| Abstrakt: |
P.Berol. 17071, published by W. Müüller in 1974, comes from a papyrus codex which may be assigned to the fifth cent. AD. It is commonly believed that the fragment contains post-classical hexameters mentioning Hero. Nevertheless, a re-examination of this papyrus allows us to improve the text of the editio princeps in some points of detail and to argue for a new interpretation of the content. →→ l. 10 can be compared with Theocritus 17.31 (a description of Herakles' club); in the catalogue of mythical names at ↓↓ ll. 8-11 we can identify some Heraklides and people linked with Eurystheus (his son Eurybios and his herald Kopreus). If this scenario is correct, I would suggest that this scrap contains parts of a hexameter poem on Herakles (and perhaps on his offspring). Authorship remains uncertain: however, if the Theocritean resemblance in →→ l. 10 was deliberate, this fact might be a terminus post quem for assigning this poem to the Hellenistic or Roman period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
