El Jacinto de Euforión y el problema del élegos

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to expound how Euphorion cannot be considered an elegiarum scriptor. In his poem Hyakinthos, this poeta doctus includes several elegiac themes which make us think of a ritual elegiac frame (Hyakinthos, Adonis, Hylas), where the death of μάκαιροι in the prime of beauty and youth becomes insistent. This poem is also a good proof of how Latin elegiacs took up euphorian items, though not necessarily their hexametric verse. And this causes confusion in those who believed in an elegiac Euphorion, that is, in Latin and Greek grammarians and lexicographers.