Philo the Epic Poet (Fragments)

Current State of the OCP Text

The surviving Greek fragments of Philo the Epic Poet are presented here as cited in Eusebius, Praep. Evang. 9.20.1-2; 9.24.1; 9.37.1-2. The text is based on the standard critical edition of Eusebius (see below). Quoting from Alexander Polyhistor, Eusebius preserves six separate fragments. Using Holladay's numbering scheme, these fragments appear as follows:

Fragment 1	Eusebius, Praep. Evang. 9.20.1
Fragment 2	Eusebius, Praep. Evang. 9.20.1-2
Fragment 3	Eusebius, Praep. Evang. 9.24.1
Fragment 4	Eusebius, Praep. Evang. 9.37.1
Fragment 5	Eusebius, Praep. Evang. 9.37.2
Fragment 6	Eusebius, Praep. Evang. 9.37.3

Bibliography

Print Editions of Philo the Epic Poet

• Carl R. Holladay, Poets: The Epic Poets Theodotus and Philo and Ezekiel the Tragedian (vol. 2 of Fragments from Hellenistic Jewish Authors; TT 30; PS 12; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989), 205-299.
• ** The best available print edition, containing the same text that is published here in the OCP edition (K. Mras' text) but with some critical apparatus and excellent supplementary discussion. Click here to purchase a copy of Holladay's print edition from the Society of Biblical Literature.
• Denis, Concordance, 920.
• H. Lloyd-Jones and P. Parsons, Supplementum hellenisticum (Texte und Kommentare 11; Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1983), 328-330.
• Denis, Fragmenta, 203-4.
• Felix Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (3 vols.; Leiden: Brill, 1954-1964), No. 729. 3C.2.690-691.
• W. N. Stearns, Fragments from Graeco-Jewish Writers (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1908), 95-99.
• A. Ludwich, De Philonis carmine graeco-iudaico. Commentario qua orationes ad celebrandam diebus XXI et XXIII M. Mai XXIII (Königsberg: Ex officina Hartungiana, 1900).
• C. Müller, Fragmenta historicorum graecorum collegit, disposuit, notis et prolegomenis illustravit, indicibus instruxit (5 vols.; Paris, 1841-1872), 3.213-214, 219, 229.
• L. M. Philippson, Ezechiel des jüdischen Trauerspieldichters Auszug aus Egypten und Philo des Älteren Jerusalem (Berlin, 1830), 53-66.

For further bibliography see DiTommaso, Bibliography, 1057-59.

Source for the Text of Eusebius

• Karl Mras, Die Praeparatio Evangelica (2 parts; 2d ed.; vol. 8 of Eusebius Werke; ed. Édouard des Places; GCS 43; Berlin: Akademie, 1982-83).

Corrections

One minor correction has been made here to Holladay's text:

Eusebius, Praep. Evang. 9.37.3

Holladay’s text contains an acute accent on άπὸ where a smooth breathing mark (ἀπὸ) was clearly intended.

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