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Headword: Thumelê
Adler number: theta,556
Translated headword: altar, stage, orchestra
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] for aulos-playing.[1]
"Often flourishing on orchestras (qume/lh|si) and stages (skhnh=|si) the curving Acharnian ivy covered his hair."[2]
Procopius [writes]: "[...] from a mother [who was] one of those who prostituted herself on the stage (qume/lh|) [...]."[3]
Greek Original:
Thumelê: hê aulêtikê. pollakis en thumelêisi kai en skênêisi tethêlôs blaisos Acharnitês kissos erepse koman. Prokopios: mêtros de tôn tinos en thumelêi peporneumenôn.
Notes:
For this headword see already theta 555
[1] cf. generally alpha 4438, alpha 4447.
[2] Greek Anthology 7.21.3-4 (Simias of Thebes); cf. alpha 4677 and beta 327. On this epigram, an epitaph for Sophocles, see Gow and Page (vol. I, 178), (vol. II, 513-514), and another extract at kappa 1272. As Gow and Page note (ibid.), scholars have debated the ascription of the epigram to Simias of Thebes--evidently Socrates's follower and interlocutor appearing in the Phaedo. The ethnic was in fact inserted into the Anthologia Palatina (AP) by the AP scribe designated J (the Lemmatist); cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 178). For their part, Gow and Page find that the attribution to the Theban is unlikely and that this epigram is probably the work of Simias of Rhodes (vol. II, 514).
[3] Procopius, Secret History 1.11 (web address 1); about Antonina, wife of Belisarius; cf. Kaldellis (5). Quotations from this passage continue at mu 306 and epsilon 165. On Antonina see epsilon 671 note.
References:
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1965)
A. Kaldellis, ed. and trans., Prokopios: The Secret History, (Indianapolis 2010)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; botany; comedy; definition; gender and sexuality; geography; historiography; meter and music; philosophy; poetry; religion; stagecraft; tragedy; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 27 September 2005@01:25:28.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaked translation; augmented notes and keywords) on 27 September 2005@03:36:48.
Catharine Roth (added cross-references) on 27 September 2005@11:26:42.
Elizabeth Vandiver (Added headword; added Greek in translation; added keywords) on 27 September 2005@20:50:08.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 28 September 2005@02:58:57.
Elizabeth Vandiver (Added keyword) on 28 September 2005@17:56:28.
David Whitehead (adjusted note-numbers; other tweaking) on 7 January 2013@05:38:18.
Catharine Roth (expanded note) on 19 December 2018@11:01:36.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 9 September 2021@17:54:33.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-reference, added keyword) on 19 April 2022@13:54:40.
Ronald Allen (added bibliography, cross-reference, and link n.3) on 11 July 2024@11:52:29.

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