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Headword:
Kêkidios
Adler number: kappa,1500
Translated headword: Kekidios
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A poet of dithyrambs, very ancient.[1]
Cratinus mentions him in
Panoptai.[2] And
Aristophanes [says]:[3] "old-fashioned and Diipolieia-like and full of cicada hair-pieces[4] and of Kekidios [and of the Bouphonia]".
Greek Original:Kêkidios, dithurambôn poiêtês, panu archaios. memnêtai autou Kratinos en Panoptais. kai Aristophanês: archaia kai Diipoliôdê kai tettigôn anamesta kai Kêkidiou.
Notes:
An approximation of
Aristophanes,
Clouds 984-5 (web address 1), preceded by material from the
scholia there.
[1] Nothing is otherwise known of this poet, and even the form of his name is unclear: here Kekidios, but there are numerous variants in the mss and elsewhere -- Kekidos, Kikidos, Kukeidos, Keidos (
Stobaeus), Kedios, Ketheides (
Hesychius and
Photius) or Kedeides (Nauck, with epigraphic support).
[2]
Cratinus fr. 156 Kock, now 168 K.-A.
[3]
Aristophanes' lines, which follow, refer to old-fashioned aspects of the Diipolieia, an Attic "spectator" festival of Zeus (
delta 1045). They end with a mention, here omitted, of the Bouphonia, the ox-slaying ritual at the Diipolieia (
beta 474,
beta 475). But NB: the word read as upper-case
Khki/diou or
Khkei/dou almost certainly has to do with the yellow dye or ink made from oak-gall or ink-gall (
khki/s,
kappa 1501); such a yellow dye might have been used in an old-fashioned ritual.
[4] cf.
tau 378.
References:
OCD(4) 203 (s.v. 'Attic cults and myths'), 248 (s.v. 'Bouphonia').
Simon, E. Festivals of Attica (1983) 8-12
Henrichs, A. in Symposium Karl Meuli, ed. F. Graf (1992) 152-60
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; clothing; comedy; poetry; religion; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: Robert Dyer on 10 February 2002@12:05:00.
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