Over the course of his life (550-460 BC), the Greek poet Simonides produced poetic work of every kind then extant. Unfortunately, Simonides' corpus has survived only in fragments, though classical scholars have been studying his work for generations. The 1992 discovery of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri revolutionized the study of Simonides, casting particular light on the epic of Plataea. This edited volume gathers the best of the recent research on Simonides' newly expanded oeuvre into a single collection that will be an important ...
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Over the course of his life (550-460 BC), the Greek poet Simonides produced poetic work of every kind then extant. Unfortunately, Simonides' corpus has survived only in fragments, though classical scholars have been studying his work for generations. The 1992 discovery of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri revolutionized the study of Simonides, casting particular light on the epic of Plataea. This edited volume gathers the best of the recent research on Simonides' newly expanded oeuvre into a single collection that will be an important reference for scholars of Greek poetry.
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Add this copy of The New Simonides: Contexts of Praise and Desire to cart. $93.00, very good condition, Sold by Powell's Books Chicago rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chicago, IL, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Oxford University Press.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0195137671. Pencil marginalia to some pages with pencil notes to rear endpapers. Minor bump along upper edge of rear board. Scholar's name to ffep (Bonnie Maclachlan [née Ward]). DJ has 1 tinyt tear to top of spine. A bit of creasing to DJ.; Essays Include: “The New Simonides: Toward a Commentary, ” by Ian Rutherford; “ ‘These Fragments We Have Shored against Our Ruin' ” by Peter Parsons; “The Genre of Plataea: Generic Unity in the New Simonides” by Dirk Obbink; “The Proem of Simonides' Plataea Elegy and the Circumstances of Its Performance” by Antonio Aloni; “A Bard of the Iron Age and His Auxiliary Muse” by Eva Stehle; “Heroic Historiography: Simonides and Herodotus on Plataea” by Deborah Boedeker; “Epic and Epiphanies: Herodotus and the ‘New Simonides' ” by Simon Hornblower; “Paths to Heroization at Plataea” by Deborah Boedeker; “Lords of Hellas, Old Men of the Sea: The Occasion of Simoides' Elegey on Plataea” by P. -J. Shaw; “The New Simonides and Homer's Hemitheoi” by Jenny Strauss Clay; “Utopian and Erotic Fusion in a New Elegey by Simonides” by Sarah Mace; ...“Simonides and Horace on the Death of Achilles” by Alessandro Barchiesi; ...“ ‘As Is the Generation of Leaves' in Homer, Simonides, Horace, and Stobaeus” by Savid Sider – plus essays by Mimitrios Yatromanolakis, Thomas K. Hubbard, Marco Fantuzzi, Richard Hunter, and Stephen Harrison.; 328 pages.
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