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38

THE

CLASSICAL

REVIEW

of

Apollonius

as

we

presently

know

the

poem'.

By

the same

grotesque

token,

the relevance of

the

capture

of

Troy

to the

Odyssey

as

we

know

the

poem

need

not be doubted

either.

At i. 979 the Parisian scholiast, instead of reporting a piece of ancient evi-

dence,

overtly

makes his

own surmise

(EoLKE),

which

is

of course

wrong

because

it

clashes

with

Apollonius'

words

at i.

969: yet

Levin

devotes

two

pages

to

dismissing

the

scholiast's nonsense

(pp. 95-7).

Levin,

following

Dumezil,

accuses

Apollonius

of

failing

to

say

why

the

Lemniades were

'gueries'

(p.

63)

of

their

8vaocatla:

Levin and Dumezil have

misunderstood

both

Apollonius

and

the scholiast. The latter

says

that

Aphrodite,

in

order

to

punish

the

Lemniades,

cast

upon

them a

8vuoul'a

whose

purpose

was to make them

repellent

to

their

husbands

(ro~

dav8pdaccrv);

pollonius,

in

his

turn,

says

that the

8vaoo•ola

served

its

retributory

purpose

in that

it

caused the Lemniades

to

turn to murder 'to

their own

ruin',

E7atLvV7EP~s

(i.

616:

cf. schol. Od. iv.

672

ErtaLvY7p

--

EOJEM

KaKi.

L

aOe).

Once the retribution had been exacted

by

Aphrodite

(cf.

Od.

iii.

195

E7TUaLvEps drIe~oTEV),

here was

evidently

no need for the

goddess

to

make

the

8vaoatda

last

any longer

and to make the Lemniades

repellent

to

any

fresh

bedfellows,

all

the

more

so

as

she wanted

Lemnos

to

be

repopulated

(i.

850

ff.).

Conclusion:

this book

is a

pure

waste of

paper.

Birkbeck

ollege,

University

f

London GIUSEPPE

GIANGRANDE

HERACLITUS'

FRAGMENTS

EVANGELOS

N. Roussos:

1HpdKtEL70oT,

T

A2TOur7Tr/OpJara.

pOAEyOpLEVa,

KICEqEVO,

/LETrdopaarl,

XoAa,

,LpTVpIES,

AE

,O

Ka

7Tr'aKES.

Pp. 96,

Athens:

Caravia,

197?.

Paper.

IN this new

edition

of Heraclitus

the author

is

clearly

concerned not with

adding

to

the texts

and commentaries

available

to

specialists-at

the

present

time

a

dubious

undertaking--but

with

providing

a

non-specialist

Greek

public

with

an

opportunity

to

read Heraclitus

with

a

minimum

of

exegesis.

Discussion

of

major

problems

of text

and

interpretation

has

been

deliberately

omitted,

and

the reader who

wishes to

delve

deeper

is

referred

to

a

select

bibliography.

To

say

that this

procedure

is

entirely

satisfactory

from

a

scholarly point

of

view

would be

going

too

far;

however,

it does

have the

advantage

of

attaining

the

professed

aim

of

the

author--to

allow Heraclitus

to

speak

for himself.

Necessary

background

information

is

provided

in an

excellent

introduction;

of

particular

interest

is the author's

discussion

of the

popular

origins

of some elements

in

Heraclitus'

language

and

style,

in

which

Roussos

clearly

owes

much

to the

recent

publications

of

some

of

his

compatriots.

The author confines

his

attention

to

genuine

fragments

(although

he includes

the

spurious

D.-K.

B

126a

without

explanation).

The

fragments

are renum-

bered

(with Conspectus

Numerorum

giving

cross-reference

o and from

Diels-

Kranz)

and

divided

into three

sections

under

the

headings

Ao'yos,

KdtUpOs,

'Adhcs.

hese

divisions,

and the

fragments

assigned

to

each,

correspondroughly

with

those

of Marcovich

in his recent

edition. The text has been

assembled

from

the critical

editions

of

Diels-Kranz,

Walzer,

Kirk,

and

Marcovich,

with

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