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The Grief of Persephone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 August 2011

H. J. Rose
H. J. Rose
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The University, St. Andrews, Scotland
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Extract

Some time ago I sought to give an account of a famous fragment of Pindar which till then had lacked any commentary that satisfied me. My results have been criticized in the most friendly and courteous manner by Professor Ivan Linforth in the course of a work which no one interested in Orphic literature can afford to neglect. It seems worth while to ask how much of my conclusion is still valid if it be taken for granted that his results will in their turn stand the careful examination deserved by all good research into complicated problems.

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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , July 1943 , pp. 247 - 250
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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1943

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References

1 The Ancient Grief, in Greek Poetry and Life (Oxford, Clar. Press, 1936), p. 79Google Scholar sqq. The fragment is preserved in Plato, Meno 81 B, Stobaios, tit. 43, 112 of the Florilegium, merely excerpting Plato and not quoting Pindar independently.

2 The Arts of Orpheus (Berkeley and Los Angeles, Univ. of Cal. Press. 1941), p. 345 sqqGoogle Scholar.

3 Linforth, op. cit., especially p. 291 sqq.

4 For example, to take one passage of many, Solon, fgt. 1 (Diehl), 29 sqq.; some sinners are punished in their lifetime, sooner or later, but others escape personally, at least in this world, and the penalty is visited on their descendants, in the first generation or further on. That such a doctrine was popular among the Hebrews till the Exile is clear from, e.g., Ezek., 18, 2 sqq.

5 O. 2, 85.