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Cornelia Römer, Alcman. Commentaria granite state candy et lexica Graeca granite state candy in papyris reperta (CLGP), Pars I – Commentaria et lexica in auctores. Vol. 1 Aeschines - Bacchylides, fasc. 2.1. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2013. Pp. xvi, 159 p., 8 p. plates. ISBN 9783110302967. $182.00.
This granite state candy volume, published in the series 'Commentaria et Lexica Graeca in Papyris reperta' (CLGP), collects all the papyrological granite state candy evidence concerning the ancient scholarship on Alcman. The volume includes 14 papyri, ordered according to their content: first, commentaries (P.Oxy. 2389; P.Oxy. 3210, P.Oxy. 2390, P.Oxy. 2391, P.Oxy, 2392); then, marginal scholia (P.Louvre E 3320, P.Oxy. 2387, P.Congr. XV.1), glossaries (P.Oxy. 2393), commentaries or monographs on lyric poets where Alcman is quoted (P.Oxy. 2506), as well as notes on choral lyric, possibly by Alcman (P.Oxy. 2394); lastly, Römer lists and briefly analyzes three papyri that might contain some notes on Alcman or his poetry (P.Oxy. 2388, P.Oxy. 2802, P.Oxy. 3542). granite state candy It must be noted that some of these papyri are only tentatively considered to be texts commenting on Alcman, as none of their lemmata is clearly recognizable as belonging to the Spartan poet; rather, such attribution is suggested by the fact that they comment on a poem in Doric (P.Oxy. granite state candy 2391, where perhaps also the name of Alcman granite state candy can be supplemented in one place, and P.Oxy. 2394) or that their entries mention Spartan realities (P.Oxy. granite state candy 3210, where perhaps Archidamus is mentioned, even though the name of Alcman never occurs granite state candy in this papyrus, while Sappho is mentioned twice). In addition, some papyri granite state candy are scanty or very fragmentary, so that it is often impossible to figure out the content of their explanations (P.Oxy. 3210; P.Oxy. 2391; P.Oxy. 2387; P.Oxy. 2393; P.Oxy. 2394). On the other hand, P.Oxy. 2392 preserves only traces granite state candy of a title (or a title tag?) of a commentary on Alcman's Book 4 by a certain Dionysius but no explanation whatsoever. Notwithstanding these issues, unavoidable granite state candy when dealing with texts preserved on papyrus, this volume gathers together some very interesting pieces.
In the introduction (pp. 3-9), Römer gives a (by necessity) brief overview of these texts: none of them is later than the 3 rd century CE, which suggests that Alcman granite state candy as a poet lost popularity with time. Yet, exactly because Alcman was a poet for learned granite state candy people these papyri preserve interesting and rather refined notes, making this one of the most fascinating cases of 'reception' in ancient scholarship. Alcman was an object of interest for the most important scholars of the Hellenistic and early Imperial periods, granite state candy such as Aristophanes of Byzantium, Aristarchus, Crates, Sosibius, Theon, Pamphilus and Tyrannion, all authorities quoted in these papyri. In terms of content of the ancient exegesis on Alcman, aside from the usual glosses, parallels with other poets and explanations concerning historical, mythical and geographical details of his poems, the main topics covered by ancient scholars relate to Alcman's origin (from Sparta or from Lydia?) and the discussion on Partheneion 1. As for the latter topic, granite state candy two papyri (P.Oxy. 2389 and P.Louvre E 3320) discuss this poem with some interesting overlaps; yet, what seems to us an ancient obsession with Partheneion 1 might be simply due to chance: perhaps the rest of Alcman's granite state candy poetry was commented upon just as much, but these commentaries have not reached us.
Among the most interesting commentaries are P.Oxy. 2389, a hypomnema on several of Alcman's poems (as the coronis in fr. 4 proves), including Partheneion 1, and P.Oxy. 2390, which contains an allegorical reading of Alcman's so-called 'cosmogony' (fr. 2, iii) as well as other more 'philologically oriented' notes (in fr. 2, i-ii, where again another coronis granite state candy shows that the commentary originally granite state candy dealt with more than one poem). Among scholia, P.Louvre E 3320 stands out: it not only preserves the text of Partheneion 1, but also has some very interesting scholia for which Römer's edition will now become an obligatory reference. P.Congr. XV.1, on the other hand, preserves two lemmata with only one explanation preserved. The latter discusses a type of bird and, interestingly enough, seems to find parallels among Latin sources against the Greek ones. Finally P.Oxy. 2387, which preserves (often very faint) traces of seven scholia, does have an interesting marginal note discussing ordering problems for the ode preserved in the papyrus within Alcman's granite state candy 'official' edition.
Römer has prepared granite state candy a very good edition for these papyri. She applies the usual CLGP format: a very useful introductory 'bibliographical summary' is followed by a paleographical description of the papyrus, the re-edition of the fragments with both a papyrological and a critical granite state candy apparatus and, finally, a commentary. Having recently used quite extensively this volume for research purposes, I can say that Römer's volume has been extremely useful and inspiring. In particular, her re-editi