From fla_holoka@online.emich.edu Sun Jan 21 12:20:56 2001 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id MAA97256 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 12:20:55 -0800 Received: from demai05.mw.mediaone.net (demai05.mw.mediaone.net [24.131.1.56]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id MAA03012 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 12:20:55 -0800 Received: from oemcomputer.online.emich.edu (nic-131-c213-94.mw.mediaone.net [24.131.213.94]) by demai05.mw.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA05341 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:20:53 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.1.20010121151419.009eb5c0@online.emich.edu> X-Sender: fla_holoka@online.emich.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:18:05 -0500 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: "James P. Holoka" Subject: Re: Homer's death by a riddle In-Reply-To: References: <3A6ACB53.58F6250@panix.com> <3A6ACB53.58F6250@panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=====================_1940504==_.ALT" --=====================_1940504==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 03:06 PM 1/21/01 -0400, you wrote: >At 12:43 PM +0100 1/21/01, E. Philip Hewitt Schwartz wrote: >>Oliver Taplin in the opening chapter of Literature in the Greek & Roman >>Worlds: A New Perspective alludes (p.53) to a myth about Homer's dying on >>the island of Ios, a death connected to his not being able to answer a >>riddle set him by some boys. Could some member of the list supply a >>reference for this story? > >This is the conclusion to the _Peri Ome:rou kai E:siodou kai tou Genous >kai Agwnos Autwn_ (_On Homer and Hesiod, their Origin and Contest_). It's >a very late work with a bunch of earlier models. (It's dated to the reign >of Hadrian, by H.G. Evelyn-White, editor of the Loeb _Hesiod and Homeric >Hymns_, where it can most easily be found, along with a heap of other >interesting stuff like the _Battle of Frogs and Mice_, etc.) > >JMP Just by the way: as JMP says, this is a very valuable Loeb for all the not-so-easily-found stuff it brings together. I heard a couple years ago now that Martin West was working on a new edition; anyone heard if that is imminent? -- Jim Holoka --=====================_1940504==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" At 03:06 PM 1/21/01 -0400, you wrote:
At 12:43 PM +0100 1/21/01, E. Philip Hewitt Schwartz wrote:
Oliver Taplin in the opening chapter of Literature in the Greek & Roman Worlds: A New Perspective alludes (p.53) to a myth about Homer's dying on the island of Ios, a death connected to his not being able to answer a riddle set him by some boys.  Could some member of the list supply a reference for this story?

This is the conclusion to the _Peri Ome:rou kai E:siodou kai tou Genous kai Agwnos Autwn_ (_On Homer and Hesiod, their Origin and Contest_). It's a very late work with a bunch of earlier models. (It's dated to the reign of Hadrian, by H.G. Evelyn-White, editor of the Loeb _Hesiod and Homeric Hymns_, where it can most easily be found, along with a heap of other interesting stuff like the _Battle of Frogs and Mice_, etc.)

JMP


Just by the way: as JMP says, this is a very valuable Loeb for all the not-so-easily-found stuff it brings together. I heard a couple years ago now that Martin West was working on a new edition; anyone heard if that is imminent?

-- Jim Holoka
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