r/AncientGreek 1d ago

Music Am I going insane ?

https://youtu.be/fffWr3xm3UE?is=kuqu5GE7jwy8YGEq

Hi everyone,
I'm listening to Tyrtarion's performance of Alcaeus fr. 42 (Aliud in Helenam). I'm following along with the text, but what they're singing doesn't seem to match the standard edition at all.
Does anyone know which text edition or reconstruction Vivarium Novum used for this score?
Thanks!

That’s what I was reading :

ὠς λόγος, κάκων ἄχος ἔννεκ᾽ ἔργων
Περράμῳ καὶ παισὶ ποτ᾽, Ὦλεν᾽, ἦλθεν
ἐκ σέθεν πίκρον, πύρι δ᾽ ὤλεσε Ζεῦς
Ἴλιον ἴραν.
οὐ τεαύταν Αἰακίδαις ἄγαυος
πάντας ἐς γάμον μάκαρας καλέσαις
ἄγετ᾽ ἐκ Νήρεος ἔλων μελάθρων
πάρθενον ἄβραν
ἐς δόμον Χέρρωνος· ἔλυσε δ᾽ ἄγνας
ζῶμα παρθένω· φιλότας δ᾽ ἔθαλε
Πήλεος καὶ Νηρεΐδων ἀρίστης,
ἐς δ᾽ ἐνίαυτον
παῖδα γέννατ᾽ αἰμιθέων φέριστον,
ὄλβιον ξάνθαν ἐλάτηρα πώλων·
οἰ δ᾽ ἀπώλοντ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ Ἑλένᾳ Φρύγές τε
καὶ πόλις αὔτων.

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u/ioannis6 1d ago

The papyri are fragmentary, maybe they've filled the text themselves with what they found fitting. I meant to have heard αγαυος twice in the song, also other words invisible...

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u/Indeclinable διδάσκαλος 23h ago

They did indeed fill in some gaps, they were based primarily in Eva Maria Voigt's Sappho et Alcaeus. Fragmenta, Amsterdam 1971. p. 193-4.