Orpheus’ Head at the Mouth of the Meles: Conon Narratives 45

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CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1086/717158

Brian D. Mcphee

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Abstract

Most of Conon’s Narratives is only available as abridged by Photius in the Bibliotheca, but epitomization has introduced many obscurities into Conon’s often-idiosyncratic stories. This paper examines one such obscurity in Conon’s Orpheus narrative (45), namely, his decapitated head’s discovery by the mouth of one Meles River—a unique mythological variant. Against scholarly uncertainty, this river can be confidently identified with the Smyrnean Meles, which connects meaningfully with the Orpheus myth both via its Homeric associations and by means of etymological wordplay. These interconnections testify to a level of literary sophistication in the Narratives that abridgment has tended to conceal.

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俄耳甫斯的头在梅尔斯河口：康农叙事45

Conon的大部分叙述都是由Photius在Bibliotheca中删节的，但缩影化给Conon的故事带来了许多不为人知的东西。本文考察了柯农的俄耳甫斯故事(45)中的一个这样的隐晦，即在梅莱斯河河口发现了他被斩首的头——一个独特的神话变体。在学术上不确定的情况下，这条河可以自信地与士麦尼尔的梅莱斯联系在一起，通过荷马的联想和词源学上的文字游戏，它与俄耳甫斯神话有意义的联系。这些相互联系证明了删节往往隐藏的叙事文学的复杂程度。

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