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Simonides Lyricus

Simonides Lyricus Essays on the "Other" Classical Choral Lyric Poet - Cambridge Classical Journal. Supplementary Volume

Hardback (01 Oct 2020) | English,Greek, Modern (1453-)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Simonides of Keos was one of the most important praise-poets of the early fifth century BCE, ranking alongside Pindar and Bacchylides. In Simonides Lyricus, a group of leading international experts revisit familiar questions about his lyric poetry, and pose new ones. Themes discussed include textual criticism and attribution of fragments; poetic genre and the place of the poet's melic fragments in his larger oeuvre; the historical, cultural and political background of the poems; and Simonides' afterlife in the biographical and anecdotal traditions that formed around his name. The volume makes a substantial contribution to modern discussions of Simonides' place in Greek literary and cultural history and to the understanding of this poet's often fragmentary and difficult texts.

Book information

ISBN: 9780956838179
Publisher: Cambridge Philological Society
Imprint: Cambridge Philological Society
Pub date:
DEWEY: 881.01
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English,Greek, Modern (1453-)
Number of pages: 290
Weight: 552g
Height: 156mm
Width: 216mm
Spine width: 26mm