====== Practical problems with Atheneus' names ======
See also: [[z:ath-ox|Athenaeus in oXygen --- examples and exercises]]
===== Names which are not really names =====
* Placeholders for names such as "alpha" and "beta"
* Nicknames which are part of a person's name, interspersed with articles:
Ἀρτεμίδωρος ὁ Ψευδαριστοφάνειος
παρίστατο Παλλὰς Ἀθήνη
* Name + ethnic + name of work:
τοῦ Φιλοξένου δὲ τοῦ Λευκαδίου
Δείπνου
* Referring to a person by a description + name combination:
==== A search for κωμῳδιο- done in whole document ====
ὁ κωμῳδιοποιὸς Εὔπολίς
Πολυκράτην τε τὸν Σάμιον καὶ Πεισίστρατον τὸν Ἀθηναίων τυραννήσαντα
κατὰ γὰρ τὸν κωμῳδιοποιὸν Ἀπολλόδωρον:: εἰς οἰκίαν ὅταν τις εἰσίῃ φίλου (NB an unmarked quotation)
τὸ ὕδωρ ποταμοῦ σῶμά φησί που Εὔβουλος ὁ
κωμῳδιοποιὸς εἰρηκέναι Χαιρήμονα τὸν τραγικὸν (NB incorrect markup)
Ἐπικράτης ὁ κωμῳδιοποιός:
τί Πλάτων
καὶ Σπεύσιππος καὶ Μενέδημος;
πρὸς τίσι νυνὶ διατρίβουσιν; (NB incorrect markup?)
πολλοὶ μὲν μέμνηνται τῶν κωμῳδιοποιῶν ἀτὰρ καὶ Φερεκράτης ἐν Κραπατάλλοις (implicit identification by occupation + name of work)
ὡς καὶ Πλάτων
ὁ κωμῳδιοποιός φησιν ἐν Κλεοφῶντι (person name = name of work)
τοῦ παρὰ Δαμοξένῳ τῷ κωμῳδιοποιῷ μαγείρου,
ὅς ἐν Συντρόφοις φησιν (person referred to by occupation + name of work = noclass)
Ἄλεξις μὲν οὖν αὐτὸν ἐν Δορκίδι ἢ Ποππυζούσῃ φίλιχθυν εἶναι κοινῶς παραδίδωσι καθάπερ καὶ ἄλλοι τῶν κωμῳδιοποιῶν, λέγων οὕτως: (implicit identification of Alexis as a comediographer; name of work + an unmarked name of work)
καὶ Κρώβυλος ὁ κωμῳδιοποιὸς αἰσχυνόμενον εἶπε τὸ τοιοῦτο ἧπαρ ὥσπερ καὶ, ἐν Ψευδυποβολιμαίῳ λέγων οὕτως: (name of author near name of work = noclass)
καὶ Θουκυδίδης ἐν ζ᾽ καὶ Δημήτριος ὁ κωμῳδιοποιὸς ἐν τῷ ἐπιγραφομένῳ δράματι Σικελία διὰ τούτων: (name of work incorrectly marked, i. e. two names at once; NB referring to Thucydides' book by number)
Πλάτων δ᾽ ὁ
κωμῳδιοποιὸς ἐν Νυκτὶ (name of work incorrectly marked)
καὶ τὸ παρὰ Κράτητι τῷ κωμῳδιοποιῷ ἐν Σαμίοις (name of work incorrectly marked)
καὶ Ἀντιφάνης ὁ κωμῳδιοποιὸς ἐν Οἰνομάῳ ἢ Πέλοπι διαπαίζων ἔφη: (name of work incorrectly marked)
καὶ ὁ κωμῳδιοποιὸς Πλάτων ἐν τῷ Φάωνι ἐμνήσθη καὶ μὴ τοῦ Λευκαδίου Φιλοξένου—τοιαύτην ἐκτίθεται παρασκευὴν δείπνου (NB unidentified personal name)
ὁ δὲ κωμῳδιοποιὸς Ποσείδιππος ἐν Πορνοβοσκῷ φησιν (name of work = noclass)
ἐγὼ δ᾽ ὁ τάλας
κατὰ τὸν κωμῳδιοποιὸν Δίφιλον
κεστρεὺς ἂν εἴην ἕνεκα νηστείας ἄκρας.
(? an interesting situation, check in the edition)
φησὶ Σώφιλος ὁ κωμῳδιοποιός
ὦ ἄνδρες κύνες οἱ κατὰ τὴν Στράττιδος τοῦ κωμῳδιοποιοῦ Ἰοκάστην, ἥτις ἐν ταῖς ἐπιγραφομέναις Φοινίσσαις φησὶν (unidentified name, ethnic name = name of work)
Φρύνιχος ὁ κωμῳδιοποιὸς ἐν τῷ Ἐφιάλτῃ μνημονεύει (name of a person = name of work)
Κρίτων δ᾽ ὁ κωμῳδιοποιὸς ἐν Φιλοπράγμονι παρασίτους τοῦ θεοῦ καλεῖ τοὺς Δηλίους (name of work = noclass, a joking parasites' name "incorrectly" identified)
Τιμοκλῆς ὁ κωμῳδιοποιὸς κατὰ πολλὰ χρησίμην εἶναι λέγων τῷ βίῳ τὴν τραγῳδίαν φησὶν ἐν Διονυσιαζούσαις (name of a comedy unmarked)
Ἀριστοφάνης
δὲ ὁ κωμῳδιοποιός, ὅν φησιν Ἡλιόδωρος ὁ Ἀθηναῖος ἐν τοῖς περὶ ἀκροπόλεωσ—πεντεκαίδεκα δ᾽ ἐστὶ ταῦτα βιβλία Ναυκρατίτην εἶναι γένος, ἐν τῷ Πλούτῳ δράματι (name of a person = name of work; unidentified name of work "en tois peri akropoleos")
παρὰ Κρωβύλῳ τῷ κωμικῷ
==== E. referring to unnamed works / parts of works ====
τὰ Πινδάρου
===== XPaths for interesting situations =====
//quote/quote (1028 results)
//quote/quote/quote (157 results)
//quote/quote/quote/quote (2 results)
//name[@type[. eq "noclass"]] (2263 results)
===== Where to put the comments / argumentation =====
Is there space for comments / interpretations in Philologist? Is there space for discussion?
===== Athenaeus' edition could use a documented systematisation of name types =====
Curently:
* person = 12424
* place = 2305
* noclass
* ethnic = 3548
* group = 681
* title = 206
* month = 8
* festival = 20