De saltatione. Lucian of Samosata. Austin Morris Harmon (Translator). United States. Perseus 5.0.
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Current edition Perseus
The Dance (English) (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).)
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Περὶ Ὀρχήσεως Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).) — 58 focus
Λυκῖνος
καὶ ἐν Φοινίκῃ δὲ Μύρραν καὶ τὸ Ἀσσύριον ἐκεῖνο πένθος μεριζόμενον, καὶ ταῦτα εἴσεται, καὶ τὰ νεώτερα δὲ ὅσα μετὰ τὴν Μακεδόνων ἀρχὴν ἐτολμήθη ὑπό τε Ἀντιπάτρου καὶ παρὰ Σελεύκῳ
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ἐπὶ τῷ Στρατονίκης ἔρωτι.
καὶ ἐν Φοινίκῃ δὲ Μύρραν καὶ τὸ Ἀσσύριον ἐκεῖνο πένθος μεριζόμενον, καὶ ταῦτα εἴσεται, καὶ τὰ νεώτερα δὲ ὅσα μετὰ τὴν Μακεδόνων ἀρχὴν ἐτολμήθη ὑπό τε Ἀντιπάτρου καὶ παρὰ Σελεύκῳ
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ἐπὶ τῷ Στρατονίκης ἔρωτι.
Translations (1)
Of Pantomime Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 2. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 58 focus
[58] From Phoenicia he must learn of Myrrha and Adonis, who divides Assyria betwixt grief and joy; and in more modern times of all that Antipater
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and Seleucus suffered for the love of Stratonice.
Notes on the current edition
The Dance
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Mother of Adonis, called Smyrna by Apollodorus (III, 14, 4); cf. Ovid, Met., X, 298-518.
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The words ‘néyBos epiléierar: which I have translated “dissevered woe,” seem to me to be certainly sound, and to reflect the identification of Adonis with Osiris then current, the piecemeal recovery of his dismembered body (with, no doubt, renewed mourning over every part), and in particular, the coming of the head to Byblus; see Lucian’s Dea Syria, 7 (IV, p. 344). The phrase is very similar to the λακιστὸν μόρον (“piecemeal doom”) which Lucian quotes (from a lost tragedy) in the Piscator 2 (III, p. 3), and may have been suggested by it. On “Assyrian” for Syrian, see the Index.
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The allusion to Antipater is inexplicable, unless it is to the son of Cassander, who murdered his mother (Justin., XVI, 1, 1). The story of Antiochus’ love for Stratonice, the wife of his father, Seleucus Nicator, its detection by 4 physician, and the father’s resignation of wife and kingdom to his son is a favourite with Lucian, and is told in Dea Syria, 17-18 (IV, pp. 360 ff.).