Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium, 2008, nr XVIII

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Krytyka nowomodnych poetów we fragmencie 16 K.-A. Anaksandridesa
(Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza, 2008) Bartol, Krystyna
The article offers a new interpretation of Anaxandrides’ comic fragment (16 K.-A), preserved at Athenaeus 14.638c-d as a part of an extended discussion of the authors of disreputable poetry and the decline of music. It has been argued that in this fragment – in fact the only remaining from Anaxandrides’ play entitled Heracles – the spotlight is focused not, as has been hitherto assumed, on the comparison between a musically talented person and an unskilful one, but rather on the complaint about the musical style represented by pieces composed and performed by a certain Argas and artists of his ilk. The point of the ironic “praise” of the unnamed musician, presumably refect-ing the taste of the audience, is to sarcastically treat him as an artistic nobody.