Theocritea. [From: Mnemosyne, S. 4, Vol. 20/4, 1967]. Vries, G. J. de:

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly bumped, author's name handwritten on cover, otherwise good and clean. - From the text: II 12 ta chthonía th’ Ékáta, tán kaí skýlakes troméonti. Not “before whom even the dogs stand shivering” (Gow, similarly Legrand). The dog was, in Greek eyes, characterized by shamelessness, not by fearlessness. So why “even” ? Dogs were used in sacrifices to chthonian deities. It would be trivial to say that this is the reason why the dogs are howling at Hecate’s approach. Fritzsche-Hiller rightly reject this explanation. Their own, however, “weil es ihnen unheimlich ist im Mondenschein”, is not satisfactory either.

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