Matron of Pitane
Matron of Pitane (Greek: Μάτρων, Mátrōn; fl. c. late 5th and early 4th centuries BC) was an Ancient Greek poet and parodist.[1]
Life
Matron, a native of Pitane in Aeolis, was a celebrated writer of parodies upon Homer, often quoted by Eustathius and Athenaeus.[1]
He was probably a contemporary of
Works
Parodies of Homer
Aside from six brief fragments, the Δει̑πνον Ἀττικόν (Deípnon Attikón: 'Attic Dinner') survives due to extensive quotation by Athenaeus. It is a
Athenaeus quotes a long fragment from this poem, beginning: Δεῖπνα μοι ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, πολύτροφα καὶ μάλα πολλά (‘Tell me, Muse, of the many nourishing dinners’), an obvious parody of the opening of Homer's Odyssey.[3][4] Matron's parody is in the tradition of Hegemon and Archestratus.[5]
Editions
The fragments of his parodies were printed by H. Stephens, in the Dissertation on Parodies, appended to the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, 1573, 8vo., and in Brunck's Analecta, vol. ii. p. 245.[1]
References
Citations
Bibliography
- Montanari, Ornella (2006). "Matron". In Cancik, Hubert, et al. (ed.). Brill's New Pauly. Brill Reference Online.
- Montanari, Ornella and Rüpke, Jörg (2006). "Gastronomical poetry". In Cancik, Hubert, et al. (ed.). Brill's New Pauly. Brill Reference Online.
- Olson, S. D. and Sens, A. (1999). Matron of Pitane and the Tradition of Epic Parody in the Fourth Century BCE. Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press.
- Rusten, Jeffrey Stuart (2005). "Matron, of Pitane". In Hornblower, Simon, et al. (ed.). The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press.
- Rusten, Jeffrey Stuart (2012). "Matron, of Pitane". In Hornblower, Simon, et al. (ed.). The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 4th ed. Oxford University Press.
- Smith, Philip (1867). "Matron". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co.
