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Dionysius Chalcus fr. 3 again*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2012

Daniel Riaño Rufilanchas
Daniel Riaño Rufilanchas
Affiliation:
Diccionario Griego-Español, Instituto de Filología, CSIC, Madrid
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Abstract

Dionysius Chalcus fr. 3 West contains an elaborate metaphor for the cottabus game in which the dining room and the symposiasts are compared to a gymnasium in which young pugilists are training. The author suggests that the visual force of the central part of the metaphor lies in the actual way in which σφαῖραι (used as a kind of boxing gloves) were wrapped around the hand and forearm. In the problematic v. 4, ἐκεῖνον is identified as the symposiarch, and the verse is seen to function as another part of this complex metaphor of the symposium as agōn.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 123 , November 2003 , pp. 181 - 186
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 2003

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