Dionysius Chalcus fr. 3 again

• Autores: Daniel Riaño Rufilanchas
• Localización: Journal of hellenic studies, ISSN 0075-4269, Nº 123, 2003, págs. 181-186
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Dionysius Cha1cus fr. 3 West contains an elaborate metaphor for the cottabus game in which the dining room and the symposiasts are compared to a gymnasium in which young pugilists are training. The author suggests that the visual force of the central part of the metaphor lies in the actual way in which "sphairai" (used as a kind of boxing gloves) were wrapped around the hand and forearm. In the problematic v. 4, "ékeinon" is identified as the symposiarch, and the verse is seen to function as another part of this complex metaphor of the symposium as agon.