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Simonides: Epigrams and Elegies: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

Simonides: Epigrams and Elegies: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:David SiderPublish date:2021-01-19Pages:480
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198850793ISBN-10:198850794UPC:9780198850793Book Category:Literary Collections, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient, Classical & Medieval, Ancient and Classical, PoetrySize:9.20 x 6.10 x 1.20 inchesWeight:2.0525Product ID:SCJWFG52YA
Simonides of Ceos, one of the nine lyric poets enshrined in what is conventionally thought of as the Hellenistic Lyric Canon, is a relatively mysterious figure despite his renown in the classical world. Few historical and biographical facts about him have survived, and only fragments of his non-epigrammatic poetry.

This volume is intended to complement Orlando Poltera's full-scale text and commentary on Simonides' lyrics (Schwabe, 2008), offering an up-to-date edition and commentary covering, for the most part, those poems in elegiac distichs now called epigrams and elegies. In addition to these forms, Simonides wrote in a few other non-lyric metrical patterns involving dactyls and iambs: these are also included for the sake of completeness, since they are properly absent from Poltera's edition.

As authenticity is in question for all but a very few of the epigrams ascribed to Simonides, the volume's scope extends to cover every poem ascribed to him in antiquity, including some poems that are surely not by him: these poems have never before been treated in such detail and the large body of scholarship generated by the corpus as a whole is taken into account here for the first time. Each poem and fragment is accompanied by a new English translation, where applicable, and detailed exegetic line-by-line commentary; a comprehensive general Introduction sets Simonides and his works into their historical context and provides a thorough examination of the textual transmission of the elegies and epigrams.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198850793ISBN-10:198850794UPC:9780198850793Book Category:Literary Collections, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient, Classical & Medieval, Ancient and Classical, PoetrySize:9.20 x 6.10 x 1.20 inchesWeight:2.0525Product ID:SCJWFG52YA
David Sider, Professor of Classics, New York University

David Sider is Professor Classics at New York University. His research interests centre on Greek poetry and Greek philosophy: he has published editions of the fragments of Anaxagoras and the epigrams of Philodemus and his next big project continues his recent work on the former, comprising a collection of all ancient testimony, to appear in de Gruyter's Traditio Praesocratica.
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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