The Mediterranean Spearfish in Ancient Greek and Latin

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Erga-Logoi Pub Date : 2021-12-13 DOI:10.7358/erga-2021-002-tawi

Konrad Tadajczyk, K. Witczak

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Abstract

The article discusses the problem of identifying a Mediterranean fish called γλαῦκος in Ancient Greek and glaucus in Latin. It was a big and well-known fish living in the Mediterranean Sea. It appears in numerous literary sources of the classical (Greek and Roman) world. After analyzing all preserved attestations of the Greco-Latin ichthyonym, the authors of the present article suggest that this fish should be identified with the Mediterranean spearfish (Tetrapturus belone Rafinesque, 1810). It is possible that the fish name γλαῦκος/glaucus referred to the roundscale spearfish (Tetrapturus georgii R.T. Lowe, 1841) and also to the Atlantic white marlin (Kajikia albida Poey, 1860, syn. Tetrapturus albidus Poey, 1860).

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古希腊语和拉丁语中的地中海矛鱼

本文讨论了地中海鱼类γλα ο κος(古希腊语)和glaucus(拉丁语)的鉴别问题。这是一种生活在地中海的著名大鱼。它出现在古典(希腊和罗马)世界的许多文学资料中。在分析了所有保存下来的希腊-拉丁鱼名证明后，本文的作者认为这种鱼应该与地中海矛鱼(Tetrapturus belone Rafinesque, 1810)鉴定。鱼类名称γλα ο κος/glaucus可能是指圆鳞鱼(Tetrapturus georgii R.T. Lowe, 1841)和大西洋白马林鱼(Kajikia albida Poey, 1860, syn. Tetrapturus albidus Poey, 1860)。

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Erga-Logoi Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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14 weeks

期刊介绍： Erga-Logoi is a peer-reviewed open-access journal of ancient history, literature, law and culture, as broadly conceived in geographical and chronological terms. Evoking Thucydides'' methodological exordium (although in that context the opposition obviously has a different value), the name of the Journal was chosen to reflect its intention of looking at the ancient world paying attention to both “facts” (historical events, artistic production, material culture) and “words” (literary, historical, legal production in its oral and written forms). On these bases, the Journal embraces a unified approach to the ancient world, rejecting sectional perspectives for an interdisciplinary focus, reflecting these complex articulated civilizations. The Journal, published every six months, is open to contributions of a historical, philological, literary, archaeological, artistic, and legal nature. It is multilingual, thereby aiming to foster the development of international debate on the ancient world and its legacy.