Hipónax de Éfeso: I - Fragmentos dos Iambos

Abstract

A critical revision of the poetry of Hipponax would require, as a preliminary labour, an up-to-date edition of the Ephesian writer of iambics which would take into account the doubtful manuscript tradition and acquisitions in the way of papyri during recent years. The author studies the probable disposition of the Alexandrian edition of the iambics, indicates the origins of the extant text, discusses the spurious fragments and those of doubtful authorship, states the criteria that he followed in establishing the text and in solving problems of orthography and considers the order of the fragments, the critical apparatus and the translation. Then follows a transcription of the testimonia on the life and work of the poet and the edition of the fragments, accompanied by a Portuguese annotated translation, and followed by tables of comparison with the numbers of the editions of Bergk, Diehl, Knox and Adrados and by an Index Hipponacteus.