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A New Fragment of a Greek Tragedy1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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Fragments of mummy-cartonnage, formerly in the collection of University College, London, now on permanent loan to the Ashmolean. Parts of two columns of a papyrus-text of a Greek Tragedy: head and foot of both columns partly preserved. The lines of col. ii are not quite straight opposite those of col i. There were eighteen or nineteen lines in col. i, nineteen in col. ii, the last line of col. ii being slightly below the level of the last line of col. i. The text was written in the third century B.C, perhaps before 250 B.C. The hand is similar to that of P. Petrie I Plate V. No Lesezeichen of any kind are visible. [Fragment (a) = 6·9×7·1 cm.: (b)=6·7×10·9 cm.: (c) = 4·2×14·2 cm. Height of column of writing =14·7 cm. Existing margins = 2·5 and 2·3 cm. Probable height of roll = 20/21 cm. (P. Petrie I, of same age and similar hand, is 21 cm. high). Fr. (a) = col. i, 1–6 + col. ii, beginnings of 2–4: fr. (b) = col. i, 9–18 + col. ii, beginnings of 9–14, 16–19: fr. (c) = col. ii, middle of 1–15.]
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page 179 note 1 Nauck frs. 515 sqq.
page 179 note 2 Probably: nothing relevant is known ot Stesichoros' Suotherai, Aeschylus' Atalante, and other works; Séchan, v., Et. sur la Trag. Grecque, 426 n. 3Google Scholar.
page 179 note 3 Bacchylides V.
page 179 note 4 Homer I.
page 179 note 5 From Apollodoros I viii 2–3. Ovid, , Metam. VIII 272 sqq.Google Scholar, Hyginus fab. 174, Diodoros IV 34, fragments of the play in Nauck, fragments of Accius discussed by Ribbeck, , Rön. Trag. 506 sqq.Google Scholar, and representations in art, for which v. van der Kolf in P.W.K. s.v. Meleager, Séchan, , op. cit. 423 sqq.Google Scholar: detailed discussion of the plot in these two.
page 179 note 6 Frs. 515, 316; Accius fr. 1; Ovid 272 sqq.; Apollod., Hyginus.
page 179 note 7 Welcker's shrewd inference from fr. 523.
page 179 note 8 Accius fr. 2; Apollod., Hygjnus, Ovid 299–300.
page 179 note 9 Apollod.
page 179 note 10 Apollod.
page 179 note 11 Fr. 518.
page 179 note 12 Apollod.; frs. 518, 520.
page 179 note 13 Frs. 526, 527.
page 179 note 14 Frs. 521, 522.
page 179 note 15 Who speaks fr. 528 to Atalante.
page 179 note 16 Macrob. V 18. 17 (‘nuntius inducitur’); frs. 530, 531, Accius frs. 4, 5.
page 180 note 1 Ovid 329 sqq.; Apollod., Hyginus; sarcophagus ap. van der Kolf pp. 463–4; numerous vases ibid. 460 sqq.
page 180 note 2 Ovid 451 sqq.; Apollod., Hyginus; sarcophagus ap. van der Kolf p. 455, cf. Accius frs. 8, 9, 10.
page 180 note 3 Amphora ap. Séchan 431 sqq., sarcophagus ap. van der Kolf p. 464, cf. Accius frs. 11, 12, 13.
page 180 note 4 Ovid 531 sqq., Apollod., Diod., sarcophagi ap. van der Kolf.
page 180 note 5 Fr. 537.
page 180 note 6 Most, if not all, of these, as well as the restoration of the general sense below, are purely speculative. It is not even certain that our text is part of Euripides' (or any other poet's) Meleagros.
page 180 note 7 τ⋯ δ⋯ρας in Apollodoros loc. cit.
page 180 note 8 Accius fr. 6 cuius exuvias et coronam huic muneravit virgini.