{"id":76,"date":"2021-06-10T11:50:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T15:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/myths\/?post_type=chapter&p=76"},"modified":"2022-08-30T18:26:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T22:26:41","slug":"lesson-3-self-study-hypothesis-annotation-exercise","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/myths\/chapter\/lesson-3-self-study-hypothesis-annotation-exercise\/","title":{"raw":"L3 Hypothesis-Archilochus & the Muses (the Mnesiepes Inscription)","rendered":"L3 Hypothesis-Archilochus & the Muses (the Mnesiepes Inscription)"},"content":{"raw":"

The Mnesiepes Inscription: Archilochus and the Muses<\/h1>\r\ntranslated by R. Nickel\r\n\r\nConcerning the matters we wish to inscribe [on this stone], the following account has been\u00a0 handed down to us from men of old, and we ourselves worked on them:\r\n\r\nFor they say that when Archilochus was still young, he was sent by his father, Telesicles, into\u00a0 the field, in the neighbourhood called \u201cThe Meadows,\u201d in order to fetch a cow for sale.\u00a0 Archilochus got up very early, when it was still night and the moon was shining, and brought the cow to the city.\r\n\r\nWhen he was in the place called \u201cThe Cliffs,\u201d he thought he saw a group of women. Presuming\u00a0 that they were returning from the fields to the city, he taunted and teased them. They\u00a0 welcomed him with child-like glee and laughter, and asked him if he was bringing the cow in\u00a0 order to sell it. When he replied \u201cyes,\u201d they said that they would give him a fair price. Once\u00a0 they\u2019d said this, both they and the cow disappeared, and before his feet he saw a lyre. He was\u00a0 dumbstruck. After some time, he came to his senses and understood that the women who had\u00a0 appeared and given him the lyre were the Muses. Picking up the lyre, he proceeded into the\u00a0 city and revealed to his father what had happened.\r\n\r\nWhen Telesicles heard the story and saw the lyre, he was amazed. First he conducted a search\u00a0 for the cow all over the island, but was unable to find her. Next he was chosen by the citizens\u00a0 to go as a delegate, along with Lycambes, to Delphi in order to consult the oracle [of Apollo] on\u00a0 behalf of the city. He left on this voyage very eagerly, because he wanted to learn what had\u00a0 happened to them [i.e., to him and his son Archilochus].\r\n\r\nWhen they arrived and entered the oracular shrine, the god [Apollo] gave the following oracle to Telesicles:\r\n
\r\n

Your son will be immortal and famous in song, Telesicles,\r\nthat son who first addresses you when you leap from your\r\nship onto your beloved fatherland.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\nThey arrived back at Paros during a festival in honour of Artemis, and the first of all his children\u00a0 to approach and greet their father was Archilochus. When they went home, Telesicles asked if\u00a0 the items required [for the festival] were at hand, since it was late in the day \u2026\r\n\r\n[At this point, the stone on which these words are inscribed is too badly damaged to be\u00a0 restored. Another stone on which the inscription continues, while damaged, contains some\u00a0 details about how the hero cult of Archilochus came to be established.]","rendered":"

The Mnesiepes Inscription: Archilochus and the Muses<\/h1>\n

translated by R. Nickel<\/p>\n

Concerning the matters we wish to inscribe [on this stone], the following account has been\u00a0 handed down to us from men of old, and we ourselves worked on them:<\/p>\n

For they say that when Archilochus was still young, he was sent by his father, Telesicles, into\u00a0 the field, in the neighbourhood called \u201cThe Meadows,\u201d in order to fetch a cow for sale.\u00a0 Archilochus got up very early, when it was still night and the moon was shining, and brought the cow to the city.<\/p>\n

When he was in the place called \u201cThe Cliffs,\u201d he thought he saw a group of women. Presuming\u00a0 that they were returning from the fields to the city, he taunted and teased them. They\u00a0 welcomed him with child-like glee and laughter, and asked him if he was bringing the cow in\u00a0 order to sell it. When he replied \u201cyes,\u201d they said that they would give him a fair price. Once\u00a0 they\u2019d said this, both they and the cow disappeared, and before his feet he saw a lyre. He was\u00a0 dumbstruck. After some time, he came to his senses and understood that the women who had\u00a0 appeared and given him the lyre were the Muses. Picking up the lyre, he proceeded into the\u00a0 city and revealed to his father what had happened.<\/p>\n

When Telesicles heard the story and saw the lyre, he was amazed. First he conducted a search\u00a0 for the cow all over the island, but was unable to find her. Next he was chosen by the citizens\u00a0 to go as a delegate, along with Lycambes, to Delphi in order to consult the oracle [of Apollo] on\u00a0 behalf of the city. He left on this voyage very eagerly, because he wanted to learn what had\u00a0 happened to them [i.e., to him and his son Archilochus].<\/p>\n

When they arrived and entered the oracular shrine, the god [Apollo] gave the following oracle to Telesicles:<\/p>\n

\n

Your son will be immortal and famous in song, Telesicles,
\nthat son who first addresses you when you leap from your
\nship onto your beloved fatherland.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

They arrived back at Paros during a festival in honour of Artemis, and the first of all his children\u00a0 to approach and greet their father was Archilochus. When they went home, Telesicles asked if\u00a0 the items required [for the festival] were at hand, since it was late in the day \u2026<\/p>\n

[At this point, the stone on which these words are inscribed is too badly damaged to be\u00a0 restored. Another stone on which the inscription continues, while damaged, contains some\u00a0 details about how the hero cult of Archilochus came to be established.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-76","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/myths\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/myths\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/myths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/myths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/myths\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/myths\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/76\/revisions\/273"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/myths\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/myths\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/76\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/myths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/myths\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/myths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/myths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}