Anth. Pal. 9. 235: Juba II, Cleopatra Selene and the Course of the Nile
1984; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 34; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0009838800029414
ISSN1471-6844
Autores Tópico(s)Historical and Literary Studies
ResumoWho is the author of this poem and what is its historical context? Gow and Page are convinced that the author is Crinagoras. Manuscript authority, in the person of the so-called ‘corrector’, supports the attribution. Yet, at first sight at least, the attribution of this poem to Crinagoras raises something of a problem. It does so because the poem evidently relates to what seems to be a contemporary marriage linking the royal families of Egypt and Libya respectively: if the author is indeed Crinagoras, what marriage can this be? Only one such marriage is available: as Gow and Page accurately observe, ‘It is generally agreed that this epigram refers to the marriage of Cleopatra Selene and Juba II’.
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