ピンダロスのαωτο&b.sigmav;について
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In this paper the author attempts to make clear the meaning of 'αωυο&b.sigmav;' which 'has a very ambiguous character, especially in Pindar. Though scholiasts interpreted it as 'το ανθο&b.sigmav;' or 'το απανθισμα', we can hardly accept this interpretation literally, because its original sense is not 'a flower' but 'a breath' (?)and because there are some differences between Pindar's metaphorical usage of this word and ・our flower(for example Py. X-53). Nevertheless there is an interesting fact that Pindar often uses it in a similar way as he uses 'ανθο&b.sigmav;'. (see Chart A) Through a comparative examination of 'ανθο&b.sigmav;' and 'αωτο&b.sigmav;' in Pindar, the author finds two points which distinguish those words. The first is that 'αωτο&b.sigmav;' cannot be used for anything living or growing in the actual sense in which 'ανθο&b.sigmav;' is always used. On the other hand, 'αωτο&b.sigmav;' covers such metaphorical meanings as 'anyone the best in a group' and 'anything concerning concepts like δικη or σοφια', which 'ανθο&b.sigmav;' never has(while Aeschylus says 'ανθο&b.sigmav; 'Αργειων' (Ag. 197) or 'ερωτο&b.sigmav; ανθο&b.sigmav;' (Ag. 743)etc). Secondly, when someone wins a victory in a game, or when an ode is sung for another, 'ανθο&b.sigmav;' is given to athletes, citizens or poets by the divine will, while 'αωτο&b.sigmav;' is culled or dedicated to the mother land by man's own will. (see Chart B) Behind his different use of these two words there must be two opposing views to the world with which Pindar, as an epinician poet, is destined to be concerned whenever he celebrates 'arete' of the mortals. One of these two considers that the radiance of man appears periodically through the unseen mechanism of the divine cycle, while the other view holds that it is only with man's own endeavours that he can gain this radiance. And if anyone succeeds in it, it must be a job of a poet to make it immortal. The world of Pindar's epinicia is based on these two opposite viewpoints, which gives a continuous tension to his works, and also, as the author believes, makes Pindar dare to use 'αωτο&b.sigmav;'.
- 日本西洋古典学会の論文
- 1976-03-31
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