title: Misunderstanding Peter Elmsley (Eur. Medea 151–154)
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metadata.value: Kostyleva, Tatiana V.
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metadata.value: 2019-01-17T11:11:55Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2019-01-17T11:11:55Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-12
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metadata.value: Tatiana V. Kostyleva. Misunderstanding Peter Elmsley (Eur. Medea 151–154). Philologia Classica 2018, 13(2), 312–316.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu20.2018.212
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15262
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metadata.value: A brilliant classicist and an editor of Greek tragedians on an altogether firmer footing of firsthand
  acquaintance with the manuscripts, Peter Elmsley (1774–1825) left quite a few conjectures
  of his own discreetly placed in the margin. While often palmary and deserving to be
  promoted into the text, ἀπλάτου in Eur. Medea 151 in the meaning ‘longing for the forsaken
  marital bed’ Elmsely imparted to it, sits ill in the broader context and, although accepted by
  the majority of editors has, in the course of its life, shifted in the direction of ‘unapproachable’,
  ‘monstrous’, to mean ‘the bed of death we should not approach’. Often unequivocal when referring
  to wild beasts of Heracles’ labours, in subtler contexts, like the one under discussion, it is
  often believed to be confounded with ἄπληστος often transmitted by part of the ms. tradition.
  In the case of Medea 151, however, the change is unnecessary, since ἄπληστος of LP can not
  only offer the meaning ‘insatiable’ referring to ‘marital bed’, but also the fear of the ‘overweening
  power’ of the ‘bed of death’ which suits what is the first reaction of the Chorus to Medea’s
  haughty desire to be struck by a thunderbolt of Zeus.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 13; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ancient Greek tragedy
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Euripides
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: textual criticism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Peter Elmsley
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Misunderstanding Peter Elmsley (Eur. Medea 151–154)
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metadata.value: Article
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