Bion of Smyrna
Subtitle: The Fragments and the Adonis (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries)
Contributors: J. D. Reed (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 13, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780521573160
Subjects: Poetry & poets; Greek Literature; Poetry; History - General History; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Literary Criticism; Pastoral poetry, Greek; Ancient and Classical; General; Country life--Greece--Poetry; Literary Collections / Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Adonis (Greek deity); Country life; Greece
First sentence: From a poem, or a section of a poem, on the Amyclaean youth Hyacinth (cf. the title Eis 'YaKIvov, " on Hyacinth"), whose accidental death upon being hit by a discuss thrown by his lover Apollo is first attested in [Hes.] fr. 171 and Eur. Hel. 1469-73; closer to Bion see Euphor. frr. 40-3 CA and Nic. Th. 901-6 (cf. Schol. Nic. Th. 585A), but versions before Ovid Met. 10.162-219 are very scrappy.