Kallimachos Zeus-himnuszának epilógusa és kolophóni Xenophanés
The Epilogue of Callimachus’s Hymn to Zeus and Xenophanes of Colophon

Summary/Abstract: The following analysis is motivated by the new observation, that the epilogue of Callimachus’s Hymn to Zeus (v. 91f.) contains an allusion to a fragment of the archaic poet-philosopher Xenophanes of Colophon (fr. 34.1f.). That this connection went unnoticed, may be explained by the fact, that the fragment of Xenophanes was preserved by several authors as a quotation with some verbal variations. Callimachus avails himself not of the version which could be considered the vulgata, but one preserved by Plutarch (de aud. poet. 2. 17E). This observation being made we can set out to scrutinize the function of the allusion which seems to activate some generic conventions of hymnic poetry.

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