Ὄλυμπος
Olympus, Olympos
Translated by Meredith Grau5 Nov 2002Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Son of Maion; a Mysian, a piper and a melic and elegiac poet, he became a pioneer of instrumental music [played] by pipes: a student and the beloved of Marsyas, a Satyr by lineage,1 [who was himself] a pupil, and son, of Hyagnis.2 Olympus flourished before the Trojan War, and the mountain in Mysia is named for him.3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὄλυμπος, Μαίονος, Μυσός, αὐλητὴς καὶ ποιητὴς μελῶν καὶ ἐλεγείων, ἡγεμών τε γενόμενος τῆς κρουματικῆς μουσικῆς τῆς διὰ τῶν αὐλῶν· μαθητὴς καὶ ἐρώμενος Μαρσύου, τὸ γένος ὄντος Σατύρου, ἀκουστοῦ δὲ καὶ παιδὸς Ὑάγνιδος. γέγονε δὲ πρὸ τῶν Τρωϊκῶν ὁ Ὄλυμπος, ἐξ οὗ τὸ ὄρος τὸ ἐν Μυσίᾳ ὀνομάζεται.
Betacode
*)/olumpos, *mai/onos, *muso/s, au)lhth\s kai\ poihth\s melw=n kai\ e)legei/wn, h(gemw/n te geno/menos th=s kroumatikh=s mousikh=s th=s dia\ tw=n au)lw=n: maqhth\s kai\ e)rw/menos *marsu/ou, to\ ge/nos o)/ntos *satu/rou, a)koustou= de\ kai\ paido\s *(ua/gnidos. ge/gone de\ pro\ tw=n *trwi+kw=n o( *)/olumpos, e)c ou(= to\ o)/ros to\ e)n *musi/a| o)noma/zetai.
Notes (3)
- See also omicron 220 (cf. omicron 221), and generally M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992) 330-1 (and index s.v.).
The present entry's material has parallels in a scholion on Aristophanes, Knights 9 (cf. xi 117, xi 118) and elsewhere. - 1See West loc.cit., and OCD(4) s.v. ↩
- 2See West loc.cit. (The name appears elsewhere as Agnis or Oiagnis.) ↩
- 3Not, of course, 'the' Mount Olympus, in Balkan Greece, but one of its several homonyms in (present-day) Turkey. ↩
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Revision history5 revisions · last 6 Aug 2014
- updated a ref — David Whitehead
- another note; more keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
- tweaked translation — David Whitehead
- modified translation; added notes; augmented keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Revised — Ross Scaife ✝
- Translated — Meredith Grau