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Headword: *)aqa/mas
Adler number: alpha,702
Translated headword: Athamas
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Proper name.
Athamas was led in crowned like a sacrificial victim and about to be slain because of [sc. his son] Phrixus, and Herakles rescued him, saying that Phrixus was alive.[1] So Aristophanes uses this precedent and says "afraid like Athamas about to be sacrificed".[2]
Greek Original:
*)aqa/mas: o)/noma ku/rion. ei)sa/getai o( *)aqa/mas e)stefanwme/nos w(/sper i(erei=on sfagiasqhso/menos dia\ *fri/con, kai\ r(u/etai au)to\n *(hraklh=s ei)pw\n zh=n to\n *fri/con. paradei/gmati ou)=n xrw/menos o( *)aristofa/nhs dedie/nai fhsi\ tw=| *)aqa/manti paraplh/sia me/llonti qu/esqai.
Notes:
cf. alpha 701.
[1] See Herodotus 7.197 (web address 1 below), and generally OCD(4) s.v. (p.193).
[2] Aristophanes, Clouds 257 (web address 2 below), with scholion.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; ethics; historiography; mythology; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 November 2000@19:26:03.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added bibliography; modified keywords; cosmetics) on 6 November 2000@03:19:05.
David Whitehead (augmented notes; cosmetics) on 14 May 2002@04:51:18.
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 17 January 2012@04:15:09.
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