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*pi/grhs
Adler number: pi,1551
Translated headword: Pigres
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A Carian from Halicarnassus; brother of Artemisia, the woman of military renown, wife of Mausolos.[1] [It was he] who inserted elegiac lines into the Iliad, writing thus: 'sing, goddess, of the ruinous wrath of Achilles, son of Peleus. Muse, for you possess the means of all wisdom'.[2] He also wrote the
Margites attributed to
Homer and
Battle of Frogs and Mice.[3]
*pi/grhs, *ka\r a)po\ *(alikarnasou=, a)delfo\s *)artemisi/as, th=s e)n toi=s pole/mois diafanou=s, *mausw/lou gunaiko/s: o(\s th=| *)ilia/di parene/bale kata\ sti/xon e)legei=on, ou(/tw gra/yas: mh=nin a)/eide, qea/, *phlhi+a/dew *)axilh=os, ou)lome/nhn. mou=sa, su\ ga\r pa/shs pei/rat' e)/xeis sofi/hs. e)/graye kai\ to\n ei)s *(/omhron a)nafero/menon *margi/thn kai\ *batraxomuomaxi/an.
Notes:
C6/5 BCE. See OCD4 s.v. (essentially summarising the present entry) and G. Kinkel,
Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (1887) 65.
[1] This conflates two well-known women of that name (nos.1 and 2 in OCD4 s.v.; the earlier one, who features in
Herodotus, is meant).
[2] i.e. supplying a pentameter of his own after each of
Homer's hexameters. (But as given here the scheme is spoiled by the retention, at the start of what should be the new second line, of
Homer's 'ruinous',
ou)lome/nhn.) For an
Iliad with inserted hexameters see
tau 626.
[3] Bliquez (see below, pp. 14-16) offers reasons for doubting the claim -- in
Plutarch,
On the malice of Herodotus 873F, as well as here -- that Pigres (whoever he was) had anything to do with the
Batrachomyomachia.
Bliquez, Lawrence J. "Frogs and Mice and Athens." Transactions of the American Philological Association 107 (1977): 11-25.
Keywords: biography; epic; geography; military affairs; meter and music; poetry; women; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 1 March 2004@04:09:16.
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