Simonides: Epigrams and Elegies

Simonides: Epigrams and Elegies
Title Simonides: Epigrams and Elegies PDF eBook
Author DAVID. SIDER
Publisher
Pages 472
Release 2020-10
Genre
ISBN 9780198850793

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This edition and commentary covers, for the most part, those poems by Simonides written in elegiac distichs now called epigrams and elegies. Each poem and fragment is accompanied by a detailed commentary and translation, where applicable, while a comprehensive general Introduction sets Simonides and his works into their historical context.

The New Simonides

The New Simonides
Title The New Simonides PDF eBook
Author Deborah Boedeker
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 325
Release 2001-06-14
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0195350227

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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.

Simonides Lyricus

Simonides Lyricus
Title Simonides Lyricus PDF eBook
Author Peter Agócs
Publisher Cambridge Philological Society
Pages 298
Release 2020-05-10
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1913701069

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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.

Anacreon of Teos

Anacreon of Teos
Title Anacreon of Teos PDF eBook
Author Hans Bernsdorff
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 1008
Release 2020-09-30
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9780198860488

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Anacreon is one of the most important of the Greek archaic lyric poets and has enjoyed a rich reception in both ancient and modern Europe, from Horace in Rome to the so-called Anacreontic poets in modern Europe (among them Abraham Cowley and Robert Herrick in England, and the young Goethe in Germany). However, despite his importance within the classical canon, there has been no full-scale commentary on the fragments of Anacreon in recent decades (with the exception of a single commentary in modern Greek). The two volumes seek to address this gap in scholarship by providing a detailed and up-to-date commentary on all the known fragments of Anacreon alongside a freshly edited text, critical apparatus, and a new translation. The commentary to reconstruct the context of the fragments, shedding light on Anacreon's relation to earlier poets and discussing a variety of aspects of his work, including language, style, narratological analysis, intertextuality, and performance. Close attention has been paid to Anacreon's elaborate poetic language and use of imagery, especially in the representation of paradoxical emotions: the analysis systematically applies the refined tools developed in recent studies on the language of archaic poetry in order to describe and explain these phenomena, while recent findings in the history of religion and classical archaeology have been brought to bear on his representation of the gods. Fresh interpretation of the papyrus fragments has been particularly fruitful as new material has come to light and fundamentally changed our perception of Anacreon: these show that besides familiar topics such as love, the symposium, and observations of everyday life, more unexpected themes such as the Demeter-cult numbered among his concerns and played a significant role in his poetry.

Iambus and Elegy

Iambus and Elegy
Title Iambus and Elegy PDF eBook
Author Laura Swift
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 394
Release 2016
Genre History
ISBN 0199689741

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For over two centuries, iambus and elegy attracted some of the finest poetic talents in Greek history and played a major role in public and private life, surviving as living forms into the fourth century BC. This edited collection provides the first comprehensive exploration devoted specifically to iambus and elegy, offering an important insight into the key issues within current research on the genres. Chapters by leading international scholars in the fieldexamine the forms from a broad range of perspectives and provide a solid foundation for future research.

Simonides the Poet

Simonides the Poet
Title Simonides the Poet PDF eBook
Author Richard Rawles
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 323
Release 2018-04-19
Genre History
ISBN 1108651763

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Simonides is tantalising and enigmatic, known both from fragments and from an extensive tradition of anecdotes. This monograph, the first in English for a generation, employs a two-part diachronic approach: Richard Rawles first reads Simonidean fragments with attention to their intertextual relationship with earlier works and traditions, and then explores Simonides through his ancient reception. In the first part, interactions between Simonides' own poems and earlier traditions, both epic and lyric, are studied in his melic fragments and then in his elegies. The second part focuses on an important strand in Simonides' ancient reception, concerning his supposed meanness and interest in remuneration. This is examined in Pindar's Isthmian 2, and then in Simonides' reception up to the Hellenistic period. The book concludes with a full re-interpretation of Theocritus 16, a poem which engages both with Simonides' poems and with traditions about his life.

Epigram

Epigram
Title Epigram PDF eBook
Author Niall Livingstone
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 196
Release 2010-04-22
Genre History
ISBN 9780521145701

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Provides an introduction as to what epigram means and why it matters. Short content excellent for undergraduates and researchers alike.