CATULLUS 68 - Scuola Normale Superiore

• Homeric Hymn to Demeter 102f. Demeter looked like an old woman × τε τ〉κοιο / ε◊ργηται δ⊕ρϖν
τε φιλοστεφ νου Αφροδ⇔τη!, ‘who has been debarred from giving birth and from the gifts of garland-
loving Aphrodite’.
• [Hesiod], Ehoiai, frg. 76.5-10 Merkelbach-West ∂ μϒν =α π[οδ⊕κη! δ⇑ Αταλ ντη / 〈ετ
ναινομϒνη δ⎯∩ρα⎯ [ ξρυ!°! Αφροδ⇔τη!, / τ∩ι δ′⎯ περ⇐ χυξ°! πϒλε[το δρ〉μο!, ±′ λ∩ναι / ±⎯′
φυ⎯γ⎯ε⇑ν: τ⎯∩ι κα⇔ =α δολο⎯[φρονϒϖν προ!ϒειπεν: / ∀∈⎯ ψ⎛γατερ Σξοιν°ο!, μ[ε⇔λιξον •τορ
ƒξου!α, / δ]ϒ⎯ϕο τ δ ⎯ γλα⎯[ ] δ∩ρ⎯α ψ⎯ε⎯[ ! ξρυ!°! Αφροδ⇔τη! ... Atalanta refused ‘the gifts of
golden Aphrodite’. Note the echo of Il. 3.64 in the last line.
• [Hesiod], Ehoiai, frg. 195 Merkelbach-West = [Hesiod], Scutum 46-47 πανν⎛ξιο! δ ρ ƒλεκτο !⎜ν
α⇒δο⇔ηι παρακο⇔τι / τερπ〉μενο! δ⊕ροι!ι πολυξρ⎛!ου Αφροδ⇔τη!. On Amphitryon. Apparently
another echo of Il. 3.64.
(iii) marriage
• Theognidea 1293f. Atalante went to the mountain-tops φε⎛γου! ⇓μερ〉εντα γ μον, ξρυ!°!
Αφροδ⇔τη! / δ∩ρα ... Another Iliadic echo.
(iv) a partner
• Euripides, I.A. 180f. Π ρι! ⌡ βουκ〉λο! ν ƒλαβε / δ∩ρον τ ! Αφροδ⇔τα! ... Of Helen.
(v) erotic delights, pleasurable thoughts of love?
• Anacreon frg. 2 West, quoted under C below.
C) MUNERA MUSARUM AND MUNERA VENERIS MENTIONED TOGETHER
• Anacreon frg. 2 West ο⎡ φιλϒϖ, ⎤! κρητ°ρι παρ πλϒϖι ο⇒νοποτ ζϖν / νε⇔κεα κα⇐ π〉λεμον
δακρυ〉εντα λϒγει, / λλ∋ ⎟!τι! Μου!ϒϖν τε κα⇐ γλα δ∩ρ Αφροδ⇔τη! / !υμμ⇔!γϖν ⁄ρατ°!
μν→!κεται ε⎡φρο!⎛νη!. Anacreon writes of ‘mixing the splendid gifts of the Muses and of Aphrodite’ at a
party: that is, mixing the gifts of the Muses, that is, poems (A ii above), apparently with erotic delights,
pleasurable thoughts of love (B v). Anacreon is probably thinking of the banqueter who likes erotic verse
rather than of the author of sympotic love poetry.
D) A variant: the ƒργα of Aphrodite, Dionysus and the Muses
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