La monodia dell’Andromaca (103-116) e la questione dell’elegia cantata: possibili tracce di performance nella mise en page dei codici.

The Monody in Euripides’ Andromache (ll. 103-116) and the Topic of Sung Elegy: Traces of Performance in the Layout of the Manuscripts · This paper focuses on the ancient colometry of Eur. Andr. 103-116. While scholia vetera described these lines as ἐλεγεῖα (arg. ii; schol. vet. 103), ancient manuscripts provide a colometry which is very different from the usual layout of Greek elegy: hexameters are divided into 3da + hemf (ll. 103; 105; 107) or hemm + 2an∞ (ll. 109; 111; 113; 115) and pentameters are presented as hemm + hemm. I suggest that such a particular colometry could reflect the performance of these lines. Andr. 103-116 were intended to be sung (schol. vet. 103) and they should be very similar to the ἐλεγεῖα μεμελοποιημένα mentioned by Ps.- Plut. De mus. 1134a: perhaps, in this kind of performances, hexameters and pentameters were divided into single lyric cola in order to be sung.