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Ovid, the Flood, and Ararat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

T. T. B. Ryder
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In a particularly entertaining section of Metamorphoses i, lines 253–437, Ovid retells the old Greek version of the myth of the Flood, the survival on Mount Parnassus of Deucalion and Pyrrha, and their repopu-lation of the earth.

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Greece & Rome , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , October 1967 , pp. 126 - 129
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1967

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page 127 note 1 I am very grateful to my colleague, Mrs. M. E. Tanner of the Department of Theology, for her guidance on the Hebrew readings and on works of reference on the Old Testament.

page 127 note 2 This passage in the Septuagint is chapter 28. 27. Two of the best MSS., Vaticanus and Sinaiticus, have ἄρατε, which is copied from the beginning of the sentence; the third, Alexandrinus, has ἄραρεθ.

page 127 note 3 Those interested in the geographical aspects should find entertaining Bryce, J., Transcaucasia and Ararat (London, 1877).Google Scholar

page 127 note 4 Cf. Würthwein, E., The Text of the Old Testament (Eng. trans., Blackwell, Oxford 1957), 62.Google Scholar

page 127 note 5 Würthwein, , op. cit. 34 ff.Google Scholar

page 128 note 1 Cf. the article ‘Sibyllinische Orakel’ by Rzach, in Pauly, 's Real-Encyclopädie (1923).Google Scholar The most recent text is that of Geffcken, J., Die Oracula Sibyllina (Leipzig, 1902).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 128 note 2 RE, art. cit., col. 2146 ff.

page 128 note 3 RE, art. cit., col. 2122 ff.

page 128 note 4 Cf. Lee, 's note on line 318 (p. 107).Google Scholar

page 128 note 5 Cf. Mayor, J. B., Fowler, W. W., Conway, R. S., Virgil's Messianic Eclogue (London, 1907).Google Scholar

page 128 note 6 Cf. Highet, G., The Classical Tradition (Oxford, 1949), 72 ff.Google Scholar

page 129 note 1 Cf. Born, L. K., ‘Ovid and Allegory’, Speculum ix (1934), 362 ff.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 129 note 2 Cf. Highet, op. cit., 62.

page 129 note 3 Cf. Lee's remarks on the MSS. tradition of the Metamorphoses, 148.