Chasing a Dark Horse
Pursuit and Identity in Anacreon’s ‘Thracian Filly’ Fragment [417 pmg]
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10290284 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Hullinger (1 Loyola University Chicago 1032 W. Sheridan Rd. Chicago, il 60660 [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 729-741 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mnemosyne (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-7074 • E-ISSN: 1568-525X |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/1568525x-12342029 |
| OpenAlex | W2795918045 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
This paper argues that the addressee of Anacreon 417 pmg , or the ‘Thracian filly’ fragment, is a virgin girl instead of a hetaira . This identification is substantiated by contextualizing the fragment within Anacreon’s corpus, by engaging in a close reading of the fragment, and by linking the fragment to the Odes of Horace. The analysis of these sources reveals an erotic chase pattern in which an experienced man pursues a youthful object of desire and suggests that this chase pattern was employed by Anacreon to compose amatory poems outside the context of the symposium
Algorithm · Archaeology · Art · Biology · Context (archaeology · Fragment (logic · Girl · Linguistics · Literature · Object (grammar · Poetry · Reading (process · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · Genetics · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Philosophy
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| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |