The Golden Bowl: Thoughts on the New Sappho and its Asianic Background
2007; University of California Press; Volume: 26; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1525/ca.2007.26.2.305
ISSN1067-8344
Autores Tópico(s)Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
ResumoAbstract The paper explores the relation between a set of poetic formulas in early Greek and Anatolian languages of the second and early first millennia having to do with the cosmography of the rising sun in macrocosm, and going up into bed in microcosm, with an eye to defending the reading and restoration έρωι δέπασ εισομβάμεν(αι) in the editio princeps of the new Sappho. The Luvian word for “sky, heaven,” represented as a bowl in Hieroglyphic, is the likeliest source of the Greek word depas, Mycenean dipas, in the second millennium, together with the associative semantics of depas and “heaven” evidenced in Hittite and Luvian texts in the second millennium, and in early Greek poetry in the first.
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