The New Simonides : Contexts of Praise and Desire.

The New Simonides : Contexts of Praise and Desire.

Boedecker and Sider's edited volume gathers the best of the recent research on Simonides' newly expanded oeuvre into this collection, which is a useful reference for scholars of Greek poetry.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boedeker, Deborah
Other Authors: Sider, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Simonides, > approximately 556 B.C.-467 B.C. > Criticism and interpretation.
Simonides, > approximately 556 B.C.-467 B.C. > Manuscripts.
Simonides, > approximately 556 B.C.-467 B.C.
Desire in literature.
Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)
Praise in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Desire in literature
Praise in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Manuscripts
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Table of Contents:
  • Contributors; Abbreviations; Part I; Introduction; Photographs of POxy 2327 and 3965; Fragments 1-22 W[sup(2)]: Text, Apparatus Criticus, and Translation; Part II; 1. The New Simonides: Toward a Commentary; 2. ""These Fragments We Have Shored against Our Ruin""; 3. The Genre of Plataea: Generic Unity in the New Simonides; 4. The Proem of Simonides' Plataea Elegy and the Circumstances of Its Performance; 5. A Bard of the Iron Age and His Auxiliary Muse; 6. Heroic Historiography: Simonides and Herodotus on Plataea; 7. Epic and Epiphanies: Herodotus and the ""New Simonides""
  • 8. Paths to Heroization at Plataea9. Lords of Hellas, Old Men of the Sea: The Occasion of Simonides' Elegy on Plataea; 10. The New Simonides and Homer's Hemitheoi; 11. Utopian and Erotic Fusion in a New Elegy by Simonides; 12. To Sing or to Mourn? A Reappraisal of Simonides 22 W[Sup(2)]; 13. ""New Simonides"" or Old Semonides? Second Thoughts on POxy 3965 fr.26; 14. Heroes, Descendants of Hemitheoi: The Proemium of Theocritus 17 and Simonides 11 W[Sup(2)]; 15. The Poet Unleaved: Simonides and Callimachus; 16. Simonides and Horace on the Death of Achilles; 17. Simonides and Horace.
  • 18. ""As Is the Generation of Leaves"" in Homer, Simonides, Horace, and StobaeusBibliography; Index Locorum; A; B; C; D; E; H; I; L; M; P; Q; S; T; V; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W; X; Y; Z.

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