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Δέπας in Homer: possible traces of the Mycenaean layer in the epic tradition.
 
PIIS032103910029372-2-1
DOI10.31857/S032103910029372-2
Publication type Article
Status Approved
Authors
Kapitolina Kruglova 
Affiliation: MSU
Address: Russian Federation,
Affiliation: MSU
Address: Russian Federation,
Abstract

The article considers the usage of the vessel’s name δέπας in the texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey in historical and linguistic perspective. In Homer, δέπας denotes two types of vessels: a drinking bowl and a large crater vessel. Two types of di-pa are also found in Mycenaean texts, which is confirmed by their definitions: me-zo-he (large vessels) and me-wi-jo-e (smaller vessels). A variety of ideograms, and synonymous with, the use of Homer for multiple terms (κύπελλον, ἄλεισον and δέπας) about the absence of a clear understanding of the form of the vessel δέπας. In 3 examples in the form δέπαϊ, there is an inflection with a long ῑ, which cannot be explained by positional elongation. It is proposed to see in this form a relic of the ancient dative *-ei, which was widespread in the Mycenaean period. Thus, the archaism of the Homeric epic is expressed both in the description of objects of the Achaean period (δέπας - di-pa) and in the grammatical forms of lexemes describing these objects.

 

Keywordsgoblet, libations, Greek religion, epic, Homer, dative case, metric, prosody, history of the Greek language.
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