Hostname: page-component-6bf8c574d5-b4m5d Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-02-21T18:35:55.446Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

‘Eumelos’: a Corinthian epic cycle?*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2012

M.L. West
M.L. West
Affiliation:
All Souls College, Oxford
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The author surveys the evidence for the three antiquarian epics commonly ascribed to Eumelos: the Titanomachy, Korinthiaka and Europia. He elucidates and restores details, and endeavours to grasp their poets' objectives. He argues that they were products of the Corinthian-Sikyonian sphere, and to a degree mutually complementary; that they were composed between the late seventh and the late sixth century, considerably after the supposed lifetime of Eumelos; and that they were perhaps attributed to him for lack of other claimants, he being famous as the Corinthian poet of the Messenians' treasured Prosodion.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 122 , November 2002 , pp. 109 - 133
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 2002

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Barigazzi, A. (1966a) ‘Nuovi frammenti dei Corinthiaca di Eumelo’, RFIC 94, 129–48Google Scholar
Barigazzi, A. (1966b) Favorino di Arelate, Opere (Florence)Google Scholar
Boardman, J. (1999) The Greeks Overseas (4th edn, London)Google Scholar
Bowra, C.M. (1938) ‘The daughters of Asopos’, Hermes 73, 213-21 = his Problems in Greek Poetry (Oxford 1953) 54–65Google Scholar
Brillante, C. (1981) La leggenda eroica e la civiltà micenea (Rome)Google Scholar
Davies, M. (1989) The Epic Cycle (Bristol)Google Scholar
de Fidio, P. (1991) ‘Un modello di “Mythistorie”: Asopia ed Efirea nei “Korinthiaka” di Eumelo’, in Prontera, F. (ed.), Geografia storica della Grecia antica (Rome) 233–63Google Scholar
Dörig, J. and Gigon, O. (1961) Der Kampf der Götter und Titanen (Olten and Lausanne)Google Scholar
Dunbabin, T.J. (1948) ‘The early history of Corinth’, JHS 68, 59–68CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Harrauer, C. (1999) ‘Der korinthische Kindermord. Eumelos und die Folgen’, Wien. St. 112, 5–28Google Scholar
Huxley, G.L. (1969) Greek Epic Poetry from Eumelos to Panyassis (London)Google Scholar
Jacoby, F. (1955) Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker IIIb, Kommentar zu Nr. 297–607 (Leiden); the notes volume cited as ‘Noten’Google Scholar
Kranz, W. (1967) ‘Titanomachia’, in his Studien zur antiken Literatur und ihrem Fortwirken (Heidelberg) 89–96; originally in Studi in onore di Luigi Castiglioni (Florence 1960) 1.475-86Google Scholar
Lebedev, A. (1998) ‘The justice of Chiron (Titanomachy, Fr. 6 and 11 B.)’, Philologus 142, 3–10CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lecomte, C. (1998) ‘L'Εὐρωπία d'Eumélos de Corinthe’, in Poignault, R. and Wattel-de Croizant, O. (eds), D'Europe à l'Europe 1: Le mythe d‘Europe (Tours) 71–9Google Scholar
Preller, L. and Robert, C. (1894) Theogonie und Götter (Griechische Mythologie 1, 4th edn, Berlin)Google Scholar
Radermacher, L. (1938) Mythos und Sage bei den Griechen (Vienna)Google Scholar
Robert, C. (1920-1923) Die griechische Heldensage (Griechische Mythologie 2, 4th edn, Berlin)Google Scholar
Roscher, W.H. (ed.) (1884-1937) Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie (Leipzig and Berlin)Google Scholar
Salmon, J.B. (1984) Wealthy Corinth. A History of the City to 338 BC (Oxford)Google Scholar
Severyns, A. (1928) Le cycle épique dans l'école d'Aristarque (Liège and Paris)Google Scholar
Tsetskhladze, G.R. (1998) (ed.) The Greek Colonization of the Black Sea Area (Historia Einzelschriften 121, Stuttgart)Google Scholar
Untersteiner, M. (1971) ‘Eumelo di Corinto’, in his Scritti minori (Brescia) 165–79; originally in Antiquitas 6/7 (1951-2) 3-13Google Scholar
Vian, F. (1952) La guerre des Géants (Paris)Google Scholar
Welcker, F.G. (1865/1849) Der epische Cyclus 1 (2nd edn), 2 (Bonn)Google Scholar
West, M.L. (1983) The Orphic Poems (Oxford)Google Scholar
West, M.L. (1985) The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women. Its Nature, Structure, and Origins (Oxford)Google Scholar
West, M.L. (1997) The East Face of Helicon. West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wilamowitz-(Moellendorff), U. von (1924) Hellenistische Dichtung 1–2 (Berlin)Google Scholar
Wilamowitz-(Moellendorff), U. von (1931-1932) Der Glaube der Hellenen 1–2 (Berlin)Google Scholar
Wilisch, E.G. (1875) Über die Fragmente des Epikers Eumelus (Progr. Zittau)Google Scholar
Will, É. (1955) Korinthiaka. Recherches sur l'histoire et la civilisation de Corinthe des origines aux guerres médiques (Paris)Google Scholar