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Taplin on Cocks*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Don Fowler
Don Fowler
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Jesus College, Oxford
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Extract

In PCPhS 213 (NS 33, 1987), 92–104 at 93–6, Oliver Taplin suggests that the Getty vase published by J. R. Green in 1985 represents not Aristophanes' Birds but the first version of Clouds. The purpose of this note is to offer some support for this, while perhaps raising further problems.

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Shorter Notes
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , May 1989 , pp. 257 - 259
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1989

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References

1 Contra Taplin, , The Stagecraft of Aeschylus (Oxford, 1977), p. 13 n. 1Google Scholar; cf. Hutchinson, G. O., ‘Propertius and the Unity of the Book’, JRS 74 (1984), 99–106 at 100Google Scholar.

2 The material is collected in RE s.v. Hahnenkämpfe (K. Schneider), DS s.v. Alektryonon agones, and Thompson, D'Arcy, A Glossary of Greek Birds (ed. 2, Oxford, 1936), pp. 34–6Google Scholar. For further bibliography, see Morgan, M. Gwyn, ‘Three Non-Roman Blood Sports’, CQ 25 (1975), 117–22 at 117 n. 1CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 So cocks are found on Panathenaic vases: see the good discussion in von Brauchitsch, G., Die Panathenaischen Preisamphoren (Leipzig, 1910), pp. 104–10Google Scholar. In general on the symbolism of the cock, see Baethgen, E., De vi ac significatione Galli in religionibus el artibus Graecorum el Romanorum (diss. Göttingen, 1887), esp. pp. 36–7Google Scholar, Goodenough, E. R., Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period 8 (New York, 1958), pp. 59–70Google Scholar.

4 So on the high-priest's throne in the theatre of Dionysus (cf. e.g. Pickard-Cambridge, A. W., The Theatre of Dionysus in Athens [Oxford, 1946], fig. 40 with p. 143 n. 1)Google Scholar. The interpretation of this and other monuments such as the Hag. Eleutherios calendar-frieze is uncertain, however: see Deubner, L., Atlische Feste (Berlin, 1932), p. 251Google Scholar.

5 Parallels are hard to come by; but cf. Pausanias 3.14.10 on the boar fight put on by the Spartan ephebes at Platanistas. It would be interesting to know if there are analogies in other cultures.

6 Cf. Goldhill, S., ‘The Great Dionysia and Civic Ideology’, JHS 107 (1987), 58–76CrossRefGoogle Scholar.