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Phoronis (epic poem)

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• Tsagalis, Christos, Early Greek Epic Fragments I: Antiquarian and Genealogical Epic, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2017. ISBN 9783110532876

pp. 401 ff.

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p. 409

Title

The title Phoronis has been modeled on the Tirynthian local her Phoroneus and not his sister Io, whose nickname was also Phoronis.¹⁶⁶¹ In fact ...

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Authorship

No information survives about the poem's author, ...

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p. 410

Plot

The Phoronis must have started with the birth of Phoroneus, father of mortal men, whose parents were the river-god Inachos and the Okeanid Melie (fr. 1 EGEF). The epic may have continued with ...

p. 411

Date

... all these features taken together suggest a date between the 7th and 6th c. BC.

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p. 33

The Phoronis told of Phoroneus, the first man in Argive myth, and his descendants. The Argive focus is clear in fr. 4, less so in other fragments, such as those on the Phrygian [cont.]

p. 34

Kouretes and Idaean Dactyls (2–3). It is not apparent whether the poem told of Io’s journey to Egypt and her progeniture of an Egyptian family that eventually returned to Argos.