X. Observations on the Figures of Anacreon and his Dog, as represented upon some Greek Fictile Vases in the British Museum. By Samuel Birch, Esq., F.S.A., Assistant Keeper of the Antiquities in the British Museum

Samuel Birch Esq.

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X. Observations on the Figures of Anacreon and his Dog, as represented upon some Greek Fictile Vases in the British Museum. By Samuel Birch, Esq., F.S.A., Assistant Keeper of the Antiquities in the British Museum

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The various fictile Græco-Italian vases found northward of Rome, as well as those of Southern Italy, are decorated with subjects, the interest of which is chiefly mythological.

If the legends of the Iliad, the traditions of the Poets of the Epic Cycle, and the narratives of the return of the Greeks from the Siege of Troy, be placed without the pale of history, there are but few vases representing subjects which can be considered historical.

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Information: Archaeologia , Volume 31 , 1846 , pp. 257 - 264

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^{page 258 note a} Now in the Bibliothèque du Roi. See De Witte, Dur. Cat. p. 158. no. 160. Mon. de 1 Inst. Arch. PL XLVII. M. le Due de Luynes, Annales, v. 56. Micali, Storia degli Ant. Pop. XCVII. 1. Cf. Vase, Inghir Vasi. Fittil. II. Tav. ciij.

^{page 258 note b} Herodot. IV. 162. This Vase, in fact, may be considered to represent Arcesilaus restored by the Samians.

^{page 258 note c} Now in the Louvre. De Witte, Dur. Cat. p. 157. no. 421. Mon. de l'Inst. Arch. pi. liv. lv. Due de Luynes, Annal. v. 237.

^{page 258 note d} Millingen, Anc. Unedit. Mon. pi. xxxiii. p. 81–85.

^{page 258 note e} Described Dur. Cat. De Witte, p. 162, no. 428. Raoul Rochette, Peint. Ant. Ined. p. 438.

^{page 258 note f} De Witte, Cat. Dur. no. 341.

^{page 258 note g} Canino, Cat. no. c. *1671. Cf. also Nolan, Amphora Hamilton Coll. 275, a man walking with lyre slung on a stick playing on double flute, before a dog. Rev. Youth offering a cylix.

^{page 259 note h} Cat. No. *1429.

^{page 259 note i} For life of Anacreon, Cf. Herod. III. 121. Hor. I. od. xviii. 18. et sq. Epod. xiv. 9. sq. Ovid, Trist. 263. A. A. iii. 329. et sq. Rem. Am. v. 759. Strabo, xiv. p. 644. ed. Casaub. 953. Maxim. Tyr. dissert. 10. Pollux, III. 18. Apul. florid. 351. Apolog. 278. Athen. xiii. 8. ed. Casaub. 600. Aelian, V. H. viii. 2. ix. 4. Clemens, Strom. 308. Synesius, I. ss. Julian epist. Eugen. Dio. Chrysost. 31. de regno, 9. 31. Sallust in Porphyrione ad Horat. I. od. xvii. Suidas, voce Anacreon. Ed. Gaisf. Anacreon a Barnes, 12mo. 1734. Prolegomena, a Fischer, Lips. 1793. a Bergk. 8vo. Berl. 1834.

^{page 259 note k} Suidas, loc. cit. Visconti, Iconographie Grecque, torn. i. p. 74, mentions a fragment of a headless Hermaic stele, found at Tivoli, inscribed ‘Ανακ [ρέων ] Σκυθ [ίνου] Τηΐ[ος]. Possibly he was son of the Iambic poet, Scythinus. Cf. Steph. Byz. voce Τήως. Diogen. Laert. in Heracl. Athenæus, p. 461. Schol. in Platon. a Bekker, 8vo. Lond. 1824, p. 4. 235.

^{page 259 note l} Suidas, loc. cit.

^{page 259 note m} Cf. Ηρωελεγεῖον, cited by Barnes, Prolegomena, iv.

^{page 259 note n} Suidas, loc. cit. Clinton, Fasti Hellenici, p. 22, 11. Barnes places his birth, Olymp. lv. Cramer in Diatribe xix. his death between Ol. lvij. lix.

^{page 259 note o} Herod. Clio, 160. Strab. xiii. 644.

^{page 260 note m} Herod, iii. 121. Paus. Att. i. s. 2. t. 1. p. 4. Aelian, ix. 4.

^{page 260 note q} ibid, and Clitus the peripatetic in Athen. xii. c. 19, 540.

^{page 260 note r} Thus the herald of Orœtes found Polycrates κατακείμενον ἐν ἀνδρεῶνι, παρεῖναι δέ οἱ καὶ Ἀνακρέοντα τὸν Τηΐον and the subsequent inattention of the tyrant seems to prove that he was minister of the pleasures. Her. loc. cit.

^{page 260 note s} Socrates apud Platon in Hipparcho. Tzetzes, Chil. viii. 830.

^{page 260 note t} Socrat. loc. cit. Pseud. Anacr. cited by Barnes, Proleg. li.

^{page 260 note u} Cf. fragm. apud Athen. xiii. ed. Casaub. 845. Anacreon a Fischer, p. 357. et a Bergk. fr. xix. p. 110.

^{page 260 note x} Lucian de Macrob.

^{page 260 note y} Val. Max. ix. s. 5. c. 8.

^{page 260 note z} Apud Athen. xiii. 598.

Λέσβιος Ἀλκαῖος δὲ πόσους ἀνεδέξατο κώμους

Σαπϕοῦς ϕορμίων ἱμερόεντα πόθον

γιγνώσκεις. ὁ δ᾽ ἀοιδὸς ἀηδόνος ἠράσαθ ᾽, ὕμνων

Τηΐον ἀλγύνων ἄνδρα πολυϕραδίῃ

καὶ γὰρ τὴν ὁ μελιχρὸς ἐϕωμίλησ᾽ Ἀνακρείων

στελλομένην πολλαῖς ἄμμιγα Λεσβιάσι. κ. τ. λ.

X.—a Bailey, p. 2. 1. 47–52.

^{page 260 note a} Athen. loc. sup. cit.

^{page 261 note b} Cf. Sapphus Lesbiæ, carmina a H. F. M. Volger. 12mo. Lipsiæ, 1810, xxix. who with Barnes, Proleg. xxiv. Cramer Diatrib. inclines for their being contemporaneous, while Bailey, Lexic. Hist. Sapphus. Ann. Dacier in vita Anacr. sub fine. Wolfius, Sapph. ij. assert they could not have been. Volger reads, Stob. Florileg. lxxj. 291, ἀλλ᾽ ἐὼν ϕιλός ἁμὶν λέχος ἄρνυσο νεώτερον, Οὐ γὰρ τλάσομ᾽ ἐγὼ ξυνοικεῖν οὗσα γεραιτέρα as corrected to,ἀλλ᾽ Ἐὼν ϕίλος ἁμὶν λέχος ἄρνυσο νεώτερος. Οὐ γὰρ τλάσομ ᾽ ἐγὼ ξυνοικεῖν νε᾽ οὖσα γεραιτέρῳ, and supports himself by the pseudo-Sapphic, πρέσβυς ἀγαυὸς, in Athen. xiii. c. 8, 599; but these rather apply to Alcæus.

^{page 261 note c} Millin, Vases, Pl. lxxxi.

^{page 261 note d} Athen. iv. s. 23.

^{page 261 note e} Visconti, Icon. Grecq. i. p. 74. Mionnet, iii. 261. 1490–1. Sup. vi. p. 381. no. 1923–4. 5. Num. Pemb. ii. 80.

^{page 261 note f} Millin, Gal. Myth. torn. 1. Pl. xx. 64, bas-relief in British Museum.

^{page 261 note g} Canino Vase, BM. c. *1690, held by Mercury, Amphora, BM.

^{page 261 note h} Gerhard, Vases Etrusq. and Campan. fo. Berl. 1843. Pl. viii, ix.

^{page 262 note i} Analecta, a Brunck, tom. i. p. 2. Conf. ibid. 136. n. 54. Athen. xiii. 8.

^{page 262 note k} Athen. xiii. 600. Ed. Cas.

^{page 262 note l} The cava testudo of Horace, Epod. xiv. 9–10. Cf. ibid. I. od. xvij. 18, sq. III. xj. 3.

^{page 262 note m} Attic. I. cap. xxv.

^{page 262 note n} 8vo. Lipsiæ, a Meineke, ss. xxxvij, xxxviij.

^{page 262 note o} Simonides, 55. Analect. t. i. p. 136.

^{page 262 note p} Florid. 1. I.

^{page 263 note r} Aristoph. Thesm. 167, speaks of Ibycus, Anacreon, and Alcæus, ἐμιτροϕόρουντε καὶ διεκίνουν Ἰωνίκως.

^{page 263 note s} Anecdota, a Boissonade, IV. p. 458. Bachman, L. Anecdote, p. 191, 25.

^{page 263 note t} The actual pillow was called πρὸςκεϕάλαιον. Athen. ii. 9, p. 48. B.

^{page 263 note u} Chiliad, iv. p. 129, ed. Kies.

Τῷ Τείῳ Άνακρεόντι πρὸς Τεῖον ὠρχομένφ

μετὰ οἰκέτου καὶ ΚϒΝΟΣ ὠνήσασθαι χρειώδη

ὡς ὁ οἰκέτης ἐξ ὁδοῦ πρὸς ἔκκρισιν ἀπῆλθε

καὶ τὸ κυνάριον αὐτῷ ἐκεῖ συνηκολούθει

ὡς δέ γε τὸ βαλάντιον λήθη σχεθεὶς ἀϕῆκεν

ἱξῆσαν τὸ ΚϒΝΑΡΙΟΝ ἐϕύλαττεν ἐκεῖνο

ὡς δ᾽ἐκ τῆς Τείου τὴν αὐτὴν ὑπέστρεϕον ἀπράκτως

κατῆλθε τὸ κυνάριον ἀπὸ τοῦ βαλαντίον

τῆν παραθήκην δείξαντε, ἀπέκυψεν εὐθέως

πολλαῖς ἡμέραις ἄσιτον ἐκεῖσε διαμεῖναν.

^{page 263 note x} Homer, a. 142. 9. B. 128. Athenæus, v. p. 192. b. c. xiii. 8. p. 600, Ed. Cas.

^{page 264 note y} Cf. Fragm. of Anacr. in Demetr. Phal. de Interp. s. 5. Apud Schol. Aristoph. Acharn. 305.

^{page 264 note z} See Leonidas, Tarent. supr. cit.

^{page 264 note a} Cf. Aristoph. Eccl. 277. 507. Plut. 714. 823. Antiphil. apud Athenæum, 545. Lucian Perieges, III. 357.

^{page 264 note b} Cf. supra cit. and Aelian, V. H. ix. 11. Also Herodian, I. s. xxix, ἀνὴρ ϕιλοσόϕου ϕέρων σχῆμα, βάκτρον γὰρ ἦν αὐτῷ μετὰ χεῖρας, ἡμιγύμνῳ τε αὐτῷ ἐκκρεμὴς πὴρα.

^{page 264 note c} Homer, a. 152. Athenæus, I. 12, p. 14. a.

^{page 264 note d} Thus Achilles was taught by Chiron. Ovid, Ars Amandi, Init. Hercules, by Eumolpus. Theocr. Idyll, xxiv. 308.

^{page 264 note e} Lucian, dialog. Meretric. xv. ὁ στρατιώτης ὁ Αἰτωλὸς ὁ μέγας ἐῤῥάπισέ με αὐλοῦσαν. κ. τ. λ.

^{page 264 note f} Cylix, Canino Coll. c. *527.

^{page 264 note g} Archiloch. fragm. a Lubel. 8vo. Lips. 1812. no. 5. Xenoph. Sympos. c. 6.

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X. Observations on the Figures of Anacreon and his Dog, as represented upon some Greek Fictile Vases in the British Museum. By Samuel Birch, Esq., F.S.A., Assistant Keeper of the Antiquities in the British Museum

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