>
>And while we're at it, does anyone have any views on the 64 million dollar
>question i.e. the golden bough and the ivory gates? I remember being quite
>taken with West's article where the golden bough reflected the "aureos
>ramos" of Plato's poetry in Meleager's garland. In that context, it's
>notable that "poluchromatos" (cp. "discolor" 6.204) is a Greek hapax
>legomenon, according to a Hellenistic lexicographer, appearing in ... you
>guessed it ... Plato.
>
As regards the problem of the ivory gates, I wish to draw attention to an
article written by myself and a colleague ("A Note on Aeneid 6.893-8", in:
Eranos 94, 1996, pp 21-28), where we demonstrate that there are good
reasons to assume that that passage cannot have been written for that
context originally. So the passage with the ivory gates does not primarily
require interpretation, but raises a more fundamental question, namely the
soundness of the received text.Docent Arne J�nsson Klassiska institutionen S�lvegatan 2 S-223 62 LUND Sweden Tel: + 46 (0)46 222 34 23 Fax: + 46 (0)46 222 42 27 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
