The Loeb Strabo and Athenaeus

The Geography of Strabo with an English Translation by H. L. Jones; Athenaeus, the

Deipnosophists, with an English Translation by C. B. Gulick
Review by: E. Harrison
The Classical Review, Vol. 49, No. 2 (May, 1935), p. 68
Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Classical Association
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68 THE CLASSICAL REVIEW
tive view of poetry which takes account
(rb'yeXoFov 7rpoawrov), and at 52a2I
of all the Poetics, and it is very stimu- 'propter hoc non e post hoc' should
lating to thought, even where one surely be reversed, and perhaps on
agrees with it. page lxxv and pA3Oo.
A few slips may be noted. At 99a36 Xr/yog C. G. HARDIE.
'comic' should be read for 'tragic' British School at Rome.

THE LOEB STRABO AND ATHENAEUS.

H. L. JONES: The Geography of Strabo pered under the protection of M.,' 526d
with an English translation. In eight 'living on the sea-coast'
volumes. VIII. Pp. 51o; 3 maps. (whence 7rapo•ceavtcrov
a mistranslation of 8&), 534b
C. B. GULICK: A thenaeus, The Deipno- r70o KcaXov'AXtKLP/t3Lo'noble,' 548e
sophists, with an English translation. lroXng crqEa,.zevov'held for a
In seven volumes. V. Pp. xi + long time.' XpoCv,In 475a the iambic tri-
550; illustrations. (Loeb Classical meter with a fourth spondee comes from
Library.) London: Heinemann(New Macrobius: but why retain Madvig's
York: Putnams), 1932, 1933. Cloth, conjecture which gives a trimeter
Ios. (leather, 12s. 6d.) each. with a fourth dactyl in 464a? In
THESE volumes have some misprints, Athenaeus's only mention of Diodorus
of which a few are worth remark: Siculus, at 541e, Edvrot' 7rept Bt3XPto-
Str. xvii I II for -ov, I 17 a false OKvicm is surely an error for e'v~~j'IaToopeucf
7•oJo7
comma after 'virtues,' I 41 f~iKovua- BtPhXtol`cy.
crra'lcov printed as two words, 3 7 a The translator of Strabo has finished
false comma after the tenth word; Ath. his long labour, for which scholarship
for a is much beholden to him. An index
5o2a (note) after
false
dWrdl6vrlv drlivo0/ev, 516f
stop paTrdvta. Misrender- nearly 300 pages long of proper names
ings :-Str. xvii I i 'rttev 'traverse,' and subjects worthily crowns the work.
I 15 'it has' for 'they have' and Of the Athenaeus there is more to
'though' for 'whereas,' 3 15 'for the come, and it is good to find that in
most part root-eaters and meat-eaters' the present volume Dr Gulick is at his
for 'r. more than m.'; Ath. 461d best. The version and the notes are
?IV/eyadXa roTr7pta ' the cups must have alike valuable, and the volume is en-
been large' (contrast the neglect of riched by photographs illustrating a
7b in 468f ad init.), 464d-e tXo&8•ovgVscore of the vessels which are the chief
'philosophers,' 496b vaaTpeovotv theme of Book XI.
'turn,' 502b XaX/Kicov 'Chalcidice,' E. HARRISON.
523e-f Tr'b T7V MiXrpov E0
ov 'pros- Trinity College, Cambridge.

ORPHEUS AND COMMON SENSE.

W. K. C. GUTHRIE: Orpheus and Greek
Religion. A Study of the Orphic
Movement. Pp. xix+287; 15 plates,
19 illustrations in text. L ndon :
Methuen, 1935. Cloth, CI Is.
IT was high time that someone in this
country should produce a book explain-
ing clearly and at moderate length
exactly what is known of the religion
named after Orpheus, with such addition
of modest conjecture as might seem to
him fitting, but without far-reaching
speculations as to its derivation from
savage cults (at present, in view of the
state of our knowledge, rather hypo-
thetical for that region) and its survival
in Christianity or elsewhere. Mr.
Guthrie has supplied the want, and
gratitude for this good deed far out-
weighs the doubts and disagreements
which arise here and there in the re-
viewer's mind with regard to some
details.
He spends five chapters setting forth
the facts about the literature handed
down to us,-or rather, for the most
part, painfully scraped together from
the miscellaneous writers who quote
it,-as being by Orpheus or his fol-
lowers, adding of course his own views

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