A Forgotten Piece of the Theban Saga?

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_6537
dc.contributor.author	Andolfi Ilaria
dc.title	A Forgotten Piece of the Theban Saga?. Reassessing Hec. fr. 33 EGM
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This paper offers a fresh discussion of Hecataeus of Miletus’ fr. 33 EGM, usually dismissed for its opaqueness. The reference to the seer Amphiaraus, who, according to Aelian, slept away his watch and nearly suffered the consequence of his negligence, is obscure, but has sometimes been interpreted as being a lost piece of the Theban saga. This reconstruction, however, is not the only one possible: as the story of the seer Evenius in Herodotus shows, this fragment might come from an account about Amphiaraus’ initiation to the prophetic art.
dc.relation.ispartof	Antiquity Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Filologia e letteratura
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2021-12-16
dc.dateAccepted	2021-06-23
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-05-17
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-549-0/a-forgotten-piece-of-the-theban-saga/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-548-3/022
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8828
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9344
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-549-0
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-548-3
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Aelian
dc.subject	Aelian
dc.subject	Amphiaraus
dc.subject	Amphiaraus
dc.subject	Evenius
dc.subject	Evenius
dc.subject	Hecataeus of Miletus
dc.subject	Hecataeus of Miletus
dc.subject	Theban saga
dc.subject	Theban saga

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A Forgotten Piece of the Theban Saga?

Reassessing Hec. fr. 33 EGM

Ilaria Andolfi King’s College, London, UK

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abstract

This paper offers a fresh discussion of Hecataeus of Miletus’ fr. 33 EGM, usually dismissed for its opaqueness. The reference to the seer Amphiaraus, who, according to Aelian, slept away his watch and nearly suffered the consequence of his negligence, is obscure, but has sometimes been interpreted as being a lost piece of the Theban saga. This reconstruction, however, is not the only one possible: as the story of the seer Evenius in Herodotus shows, this fragment might come from an account about Amphiaraus’ initiation to the prophetic art.

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Dec. 16, 2021

Accepted

June 23, 2021

Submitted

May 17, 2021

Language

EN

ISBN (PRINT)

978-88-6969-549-0

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-548-3

Keywords: Amphiaraus • Aelian • Theban saga • Evenius • Hecataeus of Miletus

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-548-3/022

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