Eratosthenes, Icaria and the Origins of Tragedy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10290384 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Broggiato (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’AntichitàPiazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 RomaItaly, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 885-899 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-12 |
| 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-12341419 |
| OpenAlex | W1987960450 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
This paper discusses the text of one of the fragments of Eratosthenes’ Erigone (fr. 22 Powell). Modern scholars have linked this one-line fragment with a Hellenistic theory that placed the origin of drama in the village of Icaria, in the Attic countryside. It is likely that the fragment did mention the word ‘billy-goat’ (τράγος), but there are no definite elements in favour of the hypothesis that Eratosthenes devised a theory on the origin of tragedy in Icaria
Algorithm · Art · Drama · Fragment (logic · Literature · Tragedy (event · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Archaeological and Historical Studies · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · History · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |