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Showing praise in greek choral lyric and beyond

SHOWING PRAISE IN GREEK CHORAL LYRIC AND BEYOND ALEXANDER NIKOLAEV For Gregory Nagy on his seventieth birthday Abstract In this article I examine several passages in Greek choral lyric where the verb ? ? ? is construed with a direct object meaning ??song ? or ??hymn ? and show that this usage ?nds an exact parallel in the Rigveda where the cognate root dis - is likewise employed with ??song of praise ? as its object Greek ? ? ? ? ? etc ??to show forth song of praise ? is thus argued to be an archaism of the melic poetry that goes back to the Indo- European poetic language The use of Latin d c o of reciting verse d c ere carmen or singing praise d c ere laudes in Augustan poets may continue the same inherited phraseology Finally based on these results I argue that the long problematic epithet ?? ? ? ? contains the root of ? ? ? and not of ? ? ? ? and should be interpreted as ??famous well worth singing of well worth praising in song ? THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE is to o ?er an interpretation for several poorly understood passages in Greek choral lyric by examining them in the comparative context of Indo-European poetics This is rarely done for lyric poetry as opposed to archaic epic simply because these texts are not as old but this method is a priori worthwhile according to a widely held belief the traditions of Greek lyric preserve metrical structures of higher antiquity than the epic hexameter and one would therefore expect to ?nd comparable poetic archaisms in these traditions In fact as this article will seek to show there are still cases in the study of Greek literature where Karl Lehrs ? sixth commandment for classical philologists ??thou shalt not grab around for Sanskrit roots ? can be violated with pro ?t The crux in question is a peculiar use of the verb ? ? ? ??to show ? found in the following passages See e g Nagy Berg Lehrs ??Du sollst nicht Sanskritwurzeln klauben ? American Journal of Philology ?? ? by The Johns Hopkins University Press C ALEXANDER NIKOLAEV Alcman b Davies Calame EF D ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? The yellow haired Megalostrata blessed among girls ?? ? Campbell displayed this gift of the sweet Muses Megalostrata only known from this fragment was in all likelihood the choreg os in a partheneion from which these verses are quoted by Athenaeus a Since the expression ? ? ? ? ? is a usual kenning for ??music ? ??song ? or ??poetry ? we have to ask ourselves what exactly ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? means in the present context One possibility would be to interpret these lines as re ecting the pedagogical function of the lyric chorus Megalostrata could be both