Abstract This article offers a new reading of Pankrates’ poem on Hadrian’s and Antinoos’ hunt of a lion in 130 AD, examining both its intertextual dialogue with Homer and its evocation of Egyptian imagery. I first show how the raging lion, which emerges directly out of a Homeric simile (Il. 20.163–164), has been transformed from comparatum to comparandum: he no longer serves to illustrate a warrior’s force, but has himself become part of the main narrative and the subject of analogy. Contemplating the aition in which the text culminated I argue that the Antinoeian lotus, which grew out of the lion’s blood, ought to be read against the backdrop of Egyptian mythology and iconography as an emblem of rebirth. Both Pankrates’ allusions to Homer, which subtly evoke Achilles’ loss of Patroklos, and the symbolic function of the lotus strongly suggest that the poem was composed in the aftermath of Antinoos’ death and conceived as a celebration of the youth’s apotheosis.

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两个情人和一头狮子：潘克拉特关于哈德良皇家狩猎的诗

摘要 本文提供了对公元 130 年潘克拉特的“关于哈德良和安提努斯的猎杀狮子的诗”的新解读，考察了它与荷马的互文对话及其对埃及意象的唤起。我首先展示了直接从荷马的比喻（Il. 20.163-164）中出现的愤怒的狮子是如何从比较到比较：他不再用来说明战士的力量，而是自己成为主要的一部分叙事和类比的主题。考虑到文本的高潮，我认为从狮子的血中长出的安提诺伊莲 (Antinoeian Lotus) 应该在埃及神话和肖像画的背景下被解读为重生的象征。两个潘克拉特都“暗指荷马，这巧妙地唤起了阿喀琉斯失去帕特罗克洛斯，