Moschos
The Europa des Moschos in a 15th century manuscript ( British Library , Add MS 11885)
Moschos ( Greek Μόσχος Móschos ) was an ancient Greek grammarian and bucolic poet. He lived around the middle of the 2nd century BC. Chr.
Moschos came from Syracuse . In Alexandria , the cultural center of the Hellenistic world, he was a student of the scholar Aristarchus . In addition to smaller bucolic poems, some of which have survived , he wrote the Epyllion Europe . The Europe is held in verse narrative of the violent abduction of the Phoenician princess Europa by the bull protean god Zeus by Crete .
Text editions and translations
- Winfried Bühler (ed.): The Europe of the moschus. Text, translation and commentary (= Hermes individual fonts , issue 13). Franz Steiner, Wiesbaden 1960
- Malcolm Campbell (Ed.): Musk: Europe. Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 1991, ISBN 3-487-09432-0 (with introduction and commentary)
- Moschos: Europa, in: Greek Kleinepik, eds. Manuel Baumbach, Horst Sitta, Fabian Zogg, Tusculum Collection , 2019 (Greek-German)
literature
- Peter Kuhlmann : Moschos' Europe between artificiality and classicism. The myth as upside down world . In: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 147, 2004, pp. 276–294 ( online, PDF ).
- Doris Meyer: Moschos . In: Bernhard Zimmermann , Antonios Rengakos (Hrsg.): Handbook of the Greek literature of antiquity. Volume 2: The Literature of the Classical and Hellenistic Period. CH Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-61818-5 , pp. 230-232
Web links
Wikisource: Moschos - Sources and full texts
- Literature by and about Moschos in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Moschos in the German Digital Library
- Digitized version of "Theokritos, Bion and Moschos" on Google Books - German translation by Johann Heinrich Voss
- Poems by Moschos - English translation
- Europe myth in ancient literature ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Remarks
- ^ So the poems 9,440 and 16,200 in the Anthologia Palatina .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moschos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek grammarian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd century BC Chr. |