Alcmeonis
The Alcmeonis (
Theban cycle. There are only seven references to the Alcmeonis in ancient literature, and all of them make it clear that the authorship of the epic was unknown. It told the story of Alcmaeon's killing of his mother Eriphyle for having arranged the death of his father Amphiaraus, whose murder was narrated in the Thebaid. One of the surviving fragments is quoted by Athenaeus in the Deipnosophistae: he chose it because it describes a funeral banquet. The lines have very little in common with descriptions of feasts in the Iliad and Odyssey.[1]
Works that mention the Alcmeonis
Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library: in Two Volumes. Trans. James George Frazer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976.
Select editions and translations
Critical editions
- Kinkel, G. (1877), Epicorum Graecorum fragmenta, vol. 1, Leipzig
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Translations
- Evelyn-White, H.G. (1936), Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, ISBN 978-0-674-99063-0). (The link is to the 1st edition of 1914.) English translation with facing Greek text; now obsolete except for its translations of the ancient quotations.
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References
- West, Martin L. Greek Epic Fragments. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2003, pp. 10–11, 58–63.
Bibliography
- Davies, M. (1989), Greek Epic Cycle, London, ISBN 978-1853990397).
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