An Homeric Suggestion

Authors

  • Maria Patrizia Bologna University of Milan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-4797/2297

Keywords:

Etymology, Homer, Hygieia

Abstract

The adjective hygies, from which Hygieia is derived, remains an etymological mystery. None of the various proposals from its etymology has avoided the temptation of referring to the only use by Homer of hygies in a single line (Il. 8, 524) eliminated by Aristarchus of Samothrace, as a sort of "rejected marble" like the beautiful head of Hygieia in the “Terme Milano” in Gortys.

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Author Biography

Maria Patrizia Bologna, University of Milan

Maria Patrizia Bologna is professor of Linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Milan; since 1.10.2009 she is the director of the Department of Science of Antiquities. She has done research in the field of Greek and Latin linguistics, especially on some features of Homeric language and on some etymological, lexicological, and morphosyntactic topics. She has dealt with some procedural and theoretical problems of linguistic reconstruction as far as the Indo-European languages are concerned. She has also done research on history of the nineteenth-century linguistic thought, chiefly on the relationship between historical-comparative and general linguistics, by examining also both the function of etymological research in the development of comparative mythology.

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Published

2012-07-18

Issue

No. 10 (2011)

Section

Gortys 2010: a Marble head of Hygieia from the Terme Milano, eds. G. Bejor and C. Lambrugo - Milan, January 25th 2011. 2