fr. g.– S–M (Paean = D Rutherford) may refer to either the Ptoeon or the Ismenium (n.); while Soph. Ant. – describes a Theban oracle without identifying it. Snell gave fr. a (Paean = D Rutherford) the title
7 N , but nothing in the poem refers to the Ismenium. For more on the cult of Apollo Ismenius see Anastase () –, Schachter ( –) i. –, Kowalzig () – (especially with n. on the excavations). The aspirate was regular in this word between the sixth and fourth centuries (cf. IG vii , , Hutchinson on Aesch. Sept. , Mastronarde on Eur. Phoen. ). Manuscripts spell it without the aspirate, and Braswell (on N. .) claims that this reflects Pindar’s practice: but the inscriptions are a surer guide. 1 %/ : Paus. .. suggests that before the birth of Ismenus the river was known as the Ladon. For the vocalism cf. Buck () (‘Q = Q is common to nearly all, perhaps all, dialects except Attic-Ionic’). For the aorist in –5– see Braswell on P. .(e) (‘the extended use of –5– in the aorist of verbs in –q% (–q%, –5 originally restricted to guttural stems) is occasionally found
C O M M E N TA RY: – in Homer . . . but is also a general phenomenon of West Greek dialects’); also Molinos Tejada () –. : the adjective qualifies )=, even though it would more naturally go with % (cf. West on Hes. Th. ): for the enallage see Bers () –, Hummel () –. For a bibliography on the idea of truth in archaic poetry see Gerber on O. .b; for truth in Pindar see Bremer () –. For the uncontracted –A (short alpha) in the accusative singular to an s-stem adjective cf. @#/A in , O. ., P. ., K–B i. . : so Hermann ap. Heyne p. for transmitted –/% or –/*; the slight change restores the metre. The tendency of ancient and mediaeval manuscripts to interchange 7 and (cf. Diggle ( a) ) means that manuscript evidence is of little use in deciding between the forms; omicron and omega are also easily interchanged. Bernardini () n. prefers ?
/*, but offers no argument; in () with n. she switches to %, again without saying why. Gentili prints %. (ii. .– Drachmann) "G)W = / % )A2 may mean that the scholiast read /= (so West, per litteras). 2 refers to a ‘seat’ in the broadest sense, that is, the shrine as a whole. But Schachter ( –) i. n. plausibly suggests that passages like this and Soph. Ant. 0 )P I)> may have encouraged the establishment of an actual ‘seat’ for the observation of omens, the N H2&- seen by Pausanias (..) in front of the temple of the Ismenium. Outside Attic this word always shows –%– vocalism, from Homer (Il. . etc.; )>%- Od. . (< * )> -: DEG s.v. )P-)). Attic (including tragedy) has )P- (< * ) -: DEG s.v. )P-) from at least the sixth century (Threatte i. ). See further Bj¨orck () –. Occasional corruptions in one direction or another do not affect this distinction. 3 4 6 picks up Y 2 > at the start, and thus marks an end to the first section of the invocation. For the reinvocation see Greengard () –, who compares O. , where the opening invocation NP / l ( /& % "A)%. C is picked up in line by " l /o2/2 &/ D-; cf. also O. . – 7 K R A / 3 P" > 2- u/H . . . " Y> *, Anacr. fr. . – PMG. For Harmonia, wife of Cadmus, see n. The prefacing of this vocative with l is unlikely to be significant: ‘there is no adequate evidence for the view of [Kambylis () –] and others that it indicates the presence of emotion’ (Henry on N. ., citing Dickey () –). – 5 . . . | . . . : after the reinvocation comes an intensification of an earlier motif. It is not merely the poet who is calling these three Theban deities: Apollo himself is summoning a whole host ( >-) of local heroines. For the
C O M M E N TA RY: – continuing stress on place in a cletic hymn cf. –n. Similar recapitulation of this theme is found at Sappho fr. . Voigt = PLF '); cf. also Braswell on P. .(a). : Schmid’s reinterpretation of the paradosis (the manuscripts read 1 H) is required by the metre, since a long syllable cannot stand in this position in a glyconic. For = ‘now’ with a metrically guaranteed short upsilon cf. O. ., ., P. ., ., ., ., N. ., and probably O. .. Of these, all except P. . occur in the phrase . Examples outside Pindar occur at Hom. Il. [.], Sappho fr. Voigt = PLF, fr. . Voigt = . PLF (suppl. Lobel), Parmenides B . D–K (i. .), and [Epicharmus] frr. ., . PCG (cited by Ruijgh () –). Gentili retains the H of the manuscripts, and Bernardini ad loc. defends the resulting metre by claiming ‘metricamente la lunga al posto della breve non crea difficolt`a perch´e si ha una responsione tra epitrito –˘–– e ditrocheo –˘–˘’. There are no other trochees in the ode, however, and it makes little sense to introduce them here to retain something which carries with it no ancient authority. For the accents in our manuscripts do not go back to Pindar, and hence the decision to print where the manuscripts read H constitutes not an emendation, but a reinterpretation of the paradosis (pace Bernardini () n. and ad loc., and Calabrese de Feo () , who speaks of as an ‘emendamento’ to ‘il testo tradito’). As Barrett (b) n. points out (also of a passage of Pindar), ‘an accent added at earliest some years after the poem was written is evidence for nothing at all’. Further discussion of this problem can be found in Finglass (). According to Burton () , the phrase ‘indicates that the ceremony, whatever its exact nature, was a regular performance to which is attached the present celebration of the victory’. But it could just as easily imply ‘assemble now, for the performance of the ode in honour of Thrasydaeus, in addition to the times when you assemble here for your regular rituals’. For ‘particularising’ , which singles out one instance from others, see Race () n. and n. . . : literally ‘with adjoining pasture’ and hence ‘local’ (Race; cf. Gentili ‘della nostra terra’). A% has two broad senses (cf. LS , LSJ s.v. and Laroche () –): ‘distribute’ and ‘pasture on a neighbour’s land’. The latter meaning is relevant here. The heroines are metaphorically said to have their pasture (>-) adjoining ( ) the city: in other words, their regular haunts are imagined to be close by, and hence they fit into this distinctively Theban gathering. Cf. d (ii. .– Drachmann) 0 9 * F3-. 0 1 H C H H 1 W- C W- W-. This latter sense of the verb develops early on into a more general sense of ‘encroach’, ‘spread’, predicated of fire, disease, and so forth (Thuc. ..,
C O M M E N TA RY: – middle voice; cf. Soph. El. n.). Laroche () argues for a similar meaning in this ode (‘qui envahit, qui occupe’), translating the whole phrase ‘une arm´ee d’invasion h´ero¨ıque’. But the menacing overtones inherent in this meaning hardly fit a passage where heroines are being encouraged to come to a celebration. Other translations offered (none with any argument) include ‘native’ (Slater; but their place of birth is not at issue), ‘visiting the land’ (LSJ s.v. - I, the only example cited of this sense; cf. Slater’s alternative ‘to visit the shrine’), ‘dwelling in the country, like ($-’ (LS s.v. I, the only example cited of this sense); also c (ii. .– Drachmann) 2 0 /S / - /A- 1 / 9- - F3- (the sense fits the context, but not the word). 6 # : this is the first attestation of the noun J%Z-. Larson () – cites other instances of this rare word: the only other from the first half of the fifth century is in IG i A. (– ), since Corinna fr. b PMG is Hellenistic (see the Introduction, section /ii). According to Plut. Quaest. Grec. c–d, a festival called J%Z- representing the /AG- "#%#F took place every eight years at Delphi (cf. perhaps Hesych. = p. Hansen /AGh /q. 2 x (%; [ F TrGF] < F). For later words for heroine (e.g. JG. J see Lyons () –. ‘host’: for this word used to denote any large group, not just an army, see Soph. El. n. The referent might be just the trio Semele, Ino, and Alcmene, but the term probably suggests a bigger group of which those three are especially prominent members. : so Mommsen. The manuscripts offer three forms: @G#/A (BEF), @G# A (GHQTU), and @ #/A (V). V’s @ – makes no sense, and is likely to be a corruption from @G–: for confusion of eta and upsilon see Diggle ( a) , () n. . But @G– itself is probably a false epicism for the @– expected in lyric, as Boeckh (supported by Peter () ) was the first to note (cf. I. . @ # , Alcaeus fr. a. Voigt = PLF I # [ ]; also O. ., I. . # -). But Forssman () could be right to retain the eta as a deliberate epicism in a fossilised word, as opposed to @ # - with its still-productive suffix. The vocalism of the third syllable is also tricky. In Homer we find both @G#/F- (e.g. Il. .; nine instances in all, excluding Il. ., which is omitted in the best manuscripts), which derives from @– + "#/%, and @F# - (Il. . and the Hymns), @G# q (Od. .), which derive from @– + D# - (cf. Wathelet () ; also I. . and Alcaeus cited above). Pindar follows the Homeric vocalism in @ # at I. .; our default option should thus be that he follows the Homeric vocalism with this word too, and hence wrote an epsilon. Nauck records a minority variant @G# F- at Il. . and ., as does West at Il. ., which shows the same corruption as we find in our passage in some manuscripts.
C O M M E N TA RY: – For uncontracted –A see n. 4: the subject is Apollo (cf. Most (b) n. ); e-f (ii. .– . Drachmann) prefers Melia as the subject, on the grounds that females should be summoned by a female, but that is no reason to reject the more natural interpretation. 7 8 9 2
: there are two interrelated problems. First, does E/ go with what precedes or what follows? Second, is )A personified or not? Manuscripts do not help with the latter decision, as the use of initial capitals for proper names is not established until some two thousand years after Pindar. The most natural word order has the adjective qualifying )A, as this accords with the position of / (so e.g. Fraenkel, in his edition of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, vol. ii. p. n. ). Some scholars (e.g. Farnell ii. , Gentili, and Bernardini) prefer to take E/ with )= (for this adjective used to qualify places see Kienzle () –, Locher () –, Chadwick () ). This view has its attractions: it gives a perfect ascending tricolon, and allows A- to be personified, giving us a reference to the goddess who in some accounts held the Delphic oracle before Apollo (cf. Aesch. Eum. –, Rutherford ( ) – n. ). It nevertheless runs into the problem of the
/ (pace Farnell, who blandly claims that ‘the slight postponement of the / causes no trouble’). Gentili (in his apparatus, p. ) and Bernardini (in her commentary) refer to Denniston and Aesch. Suppl. in support of their decision; the same two passages had previously been cited by Burton () n. . Of these, the former comes from a careful discussion (pp. –) setting out three kinds of exceptions to the rule that / should come in second position. Our case does not fall under any of these headings, and so would have to be classified with a handful of exceptional exceptions, some of which are textually suspect. This is hardly a course to be advocated when a simpler alternative is available. Meanwhile, the one Greek parallel cited by Gentili and Bernardini is itself highly problematic. Friis Johansen and Whittle delete Aesch. Suppl. –, as does Sandin (see their notes ad loc.); while for Page, – are ‘parum eleganter scripti, dubio procul corrupti’ (his edition, p. ). Yet even if we accept the passage, it still does not provide a parallel: for there the / is acting as a sentence connector, not linking items in a list as in our passage. Gentili and Bernardini have thus failed to demonstrate that a delayed
/ is possible here. Since E/ goes with )A, the latter should not be personified, as E/>does not qualify the names of divinities in classical Greek (cf. Clarke () ‘E/>- . . . is applied not to gods proper but to what is of gods’, Locher () ‘umgekehrt heisst auch ein Gott direkt nie E/>-; daf¨ur aber Erscheinungen oder Gegenst¨ande, die in direkter Beziehung zu einer Gottheit stehen, in denen sich ein Gott wirksam erweist’). Slater nevertheless takes E/ with the name A: but none of his alleged parallels shows the adjective qualifying
C O M M E N TA RY: – a god. For )A-, Apollo, and Delphi see Corsano () –, Rutherford ( ) ; for )A- in Pindar more generally see Gerber on O. . and .– . 1 ‘straight-judging’ (cf. R¨uedi () ). For praise of justice in the description of a place see Kienzle () –. For I)K 2G in early Greek see Davies on Soph. Tr. . 1: : for Delphi as the ‘navel of the earth’ cf. Herrmann () – , Braswell on P. .a. Pindar uses the term elsewhere at P. .– I&0 3> | ()0- - p (>/. 0 -: so Heyne for transmitted /2W /: for manuscript errors involving the tense of a verb see D. C. C. Young () = Calder and Stern () . The verb is a short-vowel subjunctive, as we would expect after Q& (cf. Gerber () –), not a future (pace Sevieri () with n. ): cf. (a), (c) (ii. .–, – Drachmann) E RF%. [ %- b . . . RFG /. It stresses the volume rather than the tunefulness of the sound (cf. Woodbury () – n. = ( ) n. ). + ; < = ; ‘at nightfall’ (Schmid p. (‘sub noctis initium’), Schroeder () , Page () ). As Gow on Theocr. . ff. notes, ‘D- qualifying a period of time usually denotes, not the middle, but either the beginning or the end’, and here the reference must be to the end of evening, not the beginning (cf. id. on .). 9 ‘marks the arrival of a moment’ (Jebb on Bacchyl. [his ].): cf. Braswell on P. .(a), Bossler () , West on Hes. Op. , Barrett on Eur. Hipp. –. =% >0?: for ‘seven-gated Thebes’ cf. Hom. Il. ., Od. ., Hes. Op. , [Hes.] Scut. , Bacchyl. ., and often in Pindar; also Wilamowitz ( ) = (–) v/ –, Singor () , Cingano () –, Berman (). Mastronarde gives an account of the varying names of the gates in later authors in his Phoenissae commentary, pp. –. For * in apposition to a verbal phrase with /2A% cf. O. .–, Bacch. .–, MacLachlan () –. The word means ‘for the sake of’, but in the context also suggests a reciprocal relationship: for ( - as ‘the most versatile, and probably the most important, term of its kind in ancient hymnology’ see Race () – (quotation from p. ). : the plain of Cirrha, to the south of Delphi, is described as the site of Orestes’ exile at Soph. El. –. On the different forms Y and Y* see V. Parker () –. > @: for the delay in giving the victor’s name see Hutchinson on O. .–. For a list of victor’s names in Pindar and their placing in their odes see Pavese () –. The name recurs in Pindar at fr. b. S–M = . Cannat`a Fera ( 2[ ]).
C O M M E N TA RY: – The manuscripts read 2*-; the ending –2P y-, with a long diphthong, is owed to Schroeder ( ed.). Pindar would have written –
whether the alpha was long or short, so these alternatives have the same ancient authority. For the same reason, attestations of the name with –
(LGPN i. , iii/a (ter), iii/b , iv. ) tell us nothing about the length of the diphthong. More interesting are instances of the name in – (i. (bis), iii/a ) and – (ii. , iii/b (ter)). The former are Ionic spellings of the name, and indicate that we are dealing with a long diphthong. The latter show the merging of the long diphthong with the simple long vowel, a process which began as early as the fourth century (cf. Allen () –, Threatte i. –). Literary evidence is less compelling, but is at least consistent with a long diphthong. At Hdt. .. the best manuscripts are split between –* and –Wy: Ros´en prints the former, Hude the latter. At Dem. . S has –2- and AF# Y –- (an easy uncial error); F alone has –2*-. – 5 = | .A : B@ ?B : the literal crowning of the successful athlete becomes a versatile metaphor in the hands of the epinician poet. The victor (or his victory) may crown his homeland (N. .–, P. .–; cf. Kurke () –), an altar (O. .), his family (O. .–), or, as here, his hearth. For the hearth as the central focus of a family see Soph. El. –n. In some accounts Agamemnon was killed at his hearth (Soph. El. n.), but no such detail is found in the forthcoming myth. For the A&- in Pindar see further Salvador Castillo () –, Hutchinson’s commentary on Greek lyric poetry, p. n. . At the Pythian games a crown of laurel was awarded to the victors (cf. Blech () –); for the crown as a prize in sporting contests more generally see ibid. –. For 3 % with A&- see Nisetich () –. For the hyperbaton, whereby < | . . . encloses the mention of the crown, cf. O. . /> 2 . 2. = / /& %/ 3%>, with Race () . In each case the crown or verb of crowning is surrounded by the thing which is crowned: the word order, if not actually mimetic, is nevertheless pleasingly structured. Hermann () = () emended the verb to read 'A , and reinterpreted the paradosis in the following line to give ' . The emendation has rightly not found favour; but Snell and Maehler have adopted his reinterpretation of the paradosis. But since < must be the direct object of '/, it cannot be dependent on a preposition in anastrophe. Hence Pindar’s 7 must be in tmesis with 3$, and so should be accented . For tmesis in Pindar see Braswell on N. .–, Watkins () –. Thrasydaeus’ victory follows on from chariot victories won at Olympia and elsewhere by an ancestor (possibly his grandfather), and a Pythian victory won by his grandfather. For a defence of this view see the Introduction, section .
C O M M E N TA RY: – : ‘Pindar calls attention to the number of crowns won by families by . . . placing the number at the head of its verse’ (Race (c) , comparing O. ., I. .). – The swift transition has attracted criticism (cf. Fraenkel () : ‘il “connesso” e` molto debole ed artificiale’), but as Bowra notes, ‘[Pindar] often employs an apparently superficial motive to introduce a myth whose real meaning is of great weight and importance’ (() ). 9 : for Pylades as the perpetual companion of Orestes see Soph. El. –n. Before Pindar he is found in the Nostoi (p. EGF = p. PEG = p. GEF), but not in Homer. / : for 5/ in Pindar cf. Hubbard () –. As Slater () notes, the reference leads into the myth: ‘a clear positive and negative example of strangers coming to seek the rights of hospitality: Cassandra is murdered, Orestes is succoured’. His attempt to connect this theme with Thrasydaeus is less successful: see the Introduction, section /ii. : Homer’s Agamemnon had his house in Mycenae. Like Pindar, both Stesichorus (fr. PMGF; cf. Davies () ii. –) and Simonides (fr. PMG) put it in Lacedaemon (cf. N. ., J. M. Hall () n. , Salapata () n. ). According to Aeschylus and Euripides it lay in Argos, while Sophocles followed Homer in setting it at Mycenae. The association of Agamemnon and Orestes with Laconia probably has a political origin. Sixth-century Sparta made every effort to appropriate the house of Atreus (West () ), as a propaganda weapon in its attempt to secure dominion over the Peloponnese. According to Herodotus, the Spartans acquired the body of Orestes in the middle of the sixth century (significantly, from Tegea, Sparta’s most immediate rival) and buried it in their agora (.. – .; Paus. ..). This transferral of the hero’s bones, later repeated in the case of Orestes’ son Tisamenus (Paus. ..), was a potent symbol of Sparta’s nascent imperial claims (cf. Cartledge () ). By the Spartans can imply that Agamemnon had been a Spartan leader and would not tolerate the removal of leadership over the Greeks from his kin (Hdt. .). Agamemnon was also worshipped as a hero at Amyclae in Laconia from at least the fifth century, and possibly as early as the late seventh (n.). See further Calame () n. . There is some disputed evidence for a connexion between Agamemnon and Lacedaemon as early as Homer. At Il. .– the king offers various Messenian cities to Achilles, which may mean that his domain was imagined as extending across the Peloponnese; while at Od. .– he attempts to round Cape Malea on his return from Troy, which hardly fits with a final destination in Mycenae. But other interpretations of the former passage are available (cf.
C O M M E N TA RY: – Visser () –); while the Odyssey passage may be an interpolation (see S. R. West ad loc.). – The beginning of a new strophe sees the start of the myth (cf. Nierhaus () , comparing P. ., N. ., ., O. .), which opens not at the earliest point chronologically, but ‘with that moment in the narrative which is of decisive importance for its moral interpretation’ (Most (a) , on P. ; cf. Sevieri () ): namely, the killing of Agamemnon and the attempted killing of Orestes, each at the hands of Clytemnestra. This sudden, violent revelation of Clytemnestra’s treachery prejudices the audience against her from the start. We may compare the presentation of Clytemnestra in the parodos of Aeschylus’ Choephori (‘die verz¨ogerte Einf¨uhrung Klytaimestras, ihre einzige ausdr¨uckliche Bezeichnung in diesem Lied, erm¨oglicht, daß eine Verurteilung am Anfang der Trag¨odie steht, die sich dem H¨orer einpr¨agt’: Sier, his commentary, p. ). No fewer than four people play a part in the first period (line ): Orestes, Agamemnon, Arsinoa, and Clytemnestra. Only the latter two are named: appropriately enough, as it is to them that the moment belongs. Orestes and his father are united in their inaction, with the former prominently in the accusative, the latter qualified by a passive participle. We are aware from the beginning that someone is doing something to Orestes (or trying to); the subsequent &/ A >- ominously signals what that ‘something’ might be. But the end of the period presents us with Clytemnestra not in the nominative (as we might have anticipated), but in the genitive: despite her surprise attack, the initiative is not with her, but with Arsinoa (n.). Yet it is only when we reach &0- D// in the following period that we can be sure that Orestes will survive. This long, densely complicated opening sentence vividly conveys the confused mˆel´ee surrounding the assassination. In Sophocles (El. –) and Euripides (El. –, ), Orestes is present in the palace at the killing of his father. In Aeschylus, Clytemnestra has sent him to Strophius some time before (Ag. –). Homer does not give details. Stesichorus had a rˆole for the Nurse (fr. PMGF), which probably means that his Orestes was also rescued from the palace, as occurred in Pherecydes (FGrHist F = fr. EGM). See further Soph. El. –n. According to Stockert () , the alliteration (of [p]/[ph] and [k]/[kh]) suggests the narrator’s horror (‘der krasse Ausdruck und die vielfache, zum Teil verschr¨ankte Alliteration zeigt das Entsetzen u¨ ber Klytaim[estra’s] Tat’). Alliteration is sometimes remarkable in Greek (Soph. El. n.), but it is doubtful whether there are enough instances here for significant aural impact. : Pindar commonly marks the transition to the myth with the relative pronoun: cf. Des Places () –, Carey’s commentary, p. n. (comparing Hom. Il. ., ., Od. ., ., Theogn. , , Bacchyl. ., .), Gerber on O. ., Braswell on P. .(a), Hummel ()
C O M M E N TA RY: – –, Devlin () –, n. , Bonifazi () –. Complaints that this technique is artificial (listed at A. M. Miller () n. ; cf. Fraenkel () = () ‘questa storia di Oreste ed Agamennone e` legata al resto della poesia in modo piuttosto “stolto”’) are off the mark. Rather, ‘the relative not only secures cohesion but also gives an appearance of irrelevance. Such casual transitions . . . preserve the illusion of extempore composition, avoiding rhetorical rigidity’ (Carey on P. .). As Miller () notes, ‘the speaker [sic] seems at first to be precipitated into narrative by the chance mention of a proper name, only to reveal in the end that a perfectly logical rationale underlies the apparently random association of ideas’. In this case, the prominence of the accusative lends particular suspense to the narrative (–n.). Here the relative also occurs at the beginning of a new triad (cf. O. ., P. .): this emphatic structuring may ‘produce an element of formality at odds with the casualness alleged for this way of introducing the myth’ (Davies, per litteras). 0 follows the relative pronoun elsewhere in Pindar at O. . and I. . (cited by Hajd´u () ); it occurs in the introduction to an extended myth only here in this poet (cf. Bonifazi () –), but there does not appear to be special significance in its use. Elsewhere it introduces a myth at Sappho fr. . Voigt = PLF, Soph. Ant. . : : the imperfect participle stresses that Orestes is rescued at the very moment that Agamemnon is being killed, thereby heightening the sense of urgency. Cf. Soph. El. 0- &= with my n. (‘[Electra] does not merely rescue Orestes after her father’s murder, but snatches him away even as his father is falling to a gory death’). -C : in Aeschylus the Nurse has the slave-name Cilissa (Cho. ; see Garvie’s commentary, p. ); but Stesichorus (fr. PMGF) and Pherecydes (FGrHist F = fr. EGM) call her Laodamia, which, like Pindar’s Arsinoa, is a noble name. This tendency to give nurses aristocratic designations goes back to the Odyssey, where Odysseus’ nurse is called Euryclea and Nausicaa’s, Eurymedusa (Od. .–). It reflects the status which such women enjoyed in their home communities before they were enslaved and put to work as nurses (as happened to Eumaeus’ nurse: cf. Od. .–, ). See further Hirzel () . The name is separated from &>- in the next line by a full six words (‘questo iperbato e` molto forte’: Fraenkel () ). If Pindar invented the name Arsinoa for the Nurse (cf. a = ii. .– Drachmann M2%- 2A &G @ 2- >G /S K A &>), the audience may not have identified her immediately. Hence the delay not only of D// (– n.), but also of &>-: Pindar adds to the suspense by introducing a figure in the nominative whose identity and action are not immediately apparent. The earliest evidence for the Nurse’s part in the Oresteia story occurs in metope from the temple of Hera at Foce del Sele, Campania, which depicts
C O M M E N TA RY: – a woman preventing another woman from launching an axe-blow by gripping the weapon from behind (cf. van Keuren () –, Conti () , ). Some of these metopes have plausibly been identified as depicting episodes from the Oresteia story (cf. Davies () ii. –), and the woman attempting to use the axe is generally agreed to be Clytemnestra. According to Garvie (his commentary on the Choephori, p. xvii), the woman hindering her could be Electra: but ‘the restrainer looks in her outlines solid and stiff . . . she seems too placid and unexcited to be the anguished Electra known to us from vases’ (Davies () ii. ). We cannot be sure of the stage in the story at which this act of restraint is supposed to occur. Most likely, however, it portrays the disarming of Clytemnestra before her death at the hands of Orestes, a function performed elsewhere in art by Pylades or Talthybius (van Keuren () n. ). In any case, the presence of the Nurse in Stesichorus, Pherecydes, and Pindar suggests that she was a well-established figure in this myth. In the tragedians she was gradually edged out by a growing interest in Electra. For the site of the temple at Foce del Sele see Baumbach () –. The date of the metopes is disputed: van Keuren () gives –, while Junker () believes that – is more likely. 0 : for the correct spelling (restored here by Schroeder, ed.) see Fraenkel on Aesch. Ag. . * 2 D should be taken with what precedes (i.e. &/ A >-; so e.g. Tafel (–) ii. –, Schroeder () , Most (b) – n. , Bernardini ad loc.). R > with a non-personal genitive denoting agency is not found elsewhere in Pindar, and is unusual in classical Greek; while in Homer a similar expression always uses the dative (R 0 (/ -, as at e.g. Il. .; cf. George () –). But Il. . ("A) -) z- t)/ /,/ ' ( R _G- % provides a Homeric parallel for ‘hands’ being accorded the status of a genitive of agent with R >, albeit in a more metaphorical sense. For /1 (/*/- cf. Hom. Od. .– 2 /+- 1 (/1 /q/ | %/A%- /Wy (also Il. . />- / j 1 (/1 / )$-), Anon. A.P. ..– )K R 0 (/1 | 2 / /*-. Some prefer to join the phrase with what follows, giving (so e.g. Race) ‘[Orestes was rescued] out from under the powerful hands of Klytaimestra and away from her grievous treachery’. This is problematic for two reasons. (i) The Greek does not contain a word for ‘and’, which means that (/= T /P and 2> . . . 2 /)A- are left without a connexion. (ii) R > is not the right preposition for rescuing someone from something. Slater (s.v. R >, A b; cf. Bossler () –) cites this passage as one of five instances of R > = ‘from (out of)’ (cf. Heyne, Dissen, and Donaldson , who claim that R > here means R A), but none of the other cases is a true
C O M M E N TA RY: – parallel. Three refer to childbirth, in a specialised linguistic usage (for which see Braswell on N. .), while one (O. .) is possibly corrupt (R codd., " Byz.), may not be by Pindar, and has R > governing an abstract noun ("(), which is not comparable to (/*/-. We would need or " > to give the sense ‘[rescue] from’. Both these difficulties are revealingly smoothed over by the scholiast (who adopts the interpretation favoured by Race et al.) in his paraphrase: J &0- . = Y F - (/= A H C H 2> / % A R /5A/n/ (a = ii. . – Drachmann). The emendations X (Bergk ) or " (Bergk ) for , and R A for R > (not mentioned in Gerber () ), would deal with these problems, but there is little point in adopting them to salvage one interpretation when another, in no way inferior, is readily to hand. In any case, we might think that ‘mighty hands’ are better employed in killing a grown man than a young boy. The whole question nicely illustrates Fraenkel’s dictum that ‘il problema della difficolt`a di Pindaro si riduce spesso a vedere se un elemento sta con ci`o che precede o con ci`o che segue’ (() ). The form /P is required by the metre. ‘ – and – are so frequently interchanged in MSS. that their evidence counts for little’ (West on Hes. Th. –): see further D. C. C. Young () – = Calder and Stern () , Henry on N. .. Most editors print Schmid’s (/=, but Gentili preserves the manuscript reading (/=. See further the Metrical Analysis. . . . . refers to the entire plot against Agamemnon rather than specifically the attempt on Orestes (Von der M¨uhll () = () ): for 2>- as the hallmark of the attack on Agamemnon see Soph. El. n. But the fact that Orestes needs to be rescued shows that his life was also at risk. The reference to treachery intensifies the condemnation of Clytemnestra’s actions: cf. how at P. . that other great sinner, Ixion, commits murder C D / A(-. Most (b) – n. and Norwood () n. take this phrase to refer to 2>- on the part of Arsinoa (for = ‘by means of’ see Soph. El. n.). Under this interpretation she sacrifices her own son to save Orestes, like the Nurse in Pherecydes (FGrHist F = fr. EGM). But the phrase more naturally refers to what we have just heard (the killing of Agamemnon), rather than to something not mentioned in the text. Moreover, we do not even know that in Pherecydes the Nurse substituted one child for the other, only that her son was mistakenly killed by Aegisthus instead of Orestes. The word order may be expressive, with the Nurse surrounded by the treacherous undertaking from which she must rescue Orestes. But this is probably more apparent on the page than it would be in performance. At Soph. El. – Clytemnestra asks Electra C 0 >2 1 o#. ^ - (/= | An A G = = R /5A) g This implies that she
C O M M E N TA RY: – tried to kill Orestes. Cf. also (/* K >- & #$ (Electra on Orestes, to Clytemnestra) and –. At Eur. El. – it is Aegisthus who tries to kill Orestes, and Clytemnestra who saves him. + : the verb "A% is not a regular word for ‘rescue’, and its use here with a child as its object is probably influenced by the middle "A, ‘the vox propria for rescuing exposed children’ (Gomme and Sandbach on Men. Perik. ), which ‘indica generalmente l’allevare un bambino non proprio’ (Lamagna on Men. Sam. ; cf. LSJ s.v. "A% B I ). The middle voice is used because the agent is not merely picking up the child, but is adopting it or claiming rights over it. In our case the Nurse is attempting not to adopt Orestes, but to pluck him out of imminent peril (cf. P. . "/j &- R 0 A-, where also a child is picked up for a purpose other than adoption): hence the active. As Fraenkel notes (in his Agamemnon commentary, ii. n. ), the rescue does not mean that the Nurse is sleeping with Orestes, who must be imagined as a boy of at least ten years (given the long separation of his parents; pace Herodorus FGrHist F = fr. EGM). – The temporal clause which makes up these lines adds only one new piece of information – the death of Cassandra. Rather than press on with the narrative (as we might have expected, given the extraordinary compression required to adapt the Oresteia story for a short epinician), Pindar appears to luxuriate in the slowness of his description. Like Orestes, Cassandra heads her clause with a prominent accusative, leading us to anticipate (this time, correctly) an imminent killing. But while Orestes had to make do with a bare relative pronoun, Cassandra is introduced with an extended patronymic denied the other characters. This emphasises her status and thus accentuates the pathos of her death. But it also undermines the idea that Clytemnestra’s actions can be justified, or even explained, by Agamemnon’s involvement in the sacrifice of Iphigenia, an event shortly to be mentioned by the poet. Cassandra bears no responsibility for Iphigenia’s death: yet she too is killed by the indiscriminate violence of her master’s wife. The clause which begins with an innocent > ends with the GK- # who dispatches her to the underworld. Agamemnon, appropriately enough, falls between them. The description of the killings is remarkably expressed. In Homer ‘the [n (F] always leaves the body under its own power’ (Bremmer () ): cf. Il. .– = .– n (K 2 {/)A% AG p2>2/ 3/3F/. | f > #>%. H "2 W 1 ^3G, Od. . = . n (K 2 p2>2/ W)/. In Greek literature more generally, a soul usually flies to Hades under its own steam (Sourvinou-Inwood () –), or else engages the services of a psychopomp (ibid. –, –). In our passage, however, Clytemnestra ‘dispatches Cassandra to the Underworld, together with the
C O M M E N TA RY: – soul of Agamemnon’. The control which she exercises over the souls’ trajectory makes her actions seem all the more menacing, and suggests the terrible power of Il. .– - 2 M&) - n (- _p2 Zn/ | J$% (a unique expression in Homer, as Redfield () n. notes: Edwards () n. misses this point). See further Nisbet and Rudd on Hor. C. .. narrat paene datum Pelea Tartaro. Cassandra is said to be Agamemnon’s concubine in Aeschylus (Oresteia) and Euripides (Electra, Troades); Clytemnestra cites Agamemnon’s relationship with her as a justification for her own adultery (Soph. El. –n.; Sophocles’ play omits Cassandra, however). Pindar denies her this plea, and instead focusses attention on the pathos of Cassandra’s death. It is described by Agamemnon at Od. . –: M G 2 4 Q ) # >-. | Y ? 2G-. K /*/ Y F G 2>G - | "& . Cassandra foresees her slaughter at Aesch. Ag. –. Jebb saw a reference to her death at Soph. El. –, wrongly: see my note. For the association of Cassandra with Agamemnon in myth and art see Mazzoldi ( ) –. E : in Homer, Dardanus was the ancestor of the Trojans and Cassandra’s great-great-great-great-grandfather (cf. Edwards on Hom. Il. .– ; for other forms of the genealogy see West () –). For the Trojans referred to as ‘Dardanians’ (not in Homer, who distinguishes them) cf. Bryce () –. denotes an unmarried girl, not necessarily a virgin (Slater ): the latter designation would be inappropriate in Cassandra’s case, given that since the sack of Troy she has been Agamemnon’s concubine. : the proper name does not exactly match the expected rhythm, but we find a similar licence in this period with H in and frequently with proper names (cf. West () , n. , ). There is thus no reason to follow Hermann in taking the name as an intrusive gloss (() = () ; he suggested M > for the word edged out). For possible etymologies for the name see Salapata () n. . For the double sigma see Fraenkel on Aesch. Ag. . 2@ *2@: long after it had ceased to be a material of war (replaced by iron), bronze ‘persisted in poetry as the metal of arms and armour’ (Thomson () ): cf. P. . (same phrase), Hom. Od. ., Aesch. Pers. . But here the adjective makes it clear that bronze is only metaphorical. The expression ‘grey bronze’ suggests that the phrase constitutes a kenning, or riddling description, for iron (cf. D¨urbeck () , P. . = ii. . Drachmann ( / %Ah 2F%y; for >- as the standard colour-term for iron cf. Hom. Il. ., Reiter () ). It is not mentioned, however, by Wærn ( ) – in her list of Pindaric kennings. There was an ancient theory that (>- in Homer meant iron ( bT Il. .c = iv.
C O M M E N TA RY: – .– Erbse, with other references). Alternatively, the word could mean ‘bright’ (cf. ‘gleaming brass’ Paley, p. , ‘ne denota la lucentezza’, Bernardini ad loc.), as at Hes. Op. 0 ' (where see West), , Eur. Or. – 0 M)A " /-, but this seems less likely. In neither of these passages could the adjective bear its far commoner sense, whereas this is available in our case if we allow the kenning. Pindar is not interested in the weapon used by Clytemnestra, which according to other accounts was an axe or a sword (Soph. El. n.). Fraenkel (his Agamemnon commentary, iii. ) accepted the testimony of the scholia (a = ii. . Drachmann), according to which Clytemnestra uses a sword ( 5&/): Davies rightly dismisses this as an ‘arbitrary claim’ (() n. ). – < -C ; | F*(: ‘Pindarus . . . nonnumquam 9 cum dativo etiam objecto addit, ita ut aliquis una cum altero pati videatur’ (Bossler () , comparing O. .–, I. .–). For the adjective #/>- in place of the expected genitive see Wackernagel () – = (–) ii. – ; he notes ( = ) that Pindar’s use of this idiom (examples at Hummel () –) may show Homeric influence (although the Homeric form is –>/-), but could also derive from Aeolic (where these adjectives remained part of everyday speech). For the uses of n (F in Pindar see Sullivan ( ), Clarke () –. See further –n. -: the manuscripts are split between the imperfect and the aorist >/ ; so are the most recent editors, with Snell–Maehler preferring the former (cf. also Slater ), Gentili the latter. D¨uring () cites P. ., ., and . for [ / followed by an aorist. But in our passage the [ / clause gives the background for another action, the rescue of Orestes by the Nurse. It thus corresponds with and elaborates the imperfect participial phrase &/ A >-, and so requires an imperfect. For manuscript errors involving tense see n. -C* : Acheron is the boundary of the Underworld in Sappho and Alcaeus (S. frr. ., ., A. fr. . Voigt = PLF; cf. West () ) and in the fifth century (Sourvinou-Inwood () n. ). In Homer this function was performed by the river Styx (ibid. –); for rivers and the Underworld see further Pearce () –. -: for this preposition used to denote motion towards the side of a river cf. Hom. Il. . An- >, Thuc. .. E . . . 0- K > '&/ #. E 2 . . . 0 > (the succeeding lines make it clear that the flight is towards the river, not along it). A related use, also with the accusative, denotes location at or along the banks of a river (Soph. El. n.). G : for the ‘well-shadowed’ Underworld cf. Theogn. /0 (= " &)A%, Soph. OC – (of the dead Oedipus) 2 '(/ |
C O M M E N TA RY: – A)/ /C MA, Leon. Tar. A.P. .. = HE 3G /M- _2/0 2>. The identification of the dead with shadows () is as early as the Odyssey (., .–). See further Bremmer () , West () ; also Psalm . ‘the valley of the shadow of death’. "H
: ‘quando tutto e` finito, il terribile aggettivo’ (Fraenkel () = () ). The nearest parallel is Aesch. Cho. 29)/- # , which also refers to Clytemnestra and comes at the end of a sense unit in lyric; line shows the same phrase in similar circumstances, although this time in iambic trimeters. Bacchyl. . " 3 - # (of Althaea, killer of Meleager) also occurs at the end of a long sense unit (.–), and since Bacchylides’ ode was written for a victory in , it is possible that this passage formed the inspiration for Pindar’s phrase. For a single word or small word-group crossing the strophic boundary and followed by a strong pause cf. O. . N/R /& (like our phrase, a strong criticism), P. ., ., I. ., ., Nierhaus () –; also P. . [# (compared by Hajd´u () ), where the pronoun, delayed until the end of the sentence, refers to the criminal Ixion. For a similar phenomenon in other literature cf. how the word 79in tragedy is generally held back until the end of a sentence, to dramatic effect (Soph. El. n.). – The narrator suggests two possible motives for the killing of Agamemnon: the sacrifice of Iphigenia, and Clytemnestra’s adultery with Aegisthus. Greater emphasis is put on the second motive, which is followed by reflections on the grievous nature of adultery and then by gnomai arising out of these reflections (cf. Bischoff () , van Groningen () , Burton () , Race () , Hornblower () , who compares Hom. Il. . –). On the other hand, as Hornblower rightly stresses (p. ), the first motive is not obliterated: rather, ‘Pindar, by putting the preferred explanation in second place, and by elaborating on it, thinks it counted for more in the balance’. The attention directed by scholars at the relative importance of sacrifice and adultery has obscured the question of why Pindar includes a plurality of motives; or indeed why he feels the need to delve into Clytemnestra’s motivation at all. When such issues have been considered, it has been in terms of the relationship of the poem with Aeschylus’ Oresteia, where Clytemnestra’s motives include the two cited by Pindar. Yet the questions make sense here without recourse to Aeschylus. The narrator is so horrified by Clytemnestra’s crime that he struggles to find a motive which could possibly explain it (see further the Introduction, section /ii). He does this not simply by stating the alternatives (the /c / . . . /c / . . . found in e.g. Herodotus), but through a pair of emotional questions. The overall effect, notwithstanding the reference to the sacrifice of Iphigenia, is to suggest that Clytemnestra’s evil defies all understanding.
C O M M E N TA RY: – Parallels for this kind of questioning are rare. H. Mackie () – wrongly associates the questions in – with those of e.g. I. .–, O. .–, for which there is an obvious answer which is meant to be recognised by the audience. Bergmann () n. cites the epic questions at Hom. Il. .– (rightly printed as a question by West), .–, Od. . –, and .–, but none of these relates to motivation. Pavese () saw that Bacchyl. .– was a true parallel, for which see the Introduction, section /ii. Hunter () sees connexions between our passage and Ap. Rh. .– , where the narrator is also forced to speculate on the causes of a woman’s action. – This is the earliest attested association of the sacrifice of Iphigenia with the killing of Agamemnon. She is not mentioned in Homer. In the Cypria Calchas orders her sacrifice at Aulis; she is summoned from home by the news that she is to marry Achilles (cf. Eur. IA). Artemis rescues her before she can be sacrificed, and substitutes a deer at the altar (p. lines – EGF = p. lines – PEG = p. GEF). In [Hes.] fr. a.– M–W the Greeks sacrifice Agamemnon’s daughter Iphimede to secure their passage to Troy; Artemis saves the girl and makes her immortal. Stesichorus’ Oresteia (fr. PMGF; also .–) seems to have had a similar account; but, pace March () –, there is no evidence that Simonides dealt with this myth. Davies () ii. – suggests that the tentative presentation of this motive means that it is not Pindar’s invention: but since Pindar uses the question format for internal reasons of poetic effect (–n.), we cannot draw conclusions from it about previous versions of the myth. Nevertheless, it would hardly be surprising if Stesichorus had treated this theme. See further Lloyd-Jones () = () –, March () – (for the post-Homeric tradition), and Soph. El. –n. Pindar is careful not to state or imply that Agamemnon sacrificed Iphigenia in person (so rightly Robbins () ): cf. how in [Hesiod] the action is explicitly attributed to the Achaeans as a whole. Apart from the phrase W/ (n.), there is a lack of emotive terms, especially of kinship (cf. Ahlert () ‘hier f¨allt weder das Wort “Mutter” noch das Wort “Tochter”. Wie von einer Fremden wird von der Geopferten gesprochen’). The one really striking word is 3 , which refers not to the sacrifice but to Clytemnestra’s (>- and its consequences (n.). Neschke () goes too far in suggesting that the sacrifice is not meant to be taken as a genuine motive, given Clytemnestra’s attempt on her own son only a few lines previously (‘en face d’une femme capable de supprimer son propre fils, la question mˆeme e´ carte cette explication’). But the poet certainly neutralises the one defence which could exculpate Clytemnestra.
C O M M E N TA RY: – : right from the beginning of the motive-section the audience knows that more than one possibility will be suggested. The sole other instance of the word in Pindar is at fr. . S–M. + ‘add[s] liveliness to the question’ (Denniston ), giving ‘So was it that . . .’ (West, per litteras). According to Slater , D is found with only one other question in Pindar (I. ., a very likely emendation). – : . . . | :* 4: for the ab urbe condita construction see Jones () (who compares P. .–), Lloyd-Jones and Wilson () –, S–D ii. . For & q% as a vox propria for a sacrifice (already of Iphimede at [Hes.] fr. a. M–W) see Casabona () –. From Homer on it strictly denotes the cutting of the throat, but can also be used in the broader sense ‘sacrifice’; here the latter is more likely. . - IJ (: the narrow strait between the Greek mainland and Euboea, famed for its changeable currents (cf. Morwood ( )). K : the phrase has an emotional effect which transcends literal notions of distance. It is probably modelled on the epic G>) G-, which is used with similar effects (cf. Griffin () – ≈ () –, CEG (Piraeus, c. ), . (Nile Delta, –?), (Olbia, –), [Plato] A.P. . = – FGE): note especially Il. .– */ > O 20"9-. [- E '// | &)/) \Gy 3$. G>) G- (Thetis, bewailing the imminent fate of her son Achilles). For W/ with the genitive see S–D ii. –. 5 ‘provoked’: cf. N. . * 2 I# q M /1 >#, LSJ s.v. q% II (the lexicon wrongly separates off this instance in an unnecessary II b section). The (metrically-guaranteed) aorist is surprising, as we might have expected an imperfect to denote long-lasting provocation (cf. Soph. OR 'qA "/1 H) h R&/* / # 9). It probably reflects the single, individual act which is suggested as a cause of Clytemnestra’s anger (contrast n. on #). The printed text is a Byzantine conjecture for transmitted '/, to heal the metre: for adscript nu added by Byzantine scholars (especially Triclinius) cf. , Diggle () n. = () n. . ? : G can denote either ‘(palm of the) hand’ (cf. P. ., LSJ s.v. I) or ‘device, plan, contrivance’ (cf. O. ., LSJ s.v. II). Here both senses are felt: it is describing, after all, the wrath of a woman who achieves her aims through sheer force ((/= T /P) and treacherous cunning ( 2> . . . 2 /)A-). For similar expressions see Friis Johansen and Whittle on Aesch. Suppl. 2 %-. L : for Q used of rousing passion see LSJ s.v. b. * : the noun occurs four times in Pindar, with four instances of the verb (> (Slater ). Yet while (>- is a standard word for ‘anger’
C O M M E N TA RY: – in Homer (cf. Cairns () –), it is rare in Herodotus (four instances), and absent from Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plato. Fifth- and fourth-century prose writers prefer I#F (cf. Harris () –), a word absent from Homer which in Pindar always means ‘temperament’ (see Braswell on P. . b, Slater –). For the anagrammatisation in V’s >( see D. C. C. Young () – = Calder and Stern () –. = ( *M N : for 2 q% in an erotic sense cf. Hom. Il. ., ., ., Od. ., Archil. fr. IEG, Sappho . Voigt = PLF, Martinez (). For A(- qualified to denote an illicit union see Davies on Soph. Tr. 9& V- '( A(-. For the tense of the participle see n. Bergk’s 2qA (in his third edition, rejected in his fourth) would mean that Clytemnestra was humiliated (‘bitten’) by Agamemnon’s affair with Cassandra (cf. Aesch. Ag. –, Herington () n. ), and turned to adultery (now conveyed solely in the phrase ' ( # * ) as a means of revenge. But the expression seems elliptical to the point of obscurity, so that even if transmitted, 2qA would be suspicious. As it is, there is no reason to introduce it by emendation. 5
* 4 ‘nocturnal lyings were leading her astray’: the choice of adjective and use of the plural mean that * has its original sense as a nomen actionis (for which see Barrett on Eur. Hipp. –), and thus suggests the act of intercourse even more forcefully than A(/p in the preceding line. The imperfect tense, together with the plural, emphasises the durative nature of Clytemnestra’s adultery already implied in the imperfect participle 2qA (cf. Bergmann () ). The phrase also contrasts with the single, punctual action of the sacrifice of Iphigenia (n., on '/). The – prefix to the verb often expresses the idea of a diversion from the right path (cf. Archil. fr. (b). IEG, Theogn. , , Sappho fr. . Voigt = PLF, LSJ s.v. G IV , Becker () n. ). For ' (- in an erotic context cf. Soph. Aj. ( An M9/. – ‘Sometimes in the centre of a mythic narrative, when the outlines of the tale have been given and before the details are added, the poet places a gnome, a moral drawn from what precedes and colouring what follows’ (Carey on P. ., comparing P. . –, N. .–, .–; cf. Illig () ). As in the passages cited by Carey, the gnomic reflections here both proceed in a logical fashion and are relevant to the presentation of the myth (–n.) and the victor (–n.). Far from being ‘practically nothing to do with the rest of the myth, and nothing at all to do with the main point of the myth’ (Slater () ), they rather correspond to West’s description of ‘Pindar’s technique of passing into or out of a myth by means of a generalization’ as ‘a conscious principle of composition’ (on Hes. Th. –). For Pindar’s
C O M M E N TA RY: – use of gnomai more generally see Bischoff (), Lardinois () –, –. – The gnomic reflections on adultery and the difficulty of concealing it perform three important functions. First, the very fact that the adultery motive attracts these comments lends it greater weight, and allows Pindar to emphasise it at the expense of the earlier sacrifice motive (cf. –n.). Second, the description of adultery as an '() " stresses the immorality of the act and reinforces the negative portrayal of Clytemnestra. Third, the reference to the impossibility of concealing adultery helps to explain why adultery constitutes a reason for the killing of Agamemnon. Clytemnestra cannot hide her offence from the citizens; as a result, by committing adultery she has, as it were, crossed a moral Rubicon, and can preserve herself only by killing her husband before he learns the truth and punishes her. These reflections are therefore significant for a passage which is exploring the nature of her motivation; and we may reject A. M. Miller’s condemnation of them as irrelevant to Clytemnestra’s situation (() ). is found in Guelferbytanus Aug. . . (teste Gentili), a th century manuscript with no independent authority (cf. Irigoin () –), and is thus likely to be a Byzantine correction (or a lucky slip) for transmitted 2F. For the confusion of connectives see D. C. C. Young () = Calder and Stern () –; for the confusion of / and G (both of which Pindar would have written as 7) see Christ () –, and for confusion of 0 2A and
0 2F see Friis Johansen and Whittle on Aesch. Suppl. . Gentili prints 2F, a form which has no greater authority than 2A, but which makes the metre a good deal more troublesome (see the Metrical Analysis). – * | 5* : Greek men tended to view women as ‘belonging to the untamed, animal world, subject to strong desires, morally weak’ (Kaimio () –), and hence highly susceptible to the temptations of adultery. Young wives would be particularly at risk, on the grounds that they lacked the maturity of judgment required to restrain their passions (cf. Dover () on ‘the growing competence of reason in the light of continuously increasing experience . . . [which was] regarded as common to boys and girls’), and were more likely to draw an illicit admirer through the attractiveness of youth. So the speaker at Lys. . keeps an especially close watch on his wife during the early part of his marriage; while Catullus attacks an older man for failing to guard a viridissimo nupta flore puella | et puella tenellulo delicatior haedo, | adservanda nigerrimis diligentius uvis (.–). The special hostility expressed in '() " will reflect the rˆole of young wives in preserving the family line (cf. Sevieri () ‘debbono garantire alla famiglia di sopravvivere e perpetuarsi nel tempo’): their transgressions thus merit particular condemnation,
C O M M E N TA RY: – especially in an ode which lays such emphasis on the continuity of the family (ibid. –). The double standard applies: Agamemnon’s adultery with Cassandra does not attract the poet’s censure or, we may imagine, that of the audience. For Fraenkel () = () , ‘“giovani spose” e` una scusa’, but this hardly suits the emphatic '() " , or indeed the hostile presentation of Clytemnestra. Norwood () – n. (supported by Burton () ) claims that since Clytemnestra already had children by the time of her adultery, she cannot be referred to here; instead, Pindar means ‘the chaste indignation of a young wife or wives’ (see K–G i. – for dative in this sense). But this takes an unnecessarily strict view of A-; nor is it clear why a young wife should be more upset by adultery than an older one. Kyriakou () tries a different explanation for the alleged incongruity in A-, arguing that ‘for the evil-speaking citizens Clytaemnestra is always considered a young, naughty wife who engages in amorous escapades. She never reaches full maturity and the full responsibility she bears for her crimes is incongruously masqueraded as the result of the seduction of a young wife’: but this also probably presses the adjective too hard. – %F * | B ‘impossible to conceal because of others’ tongues’ (Race). For the dative of cause cf. K–G i. –. Sevieri () – prefers ‘impossible for other people’s tongues to conceal’, but the attempted concealing should be Clytemnestra’s: she cannot hide her affair, and thus is driven to desperate measures to protect herself (–n.). The phrase is commonly translated ‘conceal from other people’s tongues’ (doxography at Sevieri () – n. ), but there is no parallel for the dative in this sense. . . . 4: for scandalmongering townsmen cf. Hom. Od. .– (Nausicaa to Odysseus) = "//% &W "2/ A. F - I % | %/9Gyh 2 /M1 R /& 2W. The fondness of such people for &)>- (cf. P. . " = 2 " 9& ) 0 39/ * " -, Hdt. .. F G- . . . F Gy /| F &)A/) gives an easy link to the next thought. At Aesch. Ag. Clytemnestra disclaims the n# & which would be the result of infidelity. >#- stands between ‘talking about evil’ and ‘evil in their talk’: the former fits better with what precedes, the latter with what follows. here has the sense of # (cf. the examples gathered at Denniston –; pace Fraenkel () = () ). – The prosperous man attracts envy commensurate with his prosperity, while the lowly man blusters unnoticed. This statement provides an additional reason why Clytemnestra’s adultery was impossible to conceal (cf. –n.), and
C O M M E N TA RY: – hence strengthens the idea that it drove her to kill her husband. But as A. M. Miller () – points out, the lines also ‘directly address the condition of anyone who, like a victorious athlete, has attained a position of conspicuous visibility’. They are taken up later in the poem (–n.). $* . . . L? J : : for the idea cf. N. . – Qn 2 ># &)/*. | / 2 = "/. (/>/ 2 C q/. For &)>- in Pindar more generally see P´eron (–), () –, Vallozza (), Bulman (), Most () –. The scholia see a specific reference to Agamemnon ( a = ii. .– Drachmann H 2 0- 0 #A. [ &K- } &)F)G), an idea supported by Most (‘sein Tod wird unmittelbar danach berichtet, und sein Gl¨uck wird in der Eroberung von Troja konkretisiert’, (b) ). But there is no suggestion elsewhere in the poem that his death was the result of &)>-. Maehler () sees a reference to the people’s loud but powerless protests against the rule of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, but the status of the Pelopids as rulers is never at issue in the poem. . . . | . . . : ‘the idea of contrast is added to the original idea of addition’ (Denniston ; cf. Sevieri () n. ). . . . *"8 ‘the lowly man’. For A% with a neuter plural (or singular) cf. O. . // /9-, N. ., Eur. Andr. E . . . A //# , Bacch. b A% ')Gy A#, Aesch. Ag. /> % /*q B 2%-, van der Valk () –. Pindar often associates what is high up with success, and what is on the ground with failure: cf. O. . o ( / A% >#% & n/, P. . ( / - 2 D ' - C " An/, O. . (Pindar wishes that Hieron may) RnH . . . /*, Gerber () . According to Hubbard () , the phrase refers to ‘the poor and envious man’. But the passages which he cites (p. ) associating unseen envy with the citizenry (e.g. N. .– &)/ 2 D- "K 3A % | #$ // > %; 2/ | (1 / *, Aesch. Ag. – 2/ *# - 3~q/. | &)/0 2 R D#- t / | 2- /2-) are not relevant, precisely because there is no such association in our passage. Hubbard appears to be erroneously conflating the (G A /- with the ># * of . A. M. Miller () (with doxography at n. ) prefers ‘the man who aspires to lowly things’, but there is no evidence for A% in this sense. Some scholars have taken the phrase to refer to &)>- rather than the lowly man (doxography in Maehler () n. , Gerber () – n. ), but the parallelism of the other interpretation, with Q3- opposed to @ . . . (G A%, makes it much more natural. The poor, unseen person should not be taken as a comparison for Thrasydaeus, or connected with the praise of moderation in –. The successful Thrasydaeus can hardly be associated with words like (G>- and D& -,
C O M M E N TA RY: – inappropriate as they are to a glorious victor (cf. Miller p. ). Moreover, the man who (G /* has ex hypothesi failed to reach the level of A: poverty is not moderation. Neither here nor elsewhere does Pindar criticise Q3- or advocate a life free from &)>- (cf. rather e.g. P. .– " [%-. A # M H &)>-. | K / ). Indeed, at – he credits
A with Q3- > /-. Rather, ‘envy is the necessary concomitant to great deeds . . . its presence is a proof of the greatness of outstanding success’ (Most () ). +: ‘unnoticed’ (e.g. Gerber () ). This absence of fame is the opposite of the goal of the athlete: contrast the [( A] 2>5 9& associated with the victor (at Bacchyl. . ; cf. also N. ., cited below). Pindar himself prays to be >& - at O. .. Contrast the auditory display of the victor analysed by Race () . The translation ‘in secret’ (LSJ s.v. , the only instance cited with this sense) wrongly suggests that the poor man deliberately conceals his roar, when in fact it is his status as a poor man which ensures that no-one hears it. Hubbard () takes the word to mean ‘unseen’, claiming that since the adjective is ‘derived from &% . . . its associations are properly with the realm of vision, not of hearing’. But LSJ s.v. &% A I provides two counterexamples: Hom. Od. . &*/ 2 "2F and Aesch. Eum. – #5 3 / /9 - G AG | R A #F &A % . In Pindar cf. N. . = 2 "& % H2- " // )> (‘[deception] holds up the rotten glory of obscure men’), where E D& are not the invisible, nor even the disappeared, but inglorious men who do not deserve to be noticed. See further Lobeck () –, Diggle () = () , Segal (), Braswell on P. .(c) (‘adjectives which originally describe (or were thought to describe) visual phenomena are sometimes used to describe sound’, with examples), Arnott on Alexis fr. . PCG. Moreover, we would expect ‘roars unseen’ to be rendered not as D& 3A/, but as D& - 3A/. Hubbard’s interpretation can be paraphrased ‘remains unseen as he roars’, and hence we would require not an internal accusative, but an adjective agreeing with the subject. ? ‘roars’, ‘blusters’ (so Gerber () , Hubbard () , Sevieri () n. ). For the verb in this sense cf. [Hdt.] Vit. Hom. (p. West; the poem dates to the sixth or fifth century, as West points out on p. ) 2= / >/) "20- A# 2 A. | f- A# 29 . A# 2 3A/. Q3- M/, Rhianus fr. .– CA (the arrogant man) S 1 3A/. /&K 2 R A ( "(/. | / j I#-; also Eust. Il. Comm. . (i. .– van der Valk) =- 2A / 1 @ "qj 1 @ " /G K 3+ 3A/ A# . The popular alternative translation ‘grumbles’ or ‘mutters’ (cf. Maehler () n. for a list of such interpretations, adding Fraccaroli () , Paley p. ) is not paralleled elsewhere.
C O M M E N TA RY: – – . . . | . . . || . . . L: for two verbs with the same subject separated by change of strophe cf. I. .–, P. . –, Nierhaus () –. goes with / in (a usage illustrated at Denniston –), linking the two verbs ( –n.). As a result the sentence is in asyndeton (so Nierhaus () ), which is probably explanatory (on this phenomenon in Pindar see Maehler () –). Connecting words offered by translators, such as ‘igitur’ (Melanchthon, Dissen ii. p. , in a paraphrase) and ‘thus’ (Paley p. ), reflect the asyndeton rather than translate the particle. The scholia (a = ii. . Drachmann) paraphrase |, or ‘however that may be’ (for this combination cf. Denniston –, citing e.g. O. ., P. .), a sense supported by Wilamowitz () (‘wie dem auch war’) and Fraenkel () (‘con il A del verso si e` ritornati alla storia’). But none of these scholars cites a parallel for A in this sense. O ‘emphatic, protesting, not factual’ (Carey on P. .). In Carey’s passage the term contrasts with the unheroic actions of Ixion; here it encourages our revulsion towards the killing of Agamemnon. The whole sentence thus becomes ‘not a statement but a protest, underlining the enormity of the crime’ (Carey on P. .–). For ^%- used of a living human in Pindar see Currie () : it is used elsewhere with a proper name at O. ., ., and P. .. P : U’s ^% involves an easy error (cf. Diggle ( a) , D. C. C. Young () – = Calder and Stern () ). (ii. . Drachmann) has ,%. * ( encourages further indignation at the killing: after all his years away from home, Agamemnon returns at last only to be slain by his wife (Bergmann () , Schroeder () ; cf. Soph. El. n.). This word and (%; in ‘point up the lyric compression of Cyclic time-scales’ (West, per litteras). 4 . -C%: Amyclae was a town five miles to the south-east of Sparta. It appears to be mentioned on Egyptian texts of the fourteenth century (Lehmann ( ) ), and was conquered by the Spartans in about (cf. Calligas () –, Pettersson () ). For Homer, it is just one of a number of unremarkable Laconian towns (Il. .). Pindar, however, refers to it four times, and appears to have regarded it (correctly) as an important settlement in the heroic (Bronze) age (P. . '( 2 9- Q3 | 2>)/ I9/, N. . 9)/ # '3 + A !, I. .– (in an address to Thebe) %2 " . . . I) | ' - 1 & | k/2%. t 2 9- | M#/*2 A)/ '#. /9 )-). Amyclae was the site of a cult of Agamemnon and Alexandra, near what is today the church of Ayia Paraskevi. This latter figure was identified with Cassandra: cf. Lycophron’s Alexandra, Paus. .., Hesych. (ii.
C O M M E N TA RY: – Latte) Y 2h /5 2 k/2!. According to Pausanias (..), the shrine had a statue of Cassandra and what was thought to be the tomb of Agamemnon (cf. Larson () ). Dedications have been found at the shrine which date from the early seventh century, with fragments of Agamemnon’s name from the early fifth (cf. Christou (), Hooker () –, Antonaccio () –). From the earliest period the deposit also contains terracotta plaques and reliefs, on which ‘the preponderance of the male figure . . . suggests the firm presence of a male figure in the cult’ (Larson () ). Cartledge () associates Alexandra with a new cult established at Amyclae in the late Geometric period. Agamemnon, he speculates (ibid. p. ), was first associated with the cult c. , when Sparta was beginning its appropriation of the Atreid heritage (n.). At the same time Alexandra was identified with Cassandra (cf. Antonaccio () , Salapata () – n. ); the alternative name Alexandros of her brother Paris made such a connexion especially easy (cf. Farnell ( ) , Harrie () –). The original cult may have been in honour of Zeus and Alexandra, with Agamemnon taking the place of the former and Cassandra of the latter. This would explain why Lycophron three times identifies Agamemnon with Zeus (Alex. , –, and especially – u/+- - E9- G)F/ . | - /#?
- M3 A- ($); cf. also Clem. Alex. Protr. .. (i. .– St¨ahlin) #A #H Gy P)
& - [FGrHist F ] E /*, Athenag. Suppl. pro Christ. . (p. Schwartz = p. Pouderon) @ 2 k/2>- #A . . . A3/. On the cult see further Mazzoldi ( ) –; for heroisation in Sparta more generally see Currie () . Pindar’s choice of Amyclae for Agamemnon’s home reflects the importance of this cult (so rightly Wilamowitz, in his edition of Choephori, pp. –). It would be unwise to go further, and posit an implied reference to future heroic status for Agamemnon. If there were such a reference, this would be found in the poem, just as at e.g. O. .– Pelops’ heroisation is made explicit. Rather, having decided to set his story in Laconia (n.), Pindar picks the place in Laconia associated with Agamemnon’s death. Amyclae was also famous for its festival of Apollo, the Hyacinthia (cf. Pettersson () –, Antonaccio () –, Sevieri () – n. ), although Wilamowitz (as cited above) is wrong to claim that this is relevant here. Apollo plays no part in Pindar’s account of the Oresteia myth. The phrase should be taken closely with ) / rather than with ,%, given the dative. On the other hand, + accusative denoting motion towards is established for Pindar (cf. Braswell on P. .–(a), Bossler () –), and the slightest of changes would give us - 9-. This would allow the phrase to go with ,%, which is, after all, closer to it than ) /.
C O M M E N TA RY: – If Pindar had written this, corruption to the dative would have been almost inevitable. For >- describing towns see Kienzle () . For the error which gives rise to the alternative form / *- see D. C. C. Young () = Calder and Stern () . : for Cassandra as prophetess see Neblung () –, Mazzoldi ( ) –. L ‘brought death on’ (Race) captures the ambiguity of the verb. It could mean ‘destroyed’ (so a = ii. . – Drachmann c - # C 0 H R 0 Y F - " )/* C K #A#/; doxography in Sevieri () n. ) or ‘lost’ (so Robbins () , citing Hom. Od. ., Anacr. A.P. .. = fr. . PMG, Eur. Andr. ). A similar problem is presented by Achilles’ words on Patroclus at Hom. Il. ., 0 " $/ (‘the ambiguity may of course be intentional’: Edwards ad loc.). In each passage the verb’s subject has not killed its object, but bears some responsibility for the death. In each case this responsibility is paradoxical: Achilles had given strict orders to Patroclus to ensure his safety (.–), while Cassandra is evidently not one of the Trojans who perished in the sack led by Agamemnon (mentioned immediately after this passage, –). It may not be completely fanciful to suggest that Pindar was influenced by the Homeric passage, although since the parallel is limited to a single word it seems doubtful whether an audience could have made the connexion. : for Cassandra as >G see n. : - &I ;: Helen is the archetypal cause of the Trojan war (Soph. El. n.). The deaths for which she is responsible at Troy balance the killings effected by her sister Clytemnestra back home: for the association of this pair in villainy cf. Hom. Od. .– (Odysseus to Agamemnon) 67AG- " %>/) /,/ . | 1 2 Y F G 2> 4 / G>) > , [Hes.] fr. M–W, Stes. fr. PMGF. For causal "& see K–G i. and (with reference to Helen’s responsibility) Hom. Il. .– C A/- \=1 F2- (+- | Wy2 "&1 # 1 + (> D#/ (/, Lyr. fr. adesp. PMG (cited next n.). : so Bergk for transmitted %)A %. The sackers of a city burn its buildings, not its inhabitants (houses being more flammable than humans). For the destruction of Troy by fire see Finglass (a) with n. . The corruption would have been encouraged by \$% immediately after the participle. The scholium /2K /1 Wy 67AGy (>/- &/()/G- W\- 1 = 9 % \$%. 2A / +- c - W- /C2-. " 1 H +- - c - / An ( b = ii. .– Drachmann) indicates that its writer had a text containing –%, which means that the corruption is probably ancient (Fraenkel () ). Gentili keeps %)A %,
C O M M E N TA RY: – which Bernardini ad loc. supports by citing Lyr. fr. adesp. PMG "& 67AGy / %A s/ . But as this describes the burning of the city, not its inhabitants, it supports not the paradosis, but the conjecture. Q B 5 R? ‘despoiled the houses of the Trojans of their luxury’ (cf. Paley p. ‘loosed from their luxury’, Fraenkel () = () ). Some scholars (e.g. Dissen, vol. ii. p. ) have objected to this interpretation on the grounds that 9% - denotes freeing from pain, sorrow, and so on (cf. P. . 9- D "% "(A%, frr. m.–, S–M (Paean = G Rutherford); so too with , as at O. . ' / 5 " -, I. .), not merely the separation of one thing from another. They prefer to take :3> - with 2> -, which gives ‘houses of luxury’ (so , cited previous n., prob. Schneidewin ii. ). These strictures on the sense of 9% do seem to hold for the classical period (though LSJ s.v. I b cite Diod. Sic. .. +- ' / W- "(W-): but the meaning postulated here is hardly a great extension of the usual sense, and can be paralleled by constructions such as "& G
-. The choice of verb may even contain some irony: :3> G- in the fifth century is a notorious vice (see next n.), and Agamemnon has ‘freed’ the Trojans from it – by destroying them. Moreover, the alternative explanation is more problematic than the one it seeks to replace. For while the genitive of quality does exist in Greek (see Soph. El. n.), it is very rare. No classical Greek poet would have written 2> :3> G - rather than just 2> :3. Under this interpretation 2> becomes uncomfortably loaded with genitives, both possessive (\$%) and qualitative (:3> -). The use of the verb is also difficult. When 9% means ‘destroy’ its object is normally an abstract or intangible noun (e.g. >); there is nothing in LSJ s.v. II a which parallels 9% 2> - = ‘I destroy houses’. At Hom. Od. . \G- 9/ F2/ the image is of the loosening of head-bands (see Hoekstra ad loc.), and so is not comparable (cf. Il. ., with Schroeder () ). R? ": :3> G- is ‘an untranslatable term combining the senses of “softness”, “delicacy”, and “lack of restraint”’ (E. M. Hall () ); see further her General Index s.v. habros and Verdenius (). For its use in Pindar to denote sensual luxuriance see Nagy () –; for its association with tyrannies and barbarians see respectively Xenophanes fr. . – IEG and Hall () with nn. –. For &F as the ruin of cities see Fraenkel () –, Knox () n. ; for the wealth of the Trojans see Eur. Hel. x #= sG ; (9 - 2> -, Hec. –, Eur. IA [ –], [–]. – Pindar characteristically accelerates the narrative as it approaches its conclusion. Cf. Gerber on O. .: ‘Pindar devotes eleven verses to Pelops’ prayer, but in only five verses we are told that the prayer was granted, he
C O M M E N TA RY: – received a chariot and horses from Poseidon, defeated Oenomaus, married Hippodameia, and begat six sons.’ – Orestes’ escape to Strophius brings us back to the action with which the myth began, although now the emphasis is on his destination rather than the threat to his life. The ring composition (cf. Sevieri () n. ) suggests the imminent end of the story. , + : the shift back to Orestes is sudden, and it is not until we reach
& that we can be sure who is meant. For 2 D in lyric narrative see Denniston – (‘expressing a lively feeling of interest’). The demonstrative keeps the accent (found, incidentally, in the manuscripts). / : nicely juxtaposed with A /& . There is a similar effect at N. . 0 7C& G- )A% #/0- % | 0- D/A /. * (Henry ad loc. makes the comparison). The correct order is the result of a Byzantine correction: for the error see D. C. C. Young () – = Calder and Stern () . For 5/ in Pindar see n. : : so F, and conjectured by Schroeder ( ed.). The other manuscripts have
>&, although as usual they have no authority in such matters. According to ancient grammarians (cited by Lehrs () –), names made up of three short syllables ending in –- have an acute accent on the iota. They list a small number of exceptions, which never include
&- (cf. ibid. n. ), and so we may tentatively conclude that this name went along with the majority. The grammarians’ rule is supported by the manuscripts of Homer, the oldest of which have –- where we would expect it (cf. Allen, in his edition of the Iliad, i. ). Unfortunately,
&does not itself appear in Homer except once as
& (Il. .), which does not help us to determine the accentuation of the nominative. (Homeric manuscripts, unlike those of most other pre-Alexandrian authors, may be cautiously used as evidence for the ancient accent, as there is some evidence that a tradition of pronouncing words with the correct accent survived from the composition of the poems until the early second century, when accent marks were first introduced: cf. Probert () –.) The most ancient manuscript of Aeschylus and Sophocles (Laurentianus ., c. ) has
&-. This codex does not enjoy authority in itself, but on several occasions displays what we can tell from other sources must be the correct accentuation, when most manuscripts give an incorrect form (e.g. Soph. El. , ). It thus may reflect an ancient grammatical tradition which included
&- among the names accented in –-. Chandler ( ) prefers
>&-, citing Eust. Il. Comm. . – (iii. .–. van der Valk) (/2- . . . [ /- 59 V- 0
>&-, and Gentili adopts this accentuation for the same reason. Eustathius’
C O M M E N TA RY: – testimony is probably not sufficient to stand against the absence of
&from the lists of exceptions: ‘certo crederem si Eustathii negligentem brevitatem in exscribendis aliis minus saepe expertus essem’ (Lehrs () n. ). But it does mean that it is not enough to dismiss the possibility of
>&- with a bare reference to Fraenkel on Aesch. Ag. (as I did at Soph. El. n.).
: has a gentle pathos (cf. Illig () ); see also n. Heyne’s reinterpretation of the paradosis (( ) ) is required for the sense. For the incorrect addition of iota to these words in some manuscripts see D. C. C. Young () – = Calder and Stern () . Gentili prints A! /&P;. translating ‘ma il giovane figlio giunse presso Strofio’ (p. ). But it is not clear how the dative fits the Greek, or how the Greek fits the Italian. In her commentary Bernardini claims ‘l’uso dello strumentale . . . si spiega come una forma di sineddoche’, citing O. . M A% >& for the phrase which it had replaced: but there is no good reason to remove the name (n.). For the double sigma see Mastronarde on Eur. Phoen. . For of the low part of a mountain LSJ s.v. 9- II compare Hom. Il. ., . (plural). * ( < C T : Neschke () claims that ‘le retour d’Oreste aboutit a` un meurtre; le seul dieu mentionn´e est celui que les dieux mˆemes ha¨ıssent’, citing Hom. Il. ., Soph. OR 0 " > )/*- )/>. But for the association of Ares with the vengeance of Orestes see Soph. El. n. For (>- predicated of the gods giving assistance, especially to an act of vengeance, cf. Eur. fr. . TrGF (of ) with Soph. El. n. Most manuscripts give the unmetrical (>%;, which is corrected by Triclinius. For the loss of iota in manuscripts see D. C. C. Young () = Calder and Stern () . (>%; in may have assisted the error. Gentili retains (>%;, and his text is accepted by Sevieri () n. : on this see the Metrical Analysis. The myth which began with the attempted killing of Orestes by Clytemnestra thus ends with the killing of Clytemnestra by Orestes. The ring composition (emphasised by the balancing of &/ A in by A&/ . . . &*-) points to the reversal of rˆoles: ‘Clytemnestra is killed for the husband she killed, by the son she would have killed’ (Robbins () ; cf. Sevieri () –). Bergmann () claims that the myth starts and ends with a murder, suggesting the cycle of violence in the house of Atreus (cf. van Groningen () , referring to this line as ‘la phrase terrible’). But the idea of moral
C O M M E N TA RY: – equivalence between the killings (only one of which is a murder) is based on a misconception, for which see the Introduction, section /ii. According to Steiger, Pindar breaks off his account to avoid mentioning the Erinyes (‘Pindar . . . beendigt auch seine Erz¨ahlung nicht, sondern bricht pl¨otzlich ab . . . , um den Namen der schrecklichen G¨ottinnen in seinem Siegeslied nicht nennen zu m¨ussen’; () – n. ). There is no trace of the Erinyes in Pindar’s ode, however: and had Pindar wanted to suggest that more was coming after , he would have used imperfects rather than aorists (so rightly Most (b) n. ; pace D. C. Young () , ). Compare the end of Sophocles’ Electra, where Sophocles avoids any suggestion of pursuit by the Erinyes (–n.). Contrast O. ., where just before the end of the Bellerophon myth Pindar declares 2% E > #$. There we are thus encouraged to look forward to the bleakness of Bellerophon’s future in a way which is avoided in our poem. But Most’s own idea that Pindar takes a wrong turning in the final line of the narrative (‘. . . Pindar mit dem allerletzten Satz vom Mythos tats¨achlich angefangen hatte, in die falsche Richtung zu gehen, sich jetzt aber zur¨uck auf die richtige Straße ruft’; (b) ) is itself misplaced. The death of Clytemnestra is a fitting end to a myth which focusses on her and her villainy. For the variation in ‘killed . . . and laid in gore’ see Poultney () – (he mistranslates the latter part as ‘put to death’, thus obscuring the very quality of the writing which he wishes to highlight). Pindar often uses ‘a r´esum´e of victims as terminal to a myth’ (D. C. Young () n. ), while death is more generally associated with closure in literature (cf. Smith () , –). For other punishments meted out to Pindaric malefactors see Bernardini () –. : : the brevity of the reference to the matricide is strikingly different from Aeschylus’ version of the myth. It is more similar to Homer’s, where at Od. .– e f (sc. A G-) 0 (sc. c#)) /- 2
& #/ | G >- / #/W- 1 " 2- M#). For the verb of killing at the start of a line cf. I. ., P. ., Bacchyl. .. Watkins () (quoting a personal communication from Hayden Pelliccia) argues that the verb recalls the Indo-European poetic formula * (´e)gw hent o´gw him (‘he killed the snake, dragon’), and as a result Clytemnestra is ‘formulaically identified as a snake’. But even if we accept the formula for IE, would Pindar’s Greek audience have felt an Indo-European allusion? This verb is used in many other (non-serpentine) contexts. A&/ / is owed to Moschopulus; most manuscripts have ' /&/, while V has ' /&A /. The emendation restores the ––˘rhythm found elsewhere in this position. This line begins with an aeolo-choriambic colon, and these show generally strict responsion in this ode (see the Metrical Analysis). Although we cannot be certain that Pindar did not allow himself a metrical licence
C O M M E N TA RY: – here, the conjecture is so small that the balance of probabilities supports it. Both the augmented and unaugmented forms are found in Pindar ( A&/() O. ., ., frr. ., .; ' /&/() O. . (coni.), ., P. ., fr. . S–M). At O. . ' /&/ is Triclinius’ metrically guaranteed emendation for transmitted A&/(), which shows the reverse corruption to that posited in our instance. For the intrusive augment see Diggle ( b) n. = () n. . For the missing nu restored by a Byzantine scholar see n. . : 4: in Pindar a mythological excursus often ‘ends with a forceful word or phrase denoting death or suffering that prepares for the poet’s sudden intrusion into his poem’ (Race (b) ; cf. Race () ). For the sense of & (‘slaughter, bloodbath’, not ‘killing’) see Soph. El. n. (citing e.g. Gagnepain () : ‘[&F] est proprement la sc`ene de carnage . . . il ne s’agit plus d’un d´elit, mais d’une situation’). – Pindar wonders whether he has taken a wrong turning, or has been blown off his course. He then tells the Muse that she is contracted to sing for Thrasydaeus and his father, and the ode now progresses in that direction (for the return to the victor after the myth cf. Schadewaldt () –). This, it is implied, is the I) A/ )-; the myth, on the other hand, is the wrong course. For a similar image cf. Bacchyl. . – #[]=[] M)9- 9% | 0- @2Hg Contrast Theogn. – >2%; 2 t Gh 29 /M1 0 >)/ @2 h | & q% 9 % ^ c% AG, where the metaphorical turning has not yet occurred. Some scholars have accepted Pindar’s ‘apology’ at face value (D. C. Young () n. lists a few). But if the myth really was a mistake, why did he not rewrite the offending section before the performance? Rather, Pindar presents himself as so keen to get back to explicit praise of the victor and his family that he describes his preceding material as the result of a wrong turning. His aim is not to denigrate the myth, but to exalt the section which follows it. But he also implicitly challenges the audience to see if it can improve on the ill-judged (or perhaps over-modest) condemnation of the myth given by the poem’s narrator. More generally, the self-correction also lends intense spontaneity and liveliness to the poem. As Carey notes, ‘although Pindar works with conscious artistry, he deliberately creates and sustains the impression of informal, extempore composition’ (his commentary, p. ); as a result, ‘the poem can thus manipulate audience response while appearing to proceed entirely by a spontaneous and thus authentic process of thought’ (Scodel () ). Cf. further Bundy () n. , Race (b) , () , H. Mackie () –, Currie () . Other interpretations are less satisfactory. Some scholars argue that Pindar is motivated by the need to get on with the poem because time is pressing (cf. Kyriakou () n. ). But in contrast to e.g. P. . d # /, there is no mention of time. Pindar does not say ‘I must speed up my story’,
C O M M E N TA RY: – but ‘I must get back on the right course’. According to Mackie, ‘the poet is also, as so often, avoiding the temptation to tell a story that would be morally excessive’ (() n. ). There are indeed passages where ‘the poet refuses to tell or continue a particular tale that he judges unacceptable on moral / religious grounds’ (Kyriakou () with n. ; cf. e.g. O. ., ., Mackie () –). But this is not one of them: Pindar does not interrupt his story, but brings it to a full and fitting conclusion (n.) before commenting on its alleged irrelevance. For the move out of the myth at the start of new strophe Nierhaus () compares O. ., P. .. See further Race () –, Sevieri () n. ; for Pindaric ‘digressions’ in general see Stoneman ( a) –, Hutchinson’s commentary on Greek lyric poetry, pp. –, Mackie () –. P´eron () compares N. .– for the switch from a terrestrial image to a maritime one; cf. ibid. for the image at the end of a myth. For other references to sea and land together in Pindar cf. Rutherford ( ) n. . For series of two or more metaphors in Pindar see Stoneman ( b) n. . U is the non-Attic (and non-Koine) form of the particle U, which is used to introduce a question. Both derive from e D by crasis (cf. Apollonius Dyscolus i/ .– Schneider and Uhlig, followed by Denniston , ; cf. Molinos Tejada () –). Where U is transmitted in Pindar editors usually change it to e, but Braswell on P. .(b) argues that Pindar uses both forms. 3 :: the address (not found elsewhere in Pindar) is probably aimed at the Theban audience (so van Groningen () ) rather than Thrasydaeus and his father (so Instone () ) – the poet, after all, is at home. : Greek refers to a ‘place where three roads meet’ where English more naturally speaks of a fork in the road. The dialectal variant "/ – for "/3– is found elsewhere in Pindar at P. . "/9) and fr. S–M "/ / W & 2, and then not in literature until Euphorion fr. CA and Ap. Rh. .. The final syllable of 2 is long, even though it is composed of a short vowel followed by a single consonant. This is not uncommon with resonant consonants, however (cf. Christ () –, Maas () – = () –, Braswell on P. .(d); also West () – for the phenomenon in epic). Hermann’s "/ > - >2 - (() = () ) thus has nothing to recommend it. .
" : the regular verb 2A% would yield a passive 2F)G (which is in fact found in B, an easy error). Pindar’s verb is a denominative formed from Doric 2 (∼ Attic-Ionic 2G): cf. Strunk () –, Forssman () . We find the same vocalism in 8 2 - (I. .), 2/ (fr. u. S–M (Paean = S Rutherford)), and 2[]/ (Bacchyl. .). The only possible
C O M M E N TA RY: – Pindaric instance of the other vocalism is fr. f(c). S–M [3])+ 2 2G[ ]; in Bacchylides cf. . E 2F %, . 2G (but . 2[]/). The picture is also confused in Theocritus: see Gow on Theocr. .. 1 8 : the ‘path’ of Pindar’s song (‘der Weg des Programms, in das ja an sich auch der Mythos geh¨ort’: Becker () ). For references to song as a path (from Homer on) see Lefkowitz () n. = ( ) n. . V Many editors punctuate with a raised point here, but this is a question, not a statement. Instone () reports that Maehler intends his text to be read as two questions, but it is not clear why he then punctuates as he does. Instone himself prefers a comma, but the sense is more lively with the double question. For W X - in comparisons as equivalent to V- see Braswell on N. .. + Y : the term D - covers a range of vessels of different sizes, but generally with an emphasis on speed (cf. Kurt () , Pfeijffer on N. .–). In its other appearance in Pindar (N. .), it is mentioned alongside the @ -: the poet may envisage his songs travelling abroad in both light and bulky craft. The term in our passage perhaps thus ‘sugg`ere . . . la l´eg`eret´e de l’esquif, a` la merci du moindre vent’ (P´eron () ). For metaphors taken from the sea in Pindar more generally see D. C. Young () n. = Calder and Stern () n. . /M is a Byzantine reinterpretation of the paradosis –: Pindar would have written 7k for both forms, and hence they have equal ancient authority. Schroeder ( ed.) conjectured here and in five other places in Pindar. Although not found elsewhere, it is a likely supplement at Alcaeus fr. . Voigt = PLF ([]); for such forms in Lesbian see e.g. Bowie ( ) . But it is more likely that Pindar used the form /M -, found in Homer (Od. ., ., .), than that he chose a distinctively Lesbian form (so Braswell on P. .(b)). Byzantine or modern editors restore /M for transmitted - at Soph. Ant. , Eur. El. , Tro. , Hel. , , and Ar. Thesm. . Metrically guaranteed - has been corrupted to /M - in some manuscripts at Soph. Aj. , Eur. Hec. , and Phoen. ; we also find metrically guaranteed - at Archil. fr. . IEG and Aesch. Pers. . Braswell on P. .(d) claims that Pindar did not write double consonants: this would mean that Pindar’s 7 could also have represented –, and hence that Schroeder’s should be regarded as a reinterpretation of the paradosis rather than as an emendation. But double consonants are found in some archaic inscriptions from the late sixth century (cf. S–D i. ), and so we cannot be sure that Pindar did not use them. Irigoin () acknowledges the uncertainty.
C O M M E N TA RY: – – Pindar points out to the Muse that she has contracted her voice out for a price. The closest parallel is with the opening of Isthmian Two, where Pindar declares that poets of the past shot their poetic arrows at anyone who was beautiful: : N* # C &/2F- % > e C2 # -h | C2 A # /* /&)>## 1 \/n(>- | "# %)/* >% )>&% "2 (–). Hubbard () refers to the Isthmian passage as ‘self-deprecatory and ironic’, and sees the ‘same flippancy’ in our poem (ibid. n. ). But it is more than this: it ‘does not refer to the poet’s inferior economic position but suggests that the immortality of the victor – that is, his kleos dependent on the poet’s praise – is the result of conspicuous expenditure culminating in the payment for celebratory song’ (von Reden () –). On the whole question of payment for song and Pindar’s references to it see Kurke ( a). For the ‘laudator’s obligation’ see Bundy () . Krummen () – n. translates the passage ‘. . . you have agreed to provide your tongue as a reward . . .’, with )* presumably as a sort of genitive of aim (cf. ‘Pindars Lied ist “Lohn” f¨ur den Sieger, sozusagen aufgrund des (epinikienspezifischen) Kontraktes, daß die gute Leistung mit einem Lied (Ruhm) entlohnt werden muß’). This sense is most unlikely, however: such genitives are normally restricted to certain verbs, and here R # (whatever its exact sense) protects )* as a genitive of price. For the different senses of )>- see Will (). )4: ‘such sudden shifts of address in Pindaric odes give the impression of spontaneity and impulsiveness, but are carefully integrated into the progressive argument’ (Race () n. , on O. . –). For the address as the poet returns to the programme of the ode cf. Race (b) , van der Weiden on fr. a.– S–M; for the address to the Muses at this point see Bundy () n. . Pindar uses the Aeolic form, instead of the H or = found in other dialects: cf. Verdier () –, N¨othiger ( ) . Z [ : thus Moschopulus reinterprets the 0 2 /> of the manuscripts: for erroneous division of words in manuscripts see D. C. C. Young () – = Calder and Stern () . For the sense cf. Soph. El. n. 4: for the sense see –n. The genitive (for transmitted )) is owed to Christ , although Bergk had previously rejected it. It gives better sense than Bothe’s )* (() ii. –). * : for )G in Pindar denoting the contract between poet and patron see Gentili ( ) . Original A)/, which contracts to A) in Attic, becomes A)/ in several other dialects, including Doric (cf. Molinos Tejada () –). : 8 \ ‘your mercenary voice’. R # - should mean ‘with silver underneath’, but it is not clear how we get from this to the sense necessary
C O M M E N TA RY: – here. In advocating the translation ‘sold / hired for silver, mercenary’, LSJ s.v. R # - II refer to the sense ‘bribed’ of # >% (s.v. II, where they cite Soph. Ant. ): but the different prefix means that this is not comparable. Citing R /9) - and R >2- (Michael Reeve per litteras adds R >(/%-), Schroeder () argues that the formation means '(- "# 1 )H. But ‘subject to scrutiny’, ‘subject to justice’, or even ‘subject to a debt’ are very different from ‘subject to [a fee paid in] silver’ (the translation offered by Burton () ). According to Wilamowitz ( ) n. = (–) vi. n. (supported by Schadewaldt () – n. ), there is a contrast between the gold of truth and the silver of praise acquired for money (‘die Zunge, die Silber unter sich hat, redet nicht das Gold der Wahrheit, sondern das plattierte Silber des erkauften Lobes’); cf. LSJ s.v. I , S–D ii. , Eitrem () . But while Pindar allows himself references to the monetary aspect of epinician composition ( –n.), it would be fatal to his encomiastic intention to state or even imply that his praises were insincere or untrue. Silver stands here for monetary compensation in general: it is not opposed to gold. Perhaps the best we can do is to assign the prefix the sense ‘somewhat, partially’ as often with R >: but this hardly seems satisfactory. Schneider emended to # , which may be supported by Hesych. / (ii. Latte) # h )% F. This would give us silver on top of the voice rather than beneath it, but it is not clear that this makes things easier. This difficult expression must be set closely alongside I. .– (cited above, –n.), which refers to songs as girls ‘with their faces silvered over’ ("# ? %)/* >% , transl. Race) being sold (i.e. as prostitutes) by the Muse Terpsichore. Their faces are whitened with cosmetics because a silver face was a sign of beauty, and hence would make them more attractive to potential customers (cf. Alcman fr. . PMGF "#9 >% , Sappho fr. . Voigt = PLF, Ar. Eccl. , Plut. , Lys. . >% n )=)). But the emphatic reference to silver in the context of selling songs must also reinforce the idea of monetary transaction already present in the description (cf. N. .
%>)/ 2 "# %)A /- + MG*- & - " A3 for the passive of the verb meaning ‘paid in silver’). Could the reference to the &% R ? # have a similarly double function? That is, the basic sense was ‘silvery voice’ in the sense of ‘attractive to listen to’ (elsewhere ‘golden’ is the adjective used (Lucr. . aurea dicta, Cic. Acad. . flumen orationis aureum, Men. Rhet. ( > -), but note the English ‘silver-tongued’), alongside which the context encouraged the additional sense of ‘mercenary’. Perhaps Anacreon fr. PMG C2 "# W % > ' / /)$ shows a similar double sense. Another possible instance, Pind. fr. S–M N* "#9/ (cited by Julian the Apostate), is more likely an inaccurate reminiscence of I. .– and our passage (cf. Woodbury () n. = ( ) n. ).
C O M M E N TA RY: – + +;: for repeated D- used to ‘tease audience expectation by opening up boundless possibilities, by presenting the illusion of an open-ended composition’ (Carey () ) cf. P. .– #%% # D% - T% | D D d / A )9/ >#, O. . D / 2 D /9/ a - q%) - :2 //* | ) &>## &$ ' / C=. As Carey notes, such passages (and others without D-) stress the variety of themes in the epinician, together with Pindar’s skill in controlling them. For repeated D- in Pindar in general see Des Places () –, Krause () –. (F appears in manuscripts before A/, and must be deleted to secure responsion. For the intrusion of a gloss see D. C. C. Young () – = Calder and Stern () . The error was almost inevitable after the correct division of 0 2 /> had been lost ( n.). : transitive, with &% as its object (so LSJ s.v. % I , Garvie on Aesch. Cho. – (p. )). Wilamowitz ( ) = (–) vi. , () n. (followed by Schadewaldt () – Anm. ) argues for an intransitive sense (‘to stir’), but this would require the middle, not the active. Wilamowitz cites Aesch. Cho. and Eur. Suppl. : but his text of these two passages is probably wrong (see Garvie’s n. on the former and Diggle () – = () – on the latter). For the infinitive in –/ in Pindar see Braswell on P. .(a). A 9 (: ‘for immortality the naming is essential. To be preserved in song as an anonymous father, uncle or grandfather is not to be preserved at all’ (Carey () ). Pindar always names the father in odes to boy victors (ibid. n. ); the one exception, O. , takes as a theme the presence of athletic success in alternate generations. By closely associating father and son, ‘the poet suggests by his syntax that the athlete has lived up to the expectations of his father and bestows on him the highest praise – complete identification with the patriline’ (Kurke ( b) , on another passage). The name Pythonicus implies a victory by the grandfather (see the Introduction, section ). Triclinius’ emendation ( )– for )–) is required by the metre. See D. C. C. Young () – = Calder and Stern () for places where a scribe has added ‘iota to a form or word where it is metrically or otherwise incorrect’ (his italics). The name Pythonicus is widely attested (cf. LGPN i. –, ii. , iii/a. , iii/b. , iv. ); for the name Pythionicus cf. LGPN i. , ii. . : for the short upsilon see n. > ((: for the name see n. 2 J: % A / - .:: here /C&9G denotes ‘celebration’ in the abstract; elsewhere in Pindar it often has the concrete sense ‘victory
C O M M E N TA RY: – revel’ (cf. Bundy () ), but the coordination with 2>5 rules that out in our case. For ‘light as a metaphor of fame’ see Lefkowitz () n. = ( ) n. , Bremer () –, Race () , Hummel () , Parisinou () –. For &A#/ denoting a blaze of glory (‘exclusively Pindaric’) see Henry on N. .–; also Gerber on O. .. For 2>5 in Pindar see Steinkopf () –. – For the catalogue of victories see the Introduction, section . Pindar uses plurals even though single victories are probably meant throughout: ‘four or more victories are thus suggested, though a figure as low as two is not excluded’ (Cole () ). See further Cole’s article for Pindar’s free use of the plural in such descriptions. The effect is to glorify the family (cf. Von der M¨uhll () = () ‘alle drei großen panhellenischen Erfolge sind da prachtvoll im Plural, der das jeweilige Einzelne vergr¨oßert’, D¨uring () ). For accounts of the successes of the victor’s family in epinician see Kurke ( a) n. . : Denniston cites this instance as an example of A going with
/ (in and ; cf. n.). The particle is not a connector, and the resulting asyndeton is probably explanatory ( n.). <. > is omitted from the manuscripts by haplography after A; for this type of error cf. Diggle ( a) – n. , () = () , () with n. (D. C. C. Young () = Calder and Stern () wrongly claims that the mistake is ‘unmotivated’ here). : used of persons elsewhere in Pindar at P. .; for further occurrences see Pfeijffer’s commentary, pp. –. ; -: Maas () – = () – conjectured ) , citing N. . M#)/ (Schwartz; –)/- codd.). The change is only of a single letter, as word-final iota in long diphthongs is omitted so often (as in this word in DEF, at least) that it has practically no authority. For confusion between theta and tau see Diggle () = () and () ; for the formation see Lejeune () . This would mean that A in corresponded with
/ in (cf. Hajd´u () – n. ). But the balance of ! with )* / in (also at the start of a line) protects the former. B : : the genitive is ablatival: Thrasydaeus and his father ‘capture’ swift radiance ( '( ) " *) from the games at Olympia. The adjective means ‘much spoken about’, or ‘spoken about by many’, and hence ‘glorious’ (Gerber on O. .). 8 4 ‘swift radiance’: for this sense of " - cf. P. . with Braswell, I. . –. For praise of speed in Pindar see Mader on O. . (pp. –). For the brightness or radiance of the victor cf. O. . &> "#Z, . c# 2=, Carey on P. ., Gerber on O. ..
C O M M E N TA RY: – Z .A : for nakedness in Greek athletics see Golden () – and (for bibliography) Christesen () – n. , S. G. Miller () –. For the sense of 2 see the Introduction, section . For used of approaching a task or contest see Braswell on Pind. P. .(d). ? : for 3% = ‘enter a contest’ cf. N. . –, .–, LSJ s.v. I , Nisbet and Rudd on Hor. C. ..– (descendat). – ]/ | & I 8 ^%: the closing expression emphasises the magnitude of their achievements: their adversaries are no mere group of athletes, but ‘the host of Hellas’ (cf. P. . 67 2 A(!). The word denoting the key to their success is saved until last: cf. O. . O - #j
( P . – A life which avoids tyrannical excess and is devoted to civic virtue can still flourish in prosperity and keep envy at bay, if not avoid it altogether. This sentiment corresponds to the gnomic passage at –: Q3- and &)>() are balanced by Q3%; /)> () and &)/1 2 "9 (), while (G A% () will be reversed in D <$ (). But the stark formulation of the earlier passage, where Q3- led to &)>-, and poverty to obscurity, yields here to an account consistent with it and yet more optimistic in tone. The victor, it is implied, does possess Q3- and encounters &)>-, but through his moderate behaviour holds on to the former for longer and can deal with the latter. The new section has no connecting particle: ‘asyndeton is common with first-person utterances, and increases their trenchancy’ (Hutchinson on O. .–, comparing O. ., ., N. ., ., .; add O. .). Pindar’s use of the first person tends to be more restrained in Theban odes than elsewhere: ‘in the victory odes composed for his native city we would look in vain for all the features of the prominent praiser we have met in other poems. In Thebes . . . he is very careful not to appear as a personally outstanding figure’ (D’Alessio () ). . 2 : ‘la prima persona non esprime una opinione personale del cantore, ma e` un modo pi`u affettivo e vivace di presentare una massima di valore generale’ (Pavese () ); ‘the speaker offers himself as an example of a whole group, the representative of decent or typical opinion’ (Carey on P. .–). Cf. Von der M¨uhll () with n. = () with n. , D. C. Young () , Lefkowitz () – = ( ) –, D’Alessio () ; also Servius on Virg. Georg. . (iii. .– Thilo and Hagen) suam autem personam pro quocumque posuit. For recent bibliography on ‘I’ in Pindar see Sullivan () – n. , nn. –. For more on Pindaric prayers see H. Mackie () – n. .
C O M M E N TA RY: – The verb exhibits what Carey on P. . calls ‘the familiar Greek use of '%and its cognates with reference to strong drives other than sexual desire, a use especially familiar in Pindar’, citing e.g. N. .; cf. LSJ s.v. % II. For the combination with = cf. Theogn. = 2 = o + H- P;-. For the formation of the adverb see Lejeune () –. 8 . R;: ‘each time of life has characteristics especially appropriate to it’ (Braswell on P. . –(a)): cf. N. .– 2 /! A- | 2&/ - 5($ /- #AG . | 1 A *-. "2 "F. | A. A- t '(/ | 3> / ')-. The verb is found in epic, lyric, and tragedy, but not prose. – ‘Moderation was a persistent ideal of poets’ (Nisbet and Hubbard on Hor. C. ..); cf. e.g. Theogn. % A D , Phocyl. fr. West A D h A- )A% >/ /S, Bassus A.P. ..– = – GP, Collard on Eur. Suppl. –. On alleged connexions between these lines and Aesch. Eum. – see the Introduction, section /ii. J. K. Newman () sees a direct link with Solon, but there is nothing especially Solonian about the lines. His claim (p. ) that the passage shows language which our poet ‘had obviously heard during his student days in Athens’ appears to confuse Pindar with Horace. 2 . . . 8 : the article represents either an original (‘among the affairs of the city’) or E (‘ . . . the people . . .’); the subsequent A may suggest that the neuter is more likely. – ( | L?(: both the comparative and superlative are metrically possible and attested in the manuscripts. The comparative gives better sense: ‘Q3- is transient, but may abide longer under certain circumstances’ (Carey on P. . 0 C( R A// Q3, comparing N. ., I. .–); it ‘refers . . . to time, not extent’ (Carey, ibid.). For the corruption of comparative to superlative see D. C. C. Young () = Calder and Stern () , Davies on Soph. Tr. ff. For the significance of attributing longer-lasting Q3- to A see –n. 9 before Q3%; was deleted by Triclinius to secure responsion. : for the metaphorical use of ) % cf. Salvador Castillo () –, Thren. fr. . S–M = . Cannat`a Fera, Hes. Op. . : - _
: as in (n.), the first person expresses a general view rather than something unique to the poet. For ‘disclaimers preceded or followed by the expression of the speaker’s /-’ see Bundy () n. . Disclaiming tyranny is a familiar poetic motif: cf. Archil. fr. IEG o
r9#/% H (9 A/ | . . . | . . . /# G- 2 C A% 2-,
C O M M E N TA RY: – Anacr. fr. PMG #j 2 o b )G- | 3 G A- o ' / | / F / " 0 | \ GH 3/H, Simon. fr. PMG # :2P- D / ) = 3- )/0- B -g | P2 D / C2 )/= qG% 0- M$ with Poltera () (cf. Young () –, prob. e.g. Hornblower () ). Xen. Hier. . /% + /C& E 9
= / %- 2#> % M2% =. Sol. fr. IEG, where the poet does disclaim a tyranny which was offered to him, is a special case: it would be a brave historian who argued on the basis of our passage that the Thebans had tried to set up Pindar (or even Thrasydaeus) as their tyrant. Attempts to connect this statement with contemporary tyrannies, whether in or , have been unsuccessful: see the Introduction, section /iii. As Pavese () points out, the statement is expressed as a comment on the tyrant’s quality of life rather than as a political judgment. There were precedents for athletic success leading to attempts at setting up a tyranny (cf. Catenacci (), especially with nn. –), but Kurke ( a) goes too far in claiming that ‘the suspicion of tyrannical aspirations is . . . the specter that haunts the athletic successes of [the victor’s] family until it is resolutely exorcised by the poet’. Rather, such statements in Pindar reaffirm the commitment of poet and victor to the values of their society by stressing that, while the victor is glorified by his success, it does not lead him into the sort of excesses which characterise the life of the tyrant. Nagy’s claim that ‘the function of Pindar’s epinician lyric poetry was to praise the reality of victory and to warn against the potential of tyranny’ (() ) is also unbalanced (cf. Carey () ). Pindar’s purpose is to praise the victor: any warnings against tyranny contribute to this, and are not an end in themselves. / 4 . . . 4: like >-, 5 >- often describes actions or virtues which benefit the wider community (cf. I. ., ., Archil. fr. a. IEG, Bundy () –). Sevieri () n. compares K "/ F as an admired characteristic of benefactors at Xen. Hier. .. Such behaviour stands opposed to that of the &)/, who follow on from this phrase. is omitted by V: for the loss of this word in Pindaric manuscripts see D. C. C. Young () = Calder and Stern () . : for the perfect of /% in this sense cf. I. . # 1 2 P- "9% 0 MW A ; also Xenophanes fr. B. IEG >- (Koraes:
0 f- codd.) "& "/ W-. For the first person see n. – : A - % . | < ->: the manuscripts read &)/1 2 "9 D (). This gives one too many syllables to the period which makes up line . Scholars who retain some form of D G in the text thus assume that the elision is incorrect, which gives us &)/1 2 "9 h | D (). Since accents are not part of the paradosis, the final word could just as well be U as D ! (pace Bernardini, p. ).
C O M M E N TA RY: – Whichever case we adopt, the following /M is problematic. For the line to scan, the second syllable of D ! (or U ) must form a single syllable with /M through synizesis. There are no good examples of this in Pindar. Boeckh () = (–) v. – claims that there are, but most of his alleged parallels are from Homer and thus irrelevant for Pindaric prosody, while his Pindaric examples can all be regularised by the lightest of emendations. So at O. . Snell prints Moschopulus’ "2 for transmitted "2 ; at N. . Henry prints 2 Qn instead of Qn ( Qn iam Mingarelli, prob. Snell); while at I. .– transmitted B [ / has in each case had its [ / interpolated by comparison with B [ / in line , and Erasmus Schmid consequently deleted them. H´oman deleted /M to remove the synizesis; keeping D !, he reinterpreted the following word as -, giving a question ending at " A& #/ (prob. Bundy () n. ). Van Groningen () (supported by Newman () ) adopts the same approach, except that he prefers U ; this would require &)/ as well. But we should not be quick to abandon the conditional format. The structure, whereby the protasis expresses the actions of the good or successful man and the apodosis the rewards which he will gain as a result, is paralleled at I. . – /c - "2= /C (F- B + /C2>5- "A)| B )A/ 9 A(/ &1 MW >. | D5- /C#- " = /(), .– /M # - ")$ % 2 ! / (/- | 1 >%; / )/2 - "/ - | 9 A E 2% & /9/ 2>5 F . ( *42G 0- Q3 | 3 / D# )/> - $, N. . –. The same format is applied to the deeds of bad men and their consequences at I. .– /M 2A
- '2 A/ H &*. | D 2 % #/P;. n ( Z2!
/A% C & q/ 2>5- D/ )/ and .– 2 /c - | /. 3(+- 5A) (> /2 )/= t2. (Bernardini ad loc. and Pini () n. cite O. .–, P. .–, .–, N. .– as further parallels, but while these all have /c -, they contain moral advice in the apodosis, rather than the consequence of the actions detailed in the protasis, and are therefore not comparable.) As Pini () well objects, ‘ad un avvio cos`ı tipico della gnome pindarica come /c - malvolentieri si renuncia’. No such parallels exist for the rhetorical question. Whether or not we eliminate /M, neither &)/1 2 "9 D ! nor &)? /1 2 "9 U gives satisfactory sense. With D !, various translations have been suggested. The sense could be ‘the envious fight back with ruin’: but "9 is not the word for the hostile assault of the envious. An alternative, ‘the envious are warded off to their destruction’, is intolerably compressed, with the dative working very hard. Others take the dative as instrumental, including Boeckh () (‘invidi coercentur damno’), Wilamowitz () , Schroeder () , and Gentili (‘sono puniti gli invidiosi dal loro stesso delirio’). Bernardini ad loc. compares P. .– " C2 H > | M/
C O M M E N TA RY: – &)/=h )- 2A - <>/ | /P- A 5 t- I2 0 )/ 2!. | 1 [ & 2 G (/*. But there the paradox that the envious end up hurting themselves is appropriately stressed by the phrase
/*- "/)&> 0- D "/ P- | e) (all cited by Henry on the last passage). But as Hermann () = () points out, ‘summa quum dicit Pindarus, fere victorias in sacris ludis intelligit, ut id hic quoque fecisse, et non D "/ P in mente habuisse videatur’. Better is Boeckh’s <" > (in his edition, p. ; attributed by D¨uring () to Wackernagel, which is presumably a slip), which is printed by Snell and approved by D. C. Young () n. . We need a connecting particle, and there is no other candidate; " also provides a break from the preceding reference to 2/- and &)/, as the poet moves to describe the lot of the modest but successful man. The preceding phrase should be translated ‘the envious are warded off’ (cf. e.g. Bulman () , Race). For "9% ‘ward off’ see LSJ s.v. A I; for the passive DGE s.v. "9% I cites this passage, together with Thuc. .. " #G # . /M c / / C =. 1 "9/) K D/ R=
9 - (‘if you join in their attack, you must share the punishment which the defenders inflict on them’, Crawley’s translation) and Pl. Leg. c @ 2 G&)/1 0- = #/#j- A)% 1 " A)%. Dickie () prefers the middle, but the resulting sense ‘phthoneroi punish themselves’ is obscure and unexpected. – For victory as an antidote to death and old age see Mader on O. .– (p. ). For the protasis describing the actions of the victor see –n. The statement has two stages: ‘men should pursue goals that are in keeping
C O M M E N TA RY: – with their mortal status and once they have achieved these goals, they should avoid hybris by handling their success with hˆesychia’ (Dickie () ). Dickie compares Sol. fr. .– IEG 2F ) J#/>% D2- >-. < * | T3- /# G- D#/ )/*h | C # A(/ > C2 9- | /C&9- /* 2 0- J (Wy. + =B : for the D as the summit of the athlete’s achievements cf. N. .– ' 2 /C (! | 25- D, I. . – ' 2 "& /
9(- 1 A%. | 1 A- D EA). 6*(: so Mommsen, after Hermann () = () : (P. The manuscript reading J (() could only stand if it scanned –˘–, which would require consonantalised iota. The evidence for this in Pindar and Bacchylides is set out by Radermacher () and Scheller ( ) . Of the passages which they cite, P. ., ., N. . can be regularised by a simple emendation, while the alleged example at fr. k. S–M (Paean = A Rutherford) is itself an (uncompelling) emendation. Only Bacchyl. . is a plausible case, but as that involves a proper name (Y%%) it is not comparable. Radermacher and Scheller do not mention our passage. Consonantalised iota in our passage would also presumably lengthen the middle syllable: since this is in the aeolic base of a glyconic a long would be possible, but undesirable as elsewhere we have a short in this position throughout. Mommsen’s small emendation should therefore be welcomed. For the vocalism J– see Forssman () –. J ( denotes ‘quiet restraint in the face of the good things of life’ (Dickie () ; cf. Hornblower () –). For ‘the peace won by the successful athlete’ see Carey on N. ..
: for A with the sense ‘live, dwell’ Slater s.v. A% a3 compares I. .. – Y 8 D? | : : the T3- is that of the athlete, not the phthoneroi (so rightly Dickie () ; at ibid. n. he lists some supporters of the contrary view). The reputation one leaves to one’s offspring (–) is not dependent on whether one has been affected by the T3- of others, but whether one has avoided it oneself. The close connexion between T3- and J ( (– n.) means that they most naturally both refer to the same thing: that is, the behaviour of the athlete. For the sense of the word cf. Fisher () , for whom T3- in Pindar ‘predominantly . . . denotes humans who unjustly and deliberately infringe the obligations of xenia, charis and aidos towards others, and endanger the peace and stability of harmonious social relations and settings inside a community’. It would thus be a remarkably strong way of referring to the behaviour of the envious (cf. Fisher () ). For Dickie () T3- denotes ‘an arrogant and over-confident state of mind’, but again, the reputation left to one’s offspring will be affected by one’s internal mental state only insofar as it affects one’s actions.
C O M M E N TA RY: – – ` .*8 |
: the interlacing word order stresses the paradox of the ‘fairer bourn of black death’ towards which the good man tends. Rauchenstein () compares the Homeric ) Aand A- ) (Il. ., ., Clarke () – n. ); also at Hes. Op. (perhaps spurious), Theogn. , Aesch. Sept. . LSJ s.v. ( II bizarrely take " ( to mean ‘at last’, citing only a passage of Nicander as a parallel for this sense. For ‘black death’ cf. Hom. Il. ., Clarke () General Index s.v. ‘death as darkness’, Davies on Soph. Tr. ff. For enduring fame after death in Pindar cf. Bundy () –. Whether we take D as a preposition or a particle (as here) depends on the verb supplemented in (n.). For the erroneous addition of 2A see D. C. C. Young () = Calder and Stern () . For Gentili’s text see the Metrical Analysis. <*>: so Wilamowitz ap. Schroeder ( edn.). Two long syllables are missing after ) and before # !. The missing syllables must consist of a verb, as otherwise the apodosis to the protasis begun with /M in would lack one. Most manuscripts have in the gap, while D has '(/ . The scholia to H read '(/, while the scholia to E have 5/H/. Triclinius has '(/. But neither '(/ nor 5/H/ would fit the gap because the immediately preceding word ends with a vowel, and would thus create an impossible hiatus with the former and impossible synizesis with the other (–n.). The verbs are probably no more than makeshifts to plug the gap (which would have been visually apparent to scribes, as it occurred at the end of a manuscript colon which would consequently have looked too short). is an even worse attempt at the same, from someone who did not understand how # ! #//P y fitted the sentence. The missing verb will have been one of ‘getting’ or ‘travelling’. The former would take ( as a direct object, and hence D in would be a particle. The latter could take ( as an accusative of motion towards (K–G i. –), and hence D as a particle; or else " could be a preposition governing the noun (cf. Archil. fr. . IEG H- " ( F). Whichever we adopt, the tense is crucial. A past tense would be inappropriate, because the prospect of death lies in the future. A present would be passable, but still inferior to a future, or an optative with D. The latter is the only possibility with a verb of getting, since in that case D must be a particle: but none readily springs to mind. With a verb of travelling, however, Wilamowitz’s < /(> fulfils our need exactly. For the ‘journey of death’ see Davies on Soph. Tr. –, Sourvinou-Inwood () index s.v. ‘journey to Hades’. Words easily drop out at the end of a manuscript colon: see Henry on N. .–, Barrett (b) n. . For the loss of a disyllable see D. C. C. Young () = Calder and Stern () . For the erroneous addition of see ibid. = .
C O M M E N TA RY: – ; @: for # 9- of persons see LSJ s.v. I ; the usage is not found elsewhere in Pindar (pace Slater s.v. a, who cites O. .). JB . . . * ‘is ( - that consists in a good Q: the victor bequeathes to his family a good name, which they will take pleasure in ((/)’ (Instone () n. ). For the importance of ( - for the victor see Gerber on O. ., MacLachlan () –. : for the association of glory with possessions cf. P. ., N. .–, Mader on O. .– (p. ). B’s will have been caused by the ending of the preceding /C$ . – The end of the ode is dominated by Iolaus, Castor, and Pollux, figures who occur several times elsewhere in Pindar. He cites the trio as supreme examples of valour from their respective cities at I. .– 2 F3- E > >- | #A- '(/. //+- 2 _#/. Y - 2 M( 2/9/> 7C$ {/A)-. Castor and Iolaus are closely connected in Isthmian One, where after mentioning the victory of Herodotus (like Thrasydaeus, a Theban), Pindar declares )A% | B Y /%; B >5 T%;. | /* # J$% 2&G k/2 1 F3- A%)/ ?
(–). There follows an account of their sporting triumphs, before the pair are invoked again as &A- *- @>2- j = #A/. | \ 22- 2 (*- Rn /2 / - MA% t2- (–). Castor and Pollux are frequently found together in Pindar: cf. O. . – and – (associated with Theron), P. .– (warriors and neighbours of the Dorians), P. . – (crew of the Argo, with Heracles), fr. c S–M (calmers of wind and wave), fr. s S–M (Paean = S Rutherford, which opens with a reference to a temple of the Tyndarids, and may have gone on to the subject of Heracles: cf. Rutherford ( ) –). The narrative in N. .– describes Pollux’ decision to share his immortality with his mortal brother after the latter is fatally wounded. Castor alone is mentioned at fr. S–M (inventor of the %-); P. . refers to 0 Y >/, a ‘Castor-song’ (cf. I. ., cited above). Pindar cites these three here as examples of people made famous by the ( - which comes from moderation. Such a capacious characteristic includes many other heroes, so it is natural to ask what else connects them with the poem. The Tyndarids are closely associated with Sparta (cf. Thommen () –), and this association is brought out by the reference to Therapnae in . Given that Iolaus is a specifically Theban hero (cf. I. .–), this makes the trio especially appropriate in an ode for a Theban victor which contains a myth set prominently at Sparta. Moreover, ‘the mention of the cult site Therapne and the divided life of the Tyndaridai on earth and in Olympos parallels the identification of the heroines with the Ismenion shrine cult and the sisters’ separate homes among the Olympians and Nereids’ (Greengard () –).
C O M M E N TA RY: – The balance goes further: the sisters Ino and Semele are followed by Alcmene, while the brothers Castor and Pollux are preceded by Iolaus. The heroes thus fit with a significant theme as well as playing a firm but unobtrusive structural function. The ordering of the three heroes is significant: ‘Iolaus (the model relevant to the Theban victor Thrasydaeus) yields to Castor and Polydeuces, E1 )/=’ (Race (c) – n. , comparing I. .–, where Iolaus is climactically followed by Castor). Other possible connexions are not as compelling. The Tyndarids are often associated with athletics and horsemanship (cf. O. ., Hom. Il. ., Od. ., Cypria fr. . EGF = . PEG = . GEF Y ) E >2 1 "/)&> 2/9/, K¨ohnken () = () , Race (c) (‘traditional models for all-round athletic ability’)), and this would be an obvious link to exploit in an epinician poem. In this instance it must have been too obvious, as Pindar makes no reference to that aspect of the Tyndarids in this ode. For Rauchenstein () , the alternation of states which the Dioscuri undergo fits with the theme of /> G-, because it is the consequence of their being ‘modest and moderate in their desires’ (‘bescheiden und m¨assig in ihrem w¨unschen’, referring to the end of N. ). But Pollux’s decision to share immortality with his brother (which in any case is not mentioned in our poem) is an act of generosity, not of modesty or moderation. Van Groningen () tries a different approach on the same point: he claims that in their perpetually changing state ‘l’exaltation est constamment contrebalanc´ee par l’humiliation’, and hence they form an appropriate end to a poem which glorifies /> G-. But alternation from one extreme to the other, from death to life on Olympus, can hardly be described as /> G-: the middle, indeed, is the one place where we never find them. F. S. Newman () and Most (b) see a reference to Heracles via Iolaus (who was the former’s close companion during his labours), which would thus balance the reference to Heracles via Alcmene near the start of the ode. But the bare reference to Iolaus, with no mention of Heracles, is hardly enough to encourage such a connexion. a: for [ / in Pindar see Ruijgh ( ) –, who rightly advocates printing instances as a single word. ‘Whether we write / or / is a matter of indifference; the former has, however, the advantage of showing that it functions as one word and of clearly distinguishing it from / “and which”’ (Braswell on P. .(c)). – Z : | . . . : Iphicles was Heracles’ half-brother, the son of Alcmene by Amphitryon. His son Iolaus was Heracles’ close companion and assistant in some of his labours. For Iolaus in Thebes see further Schachter ( –) ii. –, Olson on Ar. Ach. –, Henry on N. . (the Theban
C O M M E N TA RY: – Heraclea were held at the Iolaeum); in Pindar see Fehr () –, Bernardini (). : ‘carries abroad’ (sc. the fame of) (Slater s.v. 2&A% a; cf. LSJ s.v. II ). – The Iliad emphatically proclaims the mortality of the Dioscuri (.– ). According to the Odyssey (.–), while they are both children of Tyndareus and Lede (so not of Zeus), and both are held by the & q- S, nevertheless 1 A)/ #W- K 0- uG0- '( /- | D / q$ < /F/. D / 2 | / | /)Ph K 2 />#( S )/*. In the Cypria (p. .– EGF = p. . – PEG = p. GEF), after Paris takes Helen to Troy, Castor and Pollux are caught trying to steal the cattle of Idas and Lynceus. Castor is killed by Idas; Idas and Lynceus are then killed by Pollux. Then u/+- C *- < /F/ A/ K "). Castor is mortal, Pollux immortal (fr. EGF = PEG = GEF). The story is retold by Pindar in Nemean Ten, a poem of uncertain date. Cf. especially N. .– / /3>/ 2 5 :A 1 &%; | 1 A . 2 R 0 /9)/ #- # - / -. | > " /- @*, ibid. – ^ A / A- #- R A/)/ $. | ^ 2 CH ( A- 2>. The tradition may also have been known to Alcman (n.). There is no reliable evidence for a cult of the Dioscuri in Thebes (so Schachter ( –) i. –). For the Dioscuri in Pindar see further Fehr () –. For myths in Pindar ‘concerning heroes who are “betwixt and between” mortality and immortality’ see Bouvrie (a) . \ " : elsewhere in Pindar only at P. ., of the successful athlete. ? ‘mighty Castor’: for other such periphrases in Pindar cf. O. . (Oenomaus), N. . (Phocus), . (Castor), . (Aristagoras), I. . (Memnon); cf. also Maehler on Bacchyl. .. For similar expressions involving 3G in Homer see K–G i. , Wackernagel (–) ii. , Ruijgh () –. + /: some manuscripts have D5, which as Pindar probably used scriptio plena is a possible interpretation of the paradosis rather than a manuscript reading proper. For false elision in Pindaric manuscripts see D. C. C. Young () – = Calder and Stern () . With this word Pindar observes or fails to observe the digamma at will (Heimer (–) –, Braswell on P. .(d)); in general see Braswell on P. .(d), N¨othiger ( ) . + / 9%: ‘Pindar . . . enlivens the style by addressing one of a pair directly, but usually the second’ (Gerber on O. .–). For D5 as a title of Castor or Pollux see Hemberg () –. 7A 2 : cf. N. . )/= . . . #A-, also of Castor and Pollux (where see Henry).
C O M M E N TA RY: – b : Therapne was c. . km. south-east of Sparta. Alcman fr. PMGF = Calame places their cult there (lines – ]C 0 (sc. N/A) P[) *- / ]- / = 0- 9[%]; cf. also – / - [ ]- '( and – " - //[ - . . .] &)/ &A[(-)], although the plurals here may refer to Menelaus and Helen rather than the Dioscuri). Cf. also Eur. Tro. (ii. .– Schwartz) MG F> & - / - = 9% > R 0 K #W W- / G/S A# q= /-. V- (p. PMGF) &G. Apart from N. .– (cited above, –n.), Pindar associates the Dioscuri with Therapne at I. . \ 22- (i.e. Castor) 2 (*- Rn /2 / - MA% t2-. See further Wide () –, B¨olte () –. Therapne was also the site of the ‘Menelaeum’, built around (cf. Antonaccio () –, Cartledge () n. , () , , McCauley () n. ), although this may not have been associated with Menelaus as opposed to Helen until rather after it was built ( J. M. Hall () ). Certainly by the early fifth century both Menelaus and Helen were receiving dedications separately there (Antonaccio () ). See further B¨olte (). For t2 of the seat of a divinity cf. O. . AG 2A & t2, ., I. ., Aesch. Ag. , LSJ s.v. I . - c : for with the accusative meaning ‘during’ see S–D ii. ; there may also be the idea of a succession of days, as at Soph. Aj. . It is only found in one of the coordinated A . . . 2A clauses; Moorhouse () compares Soph. OC – A&% t /. | 2 e |)o5% D%. Y : for MA% in this context cf. I. . (cited above, –n.), N. . )/0- '/ M/* C. 5 %: cf. Hes. Th. 0- 9 , with West’s n. (‘“Olympus” is here the gods’ settlement at the top of the mountain, not the mountain itself’). For '2 with the genitive in Pindar cf. O. ., .; it takes the dative at N. . and .. According to LSJ s.v. I , Pindar uses it as a strengthened form of , but it is not clear where this extra strength lies.
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INDEX OF SUBJECTS ab urbe condita construction: accentuation not part of paradosis: , , , H, :
&-: – with demonstrative: Acheron: adjective, in place of genitive: Aeschylus, Oresteia relationship with Pindar, Pythian Eleven: –, – Agamemnon cult of: – reasons for death: – returns home only to be killed: weapon used in killing: Alcmene: , , Amyclae: – apocope: Ares: Boeotians and tripods: – stupid: Cadmus: – Cassandra: , , –, Castor and Pollux: –, Cirrha: Clytemnestra adultery of: , , associated with Helen: death briefly described: identified with snake? motivation for killing Agamemnon: –, , tries to kill Orestes: – weapon used to kill Agamemnon:
Corinna date of: Orestas: – crown as metaphor: as prize: Daphnephoria: – Dardanus, Dardanians: death black: far from home: journey of: Delphi, navel of earth: envy: –, Erinyes: Euripus: Foce del Sele, temple at: – gnomai: – gold, associated with gods: Harmonia: hearth: Helen: Hippocleas of Pelinna: hospitality: , hymnic features: , , , begin Pindaric odes: imitation: Ino: , –, Iolaus: – Iphicles: Iphigenia, sacrifice of: , , , Ismenium: , Laconia home of Atreids: , , –
INDEX OF SUBJECTS manuscripts: –, and paradosis: –, , , , errors (real or alleged) anagrammatisation: confusion of: case: , : comparative/ superlative: : gender: : letters: //G: : //: : G/ : : G/: : )/ : : tense: , : word division: : word order: : words: 2A/2F: : 4/: : >-// >-: dittography: false elision: haplography: intrusion of: augment: : 2A: : : : gloss: , , : iota: added: , : lost: : omission of: 2A: : Doric alpha: : final nu: , , : word: , Megacles of Athens: – Melia: – metre etc. aeolic base: colometry: – dochmius kaibelianus: hypodochmiac: iota, consonantalised: metrical licence with proper names: , , names of cola: – patterning: prosody: resolution, rare in choriamb: responsion, strictness of: – synizesis: , –, moderation: ,
Nereids: nouns accusative in –A: triple: – dative of cause: genitive ablatival: after 9%: of aim: of price: of quality: nominative in –- as vocative: vocative with attribute: with l: Olympus: Orestes killing of Clytemnestra: , links with Thrasydaeus: – nurse of: , , –, present at death of father: , , , presentation of: – orthography etc. /M -: )=-: 2P!-: Y 2: Y F : />-: >-:
&-: – papyri: , path of song: periphrasis: Philinus of Cos: Pindar a bungler? familiar to Aeschylus, Athens: – first-person, use of: , ,
INDEX OF SUBJECTS names father of boy victor: Pythian Eleven and contemporary history: –, , –, date: – Grundgedanke? – myth:–: begins strophe: : begins with crucial point: : begins with relative pronoun: –: ends with death: : function: –: gnomai in: –: ring composition in: , –: speeds up towards end: –: structure: –, : transitions: , , – occasion: – performance context: – plurals, use of: praises speed: relationship with Aeschylus’ Oresteia: –, – relationship with Stesichorus’ Oresteia: result of conspicuous expenditure: – spontaneity, apparent: , , structure: –, – tyranny in: – negative exemplum, use of: – prayers in: restained persona in Thebes: Pollux: see Castor and Pollux punctuation: Pylades: Pythian games chronology: – victor lists: Pythonicus associated with son: attestation of name: commissioned ode? –
named after father’s victory: named in ode: won no victories: races, competitions boys’: diaulos: – nakedness in: stadion: – victory in by older man: son named after: Semele: , , soul, journey of to Underworld: – Stesichorus, Oresteia relationship with Pindar, Pythian Eleven: style alliteration: ambiguity: apostrophe: ascending tricolon: asyndeton explanatory: , with first-person utterances: climax: , compression: , , – enallage: hyperbaton: , , imagery: , , , juxtaposition: kenning: questions, frantic: –, – recapitulation: , tmesis: variety: , word-order, effective: , , , , , Thrasydaeus: and Daphnephoria: – boy victor: – father: see Pythonicus
INDEX OF SUBJECTS Thrasydaeus: (cont.) from victorious family: – links with Orestes: – Thebes cults: , –, , , heroes, heroines: seven-gated: Therapnae: , tripods: – Troy destroyed by fire: wealthy: truth, in archaic poetry: tyranny and athletics: disclaimed by poets: –
verb aorist of punctual action: , in –5–: – imperfect, durative: subjunctive, with short vowel: victor attracts envy: – crowns hearth, homeland: desires fame: family glorified: name delayed in ode: overcomes old age: radiance of: T3- of: ( - of:
Underworld journey to: – rivers of: well-shadowed: –
women, young ought to preserve family line: – prone to adultery:
INDEX OF GREEK :3> G-: D2 -: D -: D-: , " -: D-, repeated: "/ –: "9%: "&: "A%: D5: D: , U: " #>-: D G: – D& -: 3: 3A%: # 9-: – 2 q%: 2A equivalent to # : followed by D: preceded by /: versus /: 2F: 2&A%: 2 %: – 2>-: 2>5: t2: /M -: + acc.: – '2: ' (-: : -: –
%: – /C&9: – e: J%Z-: ^%-: ) %: 2P!-: )=-: E/>-: – F: >#-: -: 3%: Y: >-: q%: >-: G: >, 9: , />-: % $: – A(-: 9%: : A, with /: , )>-: N*: A: H, : 5 >-: MA%: Q :
INDEX OF GREEK @#/F-: Q, Q : I#F: Q : [ /:
position of: versus 2A: with A: ,
/%:
W/, G>):
G: : , –: /: A%: >-: – 9& -: > /: 9-:
T3-: R # -, R –: – R >: –
2: – >-: 9: , )G: & q%:
%:
/ followed by 2A:
&%: &)>-: –, , &A#/: &: (>-: – ( -: , (>-: – (>-: n (F: V- [ /:
INDEX LOCORUM Aeschylus Cho. : , Suppl. –: Anacreon fr. PMG: Apollonius Rhodius .–: Bacchylides .: .–: Corinna fr. PMG: – Homer, Il. .:
Pausanias ..: ..–: , Pindar O. .–: O. . : N. .: N. : I. .–: , Proclus Chrest. – = i. – Severyns: – Solon fr. IEG: Thucydides ..: Tzetzes on Lyc. Alex. = ii. . Scheer:
