Suda On Line
Search
|
Search results for pi,1959 in Adler number:
Headword:
*polu/euktos
Adler number: pi,1959
Translated headword: Polyeuktos, Polyeuctus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Comic poet. His plays are [sic]
Charioteer, as
Athenaeus says in the
Deipnosophists.[1]
Concerning Polyeuktos the patriarch: there appeared also a Polyeuktos in our time, unmentionable, half-woman, hateful to God, full of anger, terrible offspring of Cocytus and Styx, destructive to life.[2]
*polu/euktos, kwmiko/s. tou/tou dra/mata e)stin *(hni/oxos, w(s *)aqh/naio/s fhsin e)n *deipnosofistai=s. kata\ *polueu/ktou patria/rxou: e)ge/neto kai\ kaq' h(ma=s *polu/euktos, a)pofra/s, h(migu/naios, qeostugh/s, baruo/rghtos, *kwkutou= kai\ *stugo\s deino\n kai\ o)le/qrion tw=| bi/w| e)klo/xeuma.
Notes:
[1]
Deipnosophists 9.396D (9.54 Kaibel), which actually (and correctly) says the reverse: 'Charioteer' (a.k.a. Heniochos) is the poet, Polyeuktos the play; see under
eta 392.
[2] This material, Adler reports, is a marginal addition in ms A, and cf. already
eta 392, where it is a marginal addition in ms V. Polyeuktos was Patriarch of Constantinople 956-970; he baptized the Russian princess Olga (see Wikipedia entry at web address 1). The remarks seem to have been added by a critic of this patriarch during his lifetime, which implies that the Suda itself was compiled a little earlier than that (Wilson [below] 145).
N.G. Wilson, Scholars of Byzantium (Baltimore 1983)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; Christianity; chronology; comedy; definition; ethics; gender and sexuality; imagery; mythology; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 20 February 2005@22:14:41.
Vetted by:
No. of records found: 1
Page 1
End of search