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Hello New Friends,

I’ve started a new project, Corpus Litterarum et Inscriptionum Acheloo, as a way of using the stored up adrenaline I have while I await the proofs for my second book about Acheloios. This project emerged from a footnote where I listed all the ancient literary and inscriptional accounts of Acheloios that I could find–it is a real doozy.

If you read my thread on Eustathius, you’ll see my Greek is not nearly good enough to provide fresh translations of the 200+ entries I have. In addition, all the entries from Eustathius and all the scholia from Erbse have never been translated into English, so I’m really on my own there. The rest have translations and many are in the PD (old Loeb editions, etc.).

The work will be a dual language work in the manner of the Loeb series but I’ll add thematic links. If anyone has seen De Gruyter’s Traditio Praesocratica series–that was my inspiration (specifically Woehrle/McKirahan’s work on Thales).

I am actively looking for collaborators (PM or respond if interested, happy to share author rights, etc., with translators). Right now I’m thinking this will be a single volume work, but I am tempted to include all ancient art in a second volume, and in this case it will be like the LIMC entries but expanded and updated.

My first work on Acheloios was successful–it was reviewed in Ancient West and East and has 17 citations to date. You can read about it here: http://archaeopress.com/Public/displayProductDetail.asp?id={630D98AF-05CE-4C17-B530-6CD7DF4DA048}.

My second book is not finished–I’ve been waiting on the proofs for 5 months–I am going crazy. They should arrive today. That second book is a revised version of my dissertation, in which I argue that the cult of Acheloios influenced Thales of Miletos. I position the argument as a response to Richard Seaford’s book Money and the Greek Mind, in which he argues that monetization was the primary cause of philosophy (which he defines as “metaphysical cosmology”.)My new book is called: Acheloios, Thales, and the Origin of Philosophy: A Response to the Neo-Marxians. You can read the dissertation abstract on my academia page (https://salve.academia.edu/NicholasMolinari), along with some of my other shorter works on Acheloios.

Anyway, here are the entries I have so far (I’m still hunting). Note that for Homer, I will have three entries for the book 21 passage–Megakleides’ verision (missing line 21.195 and in my opinion reflective of the original form), Zenodotus’ verision (line 195 athetized) and that of Aristarchus, which we are familiar with:

Homer, Il. 21.194-7; Il. 24.616 (cf. Schol. Hom. Il. 21.194-5 (ed. Erbse); Schol. Hom. Il. 24.616 (Erbse); Genavensis 44); Hesiod, Theogony 340; Pseudo-Hesiod, Catalog of Women fr. 10a 35-37 (ed. Most); Archilochus, Fr. 286 (ed. West IEG 97), Fr. 287 (West IEG 97); Sappho Fr. 212 (ed. Campbell); Alcaeus Fr. 450 (ed. Campbell); Akousilaos, FGrH 2 F 1=11a; Hecataeus Milesius, Fr. 72; 378 (forgery); Aeschylus, Persians 869; Archemachus, Fr. 9; Pindar, Fr. 249b (ed. S.-M); Hippocrates of Cos, Epidemics 2, 4-7(as a name); Panyassis, Fr. 1, Fr. 13 (ed. West); Sophokles, Fr. 4; Trachiniae 9, 510; Herodotus, The Persian Wars 2.10.3, 7.126, Euripides, Andromache 167, Bacchae 625, Hypsipyle fr. 753 TGrF 5,1:758; Achaeus, Athens 4.9; TrGF 20 F 9; Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.102.2ff; 3.7.3; 3.106.1; Aristophanes, Lysistrata 381; Rooster fr. 365 PCG 3.2:205; Plato, Phaedrus 230b-c, 263d; Ephorus, FGrH 70 F 20 (Fragment 27); P.Derveni XXIII; Aristotle, Meteorologica 1.13, 1.14; De anima 420b13-15; History of Animals IV.IX.535b14-20; Demetrius of Phaleron, On Style 45-6, 202, 206; Callimachus, Anthologia Palatina 12.51; Hymn to Demeter 9-16; Apollonius Rhodius, The Argonautica 4.282-293, 4.891-899; Demonicus, Fr. 1; Polybius, Histories 4.63.12.15, 5.6.6-10, 5.7, 5.7.6-9, 5.13.10-13; Lykophron, Alexandria 712-6 (not named outright); Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica 1.39.11ff; 4.35.3-4; Virgil, Georgics 1.9; Hyginus, Fabulae Th.6, Th. 30, 31.7, 125.13, 141, 274.1; Strabo, Geographica 1.18.47-51, 6.4, 7.8, 8.2.3, 8.3.11, 8.3.26, 9.10, 10.2.1-3, 10.2.19, 10.2.21-24, 10.3.6, Propertius, Elegies 2.33ff; Ovid, Fasti 5.343, Metamorphoses 9.96, 9.413, Heroides 9.139-140, Amores 3.6.35-36; Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 300, 496; Pliny, Natural History 2.87-8, 8.17f, 11.118, 37.56; Silius Italicus, Punica XII, 27-43; Claudius Ptolemaeus, Geographia 3.14.12.1; Plutarch, Moralia: On Exile; Lives: Perikles XIX; Statius, Thebaid 1.447-465, 2.141-143, 2.469-474, 2.726-731, 6.830-833, 7.414-417, 7.552-553, 9.213-214; Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.3.4, 1.7.3, 2.7.5, 3.7.5-7, E.7.18; Arcadius, De accentibus p. 47.3; Dio Chrysostom, Orations 60.1, 63.1; Pomponius Mela, Chronographia 2.53.1-2.54.1; Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis 22; Philostratus of Athens, Heroicus 15.5, 54.5-7; Life of Apollonius of Tyana VII.3, VII.25; Pausanias, Hellados Periegesis 1.34.3, 2.2.3, 8.38.9-10, 10.8.9; Maximus Tyrius, Diss. XIII, Diss. XXXVIII; Lucian, De Saltatione 50; Sextus Empiricus, Against the Physicists 9.181-183; Hippolytus of Rome, Chronicon 237; Ammonius, P.Oxy 0221, Column VIII-IX; Philostratus Maior, Imagines 1.23, 1.25; Philostratus Minor, Imagines 4; Athenaeus of Naucratis, The Depnosophists 9.410d, 10.427d; Porphyry, On Statues F 359.5-11 (ed. Smith); Eusebius, Praeparatio Evengelica 3.11.22; Basil, Letters CCCXLV; Claudian, The Rape of Prosperine 3.254-259; Shorter Poems 30.171-176; Menander Rhetor, The Talk 2.3.17; Servius, Fr. 344 (ed. Kern); Didymus, Tragic Diction FGrH 2; Nonnos, Dionysiaca 13.309-332, 17.235-239, Macrobius, Sat. 5.18.1-12; Sidonius, Poems 2.465-466, 2.497-501, 11.86-88; Boethius, Consolatio Philosophia 4.7.23; Zosimus, New History 4.34.3; Hermias, In Platonis Phaedrum scholia p.32.9; Joannes Malalas, Chronographia, p. 164.5-11, p. 165.3-5; Isidore of Seville, Etym. Mag. P.181.10-15; P.Berol. inv.13270 and song PMG 917; Dicuil, de Mensura Orbis Terrae; Theodontius, Genealogia Deorum Gentilium 1.19.10ff; 2.406-461 (ed. Papio); Michael Psellus, De omnifaria doctrina, 175.13; Eustathius, Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem et Odysseam 1.428.16, 1.473.24, 1.484.17, 1.485.10-11, 1.553.17, 1.793.5, 2.788.8, 3.107.23, 3.491.22, 3.843.13, 4.475.13-15, 4.484.3-6-8.13.16 (sic), 4.962.3.8-11, 4.964.7; Schol. Ven. A 21.195; Schol. Ven. B. 21.194; Schol. Townl. 21.194; Schol. Townl. 21.195. Inscriptions: IG I3 255 (Attica); IG I3 1061 (Attica); IG II2 4547 (Attica); MDAI(A) 67 (1942) 55,89 (Attica); SEG 21:541 (Attica); IG V 2 284 (Arkadia); IG V 2 285 (Arkadia); IG IX 12 1:3 (Aitolia); SEG 25:845 (Delos); IG XII 9 135 (Euboia); IC IV 375 (Gortyna); IC I xvii 7 (Crete: Lebena); Halikarnassos 60 (Caria); I. Lipara App. I, 507, 2 (Lipara); IGASMG IV 84 (Metapontion). Cf. also I. Kourion 131; I. Kourion 134; I. Kourion 138; I. Kourion 142, featuring Αχελομορφωθ (Amathus). For Etruscan epigraphy, see Isler, ‘Acheloos,’ LIMC, 26, 47, no. 230.

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In terms of progress so far, I have a working document with 99% of the Greek and Latin transcribed and about 85% translated (happy to share with interested parties). I’ve done the preliminary thematic links but these will be adjusted when I sit down to really write the introduction. Inscriptions are interspersed with literary accounts, everything arranged chronologically. My estimated timeline, if alone, is about 5 years. With skilled Greek and Latin translators, I’m thinking more like 2 years because I can handle the editing while someone cleans up the translations. The longest entry is probably either Ovid’s or Macrobius’. The rest are quite short. Very few of the inscriptions have translations in English (many are apparently available in German, however)but none of these seem particularly difficult to my eye, with the exception of the Amathos lead tablets. However, those all use the same “magic” formula and that formula has been translated, so it is really a matter of small adjustments.

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Progress report: I’ve decided to focus on assembling, editing, and “thematizing” the original Greek and Latin excerpts and hold off on the translations until (if ever) I find suitable collaborators. To that end, I’ve fixed my TLG account (I was on the free version) and I now have over 400 entries! Many are simply sentences that refer to location but there are a few gems and I want to catalog them all. If no one objects, I’ll post general questions here–such as the date of certain scholia, etc.

With thanks,

Nick

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Hello Friends,

I’ve uploaded a draft so folks can take a look at the character and structure of the work. Comments welcome, but ignore the typos because this is really just a sketch at the moment (albeit a 200+ page sketch!).

https://www.academia.edu/74226002/CORPVS_LITERATVM_ET_INSCRIPTIONVM_ACHELOI

I’m taking a break and moving on to iconography and translating and updating my predecessors’ work. I think I’ll incorporate that in the corpus and make this a really useful Acheloios reference tool. I’m thinking really great maps, too!

Nick