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Theocritus 26. 31

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

Daniel E. Gershenson
Affiliation:
Columbia University, New York

Abstract

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Type
Review Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1968

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References

1 van Groningen, B. A., ‘Les Bacchantes de Théocrite’, Miscellanea di Studi Alessandrini in memoria di Augusto Rostagni (Torino: Bottega d'Erasmo, 1963), 338349.Google Scholar

2 Gow's, A. S. F. exhaustive and monumental work Theocritus (Cambridge, 1952), vol. ii, Notes, is referred to as Gow.Google Scholar

3 Earlier attempts to understand 26. 27–32 and the many difficulties contained therein are discussed by Gow, pp. 480 f.; the views of C. W. Vollgraff and E. Maass are treated in detail by van Groningen too, pp. 342 f., while Gow deals with Wilamowitz's and others' views as well. Wilamowitz, almost alone, did not suggest a religious background for lines 27–32. Van Groningen is in agreement with Wilamowitz on this point. Since all interpretations of 31, except van Groningen's, connected it with the entire passage they need not be discussed further here.