Our Medusa: A Gorging Gorgon in Hedylus 9

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Published: Jan 22, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71043/sci.v35i.2245

Keywords:

Hedylus, Greek Anthology, fish, conger, epigram, Medusa, Athenaeus, Greek poetry, Hellenistic poetry, gluttony

David M. Schaps

Bar-Ilan University

Abstract

A new reading is proposed for Hedylus 9, an epigram satirizing gluttony: the new reading produces a comic progression and a punchline.

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