Celebrated through poetry: a historical-comparative analysis of the collocation [Xnom. – μέλω – MORTALdat.] in Pi. Pyth. 4.15, Od. 9.20 and 12.70

• Matilde Serangeli ^[1]
  1. [1] Friedrich Schiller University Jena

     Friedrich Schiller University Jena

     Kreisfreie Stadt Jena, Alemania

     
• Localización: Historische Sprachforschung = Historical linguistics, ISSN 0935-3518, Nº. 133, 2020, págs. 271-289
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Greek compound μελησίμβροτος* (Pi. Pyth. 4.15) is mostly translated as ‘famous/dear to mortals’. It reflects a collocation [Xnom. – μέλω – MORTALdat.] known from two Homeric passages (Od. 9.20, 12.70), for which various translations have been proposed. This study aims to determine the most appropriate translation for this collocation. To this scope, a morphosyntactical analysis of its elements will be pursued, followed by an investigation of the semantic shifts of PIE *mel-, to which μελησι° goes back. Parallels in the semantic shifts of related and near-synonymous roots support the proposal presented in this paper.