Antimachus of Colophon and the Position of Women in Greek Poetry / A fragment printed for the use of scholars - E. F. M. Benecke

[369] [The author is following Meineke i. 404: the name “Amphis” is a conjectural emendation in the latter passage.]

[370] Cp. supra, [p. 227]. This feeling is, of course, common enough; cp. Alexis, Manteis, γυναιξὶ δοῦλοι ζῶμεν ἀντ’ ἐλευθέρων, κ.τ.λ.

[371] Plaut. Asin. i. 1, 53 seqq. (patres ut consueverunt, ego mitto omnia haec, l. 64); Bacch. v. 2, 89 seqq. (hi senes, nisi fuissent nihil iam inde a adulescentia, non hodie hoc tantum flagitium facerent canis capitibus, etc.) Of course, if anyone prefers to believe that these apologies are due to the Latin author, no one can very well contradict him.

INDEX

A. Of Authors and Subjects Referred to.

[The references are to pages throughout. Where the discussion of a subject is continued over several pages, only the first page is here given. Plays are usually cited under their authors’ names.]

Achilles, and Briseis, [9];
and Patroclus, [40], [76];
and Iphigeneia, [63].
Achilles Tatius, [13], [78], [109].
Actaeon, [33].
Admetus, and Apollo, [13], [31], [90], [99].
Aeschylus, [41];
and Stesichorus, [42];
Myrmidones of, [40], [82], [92].
Ajax, and Teucer, [76], [90], [99];
of Sophocles, compared to the Antigone, [99].
Alcaeus, the comic poet, [149].
Alcaeus, the lyric poet, [83].
Alcestis, [57], [99].
Alciphron, [146], [148].
Alcman, [22];
and Megalostrate, [23];
love-poems to boys, [24];
Parthenia, [24].
Alexander and the wife of Darius, [181].
Alexandrian poetry, distinctive feature of, [1], [69].
Alexis, Agonis of, [156];
Helene of, [161];
on marriage, [162];
on women, [224].
Ameipsias, [147].
Amphis on women, [227].
Anacreon, [26], [27], [86];
love-poems to women, [27];
importance for history of the romantic element, [28];
character of poems to boys, [86].
Anaxandrides, [154], [162];
on women, [213], [222].
Andromache, in the Iliad, [10];
as the ideal wife, [55], [64].
Antiphanes on women, [213], [219];
retort to Alexander, [152].
Antimachus 5, [107];
and Plato, [111];
and Catullus, [111];
influence on Asclepiades, [113], [197];
influence on Philetas, [113]
(vide s.v. [Lyde]).
Aphrodite, and Anchises, [202];
as the rival of Artemis, [59];
treatment of Phaedra, [47].
Apuleius, [189].
Archilochus, [19], [82];
true motive of his satires, [21];
and Catullus, [22].
Archippus, Ichthys of, [147].
Ariadne, [12], [14].
Aristophanes, [129];
weddings in, [132];
views on women, [134];
Cocalus of, [135];
Aeolosicon of, [143].
Asclepiades, [69];
Meleager’s criticism on, [73];
eulogy of Antimachus, [113];
probable influence on Menander, [196].
Aspasia, [127].
Bacchylides, [36].
Battis, [70].
Boy-love, in classical Greek literature, [74];
as an element of classical Greek society, [77];
as a military institution, [77];
as an emblem of liberty, [77];
purity of, [78];
development of, [79];
decay of, [79], [102];
permanent influence on literature, [80];
in the Anthology, [81];
in Archilochus, [82];
in Alcman, [24];
in Alcaeus, [83];
illustrated by Sappho, [85];
in Anacreon, [86];
in Theognis, [87], [207];
in the Scolia, [89];
in Attic tragedy, [91];
in Alexandrian poetry, [102];
in Meleager, [103].
Brother and sister, in Attic tragedy, [48], [101];
in the New Comedy, [245].
Callias, [147].
Catullus, [81].
Chionides, [122].
Clytemnestra, [42].
Corinna, [36].
Crates, [126], [128].
Cratinus, [126].
Cratinus junior, Theramenes of, [151].
Daphnis, [14], [34].
Deianira, [43].
Diphilus on women, [241];
belongs really to Middle Comedy, [188].
Diphilus and Gnathaena, [128].
Epicharmus, [122].
Epicrates, Antilais of, [73], [151].
Eubulus, on women, [214], [222];
Campylion of, [155];
Nannion of, [158].
Eumathius, [199].
Euripides, services to art, [50];
female characters, [50];
admiration for women, [51];
view of love, [52];
striking absence of love-element in, [52], [62], [63], [66];
why E. was not a “romantic” writer, [66];
E. and the Alexandrians, [53];
his misogyny, [51];
Aeolus of, [38], [52];
Andromeda of, [140], [203];
Antigone of, [38];
Chrysippus of, [93];
Electra of, [65];
Iphigeneia of, [63];
Medea of, [66];
Meleager of, [38];
Phoenix of, [38];
Protesilaus of, [57];
Stheneboea of, [38].
Ganymede, [13].
Goddesses, preponderance of, in Greek Pantheon, [7];
in love with mortals, [13].
Haemon, motives for suicide, [44].
Helen of Himera, [33].
Helen of Troy, in the Iliad, [10];
in Stesichorus, [33];
and Theseus, [161].
Hermesianax, [14], [26], [110].
Hesiod, women in, [8];
Catalogus of, [12].
Hetaera, in early times, [19];
in Bacchylides, [36];
in Early Comedy, [128], [147], [148];
in Middle Comedy, [151], [215], [219];
treated as superior to a wife, [158];
in New Comedy, [175].
Hippolytus, defence of, [61].
Ibycus, [35].
Iphigeneia, [63].
Jealousy, Attic view as to, [43], [55].
Lafaye, Catulle et ses modèles, [20], [22].
Lesbian Poets, [83].
Licymnius, [36].
Love, early Greek views as to, [12], [17], [55], [64];
in Middle Comedy, [160];
in New Comedy, [169], [185];
in Menander, [184];
in Sophocles, [46];
in Euripides, [52].
Love-element, in the Iliad, [75];
in Hymn. Hom. iv., [201];
in Sappho, [85];
in choral poetry, [35];
in Attic Tragedy, [38], [91];
in Sophocles, [46];
in Euripides, [50];
in Eur. Andromeda, [203];
in classical Greek poetry in general, [67];
in Middle Comedy, [150];
in New Comedy, [163];
in Asclepiades, [70].
Lyde of Antimachus, [107];
importance of, [108];
characteristic tone of, [110].
Lyric poetry, subjective, [17];
choral, [31].
Magnes, [122].
Mahaffy, Classical Greek Literature, [20], [63].
Marriage, in Comedy, [109], [212], [216] (vide s.v. [Middle Comedy], [New Comedy]);
Sophocles’ view of, [43];
in Greek romance, [109];
in Menander, [170].
Maximus Tyrius, distinction between ancient and modern love, [54];
on Achilles and Patroclus, [76];
on Sappho and Socrates, [85];
on Anacreon, [87].
Medea, [12], [14], [66].
Meleager, criticism of Asclepiades, [73];
poem to Charidemus, [103].
Menalcas, [14].
Menander, [2];
great merit of, [164];
wrote plays belonging to Middle Comedy, [193];
introduced the romantic element into comedy, [188];
marriage characteristic of, [170];
view of love, [184];
father and children in, [185];
why elderly married men are treated by M. as unhappy, [173];
on women, [233];
Leucadia of, [146];
Misogynes of, [174];
Misumenus of, [178];
Sicyonius of, [180];
Thais of, [177].
Middle Comedy, main features of, [150];
difference from Old Comedy, [125];
difference from New Comedy, [163];
women in, [210], [219];
women’s rights in, [243];
dislike of marriage, [158];
ridicules Platonic love, [160];
ridicules family life, [161];
parodies mythological erotic stories, [161].
Miles Gloriosus as the chivalrous lover, [180].
Mimnermus, [25];
and Nanno, [26];
mentioned by Roman poets, [27].
Minos and Zeus, [13].
Morychis, law of, [125].
Myrtis, [36].
Nanno, [26].
Nausicaa, [10].
New Comedy, [109];
ideal character of, [119];
difference from Middle Comedy, [163];
two common types of plot in, [165];
the married state described as a happy one, [171];
condemns adultery, [174];
only slaves ridicule Platonic love in, [185];
legal obligation to marry not urged in, [137];
women in, [233].
Orestes and Pylades, [101].
Ovid, [109].
Pandora, legend of, [8].
Parthenius, [15].
Penelope, [8];
and Odysseus, [10].
Phaedra, of Sophocles, [46];
illustrated from the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, [201];
of Euripides, [59].
Pherecrates, [125], [128].
Philemon, [142];
wrote plays belonging to Middle Comedy, [193];
more old-fashioned than Menander, [189];
on women, [240];
Hypobolimaeus of, [144].
Philetas, [69];
influenced by Antimachus, [113].
Philoxenus, [36].
Phocion on marriage, [133].
Phocylides, [19].
Pindar, erotic legends in, [67].
Plato, [6];
in the Hedychares of Theopompus, [149].
Plato comicus, [145].
Plautus, as imitating Middle Comedy, [157];
as illustrating New Comedy, [187];
and Menander, [234], [236];
Captivi of, [155];
Epidicus of, [183];
Poenulus of, [185];
Stichus of, [187].
Poseidippus, [26], [110].
Reitzenstein, Epigramm und Skolion, [25], [29], [34], [59].
Rhadina, [34].
Rhianus, poem to Dexionicus, [103].
Rohde, der griechische Roman, [75], [203].
Romantic Element, characteristic feature of, [4];
mistaken ideas as to, [2], [40], [106];
sudden appearance in literature, [69];
ditto, explained, [104];
origin among the Greeks, [105];
nature of in Greece, [108];
ditto, contrasted with mediaeval romance, [109];
in the Latin elegiac poets, [109].
Sacred Band of Epaminondas, [77].
Sappho, [85], [160];
and Phaon, [146];
and Sophocles, [45];
and Aeschylus, [45];
and Socrates, [85].
Scolia, [31], [89].
Scylla, legend of, [14].
Simonides Amorginus, [18];
and Hesiod, [18].
Sophocles, [43];
and Sappho, [45];
views on marriage, [45];
view of love, [46];
Antigone of, [47];
Colchides of, [38];
Niobe of, [93];
Oenomaus of, [38];
Phaedra of, [38].
Sparta, [6], [24], [77].
Stesichorus, [33];
and Aeschylus, [42].
Strato, [81].
Strattis, [147].
Susario, [68].
Telestes, [37].
Terence, as illustrating New Comedy, [187];
and Menander, [233];
Hecyra of, [170], [175].
Theocritus, poems to boys, [81], [83];
illustrative of Alcaeus, [83];
and Theognis, [208].
Theognis, [29], [87];
Book II., [207];
and Theocritus, [208].
Theopompus, [148];
Hedychares of, [149].
Theseus, and Helen, [161].
Wife, Sophoclean ideal, [44];
Euripidean ideal, [55];
compared with Hetaera in Middle Comedy, [158];
ditto in New Comedy, [176];
tyranny of wives in Middle Comedy, [244].
Women, primitive position of, [7];
in the Homeric poems, [8];
in Hesiod, [8];
in the early legends, [11];
in the stories of Parthenius, [15];
early literary ideal of, [17];
in Simonides, [18];
in Phocylides, [19];
in Theognis, [29], [199];
in the Scolia, [31];
in Stesichorus, [33];
in Ibycus, [35];
in the later choral poets, [36];
in Attic tragedy, [40];
in Aeschylus, [41];
in Sophocles, [43];
in Euripides, [50];
in the early Alexandrians, [69];
in Asclepiades, [71];
in Greek comedy, [118];
in the Middle Comedy, [219];
in early New Comedy, [233];
better position in Asia, [182];
freemasonry among in Euripides, [58];
might be attacked openly by name, [151];
women’s rights in the Middle Comedy, [243].

B. Of Passages Emended or Discussed.

Aeschylus, Fr. 135, 136 ([92]).
Alexis, Graphe ([225]).
Anth. Pal. V. 164, 4 ([73]).
Antiphanes, Acestria, 3 ([220]).
Archilochus, Fr. 100 seqq. ([20]).
Aristophon, Iatrus, Fr. 2 ([229]).
Eubulus, Campylion ([155]).
Euripides, Hippol. 1415, 1440 ([206]), Fr. 132 ([205]).
Hesiod, Op. 702 ([19]).
Martial XIV. 187 ([177]).
Mimnermus, Fr. 1 ([25]).
Philetaerus, Atalanta ([228]).
Propertius II. 6, 3 ([177]).
Sophocles, Ant. 781 ([46]), 909 ([49]), Fr. 855, 13 ([201]).
Theognis, 261 seqq. ([199]), 1282, 1363 ([208]).
Theopompus, Nemea 8 ([148]).