Ἀσία
Asia
Translated by Robert Dyer13 Jan 2002Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[The name of] a land, that of the east.1
Also [sc. attested is] "notes (twangs?) of an Asias," [meaning] of the kithara. Thus Aristophanes [uses the phrase].2
Or "notes of an Asiatis."
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "Asietis land," [meaning that] of Asia.3
Also [sc. attested is] "notes (twangs?) of an Asias," [meaning] of the kithara. Thus Aristophanes [uses the phrase].2
Or "notes of an Asiatis."
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "Asietis land," [meaning that] of Asia.3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀσία· χώρα, ἡ τῆς ἀνατολῆς. καὶ Ἀσιάδος κρούματα, τῆς κιθάρας. οὕτως Ἀριστοφάνης. ἢ Ἀσιάτιδος κρούματα. καὶ Ἀσιῆτις γῆ, τῆς Ἀσίας.
Betacode
*)asi/a: xw/ra, h( th=s a)natolh=s. kai\ *)asia/dos krou/mata, th=s kiqa/ras. ou(/tws *)aristofa/nhs. h)\ *)asia/tidos krou/mata. kai\ *)asih=tis gh=, th=s *)asi/as.
Notes (3)
- 1The name was applied in antiquity to restricted parts of Anatolia (modern Turkey), first to the Hermus and Cayster valleys, then to the kingdoms of Lydia and Persia (the latter first in Aeschylus, Persians 929?), then to the Roman province in western Anatolia, but, quite early also, to the easternmost of the three continents known to early geographers (with Europe and Libya). See Bibliography below. ↩
- 2Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazousae 120, in a chorus dealing with rhythm (web address 1). The Asias was an Asian, perhaps Lydian or Persian, stringed instrument. ↩
- 3cf. Aeschylus, Persians 61. ↩
References
Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos, fasc. 8.1396-7
Dyer, R.R. "Asia/*Aswia and Archilochus fr. 23" Parola del Passato 101 (1965) 115-32
Dyer, R.R. "Asia/*Aswia and Archilochus fr. 23" Parola del Passato 101 (1965) 115-32
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history6 revisions · last 1 Sep 2015
- my typo; minor cosmetics — David Whitehead
- cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
- cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Added italics — Elizabeth Vandiver
- added note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- cosmetics, rearranged note — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Robert Dyer