§132. Ferrari’s translation of your own visual facts, as she explains, corresponds precisely to Calame’s model for the choruses off maidens into display in Alcman’s Partheneion, Moschus’ Europa, and you will Theocritus’ Epithalamium for Helen. This new maidens are common friends, he is of the identical ages, they all play and you may collaborate (????? … ??? ?????, Theocritus ), however the top is additionally type of: Europa stands out one of their co-workers while the Aphrodite really does among the Graces, Helen was as compared to Start otherwise Spring season amid an undifferentiated chorus away from maidens, and you can Hagesichora outshines her companions in the Partheneion. Into vases the work of the maidens is actually spinning and weaving, during Odyssey it’s the washing of your attire, nevertheless a couple of tasks are complementary: there’s absolutely nothing question that Nausikaa’s laundry presupposes their unique woolworking.

§133. Calame suggests that this new paradigm having such as for example a band and its leader is actually Artemis along with her nymphs, however, Ferrari cards one to a separate paradigm is usually evoked into the poetry: Aphrodite while the Graces. Established Calame’s findings along with her very own research, Ferrari offers the quintessential traits of such communities in addition to their leadership, and it is tough to improve through to her malfunction, that we price completely:

In the same way, Nausikaa shines certainly one of her companions and you may, for instance the spinners with the vases, their group each other plays and you may performs

Exactly what holds to each other new thiasos helikon is exactly that their participants are out-of an extremely unique age: parthenoi, marriageable girls, which, like Nausikaa, cannot remain parthenoi for long. You can easily set up a summary of their regular factors and circumscribe its environment: with Europa, it prepare yourself to each other for the moving, shower within the springs, and you may assemble flowers. With Helen out of Sparta, it twist and weave and you can play the lyre. They sing and you can dancing during the relationships when among class marries. This type of maidens, the latest rank and file together with beauties among them, try all of our wool-pros.

Brand new paragons out-of Artemis and you may Aphrodite was another way regarding creating new contradiction of your own spinner, that is sexually recharged however, simple from sex

§134. Amazingly, there’s nothing contained in this malfunction who does have to be altered because of it to apply straight to the maidens of Russian relationship audio, except for soaking up spring season, by which neither Siberia neither the latest shores of Light Ocean promote the ideal climate. Right here again, the latest marriageable maiden cannot arrive alone, however, constantly within the a small grouping of decades-mates that to relax and play, moving, vocal, gathering herbs, sewing and embroidering. It perform the exact same function as into the Theocritus’ Epithalamium having Helen from inside the vocal from the marriage when one of them are married, and is also constantly the brand new prima inter pares who’s this new bride: for each and every maiden inside her change will play it part, feel recognized into the wedding audio since “leader of the prepare,” the absolute most “beautiful, noble and you can virtuous of all time.” Per maiden hitched in some towns of your Vologda part have a tendency to tune in to their age-mates vocal at their particular marriage they have destroyed the latest “commander of your own herd,” each of them usually ask their own family unit members to help you sing smiling audio to a musical accompaniment claiming that she can no longer sign-up them, even when she used to be the first to ever initiate and you will the last to go away of. Russian relationship audio exhibit an identical stress since the moments with the Greek vases: the best choice is among the class, yet she actually is collection of, the twigs of your forest are beautiful, however the topmost ‘s the bride. In the Odyssey 6.108 a mindful equilibrium try strike when Nausikaa is considered so you can end up being conspicuous certainly her family members, and yet they all are beautiful: ???? ?’ ???????? ???????, ????? ?? ?? ?????. Maybe that it assurance of every maiden’s charm has to do with that every one of these maidens would need to play the role of at the forefront of her turn. Probably the evaluation into superstars, thus popular for the Greek poetry, would be paralleled in the Russian musical, even if right here it’s smaller central. It’s establish however in a very extensive supplement track where the latest groom try depicted once the considering every celebrities and you will choosing the smartest one to, often described as the fresh “dawn-star.”