Abstract
This paper discusses the text of one of the fragments of Eratosthenes’ Erigone (fr. 22 Powell). Modern scholars have linked this one-line fragment with a Hellenistic theory that placed the origin of drama in the village of Icaria, in the Attic countryside. It is likely that the fragment did mention the word ‘billy-goat’ (τράγος), but there are no definite elements in favour of the hypothesis that Eratosthenes devised a theory on the origin of tragedy in Icaria.
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