Onphale, a satyr play by Ion of Chios

context and commentary

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25187/codex.v11i2.61407

Keywords:

Ion of Chios, Heracles, Omphale, transvestism, cross-dressing, satyr-play

Abstract

The satyr play Omphale, by Ion of Chios (c. 484-422 BC), is a dramatic representation of the myth of Heracles and the Lydian queen Omphale. The context of the fragments and their position in dramatic structure are also briefly commented. Textual evidence suggests that the transvestism of Heracles, frequently mentioned from the late Hellenistic Period onwards, was already present in this satyr drama of the Classical Period.

Author Biography

Wilson Alves Ribeiro Jr., Universidade de São Paulo

Médico, Mestre e Doutor em Letras Clássicas pela Universidade de São Paulo (2006 e 2011), pesquisador do Grupo de Pesquisa "Estudos sobre o Teatro Antigo" (FFLCH-USP, CNPq, SBEC). Membro da Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos.

References

Bailly BAILLY, Anatole. Dictionnaire Grec Français, rédigé avec le concours de Émile Egger. 16e éd. revue par Louis Séchan e Pierre Chantraine. Paris: Hachette, 1950.

Bl. BLUMENTHAL, Albrecht von. Ion von Chios, die Reste seiner Werke. Stuttgart / Berlin: Kohlhammer, 1939.

Cip. CIPOLLA, Paolo. ‘Ione di Chio’. In CIPOLLA, Paolo, Poeti minori del dramma satiresco. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, p. 106-38, 2003.

Collard COLLARD, Christopher. ‘Major Fragments of Greek satyric drama’. In O’SULLIVAN, Patrick; COLLARD, Christopher, Euripides Cyclops and Major Fragments of Greek Satyric Drama. Oxford: Oxbow Books, p. 227-514, 2013.

Jennings JENNINGS, Victoria; KATSAROS, Andrea (ed.). The World of Ion of Chios. Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2007.

KPS PECHSTEIN, Nikolaus; KRUMEICH, Ralph. ‘Omphale’. In KRUMEICH, Ralf; PECHSTEIN, Nikolaus; SEIDENSTICKER, Bernd (ed.). Das griechische Satyrspiel. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, p. 479-90, 1999.

L LEURINI, Aloisius (Luigi). Ionis Chii testimonia et fragmenta, 2ª ed. Amsterdam: A.M. Hakkert, 2000.

LSJ LIDDELL, Henry G.; SCOTT, Robert. A Greek-English Lexicon, Ninth Edition with Revised Supplement. Revised and augmented Henry S. Jones, with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie. Supplement edited by P.G.W. Glare, and with the assistance of A.A. Thompson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.

TrGF SNELL, Bruno; KANNICHT, Richard; RADT, Stephan. Tragicorum

, 2, 3, 4, 5a-b graecorum fragmenta, v. 1-5 (1, didascaliae et tragici minores; 2, adespota; 3, Aeschylus; 4, Sophocles; 5a-b, Euripides). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1986 2007.

ALLAN, William. Euripides Helen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

BEEKES, Robert; BEEK, Lucien van. Etymological Dictionary of Greek, vol. 1. Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2010.

BROMMER, Frank. Satyrspiele: Bilder griechischer Vasen, 2nd ed. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1959.

DICKEY, Eleanor. Ancient greek scholarship. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

EASTERLING, Pat. Looking for Omphale. In Jennings, p. 282-92, 2007.

FRAENKEL, Eduard. Aeschylus Agamemnon, vol. 2: commentary on 1 1055. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1950.

GERBER, Douglas E. Greek elegiac poetry from the seventh to the fifth centuries BC. Cambrige MA / London: Harvard University Press, 1999.

HUXLEY, George. Ion of Chios. Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, Durham NC, v. 6, p. 29-46, 1965.

LEHNUS, Luigi. Ancora Ione di Chio "TrGF" 19 F 17a. Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, New Series, Pisa / Roma, v. 17, n. 2, p. 137-9, 1984.

LEURINI, Luigi. Il βόρειος ἵππος di Ione di Chio 19 F 17a Sn. Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, New Series, Pisa / Roma, v. 9, p. 155-61, 1981.

LOREAUX, Nicole. Herakles, the supermale and the feminine. Trad. Robert Lamberton. In: LORAUX, Nicole. The experiences of Tiresias: the feminine and the Greek man. Trad. Paula Wissing. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, p. 116-39, 1995.

MACFARLANE, Patrick. Teeth in the Hippocratic Corpus. In: DEAN-JONES; Lesley; ROSEN, Ralph M. (ed.), Ancient Concepts of the Hippocratic: papers presented at the XIIIth International Hippocrates Colloquium. Austin, Texas, August 2008. Leiden / Boston: Brill, p. 273-91, 2016.

MAITLAND, Judith. Ion of Chios, Sophocles and Myth. In Jennings, p. 266-81, 2007.

NICHOLS, Andrew. The complete fragments of Ctesias of Cnidus: translation and commentary with an introduction. PhD Thesis, 252p. Gainesville: University of Florida, 2008.

OLSON, S. Douglas. Broken Laughter. Select Fragments of Greek Comedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

O’SULLIVAN, Patrick. General Introduction. In O’SULLIVAN, Patrick; COLLARD, Christopher, Euripides Cyclops and Major Fragments of Greek Satyric Drama. Oxford: Oxbow Books, p. 1-72, 2013.

ÖZGEN, İlknur. Lydian treasure. URL http://sardisexpedition.org/en/essays/latw-ozgen-lydian-treasure. Data: 05/04/2020.

POWELL, Anton. Athens’ pretty face: anti-feminine rhetoric and fifth-century controversy over the Parthenon. In POWELL, Anton (ed.), The Greek World. London / New York: Routledge, p. 245-70, 1995.

POWER, Timothy. Ion of Chios and the politics of polychordia. In Jennings, p. 179-205, 2007.

RIBEIRO JR., Wilson A. A recepção das tragédias fragmentárias de Eurípides nos séculos V e IV a.C. Codex, Revista de Estudos Clássicos, Rio de Janeiro, v. 6, n. 2, p. 123-51, 2018a. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25187/codex.v6i2.21153

RIBEIRO JR., Wilson A. Busíris, um drama satírico de Eurípides. Codex, Rio de Janeiro, vol. 6, n. 1, p. 182-99, 2018b. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25187/codex.v6i1.15237

RIBEIRO JR., Wilson A. A caracterização de Polifemo no Ciclope de Eurípides. Codex, Rio de Janeiro, vol. 8, n. 1, p. 281-300, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25187/codex.v8i1.33634

RICHTER, Gisela M.A.; MILNE Marjorie J. Shapes and names of Athenian vases. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1935.

SEAFORD, Richard A.S. Cyclops of Euripides. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.

SHAW, Carl A. Euripides: Cyclops. London / New York: Bloomsbury, 2018.

SMITH, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, 2 v. London: Walton and Mayberly / John Murray, 1854.

STEFFEN, Wiktor. De Graecorum fabulis satyricis. Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1979.

STEWART, Edmund. Ion of Chios: the case of a foreign poet in classical Sparta. Classical Quarterly, New York, v. 68, n. 2, p. 394-407, 2019.

SUTTON, Dana F. A handlist of satyr plays. Cambridge MA / London: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, v. 78, p. 107-43, 1974.

SUTTON, Dana F. Evidence for lost dramatic hypotheses. Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, Durham NC, v. 29, n. 1, p. 87-92, 1988.

WALTERS, Henry B. History of ancient pottery, v. 1. New York: Scribner, 1905.

WEST, Martin L. Ion of Chios. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, London, v. 32, n. 1, p. 71-8, 1985.

WEST, Martin L. Ancient greek music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

WILLINK, Charles W. Notes on the parodos and other cantica of Euripides’ Cyclops. Mnemosyne, Leiden, v. 54, n. 5, p. 515-30, 2001.

Published

2024-03-09

How to Cite

Alves Ribeiro Jr., W. (2024). Onphale, a satyr play by Ion of Chios: context and commentary. CODEX - Revista De Estudos Clássicos, 11(2), e112202305. https://doi.org/10.25187/codex.v11i2.61407