Πίγρης

Pigres

Translated by David Whitehead1 Mar 2004Vetting: high9 revisions

3 notes · 61 words
A Carian from Halicarnassus; brother of Artemisia, the woman of military renown, wife of Mausolos.1 [It was he] who inserted elegiac lines into the Iliad, writing thus: 'sing, goddess, of the ruinous wrath of Achilles, son of Peleus. Muse, for you possess the means of all wisdom'.2 He also wrote the Margites attributed to Homer and Battle of Frogs and Mice.3

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πίγρης, Κὰρ ἀπὸ Ἁλικαρνασοῦ, ἀδελφὸς Ἀρτεμισίας, τῆς ἐν τοῖς πολέμοις διαφανοῦς, Μαυσώλου γυναικός· ὃς τῇ Ἰλιάδι παρενέβαλε κατὰ στίχον ἐλεγεῖον, οὕτω γράψας· μῆνιν ἄειδε, θεά, Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος, οὐλομένην. μοῦσα, σὺ γὰρ πάσης πείρατ' ἔχεις σοφίης. ἔγραψε καὶ τὸν εἰς Ὅμηρον ἀναφερόμενον Μαργίτην καὶ Βατραχομυομαχίαν.

Betacode
*pi/grhs, *ka\r a)po\ *(alikarnasou=, a)delfo\s *)artemisi/as, th=s e)n toi=s pole/mois diafanou=s, *mausw/lou gunaiko/s: o(\s th=| *)ilia/di parene/bale kata\ sti/xon e)legei=on, ou(/tw gra/yas: mh=nin a)/eide, qea/, *phlhi+a/dew *)axilh=os, ou)lome/nhn. mou=sa, su\ ga\r pa/shs pei/rat' e)/xeis sofi/hs. e)/graye kai\ to\n ei)s *(/omhron a)nafero/menon *margi/thn kai\ *batraxomuomaxi/an.

Notes (3)

  1. C6/5 BCE. See OCD4 s.v. (essentially summarising the present entry) and G. Kinkel, Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (1887) 65.
  2. 1This conflates two well-known women of that name (nos.1 and 2 in OCD4 s.v.; the earlier one, who features in Herodotus, is meant). ↩
  3. 2i.e. supplying a pentameter of his own after each of Homer's hexameters. (But as given here the scheme is spoiled by the retention, at the start of what should be the new second line, of Homer's 'ruinous', ou)lome/nhn.) For an Iliad with inserted hexameters see tau 626. ↩
  4. 3Bliquez (see below, pp. 14-16) offers reasons for doubting the claim -- in Plutarch, On the malice of Herodotus 873F, as well as here -- that Pigres (whoever he was) had anything to do with the Batrachomyomachia. ↩

References


Bliquez, Lawrence J. "Frogs and Mice and Athens." Transactions of the American Philological Association 107 (1977): 11-25.

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Revision history9 revisions · last 23 May 2016
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. tweaks — David Whitehead
  4. tweaked tr; expanded n.2 — David Whitehead
  5. added note and bibliographical item — Catharine Roth
  6. augmented n.2 — David Whitehead
  7. another keyword — David Whitehead
  8. typo; another keyword — David Whitehead
  9. cosmetics, status — Catharine Roth
  10. Translated — David Whitehead

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