The Thera Episode in Argonautica IV Reconsidered in Light of the Poetic Interaction between Apollonius and Callimachus

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AEVUM ANTIQUUM

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AEVUM ANTIQUUM - 2019 - 19. CALLIMACO E APOLLONIO

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The Thera Episode in Argonautica IV Reconsidered in Light of the Poetic Interaction between Apollonius and Callimachus

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Jacqueline Klooster

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Vita e Pensiero

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01-2021

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10.26350/020747_000044

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1121-8932 (stampa) | 1827-7861 (digitale)

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In this contribution, I look at the Thera-episode in Apollonius Rhodius (IV 1731-1764) from the point of view of the poetic interaction between Callimachus and Apollonius as sketched by Annette Harder. I first briefly review scholarly findings about the ideological significance of the Thera-episode in Apollonius’ Argonautica, following Stephens 2011 and others. I then go into the importance of Thera (and the Cyrenaean foundation story in general) for Callimachus. The theme features not only in his Apollo Hymn and Aetia fr. 7c, 1-5, but in several other Callimachean poetic fragments as well. Next, I will point out what I believe is a neglected element of the Herodotean subtext of Apollonius’ Thera episode, the story of Phronime in Hdt IV, 154. Finally I present a reading of the Apollonian passage which takes into account both the importance of Callimachus’ Cyrenean connections and the neglected Herodotean subtext.

keywords

Aetia, Aetiology, Apollo-Hymn, Apollonius, Argonautica, Battus, Berenice II, Callimachus, Colonization-myth, Cyrene, Dream, Euphemus, Epigram, Herodotus, Intertextuality, Libya, Magas, Metaphor, Pindar, Poetic Interaction, Phronime, Prophecy, Ptolemies, P